Lovely hatchet job on the monstrosity that is Suella Braverman. Crace covers it all; her dishonesty, disloyalty, nastiness, incompetence, her wild vanity… and her deep stupidity. How dare these utter arses think we’d be persuaded by their swaggering nonsense. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The defection of Suella Braverman, who was sacked twice from Government in disgrace, spent £700m of taxpayers' money to send four volunteers to Rwanda on a deportation scheme that was then scrapped and has a public approval rating of minus 32 is currently being described as a "major coup" for Reform

457 British troops lost their lives in Afghanistan. Trump avoided military service 5 times. How dare he question their sacrifice. Farage and all the others still fawning over Trump should be ashamed.

457 UK armed forces personnel died in Afghanistan during the 20-year deployment. This is a fucking hideous thing to say. Even by his non-existent standards.

If we all start going "That isn't Donald Trump, that's clearly a body double" I bet we can make everyone in the White House lose their minds within a week. But we have to _commit_ to it.

Polanski says countries which neighbour Russia (Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania) "Have called for a European security alliance because they can see NATO isn't working". I can find no record of this. Whereas I can find record of each government saying the total opposite

Unhinged

Unbelievable

It’s a real shame that Nigel Farage is too unwell to do interviews the morning after Donald Trump threatens us with sanctions. Here he is with “the bravest man he ever met”. He campaigned to make Trump President, and has spent the last year enjoying all the chaos he has caused.

Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

With Matchweek 18 ends the first half of this season, so it's time to do some analysis. This thread will be updated over the next few days as I review the frequency of each referee's appointments to each club. Ideally, I'd like to see a balanced spread, meaning all clubs are treated equally...

Came across this piece of historical inaccuracy in the museum of Liverpool. What do we think blues?

Came across this piece of historical inaccuracy in the museum of Liverpool. What do we think blues?

Excited to introduce Vibes from Meta. Eat your slop, piggies!

Stealworkers

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Not that I think it should be given, but if Everton had scored that second arsenal goal there’s a 100% chance it would be ruled out for the three players stood in an offside position. Not only that, the commentators would be all over it.

Elmo isn't going to be pleased

Note that still in post at the BBC is Robbie Gibb, who helped set up GB News, and John McAndrew, formerly director of news and programmes at GB News.

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Hot up there Alan?

v Fulham Pickford Garner O’Brien Keane Myko Rohl Armstrong (recall) Dibbling KDH Grealish NDiaye 🤞 We don’t have a functioning number 9 let’s stop setting up the whole game plan around the assumption that we do.

#EVETOT Ndiaye stands close to their keeper; no goal, Van de Ven shoves Pickford into the net & heads in unchallenged; nothing to see here not even mentioned. Our players don’t call it though either, just hang their heads and trudge up for a center kick.

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home. I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

@bsky.app it would be great if you made it simple to say block everyone who liked a post (like this JD Vance one) or block all of a bots followers in one click.

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

“This stuff is borne of a deeply shallow patriotism.” After Farage calls on Sky Sports to sack Gary Neville over his comments about “angry, white, middle-aged men, @jonsopel1.bsky.social and @lewisgoodall.com ask: what does patriotism in the UK actually look like?

Well said, Gary Neville! 👏

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Call of Duty: Black Ops ICE, coming soon.

Nathan Gill, Reform's leader in Wales at the last Welsh parliament election, has pled guilty to 8 bribery charges, taking Russian cash while he was one of Nigel Farage’s MEPs to speak in favour of Putin's Russia in that parliament www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

If you voted for him, you've done this.

Everton's record against top-flight opposition in the League Cup where they made at least 7 changes to the starting line-up. #EFC

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

Q: Do you think it would've been fitting to lower the flags to half staff when Melissa Hortman, the Minnesota House Speaker, was gunned down by an assassin? TRUMP: I'm not familiar. The who?

My Britain ain't broken

Shifting sands of the Strand in Kilkee

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

Remember the buildup? Remember the hype? Remember the weeks of punting tickets? Behold the reality of the Dear Leader's speech. I've a feeling that the turnout for Deform UK at any GE will follow this pattern.

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Monbiot is right to point out how “the centre” has been redefined. This isn’t just political drift, it’s what happens when discourse is shaped by systems that reward outrage and performance over verification.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?