No words can ever describe how massive the collective 2016 media’s failure of imagination was.

Yehuda Amichai's poem haunts me.

it’s quite ironic that because 5live have switched to continuous coverage of the israel/us attack on iran, they’ve had to pull fighting talk from the schedules

Turns out confirming the drunk violent TV personality who aggressively denies reality and dreams of being a crusader to head the Pentagon was a disastrous idea.

Emery's review of a particular Wolverhampton coffee shop. #avfc

Please don't let Emery drown tonight. #avfc

Morgan McSweeney’s strategy killed stone dead (or should be)

How many people need to scream this at Labour before they'll hear it? Idiots.

I know I'm unhealthily obsessed with British electoral politics for someone who doesn't live anywhere near the bloody place, but what ecstasy it is to wake up to actual *good* news about a UK by-election.

The migration doom loop at work: does anyone in government seriously think that a strategy designed to keep out skilled workers and students makes either economic or political sense? ://www.ft.com/content/7408ad00-e4eb-41c7-8849-36061bc0eac1

Video here of the 11 South African men arriving at Durban's international airport yesterday. One was in a wheelchair and he and some others hid their faces. "I have no words to describe how happy I am," one relative told News24

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

𝗦𝗖𝗘𝗡𝗘 𝗜𝗧: 𝗖𝗮𝗽𝗲 𝗧𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗮’𝘀 𝗚𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗵𝘄𝗶𝗻 𝗥𝗲𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗮𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗿𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝘁𝗼 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲 Cape Town Opera delighted with GERSHWIN IN THE PARK as part of this year's Maynardville Open-Air Festival programme. Read the full #SceneIt Review by @thismaria.bsky.social here: www.theatrescenecpt.co.za/post/scene-i...

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iambic tetrameter ass stick

Mandelson ruining be gay do crimes for everyone

Turning on R4 PM to the news of Mandelson being put into the back of a police car.... what a time to be alive!!

In the New Statesman this week, I channel just some of my hatred toward AI Hype into 900 words. On the grifters and rubes surfing a bubble atop a pyramid, and the economy-shattering fraud the rest of us can no longer escape. www.newstatesman.com/science-tech...

These Games have produced some fantastic BBC commentary, but I do think we should focus on a late entry from the closing ceremony: 'You probably saw Giorgia Meloni there, the first woman to hold the office of Italian Prime Minister... to the right she was standing, naturally.' #WinterOlympics2026

eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor is it known unto the human heart, the magnitude of hate Pope Leo has for JD Vance specifically

Truly, disastrously heartbroken for the GB men's curling team. What a lovely bunch. #WinterOlympics2026

Played about three minutes of the added five, of course. #avfc

TAMMYYYY! #avfc

Villa, please, I need to save my nerves for the curling. #avfc

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Is it weird that I've got a sudden overwhelming pizza craving?

I think it's wrong to describe the World Service as "soft power". It's actually "info power". And these days that's a very hard form of power indeed.

What better way to end a nice Valentine's Day than by settling in to watch the Vill-- Oh. #avfc

Yes! Britain leads the world in precipitous decline! #skeleton

The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it

Petition to get more South Africans to winter sporting events in both competitive and supporting capacities. 🇿🇦

Breaking news: The UK government’s contentious ban on Palestine Action under anti-terror laws has been ruled unlawful in a landmark legal victory for civil liberties campaigners. ft.trib.al/V0bk3dr

Just a few hours left for this, but it's plenty of time. Even just answering the "overall do you agree" question can be meaningful. Speak against this endless cruelty.

Looked up just in time to lipread Keith Andrews yelling 'fucking shambles' after getting booked. Fair summation.

Calling on other UK immigrants and pro immigration citizens, today is the last day (til 11.59pm) to fill in the public consultation on the proposed changes to Earned Settlement, most notably moving the timeline from 5 years to 10 years www.gov.uk/government/c...

Jim Ratcliffe, himself a migrant to Monaco to avoid paying his fair share of UK tax, and who supported Brexit which has so damaged the British economy, is yet another millionaire oligarch backing the far right to further line his pockets

Just fabulous, Mings!!! #avfc

Quick thinking from Maatsen. #avfc

Hang on, where's Mouat's cap? #curling #WinterOlympics

Isabel Oakeshott, the Mitford to Tice's Mosley, throws scoffing potshots at a principled Welsh university from her Dubai den, where she is an immigrant, but probably prefers to think of herself as an 'expat'. The worst of people.

NEW: BBC World Service faces funding cliff edge in seven weeks, says Tim Davie As trust in Russia and China’s state broadcasters grows, director general warns of the dangers of cutting back the service www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

ding dong

Just watched a 45-year-old Austrian man rip his top off, do a victory roar, and dive face-first into what has to be absolutely polar slush after snowboarding down a mountain to a gold medal. I love the Mad Olympics. ❄️

it's funny how UK politics is a war between zoomers who want to keep the welfare state for their parents and the populist right which their parents vote for

Delightful from Sancho and Rogers! #avfc

What a save from Konsa. Better safe than sorry, I suppose. #avfc

The endless column inches, YouTube videos, podcasts and more given over to the largely non-existent rightwards shift of young men is exhausting. A small fraction are getting radicalised by the online right. But most young men vote left and liberal! Even more so than millennials did at their age!

Incredible opening ceremony. 100% madness. Pure delight.

There are actually South Africans competing this year, but Canal+ has decided we'll not be seeing the Winter Olympics. 😑 DStv subscribers out in the cold as Canal+ rips 2026 Winter Olympics coverage from SuperSport www.news24.com/sport/other-...