I couldn’t resist this small person size Viking tabard from 🇮🇲 Luckily we have just the right small person next door in London. It’s that time of day when small Vikings get a bit weepy, he was very interested, then remembered he was busy crying. So tonight Shepherd’s Bush has a totes emosh warrior.

And was he actually in the building for once?

Relatives of Tories who did this after the Southport tragedy were quite correctly rounded up and thrown in prison. The frogfaced traitor however seems to be exempt from that law. 🤮

Mark Carney, "We welcome the people of the world" "In all their diversity, in all that splendour" "We don't welcome the world's hatreds" "When you come to Canada you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story" "You leave behind your animosities"

Come on, rest of the world!

Come on Nessie, get home, it’s bedtime

Former UK technology secretary Peter Kyle agreed to include “more positive language about artificial intelligence” in a speech last year on the advice of Lord Peter Mandelson, co-founder of an advisory firm that worked for OpenAI and Palantir www.ft.com/content/1b3e...

Superbly accurate

A centralised and secretive political culture let Peter Murrell steal from SNP funds for a decade. Does that justify a Common/Holyrood inquiry? If so why not also investigate Labour over Mandelson's abuse of trade envoy role? It's a funny old world. Listen lesleyriddoch.com/podcast

No more aid of any sort

If the British media only promoted this message, rather than one of hate and division, would there still be right wing voters?

If you're looking for community, move to Astoria. There's a place for you here. Bring a bike.

Reform UK wants to shut this down. If it did so, it would throw a million people out of work. Why? because it is beholden to the fossil fuel industry. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What the f**k? @scottishgreens.org any thoughts on this?

La France a arraisonné un nouveau pétrolier russe dans l'Atlantique, annonce Emmanuel Macron

Twilight is beginning. Outside all is silence except for a herring gull on a chimney, wailing in fake remorse for murdering two baby sparrows, a baby jackdaw and two toads from next door’s garden under our bird table.

Problem here is that the Republicans know fine well they haven’t got a remotely competent replacement.

A cartoon about book festivals for @theguardian.com

Musical #FindsFriday 🏺 Large #bronze #Roman Pan pipes, decorated w temples. Found 1899 in ?metal workshops of Villa of T. Siminius Stephanus nr Pompeii's Vesuvian gate. Use connected to satyr plays + myths, but instruments also part of ceremonies eg processions of Isis. in MANN Naples

I’m not!

Oh. This is interesting. We know that Israel is innately genocidal, and the term ‘cease fire’ has no meaning to them, but are we about to see governmental collapse? www.juancole.com/2026/05/isra...

The problem of being a colony. One of a host of problems.

I added Swan Lake ballet music

Mad Magazine, 1991. They knew even then. Great argument in favor of time travel. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

While we struggle to pay the highest electricity prices in Europe, Australia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, causing huge price drops. A perfect example of how the wellbeing of people and planet *can* be dovetailed. share.google/xMhW48OyxXUF...

What on Earth?! This video is from Greenpeace. 💔

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Au contraire Farage we need to talk about👇🏼 Why as sitting MP you haven’t reported alleged hacking of your Mob by Russia which has national security implications❌ Why you lied over why Harborne gave you £5 million - for security then Brexit❌ How you bought a £1.4 million in cash❌ We’re waiting 👀🍿

I wonder whether, in BBC News editorial meetings, anyone suggests things like the leader of Raise the Colours - something that initiated a major national conversation - being charged with murder? Or Farage not reporting his Russian hack claim? And if they do, who shuts them down?

Email leaks revealed that Johnson lobbied for Harborne. Both Farage and Johnson started lauding crypto around the time they received millions from him. Harborne is suing Ben Habib for suggesting Johnson and Farage colluded in the 2019 election. But they were both in his pocket

Oh yes, do let’s!

George is absolutely right. 👍 INDEPENDENCE NOW 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮

Years ago we put googly eyes on a giant paperclip and stuck it to the wall. Now the blu tack has melted and the paperclip has grown ears and this is basically what Darwin was talking about. #NationalPaperclipDay

Meanwhile, we are increasingly seeing minimum wage workers using foodbanks. This is not okay.

Two major omissions from Blair's essay: decline in UK manufacturing, and house price inflation. Both were happening when he was PM, and explain many of our problems today. He has no solution for it now, because he let it happen then.

Photograph by @HiRaw510 captures a surreal and rarely seen perspective of the iconic vermilion torii gate tunnels, most likely located at the famous Fushimi Inari Shrine in Kyoto, Japan.

Behold!

"This Farage parody account on X is more factual and truthful than Farage himself, which is hilarious in itself." via Susan Kovbasyuk

Twilight is beginning. A cooling draught is coming through the open window. Outside all is silence except for a blackbird singing its heart out.

Wow. So let me get this straight - they steal the data, they steal the jobs, and we also have to pay hundreds more in household bills. So we just have this mass-thieves leaching on the economy, with essentially no actual use. And it's chill? It's normal? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Well that explains the amount of time given to the views of Tony Blair by Krishnan on last night's @channel4news.bsky.social - Krishnan Guru Murthy is a Channel 4 News presenter. His brother-in-law is Starmer’s speech writer and a devoted disciple of Blair. #mediabias #msm #channelfournews

Never trust a small builder

I wrote for the Art Newspaper on why charging 'foreigners' for museum entry can't practically work. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/05/27/c...

🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇳 The United States did not join a joint statement by nearly 50 UN member states condemning Russia’s new threats to strike Kyiv and calls to evacuate foreign embassies. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/u-s-declines...

Topical.

LOL Tony Blair demanding Labour cuts part of net-zero which "prioritise clean energy over cheaper energy" is exactly what I've come to expect from that heaping pile of garbage. His clients are the worst people who all want polluting energy so of course he wants to shill for them. #TheWorst

A recent @newscientist cartoon p.s. I will be in Madrid and Germany very soon! Details at www.tomgauld.com

1/3: A curiously-shaped pottery item spotted on the Thames foreshore - and a surprise when I saw the other side! Follow the thread to see it turned over:

Not sure who's sillier on Twitter, Elon Musk for claiming history's most infamous far right dictator was a socialist, or the climate change sceptics for saying this temperature in May is fine because a few million years ago the surface of the planet was molten lava