This is remarkable.

'You don't need to knock down an apartment every time you're looking for somebody.' If only someone had said so sooner

Yes it is a huge story and what is surprising is how little coverage Russia’s useful dupes receive in the UK - including those involved in political troublemaking and street violence.

'I'm not going away' as political slogan

Big week for Elon Musk, instigating a racist anti-immigrant pogrom on Tuesday, set to become a trillionaire with the backing of all the biggest banks on Friday.

Maybe the internet's greatest achievement is allowing this football hooligan from Luton to cosplay as some kind of 21st-century neofascist statesman so effectively for so long www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

I'd politely suggest this is not what you should do if you are looking to move beyond appeals to the far right to become prime minister in three years

Genuinely thought this was Sam Allardyce #worldcup #england #60yearsofhurt

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter the dire threat of a Reform UK government elected on a minority of the vote

Nigel Farage, weary from gaming UK politics for a decade or more, just wanted to hang up his boots. Please, no more hotel rooms. No more seeing the country from behind blacked out windows. No more Cameos. Until he was made an offer he couldn't refuse

BREAKING: Reform UK leader Nigel Farage bought a £1.4 million property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift from billionaire donor Christopher Harborne, according to property records seen by Sky News.

I mean, I've been on the waiting list for an NHS vasectomy since my youngest child was born. She starts in reception in September.

I had the snip and I liked it.

pure, uncut, liquid Sir Keir to write an article about "breaking with the status quo once and for all" on Friday, then announcing new roles for Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown on Saturday

I believe we term this artwork "where the 2024 Labour vote is now".

The local election results in Norwich – despite Labour’s excellent track record on the City Council – and across the country, make this an existential moment for Labour. This will not be fixed by another speech, another comms reset, or another reshuffle. The problem is now far deeper than that. 1/4

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Imagine seeing Labour suffer one of its worst ever election results and your immediate takeaway is "the man whose entire strategy delivered this must have been right"

Evergreen headline.

Farage has played a long game in Essex www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/elec...

Looking like Reform is performing at the top end of expectations. Reportedly taking all seats up in Basildon and smashing Labour across Midlands and North. On track to win Havering too.

State of the media industry: emailing editors who asked me to let them know when I was back from maternity leave, to find that many have been made redundant.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

thequietus.com/opinion-and-... ‘Connection was key. He was never a solo figure scaling the heights, on the kind of macho solo mission many male writers fall into.’

To which I attribute M’Lud @luketurner.bsky.social’s way of greeting Quietus writers.

Had no idea until @timburrows.bsky.social wrote this reflection on Mark Fisher, and the new film responding to his life and work, that Capitalist Realism has sold over a quarter of a million copies. A great read on how Fisher's work might lead to hope in our awful now thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

I wrote this essay for @thequietus.com about Mark Fisher and the film inspired by him, We Are Making a Film About Mark Fisher, which I helped birth. Flashbacks to early noughties computer room scrolling through @simonreynolds.bsky.social's Blissblog >>> thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

Lead story on Bloomberg: Stocks bounce from lows on hopes for US-Iran talks. Second story: Gulf states weigh military options to counter Iran’s escalation, Third story: Israel presses on with Iran strikes at ‘full intensity’.

Entirely in keeping with the Murdoch dynasty. I remember reading when visiting Australia a decade ago about Rupert's dad, Keith Murdoch, who made up a hoax about Germans turning enemy soldiers into margarine in order to force Australia into the first world war www.independent.co.uk/news/media/k...

“I woke up this morning and thought: ‘No, please no…this has always been my Armageddon scenario, the one I didn’t want to happen.”

Scotland’s serial radical nationalist protester Sean Clerkin and his comrades evaded tight security at Reform UK’s Scottish manifesto launch to urge people to vote SNP instead #Holyrood2026 #ReformUK

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims fought in the world wars. The armies that fought+won the second world war against fascism had an ethnic + faith mix that matches the Britain of 2025 more than that of 1939-45, so arrival of Windrush is the story of black RAF servicemen returning to Britain in 1948

Morrissey is such a mad old ham. I love it. He’s like a Victorian- on those posts he does he always sounds like a consumptive aunt in 1896 writing back from travels ‘they presented me with an entirely indigestible mess of stewed aubergine and a wine so rough as to be vinegar….the train was vile’ etc

With talk of oil hitting $100 a barrel, let's remember a pre Radio 2 Rylan getting confused by the concept

Narrator: The Straits, in fact, were in Dire shape.

Kinell, it feels like Igor Tudor's team selection vs Atletico Madrid away will be the subject of the next Moral Maze at this rate

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Tehran is covered with thick dark clouds, and the rain is saturated with oil, per CNN. The city exists surrounded by a mountain range, creating kind of a bowl that is holding in toxic materials that emerged after the US-Israeli bombing of oil facilities.

Our live blog on this shit show is up and running again. Just a mounting nightmare - as.ft.com/r/bbc5b47c-1...

Electioneering isn't what it used to be

'Watching Hegseth rant about limitless killing, I remembered anticolonial poet and leader Aimé Césaire. “The hour of the barbarian is at hand,” he wrote in 1950. “The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”'

I've had just about enough of this.

It's not up to me to prosecute the US 'fascism debate', but now that ICE has answered the "but there is no armed militia loyal to the leader" objection, Hegseth is now answering the "but there's no glorification of war for its own sake" objection.

Soundtrack to Trump's apocalypse: no surprise the bass work absolutely sucks

TFW you're coming up hard in the Fabric queue

Hegseth: "We are only four days into this and the results have been incredible." - Middle East engulfed in regional war - 11 countries attacked by Iran - Oil & gas prices skyrocketing - Strait of Hormuz now a conflict zone - Terrorism threat raised across the world - No sign of Iran regime collapse

Rhetoric so evil I almost feel like I'm hallucinating.