"I know it's not the sort of thing you usually do Mr Havelange but speaking as a nuclear power we'd appreciate Gascoigne's yellow being overturned and the match result annulled"

That @naomialderman.bsky.social is so fucking brilliant. If you've found yourself falling out the reading habit, she has created a kind of Couch-to-5K of reading open.substack.com/pub/naomiald...

Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.

Nigel Farage's grifting is so overt it's visible from space....how can his thumb-headed disciples not see it?

Quite the detail www.thetimes.com/article/aa2f...

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The three people who have most recently stopped the UK doing a daft bit of US tagalong were Starmer, Miliband, and Wilson. (Glossing over Blair).

god this is such a bleak pattern (and the right decision by Londoncentric)

Not sure how well known this factoid is outside of Ireland so sharing it for the benefit of the rest of yiz Go Pico 🇨🇻🇮🇪

Intrigued to hear Danny Kruger, of Reform UK, tell Any Questions that universities need to "change their business model". What would he suggest? Selling crypto? Acting as "brand ambassadors" for Direct Bullion? Recording videos saying "Up the Ra"? Or getting a billionaire to chuck us £5 million?

Water and Lemon 2022 By Duana Keiser Oil on canvas

If only we here in the UK were part of a bigger bloc like , say, the EU, that had the experienced people and the political and economic heft to actively face off against Big Tech!

The noise I made on reading the final line was frankly Lovecraftian.

OFSTED announces yet another plan - the fifth? - on unregistered (and thus not regulated or inspected) care homes for vulnerable and abandoned children. There are now 900+ of these - it's been a criminal offence to run one since 2000... @georgemonbiot.bsky.social www.gov.uk/government/n...

By generating #renewableelectricity and fresh water from the same installation,these projects address #clean-energy and water scarcity Although still emerging, integrated solar-desalination systems could become especially valuable for islands, coastal communities, drought-prone regions #ActOnClimate

Be careful out there.

Why Labour MPs are still on X

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

Matt Goodwin was silent when a Turkish-American guy with dual US-UK citizenship was Mayor of Greater London.

Israel spent £50,000 lobbying Reform

Probably the single image from the first day of the Battle of the Somme that haunts me the most. This young Lancashire Fusilier, filmed around an hour or so before going ‘over the top’, 110 years ago today. #FWW #WW1 #gwg #SGWT

The Hammersmith bridge stuff is an interesting example of “why our politics has tended to centralisation”. If you make the local council responsible for a bridge its residents mostly do not use and would prefer were restricted to foot traffic…guess what happens next!

Everything this admin does at this point is against a ticking clock of trying to steal as much as they can before there is any accountability.

● Farage received £91,200 from a gold bullion company for four hours of work in January 2025. ● That's just £146 less than his MP salary for a whole year. ● And people wonder why he's never in Clacton. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Socialism for the wealthy, feudalism for everyone else.

I truly believe that the normalization of nighttime bookstores would change the world.

BBC lawyers playing Trump at his own game and he's too lazy to have read the rules.

Sycamore Gap sapling stolen from Cumbria National Trust site leaving charity 'saddened' #Lancashire

... and the profiteering by contractors providing substandard accommodation, food, etc.

I think that the worst thing about the "refugee tax" is that the high accommodation costs are caused by the Home Office, and in particular their inability to make fast AND accurate decisions, leaving people rotting in those grim places. Refugees are effectively being fined for HO incompetence.

PROTECT ARE KIDS

Is there a genuine reason why some motorbikes have excessively loud exhaust pipes or are the riders just attention seeking cunts?

£4bn, that we know about, was spent in the PPE VIP lane alone.

Former Tory MP pleads guilty to using insider information to bet on the date of the election. I know you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but c'mon!

“Poster child”? Mate, that’s called delivering. Meanwhile the GOP’s only policy is vibes, tax cuts & a new way to say “socialism” like it’s Voldemort.

Ukrainian French artist Sonia Delaunay's 1920s - 1930s clothing designs #WomensArt

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"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it" Upton Sinclair www.desmog.com/2026/04/30/r...

Thriller idea: man with world's second smallest penis has to stop him.

Which part of UK has outperformed the rest since Brexit? Northern Ireland of course, as it has effectively stayed in the EU’s single market!

Some important olde English phrases for this week (from Tudortongue on IG)

Credit to @TudorTongue on Instagram

Exclusive to all right-wing papers: It’s clear that Andy Burnham has been a complete failure as Prime Minister, although he hasn’t technically taken up the role yet. From the new Private Eye, out now.

Five-Mil Farage #FIVEMILFARAGE

Trundling through the Northumberland and Scottish countryside on a train on our way to Dundee. Lordy! It's beautiful

'The Swimmer', wooden sculpture by contemporary New York based sculptor Stefanie Rocknak #womensart