Quizzical Eyebrow

It's become a running joke in the world of Tour de France commentary, broadcast for hours during summer weekdays, that all their ads are for donkey sanctuaries and funeral plans.

just in case you missed an earlier insight

Always essential to get to the crucial facts

Why do they have to do this every time a team wins a couple of games?

The British right is swimming in an open sewer We are drifting into territory that once would have seemed extreme

"Promises were made, and lives and families built upon them. How have we reached a place where wrecking those lives is even up for discussion?"

On Powell, Heath, Lam and the descent of the British right.

I think perhaps the correct word might be "improved"

the best bit is that there is a sizeable faction within "the left" that is prepared to say "well Plaid is a nationalist party too, they're all the same"

hey Google, get someone to write down exactly what I, a middle aged bloke who lives summer, think at this time of year but make it a bit more teary.

it's fine I can still be positive for a work day... 😞

trying to find words to generally agree with you but still make the point that, all that being said, vanishingly few (journalists or the general public, come to that) are actually saying it out loud.

Jonn is doing the shouting that the rest of us should be doing. Genuinely one of the bravest journalists currently writing.

Interesting to see how Starmer responds to Maccabi Tel Aviv *banning themselves*

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fascinated to know whether the first exhibition is a typo or a strong opinion

it's a shame that the Gazette/Teesside Live has gone down the route of "pay us or we'll track you" because it's now unreadable.

not aimed at you specifically Craig obvs

FA Cup day!

Great read. Don’t stop, because we need more Gary Nevilles and more journalists opposing the far right public discourse, as the likes of Orwell showed almost a century ago

it feels like something has happened to the pricing of "hospitality" food and drink in the last year or so that exceeds previous moves. No data, just vibes that the number of times I've gone "that's ridiculous" is up a lot.

the defining question of at least the last 15 years of UK politics

Car finance news

Dave Hill @davehillonlondon.bsky.s... • 5m Jenrick just can't stay out of the sewer: theguardian.com/politics/202... #jenrick #conservatives The Guardian Robert Jenrick complained of 'not seeing another white face' in Birmingham neighbourhood Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Ha...

Abysmal shit but again, this is just a much more crass and blunt version of the type of stuff you would’ve heard being expressed more obliquely five years ago, ten years ago. The move has been from I’m Not Racist But to Yes I Am Racist, And.

they must literally have meetings where someone says "what would a cartoon authoritarian do"

I urge you to note that “The government today arrested 400 anti-genocide protestors, The Ministry For Crackdowns said those committing terrorism would be crushed by the full force of the state” is the kind of thing you see in background news reports in scifi movies about future dystopias.

Someone just won the best news photo of 2025 award

disappointing but not in any way surprising that a new left wing political party couldn't even scramble over the first basic organisational hurdle

some of the beflagged contingent loudly questioned Starmer's solo intimate practices as the counter protest passed by yesterday, which gave me hope that humanity will always find a way to a single point of agreement.

Peter Mandelson sacked as US ambassador by Keir Starmer over emails to Jeffrey Epstein The Foreign Office says he was fired

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This suggests to me that Nyköping translates as Newmarket...

yup - just extending the non-story-ness of it even further 🙂

I mean obviously I haven't clicked on it, but I have been to Basel, and you can visit three countries in 20 minutes for £0 by walking between them.