Surely the worst crime committed by the leader of a UK political party. Horrendous.

You may disagree, or rightly point out that consequences matter far more than motives, but my take is that the driver of the most morally repugnant decisions Starmer took was cowardice rather than malice. Maybe that's actually worse. The damage weak men can do.

A forensic demolition of Michael Grade's nonsense about how @Ofcom should be regulating @GBNEWS from two senior people who worked at the regulator and actually know what they're talking about www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I agree with all of this 👇 and at the time I thought it was a low point. For me, that - and the island of strangers - defined him as a person and a politician. I’m immune to the current ‘decent man’ pageant the media is crafting for him.

Good that he has announced his resignation Not so good that he is not leaving today

Just loving the ode to joy Starmer resignation background music

Reading some of the reports of Starmer's evolving thinking this weekend, it does feel a lot like his team imagined more people would come out in support of him because, well, he must have a faction, right? He's the prime minister.

Daddy will explain about these stones.

A form of cultural vandalism

People gathered in Beirut in memory of beloved turtle conservationist Mona Khalil, killed in Israeli attack.

If the bloke wielding a knife and attacking passersby was a Muslim all today's rolling news and political programmes would be coming live from the streets of Edinburgh and Farage's ugly mush would be on every show.

This is Nazi imagery. Everyone who has read in any depth about the occupation of eastern Europe will have seen this sort of photograph. ‘Robinson’ endorses Nazi methods for Nazi reasons.

What *is* the point of public funding if it's not to subsidise things we need but commercial broadcasters won't do?

AI has started blocking the Wayback Machine from chronicling the web. Considering that nearly 40% of websites disappear after 10 years, this will enforce a giant loss in collective memory.

Labour won by 20 points and net immigration is down by over 80% in two years. But sure write your column again.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

1/ Ukraine's attacks against bridges, ferries, and logistics in Crimea have virtually cut off the peninsula. Russian warbloggers are reacting with anger and dismay. "Crimea has become an island," one admits. "Are we tolerating it?", demands another. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/spec...

In the news, two very risky stretches of water, both of which are closed, a declining regime unable to control the meaning of either of them.

Took this video of a guy getting detained and a citation for putting his hand in the water an hour ago.

Tuesday, June 24th, I'll be in a virtual conversation with philosopher Martin Peterson for @resistanceschool.bsky.social. He is resigning from his position at Texas A&M over the university's decision to bar him from teaching parts of Plato's foundational texts. Here is his resignation letter.

I've lived through over 40°C (104°F) weather before, and let me tell you, not having AC at those temps can put healthy young ppl in the ER. The decision not to invest massively in AC is a de facto mandatory euthanasia program for a portion of the old and sick.

I see we are still encountering difficulty using the T word when it comes to violent racist rampages by white men

alright, who did this? #hatm

A man has been running around stabbing people on the streets of a UK city and large elements of the nation’s media are strangely not interested The Mail ranks a story about Gordon Ramsey’s daughter being pregnant higher. The Telegraph is more interested in a voracious pufferfish. I wonder why?

"She used to talk about the beach like it was a person. Her bond to the sunset, her bond to the water and the turtles….she was really into conservation, and into the soul, the spirit of conservation." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

because this is the function of the US media class and their bosses, same as it was with Obama, same as every wildly bigoted right winger gets cast as palatable and wholesome rather than a weird freak, it is *what they do*

This story currently leads BBC Scotland. But down here in London you have to scroll all the way down past the London news, the World Cup, whatever the BBC calls its Reels equivalent, more World Cup, weekend picks and 'lazy summer recipes' to the 'around the UK' to see it

Four people in hospital after knife attacks in Edinburgh. An arrest made. BBC report say man shouted about "protecting the country". Sone signs the attacks near a mosque at petrol station & pizzeria may have had anti-Muslim or anti-migrant/minority motives (tbc) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tyumen Airport in russia is closed to due drone threat (scare?) 2200km from Ukraine

A lot has changed in the Russian-Ukrainian war. Let's sum it up: 1. Europe has replaced the US in finances & arms deliveries. Ukraine's financial situation is better than Russia's. Ukraine has better arms than Russia. 2. Ukraine has got rid of harmful US military advice & restrictions. /1

She says and does the bare minimum.

Antonio Guzmán Capel (Spanish Hyper-Realist Artist born in Tetouan, Morocco in 1960) "Cat and Lizard", 2021. Oil on Canvas, 46 × 38 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt #catlover #caturday

Oh, they’ve fallen out

Very funny

Where’s Andy Burnham going?

It looks like Russia is ramping up covert mobilization: Reports are emerging from several Russian regions about raids conducted by military enlistment offices and police, involving document checks and the detention of draft-age men directly on the streets

"Emerges"

46 degrees… This stopped being funny a long time ago.

A trail of destruction. Imagine their reaction if Obama had done even one of these things.

1/6 Two conversations within 5 mins yesterday brought home the scale of the challenge any decent government now has dealing with far right propaganda. The first conversation was with a kind & friendly dog walker terrified of the asylum seekers held at the former military camp at Crowborough.

Many people have rightly said that our electoral system doesn't work for a 5/6/7-party system. And(boo-fucking hoo) REFUK is learning this the hard way. You can lead national polls and be notionally on course for a Pmentary majority, but if majority of Britons know you're a c*nt, you're unelectable.

Next step. White only bathrooms in the Pentagon. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...

Juneteenth reminds us that freedom is hard fought, but guaranteed when we organize and refuse to back down. The work is not done. Today, we celebrate Black American resistance and resilience, and recommit to the transformation required to deliver real equity and justice for all.

Quel enfer ! L’anomalie thermique moyenne sur une semaine continue de pulvériser tous les plafonds, atteignant désormais +10.00°C à l’échelle nationale. C’est très largement au-dessus de la canicule d’ordre millénaire de mai 2026. 1/2

1/ Russian warbloggers have identified a new enemy in the aftermath of the Ukrainian drone attacks in Moscow: migrants, who have appeared in many videos of the strikes. They are calling for severe punishments of those who have violated the government's censorship regulations. ⬇️

Zelenskyy on Lukashenko Belarus 🇧🇾 "On his territory, along the two regions bordering Ukraine, there is equipment that adjusts fire on our people. He should remove that equipment. I think a week is enough for him to do that. If he doesn’t do it, we will.

“Nepomaxxing” is great term. Though I fear every age has been an age of nepomaxxing.

A 22-year-old just got a $30 million investment valuing his new futures exchange at $300 million. He graduated Stanford, wrote for Thiel's Stanford Review, interned at Andreessen Horowitz. His mom? Pro-crypto Sen. Gillibrand, D-NY. Bipartisan capture in full bloom. fortune.com/2026/06/18/t...

This is absolutely deranged. He is promising genocide in Lebanon to ‘avenge’ the death of an illegally-invading soldier.

i'm getting a bit annoyed with this "starmer didn't do anything" narrative ❌️ sweeping changes to the immigration system ❌️ biggest asylum reforms in 70 years functionally ending refugee status ❌️ moved from a reasonably tolerant regime to the most trans-hostile developed democracy