I know that fruit and veg from the supermarket never tastes as nice as freshly picked equivalents, but do authentic and fresh bell peppers actually taste nice? Do they taste of something? Anything?

UK democracy in action. Thousands of unpaid carers prosecuted for inadvertently breaching benefit rules. No Post Office exec prosecuted for false prosecutions of postmasters. In 2017, 72 people died in Grenfell fire. Execs “deliberately concealed” the fire risks of cladding. No one prosecuted.

Last time I saw David Byrne in Glasgow, the art school burnt down. This weekend I saw David Byrne in Glasgow.... I'm only saying. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤔 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Some sociopathic ten year olds take a break from pulling the wings and legs of insects, to killing people for "fun". Who could have guessed that American greatness looked so cruelly infantile?

Trebles all round for the disaster capitalists

"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com

Saw David Byrne last night in Glasgow. It was a fantastic gig, truly euphoric and joyous. I'm so jealous of the people who are yet to see him on the rest of the tour. It's fabulous.

Brilliant. An expat im Dubai has a startling revelation, by @stephencollins.bsky.social

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News alert from the Guardian 1. Starmer decides to support Israel and the US's attacks on Iran. News alert from the Guardian 2. [minutes later] Mahmood is going to limit refugees' time in the UK to 30 months. It's a puzzle why no one likes Starmer or his party. Let's have a focus group.

Watching MOTD highlights of NUFC-Everton, I see that Newcastle, who had ditched illegal betting partner FUN88 at beginning of season, have now teamed up with 8Xbet (also partner of Sunderland, Bournemouth, Villa, Forest...), an even worse operator, linked to cyber slavery compound in Cambodia.

Nice to see Reform taking the same line as the US Republicans and also the pathetic Incel movement. "No wants to vote for us or have sex with us - it can't be our fault, therefore we must blame the people who don't vote for us or shag us"

Keir Starmer's commitment to being unrelentingly wrongheaded is almost laudable, if it weren't so laughable and bad for the country.

The UK's most laughable columnist (from a strong field) is rightly mocked. Create your own doom mongering headline here stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

“Yes, we have a pronatalist ambition. We want people to have more children, and we think the government should get behind that wish.” - he means white people. He wants white women to breed a new white nation. He won’t say it. But that’s what he means.

La compositrice Eliane Radigue, pionnière de la musique électronique, est morte à l’âge de 94 ans

RIP Eliane Radigue.

Racists disgust me, and I wish they'd fuck off away from Sunderland. Football is for everyone, and to target players, no matter who they play for, simply based on their skin colour or ancestry is as abhorrent as it is ignorant. I'll stand with Romaine. www.safc.com/news/2026/fe...

Well #Sunderland, that was an abject performance, obviously not helped by an early injury to Mukiele. Momentum is a critical thing in sport, and #SAFC need to get back into the groove. Hopefully the #Xhaka factor will count but it doesn't look like we've recovered from #AFCON and Xhaka's injury.

1/ You can also read the text in English here: www.bundesliga.com/en/bundeslig... - maybe the best thing about this is exactly how specific Kompany gets about both the nature of and the solution to the problem. He names names, he provides a path forward.

The UK is collectively patting itself on the back over Andrew Mountbatten Windsor’s arrest. “No one is above the law”, we say - but the evidence suggests otherwise. Read 'Britain's Secret State' here... open.substack.com/pub/adriango...

This is on the 6Music playlist. So catchy and irresistible. Like an afro beat Snapped Ankles. The excellent Pigeon perform Miami. The album is out next month. youtu.be/orZihOQgqJM?...

Imagine being faced with a decision where you save some of an existing budget from the world's richest country but millions of people die, or you spend your budget as planned and people live. And you choose to let people die. What's wrong with these people?

This is a bit of a surprise, more in terms of timing than anything else. It was maybe inevitable after Ghisolfi's arrival. Speakman has done a fantastic job overall (with some monumental exceptions e.g. Beale).

Just going to leave this here

For all these rightwingers love to bang on about ancestry, they certainly don't give a stuff for future generations.

Lubomski - Psychobójca [Poland, Pop, Cover] (1993) Polish cover of Psycho Killer by Talking Heads https://redd.it/112ikhz https://youtu.be/wmatevzv92k

My painting of a #trilobite* might not be very good and it looks like a poo (to be fair, the fossil looks like a poo), but at least I created it and it's not #AIslop. Make art ✊ *The best fossil class.

Stop bloody raining!

Rarely mentioned but about much of Ratcliffe’s business ‘success’ is based on draining public money (very common among these ‘self made tycoons’) Eg democracyforsale.substack.com/p/ineos-set-...

Do piss off, you ignorant, hypocritical old racist.

Age verification? In my first job, data was encoded onto punch tape. I was able to read it.

I've got money that says: i. The results aren't fascinating ii. It doesn't raise questions about self-hood iii. Anthropic are well chuffed with this coverage

Just bought some Domestos toilet bleach. It's called "Wild Passion", perfectly summarising my feelings about toilet bleach. Still, I bought it, so I guess it worked 🤷🏻‍♂️

This was going to be #Slovenia's entry for this year's #Eurovision but they rightly pulled out because of Israel's participation. This is the mighty #Laibach and it's catchy and fun. youtu.be/erR5PSfKo7w?...

The only common factor in Spurs' failed relationships is #Spurs.

In Japanese philosophy, unlike the atomised Western self, we are ‘ningen’ (人間), each enmeshed with other humans and nature @takeshimorisato.bsky.social

Whole roast spiced cauliflower on a herby, nutty rice, with a tahini dressing. I even managed to get some tahdig on the rice. ✊ Taken from Meera Sodha's wonderful book, Dinner.

Welcome to Northumberland 🙂

'Wonderful' Roman terracotta head found during dig in Northumberland. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A very slightly cheaper pint versus Thousands of families taken out of poverty. Tough choice.

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable. Biden himself said they were fabricated! www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

I've taken perverse pleasure in seeing just how few tickets have been sold at the Odeon at Gateshead for the Melania film.

Africa’s wealth gap widens as Nigeria’s Aliko Dangote & 3 other billionaires now richer than half of the continent’s population, says Oxfam. Billionaire wealth in Africa grew by 36.5% in one year, more than double the global rate.

Poverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

BBC news really is a horror show of shallowness, smugness, and craven forelock tugging.

Listen to Sprints' vengefully joyous cover of the Le Tigre classic "Deceptacon"

A pair of glorious purebred/ inbred British patriots. The absolute state of these two fuckwits who decided that this was a great look and a great plan. 🤣