Interesting read on Farage's career. Failed his A levels despite attending elite public school so followed his father into the City as a commodities trader. Sacked for misconduct and later insolvent when he went independent.

Harry is here. I’ve immediately annoyed him by relating something about football I gleaned from here. Thus involuntarily increasing his football knowledge from nothing to one thing.

ADHD Women's Summit— a summit specifically for a cohort of people CATEGORICALLY KNOWN to have auditory processing issues— is *Charging A Fee*. For *Subtitles*. What in the ACTUAL FUCK.

Same, frankly.

After I wrote last week's column, I learnt that a neighbour with severe disabilities, an extremely tough & resourceful woman who lived to the full, died in the heatwave. Everyone here is devastated. I can scarcely express my anger towards a mindset that treats people like her as collateral damage. 🧵

With a second mass attack in a few days, it seems to me like Russia received Intel that Ukraine had zero Patriot interceptor missiles. So who's been blabbing? And why was this hastily arranged by Russia hours after speaking to Trump? bsky.app/profile/twmc...

Presumably Layla Moran is going to suggest knighting Jude Bellingham now?

Farage is toast, which is nice, shame it took the majority of our media over a DECADE to actually investigate the motherfucker though, could have prevented his shitty Brexit, the rise of the far right, and not emboldened so many goddamn racists. Fuckin lumps.

my brother & his partner are telling me an insane story about this local deity called "st. rat" which is apparently a mosaic relief put up by some queers in seattle. the city kept trying to paint over it, but people would repeatedly just use acetone and remove the paint until the city gave up

IDGAF about kickball. However I’m enjoying the historian jokes.

This does seem plausible.

ever since Tim got the tribal tattoo sleeve he’s felt hella tough

New Muppets movie where Kermit plays Harry Kane

looking ahead, surely the next round will be easier - the english have never had a problem with viking invaders before hold on, I’m getting a note

PAUSA DE HIDRATACION

So the Lioness’s mens team did unexpectedly well then? Golly.

Forgive me if I'm a little sentimental here, but I'm literally wiping away a tear as I think how remarkable it is that every four years we come together not merely as a country or a continent but as the whole world in the most amazing celebration of shithousery and blatant corruption you can imagine

Things your unhoused neighbors can use this summer, aside from the obvious: - candy (I get asks for this more than almost anything) - sunscreen (high SPF pls!) - lip balm (bonus for SPF) - electrolyte packets for water - cash - gift cards for fast food and/or accessible grocery stores 1/

Steve, the first photo from the Outsiders project. He had just told me he became homeless after his son died. Soon afterwards he was also dead having become ill while sleeping rough. They all have a story, the problem is that nobody is listening. #Photography

Blimey. That was incredible. #Wimbledon

More courage than the whole of Congress.

Mother Nature understood the assignment.

Good luck with that. News may have gone to shit but their legal dept is fresh from telling the Orange Nazi to Go Fuck himself.

There is some TENNIS happening on Centre Court right now.

The UK where we can't solve the housing crisis by building on farmland because "green belt"... ...but we can build massive ugly energy sucking AI data centres right as we reach the very peak of the AI data centre bubble.

Slop detectors are also slop, even when selling a pretend counter to slop, because all slop is a grift

This is probably the most powerful photo from the July 4th, Independence Day, 250th year anniversary celebrations. This is the United States 2026.

Reminder: you can genuinely tell how corrupt a politicians and judges are by how much they buy into Trump's war on an innocent minority.

Interesting that the only truly beautiful image of the 250th comes from an immigrant recently granted citizenship.

I’m not a clever political strategist but a campaign something along the lines of ‘I’ll investigate, prosecute and incarcerate these grifting, criminal Nazis’ might find some support?

Awesome 🧵 Vivid description of the grifter Nazis 250th shitshow. Worth reading to the end…

"For information purposes: Around 19% of the UK population were born outside the UK. But more than 36% of our doctors qualified abroad. And a similar % of nurses did too." via Expose Racism

Still amazing.

He's being illustrative here but this this actually summarizes so much of conservative policymaking on issues well beyond immigration. "We must drop everything to focus on being as cruel as possible or risk a wildly improbable, highly contrived scenario I have just invented."

This seems bad.

Many things to say here (Preet Gill is a vile transphobe and Blue Labour horror), but it’s wild that the Labour governments official line is that they hate the puberty blocker trial even happening. Exact same language used by current Health Sec here as Streeting - it’s a comms message

Suddenly, somebody realizes that maybe there's a reason that people don't use ten times as many fireworks as they usually do.

Presented without comment x

America:

If you’re both going to wear baseball caps guys could one of you wear it the right way round?

@zackpolanski.bsky.social in the Indie today. At least one politician turns out for us. app.independent.co.uk/2026/07/04/3...

Okay. Worth watching the end of that match. Drama. #ArthurFery

QUEEN. 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Token Brit is still playing.

Heatstroke will do.

Waiting to collect a prescription and a tiny girl in a pink glittery dress was showing me "the dances unicorns do", and every time I looked directly at her she'd stop and say "now I need to start again because unicorns are invisible", and now she's left w/her mum I feel like I can post this lol

Hopefully this cements him the job.

Henman’s Hill is a lovely tradition. Bet it’s quite the vibe. Like a mini free-festie.

I'm blocking anyone posting "Happy 4th of July" bullshit today. It's not a birthday party, it's a fucking funeral.