The Spectator isn't just a harmless retirement home for 1930s-style Tories, or a campaigning club for the return of Gentleman's Relish. It plays with extremism. Any of those who still write for it - including actual "poets" - need to look in the mirror. Enoch is staring back at you licking his lips.

Everything Maguire has said and done in the last 24 hours strengthens the case for leaving him out.

So much of this on the left and in the centre now too. See the White House correspondents dinner attack. People seem to be constantly longing for events to fit their simplistic, one-directional narrative.

a very hot trend right now is every politician/party/faction about whom you for a single millisecond entertain the thought "perhaps they might be alright" doing something completely fucking disgusting before you have time to blink

Ange, waiting on the pavement, about to kick his head in...

This, from the Southampton verdict, confirms Eckart to be a total scumbag. I hope that intern is ok. Seriously. What a way to treat junior staff. "Go away and cheat for us"

Ha! Same. I am incredibly fond of these two little scouse divvies at this point. #ratw

The idiocy of this just burns your eyes.

Boaby Gillespie and Alan McGee bunk off school to watch the MC5 play Easterhouse Bowls Club. Behind them the young Reid brothers.

There didn't used to be many 'out' left-handed people back in the day because there was a taboo connected with left-handedness and the devil. That's where the word 'sinister' comes from. When that taboo disappeared, it turned out there were closeted lefties everywhere. See also, LGBTQ people.

Reviewing a drama whose climax is soundtracked by a piano-and-voice take on Love Will Tear Us Apart Is there another song that can bear so many interpretations and be presented in so many different ways and yet still sound so completely *itself*? It never loses its power to stop you in your tracks.

It's pretty much all Starmer had.

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Noel Gallagher sneaking off early. The massive plastic.

It better fucking not or it's going to learn some new words, very quickly.

Oof. Brutal, but it's hard to see what else they could do. There had to be a competitive penalty rather than a financial one. The four point deduction for next season feels a bit gratuitous however! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Historians of the future will write books about the painful symbolism of this project won't they?

Translation: someone is getting paid. But it ain't contributors.

Nine years on and Grenfell has a massive Hillsborough feel to it. So much obvious liability, to such horrific, demonstrable effect and yet so little accountability.

It’s very hard to digest how the explicit antimuslim racism on display in the streets of London on Saturday is passing by with no consequences. Very hard not to feel like we’re regarded as second class citizens and fair game to be sacrificed on the alter of pacifying angry voters. Very hard & scary.

The morning of the Brexit result, I was awoken at about 5am by some bloke in the street outside my house literally howling like a dog. I now think of him as a prophet. There was a strong sense that *something* was happening. I'm not sure it was that great...

Sorry to hear this. Time to revisit one of the most heroically spannered musical performances ever. www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7Z5...

Jesus. That's scary. When you combine a stat like that with the rise of AI (and accompanying job losses) and the housing crisis, you realise we're either going to need some sort of UBI or we're facing a poverty/destitution time bomb.

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Burnley are going to score here. Arsenal will need another one.

This is not going away. And nor should it.

Thomas Jefferson famously said: ‘The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants

This picture has made me a bit sad. Can only echo what Ben says. Hope he finds his place and gets his career going again. #lufc

Humiliation looms, for several terrible people.

Love this team. Please stick around Daniel. You know you want to... #lufc

I love how fucking stubborn we are. #lufc

I did some canvassing in 2019 and even though it was "the Brexit election" and felt fairly heated at times, it was nothing like this. I get the feeling things are getting more and more polarised and it's worrying.

We deserve all the terrible things that are going to happen for us if we vote for lads like Mr Confused here...

The goal Manchester United have just scored is the most *perfect* illustration of why VAR is terrible. A blatant offence, which the ref has bizarrely failed to penalise. An extra layer of vibes-killing shit and still, the wrong decision at the end of it.

This is a state-of-the-nation novel waiting to be written. Give us a smile, someone!!

"The great lack with Starmer has been in understanding and imagination. He settled on a view of public opinion as irredeemably reactionary, and sought to impress it with cultural conservatism, instead of emphasising the economic radicalism that could have appealed across the cultural divide" 1

Blasted through three episodes of Rivals tonight. What a riot of delicious foolishness it is.

I am never not going to watch this when it appears in my feed. Queen.

This is the kind of shameless populist rabble-rousing I can get behind.

Can't be doing with #Eurovision this year. Sad because I'm very fond of it. But it really didn't sit right last year.

This is terrible. ICE separated a single mother from her son, and deported her without him, leaving him in the care of her sister’s abusive ex. Who murdered him.

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A very good afternoon to the absolute hero who organised and parked this beauty in the middle of little Tommy’s far-right hate march. ❤️

If you reffed Chelsea, you'd give them nothing on principle would you? You'd see Fernandes and Cuccurella running towards you and you'd think "Nah! Fuck off, the pair of you!!"

FA Cup final living up to everyone's expectations then??

Patriotism 2026-style.

If they were at the other march in London today, the pro-Palestine one, they would be immediately arrested. This makes no sense.

Just like to say how truly sorry I feel for the bar staff and bus drivers of central London today. They are going to have a day that is, at best, deeply shit and at worst, possibly quite scary. And they don't have the option of staying out of town, which I do.

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