With our Five Eyes partners, we have published a joint statement warning organisations they have months - not years - to protect their systems from the accelerating cyber threat driven by frontier AI. 🧵 To read the full statement ⬇️ www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/the-ai-...

We were fighting then, and we are fighting still. I seem to remember that two of these people were Tories, one a Corbynista, and on the right was our Labour MP. I was behind the camera.

A review in Morse code: Hey Stevie tut tut tut tut See your poetry's insufferable a weak pile of gibberish a firesale of undesired drivel and worn out bosh Hopeless tut tut tut

View looking west from the footbridge at Sudbury Hill Harrow station, Sunday #photo

Could have been seriously injured, paralysed, scarred for life. I hope she gets a good lawyer and bankrupts the fucker and lands them in jail.

Florida Surgeon General announced ALL vaccine mandates will be ended As a polio survivor, i was joyous when a vaccine became available. No other child would endure such fear & suffering. He said "who am i to tell u what to put in your body. it's God's business". Hes a doctor! This is lunacy

Harper's Bazaar 2026 short story competition winning stories published

Some more of the uncollected thoughts of Red Woodward. "Almost anyone I know could blackmail me." "I haven't got an inferiority complex. I have an inferiority simplex. I am inferior." #ThoughtsOfRedWoodward

I know it feels like a cliche on the left but it needs repeating as it's true: if this guy was not white, it would be all over the front pages.

Mona Khalil dedicated decades of her life to protecting the sea turtles and coastline of Mansouri, southern Lebanon. This month, Israeli strikes killed her. Her loss is not only a loss for her family and community, but for the environmental movement in Lebanon, the region and beyond. 💔

Two poems by Emma Harding badlilies.uk/emma-harding

President Modi is "such a good looking man, an angel - but he's a killer". Huh. He fell love with General Sisi? Trump is completely off his rocker. youtu.be/_SNtExdemUY?... #HowMuchLonger?

It was America’s Greatest Ever President’s “Eureka!” moment when he decided to alter American Flag Blue on Old Glory to covfefe. Few if any other people were aware of the colour covfefe. So he posted “covfefe” as a teaser for his forthcoming redesign of the flag of the Donald J Trump United States.

This turns into a fascinating thread about how ten years after Brexit, the EU has left in place the special settings for the UK in its regulations for members.

Today’s Russian papers call the Ukrainian drone strike on Moscow “a record attack”, but claim “Russian attacks do more damage to Ukraine than they do to us.” One paper wonders: “From Moscow’s perspective, what level of escalation is permissible, and what isn’t?” #ReadingRussia

I love this. Unmute.

If you are into typography this is for you. Gallery of old receipts, some headed "Bot. of ". spitalfieldslife.com/2026/06/19/r... #SpitalfieldsLife #Typography #OldInvoices

The other bodies of water nearby are blue - reflecting the sky. They've got a man with the mental age of a six-year-old as president. And we're seeing the results every day.

The new colour ("color" in the US) is officially to be known as "covfefe".

Meet Crumb, Button, and Clover. A friend in the Bay Area found them behind a gas station. Unfortunately, she isn't able to keep them, so if she can't find someone to adopt them, they will be going to a shelter. Can you help me find them a home? They are in good health and very tame.

Postcard from Venice ... Where we go there's not much shade but water trickles always from a brass tap to the flagstones, for us and for the pigeons. (My photo, September 2001) stephenmoransmuseumofillusions.wordpress.com/2022/02/03/p... #poem #Venice

Trumpistry. Note it's "kayfabe" not "kayfab". "Kayfab" sounds like a Londoner's answer to "Chismate". Got that - kaybabe?

Poor Paddy Works on the Software ...I was wearing stripy braces Setting traces, shifting places Switching cases, I Was working on the software In the year of two thousand and one Poor Paddy's millennium bug was gone The sod had to give up his coke and rum And work upon the software, the software...

Eliza Doolittle in Dublin, painting by Séan Keating, Irish artist (1889-1977).

