Peter Mandelson and Anas Sarwar smiling together. The text of the tweet from Sawar, dated April 4 2025, says "It was great to catch up with my old friend and the UK’s (relatively!) new Ambassador to the US, Peter Mandelson @UKinUSA"

What's that you say, Anas? That you tweeted this last year in 2025 about your 'old friend' Peter Mandelson and now you think Starmer should resign but you should keep your job?

A comic of a man sitting inside a bus, drawing, wearing headphones. Text reads "9am, on a bus. Heading into the west end to meet Jake."

Hourly Comic Day! Here's 9AM.

#HourlyComicDay #comics

'Melania' is so, so, so bad "It has no journalistic value and even less entertainment value."

"It has no journalistic value and even less entertainment value."

@mogwai.scot's Stuart Braithwaite in conversation - on the band's upcoming plans, the importance of community in music, and his favourite @thecure.com album.

www.clashmusic.com/features/mog...

For every retweet I will make Zuckerberg’s creep glasses 5% thicker

Sam

Dude who spent thousands of pounds tracking down those early Boards of Canada cassettes and transferring them in the highest quality possible has uploaded them to his youtube btw: www.youtube.com/@samamdj

The guy on the left was one of the Jan 6 rioters who broke into the Congress building in Washington and threatened people, who was later pardoned by Trump.

Given how much misery and pessimism there is - understandably - around at the moment, I thought I'd do one of those 'thread' things and share the story of possibly the weirdest thing I have ever seen. And that's quite a high bar.

Board of Peace - Season 1

YouTube video by War Child UK HELP(2) - Album Trailer - War Child Records

Help 2, the new @warchilduk.bsky.social album, has an incredible lineup of Pulp, Olivia Rodrigo, Depeche Mode, Arctic Monkeys, Fontaines DC, Wet Leg< Damon, Beck and more. Out March 6

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROf1...

Crafty Wank is either clueless or a liar. I go for both.

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The Trump administration's goal, clearly stated last year by VP Vance in Munich, is to destroy the European Union. Including by betting the EU will cave in Greeland, and thus lose all geopolitical credibility, while fostering bilateral ties with eurosceptic governments in Europe. We cannot cave.

Trump and Farage

A real shame if this photo went viral again today.

Women change the world by telling the truth when they want the truth buried!

By naming violence!
By refusing silence!
By refusing fear!

Women change the world by saying his words out loud, making sure it’s never forgotten!

#SheShed
#DefendersOfDemocracy

HOUSE OF COMMONS LONDON SWIA OAA Nigel Farage MP House of Commons London SW1A OAA 13 January 2026 Mr Farge, Visiting Bermondsey and Old Southwark I am writing following your public engagement on 7th January in London Bridge, which is in my constituency: Bermondsey and Old Southwark. I appreciate you are unfamiliar with constituency requirements given your inattention to Clacton since being elected. But given you have spent three decades in and around Parliament, you should be aware that established protocol requires any MP conducting official business in another Member's constituency to notify the relevant Member in advance. You failed to follow parliamentary protocol on this matter last week. As someone who has so desperately attempted to be in Westminster for such a long time, I hope you are capable of learning and adhering to procedures, although I won't hold my breath. Given you have described our capital city as 'crime-ridden' and 'unsafe' it must have been very difficult for you to pluck up the courage to book a venue in the centre of the capital for your event to promote yet another Tory defect in your ranks. But please do conform to the rules should you ever come back. Your preference for spending time in London rather than Clacton (which is your constituency by the way), demonstrates the typically deceitful nature of your attacks on our capital. Deep down, you agree with me and the millions of UK and international visitors every year, that London remains our greatest city and well worth spending time in! I would say I look forward to your next visit to the best constituency, in the best city, in the best country on the planet, but unlike you and the former Tories who riddle your party, I am not comfortable spouting untruths. Sincerely, Neil Neil Coyle MP

Neil Coyle MP has written a brutal takedown letter to Nigel Farage for his breach of parliamentary protocol, because Farage visited Coyle's London constituency without notifying him. 10/10 no notes.
(H/T @simonpegg.bsky.social)

Amazing 😂😂😂

I've made a medley of Diarrhoea songs! I've taken some of your "favourites" from the thread below, as well as added some new songs. youtu.be/qjvWPPhrNnU

Donald Trump’s friend Nigel Farage, whose register of interest shows he receives £1000s in royalties from Elon Musk’s platform, believes this platform shouldn’t be banned

How empty is his campaigning for women’s safety when it isn’t useful to his dog whistles & identity politics…?

