Early start on campus.

Two guards stand outside a pair of doors. One is right about everything; the other is Daniel Hannan.

Early start on campus.

A new low from the Spectator, whose edge-lord desperation now sees them arguing in favour of the creation of non-consensual sexual imagery.

Two guards stand outside a pair of doors. One is right about everything; the other is Daniel Hannan.

First lecture and seminar of 2026 completed – all about project management.

Tory MP, accepter of freebies in return for parliamentary questions, and former T*mmy Robinson Facebook fan Andrew Rosdinell joins the Reform retirement home. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is not strictly true: Mark Francois's constituency, Rayleigh and Wickford, is an anagram of 'honied garlicky dwarf'.

This is not strictly true: Mark Francois's constituency, Rayleigh and Wickford, is an anagram of 'honied garlicky dwarf'.

Worth remembering that the United States managed to lose a nuclear bomb in Greenland in the 1960s. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/e...

Saw this for the first time five or so years ago, and it's become one of my favourite films of all time.

The coward Farage has run away from a TV interview today. Sad little man.

Anthony Seldon writing in the Observer that Starmer should appoint Blair as foreign secretary, noting that appointing a former PM worked really well for Sunak… :-O

Four years ago today.

Annex Trump’s Scottish golf courses!

Well, this is entirely unprecedented: Kemi Badenoch has somehow done (or, rather, said) the right thing.

That whole idea of distancing ourselves from Europe on the assumption we’d be best buddies with the United States was really, really clever, wasn’t it?

Notwithstanding the fact that Hoey left Labour in 2019, I hope she does join Reform. She’s been a far right embarrassment for years.

(I mean, it might be just as weird seeing them portrayed in a film by a juggler or a forklift truck driver, but you know what I mean.)

Wasn’t the point of gun rights in the United States supposed to be about preventing the government from oppressing the populace?

It’s so weird seeing someone you knew being portrayed in a film by an actor.

Thirteen years ago today, my first ever visit to Brompton Cemetery, which later became the location for my interactive audio drama, As I Lag Dead.

Has Michael Carrick appointed the official Manchester United scapegoat yet, or is that something only permanent managers get to do?

The Guardian’s always dismal Dining Across the Divide column has reached its inevitable goal today in platforming a fan of Yaxley-Lennon.

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The Doomsday Machine that is our university funding system will destroy everything in the end. First it destroys individual lives, then social mobility, then most universities, followed by the structure of income tax and the pension system. In the end it could threaten to destroy the economy itself.

This is absolutely fascinating.

Thirteen years ago today, my first ever visit to Brompton Cemetery, which later became the location for my interactive audio drama, As I Lag Dead.

The Guardian’s always dismal Dining Across the Divide column has reached its inevitable goal today in platforming a fan of Yaxley-Lennon.

Heard talk of The Devil’s Sound, as endorsed by notable authors on this very site? Wondering what it’s all about? Try the teaser here. All you need is your phone, earbuds and three minutes. devilssound.ambientlab.net Kickstarter here btw: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tom...

Still laughing about Camilla Tominey’s righteous indignation at Porno Bob Jenrick lying to her.

It’s so weird seeing someone you knew being portrayed in a film by an actor.

Struggling dreadfully to get this new literature review written. #TheCorrections

Two weeks into the National Year of Dreading, and apparently I misread the title.

What is it with fascists and unearned Nobel Prizes? www.theguardian.com/culture/2002...

It’s a pretty damning indictment of the talent vacuum in the Conservatives that Nick Timothy is in the shadow cabinet. A man whose greatest career achievement to date is helping Theresa May fail to win the 2916 election from a position of absolute supremacy.

Do not be surprised if in the first days of an incoming populist radical government there is an entire raft of statutory instruments and other measures prepared and ready to go, exploiting every gap in our constitutional arrangements.

Robert Jenrick is developing an incredible habit of jumping onto a bandwagon shortly before it crashes. First as a Cameronite, then about four iterations of conservatism, as they crash out of gov and below 20% in the polls. And now he’s jump aboard Reform…

The racist party really can’t cope with scrutiny, can they?

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"Eurasia is a fraud. I’ve alway [sic] thought so, this quote proves it."

You have to acknowledge, I think, that Jenrick's history of corruption makes him a good fit for Reform.

I wonder if Jenrick asked porn baron Richard Desmod for a job first, before deciding on Reform. You know, in return for favours rendered.

Badenoch's been hinting that Jenrick was 'planning to [defect] in the most damaging way to the Conservative party and shadow cabinet colleagues'. I'm hearing it was going to be via a Masked Defector show on (K)GB News.

Oswald Mosley sacked by Always Online Kemi, eh?

Current pre-sleep activity is naming the 55 members of UEFA in alphabetical order. If I’m still awake at the end of that, I’ve started working out how many of them England have played in tournaments (excluding qualifying).

Two weeks into the National Year of Dreading, and apparently I misread the title.

BREAKING: the UK is sending a singed military officer to Greenland.

Just 43 more points and Hearts will have won the title.

Watching a first series episode of Pardon the Expression while you lot all watch your party game tv or sport. (It was rubbish, despite Arthur Lowe.)