“Britain is a Christian country” usually translates to: “I haven’t been to church in 15 years but I need a reason to hate immigrants.”

Immigration makes Britain brilliant.

Not even the Russian one?

James O’Brien just nicknamed ‘Farrage’ as The Count of Dodgy Crypto.

If Andy Burnham wins Makerfield, he’ll claim it’s because he’s marvellous. If Andy Burnham loses Makerfield, he’ll claim it’s because Starmer isn’t. Either way, Burnham wins.

The most popular joke in 🇭🇺A man comes to the Prime Minister’s office, knocks, walks up to security and says: — Good afternoon! I’d like to speak with Viktor Orbán. — He doesn’t work here anymore. — I see…,” the man says as he leaves, but a minute later he comes back. — Good afternoon! I’d like to speak with Viktor Orbán. — Sir, I already told you! He doesn’t work here anymore! — I understand…,” the man says. “It’s just so nice to hear it.”

"Albino wild boar" (direct quote from Laura) 😀

Congratulations to Westminster Council for their acceptance of Banksy’s brilliant statue near Pall Mall. Let’s hope it stays — a welcome note of calmness and humour at a time of growing extremism.

NASA's Artemis II just released the first photo of the far side

I’m reminded of Churchill: ‘We shall f*cking fight those bastards on the f*cking beaches, we shall fight on the f*cking landing f*cking grounds, we shall fight in the f*cking fields & in the f*cking streets,we shall fight in the f*cking hills; we shall never f*cking surrender.’

This made me smile #nasa #oil #clangers @NASA

Hail sweeping through Loch Seaforth

'Ben-Gvir, among the most ardent backers of the bill, has repeatedly worn a noose-shaped lapel pin – a symbol of the method by which Palestinians could be executed under the proposed law.' This messianic death cult believes Palestinians are untermensch theguardian.com/world/2026/m…

Anyone who thinks trump has been anointed by God sure has a low opinion of God.

Under Trump the US is like the friend you never wanted to go on a night out with because they'd either ditch you when they thought they'd scored or they'd get drunk and start a fight and expect you to back them up.

One's from a country terrorised by a violent paramilitary force and ruled by crazy old men and religious fanatics, and the other's from Iran

I'm Scottish and I don't have Tourette's. So if I call you a cunt it's because you're a cunt.

Denmark is returning the favor and sending two hospital ships to America.

The BBC just released a new adaptation of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by William Golding. It's beautifully made, but it's still telling the wrong story. A few years ago, I went looking for the *real* Lord of the Flies. I wanted to know: has it ever actually happened? Have kids ever been shipwrecked on a deserted island? It took me a year of research, but I found it. In 1965, six boys from a boarding school in Tonga stole a boat, got caught in a storm, and drifted for eight days without food or water. They washed up on 'Ata, a remote, uninhabited island in the Pacific. They stayed there for 15 months, and what happened on that island was the exact opposite of William Golding's novel. These boys set up a small commune. They built a food garden, stored rainwater in hollowed-out tree trunks, created a gym with improvised weights, and built a badminton court. One of them, Stephen (who would later become an engineer) managed to start a fire using two sticks. They kept it burning the entire time. Of course they fought too. But then they argued, they had a rule: go to opposite ends of the island, cool down, then come back and apologize. As one of them told me: ‘That's how we stayed friends.’ Back home, everyone assumed that the boys – Luke, Stephen, Sione, David, Kolo and Mano — were dead. When they were finally discovered by an Australian captain named Peter Warner, he radioed their names to Tonga. After twenty minutes, a tearful response came back: ‘You found them! These boys have been given up for dead. Funerals have been held. If it's them, this is a miracle!’ Peter commissioned a new ship, hired all six boys as his crew, and named the boat the Ata, after the island where he found them. They remained friends for the rest of their lives – Peter and Mano even became soulmates. I tracked them down, and it became one of the central chapters of my book Humankind. Here's what struck me most: William Golding (the author of Lord of the Flies) was a troubled man, an alcoholic who once said ‘I have always understood the Nazis, because I am of that sort by nature.’ I think he was projecting his own darkness onto children. And we turned it into a lesson about human nature that we teach to millions of kids around the world. I think the real lesson is the opposite. When real children found themselves alone on a real island, they didn't descend into savagery. They cooperated, they took care of each other, they survived. I'm not saying that the Tongan castaways were representative of all kids everywhere. But I am saying that every kid who has to read or watch the fictional Lord of the Flies also deserves to know what actually happened when it played out in real life. Stories are never just stories. We become the stories that we tell ourselves.

‘We can see that courage’: Greece recovers long-lost photos of Nazis’ May Day executions theguardian.com/world/2026/f…