"Coronation Streeting" was RIGHT THERE

This letter is incredibly unusual for a ministerial resignation in that it actually spells out in plain English why Phillips is resigning, and why she thinks Starmer should go. With worked examples. Genuinely quite refreshing.

As openly gay Romani singer Ibolya Oláh began performing her anthem “Magyarország,” the cordons on Kossuth Square opened. The crowd surged forward, many walking across the reflecting pool. Beautiful symbolism of a new era of hope. 🙏🏼🇭🇺🕊️ 📹 @444.hu

Thank you. We now have a Northern Ireland government a Welsh government and a Scottish government led by parties that are committed to ending the current Union of the United Kingdom. The complacency about this at Westminster is extraordinary. (PS I’m also a Weegie. Translations are available)

Happy 100, big man

Sky News projecting a national vote share for Reform of 27%, based on results so far. That’s four points down on what they achieved in local elections last year. Somewhat of a counter to the prevailing narrative. More evidence that Reform appears to have peaked.

Labour -> Green Tory -> Reform That’s the story.

Sure this is only a cod. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

Neu! - Hallogallo JAMC - Never Understand Stone Roses - Something's Burning Happy Mondays - Do It Better Spacemen 3 - Transparent Radiation Velvet Underground - Oh! Sweet Nuthin bob hund - Jag tror jag är kär Public Enemy - Don't Believe the Hype PJ Harvey - Down By the Water Patti Smith - Gloria

All Along The Watchtower - Hendrix (too) Nothing Much To Lose - MBV There is a Light - The Smiths A Forest - The Cure Heliosphan - Aphex Twin A House is not a Motel - Love Metronomic Underground - Stereolab Vapour Trail - Ride Made of Stone - The Stone Roses No 13 Baby - Pixies

It is almost unimaginable that you could be such a prick that someone tries to kill you and you make a giant fuss about it and your approval rating actually goes down. Getting shot at in this country used to mean a big polling bump.

WAITER: would you care for dessert JEFF: i’ll have the jello GEOFF: i’ll have the geollo JEFF: jesus christ not this again GEOFF: geosus christ

To be clear, the eight Iranian women who were allegedly political prisoners set for execution and saved by Trump are nonexistent and generated by AI. The 170 Iranian schoolgirls who were blown to smithereens by Trump's orders were all very real, and all are very dead.

The Onion has reached a deal to acquire Infowars • It will be turned into a parody site of itself • Has the support of the Sandy Hook families “A lot of people gave up on doing the right thing over the last two years. Despite an insane amount of threats & bullshit, we persevered" (via Variety)

Coachella is trying to wipe all of the footage of The Strokes protest set so I’m gonna post it here. The last images on the screen made me cry.

NEW: This might be the perfect visual metaphor for the war in Iran. Courtesy of today’s Virginia Tech Spring game.

🇮🇷 Iranian protesters violantly attacked by the government Oh, sorry, wrong video. 🇮🇱 It's the self-described "only democracy in the Middle East" bashing 100s of anti-war protestors chanting slogans against Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Saturday to protest the war with Iran

Uk and EU finalise UK return to Erasmus www.gov.uk/government/n...

1/8 Yesterday I was asked a question live on @lbc.co.uk by @mrjamesob.bsky.social : What happens if the United States intercepts a Chinese cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz? At the time, I said I didn’t want to think about it. Since then, I have. #Hormuz #MaritimeSecurity

Gonna take a while to turn these bad boys around. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This Reform leaflet from three Gateshead candidates looks like a timelapse of the same person

If we want the gardai to clear the blockades at the refineries, we’re going to have to do the unthinkable: gently drape a Palestinian flag over one of the trucks

This is how octopuses actually throw things [🙏🏻]

America destabilises everywhere, that’s what it does. Most of this is nothing new. The only new bit is that they’re destabilising Europe too.

