Doing what I do for a living means I have a really good sense of what the public mood is. Not what a tiny bunch of extremists want it to be. This nonsense about ‘civil war’ needs killing off. It’s not a thing. It’s not even close to a thing. Please, please stop talking about it

The case for optimism

Instantly thought of Azor Ahai and Nissa Nissa. Swiftly followed by “he’s never finishing those books”

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Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Same, Voyager 1, same

For anyone who's waking up to this Palantir statement, I wrote a guide to the company and the fatuous chauvinism of its "defend the West" cosplay ideology a few weeks ago

The grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise.

For a while there, it felt like John Henry and Fenway Sports Group could do no wrong, enjoying success at both #LFC and the Boston Red Sox. Now it feels like he's sticking his fingers in his ears & ignoring the complaints from all sides. Read more: www.andcouldheplay.com/is-the-big-b...

The world’s on fire. Liverpool are a bit shit. But I’m off to see Afghan Whigs in September. We’ll call that a score draw

JD Vance will soon be taking bears to task about the realities of wood-shitting, I reckon

Sons, fathers, daughters, cousins, brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles. #YNWA #JFT97

On the plus side, the Besnard Lakes remain a phenomenal band

8th October 2015 - 14th April 2026. Liverpool’s long decade of Jürgen Klopp

London may be endlessly eating itself, but the Hole In The Wall remains alive and well. And an absolute dump. Long may it continue

(The answer to this is that the typical person can be seeing a higher standard of living over time, even as some much smaller and more vocal share of people experience absolute declines in standard of living and a larger share of people *perceive* they have a lower standard of living *relatively*)

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a stupid fucking idea, and it always has been

How Gary Neville gets a gig is beyond me. He’s almost in tears over this hilarious Manchester United performance

Great wee thread this, about a lovely part of England

Tremendous article. Here in my slice of Tower Hamlets, you’re more likely to see a St George’s flag flying from a window than any symbol of whatever currently scares the Maga-adjacent bedwetters

2010: massive Orbán win 2014: massive Orban win 2018: massive Orban win 2022: massive Orban win 2024: Goodwin visits, starts promoting Orban regime 2026:

A regulation 2-0. Much needed after a string of rubbish results. Yet social media is awash with moany gits complaining that it wasn’t a better performance or that the season has been crap (not saying the Wrap review is doing this, mind). I wish we could all grow up and, you know, support the team

Sadly, decades of climate abuse in spite of everyone knowing the consequences will kill us long before the robots do

Imagine genuinely thinking that America is “the apex of human civilisation”

I hope the accusation is true

This is genuinely excellent stuff

Beautiful day for ekeing the final dregs out of the long weekend

Surely the mad orange dimwit hasn’t just got a big red button that says “launch”? Surely there are enough stages to this process that someone steps in and just rebels to prevent an actual nuke being used? Yes, this is on my mind.

November 1990 BBC end of season F1 highlights package These Days REM

Tolkein is funny as fuck. My latest favourite, from my latest reread, is, after a paragraph on Merry’s scholarship, about books kept by the Tooks at Great Smials. This is written record “important for larger history”. But “none of them was written by Peregrin”. Genius

Shouldn’t really take a motorsport publication to say all this, but we are where we are. And this is an excellent piece www.motorsport.com/f1/news/vers...

Man, the Boos really nailed it with Lazarus. Hot take

Goodwin is exactly the sort of bell who would be really proud of a robot writing him an album’s worth of Ocean Colour Scene c-sides and considering himself a songwriter. Only also wildly racist. I bet he loves a refreshing pint of Huel after a hard day’s racisting

I wonder if any actual journos are ever going to call out Farage for exactly what he is. Shameful that this agent of a malicious foreign state is treated as an actual politician

It’s a bubble. It’s always been a bubble

After Hours, a great movie entirely predicated on the fact that Americans cannot be arsed walking even the slightest distance

Well. That’s Salah off then. An absolute all-timer. A great servant to the club. And a joy to watch. Thanks Mo

Great news, this. One of my very favourite things Marvel has done post-Endgame

You’d think the “a new low for the Special Relationship” chatterers would focus more on the “new low for American politics” aspect of the whole fandango

Taking up a season ticket for a non-league club will cure most fans of this malaise. Football isn’t the problem. The top flight, overwrought, more important than life or death nonsense is the problem. Also, Sky.

Love the replies to this. Both those that are and aren’t in on the joke

apparently the brits are fighting about something called “gorton and denton” today, which i assume is a late-night comedy show that did something controversial. won’t be looking into this

Largely outplayed by a better side, then you nick it with (almost) the last kick of the game. Few better feelings in football. Up the Hamlet! 🌴

I would not be entirely surprised to find out that this dimwit has nonce-adjacent skeletons in his closet

This thread is so brilliant. Best thing you’ll see today. Unless Arsenal do let the cap off the bottle later, that is

Are they all sex pests or nonces?