Greg Funnell

My portrait of author M John Harrison in this weekends @theguardian.com

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

Moscow has so far earned an estimated $1.3bn-$1.9bn windfall from taxes on oil exports, making it the biggest winner from the conflict in the Middle East. What does this mean for energy markets and the Russian economy? ft.trib.al/E4zE2us

Guaranteed this is a clear sign they are panicking about time 😆 but you know ‘4D chess’ and all that…

“Top Trump officials acknowledged to lawmakers during recent classified briefings that they did not plan for the possibility of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz in response to strikes” edition.cnn.com/2026/03/12/p...

Great to see some shots of mine being used to illustrate the interesting work @basecamp-research.bsky.social are doing in the aid of scientific research. A fun commission shadowing their teams in Malta last year.

Can’t believe this is not a post from the Onion…

All the rape, torture, and murder will be brushed under the carpet, a great lesson for any future war criminals.

NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Many years ago I was asked to present a TV doc on Cathy Leroy - we interviewed friends & colleagues who knew her, even visited her mother in Paris who’d preserved her childhood room complete with various awards & published work. Sadly we never got funding. Hers is a story waiting to be told.

In the early 1960s a senior Conservative minister, John Profumo, resigned and inflicted perhaps decisive damage to the electoral prospects of his party for a decade ….. for far less than this

Nigel Farage, whose party recently put a teenager with zero work experience of any kind in charge of an entire English county, accuses the government of appointing people "with no knowledge" or experience in charge of Government departments

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia www.reuters.com/investigatio...

WHY WE LOOK? Because a photographer's revealed how he checked his old contact sheets and uncovered the never-before-seen photo that shows Jeffrey Epstein attending Donald Trump's 1993 wedding. petapixel.com/2025/07/23/p...

🚨 Russian fascists send kidnapped Ukrainian children turning 18 to the front line in Ukraine. Estimated to be in the thousands. Ukrainian soldiers discovered the Ukrainian teenagers' corpses on the battlefields. These kids would have been 14 at the time of abduction in 2022.

Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece as a placard! (1/2)

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

For the first couple day most of the AI videos were dumb but harmless. Now most of the ones I see are straight up racist.

80 year old man: “Golden Dome!” 18 year old FPV drone operators:

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

I sent out this piece yesterday. Trump's final plan is basically Russia's plan, which would legitimize Russian conquests and provide Russia the best possible situation in which to rebuild its military--while giving Ukraine nothing. Europe needs to stand with Ukraine now.

I tested it, because it seemed so craven, grotesque, and absurd, but if you put in the original URL it changes to the "DEI" version automatically. www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

Last week, if SNL did a sketch about Trump hawking Tesla's on the White House lawn, people would have complained it was too absurd.

Truly shameful. This will cost Ukrainian lives. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Former 🇺🇸 ambassador to Russia 👇🏽

Trump, the self-styled 'master negotiator', has removed any leverage for Putin to come to the table. The only possible conclusions are either/some combination of a) he's actually a terrible negotiator b) he's indifferent to what happens to Ukraine c) he wants Russia to win.

Vance criticised after comments on UK-French peacekeeping plan https://www.ft.com/content/f4ef8bdc-8534-4c3e-a82f-0af92e3d3980

Fact-checking for Trump and Vance: Journalists have counted at least 94 expressions of gratitude from Zelensky to the U.S. since the start of the full-scale war.

Break the government and the spoils are tossed among billionaires

The SNL Cold Open was based on the Trump tantrum with Zelensky, with Mike Myers doing a brutal take on Elon Musk www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpO...

So has everyone got ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ now or is it just that anyone who used the phrase as an insult is an ignorant tw@?

Just a quick observation that amid all the turmoil created by the Zelensky meeting, this got completely ignored: A Chinese citizen paid Trump $50 million for the SEC to drop its charges against him.

Trump and Vance have repeatedly claimed that Zelensky has not been sufficiently grateful for U.S. support throughout the war. We compiled instances where Zelensky has publicly expressed gratitude to the U.S., its people, and its leadership for being Ukraine’s largest supporter.

What we’re witnessing in America is what happens when disordered discourse captures a political party, then the state itself. The Republican Party was the first to fall - abandoning truth for conspiracy, ideology for grievance, and policy for performative outrage.

If you think this can’t happen outside the U.S., consider that we’re all subject to the same forces - social media-driven discourse, collapsing institutional trust, and the rise of narratives untethered from reality. It’s a systemic vulnerability in every democracy.

America is not unique. Any democracy can fall to state capture by disordered discourse if there’s no systematic response. This isn’t something we can fact-check our way out of - it’s deeper than misinformation. It’s about power, identity, and the narratives that shape reality itself.

Openly ridiculing and demeaning a man who has kept his country alive for three years against all the odds is a national embarrassment and runs counter to our own security interests.

Donald Trump is embarrassing the United States on the world stage. We are a country that stands up to dictators and fights for democracy. Minnesota stands firmly with our allies in Ukraine.

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

This is thuggery from Trump and Vance, plain and simple. They are bullying the brave true patriot Zelensky into accepting a deal which effectively hands victory to Russia. Unless the UK and Europe step up, we are facing a betrayal of Ukraine.

The most charitable possible interpretation (and it isn't that charitable): that Trump and Vance both bitterly resent someone who actually is what they pretend to be, ie a genuinely courageous figure leading an imperilled nation.

On behalf of many Americans, don’t thank us we THANK YOU Ukraine for your work.

The US president said the scheme would grant 'green card privileges plus' and a 'route to citizenship' for those who bought the card. www.ft.com/content/d93a...