This is delightful, and makes Trump's derangement all the more depressing and terrifying.

A lot has bothered me about the reporting of the Kanye West banned. Firstly how it has been framed as all about it the Jewish community - but we should all be against Nazism! This country fought Nazis. Songs called Heil Hitler should not just be for the Jewish community to object to. And secondly…

I know the bar is at an all time low for this stuff but imagine running ads for a business and seeing no problems with this…

How I love Tina.

Step 1: slow burn of 10 years making enthusiasm for fossil fuels look ridiculous. Step 2: initiate fossil fuel price shock that sends everyone rushing to decarbonise. Prove to me that Trump isn’t bought and paid for by Big Wind and Solar.

I did check the date on this one, because the idea of David Frost announcing that he accepted infallible guidance from an unelected European power seemed a bit too on the nose.

My train journey has been cancelled because, the station announcer said, a person has been hit in the Baldock area. Beyond sympathy for that person, beyond frustration at my now chaotic day, all I could think was

Just to be clear, this isn't a subtitling blooper, it's the kind of robust drama the BBC was putting out in the 70s.

>then we won

And we absolutely do.

Still slightly haunted by this, because so entirely unprovoked: all I'd said was (quite sincerely) "Sorry, this is a terrible line, I can't hear you very well." I wasn't at that point entirely sure it was a scam.

John McNaughton telling a story about the time he met George Lucas and Lucas couldn’t stop talking about Peter Watkins’ Culloden

I actually do think about it. Elsewhere Trixie tries so hard to preserve the decencies, but here she lets her guard down and reveals such bawdiness, self-awareness and pathos. It’s an outstanding moment in the film. (Greatest line read in any film? I’m not so sure.)

A scam call on my landline just told me to fuck off. I'm outraged. This is what I say to them, not the other way round.

There's never enough Sharon Duce content.

Absolutely.

Reposted with ALT cos its funny . How using an algorithim to select photos for your news article is going:

Glen Baxter has died. His drawings of cowboy art critics and wimples were an absurdist joy. RIP

Is it bad that my reaction to any photo of R.S. now is to think "Mmm, wouldn't mind some crisps"?

Worth watching. If Goodwin is really claiming that having large numbers of children for whom English is an additional language slows down learning, I can confidently say, from my own children’s experience in a Tower Hamlets primary school, that he is spouting horseshit.

The language in this X post is horrendous. Other than the obvious cruel nature of such rhetoric, student visa ‘crackdown’ is an act of self-destruction. The UK higher education sector is suffering because of this mindless mimicking of Reform.

Watch this extraordinary short video. 1) Here's a national leader with a coherent viewpoint & an ability to articulate it, who is 2) saying & doing the correct things in response to this crisis, & sticking to it in the face of 3) a more adversarial press than you'd *ever* see around Trump. Sigh.

And make him live there? Please?

BREAKING: Mocking snotty little ignorant pissants is a human right.

Who does he think Elvis was? Does he think he was a well-known wrestler or something?

This is very cool if you like jazz and/or Nirvana. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pYH...

it's much quicker to go straight through.

Nope, it's still Trump.

Michael Fallon took pride in his first speech as Defence Secretary being at MoD's first Iftar. He noted few people know that 400,000 Muslims fought for Britain “with loyalty and pride” in first world war a century ago + another 600,000 in the second world war. www.britishfuture.org/century-musl...

Not easy to justify the Judeo part of "built on Judeo-Christian values" when England was the first country to expel all Jews.

Arf

Majority of Canadians say it’s better to depend on China than on the US under Trump. In other key allies - Germany, UK, France - a plurality say the same. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I learned how to make an omelette from his Où es le garlic? And he was also not at all a bad illustrator – see his cover for the original Penguin edition of John Wain's Hurry on Down.

This 2-disc DVD collection is a must-have for any Jake Thackray fan. 4 hours of material. Now only £15 from the Jake Thackray website.

I've just seen somebody call Richard Hoggart's The Uses of Literacy an "oft-referenced tome", and now I'm going to take to my bed and curse the world for what's left of the weekend.

Fascinated to see how many people in the replies are taking a stand that comes down to "I don't care that his previous career was con man."

The @uppcinema.bsky.social is fighting for its survival. Sign the petition to help save Oxford's oldest cinema c.org/pZcC6F2KWL

cf. Blair, who'd seen successful military interventions in Serbia and Sierra Leone* and assumed Iraq would be more of the same. *You could even add Afghanistan to the list: in 2003, things didn't look too bad. Sierra Leone wasn't so successful in the long term, either.

"Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the strait in response to strikes." AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA www.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

This is my personal favourite

Sounding kind of DEI there.

Band name

No lie, I really did think this was an Onion headline, but no. @bencollins.bsky.social, I'm so sorry your staff's job is this hard now.

On 19 June Chad Loder also asked “Is Israel on some ‘we[‘]ll [be] greeted as liberators’ shit?”, and from interviews I’ve heard with Israeli officials, that’s exactly the shit they’re on.

That wouldn’t occur to Trump’s crew, who have no notion of the value of any lives except their own

What with Blair on ‘getting involved in Middle East wars of choice’ and now this, I feel we’re just in need of George Osborne to chime in on ‘how public services feel underinvested in’ to get the full caboodle of unwanted advice.

"Never go full moron."