Is anyone- apart from the Swiss and Colombians - watching this?

He’s resigned! How could the people of Clacton tell? #dorothyparker

Sitting in my garden as final whistle went and on cue a blackbird started to sing. A new dawn!

Cape Verde - woo! What a performance Within a gnats rizla paper of a win!

Grappling with AI and development. A new report from UN Foundation @clairemelamed.bsky.social @paulladd.bsky.social s3.amazonaws.com/media.unfoun...

Govt refuses to release impact assessment of uk us drugs trade deal www.bmj.com/content/393/... But health econs at York have estimated NHS costs and potential deaths. www.york.ac.uk/media/che/do...

@ezrakleinbot.bsky.social interviews a ‘reasonable racist’ (my term) - Chris Rufo. ‘What’s wrong about questioning immigration policy and DEI?’. Well, where do u start?! Good but frustrating interview. www.nytimes.com/column/ezra-...

KAAAAAAAANNNNNNEEEE!

Think they need a dehydration break #playingintherain

If u missed this, I’d recommend a listen (coi: I’m a trustee of @resonancefm.bsky.social - but even if I wasn’t, I’d recommend!) www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Just had to put phone in fridge for a bit as refusing to charge as too hot. #theweather

Shorts on, past midnight, in a garden, a cat flaked out trying to wish away her fur. Could be on holiday, but actually in north London.

Frustrating from England

Two tier standards from Farage (h/t @privateeyenews.bsky.social )

Brilliant!

This'll be good, I expect. In the halcyon days of the 12Bar club when Resonance was based in Denmark Street I was there quite a bit. One day I found myself doing improvised hammered dulcimer accompaniment for Ken Campbell in one of his marvellous monologues, live on air...

This was an excellent programme about @resonancefm.bsky.social FM A radical (and award winning!) community radio station doing its stuff for over two decades. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Not much talk of tactical voting in Makerfield? Green and Lib Dem minute - tactical to keep out reform?

I was an early Resonance DJ when it broadcast to five streets in Soho. Great job.

A fox, a bin and our next PM (?) keeping them apart.

Eggpod Express, an excellent follow-up to @chrisshaweditor.bsky.social ‘s Beatles-focussed I Am the Eggpod. A review of music papers from the 1960s. audioboom.com/channels/494...

Home of b3ta radio which we did for a year in about 2004, and offered up a weekly downloadable MP3, before anyone called these things podcasts.

A history of Resonance FM with Stewart Lee, tomorrow at 8pm BBC Radio 4! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

US Sec of WAR Hesgeth again complaining that non-US NATO countries not pulling their weight re defence spending. But I can’t find a proper purchasing power parity adjusted comparison (as opposed to simple %gdp) for NATO countries. Anyone? @timharford.ft.com @ldfreedman.bsky.social

Yep!!!

DRC ! Woo!

Who wins as a result of the EHRC trans code? Nobody. Nobody at all. None of this has any meaning whatsoever. It is just a needless act of administrative bother and political self-harm. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Re yourBBCR4 prog: www.bmj.com/content/356/...

Gawd, there’s so much guff talked about art. Hockney painted (I will not use the word *made*) some nice pics … er, that’s it (EJ Thribb)

What a result for Cape Verde vs Spain!

Look fwd to govt analysis of the full costs and benefits (and their distribution) of this ban. But not holding my breath.

Such stupid knee-jerk policymaking fuelled by moral panic and ignorance www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Sixty years on… look what 1966 did to me ⚽ Get your own '66 look: that66look.co.uk/look/e34d4cb...

I realise it won’t change anything for me to say how much I condemn the hateful racist thugs in Belfast (and elsewhere) but need to say it anyway. Also, can everyone stop using ‘legitimate concerns’; fuck that justifying phrase, it’s just plain racism.

Such a brilliant pic of Hockney and Freud! Ripe for a caption competition!

Like this pic (by Linda McCartney?) of Paul McCartney driving up Tufnell Park Road and reflected in rear view mirror. Boston Arms in the distance and distinct lack of trees.

Played this with one of m’son’s the other day….

Trump’s regime tried to sue a jazz drummer for $1 million because his conscience wouldn't let him perform under Trump's name. A judge just threw the case out and ordered the regime to pay HIS legal bills instead. Read this incredible victory: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

Date for your BBC R4 diary!: Stewart Lee fronts prog about Resonance FM (of which i’m a trustee) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Coming soon to BBC Radio 4… Stewart Lee on @resonancefm.bsky.social

The Mandelson documents published today by the Government are awkward to browse and there's no search. We've just published a simple search engine that lets anyone search through the documents taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/06/01/m...

Found Mcfadden’s (taxes n benefits) comment in Mandy files fairly unexceptional yet seems to be something journos picking up on (possibly cos very little else in docs released?)

Cats are strangely aloof and needy at the same time. Had to provide this one with a cushion near me to quieten her plaintive creaky meows as couldn’t accommodate her on my my lap while reading

Fact update: is welfare spending out of control? #QTWTAIN

Good thread from @torstenbell.bsky.social critiquing Blair’s analysis. (Also clearly articulated on BBC PM prog this evening @evanhd.bsky.social )

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... What happens when AI goes to war? Enjoyed making this with @alekskrotoski.bsky.social for our show #TheArtificialHuman on BBC Radio 4.

Is she asking me to turn it on? I suspect not

@sodajerker.bsky.social … interesting play (involving ray davies) www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

@clairemelamed.bsky.social are we that far off from an AI winning the Fields Medal? There must be AIs working on the Riemann Hypothesis….