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BREAKING: Women in Tehran are excitedly tearing off the hijab as their streets catch fire, oil rains from the sky, and their lungs burn with every breath. At last we've been liberated, they cry.

We go directly to live coverage of the special relationship

To clarify. I don’t want war. Trump’s stated motive of liberating Iranians is unreliable at best. Israel has been gagging to be let loose on Iran for decades. My barber is just one citizen I’ve spoken to and could be totally naive. But do big changes to powerful regimes happen without force?

The first lesson of war is ‘know your enemy’ – and Britain’s enemy now is Donald Trump | Simon Tisdall As the Iran disaster escalates, the US president should be seen as an enemy whose actions threaten the lawful, democratic way of life everywhere, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdal...

Much of this sounds right (except for calling Starmer “an honourable man”). Trump is a bloodthirsty disgrace. But my local Persian barber says bombing is the only way to remove a hated regime. If only the years of diplomacy Tisdall alleges had restored democracy. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Back in the day when David Lammy was woke

Scarlett Johansson and Thora Birch in character

Tonight’s film: Ghost World (2001).
Hilarious and original. Enid Coleslaw, an aimless 18 year old art student, becomes entangled with Seymour, a lonely and awkward blues geek. Adapted from a comic book. Full of beautiful little details. Extraordinary.
m.imdb.com/title/tt0162...

A high street in a west London suburb with a person in an inflatable shark outfit waving at passers-by and holding a sign

Close up on the sign which reads “I need money for swimming lessons. Free hugs”. Though one must wonder how “free” the hugs were if one was donating.

Close up on a confused pigeon at the foot of the shark.

There was a shark in the town centre asking for donations for swimming lessons

One of my favorite lines from Russell Hoban's novel The Medusa Frequency: "In the morning I came awake as I always do, like a man trapped in a car going over a cliff."

Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.

Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.

What in the actual living f*ck

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

The Two Ronnies

Perfect example of why everyone hates tech people. Perpetually aggrieved self righteous douchebags who cant even take the lightest ribbing of their unwarranted sense of self importance lol

Printed instructions for microwaving a potato with encircled bullet point, “Potato may whistle in microwave.”

for the potato fears not death

Shabana Mahmood accused of mimicking Trump as she announces asylum plans Home secretary’s proposals to overhaul immigration system include end to permanent refugee status

What is it about early March hard right announcements about asylum seekers?

Sunak: www.gov.uk/government/s...

Mahmood: www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.

🧵 1/5

It's almost as if investing in renewable energy is a good idea

A large interior off Charing Cross Road with a vast projection on three walls and ceiling of glowing jellyfish swimming in a dark sea. People are standing around watching it.

For the Russell Hoban fans. I was walking down Tottenham Court Road yesterday and thought I saw a woman cradling a baby, but it was just some groceries, the head an iceberg lettuce. Then I saw a massive animation of flailing tentacles - but by the time I got near enough it had changed to jellyfish.

MANY DIG DIG

A brown penguin chick of some kind. It looks very much like a man in a suit. It is bedraggled and miserable

Made it to Friday but at what cost

Another reason to disconnect from the internet 😂

Sci-fi surgery as doctor in UK directs robot to remove a prostate in Gibraltar Briton with cancer operated on by doctor located 1,500 miles away using four-armed robot fitted with 3D camera

Your manager: No you can’t work from home, you have to be in the office to properly contribute
Surgeon: *casually does surgery from 1,500 miles away*

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Stella Creasy in the Guardian: Cruelty to immigrants is not what my party stands for. It’s time for True Labour, not Blue Labour

Incredible how these people change once they see the tide turning against them

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

Greens deputy leader calls for apology from Starmer over false claims that led to death threats Mothin Ali fears for his life after anti-war protest was wrongly described as being in support of Iranian regime

You'd expect falsehoods from a Tory MP who once proposed benefit claimants be paid with a smart card that didn't let them buy cigarettes or other forms of non-essential enjoyment. But Starmer as well? And people still blame the Left for leaving Labour.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Liking the white phone case.

Well I hate to imagine what a *worse* political strategist would do to the polling.

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

You don’t need to ‘balance’ between Farage and the Greens’ view of immigration. You don’t need to be a little bit Fascist. You need not to be Fascist at all.

Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock

Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.