You need to read Mamdani’s “Mayor’s Order” repealing kids’ bedtime so they can watch the Knicks in the final. This is how to do politics with joy.

wrote about this last month! called it "a full-arsed defence of half-arsing things", thanks youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/a-full-ars...

Oh, no reason.

This is how politicians of the Labour right used to deal with the fash, btw

The anti-Trump

And… by the way, interviewer… it is absolutely not “fine” that he doesn’t know anything about anything. It’s ridiculous. Disrespectful. Irresponsible. Stupid. Embarrassing. A clown expecting power. Cos Nigel said so.

Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

I'm not religious, but I understand that angels aren't usually assigned a gender... But if a one hailed from Barnsley (unlikely, I grant you😂) I reckon she might sing like Kate Rusby. And I like to hope the great Bob Marley would have loved this cover, too 👍 youtu.be/OK5yDl0BonA?...

"Instead of getting to enjoy a planet bursting with life and love, I have to watch while the dumbest motherfuckers on the planet kill everything in their path on their quest to hoard the most amount of money possible."

👀 worth reading the article more closely i think... bsky.app/profile/seis...

Same energy.

Someone else posted this video the other day. I implore you to watch it through. youtu.be/ic0VKKE5eI0?...

“If it’s a judge that changes everything. Judges are not reflective of the population. 90% of them are white, 65% are men, by definition they’ve had a university education – that would be justice decided by a certain sector of society”

Everyone knows it was originally 'a norange' and 'a nuncle', but did you also know that it was originally 'a ninkjet printer'?

Source: French National Institute for Agriculture INRAE, Sun'Agri France, French Ministry of Agriculture, 2025.

France is partnering with Ukraine to develop and improve cruise missiles. No more tomahawk money for the US war machine This is one of the thousands of consequences the USA will feel for inflicting Trump 2.0 on the world. You are going to pay for what you did

You can be proud of your country by simply picking up some trash, or being kind to someone. Pride in place doesn’t require a single emblem or flag, it just requires you to give a shit about it.

Chinese newspaper cartoon (Today... 😂 )

Sneaking a giant screen into the flagshagger march is one of the funniest things @ledbydonkeys.org have ever done. "STAY HYDRATED" 😂🤣😂

i bought this book for my godson (itll be a few years before he can understand it), because this book left an enormous impression on me as a kid. its the first time i saw vaccination explained, as an army you inject in your body to fight off illness. i hope he gets the same pro-science vibe from it.

The sun is shining, the bike is prepared for a European Tour, not a care in the world ... Except ... #motosky #motorcycle #EuropeanTouring fliesonthevisor.com/europe-and-l...

But I was promised 50% off energy prices within a year…

@edconway.bsky.social pointing out a very common mistake that economists and statisticians make People don't experience change in neat year over year changes even if that is the preferred measurement for statistical reporting

Fantastic :)

😂 Hitch has a point

Part of a discussion with @igmansfield.bsky.social on why history teaching should *not* aim to inculcate "pride" (or, indeed, "shame"). And why citizenship is better served by recognising complexity and moral ambivalence, even in people and societies we might admire. bsky.app/profile/robe...

Prime Minister, James Callaghan, in 1978 created the bank holiday on the first Monday in May to coincide with International Workers’ Day - so enjoy your bank holiday weekend and support workers everywhere. #MayDay2026

this is quite the transcript

Great Presidential media appearances of our time.

I’ve been hearing so much anger and disappointment from frontline workers about the BBC investigation into fraudulent asylum claims. One of the most damning responses has come from one of the experts they interviewed, solicitor Ana Gonzalez. It’s really worth reading her response in full:

I have no idea how many times we have to dance this dance. It really isn’t high risk, high opportunity at all. Trump will probably be on his best behaviour. Everyone will gush. Praise as a triumph. Then a few days later Trump will forget about it. And go back to normal.

Thanks for highlighting this, Otto Sent this to Mercure Manchester. Dear Sir/Madam, I was alerted via an online campaign that you are hosting an evening with Katie Hopkins as entertainment on your premises.

Something shifted for me overnight and I can’t now “unsee” it. I think Starmer needs to go. A steady accumulation of misjudgments, in policy and personnel. Too many to blame all on poor advice, bad luck, or difficult circs. I thought he’d be a safe pair of hands; but, now I think it’s weakness 🧵.

To expand on this: Irans negotiation position seems to be (1) give up something less than JCPOA on enrichment (2) get sanctions relief (3) continue to control the strait forever. Trump has functionally 3 choices: (A) accept the deal (B) re-escalate (C) try to find other leverage.

Kevin Warsh told me he was "independent" and a "tough guy." So I asked him to name just one aspect of President Trump's economic agenda that he disagrees with. You'll never believe what he said.

Our political scale has been propagandized by capitalism to make basic empathy a radical political ideology. But it's not. The entire barometer is off & a dangerous sociopathy has been the norm for way too long. That's how we got here: being conditioned not to care about others.

10/10 So if you’re trying to understand what’s happening: Ignore the word “ceasefire” for a moment. Watch the ships. Watch the insurance. Watch the flows. That’s where the truth is. And it is more complicated than ever right now. #Hormuz #Shipping #EnergySecurity #Geopolitics

The one para version. (But do read the 2,300 or so preceding words).

Only a princess could be so finely sensitive that she would be troubled by a single pea placed under all these mattresses and featherbeds. Here’s two wonderful illustrations of her in Hans Christian Andersen’s tale ~ at L, by Gennady Spirin and at R by Edmund Dulac

So, what we should now be reading but again are not - what could a different PM be doing that might break out of this stage of UK politics which has lasted 10-18 years depending on definition. And which primarily isn't about policy but how to run the country in this moment.

Self portrait with dog

since we're doing Airport Discourse again, you may enjoy my spirited defence of them, which I wrote about in my newsletter two years ago, as a long-standing airports fan: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/thats-righ...

It’s not just the remarkable 63% who say they’d vote to rejoin the EU. It’s also the fact that this figure continues to rise slowly but steadily. Brexit has failed and is seen to have failed. And geopolitics brings Britain and its neighbours, with whom it shares interests & values, closer together.

Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.

Is Making Tax Digital going to destroy the UK tax system? www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2026/04... An inept tax system could create a massive tax backlash

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From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.