Dramatic scenes at BBC Breakfast.

Right-wingers are whining about this now-deleted tweet from Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV), but she cooked with this one

Sure but also he seems like a dick with some terrible opinions. That too

can i be honest i don't give two shits about whether the king goes and visits the yanks or not i just want us to go full throttle at whatever we need to do to strengthen the UK’s independence and thus ability to cope with the whims of swing voters in winconsin every 4 years

Trump is now less popular with Independents than Bush after Katrina and Iraq or Nixon during Watergate. (Overall figures skewed because the Republican Party is now a brainless death cult)

If Trump announced he'd signed a mutual defence treaty with the King of the Potato People, we'd get dozens of articles and tweets about what it means for NATO, Ukraine and tariffs. A brave few would note in the final paragraph that some people doubt the treaty's existence.

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Picasso energy

There has been a lot of scepticism about the Golders Green fire in particular While we are waiting for more information to come out if and when anyone is charged, and from arrests in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, I would only say that there is nothing that looks remotely like a "false flag"

Genuinely quite shocked by Wireless’s decision. He has a song called Heil Hitler! He sold swastika T-shirts! He’s wildly antisemitic! Booking him is amoral to the point of nihilism

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

On the Know Your Enemy podcast former neocon Bill Kristol says he no longer identifies as a conservative. That's the problem with finding principled conservatives when conservatism is losing its mind — if you're principled you're increasingly less likely to call yourself a conservative

Given how long it takes to get an NHS diagnosis, my instinct is that these things are actually underdiagnosed, especially for girls. But it's certainly "incentivised" if it feels like the only way to unlock help for children in distress. NHS care is brilliant but it can be hard to access.

The Daily Telegraph's April Fools story is somewhat revealing about the newspaper's personal and relentless obsession with Ed Miliband

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

A lot of people would rather rage than read

These payments are the result of a long legal battle with Musk, who promised to pursue Twitter execs to the ends of the earth rather than settle. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/t...

my best friend suggested something very smart which is that all these tech companies think we need AI assistants, but what every adult woman needs is a 22-year-old version of herself who has the energy to take on all of her tasks for her.

Really surprised that a critic as experienced as Alex Preston would stoop to using AI to write. Plus I can't imagine rereading and editing my copy without noticing that some of the sentences weren't my own. (The last sentence of the article is very droll.) www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

The Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies is running a free course on the Holodomor and asked me to share it to help reach people who might be interested www.coursera.org/learn/holodo...

As the next post clarifies, this includes the families of US citizens, witnesses in criminal cases and trafficking victims

"Republicans too radical, Democrats too woke" is the ideology of the owners of most major news outlets and many of the senior editors and reporters they have hired/promoted. This is Rahm's platform. So of course they amplifying his message. It is their message too.

I dream of war crimes tribunals

food served at restaurant

You duped yourselves, dummies

Am not an energy analyst but why does seem every interview with a U.K. minister this week included a pointed question about why not drilling more in North Sea and almost none about renewables/net zero as an energy security imperative? It’s bizarre, frankly

The guy who shouted “Judas!” was right after all, he was just 60 years too early

I do not think anti-Zionism is always inherently antisemitic, but we really should not redefine obvious antisemitism as merely anti-Zionism.

When artists/entertainers say their work isn't political, they usually don't mean "my work has nothing to say about human society." They usually mean "it's not a culture war polemic, it doesn't directly say you're a bad person if you don't agree, don't tell millions it's only for the 'other side.'"

I regret to say some people have used this post as an opportunity to say uncharitable things about Arsenal

The American right’s new use of “gooner” to mean a nihilistic compulsive masturbator has really spoilt the proud fan messages outside Emirates Stadium

It’s going to be tough to separate the art from the artist

Who is this about? (answer to come later)

Very pleased to receive a finished copy of this, the paperback publication of Neil Tennant’s lyrics for the Pet Shop Boys, with my introduction

The pipeline from Mom, I’m autistic to Oh Honey, I Think Everyone Has Some Stuff to Guess What Your Dad Has ADHD to You Know, I Think I Might Be On The Spectrum is so fucking real

The Palestine Solidarity Group specifically calls out Zohran Mamdani not for anything he actually did on Palestine itself, but for criticizing the obvious antisemitism of Palestinian American writer Susan Abulhawa, which makes me think that for some of these people, the antisemitism is the goal.

It’s really something to find in every single American poll that 25% of the country is either insane or such a contrarian child that they are indistinguishable from insane.

Americans keep finding new ways to be reactionary while left-wing — nativism under the guise of "anti-gentrification". Phrases like "We are full" and "Why do u need to come here?" have a familiar ring.

Tricky times for the content creators, life coaches and right wing journalists who left Britain shrieking claims that it was becoming an authoritarian state

Ah The Fall Guy is such a sweet and funny tribute to movie-making, I love it. And Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling are charm squared

i love you guys but you gotta stop arguing with teenagers

RIP editorial cartooning.

There are a bunch of films I’ve never seen but are referenced so often that I feel like I have. Like Pretty Woman. Don’t really know what happens in it. Don’t know if it’s good. But part of me thinks I’ve seen it. (I have seen Sliding Doors but think that fits the category for a lot of people)

Magnificent

The people who annoy me the most these days fall into two camps: (1) literally running the world and (2) utterly irrelevant outside of their tiny corner of social media. Reactionary centrism happens when (2) bugs you more than (1)

Insane to me that this is apparently controversial. Neoliberalism *is bad*. It may be part of the reason we found our way to fascism. It's still not *as bad* as fascism. That doesn't make it good! How hard is this?

Tony Blair basically arguing that the actions of the Israeli Government in Gaza (and presumably South Lebanon) are based on "reason". And you are an antisemite if you don't express any criticisms in exactly the form he specifies and acknowledge the rationality. institute.global/insights/new...

12 extraordinary years of transformation in Paris with Anne Hidalgo. Thank you, Anne 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Seven years ahead with Emmanuel Grégoire to take things even further. Well done, Emmanuel. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Long live Paris 💫