Congratulations to the Red Roses! They played with joy and courage, with skill, heart and charisma. What an inspiring bunch.

Happy anniversary to me and Mrs K... 16 years today 🥂

STOP THE BULLSHIT!

www.tiktok.com/@true.sophie... This account is creating PayPal fraud using my image by creating an emotive story around they are losing the will to live and may commit suicide if they do not receive financial support to purchase hormones. It's a scam and disgusting. Please report this account.

I don't know who is going to be raptured, but I can tell you who's going to hell... People who post Traitors spoilers with no warning. That's who.

Last week my Taiwanese student asked me to explain left wing and right wing to him, because these concepts don't exist in Taiwanese politics. By this week he'd seen a Jordan Peterson video and was telling me how companies in the US are legally required to hire a quota of unqualified black people. 🙁

In Columbo season 8 episode 1, he says "I've never seen a trick like that guillotine trick." But he is shown exactly the same trick in season 5 episode 5. My world is shaken.

Has there been a better sitcom this decade than Mythic Quest? If so, I want to know what it is.

What's your sign?

"Why are the Lib Dems failing to get their message across? We asked Nigel Farage..."

Trump using powers he doesn't have to give a meaningless designation to an organisation that doesn't exist

Just watched the Twilight Zone episode where a psychic 6-year-old terrorises a whole town, and they keep having to say to him "it's good you did that!" even as he destroys their lives with his whims and grudges. It seemed a good analogy for the USA right now.

A helpful guide

Off to see The Valkyrie... My first experience of Wagner live. I'm partly just fascinated to see how they will get this quart of an opera into the pint pot that is the Croatian National Theatre.

Prediction: Tyler Robinson will be spared the death penalty on condition he doesn't say anything to contradict the "leftist shooter" narrative. His trial will be quick, quiet and barely mentioned in the media.

Are we seeing a new phenomenon - the brainrot terrorist?

Easy to see why the assassination of Kirk is being portrayed as a turning point. I mean, there's never been political assassinations in America before. When you think of US political history, assassination is the last thing you think of. This is clearly something entirely new.

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a Reichstag Fire.

If you're American, and you look at the aftermath of today's two shootings and think "yeah, this is a country I'm proud to raise children in," then... Fuuuuuccccckk.

Old person popping up here to point out that we all hated Peter Mandelson the first time round. He always reeked.

The 16-y-o has returned from his school sailing trip, having not only overcome his terrible seasickness but also acted as ship's cook because he was the only one of the kids who knew how to put a meal together. V proud dad here ❤️

It seems to me if you were going to fake a birthday card you would never, in a million years, come up with such a deeply weird message

Online scams run by de facto slaves in vast torture camps to prop up military dictatorships...this is the future the right wants, and is working for www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Rightwingers always miss the point of satire

The moment in The Traitors when one of the Traitors narrowly avoided being voted off as a Traitor and whispered "thank you Jesus" is the most US 2025 thing I've seen since, I dunno, last week

Imagine looking at what's happening in the US right now and thinking "we need some of that over here, that'll sort everything out"

I'm sure all the free speech warriors who have been championing Linehan's right to smear and threaten anyone he likes will be lining up to support this appeal... I mean, they will, won't they? Otherwise they're just transphobic hypocrites. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

What an obnoxious shit Linehan is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Trying to work out which is more quintessentially 2025: the millionaire CEO snatching the child's hat, or Trump ordering military jets to drown out the Epstein survivors

Very glad the Greens are going for the radical over the safe. Timid centrism is just going to deliver a Reform government... We need a third option besides the status quo or fascism.

What's really bugging me about this article is the suggestion that the destruction of local communities and small businesses is the result of some leftist global conspiracy, not the inevitable consequence of rapacious capitalism. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Thoroughly enjoyed Mobland, proof, if proof were needed, that narrative energy and charismatic performances can outweigh ludicrous plotting and preposterous accents. Hoping for season 2.

Who had "robots paid to deny medical treatment to humans" on their dystopia bingo card?

Isn't it weird how we can't afford socialism, but there's always enough money for fascism?

www.bbc.com/news/article... 13 years ago, I went through a work stress breakdown, where my cortisol levels spun out of control. They spiked and crashed for days on end, making my life a terrifying, exhausting rollercoaster. When I see chirpy, jokey articles like this, I feel weirdly assaulted.

Oh fucking great. As if it wasn't all bad enough already www.bbc.com/news/article...

Rarely has Betteridge's Law been so clearly demonstrated www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

When I went to Burning Man, dust storms were part of the experience. You just hunkered down, and waited till it was over, because you were in the desert. But then, there was no fucking airport there back in those days. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

To put the size of the “eruption of spontaneous mass protests” against asylum seekers into context, here are the average attendances this season for clubs in National League North, English football’s sixth tier …

Who could possibly have guessed that, after secret discussions and a rulebreaking move to an open prison, Ghislaine Maxwell would suddenly announce that Trump did nothing dodgy with Epstein? This unexpected news is totally convincing to me.

Drop some SWORDS

TIL that Brie Larson and Alison Brie are different people. Allegedly.

Someone was bullying my kid, so I went to see the bully to sort it out. I came back and told my kid "he wants your lunch money, you should just give it to him, he's much bigger than you." Nobel Peace Prize please.

What I love about this Blues side is that they never know when they're beaten. And Chris Davies always has ideas for changing things up when we're behind. And there's always talent to come off the bench and offer new threats. And Jay Stansfield, obvs. #bcfc #KRO

So far Blues should have had two comfortable wins over two of the Championship's biggest teams. Bizarre refereeing, and some wasteful finishing, made it a draw and a late win. But, reasons for optimism. #bcfc #KRO

Do you know what's an underrated Adam and the Ants song? "Can't Set Rules About Love", that's what

This amount of money would go halfway to ending world hunger permanently. Instead it's being spent in a single year on shitty autocompletes. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Why TF is the Guardian whitewashing this monster? Yesterday "Epstein confidante", today "British socialite". She's a sexual predator and abuser.

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