What annoys me most about this is not the world’s most powerful man pissing America’s time away on ”yeah make u think” bad-weed-smoking drivel. It’s the absolute low effort involved. I mean, come up with a surprising alien FFS, not one that would embarrass a Camden Market t-shirt vendor.

Your guide to the stories from the week ahead

Be interested to see where this places.

Apparently I have resigned from Reform in Durham over irreconcilable difference with Darren Grimes. Sounds plausible.

"Mere fodder for the mass media!" (i.e. us).

The Centrist Dad and Mum Dream could be about to come true for the most depressing reasons possible.

I’ve just seen an advert that describes a handheld fan as a “heat-hacking system”.

Great to see various dog-end Conservatives and the ToryForm press wailing about the same Henry VIII powers they wielded enthusiastically when they were in charge. When warned that eventual turnabout would be fair play, they put their fingers in their ears and went “ner ner ner can’t hear you.”

This book is fantastically interesting and (in today’s context) absolutely spine-chilling. Very worth listening to.

Our designer @jamesparrett.bsky.social has totally knocked it out of the park today.

The idea that Green voters will recoil in horror at Zack Polanski dodging council tax is as fanciful as thinking that Reform voters will freak out at Farage getting a £5m bung and working lots of side earners. Both groups regard their guy as a heroic rulebreaker.

Et tu, Shabana?

Steve and I try to make sense of the early results.

Good explainer on what’s important, possible outcomes & key issues in tomorrow’s Welsh Senedd Elections from @nndroid.bsky.social with Welsh politics expert & pollster @willhaycardiff.bsky.social who also has an excellent substack: substack.com/@willhayward... podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

In which I parade my ignorance and Libby attempts to combat it.

Now do Eyes Wide Shut.

I hereby disavow all electronic and dance music, and will be traveling back in time to prevent Kraftwerk from ever meeting in the first place.

What the fuck is the Guardian thinking? NATO is cracking just when we need it most. Trump and Putin both want to destroy it. NATO should use every tool it can to shore itself up. This story is abjectly irresponsible. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

More like Maskatron (IYKYK)

In which Charles attempts to rescue UK:UK relations from Trump’s golden toilet.

Fabulous how this is being reported as “Great news from gracious President” and not “World still cowering under unpredictable whims of mad, senile Emperor.” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

BLOODY REMAINIACS… Origin Story is back back back with Season 9 and a blockbuster two-parter on European union (a superset of the European Union).

Evidently there is now a crime of lèse-majesté in American federal law. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New OGWN, guaranteed to contain no “It’s a stunt to justify invading Canada/suspending elections/imprisoning all Democrats/putting his face on Mount Rushmore.”

Gerry Conway was a magnificent comics writer who thought hard about his characters’ moral meaning. Unlike the thug morons in police and ICE who think The Punisher is a role model instead of a warning. RIP.

Did this woman “take a stand” when her husband mocked a disabled reporter, mocked sexual assault victims, mocked a murdered movie director, mocked Paul Pelosi who’d been beaten near to death with a hammer, and said he was glad Robert Mueller was dead? Be best! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🔥⏰NEW⏰🔥 Another day, another assassination attempt. Will the attack on Trump overshadow King Charles’s visit to the US? Plus: It’s Groundhog Day all over again as Labour agonises over Starmer’s leadership. @rostaylor.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social discuss the week ahead ➡️ linktr.ee/bunker_pod

The way political reporting has to drop in tiny details of food and drink as a way of signifying “this is the real inside info” drives me spare. “Over three bags of Tangfastics and an Irn Bru the PM told aides…”

Like Led Zep at the O2, we are back for a one-off reunion show. *awaits multimillion pound offer from SJM Concerts*

OK no way are we letting Trump hand Argentina control over Balamory.

Your bi-weekly political venting session is served.

Nurturing office environment. #mindful

Really illuminating insight into the reality of Hungary’s new PM from the brilliant Sandor Zsiros at Euronews.

The Bullseye diner sequence at the start of S2E4 of Daredevil: Born Again might be the purest distillation of a Marvel character yet to make the screen. Absolutely bananas.

The Descent Of Mand – new OGWN out today

After all that’s been said in the Commons today, Sky News has chosen to run that loudmouthed attention-seeking prick Lee Anderson and his bogus points on a loop, just because he strategically got himself thrown out. Hey @skynewsrss.bsky.social, he’s playing you like a piano.

Interested to know what kind of omniscient AI megabrain the tech guys are going to produce now they’ve decided that large parts of the sum total of human knowledge are “dysfunctional and regressive” and thus invalid.

Chris Sutton saying “well is there anyone who doesn’t sweat at night after a big curry?” on #606 and the entire nation screaming “PRINCE ANDREW” at the radio.

Hitherto unknown Flash Harry bluesman unearthed by Homicide: Life On The Streets.

Am sure you mean “political colonic” in a good way!

One for @quantick.bsky.social

I am now the proud owner of this very FGTH duffle bag thanks to the generosity of @davidhepworth.bsky.social youtu.be/PTCzu2g6ErE?... h/t Jeremy Thomas

Hey Pope Leo, excommunicate this motherfucker. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Joy unconfined for a change, plus we’ve got a new theme tune – check it out.

All the worst cunts in the world - from journalism to politics, the Kermlin to the White House - are suffering tonight.

Taranium core, you know the score 🔊

🎵 I’m off to see the Bootleg Betjeman/As the Bootleg CS Lewis. 🎵

Ayatollah? HIGHER TOLL, YEAH? (I apologise for any hurt and distress caused by this post)

Happy 40 Years of Chernobyl, everyone… My old colleague @adamhigginbotham.bsky.social fills me in on the untold side of the world’s worst-ever accident. ☢️

Andrew Perry was a true star of the old Select mag gang, an incorrigible enthusiast who loved Lee Perry, Iggy Pop, the Stones and mind-melting acid house alike. He was brilliantly talented and THE best company. He deserved many more years and I will miss him. RIP www.musicweek.com/talent/read/...