Why should everyone else at a major event be subjected to/out at risk of gross discrimination for the sake of including one person who, while through no fault of their own, is incapable of managing their behaviour within acceptable limits?

About 50% of Bluesky is 'creators' whining that they just can't bring themselves to create today. To be honest, I suspect that the world won't miss most of it anyway.

So Reform plan to deport up to 288,000 people a year if they are elected. Conveniently, that’s almost exactly the number of registered Reform members. Let’s deport them instead. They are mostly couch potato OAPs and they really wouldn’t be missed. Job done — peace restored.

Russia has penetrated the UK and US political establishments to such an extent that we'll never find out.

Just fuck off. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Can we move on to Boris Johnson now? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

'Tis the year of misconduct in public office. . . BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ce... Lord Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - BBC News

Aliens, if you’re listening…we have the most dreadful specimen for you to probe.

I feel like we need to have a debate about the extent to which allowing someone with Tourettes to shout the N word at two black actors at the Baftas, and to not edit that out, is a 'reasonable adjustment'. I'm not convinced that it is.

In other news: Is the Pope Catholic? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why are Americans so obsessed with veterans? They haven't fought a just war since 1945.

I love this photo for so many reasons. I love that the photographer didn't remove the red eye. I love that he only has one red eye. Above all, I love the symbolism - it presents the monarchy as a dying terminator within which the lights are slowly dimming.

🚨 BREAKING: Latest images of Trump administration released.

A barnacle attached to a limpet attached to an oyster attached to the ship of state. Freeloading parasites the lot of them. #AbolishTheMonarchy www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Reading between the lines here, but I suspect Trump thinks Andrew's arrest is a sad thing. . .

Sarah Ferguson will be sweating for both of them this morning.

Whoops! On a more serious note: Whoops! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Somebody explain to me how this isn't just colouring in?

That's the way to do it! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Can we finally admit that the American dream is dead?

🚨 BREAKING: DONALD TRUMP'S EGO IS MASSIVE!!! In other news - Jesse Jackson has died.

Has Donald Trump called Jesse Jackson a 'loser with terrible ratings' yet?

🚨 BREAKING: Sam Battle named as next loser of the Eurovision Song Contest. www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Nigel Farage runs Reform. Rupert Lowe runs Restore. Maybe Starmer should change the name of the Labour party to 'Rearrange'?

There's only one shadow chancellor, and it isn't this dickhead. It's another dickhead. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Heaven forbid that we might want to 'preserve some jobs'. . . 🙄 Who the fuck do they think is going to be using their self-driving taxis when everyone has been out out of work by AI? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

And today's winner of the False Analogy of the Day prize goes to. . .

I don't recall that contemporary dance was a major part of the French revolution. I think rioting and guillotines were more to the fore.

Spin me round Spin me right Spin me round Spin me right round, baby, right round www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Thank you, fucking antivaxxers.

The UK was declared measles free in 2017. Vaccine programs completely eliminated it. Since then, pro sickness conspiracy theorists and anti science idiots have enabled its return.

Epstein and Maxwell ran a honey trap.

Dear Humans, Remember how awesome Zohran Mamdani’s campaign was? How effortlessly he destroyed his opponents whilst unapologetically championing his ideas? You can have the same thing for the presidential election if you have the courage to nominate AOC. Please 🙏 God

As American, white, Christian exceptionalism lies in the gutter it might do well to remember that it's looking at Islamic stars.

Rubio's speech was a terrifying expression of fascistic, white, Christian exceptionalism. Why is no one picking up on that? Why is everyone treating it as some kind of olive branch? It was an invitation to join a new Reich. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Ultimately, I think the most disturbing aspect of Rubio's speech is how it treats WW2 as an annoying interruption to the progress of Western colonialism. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Rubio is focused on the cold war and the fall of the USSR, he doesn't mention WW2 and fascism at all. Hardly surprising, considering how fascist this speech is. www.state.gov/releases/off...

Maybe democracy was just a phase we were going through.

I reckon it was about the time the Tea Party movement arose in America that the right wing decided they'd had enough with democracy - that it was an encumbrance to running countries in a way that directly benefitted the fascist financial elite. They've been working to destroy it ever since.

Rubio's speech reminded me of Hitler's desire to work in partnership with Britain before WW2. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This was inevitable, but is welcome nevertheless. The proscription of Palestine Action was always overreach. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is all utterly futile and only postponing the inevitable. Everyone knows that the problem is Starmer himself. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Schools are now creating 'inclusion bases' where SEND kids can go to escape busy classrooms. That's not inclusion, that exclusion. Is that really preparing SEND kids for the real world? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Lamb.

If you think that the Epstein scandal is a sex scandal, you're wrong. It's an espionage scandal. Epstein's job was to collect kompromat on wealthy and influential people in the West, which could be used later to undermine them and their governments. Just as we're now seeing.

Why do so many people on Bluesky seem to want to take the pleasure out of reading? They're either buying books by the dozen just for the sake of it, banging on about how many books they've read as if it's a competition, or smugly boasting about writing shit that nobody will ever read.

If you break the rules for one country. . . www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Some context for the Jim Ratcliffe story: 86% of UK citizens were born in the UK Only 24% of Monaco's citizens were born there. So, no, the UK isn't being 'colonised' by immigrants - Monaco is, and Jim Ratcliffe is one of the colonisers. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...