Cathy

Cartoon showing the hierarchy of humour as a tower with dumb jokes at the bottom and paradox at the top

Morning Bluesky.

Everything is so incredibly stupid.

The truth about impartiality at the BBC And the hysteria of the current "crisis"

The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.

New piece from me.

open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

David Attenborough describes how, after smelling blood, the predators (the right wing media) circle their prey (the BBC), with Trump as the savannah sun.

@bjennings90.bsky.social absolutely nails it. (www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...)

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

Single frame. Left side: Storm clouds, lightening, house on fire among trees also burning, “HELP” coming from house. To the right, David Littleproud, behind him a huge wave. He says: “No point in us doing anything until the rest of the world is on board.”

No hurry.
My @smh @theage cartoon.

Immigration, indecency, and incompetence. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. The ever-more indecent terms of the immigration 'debate' are another failure of Brexit, which links to the ever-more obvious incompetence of Reform in local government: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/immi...

Minority representation on TV causes outrage

From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

A photo of the front cover of issue 1660 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The front cover headline reads “Trump’s Gaza Triumph” and features a photo of Donald Trump with multiple speech bubbles saying “You’ve got to hand it to me,” “What, all of it?”, “The only people making a bomb from now on will be my family,” “Anyone want a peace of the action?”, “In God we Trump!” and “Halo to the Chief!” A banner at the bottom reads “Late news: World apologises ‘He’s not a naughty boy, he’s the Messiah.’”

Trump’s Gaza Triumph

The new Private Eye is out now.

It's the golden rule of grievance politics: you will never be happy. You are a permanent captive to the infinity goalpost.

Everyone, from big business CEOs to small business owners to highly paid professionals and lowly paid service staff, has urged the Chancellor to tax someone else.

From the new Private Eye, out now.

Women behind the lens: ‘A quiet act of resistance where words are silenced’ Fatimazohra Serri’s photography grew from a desire to question and resist roles imposed on Moroccan women

Women behind the lens: ‘A quiet act of resistance where words are silenced’

A photo of the front cover of issue 1656 of Private Eye magazine with the caption "on shelves now." The front cover headline reads “THE ARSE OF THE DEAL” and shows Donald Trump speaking at a podium with the U.S. presidential seal. He is pictured with a speech bubble saying, “I’m going to win the Nobel Appease Prize.” At the bottom, the subheading reads: “WILL PUTIN KEEP CONTROL OF DONBAS AND DONTRUMP?”

The Arse of the Deal

The new Private Eye is out now.

A cartoon of Putin and Trump walking down a red carpet, that turns into a huge bloodstain.

Blood red carpet. By Mykhailo Dunakovskiy.

Who’s behind the Centre for Migration Control? This so-called “research organisation” has been cited in The Sun, The Telegraph, The Times and Express - but it appears to be run by one man with a Brexit campaign past, publishing opaque and selective data and wild claims about migrants.

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Ferrand-Prévot’s Tour win ignites all of France in a joy missing from the men’s race Popular winner is now a national icon as women step out of the shadow of their male cycling counterparts

Ferrand-Prévot’s Tour win ignites all of France in a joy missing from the men’s race www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/a...

A sleeping antelope carved into rock. There are interesting curvy details (just decorative?) along its back.

Sleeping Antelope, Tin Taghirt, Tassili n'Ajjer in Algeria, c. 8,000 BCE

agrowingculture 3 hours ago 2/5 This morning, Israeli forces raided and demolished the Seed Multiplication Unit of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees' (UAWC) national seed bank in Hebron. Using bulldozers and heavy machinery, the Israeli army destroyed the storage warehouses and infrastructure where essential equipment, seed materials, and tools for indigenous seed reproduction were kept. This is not just an attack on a building-its an attack on Palestinian food sovereignty, biodiversity and cultural memory.

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

Cycling jerseys, drawing in black and white with text as follows: - 'Petro-chemical company causing climate change' - 'Country where prisoners are tortured' - 'Do some gambling' - 'State with terrible human rights record' - 'Oil company that downplayed the risks from climate change for three decades' - 'Sponsoring cycling makes us look green and ethical'

Such an important feature on TotalEnergies by ITV Cycling and Matt Rendell on the Tour de France rest day programme this evening. In support: a repost of this drawing.

A lot of Bluesky discourse on Palestine Action is confused.

Breaking into an airbase and damaging military equipment is at the very least terrorist-adjacent behaviour.

We can't operate on a "to the pure all things are pure" basis.

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‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list Former Arsenal player wins admiration for his taste in books, but admits one novel defeated him

‘Literature has completely changed my life’: footballer Héctor Bellerín’s reading list www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

'Stereotypes are a real time-saver.' Vintage Headline T-Shirt

Stick it to your loved ones by blowing through their inheritance at The Onion store before you croak.
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newsprint photo. 8 young women are kneeling down and hold up signs that spell out "The Potato Eight", each is in a matching gymanstic outfit. Behind them is an art deco swimming pavilion.

"The Potato Eight". 🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔
These "glamour girls" of the Potato Marketing Board toured British seaside resorts in summer 1939 to promote eating potatoes as a route to health and efficiency and "overturn old fashioned notions about the potato being taboo for the woman who wants to keep her figure" 🤸

‘Our food, our heritage, our culture’: the chef highlighting Palestinian cuisine For Sami Tamimi, preparing the food of his homeland is an act of resilience and keeping his culture alive

‘Our food, our heritage, our culture’: the chef highlighting Palestinian cuisine

These two. 🤍🤍

Found it!

There's no way we're not going to be there' – Ned Boulting, David Millar and Lizzie Deignan launch plans for free audio and video Tour de France coverage

www.cyclingweekly.com/racing/there...

Overfishing has caused cod to halve in body size since 1990s, study finds Evolutionary change driven by intensive fishing led cod to ‘shrink’ from average 40cm length in 1996 to 20cm in 2019

Overfishing, harvesting vast numbers of the largest fish, has caused cods' body size to hal e since 1990s.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Andrew Power 1933 Wimbledon poster.

Thence is such a lovely word.

'Dawn Patrol' The Trump we saw address the nation last night was very high.

“The Trump we saw address the nation last night was very high. Let’s just get that out of the way at the beginning. We drug test many federal employees but somehow let the President of the United States unilaterally declare war while out of his mind.” open.substack.com/pub/noelcasl...