This should be a fascinating talk tomorrow at 6pm. Scottish artist Lachlan Goudie on the fruits of a 15-year industrial pilgrimage. The talk is online, but you have to register.

Oh, modelled on Boris Yeltsin?

Utterly, utterly evil www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

NEW via CNN: “The United Kingdom is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal”

So apparently being in a boat in an area where drugs are frequently trafficked is now grounds for a US airstrike, he said nervously in central Amsterdam

Conservative Shadow Culture Secretary Nigel Huddleston tells GB News that the BBC should "grovel" to Trump. Amazing how many British 'patriots' are spending their time telling our national broadcaster to prostrate itself before a hostile foreign leader

Another alliance between Trump and Putin - and Farage and Johnson back chanting in unison with the Russian Embassy. Just like old times!

Bond writers being stuck because he was blown to pieces shows how good Looney Tubes writers were because Wile E Coyote was always being obliterated but came back for more

Musician Sam Fender has donated his £25,000 Mercury Prize winnings to the Music Venues Trust, to support its work securing the future of grassroots venues around the UK. Fender: “I wouldn’t be doing what I am today if it wasn’t for all the gigs I played [at small venues] when I was starting out."

French fishermen are sending fishing nets to Ukraine to protect against Russian drones Fishermen from the coast of Brittany have created a organization,Kernic Solidarités,to aid Ukraine 🇺🇦.They have already sent 2shipments of horsehair fishing nets,totaling 280km in length,according to The Guardian

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Nowhere in the hysterical pile-on against the BBC in the British press has anyone mentioned that BBC News now has 77 million viewers & listeners in the US and has established itself as the second most trusted news source there.

@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Trump: "Nobody knows what magnets are."

Michael Prescott's report makes vital points about the importance of being accurate, and also how difficult that is. For instance, he describes himself as having been Political Editor of the Sunday Times for 10 years, which is not what the Guardian reported when he left the job.

In case you're wondering I asked the reporter privately for a correction. "Thanks for flagging, Eduardo. Will raise this with the desk." Almost two years later, the error is still there www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/...

It's funny to see so many voices at the Telegraph raging about BBC's standards. In March 2024 they covered my interview with NYT publisher AG Sulzberger, but they presented it as an interview with his father. They even included a picture of the old man in the piece. The error is still there

not only was Prescott’s former employer Hanover Communications a Tory outfit, it also represented Sky News for many years….

"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running." - former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022

This lost item hanging by the Roehampton Gate of Richmond Park suggests that somewhere is starting its employees unhealthily young.

french wikipedia is the only language that has a "list of bastards" article

This story is NUTS. A southern sheriff celebrated as a folk hero (and memorialized in the Walking Tall movies) almost certainly murdered his wife, faked his own shooting, then blamed it all on an ambush by the "Dixie Mafia" he was investigating. His fans today refuse to believe it—or don't care!

Oh, these photos are superb! 👌

As a result of the US shutdown curtailing services, American soldiers garrisoned in Germany are being advised to visit local foodbanks. home.army.mil/bavaria/abou...

Even if you twig what this is about, the last post is still worth it

The US Department of Transportation might be forced to close the airspace in certain parts of the country if the government shutdown continues into next week, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said.

thread, as they say.

head of security: leonardo da pinchy

Teen Vogue did some great journalism around immigration detention and enforcement. Sounds like corporate has now killed that off. The media landscape shrinks even further.

Age restrictions on social media for over 50s.

Lollll three bylines for a national newspaper to recreate (including the exact same restaurants!) what me and a student reporter managed a month ago: www.londoncentric.media/p/host-kitch... Just rip off our original and give us a buried credit in paragraph 19, we won’t be offended!

This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper

The next screen grab on this thread is perfect.

"...and in the "French story of the year" category..." 77 year-old cyclist who fell 40m into a ravine survived in the cold and the rain for three days by drinking "several bottles" of the wine he was bringing home from the market. france3-regions.franceinfo.fr/occitanie/ga...

Take that, @nigella.bsky.social!

I'm going as Making Tax Digital.

Wife of British journalist ‘abducted by ICE’ speaks out: ‘We’re being kept in the dark’

"an interview conducted through his Ring doorbell"

This is appalling. The lady who no-showed for her flight but is still down as an “emigrant” (despite continuing to pay tax in the U.K.) is particularly bad, but I also noticed the woman who flew out but Eurostar-ed home. I’ve done that. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance. on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Interview Dan Brown about the Louvre break-in.

Inside a Cello Charles Brooks Photography

Quite a world when a federal judge has to call in a federal official to specifically tell him he can't use tear gas on children in Halloween costumes

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"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Exclusive: UK stops child benefit for 34,500 families after launching internal HMRC crackdown passed on airport and ferry tickets. But they have netted ordinary travellers in their fraud crackdown including holiday makers, bereaved and sports participants www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn."

A 2,000 year-old Roman mosaic glass bowl with a dazzling swirl of colours resembling a kaleidoscope of tiny flags! V&A Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology