I loved this conversation, even the inconclusivity felt like part of its value

Long shot, but if anyone in North #Oxford has lost a tortoise with a surprising turn of speed in the heat, do get in touch..

I even like the typo in the headline, the way it conveys Dunt outrage: it's it's UTTERLY MAD

At some point this Government will come to its moral senses and realise that retrospectively denying people settled status/citizenship is wrong. With Reform on the horizon that moral imperative is even more urgent. It should be encouraging people to become citizens. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Having your very major, emotional, scarce-to-be-believed announcement totally eclipsed by the weather feels very Keir Starmer

It's dumb as all get out but the World Cup just keeps putting me in a good mood

I have finally defeated the algorithm. I have never thought about buying a slate snooker table. Didn't even know they were a thing

Morning everyone: I am looking for people whose adult kids still live at home, for a piece in the Guardian: I want to interview both sides, you don't have to be mean about each other if you don't want to. DMs open

This is definitely what they teach in journalism school, 'make sure to use an ink pen when you're vox popping in the rain'

I would actually sue her again for spelling my name two different ways but that's just me

In which I think @sturdyalex.bsky.social sounds thoughtful, measured, authoritative and mellifluous, and I sound hurried and WAY TOO LOUD, so if you can cope with me to get him, hard recommend

lol I'm dormant on insta for 10 years and then I pop up mansplaining the Strait of Hormuz www.instagram.com/reel/DYE8vk7...

Season 2 of Criminal Record is amazing, by the way. Genuinely prescient in an eerie way.

Everybody come to this why doncha events.bl.uk/events/bourd...

Such a powerful piece nymag.com/intelligence...

Who wants to see the cart full of staffies I met today?

What is driving the rise in populism - and how can we stop it? Join us for the launch of the latest book by @liambyrnemp.bsky.social with @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social and @sarahobolt.bsky.social. Our speakers will draw connections between growing inequality and the populist surge. 🎟️ buff.ly/TUHgfDI

I would be very worried by this photo if I were any other political party. And not just about the locals

Some things that struck me, listening to R4 Today this morning, which I really try hard not to do. 1. Presenters describe Russia's invasion of Ukraine and then in the adjacent sentence "the war in Iran" as if it was something that randomly broke out and isn't, also, a war of aggression. Daft.

52 years old and this is literally the first time any politician has ever done what I said. Doughnuts (except Ed Miliband, he's ok) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is sad and important www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shaun Ryder is magick www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

I found this pretty fascinating, a sad sidebar to the neon absurdity of the manosphere www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

'Labour's coercive stranglehold on the progressive majority' is strong. I think it's true tho www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

I left it a bit late in the day but I'm determined to raise a little conscientious objector

Omg it's wee govey

And some tangential royal business www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is still pretty nail biting stuff, even after it got legalled www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Interesting post about the coordinated anti-AOC smear campaign. It's 2016 again! Fake local news outlets on Facebook getting picked up until eventually it winds up in the Washington Post.

This is actually interesting disclosure, because it makes explicit what a lot of commentators think: that all politics is about orientating yourself relationally with/ against your nearest opponent, rather than having a plan or vision or even a reliable set of values of your own

Last time I did Charleston, I left my vape with a nice lady from the organisers, where it combusted and filled the air with an acrid smell, but this time, looks like we'll all be allowed to vape on stage inshallah www.charleston.org.uk/event/politi...

I've worried a little bit about the intersection of surveillance technology, anticipatory policing algorithms, AI target identification and moral fading since I read this www.thecairoreview.com/essays/gaza-...

This Lionel Shriver interview is reminding me of the most unpleasant, misandrist, sneering and two-dimensional book I ever read. Because she also wrote that

Wrote this because I was annoyed that Antonia Romeo got crowned queen of woke, even tho from the little I know of her, she does seem to be yasss, queen www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Appreciated this searching conversation with Matt Stadlen open.spotify.com/episode/6Rwp...

Brilliant episode

Absolutely love this Sky journalist x.com/SkyNews/stat...

Fascinating piece by my esteemed colleague Elle Hunt www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Wes Streeting mansplaining decency in public life, having been Peter Mandelson's great defender, is kind of sickening and funny in equal parts.

This is so brilliant & funny & enraging How did British Muslims become ‘the problem’? – podcast www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2...

@fuguesmagazine.bsky.social bonjour je cherches Caro Lavigne pour une articles dans Le Guardian en Angleterre, estceque vous pouvais nous connecterons?

African descended people are walking around with surnames like McCalmont and Mcdonald but you're saying it's European culture facing erasure 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Bsky probably isn't London-dense enough for this crowd-source, but does anyone remember the name of a tiny pub in Wandsworth in the late 80s, round the corner from the Alma on Alma Road, that was so old school it didn't have a Ladies Toilet? (no, I don't know why I capped that either)

Will someone just put @pimlicat.bsky.social in charge of Brexit already www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This is an extraordinary human failure from a supposedly progressive government. Jaw dropping www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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...