This should be on every front page.

I often get angry with the audiences on #BBCQT, but last night the people of Shrewsbury provided the perfect antidote to our political class' obsession with immigrants and using them as scapegoats. "The vast majority of people in this country live very happily & very peacefully together."

Best argument yet for killing the AI industry.

This is one of the most balanced, sensitive and eloquently argued perspectives I have read on Britain's response to the conflict in Gaza. Bravo David McQueen.... www.linkedin.com/pulse/brave-...

They might be in 'different' parties for the moment but it feels increasingly like Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick are the Donald Trump and JD Vance of British politics.

Jane Goodall. Amazing. youtu.be/lfLKHY52ERc?...

A destitute clown. 🤡 Probably the most accurate description of today's Conservative Party I have seen. The sad thing is that it's disastrous for the country not to have a credible centre right party.

This was the first bit of news I heard this morning and it made me take a deep breath. Lewis Moody on the pitch encapsulated everything about the fully committed rugby player - dynamic, fast, brave. Lots of love to him and his family at this difficult time.

Monday.

No comment.

One for my irony testicles from the person doing her absolute best to make the Conservatives irrelevant.

Raised a smile this morning.

Macron finally saying what any sane observer has been saying for a decade. Social media companies should have been regulated as publishers from day one. If they’d been held to the same account we wouldn’t be in this mess.

I don't agree with much of what Michelle Mone says but she's right here. Let's deal with all of the MPs who recommended their mates and/or their own interests for PPE covid contracts in the same way the government has dealt with her.

Earlier this week, as part of an exercise in checking my online profile and making sure it was conducive to searches by potential clients, I asked ChatGPT to tell me what it knows about me. The following statement is one of my proudest achievements...

Just seen footage of my 94 year old mum, who has advanced dementia, in her care home singing along to The Lambeth Walk, As Time Goes By & others. Sad that so many of her memories are locked away but lovely to see her eyes light up. Her carers, many of whom are immigrants, are wonderful.

I’m not sure my irony testicles can take this one.

Palantir on Newsnight? 👀

The words 'Board of Peace' mixed with the names Donald Trump and Tony Blair are my oxymoron of the day.

Ryder Cup. Never in doubt. 😂😳😬

Wow. These are North Korean levels of self-delusion.

If this was me, there is no doubt that, after telling the spectator to shut the **** up, I’d shank that ball straight up into my own face. Rory McIlroy is a King. 👏👏👏😎. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/a...

Gabriel Gatehouse absolutely bang on the money on Reform’s nefarious MAGA-style ‘they’re lying to you tactics’. The fact that so many people in the UK are gullible enough to believe them is frightening. #Neesnight

I like golf and the Ryder Cup but the hype and ridiculous levels of self-regard and self-importance the event has are silly.

The sad irony is that the greatest con job of all is Donald Trump.

What is it with the BBC acting as a promoter of Nigel Farage and Reform? Watching Chris Mason interview Ed Davey on the news and Mason might as well be wearing a Reform rosette. And the next report is another about Reform. This is a party with 5 MPs and the BBC is doing its bidding.

What if Bonnie Blue was Barry Blue and he was going around university campuses during Fresher’s Week on his ‘bang bus’? There’s something very wrong here. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2546438...

Thank heavens somebody else thought this. I watched it shaking my head in near disbelief at what two British journalists were saying…..

Was it just me or did anybody else expect this guy to say “I don't know how to put this but I'm kind of a big deal. People know me. I'm very important. I have many leather-bound books and my apartment smells of rich mahogany.” #BBCQT #Anchorman

Stumbled across this almost fluorescent caterpillar this morning. Apparently it will turn into a pale tussock moth which will be remarkably dull in comparison to its current punk outfit.

Great Britain, 2025.

Love this. There's something about the death of a loved one that unearths sensitivities & connections with the natural world that get lost in our busy materialistic lives. I can recall vividly in aftermath of my son's death feeling far more in touch with nature. And I think it's love that did it.

Desperate stuff.

So much that is wrong with the world is shown here. Gathered for the feast.

I fully understand diplomacy & the political expediency of granting Trump a state visit & Royal attention. But Trump is not America. He's a dark moment for the world that will eventually pass. Historians will look back & see that we, as a nation, embraced him. We are complicit. It's shameful.

Brilliant from @coldwarsteve.bsky.social And it would be hilarious if it wasn’t true.

I know some would say that this is the cost and responsibility that comes with diplomacy but this is a desperately sad contrast for Yvette Cooper.

Dear Sir, Imagine my surprise... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Spent yesterday evening in one of my happiest places - Giffords Circus. We've been going since my wife was pregnant with our eldest daughter (who's now 19) & even in the years after our son died it was still a place of happiness and solace. Tweedy the Clown, magnificent as ever. Fabulous family fun.

Am I right in thinking that Ed Davey and Zac Polanski are the only political leaders to call out Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson?

Looks legit.... I'm gonna be rich.

Elon Musk on Saturday said this to the Far Right March in London: "Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think." "The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder.” He is a disgusting and dangerous man.

Asked on #Newsnight if the murder of Charlie Kirk changed his mind on guns & if we should have them here, American David Rubin replied that there’d be more respect for free speech & more people would feel safe if they had more access to guns & felt they could defend themselves. Colossal stupidity.

As a member of GenX, I went through education learning how the world was becoming a better place, that we’d learnt from the mistakes of war & a new age of interdependence was beginning. We have gone backwards. We are so clever yet so utterly stupid. It’s so depressing. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Absolutely this. Our politicians and media are gleefully hosting America’s parasite.

One of Sir Michael Take’s best posts yet…..

36-0 second half. Awesome by the Springboks against the All Blacks. #rugby

So, Mandelson has been sacked - as he should - as our Ambassador to the US. Meanwhile Trump, who is so clearly as up to his neck in Epstein sleaze if not more, will be welcomed by the UK with open arms for his visit next week. Business as usual, then.

If you weaponise politics in a country that allows guns, weapons will be used. Utterly depressing and hopelessly sad.

Dear Sir, Imagine my surprise…..