Colm

kinda breathtaking to watch the U.S. media establishment lose its shit about one maybe-plague death in a Russian backwater town with 3,887 confirmed measles cases reported in the United States, SO FAR, in 2026

Like the Institute of Economic Affairs were running events and writing articles advocating against football regulator last year Wonder who paid for these? 😱 iea.org.uk/films/is-a-f...

If this is the end for CR7 then all rivalries aside I doubt it's what any true football fan will have wanted to see. They'd have wanted it to end with him crying like a baby on the pitch after skying a crucial penalty in an important shootout.

Timmy Mallet is in Portadown this morning doing one his bike tours.

As I keep pointing out, does no one understand Ricardian comparative advantage anymore. FACT: China produces over 1 million engineering graduates per year FACT: To date, China has not produced a single internationally marketable game show format Where does it look like our advantage lies?

Truly wild to have lived through moral panics about teenagers wearing hoodies and Muslim women wearing the head dress to now experience 'but is a large group of organised far right activists in balaclavas really that scary'

Nice to see an Afghan refugee score in front of the West Ham fans! #WatfordFC

Liar! She said what she said and they couldn't touch her because she was so beloved.

I have to admit I thought his stuff would be at least pseudo intellectual in presentation rather than basically star charts for racists.

Measured reaction to a bridge being closed for repair on local Facebook.

Please watch this to the end.

Most people arrested during Henry Nowak protests had been reported for domestic abuse

Well actually he was probably already Scrooge until his parents settled on Ebenezer as a first name wasn’t he? Unless this is about his adoption back story.

RIP Bonnie Tyler. And RIP Tandi Iman Dupree. This remains the best stage entrance by a drag queen of all time, even some 25 years later, and the best use of Tyler’s “Holding Out for a Hero” ever. youtu.be/IHQA5vqn6rw?...

Have you seen these ChatGPT ahh flyers? Well, we at 404 Media see them everywhere. “It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.”

the thing is right. £5m is _so much money_

binface vs farage vs lawrence fox is like el classico for “different ways your mate’s dad could end up taking the divorce”

If the right is like this, what conversations can possibly be held with the right?

Well. www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

Very naive from the kids to leave the spare men in acres of space. I would love to see a Mourinho or a Queiroz set them up to be tough to beat.

A shirtless white man, in the street with a knife in his hand, having attacked and wounded five people, allegedly shouting anti-Muslim slogans is the sixth story on the BBC UK news page. There is absolutely no doubt at all this would be the lead story if attacker and intended victims were reversed.

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

Would be funnier if he said yes. "When I said I was running to change the Labour party, I meant from within Keir Starmer's cabinet as business secretary."

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

If there had been a crucial by-election in, say, Bristol - I wonder if the Westminster commentariat would be quite as keen on playing endless vox pops when people might be complaining about Gaza, student loans and that Labour isn't standing up enough against the far right.

Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:

We need more rich people with normal interests like "your movie sounds neat" instead of, like, white fertility rates.

My mum lives right at the end of the march route. She saw men in balaclavas milling around. Radiating economic anxiety and legitimate concerns, they were.

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

We really need to fully bed in the idea that the default position of someone wearing the Meta camera glasses is that they are a pervert

It seems to me like the English-language internet has not yet been turned on to the fact that the screenplay for the Bolsonaro biopic (starring Jim Caviezel) has been leaked to the press. It is... a fascinating document, let's say.

Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march

Just wondering, Simon, is ‘the Birmingham speech’ better known by any other description? I just feel like people may be more familiar if… oh… I’m sure it’s nothing.

"It's so important to not call Reform voters idiots or morons for how theyve voted", okay sure but just remember that their side are calling *you* a pedophile

Keir Starmer has resigned, that's right, resigned himself to the fact there's a long three years ahead of being prime minister

At this point he could give the Gettysburg Address and it wouldn’t move the dial. In fact I think it would only further alienate voters, because it speaks more to the issues of mid 1860s America and also he’d be accused of plagiarism.

The Onion ass headline

someone just demanded to know who should replace Starmer, in a "aha can't answer that, can you!" kind of way, but at this point the honest answer is: literally anyone. he is so bad at this that literally anyone would be better.

Just a reminder that @jewishnews.bsky.social are determined to report on those sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories *from any party*. And sadly it is present in every party. www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-fa...

Is there anything to be said for bringing back Peter Mandelson?