It was a dodgy transformer, again and again.

All aboard the USS Epstein Distraction (Nonce Class).

Peter Pakora

For God’s sake, THE AMAZING SPIDER-NAAN was right there!! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🎄 There’s a world outside your window and it’s a world of dread, fear and Liz Truss YouTubing from inside her airing cupboard. 🍻 GOD HELP US, EVERY ONE 🎅

Meet the greatest American patriot.

Director Haw-Haw is “back on her bullshit”.

Absolutely stoked that I am in the very first panel of the @2000ad.bsky.social Annual 2026! Thanks @robwilliams71.bsky.social 🎄

The most mortally depressing thing about this piece is that it is 100% correct. There are people writing well-remunerated newspaper columns and leading political parties in this country who are no better than Quislings.

BIG MOTH STRIKES AGAIN

🔬 Some meaty readings of the entrails of 2025 in the latest OGWN. 🎁 Features the Christmas presents we’d give Starmer, Farage, Badenoch, Polanski… and Trump

Keep independent podcasting hale and healthy in 2026 (and save 20% too).

In which the Guardian’s parliamentary sketchwriter John Crace helps us get our heads around a bewildering year in Westminster.

This worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless, worthless excuse for a man. May he rot. Actually, he is rotting. Visibly.

The way this charmless grasping Cruella keeps side-eyeing the camera tells you that, in some tiny corner of her shriveled soul, she knows she’s arguing for flat-out evil.

📳 New #StartYourWeek is out: The antisemitic atrocity on Bondi Beach plus Labour’s latest headaches, the potential junior doctors’ strike, Gaza negotiations phase 2 and more. 📳 With @alexvont.bsky.social & @nndroid.bsky.social Listen on all platforms: linktr.ee/bunker_pod

This book is a mind-blower but I am not sure why it's got former Conservative Work and Pensions Minister Esther McVey on the cover.

The War Between The Land and The Sea, Episode 2: #TheWarBetween #TWBTLATS

The Wall Between The Land And The Sea. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

And I want YOU to go to prison for the rest of your life for war crimes.

Oh you like Times New Roman do you? Because you think it’s to do with the Roman Empire? FVCK OFF, DVMBASS

The allegations that Farage can’t shake and why his response is so catastrophic. As Michael Crick tells me, “Farage is more rattled than a baby’s pram.”

There’s no dressing it up. The MAGA plan is now to impose their know-nothing reality-TV neo-fascism on the whole Western world.

Don’t mention the Wonderwall. “German president compares UK ties post-Brexit to Oasis” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

They should just bring back Tom Baker.

Turns out Peter Thiel doesn’t live in an actual bunker in New Zealand after all, thus ruining another potential Bunker Bunker headline.

There is not one way in which this is not very, very bad for London. There's now only one real provider, Enterprise Car Club. You would expect national and London government to support a scheme like this.

Big shout to rock’n’roll’s own Melvin Benn for kicking a big hole in the Sunday Times ridiculous boo-hoo-the-mansion-tax story today.

I hope everyone is preparing their CRUNCH TALKS IN CRISP DISPUTE headlines. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The main issue of #enshittification is of course that it provides new opportunities for grammar Nazis. (or as I prefer, grammar Nazi's)

Non-zero chance that Trump uses this as an excuse to try and deport the CIA. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

R4Today’s boosterish piece on AI music has it “imagining” a reggae version of Coldplay’s ‘Yellow’ and a metal ‘Running Up That Hill’ as evidence of amazingness. Just banal ideas that any covers band could have. The notion of AI annihilating creativity and jobs is not explored. Now, In Our Time…

After the vindictive cross-platform shoeing she’s just received, Rachel Reeves might as well have put 1p on the basic rate and 3p on the higher rate. She couldn’t possibly have got a worse reception from people who hate her and want to destroy her government whatever happens.

The Guardian’s Luke Harding explains what was really going on with Trump’s “plan” for Ukraine — and puts me right on more than one misconception.

We’re “10 years away“ from being prepared for a long war with Russia, as the ex-Joint Forces commander told a RUSI conference this week. Earlier this year I got the background from former National Security Advisor Peter Ricketts.

FedEx has now sent me so many shipping update emails about one 5x10x0.5cm package that I am considering applying for a restraining order against them.

Yes yes, there is an absolute dearth of me talking on podcasts, but don’t worry. Here’s me and high priest of pop Mark Wood talking about 1980 on this edition of brilliant pod Back To NOW!

Talking to Cory Doctorow about #Enshittification is like overclocking your brain. Please enjoy our latest edition but you might want to listen on 0.75 speed.

No contest. Breaks my heart whenever I even think about it.

How can you possibly “deplore” the politics of a decent, harmless show like Modern Family unless deplore people finding happiness after divorce, gays marrying and brown-skinned people integrating? Danny Kruger is a cruel man masquerading as a kind man. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Gilead update.

Miranda and John Robb give Mani the salute he deserves.

Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.

Me and Jonn on another week slopping back and forth between the Scylla of malicious governance and the Charybdis of bullshit.

🚨ICYMI🚨 Is Trump starting to lose? @mollyjongfast.bsky.social, @nndroid.bsky.social & @rafaelbehr.bsky.social discuss 👉 linktr.ee/ohgodwhatnow... #Trump #DonaldTrump #uspolitics #podcast

Joe Sacco is a legend of comics and it was fascinating to talk to him about his latest book, which turns an investigation of ethnic riots in Uttar Pradesh into riveting drama.

Bloody hell, FIVE HUNDRED episodes…

🎵 Have yourself a “Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn” six-fingered A.I. little Christmas 🎵 🎄