Rehabilitation is a Bad Thing and placing children in an under-funded, badly-run system is infinitely more to be desired www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Vaccines for children in the United States are to be substantially cut, thanks to the latest collaboration between the Trumpster, his head-tribble, and the Kennedy brainworm thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/05/maki...

If he really thinks going to the Graun will protect him against the state, he should have asked Julian Assange www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Seven out of the nine musical acts booked for a concert series which the Trumpster and his head-tribble decreed to celebrate America's quarter-millennium have withdrawn within two days of the announcement thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/05/that...

I mean I know they're descended from our convicts and all, but the geography seems a bit off here

They're rowing back on the watered-down

"we have a country which ‘knows’ it has made a mistake and regrets it, and yet has a politics which can barely acknowledge that and certainly can’t address it"

Kent is outraged at private enterprise, and has therefore voted for the Farage Falange, a private company, and its thuggish regional sales manager Linden Kemkaran www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The word "earn" doing a certain amount of heavy lifting here www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Murca www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"the weaker the opposition, the tighter the despotism. ...Every day, at every moment, they will be defeated, discredited, ridiculed, spat upon and yet they will always survive" www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Wes wants NHS privatisation and lots of abstract nouns

Hammers more likely to see non-nails as nails shock www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The beasts www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

"The end of the personal search is the goal of the AI tech lords, and with the end of the personal search comes the end of the democratic commons of the internet, period" limitedinc.blogspot.com/2026/05/olga... via @blckdgrd.bsky.social www.blckdgrd.com/2026/05/in-a...

Is this the face of a batshit-crazy squillionaire-sucking old sociopath?

Ostensible water suppliers South East Water request their paying customers to help them maintain the water supply www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Only Team Starmer has the disciplined, battle-hardened, grown-up cadres that can deport people properly

Still not quite catching exactly what he expects anyone to do about it www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ian McEwan, whose optimism about the prospects for the Iraq crusade was one of the delights of the time, remains as profundificatory as ever www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Wouldn't it be more moderate and sensible simply to cut down on schools, hospitals and care homes while lecturing the plebs on the virtues of self-hydration? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The fiends www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Just because you're not malingering, that's no reason you shouldn't be treated as if you were www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Another brilliant coup by Southern Water - cutting off people's supply in the middle of a record-breaking heatwave theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Of all the underhanded tricks perpetrated by the ghastly Euro-wogs in revenge for Britishness, the latest must surely rank among the lowest thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/05/tour...

Is there a division of French law enforcement called TCHAC?

If one didn't know better, one might almost think freedom of movement within the EU had some advantages even for the master race www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Well, I see the Trumpster and his head-tribble have won the war again www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Among the more arduous burdens involved in accepting Jesus as one's personal Saviour is, of course, the need for sufficient humility to correct Him where He went wrong thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/05/who-...

This is what happens when summary execution of protesters is not permitted - it just complicates everything www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

"At first contact with re-entry into national politics, the great hope of the soft left has capitulated across the board"

Exit 8: the @buck-theorem.bsky.social review bucktheorem.blogspot.com/2026/05/exit...

Palantir wagging the finger over public safety www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Various paragons of the international community have suddenly discovered that ministers of the Righteous State do not, alas! always conduct themselves to their own best advantage thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/05/desp...

Looks as if the hero's dad from Gremlins finally made good

It's one way to make sure he loses

Private water companies to be urged to undertake voluntary rainfall collection schemes www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No rejoining the EU, no end to migrant-bashing. Next week, presumably, no end to austerity. Big changes all round

Team Starmer has responded to the latest economic difficulties by asking corporations if they would very much mind not making quite so much profit for a while; and the chief executive of Marks and Spencer has responded in the expectable manner thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/05/st-m...

It's preposterous to expect supermarkets to lower food prices and what we really need is more of the tax cuts and deregulation that have done so much to get us where we are today www.theguardian.com/business/202...

"The BBC declined to comment" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

As the party of working people, Labour's idea of tackling poverty is to ask corporate profiteers to pretty-please not profit quite so much www.theguardian.com/business/202...

If he's dangling from a lamp-post somewhere, let's at least hope it's flying the EU flag www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Since the only people without air conditioning at present are the expendables, and since the moderate sensibles have decreed that AI hubs are worthier of preservation by cooling, nothing will continue to be done www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Never let it be said that Britain achieved nothing by its independence from the beastly bureaucrats of Brussels thecurmudgeonly.blogspot.com/2026/05/anot...

RIP David Burke, the first screen Dr Watson I ever saw who was neither overweight nor a twit www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

But is it moderate for Britain to own its water supply? Is it sensible, is it economically viable for plebs to have clean water at any price to the squillionaire class? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

So Brexit isn't a domestic issue and makes no difference to "where we are as a country". That's a good start www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Starts with a strange yeah and ends with a weird no: the latest @buck-theorem.bsky.social album bucktheorem.blogspot.com/2026/05/hous...

Lisa Nandy thinks that when you make a mistake, wishing to reverse that mistake is "odd" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...