🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

I firmly believe that 'Sesame Street' is one of the most important TV shows ever made - it was staple of my weekend viewing as a kid

“I am somebody” shaped how millions of us saw ourselves as kids, including me. That message mattered. It still does. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson 🙏🏽

That landing was very bumpy and very sudden! Phew! Just about maintained my dignity

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow. Read the full story below. 🖇️ www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

An excerpt from Sophie Gilbert’s review of the new Melania movie: "Melania shows off her custom-made inauguration gown, stark white with black ribbons overlaying it, a dress that now looks unavoidably like the redacted Epstein files."

The Boss. The Boss. The Boss.

I really think that while the tag line on this movie poster is 100% accurate, it really is family- oriented!

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

“We do prefer respect to bullies, We do prefer science to politicism and we prefer rule of law to brutality" President Macron👏

Rest In Power, thank you for your service

Finding the reactions to this bleakly funny. Lads, the point isn’t that you are sending enough people to “win”, because we in fact, can’t win. It is just to have a tripwire! If you are going “why not 13, like Germany?” you have not understood how bad things are.

I officially adore this song.... youtu.be/HYkXAguU1es?...

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekBForBooks Virginia Woolf’s collection of Shakespeare, all wrapped & inscribed by her own hand, in her bedroom at Monk’s House, Rodmell, East Sussex 📚

Well, there we go

Amanda Gorman wrote this poem for Renee Good and that’s it for me tonight.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection have just shot two more people, a man and a woman in Portland, Oregon. They think they can do whatever they like and it is because Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Kristi Noem told them they could.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

This is fascism. A major city has to shutter its schools because police are kidnapping and trafficking people.

I hear that if you aren't finding time to read the books on your desk and nightstand that you already desperately want to read ... it will make you feel better if you simply buy other ones. You're welcome.

This is the video.

It is now confirmed from multiple sources that ICE shot a legal observer dead on Portland in Minneapolis between 34th and 33rd street. The victim is dead

David Bowie’s creative process for Blackstar and The Spectator David Bowie released his final album Blackstar on 8 January 2016. Many people have been intrigued about the creative process behind Blackstar and what Bowie believed would come after. Was he working on anything else at the same time?

This is where we are. Read this joint statement by France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the Kingdom of Denmark on Greenland: "Greenland belongs to its people. It is for Denmark and Greenland, and them only, to decide on matters concerning Denmark and Greenland."

Joint European statement on Greenland. They moved quickly after Miller’s comments about annexation last night.

Golden Slumbers / Carry That Weight / The End | The Beatles youtu.be/b1q5sn21ZkQ?...

This series of articles in the Guardian on the Free Birth influencers makes terrifying reading. So many dead babies. If you’re planning (or going through) a pregnancy and you want to maximise the chance of a surviving, healthy baby, don’t mess with these people. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Tom Stoppard was for me, to British (and personal) theatre what Bowie was to British music - that level - RIP

I lived at 34th and Broadway for a number of years and hosted guests for the Macy’s #Parade. I traveled for #Thanksgiving this year and am very sad that I missed the balloons.

BREAKING: A federal judge has thrown out the criminal indictment of James Comey, ruling that Trump-installed prosecutor Lindsey Halligan was illegally appointed and had no lawful authority to bring the case. The court found her actions violated federal law and the Constitution’s Appointments Clause.

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Amazing. Absolutely amazing.

I second this. Welcome to the club - our two cities are the future

The Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in the challenge to Trump’s worldwide tariffs. No matter how the Court rules (and I’ll do just a tiny bit of tea leaf-reading here), its decision will have enormous implications for the scope of presidential power. 1/25

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

In a way, I find the authoritarian takeover of our media system even more disturbing than the authoritarian takeover of our political system. Our political system has been failing basically my entire adult life. But, the media system provided accountability and sort of worked. Now it’s collapsing.

Rachel Reeves: “My job is to deal with the world as I find it, not the world as I might wish it to be.” A great sentence.... for July-Sept 2024.

“There are some people who hate London, and hate New York,” Mayor Sadiq Khan told me, on Bloomberg TV. “There's a reason why they demonize London, and now, indeed, New York. Why? Because we are progressive cities. We are liberal cities. We are multicultural cities. And we are incredibly successful.”

The next 12 months are going to be remarkable

It’s Austria Day - I am eating Punschkrapfen - delicious

Trump is destroying the White House and the US. From symbolism to literalism.

I have never seen such a perfect image

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

New read……

“Gottle of geer.”