The decline of a new tradition? Entries to the @wisdenalmanack.bsky.social Writing Competition hit an all time low. #cricket prasino.eu/2026/05/27/w...

BBC Question Time now doing exact same with AI they did with Farage? This ‘expert’ panel on AI is a disgrace: not one critical voice. Gilbert works for Tony Blair to promote AI. Jones is govt chief AI booster (& Blair flunky). Riparbelli is industry. Gawdat is ex industry. And a Tory MP

The decline of a new tradition? Entries to the @wisdenalmanack.bsky.social Writing Competition hit an all time low. #cricket prasino.eu/2026/05/27/w...

Tony Blair tells Radio 4 that the £257 million his institute has received from a billionaire AI investor has absolutely nothing to with his lobbying for the AI industry

This is exceptionally good news

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

solar is so cool man. I climbed up on my shed roof last week and installed a panel to charge my yard tools and now I’m mowing my lawn with power I stole from a fucking star

Farage claims his phone was hacked by Russia and that this highlights the “threat they pose to British security”. Which is odd because 7yrs ago he had the chance to strengthen laws against Russian interference but he voted against it, saying the claims were “baseless” The man is never, ever right.

So Trump blew up Obama's deal with Iran, launched a new war, depleted our arsenal, cost us tens of billions, exposed the US as weaker to the world, and ended up just going back to a version of Obama's deal but worse? Do I have that right?

Nigel Farage really is a one trick pony. His divisive and inflammatory comments about immigration is all he has. Is it any wonder he won’t want you to know that net migration has fallen by 82% since its peak under the conservatives. LETS MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC KNOW THE REAL FACTS

There was a coherent argument made here that you start it in the north Wouldn’t have had to tunnel through the chilterns and disguise air vents as farms or whatever it was they did

"Inside the grade II*-listed Pavilion building, the ground’s exclusive clubhouse," Best description.

An auditor for the Ontario, Canada government found that AI agents tasked with turning doctor/patient conversations into structured notes routinely hallucinated false treatments, replaced drug names with entirely different drugs, and missed crucial information

Sometimes the poems I write aren’t the ones I intend to write.

Who even knew Nandy was in the cabinet?

John Lewis Oxford Street cafe is closed until August

That’s all he got. No help with Iran, the opposite in fact. He was threatened to back off Taiwan, vague claims about buying Boeing planes, and was told the US is a declining nation, but he’s too stupid and arrogant to realize it was about him.

We now know it was 2024/2025 that Frost got the money from Orban. This is well after it was known that Orban was massively corrupt, anti-democratic and doing Russia’s bidding. And yet Frost took the money. This says everything about Frost, and possibly about the weak UK institutions. (1/2)

#EleccionesAndalucía Cuando la Vivienda, la Educación y la Sanidad (VES) son competencias autonómicas y el peor estado de VES se da en las gobernadas por el PP y amigos, o votas bien o no VES. #VOTA y #Vota_IZQUIERDA

#EleccionesAndalucía Hay gente que reduce democracia a sufragio. Pero para ser demócratas hay que respetar los valores de la Democracia, que en modo alguno incluyen racismo, misoginia, o xenofobia. #VOTA y #Vota_IZQUIERDA

Cheapest form of war. "Russia boosts foreign propaganda budget by 50% to target EU and NATO" odessa-journal.com/russia-boost...

Revealed: secret minutes of the committee planning the greatest monument in the history of the world open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Robert Jenrick's wife was warned that his campaign had accepted an unlawful donation of almost £40,000 from a convicted American fraudster, according to the Times. Police are investigating allegations that Jenrick's campaign illegally funneled the money to his campaign via a UK-based company

Go big or go home: how The Lost Giants revived the ancient art of goliath-making www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

This is 'Red Beach' on Hormuz Island off the coast of Iran. The red mud is actually one of the island's most important natural resources: OCHRE. It's a mix of silica, clay & iron oxides. Let's talk about the unusual geology, vibrant colors & culture of Hormuz Island, Iran. (📷: Sirsilentbob423)

Badenoch again threatens to leave the ECHR, which would rip up the Good Friday Agreement, not to mention the Brexit deal (meaning immediate no deal with our largest market) and leave us all extremely vulnerable to authoritarian abuse of our rights. She and Farage want to make us poorer & less safe

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

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.

Our breakdown of Wes Streeting’s donors has been doing the rounds online for the last year. Now we’ve updated it – with another £55,000 from OPD Group.

Very sorry to see that the last undergrad archaeology class at Uni #Sheffield was taught yesterday. The wanton destruction happening now in academia on both sides of the Atlantic will be widely seen as the violence it is one day. #SaveSheffield #SaveSheffieldArchaeology

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

"I said it's understandable that Nigel Farage decided not to go on the Laura Kuenssberg show. What did I say Roy?" "You said he's a cowardly little shit who only answers to his billionaire paymasters"

This immigration plan will keep people working in key industries like care in temporary status for a decade or more, it will keep people in insecure work, make them more easily exploitable, poorer and marginalised - when did that become the policy of a Labour government? youtu.be/DI1arGGNP50?...

Starmer is going to attend also Carney. Nothing in the British media…

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Has the world grown weary of art biennials? In search of an antidote, a Portuguese festival turns to anarchism www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Pick up the nearest book, turn to p42 and post the second sentence. "In practice, this means a tension, often unspoken or barely acknowledged, lying beneath the surface."

The difference between Richard Tice and Angela Rayner is that Tice knew exactly what he was doing. Rayner was in completely uncharted waters relying on the wisdom of others.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants. “And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

Read this and you´ll never listen to Jimi Hendrix in the same way. spectrum.ieee.org/jimi-hendrix...

Do you finish every book? yalereview.org/article/mich...

Nonfiction Publishing, Under Threat, Is More Important Than Ever newrepublic.com/article/2076... via @newrepublic.com

The lost location of William Shakespeare’s only known London home may have been identified following the discovery of a previously unknown floor plan. www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/mys...