One of my favourite paintings is “The Garden of Unclaimed Dishwashers” by Anonymous Bosch.

Those upset people are transphobic, lady! Even if they can justify it in some way and even if it isn’t, on the surface, malicious. Their talking points and their worries are coming from transphobic fear mongering, the exact kind GP is participating in in this clip.

Be careful out there.

look I'm not saying sacrificing Matt Goodwin in a wicker man would definitely improve the way England play, I'm just saying we can't definitely rule that out

I cannot wait to pop into the Cheshire Cheese on Fleet Street one lunchtime and get some work done on my laptop. I might ask, with a smile, for a pint of Man In Box, and meet some gay friends for a drink and maybe even a swear. Good riddance, you mad, mad, mad brewery lunatic.

The humble bar graph taking a bold step into 3D here, while never losing sight of its passion: clearly showing which numbers are bigger.

🧵 Netpol's new report "One Day in Edgware" documents the policing of an anti-Zionist demonstration against the recent 'Great Israeli Real Estate Event' and a violent Zionist and far right counter demonstration. You can read our press release and download our report here netpol.org/2026/06/29/o...

EVERY AI ADVERT: [man enters room with trousers on his head, tuts, gets out phone] hey Gemini, how do clothes work???

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Tossing War Criminals I'm covering the protest outside the University of Nottingham hockey club where the Ultimate Frisbee World Club Championship is taking place. Teams from around the world are playing including Israel whose team includes three IDF soldiers. 1/3

Mel Brooks is 100. I can’t find a clip of the bit in Silent Movie where Mel, Dom and Marty arrive at a star’s house on each other’s shoulders in a long coat, 16 feet tall, and the caption reads “I’m sorry I have a glandular condition. May I use your phone?” I laughed so hard at that I almost died.

Following on from the Marilyn Monroe centenary, a happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks, born a few weeks later and wonderfully still with us. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

I think most Jews should come to see Bibi as the sole person most responsible for destroying the viability of the Zionist project of a stable, democratic, prosperous Jewish state in Israel.

You know who shouldn’t have air conditioning? Christians. Every time you use air conditioning you’re saying God made a mistake when He set the temperature.

Zia Yusuf has got to be the most fragile, petulant man ever to have lived

How Russia’s new generation of political exiles is redefining what it means to lose a homeland. Maria Stepanova Translated from Russian by Sasha Dugdale 17.06.2026 www.equator.org/articles/the... >> @ecetemelkuran.bsky.social did you catch this essay?

Free expression is a human right. This includes the right to receive and impart information. Children have this right too. As Scotland's Children's Commissioner said, the social media ban “would not currently be a proportionate, effective, or enforceable way to protect children's rights".

Instead of removing trial by jury, fix shit like this.

A dating app for cockneys in trilbies called Mindr

If you are wealthy, I think you should spend more money on clothes. There's no pride in buying clothes for the lowest possible price, as this puts downward pressure on garment worker wages and increases the likelihood of exploitation.

I'll take it! britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

You have to admit this is a god-level bit of physical comedy in terms of making it look like he’s being dragged into a chest freezer rather than throwing himself in.

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As I’ve said before, any serious attempt to ban conversion practices in Britain has to confront the fact that the NHS never stopped doing it. This draft bill not only fails, it explicitly gives “healthcare providers” permission to continue.

Peppa Pig at heart of big AI row: -Hasbro wants kid actors on series to sign over voice rights to AI, giving it power to clone their performances -Agents say this is deeply problematic when children are not old enough to consent -1,000 sign open letter condemning plans deadline.com/2026/06/pepp...

Social media bans don't work. They just make things worse. In Australia, for those teens who haven't bypassed the restrictions, their access to news has been curtailed. How does this square with giving votes to 16 year olds? Children have rights to free expression too. ORG's James Baker explains.

Just a heads-up: if the internet seems slow today, it's because all the datacentres are too hot. I can't see this being a problem for our AI-powered future at all.

Anti-semitism is absolutely a real thing and as a Jew I am deeply nervous about the worst faith people in public life working relentlessly to rob the concept of all gravity by making it synonymous with "anyone not fully supportive of Benjamin Netanyahu and everything he does."

81 Labour MPs – 20 per cent of the Parliamentary Labour Party – have signed an amendment calling for a National Commission on Electoral Reform, "the largest ever call for voting system change by Labour backbenchers" Labour for a New Democracy says.

Absolutely terrific magazine piece by @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social. You can read it here, or in the FT Mag in the @ftweekend.com on Saturday:

Okay. Ai can go bankrupt then. This is not our problem, this sounds like a rich tech billionaire problem.

I’ve had straight men essentially say I’m overreacting for talking about rising internet censorship under the guise of protecting children, which is how I know it’s probably going to be an even bigger problem than I thought

"Muralidhar said that by targeting children, Israel was undermining the capacity of the Palestinian people to exist and to determine their future."

Statement by Garden Court Chambers gardencourtchambers.co.uk/garden-court...

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

Nick Robinson: "Will you give this money back?" Nigel Farage: "Will you give your salary to charity? How about that? If you give your entire salary to charity, maybe I will". So is Farage now agreeing that he was taking a salary? That the £5 million was a payment for work done?

we've tried switching PMs but has anyone attempted switching cats

this was a minor point in my newsletter but I really need people to appreciate how slow and watered down privacy legislation has been going in comparison to age verification legislation and it’s entirely explained by the lobbying involved in each; tech corporations want the tracking

Starmer saying the next PM will inherit a country that is 'fairer' than the one he inherited 2 years ago. In the one Starmer inherited, trans people could use public toilets.

Off the point perhaps, but put any other minority in front of "-lover" and see how long your career in mainstream journalism lasts. Absolute bigotry from nazi-lover Camilla Long.

So proud of Andrew’s letter in the Barnsley Chronicle!

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

You'll like this. A funny couple telling stories of times people in the UK turned out to be spies, while showing you the places they happened and having to climb mountains and stuff.

This is an embarrassing image for the UK. A self-respecting British fox should be dragging Binface's contents out over the stage

That awkward moment when you realize you are part of one of the biggest foreign policy failures in history.

Accurate.

Ides for the next World Cup: put the referee on one of those spider cam thingies so they can swoop around instead of having to run all the time, also they would have a better view