Delighted by the sales and ratings to date for the latest DCI Murrain reissue. Even more excited that there’ll be a new Murrain book out later in the year. It’s been a while! amzn.eu/d/0hXI5GAT

Once again forcibly reminded of Patrick O’Flynn’s description of Farage as “snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive”.

Fascinating how rattled Farage allies are by Count Binface. I doubt he can really marshal a serious challenge - perhaps they do. Or maybe they just need to build him up into more than a guy with a bin on his head so this contest doesn't look, well, silly

This is simply stupid. No normal person is ever going to buy a house without viewing it so you’re just wasting buyers’ time. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Its a highly racialised impact - though this the least reported aspect Labour would undertake by far the biggest remigration [by stealth] plan in British history if Mahmood's plan went ahead. But this govt would have no capacity to deport the 750k voters whose legal status would be lost in 2028-29

This could be the funniest by-election ever.

It’s not a ‘difficult decision’. It’s a barbaric decision. A *wrong* decision.

I hope that Burnham, as an arts graduate, might reverse this. It’s idiotic even in economic terms.

Farewell to Ian Kennedy Martin, creator of The Sweeney, Juliet Bravo, The Chinese Detective.

Is this going anywhere?

‘Needless to say I had the last laugh.’

Yawn.

"All those chimneys needed repointing, and what were those old dears going to do? Get up on the roof themselves? You have no idea the cost of scaffolding these days. Yeah, go on, take me to Trading Standards."

Nigel Farage to Sky News, "If you harass my family any more, there'll be serious consequences" Sky News, "Sky News has not contacted my Farage's family over the story"

People are asking this question. Only in the US.

Wonderful piece. All creative people who read this will get it. The people who need to read it certainly won't do either.

AI isn't 'inevitable'. Banning and resisting it isn't 'going against the tide'. We can reject this narrative and determine our own future. But it will be a fight, and it will take greater tech literacy. Which tools are bad and which are not? Who are the bad actors? Which politicians are fighting?

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.

Statement from Belgian FA.

This might be the most blatant example in existence of "rich guy who created a problem attempting to place the blame for that problem on immigrants"

I always thought that if the Cottrell story cut through it would hurt Farage because it's not just corruption, it's weird. The guy calls him "Daddy".

Google can kiss my hairy creative butt.

Grateful to the Telegraph for providing the definitive answer to its own question, albeit in quite small letters.

Portes "Theres a lot of nonsense talked, including on Sky, about the spiralling welfare bill.. as a proportion of our national income.. its lower than it was 15yrs ago & its pretty much back to what it was under Thatcher.. this idea its out of control is just wrong" Spot on!

Last night, I dreamed I’d been charged £3100 by the Footwear Regulator. I’ve no idea why I needed my footwear regulated or why it was so expensive.

Good to see Starmer maintaining the same clarity right to the end.

Oh, we're doing Jeremy Hunt part 2 are we. Great.

The theory that the Home Office is inhabited by a Principality of Hell gains further supporting evidence. This shames the Labour party. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Jared Kushner wants Albania's protected wetlands. The government obliged. Protesters said no. 29 days later, they're still saying no — with flamingo cutouts and flags, in the streets, every single night. Europe is watching. Is anyone else?

Of course. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I enjoy watching footballl but I have no strong opinions about it. I feel this should be encouraged.

A born Telegraph columnist

It would take a heart of stone etc. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s less than a week since my radio was telling me that Britain needed to abandon net zero and drill baby drill because the Tories won a by election in Aberdeen Now it’s so hot the kids can’t sleep

imagining a grizzled hardboiled detective saying this while gripping some guy's lapels at a shady bar

If you asked me, off the top of my head, to name a non-Oxbridge university in England synonymous with excellence in the Humanities - I would probably think of Exeter first. This feels like a very deliberate, targeted and ideological Bonfire of the Humanities

Is that literally a Water Gate?

Useful tool from The Atlantic to check whether your books been used to train AI models. Twenty of my books on there. Utterly shameless theft. www.theatlantic.com/category/ai-...

Frankly, this doesn’t sound good. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

i think, if I tried to boil it down to a sentence, it'd be: "All politicians are hated by their opponents - but Starmer went out of his way to be hated by his supporters too."

I would like to see Iran (IRN) play Brunei (BRU)

This was inevitable. My prediction is that just as Ukraine has become a leader in drone development & battle tactics, it'll also become a showcase for distributed power generation on a national scale.

I mean, this is a WILD shift in a very short period. The US was deporting and jailing college students for saying less very recently.

Hopefully this encourages others to do the same

This really could be the death of my childhood. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Reform: taking us back to the days before the Ford Dagenham case. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...