so nigel said he was given £5 million for security but has since said he could spend it on anything and he also turned down taxpayer-funded security but is complaining about a lack of security

Plagiarism of cartoon characters should be done only by poorly hand painting them on the side of fairground rides and ice cream vans, on bootleg-of-bootleg market stall t-shirts that depict them smoking weed, AND NOWHERE ELSE. (No but seriously Jamie is a genius and it is very sad to hear this)

This is a fantastic read (and, coincidentally, the next release on our Roots Mythology imprint happens to be by The Detonators)

It is once again time to repost this classic.

@pennyred.bsky.social returning to glorious, tragic, triumphant form lauriepenny.substack.com/p/ai-writes-...

🚨 NEW from @ipsosintheuk.bsky.social Britain backs Binface 🚨 When asked who they would prefer win the Clacton by-election... 33% say Count Binface 21% say Nigel Farage 32% say neither 13% are undecided

What’s that, Dale? You want to give me an unconditional personal gift of £5million to do whatever I want with? Sure! I just need to fill out a form. If I didn’t declare it that would be silly.

Hearing that Trump has intervened to overrule Gamu's elimination from The X Factor

Has FIFA told us what the final score in Monday’s USA v Belgium game is going to be yet?

You won't see this on the BBC: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

this is 100% my playing style

No school should be on X or oblige parents to get updates from it. A site that actively promotes porn, bullying, hate and fascism is not an appropriate place to post pictures of sports days.

England is divided into two newspaper regions. They are the Bicester Times, the Worcester Times.

A big, amazing life-change: my newest job is hanging out with my new best friend, Gardener's World's Adam Frost, on the Outsiding podcast, which launches today. And our first guest was - BOB MORTIMER! www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

Go on, girl. I think Facebook over-estimates how fond people actually are of it. It's full of ads and strangers and AI slop. Wouldn't take much of a tipping point for people to finally just ... tire of it, and everything that comes with it, and leave.

Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's

This is remarkable.

More than anything right now, I wish to experience the sweet, cooling relief of being tossed into a chest freezer by an errant emu.

Fifteen years ago, I wrote a column, insisting my husband gave me a nickname, and suggesting - quite forcefully - that it be "Puffin". Let's see how that's working out: www.thetimes.com/article/c316...

They’re calling it the least comprehensible achievement of all time.

Farage's £5m problem: do any of his defences hold up? www.thenerve.news/p/nigel-fara...

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

Now I know why it's called Right Move.

Look, I can’t blame instagram’s automatic captioning feature. Obviously I need to articulate my words more clearly. Nevertheless, I WOULD like to play this game.

Go Ape have been trying to put up an outdoor excursion site in Danson Park, Bexley. Objections to doing so have included: 1. Attracting more kids to the park means children will be kidnapped 2. Bexley's kids are bad kids and don't deserve it 3. Building Go Ape will result in decapitated cats

“Setting up your immaculate Nazi study while one of the kids sleeps on the floor of the garden shed” is both incredibly sad and incredibly on the nose satire of this form of politics:

Save UK children's television! Come along to our free online event on 29 June to hear from special guests Children's Laureate Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sangita Myska, Nigel Plaskitt, Emma Reeves, Gail Renard + special appearance from Pipkins star Hartley Hare! forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

That escalates *quickly* (go upstairs)

Some great lines – in every sense – in this new Madonna interview. www.interviewmagazine.com/music/madonn...

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

HUGE if true

Starmer should swing out full bitch and announce Andy Burnham's resignation.

God i LOVE experts. This is GLORIOUS.

It will never stop being funny to me that the street fighter subreddit has a much better, well reasoned ai policy vis a vis literally all universities.

The BBC could be our best weapon against Trump, Musk and fake news. Here’s how that could work | Jane Martinson

For the benefit of the US: the man in the middle just won an election against an alien called @countbinface.bsky.social, a fox, 2 fascists (not pictured) & some normal politicians in suits. He is now odds on to topple a sitting prime minister & lead the country. You could learn a lot from this.

A) This a properly brilliant piece of investigative journalism by BBC & @hopenot.bsky.social Huge kudos to all involved for doing the job the UK police & CPS failed to do: naming the alleged spymaster & clearly showing Kremlin’s role. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

B) The Kremlin operative who BBC names as directing arson attacks against Keir Starmer was taught his tradecraft by…drumroll…Sergei Nalobin !!! Pictured here with Boris Johnson. Also: the star of our podcast series, Sergei & the Westminster Spy Ring! Wtaf 2/

The stakes couldn’t be any higher. This is an attack on UK prime minister. And I was already gripped by the incredible detail - which apparently Met police had missed - when Sergey Nalobin suddenly enters the chat..as a tutor to the guy who directed entire UK sabotage operation.

Er….

Looking forward to relaxing later with this Musical Youth compilation from @needlemythology.bsky.social curated by the mighty @petepaphides.bsky.social …seems like a lifetime since I heard you on 6music talking about this one!

Chris Packham's petition calling for Government to broadcast a briefing on the climate and nature breakdown's impact on the UK (a National Emergency Briefing) has now triggered a response from government - in full at the link below.

Every so often, it's important to list all the ways you "fail" in being "a proper woman": www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

This is a lovely piece by Pete Paphides and like all the best writing it manages to put its finger on something that you realise you’ve been trying to explain yourself.

Does ANYONE have any footage of airport security in America opening suitcases - and finding any of the THOUSANDS of bagpipes that the Tartan Army seem to have taken over? And just BOGGLING? The Bagpipe Parades are gladdening my heart.

I honestly don't think anyone writes better about the music of Paul McCartney than Pete. and of course, if you're talking about the music, you're really, finally, talking about the person.

I am always happy to self-identify as a Khan stan. I think he's been a brilliant mayor. and under INSANE circumstances.

Here are the details you need regarding Jess Asato’s legal action against Grok. [email protected] actionnetwork.org/forms/saia-p...

Can't even run a 22-month stalking campaign any more, because of Woke.

Streaming services will spend tens of millions on shows that have less cultural impact than "Belly's gonna get ya!"