This is quite the read. Almost everyone in Trump's inner circle, including Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, advised Trump against launching a war on Iran. He did it anyway. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

Under the terms of the ceasefire, if an American oil tanker wants to transit the Strait of Hormuz, it must pay $2 million. In Chinese yuan. To Iran. The United States has crossed the event horizon of political humiliation.

This is going around from a planespotter in UK ~40 minutes ago. Just to pre-bunk some things: - The cruise missiles on the pylons are JASSMs (conventional-only), not AGM-86 (nuclear-only). - AGM-86 is a good deal longer (thus not two rows in line), and different livery <more>

Whoa 🤯 The Moon, in full eclipse, with the #Artemis II Orion spacecraft. Part of the Moon and spacecraft are lit by Earthshine, and both Saturn and Mars are visible to the lower right. Incredible. Details: images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

Mad Men star Christina Hendricks played a four-hour DJ set, spinning indie, shoegaze, dream pop records including Chromatics, Sky Ferreira, St. Vincent, Broken Bells, Beach House, Warpaint, Cocteau Twins, Mitski, Lana Del Rey, Spiritualized, and more.

This is quite something from Singapore's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vivian Balakrishnan, in an interview with Reuters. The end of the post-war order, diagnosed in technocratic language. www.mfa.gov.sg/newsroom/pre...

One part of this maneuver is the subjective/objective switcheroo: going from recognizing your own inner life (I feel sad) to pretending to have a handle on everyone's life (we are doomed). From vulnerability to authority, on a journey that's also from insight to bullshit.

On the "Trump is funny" thing, I've made this point before but 'funny' is a blanket term that means several things. When people say he's funny, they sometimes mistake that for Trump having a good (or, indeed, any) sense of humour, which is 100% not the case. Trump is funny like a noise or a dog.

Debbie Googe and Bilinda Butcher, iykyk

Watch this BBC interview if you want to understand how badly Trump screwed up and why Iran still holds a lot of cards.

Absolutely NOT. Does the US have an endgame in Iran? The attacks on Iran are terrifyingly light on strategy. Not even a concept of a strategy... www.salon.com/2026/03/04/d...

This kind of disruption just isn't sustainable for Trump politically My bet is he's going to back out after ordering a commando raid to make it look like he won something

In the 80s I helped launder several thousand dollars of drug money through the Girl Scouts of America by selling mass quantities of cookies to the local weed dealer, who then packed his customer’s orders in with the cookies.

As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

A Saudi official saying this on Al Jazeera, a Qatari media outlet, is far more telling than any nugget of information carefully leaked to an American media outlet. This war will permanently alter the relationship of the Gulf states, the US, and Israel.

One of my favourite sides of politics/media.

"...and there's been another arrest for misconduct in public office but for who Chris Kamara?"

Rev. Jesse Jackson's "I *am* somebody..." remains one of the all-time great pieces of 20th century rhetoric / agitprop And he could deliver it at a Black separatist meeting, the Democratic National Convention, or on god-blessed Sesame Street (see below 🥹) RIP to the Voice of the Voiceless

Me whenever I have to communicate with other human beings #anxiety

As bombardment & displacement escalate in Jabalia, you’ve been a lifeline for these fifteen displaced families: food parcels, water, medicine, hygiene, tents & tarps, surgeries, much more. (Take a look at the updates!) Hit “weekly” on a coffee! Give/find their link here: chuffed.org/project/hope...

I was incarcerated in a psych ward for two months, one of the most miserable experiences of my life that I hated every single hellish second of. The psych ward is a dungeon designed to crush the human spirt. We commit to joy while inside despite that. You can't survive hard times without making joy.

I'm not a climate doomer, because that's what the powerful want. They want people to give up and say "it's too late." Even if it is too late, I'd still rather the world decarbonize if only to fuck up the fossil fuel companies. If you refuse to believe in a better future, at least believe in spite.

No-one seems to have noticed, but many of the core developments in the Mandelson/Epstein story these last few days have been broken on this website. @pickardje.bsky.social and @petergeoghegan.bsky.social are both posting each breaking development on BlueSky, not X.

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This hit so fucking hard today.