This makes me so angry. These people view all life as training for lifelong servitude/work. There's no room for interest, enjoyment, and culture in their bleak vision of education. At least she'll never be in power to see it through. Though Reform are probably worse.

A very aspirational display in the window of a local charity shop

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Keir Starmer is hard to take seriously when he can’t directly call out racist comments.

You know who doesn't integrate? People like Robert Jenrick. You think he works out at the local leisure centre? Goes to the Tuesday night pub quiz? You think his golf club lets anyone play? Or his private members' clubs let anyone in? He puts the ick in prick

Let's make hope normal again. youtu.be/qxt4HCjd7VA?...

Greta Thunberg will be in history books. never stop Greta. you are a beacon of hope. More guts than every leader in this world.

Finally watched “Paterson”. Lovely film. I get to most things eventually

So, this is wonderful www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTfc...

Always had a soft spot for Jilly Cooper after writing to her aged 15 saying I wanted to be a writer. She wrote back with the tip "make descriptions interesting. Don't just say 'she had blue eyes and long blonde hair, say she had Cambridge blue eyes and long blonde hair like an Afghan hound."

Now we've got to this insane point, Labour must rename themselves something that will appeal to soft-right voters who don't want mass deportations yet will never vote Labour. Because if the left don't win the argument, this shit will actually happen on UK streets. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Dude on Facebook says he heard Tom Waits the other day and comments "god he sounded old". Mate if you think Tom Waits sounds old now you should've heard him 50 years ago

daughter just told me every Friday her class has a “burial” for the pencils too small to be sharpened anymore 😭😭 one of her classroom jobs is to give the eulogy 😭😭 THERE IS A SMALL COFFIN 😭😭😭😭

This is grim & dangerous over reach. This is a government that have lost the moral argument & are still selling arms to Israel. Now further cracking down on dissent. Absolutely the opposite of what they should be doing - so of course this is what the Labour Government choose.

Net Zero is not just the solution to, you know, unliveable temperatures and deadly climate impacts. It's also the solution to the problems of high energy prices and dependency on corrupt/unstable/murderous petro-regimes. It means real freedom. No wonder the right hates it so.

Blustery day, isn't it? Here's the National Grid: Live generation data. Wind and solar are generating 74.2% of our electricity. Gas is generating 13.1%. And yet our household electricity prices are pegged to... the volatile price of gas. Which is the basis on which the right attacks... renewables.

“Select all squares containing J D Salinger books” - CAPTCHA in the Rye.

Free Greta Thunberg and the rest of the illegally detained flotilla activists.

Chair of the Metropolitan police federation Paula Dodds said “We are emotionally and physically exhausted. What are politicians and senior police officers going to do about it?” Well boo hoo, why not take the initiative and just stop making the arrests… www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are 🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally 🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face 🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose #r4today

Had the government said "as a mark of respect, we'd like you to cancel football matches, concerts etc AND protests today", then fair enough. But to single out the protest they've long wanted to stop anyway as the one thing we should not do looks like disgraceful exploitation of a horrific attack.

Currently at: — only buy tech too old to have AI built in — painstakingly disable AI every time they add it to something that used to work perfectly well — if it can't be switched off, abandon the platform or tool — if there are no good alternatives, avoid the AI parts — patiently wait for the crash

Not saying Ice are stupid, but they arrested a guy for possession of “opium” which was actually the perfume. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I don’t feel there are enough levels of alert notifications personally, I think we also need “perilous alerts”, “unpleasant alerts”, “exacting alerts”, and “quite bad alerts”

Nobody wrote like Victoria Wood, and Patricia Routledge delivers this sublimely. RIP both.

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Such a weird article. If you’re paying over a fiver for a coffee you’re more of a mug than the beverage. Haha see what I did there ☕️ Also Pizza Express pizzas are not £25 each, behave. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rachel Reeves Gets Out And About! #labour #conservatives

The Starmer government is REALLY running scared of this petition, now at 2.75 million, to the extent that it has responded 3 months early, in a transparent attempt to spike it. So please, under no circumstances should you sign it and share it widely. Starmer & his boss McSweeney would not like it.

A good reminder, on Bandcamp Friday, that buying a musician's work for a few quid is an infinitely better return for them than you streaming it. And you then own it!

#nationalpoetryday youtu.be/iGeIusN-avE?...

I would much prefer life giving me lemons over everything currently going on is it too late to sign up for the lemons?

My new book of science cartoons, PHYSICS FOR CATS is out in a week! Order a copy today from you local bookshop or at one of the links here: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

Utterly grim secret filming of racist, violent and misogynistic Met police on BBC1. The undercover reporter must have balls of steel. Don’t much fancy his chances around town after this 😳

There’s a musician bloke on Portrait Artist of the Year whose songs have apparently had six billion streams on Spotify. I just hope he doesn’t spend that £16.50 revenue all at once.

I get a monthly invoice for a web service totalling $0. This is weird enough but what seems weirder is being invoiced for zero items at $1 each. I could sort of understand being invoiced $0 for an item I’ve used, but it seems unfair to be billed for something I haven’t, even if it’s free…

Weird ghost Teams meeting with manager, who is on holiday. They hadn’t cancelled it, and I couldn’t be sure they wouldn’t be there regardless. When the meeting started, I couldn’t believe it. But when I joined, manager wasn’t there. It was that shitty AI notes app that had started it.

Does anyone know how to relax

People always say "stop doomscrolling," nobody ever says "stop the Doom" Doesn't even cross their minds.

“He moved, spoke, gestured and breathed as if he knew for certain that behind the drab winter clouds a different kind of sky was waiting, and that beneath the exhausted and frost-bitten ground lurked every imaginable flower.” apple.news/AFXfwny7ZTti...

This is sad. Saw him read and talked to him a couple of times. My hero back in the day when I was writing poetry. RIP. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

This whole section really.

It's ludicrous. They have a huge majority and they're nearly 4 yrs out from at GE yet they're allowing the media and Farage to control the narrative as if the election is in November. Stop dancing like marionettes to the pied cunt of Clacton's tune and get on with running UK PLC.

120 metres per second? That’s quite a claim (May not have read this headline correctly)

Another bunch of spineless tech nobbers www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Nicked this from Ian McMillan, who’s still propping up the nice corner of the other site. Wish I could be there. “Bottomless crunch” is gold

Just fuck off with this. How about start the conversation by highlighting how much immigrants contribute to the UK - not least by propping up the NHS and social care system! Also - forced volunteering is not volunteering, it's unpaid labour.