The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

If we're talking about bias, why do BBC politics programmes, from Politics Live to the Laura Kuennsberg Show, still always begin with a look at the newspaper front pages, which are overwhelmingly biased in one direction. Helps frame the entire news agenda and debate in their favour

Study Finds Exercise May Help Alzheimer’s Patients Look Hot https://theonion.com/study-finds-exercise-may-help-alzheimer-s-patients-look-1850616422/

Noah Smith is paid in the high six-figures to write a blog read by Americans who believe themselves to be intelligent. Yet, he is both unable to read a sign and also for some reason chose to have a 90 minute layover for a flight that takes 90 minutes. onemileatatime.com/news/economi...

I have thoughts. radaronline.com/p/james-bond...

🚨 The BBC’s Road to Appeasement As the BBC comes under growing criticism for its coverage of Reform, we republish @adambienkov.bsky.social and @baghdaddi.bsky.social’s 2024 investigation into how the corporation's leadership became cowed by the right www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-bbcs-r...

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Shockingly, Oliver & the Manc ref have disallowed that. Complete bullshit. If Gary Neville doesn’t think it should be disallowed, it absolutely should not be.

This one seems to have got a lot of people who don't like cars very het up. They're arguing "well fine, fit them with trackers, why should drivers get away with speeding etc". This is a COLLOSAL mistake, and a perfect example of how you really need to think about unintended consequences first. 🧵

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

Captain it's Wednesday

Very few teams muster 2.5 non-penalty xG and nine shots on target against Real Madrid. Liverpool just did.

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Joy Division, The Stone Roses, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Cult, The Lightning Seeds, Deep Purple, and Motorhead... and Steps. All with singers called Ian. So why isn't Ian considered a cool name? How come you never hear anyone say "of course Niamh called the baby Ian, she's such a muso".

Go fuck yourself

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

I can answer this. I interviewed Peterson's tailor a few years ago, although the interview was never published because I fell behind on work. Here is the story of this suit. 🧵

You wanna have inherited titles and power? Well sit in it when one of youse turns out to be a nonce. Oh suddenly its not hereditery when its emberassing? Oh i see Punishment would be a trial and prison not having his fancy hat taken away he shouldnt have had to begin with in a just world

It’s worth considering how an Andrew Cuomo mayoralty would objectively be a disaster and everybody knows it—especially his backers. But they don’t give a shit about the day after, only thwarting the rise of any potential alternative. A striking demonstration of the nihilism of the political centre.

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

No matter which party is in charge, the shots are being called by powerful donors, not ordinary voters. No wonder most people feel so cynical about politics – they’re dealing with a cost-of-living crisis, while politicians from both parties are on the take. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Funny how they can be certain that was on the line but not that Gakpo was kicked

This article about Marie’s years running an indie fanzine in Nantes is too much fun, yet also very serious about teenage possibilities. If you don’t subscribe to @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com on Substack, this would be a good time to start open.substack.com/pub/youngvul...

I see this is more or less exactly what the stupid dirty hippies said would happen to this party, and the polar opposite of what was predicted by this country’s best-paid politics understanders.

Bluesky has finally reached the point where I see the reaction to a story and have to reconstruct the story. Good stuff.

To be clear: deportations to increase cultural homogeneity is the text book definition of ethnic cleansing. Demands that come even close to this are so far outside any democratic norm and the rule of law. What has happened to a country when this is not condemned in the strongest possible terms?

obsessed with this technical problem on bbc news @thetvroom.com

you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am

an Italian restaurant in Highgate has closed and they’re not happy, I mean really ‘what a sad little life Jane’ not happy

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began. 172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

If Reform had accepted this logic, they wouldn’t exist.

Couldn’t be happier that it was Shane that won it!

Would we say the British public were told that Labour’s election manifesto was “flawed and feeble”? If they weren’t told that and they were in fact told something very different, then why did that happen? How does a major political party end up with a “flawed and feeble” election manifesto at all?

One of the unexpected things I've learned from my advocacy for trans people is how malignant parts of the State can be, how it can misuse data for positively evil purposes. It's taught me people can't be safe with a digital ID card and so I've signed this. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Trimming the world's largest and tallest yew hedge, Cirencester, England, 1962.⁣⁣ www.atlasobscura.com/places/talle...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

This first sentence... I don't even know where to start... Is it mind-boggling ignorance? Extreme bad faith? I can't fathom it, but it should instantly disqualify you from ANY prominent job with a national broadcaster.

Dictionary definition of winning ugly! Go Niners!

same. every time I see more coverage of this thing I’m like “Jesus Christ”

Every time I look at this image I get annoyed for a different reason, it’s remarkable

Dutch late night TV has its take

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’ Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros. The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

It's Friday. It's the shortest amount of time anyone has ever owned a trouser press. youtu.be/tNqn5bKmKNc?...

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

What the Debate Me bros have done is found a way to filibuster the self-evident humanity of a person or group by making it an endless topic of debate. As Toni said: "None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing." It's not my job to prove my equality to those who think me inferior

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were. But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

A man in Washington, DC, plays the Imperial March from Star Wars while following patrolling soldiers. One of the soldiers threatens to call the police.