Graham Greene once anonymously entered a Spectator competition to write the opening paragraph of a Graham Greene novel. He came third.

The British Museum has cancelled a Jewish Culture Month event on Ancient Israel and Judah due to ‘security concerns’. If publicly-funded institutions cannot host such events without folding to pressure, serious questions arise about that funding. @britishmuseum @George_Osborne

NEW: On first day as BBC director general, Matt Brittin had to walk past striking journalists amid claims of low morale. A warning of things to come with 10% cuts coming. And a big hint from Brittin about a shift to new platforms, YouTube, TikTok... theguardian.com/media/2026/m…

The British far right in the 1970s … indistinguishable from the British far left today

🇺🇸 Security at the White House Correspondents' Dinner was tight 😂

Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…

Presenting your 98th Oscars announcer, Matt Berry. Watch the #Oscars LIVE on Sunday, March 15th, at 7e/4p on ABC and Hulu. #OnlyAtTheOscars

Ideally not before 9am to respect working time regulations

If you claim to support human rights yet can’t bring yourself to show solidarity with those fighting for their liberty in Iran, you’ve revealed yourself. You don’t give a damn about people being oppressed and brutalised so long as it’s being done by the enemies of your enemies.

Beautiful

HERO OF THE DAY. A brave man risked his own life, disarmed the terrorist, and saved countless lives.

They’ve just gone from a BBC presenter inside the BBC to a BBC reporter outside the BBC to ask what the feeling is among journalists inside the BBC. The BBC - always a difficult story for the BBC to handle.

Oscar Peterson b 100 years ago! Wonderful musician - & man: "The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that."

Rest in Peace to the great Tom Lehrer, who helped put the periodic table of elements to song! 🎶

Happy birthday, Prince 💜

Dawn French will be utterly shaken by the response to her post. The hundreds of damning quote-tweets. The scathing replies. The newspaper articles. The repulsion at her words, and the way in which she delivered them. She’ll be confused as hell right now. Completely baffled. Why? Because Dawn will have witnessed - over the last 20 months - the adulation, the boost to personal profiles, the surge in book sales, concert tickets, YouTube clicks, podcast discussions, and income streams that so many of her fellow members of the establishment’s ‘Celeb’ chattering class have received, by deciding to be “edgy”, or putting a decorative 🇵🇸 in their bios, or sharing a viral “All Eyes On Rafah” meme, or boycotting Israeli avocados, or signing Guardian letters, or sliding into language that they couldn’t get away with on anything else. She figured it was an easy win so decided to jump in with both feet (Dibley reference) But Dawn messed up. She misjudged who her fans are. Her fans aren’t simply those gullible Uni students who traipse around London in their eBay Keffiyehs looking for a clan, or flea-ridden Trots selling Socialist Worker, or radical Far Left adherents of contemporary antisemitism who despise Nazis but love a bit of Soviet-style contemporary antisemitism. Dawn has been hit by her successful career’s main fanbase. Namely, the vast majority of this country. Those who find Islamist terrorism - that joyous slaughtering of Jewish families in the homes, the desecration of women’s bodies for pleasure, the hankering for the blood of ALL infidels, the hostage taking of red-haired babies (all committed by those who share the mindset of the people who bombed London buses and tubes, blew up kids at Ariana Grande concerts, or hacked UK soldiers on our streets) - insidious and evil. And that’s where Dawn overstretched. It didn’t feel like a gamble, it felt like a sure thing. But in a search of instant glory and an easy win - when she actually had the opportunity to use her profile to say something genuinely important (or just shut up entirely) - she completely failed to read the room. Was it a good idea? To coin a phrase by Jennifer Saunders’ old comedy partner (I forget her name), “NO”

Elbows up, Canada.

Well, this is embarrassing. Marjorie Taylor Greene tries to push Russian propaganda about Ukrainian nazis, and is completely shut down by Holocaust Historian and the Leading Scholar on Ukrainian Nationalism in America, Dr. Snyder.

Apparently it is once again time to bring back the lesson on tariffs from Ferris Bueller