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...

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.