If the bloke wielding a knife and attacking passersby was a Muslim all today's rolling news and political programmes would be coming live from the streets of Edinburgh and Farage's ugly mush would be on every show.

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right.

End Credits rolling on 007: First Light. They were starting to lose me a bit with the final frustrating boss bit, but I’m a Middle-aged British Man, and they know how to win me back with the final cutscene and titles. Absolute banger of a game; can’t wait for the soundtrack release.

Karen Gillan can boogie. Yes sir. #Scotland #WC26

Rough day, so have a poem about the Jar of Moles in the Grant Zoology Museum in London that everyone has regarded as too thoroughly batshit to publish

For £200, you can watch Muse at the O2, from the not-great-not-terrible seats at the side of the stage, for two hours... or you can buy an actual brand new electric guitar and have enough left for a Twix. CONCERT TICKETS SHOULD NOT COST MORE THAN ELECTRIC GUITARS! WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK IS GOING ON?

For the third by-election in a row Reform UK offered voters the politics of rage and for the third time in a row they have been roundly rejected as a result. How Andy Burnham's massive victory in Makerfield shows the wheels are now coming off of the Nigel Farage project

In accordance with ancient tradition, our next Prime Minister is announced to the nation while standing between a furry and a man with a bin on his head.

I’d like to apologise to practically every VFX house I’ve ever accused of failing to convey scale with giant pieces of flying debris. It turns out that huge things just don’t fall like you think.

This is so so shoddy.

The people who stole everyone’s work for AI are people who spent the Napster Years learning they’d mostly get away with downloading everything. Maybe the Govt. should think about that before a generation learns how to illegally get around Social Network restrictions.

You wouldn't guess from the coverage that Makerfield is pretty much average for income and deprivation. It is Reform-leaning because it is old, white and less-educated, not because it is especially deprived

Well written this. Though the conclusion, that the only way out is for the Government to pass courageous legislation, is about the most depressing thing I’ve read this year. They can’t even pass timid legislation. With their gigantic majority.

Bayeux Tapestry farce update - this is the page now:

Genuinely impressed that the queue for Bayeux Tapestry tickets is more of a mess than Radiohead was. Going to give up and try again in the morning; still over eleven thousand to go to get to the booking page.

Well, guess which idiot failed to realise that they needed to create an account in advance on their website to get Bayeux Member Tickets. Now in a multi-hour queue to be able to join the multi-hour queue. Hope they didn’t expect any non-members to get in.

Ten years ago, 16 June 2016. One week before the EU referendum. Nigel Farage unveils his infamous 'Breaking Point' poster. Hours later, Labour MP Jo Cox is brutally murdered by a neo-Nazi and white supremacist.

NIGEL FARAGE - AN APOLOGY. thecritic.co.uk/once...

World Cup Analysis: Cabo Verde is a volcanic archipelago of 500,000 people that serves as a haven for whales and sea turtles. Charles Darwin was impressed by their octopi. The country has a dead salt sea, stable democracy and robust tourism while recently conceding only one foul in drawing Spain 0-0

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Is your child up at 9pm arguing about tram networks with the entire staff of the FT and some tedious Americans who are not familiar with the concept of a joke? This report make shock you.

Saw DISCLOSURE DAY last night, and 1) seven people in their largest screen at £5 per ticket opening weekend cannot be profitable. 2) once again, two hours of even Spielberg brilliance is lost if your last ten minutes doesn’t live up. Damn.

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

Families have been crying out for action to protect children from harmful social media – and we've worked with them to find a real solution. We are really worried that the government hasn't listened, and has instead come up with a half-baked policy that won't keep children safe.

Completely banning kids from social media rather than hold platforms accountable for content and safety is like telling women how to dress to avoid harassment and assault.

Ok, let me get straight. At 16 you can get married and join the army but you can’t check instagram before you go to bed. Riiiggght

Is the Microsoft Office Ribbon causing people to have fewer children? A provocative new working paper explores the persistent drop in birth rates since Office 2007 was introduced nearly two decades ago.

Now this is culture

Watching Le Mans. Impressed that the two Aston Martin hypercars have managed to blag racing numbers 007 and 009.

We regret to inform you that the duck’s guard are fascist.

oh hey its the thing everyone said would happen

citizen! to deal with you accordingly we must know - are you holding the firebomb of legitimate concerns, or the placard of illegal opinions?

Guess who accidentally put the time of his RA tickets in the calendar two hours early, and now has time to kill in London?

This is an iconic point.

It's time for immigrants to stop moving to Northern Ireland and oppressing the native population. by the Ulster Defence Association

this really is a "did a vet write this?" story and yes! they did! of course they want to be the only ones selling the flea prevention meds, with their customary massive mark up.

My hat has been in that ring for a long time.

Not saying that Big Finish really know how to appeal their middle aged audience, but their latest stars Nicola Walker and Tamsin Greig alongside Paul McGann.

Been meaning to ask; the existence of both this and the Foos’ Monkey Wrench implies the existence of a third great song about other Monkey Tools, but I can’t think of one. Ideas, anyone?

And, by the way, both Rachel Johnson and Marina Wheeler KC get mentions by the men for things they cooked at various points.

Moreover, of that 7 minutes 6 seconds of women speaking, only 185 seconds (3 minutes, 5 seconds) are with women who are not Boris Johnson's ex wife, or Boris Johnson's sister, or Michael Gove's wife.

Episode 1 (59 mins exc credits) features around 426 seconds, or 7 minutes 6 seconds of women talking heads. Maybe with all the footage and narration there's not that much time spent on talking heads full stop? Well, there is 1966 seconds, or 32 minutes and 46 seconds of male talking heads.

There's plenty to unravel in terms of content/framing etc. (Very triumphal; very Brexity; lots of back-slapping about moral courage; no soul searching; not clear if the 'war' refers to the nation, or the Tories, or even just the Leavers). But I'm focusing on just how relentlessly male it all is.

Carry on Campaigning? Or Brexit as Not-So-Jolly Gents' Japes, plus Wives and Sisters making dinner. I have just done a rough and ready analysis of the 'talking head' contributions to the BBC's 'Brexit: a Very British Civil War'. A short 🧵about this Blokey Affair: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

“In the beginning, Doctor Who was created. This has made a lot of Doctor Who fans very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move”

Apparently chants are banned at the World Cup. Meanwhile, the Scottish fans 👇

🎶 solid dairy brother 🎶

don’t think i have ever seen a politician as feckless and cowardly as starmer

Sorry, you didn’t think your Lifetime licence lasted more than 7 years, did you?