Imagine the total increase in human happiness if we just banned Instagram

The translation on BBC News has broken down so the Central Europe correspondent is doing a simultaneous translation of Magyar's speech, which is pretty impressive

It is absolutely incredible that HMRC thought (and still thinks) that it is acceptable to tell every sole trader in the country that they have to file digitally, but that HMRC isn't providing any means to do, that you probably need to get some software from somewhere, and that it sucks to be you.

As a world-class skiver, I am going to stake my claim as the originator of Work From Oval, because I mentioned the idea to @jim.londoncentric.media on the last day of the SA test in 2022, and then he went on the Surrey podcast and talked about it, and now it's an officially sanctioned thing

Accidentally left The Apprentice on the telly and it is INCREDIBLE how dumb this TV show is. This is cancerous television.

I'm co-organising this as a nice little project. If any of you journalists or content types are interested in writing about it, LET'S CHAT. "We're all getting priced out of live sport, but I went to watch Kent play at Beckenham and they let me take in a box of wine" is a good lifestyle angle imo

This feels unwise, given that if Corbyn successfully sued Hat Trick Productions (who run this account), it could possibly bankrupt them

@jim.londoncentric.media lmao

This is a good piece. We simply accept 1000s of unnecessary deaths because we won't force all of us who drive to accept we have a dangerous machine in our hands. And then fail to enforce that fact as police have basically stopped policing the roads. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

2. Bundesliga relegation battle is currently one for the hipsters (17 and 18th go down automatically, 16th plays-off against the team potentially coming up)

There's a bit in the new series of The Parisien Agency where a Singapore-based commodities trader says real luxury is living like a Greek peasant fisherman, and... Man, rich people are so weird

I am once again asking whether the Guardian's chief theatre critic is on drugs www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/a...

Netflix is really missing a trick not having streams where stuff like Seinfeld and The Office is playing on a constant loop, and we could all just periodically tune in and half-watch together

*extremely Bluesky voice* What everyone's not thinking about is what this means for the steel beam melting industry

I've just seen a car honk at a bike for *not* going through a red light, now I really have seen everything

Stray thought: now SNL UK is a success and will probably be with us for a while, I wonder if it's going to be accompanied by a deluge of pay-to-play improv comedy courses for young people who dream of being on SNL UK?

Moderately interesting how much better Iran is at this than China

PSA: Sony One Comedy TV (I dunno either, it's 4160 on my Freeview) has seemingly turned into the 24 hour Seinfeld re-run channel. (And it's all in 4:3, if you care about that kind of thing, which you should)

There are many absurd things that we've become blind to, but perhaps the biggest is Volodymyr Zelenskyy leading Ukraine (successfully?) in a war against Russia. Imagine David Mitchell being the wartime Prime Minister of the UK combating an invasion from the USA. And here we are. What a world.

Overweight, overpriced, overheated: if anyone out there is in the market for a 12-ton metaphor for Boris Johnson’s contribution to British national life, you’re in luck.

As you come home this evening and marvel how light it still is, your reminder that we could've had this for weeks if we weren't so in hock to Big Time

Surely I’m not the only one who thinks this whenever they see a map of The Strait Of Hormuz on the news?

I might be going mad, but when you pronounce the word "scene"... Is there a subtle difference in pronunciation between when you're talking about a "film scene" and when you're talking about, say, a "skateboarding scene"?

Skimread this and legitimately thought it was about McSweeney lmao

It remains incredible to me that we do not recognise just how much almost everything in life has changed over the last 30 years. "Oh but AI is the real change" doesn't help much when your football watching is profoundly upset by global markets

Indeed. My continuing contention is that at the very least the cost of living crisis is only as important as the impact on life of the most intense period of change *ever*, and that it might well be the case that the latter is actually more important to general discontent.

Really loving the Green's whole "don't tell people their lives are going to be rubbish and they just have to accept it" approach. Now *that* is political strategy

I've just learned that the biggest star in Mexican lucha libre is currently a German called El Grande Americano and, really, we should all be watching much more wrestling

Being interested in history might be the best mental health hack out there, because you can go "this sucks, but at least I'm not living anywhere in the world in literally any era before 1945"

Interesting things about the SNL UK reaction from someone who didn't watch it: - The grudging tone of some of the praise is hilarious - The clipped sketches don't seem to be ones people actually liked - All of the parasitic TikTokers dragging it are getting bodied in the comments

The Culture Wars are weird, because if you read about them in a history book you'd think they were fascinating and exciting, rather than tedious and incredibly fucking boring

The Calum Scott version of Dancing On My Own is infantile wank because the entire point of the song is the juxtaposition between the music being upbeat and the lyrics being very very sad #comicrelief

Very cool that the US started a war against Iran and now Iran appears to have all the leverage. Much Great Man, very Bismarck

It's disappointing to see the Morocco / Senegal story reported as "lol AFCON" and not "this has a very heavy stench of match fixing and corruption". A real failure of journalism to not at least be asking the basic questions

Half-formed thought: Scottish and Welsh nationalisms get to be cool and progressive because they're defined against Englishness (punching up), whereas Englishness often ends up hateful and exclusionary because it's defined against former colonies (punching down). [1/2]

This screams "Anglo-American tug of war in the writer's room"

With CAF overturning the AFCON result and handing the title Morocco, I'm absolutely shitting a brick about the 1966 World Cup

I see this incredibly suspicious football match has had its result changed in a way that is not remotely suspicious at all www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Slippery at the Clapham Omnibus is the best bit of new writing I've seen in a long time, really highly recommended: www.omnibus-clapham.org/slippery/

This is quite some achievement for a mayor who supposedly doesn't do anything. I expect history will be much kinder to Khan than his current reputation. Clean air and a pedestrianised Oxford Street will be more than any other London mayor has achieved

@dulwichhamletfc.bsky.social Hello! Is there an opportunity to submit questions for Thursday's fan forum? I can't see any emails about it, and there's been little news on social media

The internet has done unspeakable things to syntax and headlines

It is absolutely mad that Rod Liddle continues to be employed

I wish English people were less cunty about their national rugby team like the French are about theirs send not-tweet

When you've absolutely definitely seen boobs before

What is the Streisand Effect? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Three years in China learning Mandarin, and it was all worth it to be able to go to a Sichuan restaurant in London and say "don't give me white-people-spicy, give me the good stuff"

Anyone have a guest link to this so I can know exactly how broke I'm going to be?

It's fun not being on the internet all day, because then you come back and see people are arguing about patriotic animals and realise "this is dumb, why do we all do this?"

You may not have thought it was possible to use a fire in Glasgow to stoke hatred and push a remigration-adjacent agenda while also, er, attempting to sell nicotine pouches to racists, but it turns out it apparently is!