‘It’s more productive than doomscrolling’: film-maker Ben Wheatley on his secret life as musician Dave Welder While playing with nine-figure Hollywood budgets, the Kill List and Meg 2 director has become a prolific music producer. Next up is his experimental film, Bulk

Love Ben Wheatley, always creating www.theguardian.com/music/2026/j...

100% it was the 11th. I had the day off work but it wasn't the Sunday as my wife was at work/kids at school.

So, today marks 10 years since the passing of Bowie.

It also marks 10 years since I put something on Twitter about it which resulted in me having to take a day off work, chase down various international media, get blocked by half of Australia, and end up the filling in a Kanye and Madonna sandwich.

We’re only 10 days into 2026 and it feels pretty extreme and hopeless already but I’m seeing glimmers of what’s possible as people’s sadness and fear turns into focussed distain and a renewed willingness to not just react but to act strategically If you’re feeling dysregulated, that means you care. Worry about those who don’t feel it Rather than accept a pint for my birthday, I’d like to ask 4 quickies Next week, I’m going to interview Music Declares Emergency on the Drowned in Sound podcast to discuss their new message, which we need right now: Hope Over Fear - a project to fund action hubs in grassroots music venues 1) Go treat yourself to some of their fantastic merch with slogans to live by like Another World Is Possible. This follows on from their brilliant No Music On A Dead Planet campaign A lot of what’s occurring in the world right now from Ukraine to Venezuela is about extracting from our natural world. It’s about minerals to power AI and land grabs for fossil fuel that pollutes the planet but also to make the 3000 billionaires even richer 2) Speak their language and join the various boycotts of platforms like Spotify when lots of more ethical alternatives exist (I met some lovely researchers and experts who explained those alts in recent DiS podcasts if you wanna listen in) 3) Musicians and people who follow me who work in music can do simple things to push back like agreeing to give a small percent to Brian Eno’s EarthPercent, who fund the work of some amazing orgs including lawyers at Client Earth who take on governments and corporations, often holding them to existing agreements and laws or creating new ones. Musicians could also support projects like Sounds Right where you credit nature as a collaborator and a small royalty trickles through 4) You can also choose to support independent media with your time, attention, and ideally some funds. Whether that’s music blogs like mine or investigative reporters or emerging media orgs and creators

It’s my birthday. 🎂

Thanks for the kind messages thus far. I wanted to ask 4 quick things of you today.

There’s so much more I wanna say but know this is already a bit long. Don’t be a stranger. Bye for now.

"The maximum time a prisoner can spend on remand is 182 days (six months). Yet Muraisi and Ahmed were arrested in November 2024, and are not due to be tried until June at the earliest, which means they will be remanded for 20 months."

Shameful.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Horrible people can be charming, just look at Donald's friend Hannibal Lector.

Me too

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures album cover. White lines mapping peaks in the centre, against a black background.

'That was one of those records where the instant I’d heard it, by the end of side one I was like, "This is it, this is what we’re gonna do with music now."'

Bob Mould on #JoyDivision - Unknown Pleasures (Sugar play New York and London this May)

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I call on my party and my government to remove themselves entirely from X and communicate with the public where they actually participate online and can be protected from such illegality.

Raju: The Speaker and others have said that this driver was weaponizing her vehicle.

AOC: Their editorializing of this event to justify a public murder is disgusting. It is horrifying. Watch it for yourself and make that assessment for yourself on which of these leaders are lying to you.