And as the author of a book on British terror plots of all ideologies since 2017, I can confirm that none of them targeted Farage Several plots targeted Downing Street or parliament, but the only individual politician I have seen come up repeatedly as a potential target for terrorists is Sadiq Khan

it's a continuing source of bafflement that men are allowed.

“Leveson and everything else.” Ffs

In case anyone ever tries to suggest this man is “not really French”

Reminder for people who don’t feel there’s quite enough sport on telly at the moment that the All Ireland hurling semi finals are live on iplayer this weekend

The gods won’t even let Keir Starmer take credit for sanctioning a national lock in.

As we approach the anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide, we remember the victims and their loved ones who carry the memory and grief of that terrible time. I'm in Bosnia and Herzegovina to pay my respects on behalf of Londoners.

The BBC commentary team’s obstinate refusal to acknowledge the shots of Penelope Cruz and Rosalia was both funny and irritating

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

FAFO, as the young folks say

I was there. The rest of the day was totally nuts. (Also, Aussies were totally right to do what they did)

France aside, European teams have been unconvincing to say the least, haven’t they?

Ireland’s Jude Bellingham and Harry Kane only real bright sparks tonight. Ireland’s Declan Rice not really at the races

Fond memories of sitting in London eating Mexican food in an air conditioned restaurant, with plentiful ice in my drink, tipping a (generous) 12.5%.

Granita closed and was replaced by a terrible Tex-Mex place

Really enjoying Facebook serving me loads of Andy Burnham deepfake videos generated by convicted antisemite neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine

Time to seize those Russian assets then

Funny that global cultural phenomenon Peaky Blinders doesn't seem to have popped up in this conversation.

Incredible weekend for Irish cricket

A sometimes under-appreciated context for UK-EU reset talks is the harder turn of the EU towards economic sovereignty and security in the last 12 months. The Technological Sovereignty Package, various wider sovereignty requirements in procurement, the review of merger and acquisition rules, etc.

Just got slightly teary watching the Cape Verde highlights and I think it’s safe to say The Heat Is Getting To Me

Scenes

Sinking, giggling, into the sea

Yes it’s record-buster Merryfield

Amen

Absolutely lovely column from Adrian Chiles. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One word: 'Spoons

The ubiquity of recipes for "comfort food" in newspaper supplements is a collusive psyop to keep the British middle class in a stupefied state of nostalgic docility while reconciling them to a post-Ottolenghian standard-of-living decline through rebadging cheaper ingredients as aspirational.

Just in: Jeffrey Donaldson has written to the Cabinet Office, seeking to hand back his knighthood - and has asked to leave the body on which he sat which formally advises the King. These honours were clearly going; he's jumped before being pushed.

This is pretty shocking. Blackpool Victoria hospital failed to ask questions about bruises on a two-year old boy admitted a day before Preston Davey. And like Preston, Damion Russell was subsequently murdered. blackpool.thelead.uk/p/preston-da...

In a shock move Ghana have stripped England of the World Cup they won last week against Croatia.

Quite like Micah Richards’ Starfleet Admiral jacket

LABOUR PARTY FACT FILE: In the 1980s Socialist Organiser was a short-lived left-wing rival to the Filofax which allowed you to keep track of CLP meetings and whether they were sufficiently quorate to vote down motions proposed byMilitant.

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

Has there been an English graduate PM before?

Jeffrey Donaldson found guilty www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

⚡️ Update: Zelensky thanks Starmer for support as British PM announces resignation. "I wish the United Kingdom and all British people every success as well as the realization of your national goals. We have confidence in Britain," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

“Covered five British prime ministers” doesn’t carry the same weight on a journalist’s CV as it once did.

Nice of him to do it just *before* Private Eye's print deadline

Muppet Nineteen Eighty Four with Kermit as O’Brien

Just heard BBC analyst, re Starmer, reference the Clash song: 'he's got a dilemma: if he goes there will be trouble, if he stays it will be double.' I would like to stress again that this famous lyric is NOT much of a dilemma; you should take the path which causes half as much trouble. Thank you.

WHAT KIND OF IRISH IS YOUR PREMIER?! WHAT KIND OF IRISH IS YOUR PM?!

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The victim impact statements in the Preston Davey case are absolutely devestating

Fair play for at least getting an actual poet to write this.

Why did the Bluesky user cross the road? To explain the joke

I guess tomorrow’s headline is ON TOP OF THE WORLD, LOOKING DOWN ON CROATIANS.

And now we enter the "absurdly carried away" stage of England-at-a-tournament discourse

The Irish lads having a great game for England