I have another #buyastrangerabook day offer for you.

@mikecooperrp.bsky.social has sent me £20 to buy someone a book with.

So, if there's a particular book you're after, get in touch.

UK only.

This

A photo of the front cover of issue 1670 of Private Eye magazine, with the caption “on shelves now.” The main headline reads “TRUMP ATTACKS IRAN,” with a subheading “HOW OPERATION EPIC FURY UNFOLDED.” The cover features four photo panels set in the situation-room with US political figures seated around a table. Speech bubbles add dialogue: “Is the Supreme Leader dead?” followed by “No, Trump always looks like this!”; “Mission accomplished!” answered with “Yes, I’ve killed the Epstein story”; “What happens next?” with the reply “Popular revolt and regime change,” and a follow-up, “In America?”; and finally, “Why have you started this war?” answered with “So that I can stop it,” alongside “I’ll ring the Nobel Committee.”

Trump Attacks Iran. How Operation Epic Fury unfolded…

The new Private Eye is out now.

If Isabel Oakeshott is thinking about fleeing Dubai, I hope she stops in the first safe country.

Elect good hearts. Empathetic people. Christ, Ukraine seems to have nailed it with Zelenskyy. Maybe comedians are the way to go!

You can't analyse this stuff. It's the foreign policy equivalent of free jazz.

Deep pinkish serene fox with looser and yet looser squiggles

Complex but stupid yellow ambulance with pink pastelly ness and two monkeys sitting on top of it . Finished while listening to James O’Brian interview Gary Lineker

A wax pastel fox sort of squinting and having interesting glyphic qualities

I’ve added a fox, a monkey ambulance and a fox (drawings) to my website so people can have small but miraculous art if they want it

www.chloecumming.com

Anyone got any of those Trump “i did that” stickers left?

RIP Len Garry, one of the original Quarrymen and a lovely man. #LenGarry

Don't hold back.

Update: WE WON!

Many congratulations to you all. And well deserved! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Your kid gets killed fighting for this asshole and he responds with, "that's just the way it is"

Harrison Ford explaining the importance to him of being a member of a union. I stand with Harrison. UK writers, your union is the @writersguildgb.bsky.social

Zac Goldsmith pivoted from bit-right-greeny-centrist to dog-whistle anti-immigration racist to try and beat Sadiq. Got himself smashed in the London Mayorals as a result. As every Tory has since.

Crazy to think the lesson Labour HQ keep taking from that nationally is 'be more like Zac"

No vote for Boris Johnson or his own Nadhim Zahawi then?

a welsh flag with a red dragon and the number 9 ALT: a welsh flag with a red dragon and the number 9

Dewi Sant Hapus! Happy St David's Day, everyone!

Archaeologists discover 45,000 year old writing, which was finally delivered late, last week.

YouTube video by Neil Sedaka - Topic The Immigrant

RIP Neil Sedaka, musical genius. I can't think of a better tribute than his song, The Immigrant, originally dedicated to John Lennon, but so relevant now.
youtu.be/pMPbEGzJXg4?...

Plus greater than 220 thousand *avoidable* Covid-19 deaths (UK) and millions more disabled by the consequences. "Wash your hands" and "Herd immunity". Governmental Criminal Negligence And Incompetency #LongCovid

"Hands up if you threw everything you had at a by-election and only 14% of the electorate voted for you"

I knew Gorton would see them off. The locals there have previous. Here's a pic from Gorton in the early 60s of them dealing with fascist Oswald Moseley when he visited the area.

I had to walk across the grass in the churchyard to read the new sign which said, "New flowers. Don't walk on the grass."

And despite being told they’re anti semitic and homophobic they voted for a party led by a gay, Jewish man. This is significant.

Despite being continually accused of not integrating, Muslims have voted in numbers, and against a party with a Muslim Home Sec whose immigration policies and actions regarding Gaza they strongly opposed.Instead they found common value with a white British woman who spoke to them locally and beyond.

God I hope we hear less of them on news coverage, especially the BBC, I know we won't but they've got to stop giving them momentum

Schumer:

"Senate Democrats will review the unredacted [Epstein] files in the coming days. Pam Bondi should listen carefully - the truth will come out... The whole world is going to know exactly what she knew, when she knew it, and what she did to cover it up."

Trump and Congressional Republicans are Trying to Suppress the Vote | Indivisible The original “Silencing Americans Act” H.R. 22, would require every voter to show proof of citizenship, like a passport or original birth certificate, when registering to vote in federal elections. Be...

You didn’t have to listen to Trump’s rambling speech last night to know that Republicans are trying to make it harder for millions of Americans to vote—especially married women.

They’ve already made it clear.

Time to fight back. indivisible.org/campaigns/st...

Bannon, Epstein, Farage and Johnson and the Plot to 'Topple' Theresa May The far-right former Trump adviser told Jeffrey Epstein that "we are overthrowing May right now" as he worked with Boris Johnson to remove the then Conservative Prime Minister from office

The Epstein files grant us a rare glimpse into the kind of machinations that must be happening all the time. As @bylinetimes.bsky.social reveals, Trump's fixer, Steve Bannon, helped Boris Johnson overthrow Theresa May. Blatant foreign interference in our politics. 🧵
bylinetimes.com/2026/02/16/b...

Thanks! I'll have a look.