Calling a by-election over the sovereign right of every MP to take secret gifts from a convicted criminal. What a time to be alive.

"I'm not a crook", said Richard Nixon

OK…who made this???

This has to be one of the prescient things ever written about the Tory Party: it's Ivor Crewe in the wake of the 2001 General Election.

VEEERRRRY punchy statement by UEFA on the reversal of the American red-card suspension. And quite right, too. "We express our disbelief at such an unprecedented, incomprehensible and unjustifiable decision." www.uefa.com/news-media/n...

Jordan Henderson didn’t play and has somehow been yellow carded and stretchered off.

#FIFA: killing football, one pass at a time

Look who likes birthright citizenship now

We have it in our power to begin the world over again - Paine As do we today...

Culture Lisa Nandy MP follows the Attorney General in quitting Twitter/X. She notes the platform has changed: "a platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate".

Trump “reported more crypto-related income last year than any publicly traded US digital-asset company earned.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Genius! Thank you #lofc

Did you know that Harry Kane once played for Leyton Orient??? DID YOU??? #LOFC

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

trump is stealing a golf course used by ordinary washingtonians and giving it to his rich friends

So it turns out the massive scandal here is that Bridget Phillipson's mum bought a council house for £9k in 1990 and then sold it *33 years* later for £99k. That's the entire story

PRIORITIES. 🙄

And still, some 'comms specialists' refuse to use this platform as part of their media strategy. (Looking at you, #lofc)

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

the entire conservative media apparatus was born out of a conviction that what happened to Nixon should never again happen to a Republican president and it worked and they now feel comfortable enough to admit it

Your regular reminder that not a single new reservoir has been built in England since privatisation. Water companies have increased our bills above the rate of inflation and made 10s of billions in profit.

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

GREAT stat: one in six of all British prime ministers _ever_ will be at Remembrance Sunday this year. [assuming nothing bad happens] [pray 4 JMPM] diamondgeezer.blogspot.com/2026/06/all-...

It's insane that a failing president just so obviously making stuff up constantly isn't treated like a crisis in the press.

Britain about to get its seventh Prime Minister in ten years. I can’t say I’m surprised. As a people they’re often wonderful of course—very musical, for example, many charming customs, and always joking around in their quirky way—but they just don’t have the temperament for stable self-government.

Would be good if, even as an aside, blanket coverage of yet another British PM finding the country impossible to govern would mention the enormous, undeniable impact of foreign interference. Richest bloke in the world is actively undermining UK democracy and it's taboo to say so

The case for Ed Miliband as Chancellor.

I hate to break it to the European diplomat quoted in @politico.eu this morning, but increasing the return rate will make no difference to the far right. They will just move on to demanding forced remigration. It’s not like there aren’t hundreds of examples of this already.

#OTD in 1964, civil rights workers James Chaney, Michael Schwerner and Andrew Goodman went missing in Mississippi. They were murdered by the Ku Klux Klan for registering Black voters. Their work continues. #TheMarchContinues

Shift drink: Reflecting Pool 1oz rum 1oz mezcal .75oz lime .75oz honey barspoon matcha muddled mint

A Black man with the surname Freeman scored for the USA on Juneteenth in a home World Cup match.

Conservatives wanted Barack Obama impeached over the money he agreed to pay Iran (which was Iran’s money, frozen in U.S. banks), which was $1.7 billion. Trump is going to hand Iran 176 times that amount. trib.al/YEFHCNb

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

Listening to Barack Obama speak at the opening of his presidential center is like, “ Oh yeah, that’s what a president sounds like.” Boy, I miss those days. 🔄

And now every government dept should, belatedly, follow.

Just stumbled up our drawing of Leyton Orient-era Harry Kane and honestly why has anyone ever followed us

This confirms something a lot of people in Westminster noticed: while Farage was happy to bluster through the Schoolboy Nazi stuff, he has gone to ground over the £5million "gift". The story has Reform worried.

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

The Knicks only lost one game in the last two months and it was the one Trump went to lmao

Late reggae singer Stranger Cole often claimed “Bangarang” was the first reggae single, Produced by Bunny “Striker” Lee in 1968, its rhythm and tempo signified the moment ska evolved into reggae. Recorded by Cole w/ saxophonist Lester Stirling. #RIPStrangerCole #Reggae m.youtube.com/watch?v=Elgm...

Who better to speak out on matters of national security than someone whose close colleague is currently in prison for taking bribes from Russia?

Just past midnight, the MSNOW stream from the Kennedy Center alone has 99k viewers. Watching a bunch or construction workers standing on some scaffolding.

Justin Webb now stating as fact that in Northern Ireland - and across the U.K. - for years people ‘have been able to come here and get access to services’ that local people can’t Is there any evidence for this? Why is a presenter on the BBC stating this as fact?