Omid Djalili must be so pissed off that he missed out on performing in apartheid South Africa.

Well, she ought to know. . . www.theguardian.com/media/2025/n...

Another criminally underrated and misunderstood film. Witty, self-aware and with some cracking performances - especially Stanley Tucci.

See! You elect a communist Luke Zohran Mamdani and this is what happens!

They sound like hostages to me. . . www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

What a state London is in! This is all Sadiq Khan's fault!

This extraordinary photo - Trump mindlessly and emotionally oblivious to the plight of someone fainting in his own office while others rush to help - would instantly terminate the rule of a leader in any other democratic country. America has accepted the unacceptable.

Interesting article about how the extreme is becoming mainstream, mediated by social media and the internet. In the old days, someone spouting extremist views down the pub would probably have been met with a swift, "Don't be a dick, Barry". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

What's a film that you love which you think has been criminally underrated and misunderstood? Here's one from me:

I watched Weapons the other night. I enjoyed it, though thought it took too long to get going. What really annoyed me was how the children attacking the witch in the final scene didn't run with their arms stretched out.

“The billionaire class has sought to convince those making $30-an-hour that their enemies are those earning $20-an-hour. They want the people to fight amongst ourselves so that we remain distracted from the work of remaking a long, broken system.” -Zohran Mamdani

This really annoys me. I asked for a Vice Admiralship on my birthday but didn't get one. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Michelle Mone and her husband should be in prison. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This is such ass-backwards 🤡 💩 「 centrist 」 is not a position it’s a declaration that you have none and blow with the wind. Just have a fucking moral compass and principles stop trying to be in between what you imagine are poles People need to be made fun of for this nonsense not lauded for it.

Huh, turns out socialism wasn't dead after all.

Both London and New York now have Muslim mayors. How do you like them apples, Trump and Farage?

Reform just offer a continuation of the same, failed, Tory policies. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

One of the more uncomfortable aspects of Mamdani's victory, as far as mainstream Democratic politics is concerned, was his refusal to privilege minority groups over the needs of the neglected majority of working people. He didn't sideline them, he just didn't privileged them.

This is getting beyond coincidence. I suspect this is being done deliberately to embarrass the government. I suspect the hand or Reform. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Prisons: underfunded and privatised by the Tories. Home office: underfunded by the Tories. Courts: underfunded by the Tories. Prison transport: privatised and underfunded by the Tories. Everything that's going wrong: privatised and underfunded by the Tories.

Mamdani won by doing exactly what I've been arguing Labour and the Dems should do: abandon neoliberalism, put forward popular socialist policies that focus on the needs of the majority of working people.

Mamdani's victory shows that democratic socialism is still a viable abs popular alternative, if sold with conviction and skill. People are desperate for a left-wing alternative to the failed neoliberal experiment. They just need the opportunity to vote for it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Trump is so bad he even made Dick Cheney vote Democrat.

I'll shed no tears for Dick Cheney. Good riddance. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

OK, racist scum, put that in your cognitively dissonant pipe and smoke it! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Those Brexit benefits they voted for keep on coming! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Good. And cue 'free speech' advocates campaigning for the 'right to choke'. . . www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

I genuinely don't get how smart video doorbells are supposed to remove worry. Surely they make you fucking paranoid and fearful? No, when I'm not at home, I DON'T want to know every time someone's at the door!

Elon Musk is basically just another racist white South African. Spitting Image was right.

Post a book you love from the 80s. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. #BookSky #bookchallenge #readingchallenge #readingcommunity #booktok #bookish #books

I'd somehow missed this fascinating study. Anyway, here it is:

Pardon me for asking, but shouldn't he be arrested and tried for rape and paedophiia? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I was at a John Adams concert last night in which Pat's Aria from Nixon in China was performed. Adams spoke movingly about this beforehand, highlighting how its final lines gave him some hope for his country: "Bless this union with all its might, let it remain inviolate." spotify.link/yONsSKDlUXb

When the final move to dictatorship comes, I suspect it will come quickly and catch most Americans by surprise. My guess is the mid-terms, but it could happen this November. The House is already suspended, government shut down, and top officials living under protection.

Defending civilisation is not 'bias'.

Human beings are far from rational.

The Andrew formerly known as Prince.

If you were under the impression that America doesn't have an empire - here's South Korea having to ask their permission to build a nuclear submarine. . . www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"Give me a Nobel peace prize or I'll destroy the fucking world," says Trump. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Morning. . .

So, the US government is shut down and the House is shut down. How is America a functioning democracy? Isn't it a dictatorship already?

What is the triumph that Trump's arch is supposed to celebrate? www.bbc.com/news/article...

In the 'breaking the ceasefire' stakes, I really don't think that returning the rest of a body competes with massive airstrikes. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🚨 BREAKING: World peace continues. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

🚨 BREAKING: Sarah Pochin is an ugly racist, according to rumours. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...