#Bookmovie from Fonoteca de Poesia I read the first three poems from "Day of the Flying Leaves." The text is displayed smoothly to look like book pages turning. 1. The Hunter-Gatherer Children of Dublin 2. Eleven Homes 3. Visiting Molly youtu.be/b77Zlu-NeKo?... #LyricVideo #BigInSpain #CopYourselfOn

Issue 161 (Summer 2026) of the Dublin Review of Books (www.drb.ie) is now available. Essays and reviews by Edna Longley, Kevin Power, Luke Gibbons, Ruth Evans, Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh, David O'Connor and Enda O'Doherty among many others. All on free access, as is our archive, all 19 years of it.

Wonderful raw video of Elvis Presley (and the Jordanaires?) recording the great Willie Nelson song "Always On My Mind". youtu.be/W60tNHc-CaU?... #GiantWristwatch #LoveMoreOften #Elvis #NonDraftDodger

Rumer - "Marie" - so beautiful open.spotify.com/playlist/2Bu... #NowPlaying

Lovely bit of social history, here. View from the Royal Festival Hall, 1950. This beautiful image was produced by SR Badmin for a set of contemporary postcards celebrating the Festival of Britain. And best of all … (1/2)

The Winner of the 2026 Bristol Short Story Prize is 'Green Green Grass' by William Weightman, a story that renders, through the unlikely medium of one man's minute-by-minute diary, the tensions coiled within the routines of a long marriage.

An angle of racism we don't always note is predisposition. When you have often faced negativity due to your background through life, you start anticipating those experiences in certain spaces. It sucks because sometimes people genuinely mean no harm.

Shaky on edge

The new Department of Defense faith codes list also classifies Orthodox Judaism as a type of Orthodox Christianity and "Reformed Judaism" as a type of Reformed Christian, while classifying Messianic Jews as a type of Judaism.

Anna and Emma, chambermaids, Royal Hibernian Hotel, Dublin, 1966, photo by Evelyn Hofer, German-American photographer.

I started to rewatch Fawlty Towers last night, and man oh man oh man that's the stuff.

The Lunatic in the White House. youtu.be/zvgQsnp8BRI?... #HowMuchLonger?

This has to stop right now. #UKLabour #KeirStarmer

Honoured to announce the launch of my new collection, Blurred Edges – the twelve best stories I can muster at this point in time. Huge thanks to Renée Sigler @ballerinibookpress.bsky.social for this special opportunity. ballerinibookpress.ch/blurred-edge...

The always popular emperor penguin-based Brontë critique Chart originally from the Guardian www.theguardian.com/books/galler...

Cavendish Avenue, Harrow, Sunday

ICYMI: You can now go live on Bluesky with YouTube, Substack and beehiiv, in addition to the already-supported platforms: Twitch, Streamplace and Bluecast Add your stream link and a red ring appears on your avatar, so your followers know the moment you’re on. 🧵

X is currently full of posts falsely naming Christi Hill and another officer as having arrested Henry Nowak. One names and pictures the other PC, saying, "Wanted: dead or alive". It gives his address. What more exactly will it take to get UK MPs, ministers and departments off that hellsite?

A few years ago I got a single phone call I made the mistake of answering from someone representing some firm that was going to turn my neglected book into a hit. "It's doing just fine, thanks." "We've heard that it's not." "It was on the Times list for nine weeks." *long silence* *click*

Honored to be in such great company! -CK Full list - readers choice: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Cad é an scéal faoi ainmneacha le "Ua" ina lár? An bhfhuil siad linn fós, nuair nach bhfheicimid ach "Ó" agus "Ní" anois? #SpeirGorm

I used always put this in the playlist for Willesden Herald events. Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros - Willesden to Cricklewood. I hope there's a "statute of limitations" for PRS, otherwise I'm stuffed. I will add others from the playlist below. youtu.be/e9nyi8nBTCE?... #NowPlaying #Willesden #thread

What a world. www.theguardian.com/global-devel... #ChildMarriage #Iraq #Misogyny #Oppression #Impunity #Barbarity

"Self praise is no praise." It's a simple concept I think most people have heard and understood but not the dunderhead in the White House. Donald Trump's Freedom 250 festival event has been cancelled as all but one of the artists cancelled their bookings when they found out it was was a Trump grift.

"When She Cam Ben She Bobbit" - from The High Road to Kilkenny by Les Musiciens De St Julien Thanks to my sister for introducing me to this slice of gorgeousness www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ER7...