If @lisanandymp.bsky.social has left TwiXtter too, surely the #BBC has to decouple, along with @andyburnham.bsky.social government?

Last Night At The Lobster - Stewart O'Nan A Month In The Country - J.L. Carr A Tiler’s Afternoon - Lars Gustaffson The Boat In The Evening - Tarjei Vesaas

For @theguardian.com I compiled a list of 20 books to read in a day (whittled down from 70 - goodbye Readers Block, Turn of the Screw, Less Than Zero, Call Me Ishmael, The Stone Book, Autobiography of Red etc). Not a top 20, but all worth your time I guarantee it. www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

5 dimensional chess...

Why are organisations putting alt text in video adverts? There must be a reason

Dying at 38 of a brain tumour OTD in 1937 was one of music’s greatest tragedies. George Gershwin didn’t touch an instrument until he started piano at 10. At 20 his song Swannee sold 2m copies and he then conquered Broadway with 500 more songs. His musical achievement rocketed with his knockout 1/2

In Memoriam Coxhill, Lol... ❤️

Have to say, that Glengarry Glen Ross at @oldvictheatre.bsky.social sure crackles along in @pmarber.bsky.social's all-woman, all-angles production. And yes, there IS a point to it, so pop along before it closes (18 July) and be enslaved to their rhythm.

Every time this goes around I’m stunned that there are still people who’ve never seen it, this performance is to drag what the Mona Lisa is to paintings, but maybe you’ve never seen the Mona Lisa, so today is the day you shall behold it

In Memoriam Coxhill, Lol... ❤️

Vandalism on a grand scale - a new book of Tish Murtha’s photographs. She was one of the best, taken before her time and never recognised by the photography establishment until after she died. www.huckmag.com/article/tish...

Guardian, you’re at the wrong party with the wrong people trying to make the wrong loud jokes, just apologise and go home.

Stewart Lee - What Happened To Counter Culture? 5x30 minute episodes. Stream or download. biggestfans.co.uk/forums/index...

This is good guidance. Memo to self in future...

#Actoring 🧵 👇

The word-processed justified layout of the Writ is neat but unappealing. Personally, I miss oak-gall on vellum. #Writing

An embarrassment.

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Take our 2026 Full Fact readership survey and tell us what matters most to you. Your feedback will shape our content for the next year. Share your thoughts now! fullfact.typeform.com/to/TEud475h#...

Phil's Disclosure Day!

There was a (missed) chance to do this in 2009 with Project Kangaroo - blocked by the then-Competition Commission. Thinking has moved on a lot so maybe this will happen now: www.ft.com/content/1318... BBC and Channel 4 in talks to create British streaming champion

Friggin' in the riggin'...

Tell us 📢 where you’d like your street tree 🌳 planted. When a resident sponsors a tree through @treesforstreets.bsky.social, they get to say where they’d like it planted. Their council does a survey. If all ok, a tree is put in that following winter. 👇 www.treesforstreets.org 🌳

Well, there are probably quite few Conservatives with convictions, past or pending...

This promotional PSYCHO pre-release marketing photo (designed to satisfy demand and mislead from the film’s actual plot) always makes me smile.

Fair & proportionate, assuming tax loopholes for the filthy rich are blocked. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

The binfire of the vanities.

Therapeutic thread 👇 🧵

Good to hear some detail about the 1924 Empire Exhibition and its inspiring *checks notes* butter sculptures. #WhoDairysWins www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Thread...

Don´t know why, but we have a giant rhino in our church St. Moritz, Halle Saale. 🤔😇

What are you fighting for? What are you fighting for? What are you fighting for? What are you fighting for? *Broken English* @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social

THIS!!! The application process was ridiculously complex, the assessment felt like an exam, the stress was incredible, and it took NINE MONTHS from application to final decision. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Binface in Space!

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I'm sure they shrivel in sunlight.

FIFA's president Gianni Infantino is being referred to Olympic ethics investigators for a possible breach of political neutrality, a human rights group said Wednesday, after U.S. President Donald Trump helped block a World Cup player's ban. https://to.pbs.org/4ph3X3O

However much you or I want something to happen to suit us, the People of Clacton are being asked to make their decision. We, and Binface, and Frogface, are merely interested parties. Nevertheless, I endorse this argument.

“By and by” is easily said

IN THE BIN

Part of the lore of the Honey Huan character is she eventually came to serve as social director on Donald Trump’s yacht, I kid you not.

Phoshor-tumenume-luminume-lescent ☀️

A Brit in the semis of Wimbledon, England still in the World Cup and Nigel Farage spending the summer arguing with a bin. Oh this happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea

Actually loving the fact that all the Brits who are good at tennis have names or backgrounds so very redolent of a wider world.

*Sings* Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near

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

"But lest we be tempted to rate this effort a failure, let us judge it on its own terms. Trump was able to snatch congressionally allocated funds, commingle them with cash from corporations seeking favor from his administration, enrich his buddies, and throw himself two spectacular birthday parties"

Thursday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...