Andy Winter

This is amazing. Genuinely thought it was from The Onion when I first glanced at the title.

100%

This happened to us a couple of weeks ago. Was totally bizarre and completely unnecessary

Phenomenal work

The crisis of masculinity is not men who are too effeminate or some other rubbish. It’s men whose inability to deal with their insecurity & shame leads them to destructive behaviours. Its bad when the effect is at the personal level but it’s catastrophic when it’s at the societal/political level

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Operation Roid Rage,
Operation She Turn The Wee Uns Against Us

I've been watching council planning committee meetings as research for my next short film and it's remarkable how many of them involve a professional woman giving evidence getting bellowed at by red-faced old men.

Shocked to discover that Reform are blaming people who aren’t white for their defeat. So unlike them

My mum once described it like a door in your head that once you’ve opened it, it never closes, it’s always slightly ajar. And circa 15 years since my last cigarette, yeah, can confirm

We urgently need some new rules in place to prevent anything like this happening again

Assistant to the Regional Manager The problem with utopia

Really interesting article on the difficulties with utopias. How much am I paralysed by my concern for status, respect and mattering? How much is it (helpfully or unhelpfully) affecting the actions of others who I interact with? open.substack.com/pub/paulbloo...

Charles Tunnicliffe sketching the bittern at Minsmere, summer 1950

New euphemism just dropped

This whole thing is brilliant, but the final bit, my word, incredible

Mandelson is like a pork C-3PO

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Ian Hislop has just absolutely nailed my feelings about Andy Burnham on the @privateeyenews.bsky.social podcast. His personal ambition seems to trump all else, including what the effect of him jumping out of his current role would be. Finish your term of office and then look to be an MP again

“Moving to Australia turned my fiancée into a young Howard Moon”

Enjoying this account. All of the identified elements sound like the titles of vaporwave songs

For Jim Moir/Vic Reeves' birthday, a reminder it's thirty years this year since this advert.

[Scene is heaven, in clouds. JESUS, acting as God’s PA, is briefing God, a big ball of light with arms sat at an executive desk, with a computer on it]. Jesus [holding a tablet computer]: OK, so - The next one to check in on is… ‘Earth’. God: Spelling? Jesus: E-A-R-T-H. [God types into the computer] tap-tap-tap-tap-tap. Tap. God: F—ing hell. What’s happened here!? We need to complain - get me the manager. Jesus: Uh, well, the most powerful one is… [Jesus turns his iPad round to show God. We can’t see the screen] God: What is that. I mean, it’s been a while but that’s definitely not how I designed them. Are you sure we’ve got the right planet? Jesus: Yes, this is the… top human. God: Off and on it again Jesus: I’ll book the meteor [Ends]

Off and on it

TRUMP: honk honk honk, I'm a big goose. everyone tells me whenever I enter a room, that's the biggest goose I've ever seen and I say yes. I'm a big goose. in a good way. a lot of Somalians are small stupid gooses but I'm a big goose

BBC NEWS: a disciplined Trump sticks to the script on the economy

The NYT Spelling Bee game - I have played the word TAFFIN and been told it's not in the word list

Pierce Brosnan's calm and understated acting in the film Taffin

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in different ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

Now: Cows using tools. Next: Dogs with machine guns www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

“I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of peace.”

Limmy's Show: She's Turned the Weans Against Us YouTube video by Limmy

youtu.be/I5VaPQflLq0?...

"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Who funds the Free Speech Union? Toby Young’s outfit went to court to hide its donors. Today we reveal that funders include US anti-abortion groups, Brexit politicians and Tufton Street insiders.

It will not surprise you to learn that Toby Youngs 'Free Speech Union' has obtained a High Court injunction banning the publication of a list of its donors open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Incredibly, no-one on Nigel Farage’s team has got round to deleting this post. It’s still live as Robert Jenrick gives his big defection speech.

Yes Kemi, this is definitely a way to create less drama… apple.news/A9yD1l_vFTWC...