My piece on how Operation Mincemeat – a "quietly queer" fringe comedy musical based on a second world war MI5 operation – became an unlikely global smash www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/d...

A lot of people are saying that the FIFA peace prize is BETTER than the Nobel one

The news about Pam Hogg doesn’t feel quite real. Quite brilliant, possibly the most alive person I’ve ever met. She did a marvellous interview with @timjonze.bsky.social here for a show we had up here with DuoVision in the Gallery. RIP you bloody legend www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

epstein emails released and everyone coming out as a pedophile to defend donald trump

Reading the Epstein emails in the same spirit I'd read Frank O Hara poems or listen to Lou Reed

WTAF is this? I guess podcasters have to hustle, but you are Britain’s biggest politics podcast and you are doing sponcon for Google’s ‘efficiency tools’ in government !!

My interview with the endlessly messy but very endearing Lukas Gage - about his new memoir and THAT White Lotus sex scene www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Surely the one sport where you know exactly what direction to go in?

Good that the Guardian is calling Kirk “far right” and showings its readers his views - not “common sense”, not “conservative”, but far right conspiracy. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Brazil shows how it’s done in a democracy

Why artists are no longer staying silent over Gaza www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

This is fantastic (and terrifying) on how right wing messaging evolves and what the near future could look like

This is insane from top to bottom

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Love this. Keep it up Leonard! ♟️

The failure of the government to denounce these thugs is completely fucking sickening.

The Guardian wins libel case against film producer Noel Clarke Judge finds Clarke "was not a credible or reliable witness." The Guardian was correct to suggest strong grounds he was "a serial abuser of women". www.theguardian.com/media/2025/a...

Weekly heart attacks this season it is then

Their commitment to telling the story to the world will be their memorial and we should salute their bravery in the face of Israeli barbarity.

I spoke to James Norton about Guinness binges, 1066, prosthetic penises and Buddhist retreats (quite a broad chat!) www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

SELF-PROMOTION POST. I had a chat with Peter Guralnick about his new book on Tom Parker and why public perception of the “Colonel” has been wrong for decades. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Every MP who voted for this, this is on you. We will not forget.

This is so unbelievably shocking … tragic

Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.

I don’t know how anyone can listen to BBC headlines at 6 today without going mad. One after the other: 1. The BBC was VERY WRONG to broadcast artists who dare call for harm to be done to Israel’s army 2. Israeli forces have killed & displaced hundreds of civilians in renewed bombing today

Me, after finally accepting that I won’t be getting a ticket this year

Happy Find and Replace Day for tedious fucking columnists everywhere

This tiny device can shrink dangerous blood clots. It’s called the ‘milli-spinner’ and its invention was partly an accident…

In a dangerous era for journalism – a powerful new tool to help protect sources

Just getting home from parade after they pretty much closed Lime Street down from 5pm yesterday. Horrified to read about what happened in town. The crush at the station also felt very unsafe: no info, small kids crying, fights breaking out, health incidents. Could also have ended very badly

Come the fuck in or fuck the fuck off! 20 years on, the cast of The Thick Of It look back www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

The Prime Minister imitating Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech is sickening. That speech fuelled decades of racism and division. Echoing it today is a disgrace. It adds to anti-migrant rhetoric that puts lives at risk. Shame on you, Keir Starmer.

Loved speaking to Cameron Winter who’s made one of the best records of the year www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

STATEMENT FROM ENGLISH FOLK DANCE AND SONG SOCIETY

I won't use disabled toilets because I'm not disabled and disabled people need them Also trans people are so dangerous that they can't be around cis people... unless those cis people are disabled then it's fine? It's pretty clear they just see both trans and disabled people as a class of non human

Clayton Dalton visited hospitals across Gaza as part of a medical aid mission. In one, he was stunned to see medical devices that looked like they had been methodically destroyed. (The I.D.F. denies that it has deliberately targeted medical equipment.) nyer.cm/A3NSjgV

“biological sex” should refer only to having sex in a lab, knocking over microscopes and shit, contaminating every surface while scientists watch you and take notes

Another moving and insightful piece from one of the Guardian’s best writers

Some people made a lot of money out of a social media post with zero sourcing ... how thrilling the global economy depends on stuff like this.

What the actual fuck.

How many times do we have to hear the same story? Bigoted religious man who hides behind abusing LGBT people turns out to be the very thing he's accusing others of It's so common it's almost boring

This is just funny: references to Enola Gay removed in the war on DEI. Cos, like, “gay”. apnews.com/article/dei-...

Dolly

Car crashes, psychedelic drugs and strawberry-fuelled sex with Jim Morrison - it’s one way to live! www.theguardian.com/music/2025/f...

This is a great interview www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...