“I didn’t even understand what you said,” says Leila Cunningham to Mick Lynch on #Newsnight as he explains some basic points. Feels indicative.

Just caught up with the latest episode of Have I Got News For You. The disregard that Ian Hislop has for Michael Gove is almost palpable, thoroughly justified and good to see. #HIGNFY www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxJu...

I'm with @willhumphrey.bsky.social on this. Makes huge sense to me.....

Absolutely this. I understand the desire to learn about space. It’s fascinating & has lots to teach us but I think we’re kidding ourselves if we think we’ll ever live on another planet. Humankind will live and die on Earth. We should be focusing on looking after our home, not finding another one.

Spent the weekend catching up with two old friends who I haven’t seen since we were all young ad men at Ogilvy Singapore in 2002. Some adventures, challenges and losses along the way for sure but all fit, healthy, working and thankful to still be here. Although I may now need some time to recover….

Another cracker from @mrhenrymorris.substack.com Thank you, sir.

"Final negotiations." It would be funny if it wasn't tragic.

This by @stephenkb.bsky.social on the appalling murder of Henry Nowak & what it tells us about policing should be required reading for all. Balanced, rational & full of common sense. The type of journalism & thinking that's increasingly lacking in this country right now. www.ft.com/content/aa94...

Exactly what @mattgreencomedy.com says. This is a terribly moment, both for this poor young man’s dignified family, and for our country, which is being gaslit by Farage and his fellow racists whose currency is hatred and division.

I have a student son Henry Nowak’s age & I can’t imagine what it took for his family to respond outside court with the grace they did, asking that their son’s death not be used for division and hate. That Reform & Restore chose to throw that back in their faces makes me feel sick.

I have just realised that, at the age of 54, I have somehow started to look very much like my late father, despite having never looked like him when I was a young man. I am finding this both horrifying and comforting at the same time.

I’m not an Arsenal fan but I’m a fan of this behaviour. Such a lovely contrast to the attitudes often shown to players who’ve missed their penalties.

I'm all for this kind of behaviour. I remember my old boss at Ogilvy Singapore giving a talk & spotting a woman in the front row texting, circa 2002. He stopped, addressed her & said, "When you finish texting, I'll start presenting." Could you imagine that now? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It's hard to imagine the pressure Sarah Wynn-Williams is under, given how aggressive Facebook is. The fact that she turned up & stayed silent is probably an even more powerful message than it would've been if she had been able to chat normally. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This felt inevitable. Slot is clearly a decent man who delivered a title nobody expected, then had to deal with the tragic death of a popular player & a host of other circumstances that many people would’ve found challenging. He leaves with my thanks, respect & best wishes for his future. #LFC

Does anybody know why dog owners talk to their pets in such babyish language? I, of course, only talk to my dog, His Excellency Field Marshal Juan Pablo Cardoza, as the elite military machine he is. #FMJPC

It feels like John Major has a much better understanding of the challenges facing Britain than Tony Blair.

This looks like unchallenged AI propaganda. AI needs an equal and opposite force that reminds us not to be enchanted or blinded by the bright lights of vested interest.

Wow. I saw this post earlier and thought it was a spoof. Apparently not.

Crikey. Tony Blair is banging my irony testicles hard this morning.

If you add the third face to this meme by repeating the first, it represents how I often feel when I hear the words of Tony Blair.

Watching The Elon Musk Show on BBC2. My overwhelming thought is how inadequate he is as a sentient human being and how sad it is that he is revered by so many. It’s a strange world.

What amuses me is that when I first read about this chap, I thought that Reform had at last found a rational candidate who, although I didn’t agree with him, seemed like a decent bloke. But he turns out he’s as swivel eyed as most of the rest of the party. 👀🤡

I name this beer Déjà Brew. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Until yesterday the highest temperature in May was 32.8 °C, but we've now exceeded that record on consecutive days by a full two degrees Celsius 🌡️" 👀

The WW2 air raid shelter excavation continues. Seriously hard work in this weather and another reminder that TV shows and films that depict murderers casually digging graves make it look much easier than it is. I will never make it as a Goodfella.

The fact that Louis Mosley, CEO of Palantir, is the grandson of Oswald Mosley, leader of the British Fascist Party, might just be history’s way of telling us that there’s something very wrong here.

Data, data everywhere Yet no one stops to think.

No objective review of Guardiola can dismiss the impact of Man City’s financial affairs. Ferguson is the greatest PL manager/coach of all time. He took a team, rebuilt it and won 13 titles. And I’m a Liverpool fan who really wishes it wasn’t so. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Irrespective of politics, I thought Rachel Reeves' response to this heckler was quaintly geeky, old fashioned and quite funny.

WFH today and could hear my teenage son react to the England World Cup squad announcement in the other room. Some choice phrases. All will be forgotten and forgiven if Tuchel's team win it but there are some decidedly odd selections in there.

These are crazy amounts of money. Let me guess. Private equity owned businesses milking the state? Apparently it's immigrants and the poor who are the problem.

Don't worry. Our councils are in safe hands with Reform.

Oh, be still my irony testicles.... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I find this stuff fascinating. When my father died, he was bed bound with severe pneumonia. A few hours before the end he got up energetically & tried to leave the ward telling us he had to go. We coaxed him back to bed, upon which he settled down & passed away peacefully a few hours later.

Jake Berry’s journey from failed Tory MP to Farage stooge is quite entertainingly shameless. #BBCNewsnight

Congratulations to Arsenal. Having waited almost 30 years for Liverpool , I know how good that will feel. And a different club winning the PL 3 years in a row is good for English football.

I get the principle, but Southampton’s spying didn’t help them to win any of these games. Meanwhile, over at Manchester City…… www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Pssst. Want to see what will cause political and national chaos at a general election held under FPTP?

Today I celebrated the news of the birth of somebody's baby & tomorrow I am going to the memorial service of a dear friend's young child via a visit to my mother at her care home for her 95th birthday but whose dementia means she will be mostly oblivious to it all. Proper circle of life stuff.

HS2. £102.7bn for something that was supposed to cost £32bn, now running more than a decade late and with far less being delivered than originally planned. Well done everybody. 🤡 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cz...

It's a serious problem that is unsustainable & why we need genuine economic, political & social reform. The rules by which we live today were set when the world was a very different place & are no longer fit or purpose. The longer we leave it to make these changes, the worse it's going to get.

It's even worse for the young. The financial challenges they face are on a completely different scale to boomers & early Gen X who were born into a world of growth. They also often have to deal with the ladder being pulled up by their elders who have taken away things that they benefitted from.

Why is anybody surprised about pensions? 1. There's no meaningful focus on financial education in the UK. 2. The cost of living. 3. The capitalist economy's need for people to spend. And for all those who think it's just a case of managing better, you might want to check your privilege.

I'm not a Labour voter but, despite all the noise the party is making, I don't think it's impossible that Starmer will survive.

Just read 'Entitled' about the former Prince Andrew & Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. I was already angry but these, especially the latter, lay out the depravity of Epstein & his people, the courage of their victims & utter lack of justice. It's one of the worst cover ups of all time.

I find it reassuring that young people are reacting like this to the tech bros. They've been let down by their elders who've stood aside to let these sociopaths do what they want. I hope that this is a sign of things to come & the start of a global movement. It's about time people stood up to them.

It's not big or clever but I went to a 50th birthday party over the weekend that ended up in various bars, clubs and a 5am bed time. In the past this would've meant Monday evening in the gym sweating it off but now it involves keeping very still for a few days in case I have a heart attack.

Was out last night so didn’t watch it but our Eurovision song was absolute pants. I’m surprised it got a single point.