First item on BBC News: rapper not playing festival.

Second item on BBC News: Trump promises to erase entire civilisation.

That’s certainly what I was taught.

Literally no-one could have predicted an insane christi-fascist regime led my a malignant narcissist with dementia could have ended up here.

Do they think people have literally no memory of past events at all?

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

A Night In The Royal In the overheated limbo of The Royal’s Saturday-night waiting room, the city’s humour becomes its own kind of medicine.

In the overheated limbo of The Royal’s Saturday-night waiting room, the city’s humour becomes its own kind of medicine.

Good grief!

Yep. Based loosely on Who Goes There? so it’s a kissing cousin of both other films

Have you seen horror express?

The Business Of The Chicken: 12 hours in Chicken Bazooka Perhaps this venerable, bonkers, mediocre chicken shop is the greasy, indestructible heart of Liverpool

I spent a day in Chicken Bazooka - one of Liverpool’s strangest places. Here’s what I found.

Wyrd Wirral It's easy to dismiss Wirral as weird, but what if the ancient strangeness is something the peninsula should lean into, rather than ignore? Meet spirits of place on a walk along the coast.

Why is Wirral weird? Imagine if the folky strangeness of Wirral became something the peninsula sold itself on, rather than ignored. In another note, there are Vikings Claremont Farm this weekend.

A long summer read from Laura Brown

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Northumbria police destroy Battle of Orgreave and other miners’ strike files Force says it disposed of papers last year despite forthcoming inquiry into scenes of violent policing in 1984

Disgraceful

Streams of consciousness: in search of Liverpool’s lost rivers From the Alt to Jordan, how the city's buried waterways endure beneath roads, parks and time itself.

A piece 18 months in the making, tracing Liverpool’s lost rivers liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/streams-of...

Some Might Not Say: What a Glut of New Oasis Books is Leaving Unwritten | The Quietus There are a glut of new Oasis books out due to the reunion, but, asks Fergal Kinney, how is the band's shocking decline in quality dealt with?

Excellent by @fergalkinney.bsky.social on how nobody likes to talk about how late-period Oasis were appalling (also for anyone paying £100s in price-gouged tickets to see them this summer, how as a 15yo fan he went to see them and ended up drenched in bloke piss)

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‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza A family is reeling from the killing of a woman who walked for hours to an Israeli-backed distribution point with her son and daughter

‘These are traps set for the people’: the story of a mother shot dead searching for food in Gaza www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

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What's On in Liverpool in May #2 Two festivals, a new exhibition from a departing curator and a play ending its run — plus a food scene that might be new to you...

I have a new things. Essays and a what’s on guide to Liverpool. Yes, it’s a newsletter. liverpoolalmanac.substack.com/p/whats-on-i...

As ‘another sucker trying to sell their house through estate agents’ presumably

That’s nothing. Our estate agent tried to sell our own house to us.

Revealed: online campaign urged far right to attack China’s opponents in UK Social media incitement following last summer’s riots appears to be new tactic against Hong Kong exiles

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Curate your own city Ten years ago, a group of volunteers led by artist Sam Meech unveiled the first month of programming at Liverpool Small Cinema.

"A friend once said to me, always act as though you’re the only one keeping the archive. You compile and create your own history and experience of a city."

Liverpool is a DIY city. So what's stopping you?

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So long, and thanks for all the Garmonbozia

Robert F Kennedy Jr claims seed oils are ‘poisoning’ us. Here’s why he’s wrong Like a host of online influencers, the man likely to be the US’s next health secretary has denounced the vegetable oils used in countless foods. The science is not on their side

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Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga | Siva Vaidhyanathan It’s also a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users

Mark Zuckerberg has gone full Maga
It’s also a mistake to describe the Meta CEO’s move as a retreat from ‘fact-checking’: it’s a retreat from limiting harm to users..
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Not long now til @telegraphnews.bsky.social goes full on Free Tommy

David Lodge, Campus Trilogy novelist and academic, dies aged 89 The author of more than two dozen books is best known for his trio set in a fictionalised version of the University of Birmingham, where he worked from 1960 to 1987

David Lodge’s campus trilogy are essential reading - especially if you actually work on a campus - but I got into this work via a short story called Hotel Des Boobs, which was one of the funniest things I’d ever read www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

I think this should be kind of a big deal: Elon Musk tweeting at 1:03am, “Only the AfD can save Germany.”

The AfD is Germany’s neo-Nazi party.

‘put pillows on trains’ is probably not a bad idea, but expecting the government to debate it in Parliament strikes me as… unlikely

Petitioning the government to ‘Pub in bethel, Caernarfon’ is a bold strategy for incentivising growth

Among a load of right-wing drivel and complaining about fireworks - and allowing for ‘funny’ ones there are some astonishing government petitions that people launch. “Give £25,000 of taxpayers’ cash to each shop selling fishing tackle” is my favourite of this batch