Maxine Peake and Shirley Henderson and Peter Mullen are fantastic. Also some young actors in there with Tourettes’ syndrome who are truly excellent. Robert Aramayo puts in an award winning turn. So excited to see how his career develops. That’s a generational actor, I think.

Remarkable movie, and astonishing central performance. Made me think how infrequently we see this kind of film now. Grounded, social realism, very British drama. Good to see posters everywhere and a cinema release. Old school British cinema that isn’t only twee or ‘old person does something quirky.’

"[Hector] Bellerin, who now plays for Real Betis, chooses to cycle to work or use public transport – part of his determination to eschew materialism and use his sporting profile to promote sustainability." [The Star]

GET OUT OF THE ROAD FFSSSSS

Blue Lights’ building of tension is life shortening 😳

One great thing about Arteta is he’s able to simultaneously piss of “yer da” fans who find his commitment to things like “motivation” and “team-building” cringe while also angering people who love “progressive football” and insist he’s a Spanish Tony Pulis

While out achieving most of their coaches

how dead is the tory party? dead enough that multiple people who support this exact policy have texted me in dismay that it's now backed by Kemi Badenoch

It's properly unconscionable that the Home Office has created this situation. It should never have been allowed to happen and once it did happen it should have been immediately reversed.

It’s boiling in October because you’re using ChatGPT to write your emails, Janice.

I just don't understand why the women's team have taken on the men's supply of stupid pills.

Birmingham, my home city, is a fantastic city, with fantastic people- a success story. It has its problems, like anywhere. But the obsession the online right has with it is as transparent as it gets.

Stewin

I think talking about Taylor Swift and framing the subject as online fuss and ‘isn’t her new album lovely’ is peak The Restification of Culture. How can you mention her and not her impact on modern feminism? It’s a wider softening, Bake-Offing of culture.

There’s something so ghoulish about the ad reads on the rest is entertainment podcast I usually give up on the episode before they even get to the end

There’s no argument worth having anymore because it’s all bad faith. Everything is culture war. Everything is some kind of viral meme. It’s all so transparent and anti-intellectual and it has infected our politics body and soul and all I can do now is ignore all of it. Ideas. Not discourse.

These are quickly being added to my must read list each week

They did a flurry of advertising about ten years ago, and I thought "This feels vaguely like a front for something," and the recent wave with all the celebs involved feels even more like a front for something.

2004: wow social media keep in touch with your friends online

2026: you are about to be held accountable by a 14 year old for a passive aggressive email you sent in 1991. overhead, vultures drift in lazy circles

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

And that is the answer: Zionism accepts no judge or authority. It can do no wrong — not because of what it does or how it behaves, but because of *who* it is — and therefore, by definition, anyone who claims otherwise is an antisemite.

This is the internal logic of Zionism.

Our own politicians were praising the Israeli army — a foreign army — as being more moral than our own, as though that was the natural state of things. It wasn’t even: “this is a model of morality that we should emulate and exceed,” it was: “they, unlike us, can do no wrong.”

This concept — that Israel lies beyond the scope of our moral or legal judgment — is a crystallisation of the ethnic supremacism at the heart of Zionism. And so for years, do you remember, we were told that the Israeli military was “the most moral army in the world”?

Are we to believe, much like with climate change, that everyone who has dedicated their entire life and career to the study of this very question has got it wrong, except for a few crackpots? Or is it even more straightforward than that? Is it that Israel can do no wrong ever?