Is there some cut price Beelzebub whispering in Andy Burnham's ear every three years going no no THIS is your time yes i know i said it last time and it looks unlikely but THIS IS IT

look it sounds a tiny bit perilous but who doesn't want to fly from the glorious green hills of Croydon Airport to Le Touquet for 8 bob in 1956

Sinkholes around the world – in pictures 👉

If you were sat next to someone at dinner rambling on about not putting 80 vaccines into the delicate little body of a baby you'd be all 'shall we swap places for pudding what fun!'

is it ok to watch Only Murders In the Building now? Genuinely unsure these are the morality questions of our times

I think every single sentence of this made me laugh. It has the rare gift of being mountingly hilarious www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

couple of questions. Both begin with WHAT

I left the country and can confirm that from abroad you all look absolutely deranged. Hope everything's going ok, pls put the bins out tomorrow tks xx

very important when MP you haven't heard from for a bit hits the headlines to search for him in Nadine's big database of TORY FACTS aka her tweets x.com/NadineDorrie...

Simply cannot believe Danny Kruger would ditch the Tories for Reform this is so utterly out of character just wow

oh for fuck's sake not this lot again

What do we call this maddening thing v grand people do? Sir Richard Eyre [on R4 for it is he]: "I went to see a play called ... Hamlet, starring an actor called... Peter O'Toole"

Congratulations to @ftweekend.com readers Saoirse Ronan and Jack Lowden on the birth of their first child I have been sent this picture twice already this morning www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/ar...

Keir Starmer says Peter Mandelson "has repeatedly expressed his deep regret for his association with" Jeffrey Epstein. When asked about Epstein by the Financial Times in February, Mandelson said: "It’s an FT obsession and frankly you can all fuck off. OK?”

Regret to inform you that Washington Post publisher Will Lewis ' faces fresh questions' again www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Bagpuss will replace disgraced Jay Blades as host of the BBC's Repair Shop, it has been revealed.

Good morning, I think today I'll mainly think about how you build bridges after a two year fight which has only ended when dad gives the oldest kids $1bn each to protect the editorial integrity of Fox News.

how much to buy a hacked lime bike off a local teen

are we seriously seriously going to have a full week in London with no trains god strewth

We’re off to the races now. #ftweekendfestival

The Bull and Last have got the bacon on and check out Honey & Co!

Throwing a party for 4000 @ftweekend readers and the doors are now open!

"Like any man who self-describes as a sinful and merciless lover, this is all talk" Mr Porter absolutely deserves every word of this evisceration, no one should ever eat there.

This is wonderful from Sean Ingle on Leonard Barden, the longest serving columnist of all time and one of the greatest chroniclers of chess www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

Just been told we have sold over 3.5k tickets for tomorrow's FT Weekend Festival at Kenwood House, Hampstead. I'm not sure there are in fact any left, but here's the programme and if you're coming, say hello! I'll be the one manically greeting everyone like it's my daughter's wedding.

Lots Of Trouble. Usually Serious. on.ft.com/3HMkP10

In Our Time is one of the most popular podcasts with under 35s, R4 reveals. Can confirm my daughter (theology and philosophy) bloody loves melvyn bragg and once evaded a very bad scolding because she'd been listening to an In Our Time on St Augustine's Confessions on the shame bus home

Daughter who was raised right has sent me on the ground reporting of a man on the roof of kings cross “protesting”. Hard to say what really

Fans of Mobland who have seen the Thursday Murder Club know they exist in the same cinematic universe, the Harrigans are under deep cover and Richie faked his own death. Makes the latter way less cozy

For 90s media correspondents this is like the Oasis reunion

have you had a little bump on the head or have i

I am extremely fond of the person who got me to do this and it is a very good cause so I will do as she asks and promote it on social media even though: a) this picture is about 10 years old and b) I can't remember anything that happened. Come anyway! We'll make some stuff up!!

September 1. Shadow home secretary is just shouting paeodphiles, drug dealers and deportations on the radio at 7.20am. Welcome to autumn!

Good morning and here is your thread of FT Weekend highlights/gift links. The Weekend Essay is historian Fania Oz-Salzberger on the battle for the soul of Israel. Moderates are not giving up the struggle against their government, and progressives elsewhere must not give up on them on.ft.com/4lNCNxR

uh while you were sleeping quite a lot of X has become convinced that Donald Trump is dead.

Of all the new lows we as a nation reached in August 2025 I think "Scottish member of parliament put a secret camera in the toilets at Holyrood" is the most shaming I just can't even

I mean whatever's going on with you today, the Today programme just played out on the WHOLE of Taylor Swift's Paper Rings to celebrate her engagement and made sure to mention it was written for Joe Alwyn and you just know his parents listen to Radio 4 they are MORTIFIED

obviously the Mail is utterly deranged by MM but 'inauthentic tights' is objectively very funny

Why not illustrate your biohacking and wellness sensory activation event with a picture that looks like something Thames Water doesn't want to talk about

Just as a hypothetical could you carry on connecting extension leads indefinitely? Would anyone die/house burn down? Asking for the duty editor on the nicest day of the year, eyeing up the garden

Good morning and here, late, are your FT Weekend highlights in threaded gift link form. We begin with the Weekend Essay in which historian Timothy Snyder consider's the origins of Putin's obsession with Ukraine. Enter a danish chieftain.. on.ft.com/4fNMVFw

Might come back for flat pack Chris Martin on Monday

There are no gift links to FT Weekend highlights today due to localised engineering works over the bank holiday weekend. We apologize for the disruption your tickets are valid on all other services or you can stop in the premier inn and we’ll resume tomorrow

Well yes but 82% of Londoners will say hello to people when walking outside of London

This is your 9am confirmation that London is empty. Those of us working this weekend can have a tube carriage each and enjoy the resigned brief eye contact of the only 6 survivors of the Bank Holiday Getaway

Pete Tong has just announced on R4 that he has a DJing academy and then got cut off in a discussion about professionalism in DJing

If only there were some famous text warning of vainglorious desert-based ambition which could've given us a clue as to how hosting the Winter Olympics in Saudi Arabia would go on.ft.com/3UH13qt

Please think of the fanciest possible way you can say "we did the adding up wrong" before clicking on this link on.ft.com/47ElGes

I don’t like it I don’t understand it why must there always be change I imagine in three minutes I won’t be able to start my day without it

The asylum hotel row has got a real "ten days left to have a summer of discontent" desperation to it