Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

I know I have entered a true state of dadliness cos one of my first thoughts this morning was whether it’d be fun to annoy people by repeatedly referring to the Puerto Rican Superbowl star as “The Bad Bunny”

There are few dweebier recurring phenomena in politics than the Labour right’s “Let’s put an army guy in charge” spasms

It’s great that we’re not doing patronising “Well done Italy” posts anymore. Slightly less great that they’re playing a demoralised Ireland next.

Yuan Yang time!

Jesus this poor child they’ve stood up for Newsnight

After a bruising week, Morgan McSweeney settles down to watch the rugby…

Pffft #therugby

I was just thinking this morning that myriad parts of the left could spend the next decade expunging Chomsky from open letters, endorrsements, honorary board membership etc and still barely scratch the surface. Just leave him there for God’s sake

We got a Yuan, Yang, shalalalala thing!

Yuan Yang, there’s no need to feel down/I said Yuan Yang, pick yourself off the ground…

I'm in the #YangGang are you?

HOW? HOW DOES THE BBC "UNDERSTAND" THESE THINGS? Ouija board? Cup attached to a piece of string?

Michael Collins 🤝 Morgan McSweeney Cork Fine Gaelers bringing the British state to its knees

A Man Needs A Woman Or A Man To Be A Man

“We’ll pay for pints with the child benefit money” is, it has to be said, extremely on brand for Reform

You can tell Mandelson was a teen Tankie

Hang on. Isn’t this the guy who threw a strop over not being invited to dinner?

Or you’re carrying over the mental scars from the GAA’s Anthony Nash rule: if a Cork player gets too good at scoring from frees, it’s time to bring a law in to stop it.

Minor sports rant: I’m not a paranoid Arsenal fan, but we’re bordering on a moral panic about a team that scores 1/3 of its goals from frees and corners and I just don’t see what the issue is. That is a legitimate and good way to score.

Jesus yes this

My mum had bombs dropped on her as a child. My dad bled on a beach in battle. I'm not yet bored of rules-based coexistence, because anger isn't the same as education, history isn't a comic, and interesting times don't just happen to someone else.

Remember folks, Chomsky called Faurisson an “apolitical sort of liberal” and said Diana Johnstone’s genocide denial was “outstanding work”. So maybe he’s not the best judge of character. Or maybe he’s just a terrible human being.

Minnesota, the home of Prince *and* The Revolution.

My six-year old just informed me that “Writing news isn’t a real job:”

Realised this morning that I’ve been confusing Rilo Kiley with Biffy Clyro all this time

Problem here is they’ve convinced their core audience that travelling into London means certain death www.mylondon.news/news/celebs/...

Little bit on the Nutty Ex Professor open.substack.com/pub/theleadu...

It's learning…

Remember people, it’s very important to refer to Matt Goodwin as an ex-professor/former academic. It’s factually correct and it really annoys him

Today our friend and former colleague #AndreiAliaksandrau spends another birthday behind bars in #Belarus. Watch as Margaret Atwood, Nadya from Pussy Riot, Sonic Youth's Thurston Moore & Trevor Phillips come together to recite his poem. The authorities must #FreeAndrei ⬇️ youtu.be/PtYfwV-sTNA?...

Sometimes a book about a magical boy at wizard school is just a book about a magical boy at wizard school

I’m the Editor’s Pick today, very personal piece (paywalled) (I did not write the headline) www.thetimes.com/life-style/h...

But *why* are they all so bad at politics?

If only Martin Amis was still around

The Telegraph’s story headlined with the claim the Chagos deal is off is opaque to the point of indecipherability

Hang on: what happened to the “big Labour figure” defection Reform were going to announce?

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

The economics of the media industry being what they are, my foreign affairs column, until now at conhome is moving to Substack Subscribe here and read the latest on Trump’s Greenland tantrum (free) open.substack.com/pub/gwforeig...

Gilt traders be like..

I think it’s fine as long as they’re all from early 90s hip hop tracks

Hacks! Send us your best bits. Big Cash Prizes to be won! #PaulFootAward

You’d hope he at least took in a show while he was there.

“If people don’t buy our product then we’ll just have to stop making it.” Well yes, that’s how things work.

Lord Lebedev's Standard to be merged into the slightly-less-Lebedev-controlled Independent business. More job cuts on the way, less than 18 months after Standard's big relaunch. Story implies annual loss of c£10m. Solidarity to the people at the Standard facing redundancy. www.ft.com/content/e809...

I’m going for the reanimated corpse of Oswald Mosley

Football. Bloody Hell, football.

More like Kate WHOey, eh readers? #sidewayslookattheweeksnews

I mean, it is

Happy Gladiators Is Back Day!