The De Selby Codex 🇪🇺

We love it when filmmakers take direct inspiration from great artists and classic paintings. Here are some of our favourites… First up, The Truman Show (1998) and Au clair de lune (1956) by René Magritte. 1/35

It's hard to watch the chaos and tragedy unfolding across the channel in France, without laughing.

I hesitate to say this but the UK is starting to look like the sane country

I'm furious about the two Iranians who came across as part of the surge in small boats created by my Brexit and under a Home Office run by my MPs Suella Braverman and Robert Jenrick.

No Rejoin without also electoral reform. Any pro EU consensus would be too precariously upheld now under FPTP because the nutjob right, including the unstable Tory Party, can effect huge changes with minority support.

I wouldn't be driving though any tunnels in Paris if I were Charles Spencer.

"I took the money from you but it isn't for me it's for you" is the weirdest albi ever targeted at the stupidest people who ever lived. Democracy can't survive this level of stupidity.

Orphée (1950) dir. Jean Cocteau 🧵🎬 Using perspective and gravity, Cocteau creates the supernatural effect of Orpheus being pulled horizontally along the wall as if an invisible force is drawing him away. #filmsky #moviesky #artsky

Undercover footage verified by Channel 4 News reveals a secret plot by senior Reform UK figures to break the law on party donations. A leading legal expert is now calling for a criminal investigation. 🔗 Read the exclusive story on Substack:

Trump and the people around him have no sense of patriotism or sovereignty. To them, politics is another grift—another way to the top. But as we are seeing, Canada doesn’t share their view. Canada has a plan and they are acting—and America will now lose the most, thanks to Trump and his people (2/2)

I'm personally not sure any Labour minister - viz miatta fahnbulleh - who sends her kids to private school and is married to a hedge fund owner publicly named only "Graham" has much credibility....

The future is moving towards us very, very fast.

"dont think about anything deeply, let it burn, and just let good old Nige have his Russian bung, you'll be safe in our hands" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Big Bad American navy have to keep their sailors at sea for a ridiculously long time because they don't have replacement reserves

Save your money. There's an exact replica in Reading for free www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Hope the right wing cunts who persecuted this guy are happy now. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Between 2010 and 2024, only 500 more prison places were made available and 23 prisons were shut down. How dare the Tories and their media start with their bullshit faux outrage?!

No one in their right mind thinks our basic rights are safe www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Humiliating for America that Mexico and Canada have such academically accomplished leaders and they have that revolting orange moron

Renewables vs exploiting oil reserves in the n. sea. Given that we're going to consume oil/gas for the foreseeable and although the oil would be on the international market, tax revenues would accrue. Could someone explain to me please why this is either/or? www.smithschool.ox.ac.uk/news/drill-b...

Every time you hear Farage whining about MPs safety, remember this

There may be some clues here, who knows? “Fiona Cottrell’s son… had offered money-laundering services on the dark web and subsequently wrote a book called How to Launder Money” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Morocco has 60% of its squad in top teams in the European leagues. Fewer from Egypt but they have superstars like Mo Salah. Half of the US squad play in Europe but for lower ranking teams. US football culture is not fit for purpose.

Expecting stiff opposition www.thesun.co.uk/sport/396377...

WTF is wrong with UK media? Farage claims he wasn’t in politics prior to receipt of the £5m. He was majority shareholder (53%) of Reform. May 2023–April 2024. Farage served as the party's Honorary President. How can you be an Honorary President of a political party and not be involved?

England seem to think they're batting at Thermopylae.

Heres another example of why we need to decouple from the US, who now represent a clear threat to the security and sovereignty of the UK, and move closer to our true friends in Europe. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/ng-i...

Thomas Tuchel sounds like a 15th century writer of madrigals

What's going on with the hydration break analysis??! #England

Burnham's policies are indistinguishable from Starmer's, with added con. In the current context Starmer's policies are pragmatic. His support for SV is an example. No one in the world uses it to elect governments (not even Manchester) but it SOUNDS like electoral reform. it's a non starter.

Yoda dead is IPR opr.news/2538c67e2605...

“We have made a technology that creates nothing but will ensure you have no future while we get richer and richer wait why are you boooing?”

Immigration make Britain brilliant

I've voted Labour all my life but this would be such a disastrous move I couldn't support it. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Oh nooooooo!!!!!! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

So now the Iranians dont have to blockade the straits because the Americans are doing it for them?

More than 38,000 people have signed the petition calling for a referendum on public ownership of water. Have you signed? vist.ly/4y8q7 1/2

Alexander at Persepolis

Why are they all so weird? Actually in Hungary helping orban win and accusing the EU of interfering. We're dealing with malicious morons.

Fuck Brexit and fuck anyone and everyone who voted for it.

"trans ideology is a sickness." [reads the news] "people's personal affairs are none of our business and we should talk about immigration"