David Attenborough takes on PHEASANTS! “Native to Asia, but now released into our countryside on an industrial scale, over 30 million every year… eating vast numbers of insects, reptiles and amphibians every day.” Time for the Government to regulate this out-of-control industry #SecretGarden

How delightful that Yaxley means "cuckoo clearing"; how unfortunate that the first image it now summons is the dickhead-in-chief of the flag-shaggers

Whatever you think of Will Self, this is a gripping interview observer.co.uk/culture/inte...

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet. This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Somehow hadn't realised, till now, that this song refers to Lewes bonfire 🧨 www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...

This was the best thing that has ever been on TV, and its demise confirms the imminent death of civilisation

'I just shudder when I hear a man say the words “my husband.” Something about it sets off alarm bells in me. It’s like “my unicycle” or “my rescue ferret”—just creepy.' www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Anyone heard a cuckoo yet?

Used my white cane for the first time in daylight yesterday (navigating crowded station). Last night, dreamt I was applying white eye shadow very badly and felt monstrously ugly. Exemplary work, unconscious

🧵 Democracy feels like it's in a rough state at the moment across the globe, and we hear various explanations, like polarisation, extremism, disinformation, and loss of trust. But what if those explanations are mainly symptoms and we've been trying to treat them rather than the underlying causes?

Looking to speak to a cyclist (amateur is absolutely fine!) who has had lyme disease. If that’s you or anyone you know, get in touch. It’s for an upcoming Cycling Weekly magazine article.

Cops have twice raided Quaker meeting houses to arrest people- and seize their phones/laptops - without so far charging anyone. Are we seeing pre-emptive policing to make the very idea of protest impossible? www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/identi...

Not radical, just silly. Supposing a clean break from Christianity is as delusional as preaching a revival

The great American de-enlightenment

Among my favourite CW features of the year so far - quirky, wholesome fun!

En route to cataract surgery & have had the good fortune of stumbling upon this terrific review of John Berger's Cataract by @harrysunsee.bsky.social share.google/3n0tDYz4qYhE...

Earlier this year, I flew to Austria for a one-to-one interview with Tadej Pogačar, the best cyclist in the world. The feature is out now and yours to read for (a ludicrously cheap) £3.35.

Back to bed, Valencia, your work is done

Workmen digging up the street outside have cut through our phone line. What now? Might as well go to bed, I guess

Loved editing this gem of an interview by @stephanieboland.bsky.social with 91-year-old Shirley Hockridge – a podium finisher in proto-Tour de France Femmes in 1957... And still riding her bike! www.cyclingweekly.com/news/shirley...

He seems to find it difficult to stop admiring himself

Very interesting chat, this open.spotify.com/episode/0vC2...

"Religion is the opium of the people? Fine, we need the opium – because life is hard. Religion remains important because it's our way of negotiating the conscience through the other" open.spotify.com/episode/2Lvl...

Cannot overstate my glee that @michaelstipe.bsky.social is on here 😁

Labour could bring back our water into public hands but they care more about investors than they do about you

Prof. Robert Pape: "I have studied every air campaign since WWI... I've modelled the bombing of Fordow and regime change in Iran for 20 years... We are now in the grip of the escalation trap... This has never worked in over 100 years... Trump is up against the weight of history".

Glenwood Springs Co. July 1984. photo by Mark Williams. I was apparently working on a song that became Maps & Legends. Thanks Mark!!

Yet another reason for Labour voters to switch their allegiance to Green

Abysmal, immoral, cruel, small hearted, tiny minded, ineffective, undemocratic, and just generally utterly indecent. What a bitter godforesaken disappointment these people are. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Who remembers this guy? 💭 Excellent piece by @cmbreports.bsky.social

Work no longer pays - I'm sure this is generally true, but plumbers do very nicely, don't they? Mine certainly does! 🤔 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

Guys in the gym who at the end of each set drop the weights with a loud bang for everyone to enjoy. Yeah, those guys

Luke Grenfell-Shaw was 24 when he was diagnosed with stage-four cancer and told he had just months to live. He has since cycled more than 35,000km from his hometown of Bristol to Beijing. The now 31-year-old told me his story👇 www.cyclingweekly.com/news/the-fac...

‘We grow into a love of the world, a love that is all the more precious and poignant because the great glory of which we are but a particle is lost almost as soon as it is gathered’ John McGahern

David Dimbleby skewering the monarchy is glorious #WATO

I'm looking forward to the rewilding of the requisitioned estates of the criminal Windsor racket 🌳

80% of agricultural land is used for livestock (and textiles), yet this huge land use provides only 17% of our calories and 38% of our protein. 16% of the land used for crops provides 83% of our calories and 62% of our protein. It's past time we rethink what we eat.

6min 38sec mile at 80 😯 runningmagazine.ca/the-scene/80...

RIP Jesse Jackson Will always remember seeing him speak in Hyde Park, alongside Harold Pinter, against the invasion of Iraq, back in Feb 2003. I was 20, at my first rally, and it was freezing – but electrifying. "Give peace a chance" news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2765...

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

'don't expect any five-stars this year'

Shiela Heti never disappoints granta.com/good-medicine/

Blue Lights is one of the best TV dramas ever, & this is a fascinating chat with its creator Declan Lawn 🚔 open.spotify.com/episode/11WG...

This is a fantastic interview:

Have always found bradycardia a rather odd boast To quote the literature: "Bradycardic athletes have an increased risk of permanent pacemaker"

Make this decades for cycling 😂

Hope all the arrested protesters get compensation and grovelling apology

Can't help wondering how this broke down. Probably not a £10 BJ on a £599,990 Louis XV chair?

Certain cycling teams being obstructive to journalists is obvs not new - but the fact it's getting worse is very ominous