I've read up on ancient Egyptian history. There's a bunch of workers gonna be buried alive.

And, perhaps inevitably, here are birthday boy Richard Chamberlain and Mary Tyler Moore in a rehearsal publicity shot for Breakfast at Tiffany's.

"Ms. Noem is devastated" is my happy thought of the day.

Reform UK policies are widely unpopular - even in Farage’s own constituency. https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/31/reforms-voters-dont-like-nigel-farages-plan-to-rip-up-workers-rights/

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has denounced what he calls Israel's "illegal invasion" of Lebanon. Speaking in Quebec, he tells reporters: "It’s an illegal invasion, it’s an invasion of Lebanon, it’s a violation of their territorial sovereignty."

'The increasingly impatient tone of Donald Trump’s social media posts (this morning blasting France as "VERY UNHELPFUL") suggests that he knows he’s in a bind.' (BBC)

Palantir, the controversial U.S. company working with ICE and the Israeli military, has access to our private data via NHS databases. We need the Government to trigger the break clause on their contract NOW. 🚨Can you sign and share? act.38degrees.org.uk/act/trigger-...

“… patently inconsistent with Israel’s international law obligations, including in relation to the right to life…”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/31/israel-death-penalty-law-international-criticism?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

He makes a persuasive case.

Oh - the irony!! "Reform's lawyers have sent the government a letter claiming the ban on crypto donations is illegal under article 7 of the Human Rights Act - the same Human Rights Act Reform have vowed to scrap" via Graham McInnes

SPRINGSTEEN IN MINNEAPOLIS: “This is still America… and this reactionary nightmare and invasion of American cities will not stand.” 🇺🇸 (From ablackpolitical)

I assume Farage, Goodwin and the others making these accusations will now retract them and apologise? From Saturday's Times.

Refukker Farage trotting out the usual Refukker lie that 'London is broken'. That's the city named the 'World's Best City' for 2026 - and for every year Khan has been Mayor. And the city with a lower crime rate than Farage's back yard of Clacton, something he's done nothing to fix.

Oh, piss off.

"Act of domination" latest

Mainstream journalists are abdicating their duty. Cartoonists are the real heroes of the moment.

Unforgiveable www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

10 years of cost, red tape, business closures, lost opportunities, emboldened prejudice, national insecurity and social division. A total waste of our time, resources and patience. But refusing to face up to that has been the most dismal part. Political cowardice and dishonesty on an epic scale.

Stunning photo: James Bradford in 1961, arrested for reading in the Jackson, Mississippi public library.

Hell Yes! 👍🏽. What say you America? 🇺🇸

Farage, Reform, the BBC and almost all UK newspapers ignore this, but always focus their anti minority hate agenda on other smaller non-white perpetrator cases. This one is massive, but is ignored by the UK propaganda machine.

TACO Trump.

NEW: Reform UK have lost their fourth Scottish election candidate in less than a week. It comes just hours after the party lost their third

Palantir’s technologies are used by the powerful to attack the powerless. This company should not be involved in our public services. Sign this petition if you agree act.globaljustice.org.uk/get-palantir...

Two pilots dead at LaGuardia. A lone controller managing two simultaneous emergencies. The FAA is 3,000 controllers short. We will blame the human. We should fix the system. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

A superb review article

I don't care what you say, #TrumpyPumpy is simply brilliant. He had the whole thing in his head and was able to talk, telepathically to the Ayatollah without the Ayatollah knowing that he was talking to him. All along, all he wanted was to clog up the Straits of Hormuz and push up the price of oil.

Why has @Ofcom allowed GB News to become the broadcasting arm of Reform UK? Chris Banatvala literally wrote the rules when he was i/c standards at Ofcom. He's on @mediaconfpod this week with @lionelbarber and me to discuss what's going on www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/podcasts/med...

Obama will always be the better man.

AGAIN: Could we not target nuclear facilities, infrastructure, & related places? this was an attack on the town not Israel’s plutonium prdxn reactor (or that’s where missile landed) and this continues to be and get really really messy. #Dimona

Here’s the thing: Cuba has been making concessions. Opening parts of the economy, talking to US businesses, and even shifting policies that had been untouchable for decades. Did it matter? Nope. Washington basically said, “Not enough.” That tells you the goal isn’t reform. It’s full control.

Who's "we" and which "people" does he speak of? I'm delighted to live in a city where people can choose to believe what they like and demonstrate it when they please just so long as they aren't intimidating anyone... which is apparently all Mr Farage can ever muster

Not enough that Reform has a 24/7 cheerleading channel (GB News)—they also get 37 mins live on the BBC, while the Greens' press conf. don’t even get a mention. Is Ofcom asleep, or selectively awake? And the BBC?Are they failing to do their jobs, or doing exactly what they’ve decided their job is?

There is something called the World Index of Terrorism. According to that, the Sahel witnessed half of the deaths related to terrorism last year. From my skimming of the article, I'm not sure how they sort terrorism-related deaths from conflict-related deaths. Militarization can be hegemonic.

Job cuts at the British Foreign Office is another wilful act of self-harm, just at a time of maximum turbulence. My piece @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nigel Faright wouldn’t want you to repost this www.theguardian.com/news/video/2...

END THIS BARBARISM www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

Things are not okay.

After Trump disses Starmer, Irish leader Micheál Martin jumps in to defend Starmer and encourages Trump to get along with him. Martin then pivots to defending Ukraine -- a country Trump also dissed earlier in the event.

‘Everywhere he went, Andrew was described as rude, arrogant, petulant, shallow, uninformed, unethical, contrary, childish and spoiled. Prince William called him a “tosser”.’ Andrew O’Hagan on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"I hate Reform and everything they stand for". Welsh grandmother doesn't hold back as she breaks down why she would never vote for Nigel Farage's party. You can see analysis and news from Welsh politics by signing up for my news letter (see comments).

"No to war... and free Palestine" Javier Bardem

just plainly evil.

The next question should be DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT ON THE SIX SERVICE MEMBERS WHO PASSED? And if he dodges that, the next question should be DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT ON THE SIX SERVICE MEMBERS WHO PASSED?

Trump claims that Somalia is a "fourth world nation" where "they shoot each other all over the place," then calls for officials to investigate Ilhan Omar because she's "here illegally" (Ilhan Omar is a citizen and duly-elected member of Congress)

All right everyone- save this quickly before they take it down! Scotland’s contribution to the U.K. exchequer is £204bn - from the U.K. government’s Scotland office! We are being robbed!

This is a terrific of a book that should revolutionise the monarchy

Don Paterson, for your Mothering Sunday

"Over the last year, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his associates have questioned the safety of childhood vaccines, made false statements about their effectiveness and rescinded recommendations for routine vaccination against a half-dozen diseases." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/h...