GUYS - I’ve just realised what Farage is going to do… The thing is he now has NO WAY to proceed which doesn’t humiliate him. If he wins, he is, as Rachel Reeves put it, The Man Who Spent His Summer Arguing With A Bin. If he bails, he’s The Man Who Fled From A Bin. And if he LOSES…

The Americans are starting to laugh at Farage as well. He’s going to go OUT OF HIS MIND.

Eleanor is great and times are horribly tight for independent creators… support if you can

Tempted to hold my nose and pop over to X to savour some Farageist copium…

This year we can assemble a volunteer army of Binface campaigners

Binface has done something virtually unheard of: created a coalition between those who couldn't care less about politics and those who care very much.

From the Count Binface Appreciation Society on FB:

The thought of the sheer spluttering impotent rage Farage must be reduced to right now, combined with the fact that even he, in some dank corner of his mind, must realise that he has entirely brought this on himself, makes me incredibly happy.

"Farage should win an election where no major parties field candidates, but such a victory looks hollow, and the contest pointless. Given that, Farage might even be tempted to u-turn on his idea to resign as an MP in the first place – but then he would forever be the man who ran scared of a bin."

This is becoming the funniest day in British politics since Pigfuck Day.

Even Barbra Streisand thinks Farage has really fucked this.

Another thought: try telling Edinburgh that the creative arts never did anything for the economy.

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Ridiculously shortsighted and another obvious sop to the Reform-tempted crowd. We “bloody luvvies” are such an easy group to “other” but unfortunately WE’RE THE ONES PAYING FOR EVERYTHING. Nobody is buying British cars, or eating our fish, or our meat & veg… but they’re reading our books, and…

Explain this, humankind

Maybe it IS too dangerous to wear a watch in London if you swan round wearing a £10k Rolex or a £25k Patek Philippe, but those of us who DON’T have two billionaire sugar daddies on the go can walk round safely with our perfectly serviceable but not-worth-nicking Casios and Sekondas…

He doesn’t appear to be on here but could someone let Stanley Tucci know there’s an AI ad that seems to be using his face? www.facebook.com/share/v/1EDn...

Clacton By-election

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Breaking - Trump to overturn Farage’s resignation

You'll be glad to know that the famous Singing Bins of Stansted were on fine form this morning, here performing their excellent version of The Chords' 'Sh-Boom'

Cheer up, USA. One of your soccer teams has won 4 World Cups.

haven’t seen America this thoroughly embarrassed on the world stage since we lost that war we started with Iran like 3 weeks ago

Nigel Goldfinger here, enjoying his poverty-stricken life of public service again.

I once saw a guy at a swimming pool with a massive tattoo over his whole back saying ONLY GOD CAN JUDGE ME, which I found ironic as I’m pretty sure everyone there was already judging him.

We polled Labour members for their preferred choice to replace Starmer, and these were the results

Ultimately Starmer’s biggest miscalculation was failing to appreciate that chasing the Reform vote was far likelier to LOSE support than it ever was to gain it… Those of us who are NOT on the anti-immigrant bandwagon aren’t merely indifferent to it; we’re SICKENED and APPALLED by it.

MITCH BENN - ASKING ELVIS Remembering my years on Radio 2’s Steve Wright in the Afternoon as radio’s best kept secret… CHIPPENHAM COMEDY FESTIVAL Sunday June 28th www.ticketsource.com/chippenhamco...

I think I might have saved my dad’s life because I binge watched The Pitt. My dad had a heart valve replaced 2 years ago. He spent 6 months in hospital because whilst it wasn’t an emergency if Doctors were nearby, if they sent him home he’d likely die.So he spent the queue time at the hospital.

Harlan Coben’s Is It Recycling or Bins This Week?

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

This story currently leads BBC Scotland. But down here in London you have to scroll all the way down past the London news, the World Cup, whatever the BBC calls its Reels equivalent, more World Cup, weekend picks and 'lazy summer recipes' to the 'around the UK' to see it

“relatively little attention has been paid to how Reform has consciously waged war on women, who are now punishing the party at the ballot box“ @writesbright.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/writesbr...

HIVE MIND - if you’re at a loose end in London and can get to Leicester Square by 8.30 I’ve got one spare ticket for this: princecharlescinema.com/film/3161736...

Restore getting 3000 votes is actually weirdly encouraging; on the one hand the combined Reform & Restore vote didn’t get anywhere near Burnham’s total, but if Restore typically get about 1/5 of Reform’s total, that could be enough to fuck Reform up 🙂

Reform (and UKIP before them) have the same politics as the editorials of the biggest billionaire-owned news outlets in the UK. What’s shocking is a) that they’re viewed as radical underdog outliers, and b) they keep losing by elections. I read that as “actual people are better than you expect.”

It's not complicated. The people are not some easily-swayed rubes hypnotized by billionaires. The people will turn out in droves to stop fascists and grant mandates to make the future better than now. For the love of fucking Jesus, can we have some politicians who rise to the moment and *try* that?

My mate @philwilliamsradio.bsky.social has written a great piece about his eating disorder. It may help some of you out there… 🩵 open.substack.com/pub/williams...

Sitting in a cafe in Colchester which is delightful except it’s playing music loud enough to drown out my earphones AND the music in question is Mediterranean sounding pop and I SWEAR every song has had THAT four chord box (I V VI IV, obviously) and the fucking Despacito beat. EVERY ONE OF THEM.

Bob Odenkirk is a national treasure. Take 44 seconds and watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0rB...

Every Episode Of Generic Animated Sitcom™

🔴 SCOOP: Farage doesn't seem to want to answer questions about his money. So I went looking - and found that the Reform leader's personal company is in breach of UK company law democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-n...

Nice thing to see on my way home.

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

Stories like this about acts of heroism by people who are not white never go viral www.thesun.co.uk/news/3937252...