An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

It's probably time European journalists wrapped their heads around Heat Index (temp + relative humidity). In high humidity, sweating is less efficient, making heat worse, e.g.: Experiencing 35°C in London UK (70% RH) is more dangerous than 50°C in Phoenix Arizona (15% RH)

Oh this is very good indeed. Exactly how to do the trailer. Lean hard into the A24 vibe. Oh yes. BRILLIANT WORK, YOU CLEVER PHANTOMS! youtu.be/enE6YJoy-n0?...

Over on Truth Social, Trump says Starmer is gone 👀

I just learned that the creator of Widow’s Bay is the person who was dressed as the Babadook at the adults drinking Halloween party

Time for me to repeat one of my ‘sayings’. If you try to solve a problem by passing a law, but people don’t obey the law, you now have two problems where you used to have one.

“Your politics A-Level project is to research on the internet about the effectiveness of a ban for 16-18 year olds researching on the internet.”

The same employers who witter on about young people lacking the basic social skills, see nothing wrong with not bothering to tell job applicants that they have not been successful. www.ft.com/content/2af1...

Almost all the excitable coverage I've heard of Musk becoming a trillionaire has failed to mention his enthusiasm for fascism, and his actual fomenting of racist violence on our streets a few days ago. Does nothing mean anything anymore? I feel like I'm going mad.

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Revolutionary British artist David Hockney dies aged 88

The biggest lie the James Bond films sold wasn’t any of the stuff about hot spies, magic cars or poorly made cocktails, it’s that there was a government organisation willing to drown insane billionaires in a vat of radioactive coolant for the betterment of humanity.

I don't know how Keir Starmer can wake up in the morning, see that pogroms have been taking place under his watch, that they are being fuelled by literal illegal activity on social media, and not make it his entire purpose to stop it. We know you're no politician, but are you not a lawyer?

Belfast last night is the future for the U.K. some people want. The political voices condemning it so far seem to be mild and weak. We need a wall of outrage from people of influence to make it crystal clear that this is not who we are and will not be tolerated.

Sad to hear Marjane Satrapi, author of this extraordinary memoir, has died

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Zia Yousuf isn’t even an MP.

Happy Pride!

hope you enjoyed the equality act 2010 while it lasted folks

My spoiler-free is up now on Womansplaining and it won't cost you a penny read. TLDR: Like being hit by a truck. 5 stars.

It’s Pride month. Remember, twatheads, your discomfort at other people not being you is your own developmental problem to address and overcome within yourself, not society’s problem to police on your behalf. Have fun!

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Liverpool can confirm Arne Slot is to depart his role as head coach with immediate effect and that the process to appoint a successor is under way.

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

Football trouble or Early Modern intrigue?

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

I've been ranting about this for MONTHS Every single penny that's stolen by AI is a penny that ends up in a tech bro's offshore account instead of circulating in the local economy We are simply not ready for what's coming by that money being funnelled upwards instead of staying in our pockets

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Every trans-supporting cis person in the UK needs to make peace with becoming more annoying, persistent, and pedantic than they ever thought possible. EHRC guidance is full of contradictions - they're relying on transphobic compliance out of fear. DON'T GIVE IT TO THEM

For business owners, the important part of the new ECHR advice is this: 13.179: There is no type of official record or document in the UK which provides reliable evidence of sex. [...] Therefore, it is unlikely to be proportionate or practical to ask for further evidence of a person’s sex.

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

this is a masterpiece

The professor will see you now: Mo Salah, Liverpool and the parasocial contact hypothesis ✍️ Philip Cowley

Bit of context for you. The national broadcaster, ÖRF, recently subsumed in scandal as the Große Käse was caught sending Penisbilder (translation: dick pics). Fun! #Eurovision

We do always note it, but it really is fascinating to look back on the anti-gay marriage arguments and how strikingly similar they are to transphobic ones, and how many people have wilfully tried to memory hole that.

Think before everyone leans any further into the whole "King in the North" thing for Andy Burnham they should probably look up how that worked out for Ned And Robb once they went south...

A new far-right terror attack in the UK has been confirmed in court. Alina Burns, then 18, tried to behead an Iranian refugee who was standing outside a barber's shop in Bristol with an axe The attack took place on 2 August 2025 but a judge did not rule on 'terrorism connection' until today

i like this photo where it looks like you've interrupted t.s. eliot and virginia woolf in the middle of planning your murder

A cause for national shame. This is the Rainbow Map for LGBTI+ rights across Europe. Until 2015, the UK was top. We've now collapsed down the rankings - and are the worst in Western Europe. We're now near Albania.

"I don't want to be Prime Minister but we can't let Wes Streeting be Prime Minister" is a message I can back.

The Daily Star have bought another lettuce 👀

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

This may be my favourite argument ever advanced by a politician:

Joanna Cherry is either ignorant or dishonest about what lesbians actually think about trans people.