Happy 12th birthday to you, Peckham Chamber Orchestra

If you read one comment piece today it should be this for sure, so subtle and interesting www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Ngl you could do a lot worse than copy my podcast year

Column on the fascist overlords www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A hidden gem for PolSci in an Econ journal: mainstream right-wing parties seem to capture only a fraction (!) of the far-right vote when the latter don't run in an election. Crucially, left parties seem to gain votes! A key finding for understanding potential coalitions doi.org/10.1016/j.jp...

I am absolutely loving the 'Kemi Badenoch talks bollocks' stream meeting the 'men thinking about the Roman Empire at least once a day' stream

It's true my sister designed it but I honestly don't even think I'm biased, I think it's objectively the cutest jumper ever

This is really interesting, even if there are absolutely key statistical words in it that you don't understand at all (+ nice little shout out for Dining across the Divide) benansell.substack.com/p/odd-ones-out

@thelonebegonia.bsky.social 👋🏻

I only listen to true crime and @alexpodyssey.bsky.social so the fact that this is the most gripping thing I've heard in ages says a lot open.spotify.com/episode/59VO...

If you read one Guardian comment piece today, obviously read Aditya's www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Late arriving fandom of... Chris Pattern. Please go back and listen to PM, he's fucking brilliant

This is what is happening. It is cynical. It is strategic. It is organised. It is well funded. And we need to pay attention. The far right - and their cheerleaders, mimics, tribute acts, and handmaidens have identified two presentational frameworks that give them cut-through and traction. 1/7

Talked turkey with @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @mrkennycampbell.bsky.social, felt like things weren't so bad after all bsky.app/profile/quie...

My god, the sheer relief of reading a piece by someone who knows something about this football match and didn't just learn to spell Maccabi two days ago www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Is it weird to do a potted history of Althusser without mentioning he murdered his wife, or am I just being super uptight and old school?

Many smart, sad lines in this Runciman piece www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4... but my favourite is this

@mark-bray.bsky.social let me try that again, less ineptly: Hi, I'm a feature writer on @theguardian.com, could you follow me for a second so I can DM? (you can probs guess what I'm after)

@mark-bray Hi there, can you follow me for a sec so I can DM? I'm a feature writer on the @theguardian.com (you can probs guess what I'm after)

How dare Kemi Badenoch say "given it's the Guardian"? We don't make things up! That's one of the most annoying things about us

I'm sorry to harp on, but how can Kemi Badenoch *possibly exist* in a party alongside a guy who complains about not seeing enough white faces. How is that possible?

This is a huge loss in my culture www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

You write one tiny thing about the tories www.theguardian.com/profile/zoew... and they just get even more like the shit you're talking about www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Grrr goddam humans, who need to break after season one to make season two, this is so good open.spotify.com/episode/67sR...

I did not expect to feel this strongly about Celebrity Traitors www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Whenever I panic about the world, I imagine some future in which loads and loads of Brenda Hales make all the decisions, and then I feel fine, more than, really www.theguardian.com/law/2025/sep...

This is good from Sadiq x.com/MayorofLondo...

Yesterday, the largest far-right protest in UK history marched through London, led by racist Tommy Robinson. Today, we say: They don’t speak for us — and they won’t have the last word. This Wednesday we come together against Trump and for a better future. Do everything to be there.

Who could possibly have foreseen?

Nearly started crying at this photo & I'm not even a Green. Congratulations to @zackpolanski.bsky.social

my god, Philippe Sands has the patience of a saint

This is terrific

Helpful information here on how to talk: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Sad to hear Starmer cite changing the Labour Party as one of his major achievements. Sure, it's changed, in so far as everyone in it feels alienated and drained of hope but it's not very classy to brag about that.

These people made me glad to be alive www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Absolutely unarguable statement in Nesrine Malik's devastating piece www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In fact, ages before this fash-inflected anti-trans movement, I always hated being called a "pregnant woman" because a) it was tautologous and b) my gender wasn't the point, the point was the pregnancy. Nobody calls me a journalist woman.

oh my god

This second letter is just gorgeous (first very well argued) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

There's a nice, practical distinction between hope and faith at the end of this, and a rally: you can take action without hope, but you can't have hope if you don't take action

Important news regarding the spread of fascism via institutional complicity.

Everyone come to this www.tickettailor.com/events/stopt...

Bernie Sanders here, being a legend www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

It feels very disrespectful to the dead, to invite someone onto the Today Programme to scream that they're not dead and it's all a lie

I get this question a lot. I don't have strong views on how transmasc people should dress, but since I often get the question, I've thought about it a bit. Will share some thoughts in this thread. 🧵

This is so dismaying

*As ever*, I put some feelers out thinking I would meet a load of weirdos, and instead met some great, interesting, thoughtful, unusual, original people. When will I learn &c &c www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

exciting new kara swisher interview with the wunderkind who's gone bankrupt 17 times and just invented a habeas corpus crypto app that lets you take your ecivil rights anywhere you're renditioned