> Run a chaotic and unpopular Number 10

> Have a limited and confused plan for government

> Be beset by scandal about personal judgment and conduct

> Be Boris Johnson (pic unrelated)

It's going to be even worse the next time they appoint Peter Mandelson

"The FSB, IRGC and other terror organisations are waging a terror campaign against Britain's Jewish population using gullible young people as undetectable proxies" is a national security crisis we are just deciding not to think about

I enjoyed Project Hail Mary, but it did remind me that Hollywood is a bit obsessed with the trolley problem, and often fumbles it.

TRUMP, throwing insults at Pope Leo:
“weak on crime”
“terrible for foreign policy”
“catering to the Radical Left”
“owes his position to me”
“sit down and mind your own business”

POPE LEO, unbothered:
“We are called to love.”

Dominoes.

READ MORE If they’ll block this, what exactly counts as acceptable development?

"My home is a Grade II Listed building," a local writes *in their objection to an expansion of a cancer hospital*. "The development would cause significant harm to its setting, character and historic significance, contrary to the statutory duty to preserve listed buildings and their surroundings."

Recommend The Genius Myth by Helen Lewis on this

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on his not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair

'this is not a serious attempt to unite the left - accordingly, we are starting a new party' approaches the Platonic ideal of far left resignation statements

It is very funny that all Trump and Vance achieved by boosting Orban was to make him lose by even more.

Whilst I very much don’t want to look at everything globally through the lens of British political culture, I also want to point out that Matthew Goodwin was getting paid a lot of money by the Victor Orban led government and highly likely he won’t be from now on and that’s y’know very funny?

It's good to know that if Zack were PM he would not be working hard behind the scenes to defuse an immensely delicate, hugely dangerous situation by trying to talk a madman down from genocide, he'd be Tweeting to inflame it all for narrow political advantage.

I mean the whole thing is a bit on the nose, isn't it? (Reality, not just the headline)

The Nobel Foundation should organize a football competition.

[Chuck Schumer scavenging through the post-apocalyptic rubble for scraps of food] He's gone too far. Someone should do something about this

Earthset captured through the Orion spacecraft window at 6:41 p.m. EDT, April 6, 2026, during the Artemis II crew’s flyby of the Moon. A muted blue Earth with bright white clouds sets behind the cratered lunar surface. The dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime. On Earth’s day side, swirling clouds are visible over the Australia and Oceania region. In the foreground, Ohm crater has terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Central peaks form in complex craters when the lunar surface, liquefied on impact, splashes upwards during the crater’s formation. [alt text from NASA]

#Artemis II lunar flyby images are showing up! 😍

A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon.

Boris Johnson says Trump back in White House is 'what the world needs' Ex-PM backs disgraced former US president ahead of election, saying he 'won't ditch the Ukrainians'

Never forget these arse kissing fools who cheered on the worst president in history.

The important stuff

That FIFA peace prize was money well spent huh.

NYT: President Trump on Sunday escalated his threats to bomb Iranian power plants within the next two days and taunted the country’s leaders in an expletive-laden social media post. Mr. Trump, seemingly emboldened by the successful U.S. rescue of an American airman in Iran over the weekend, issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz, a major Persian Gulf waterway for the transport of oil and gas, by Apr. 6. If Iran’s government did not, he said, U.S. forces would target the country’s energy infrastructure, which supplies power for millions of civilians. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!!” Mr. Trump wrote on social media. The president has previously postponed his deadline to attack twice and the Omani foreign ministry said on Sunday that officials had discussed how to reopen the Strait of Hormuz with Iranian counterparts without reaching a definitive agreement. “Praise be to Allah,” Mr. Trump added, before signing off in all caps.

The NYT literally rewrote Trump saying “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in hell” as:

“Mr. Trump issued a new ultimatum to Iran to end its chokehold over the Strait of Hormuz”

[Trump posts a fully nude selfie showing him smoking crack minutes before launching nuclear missiles at Iran]

NYT: In a bold statement aimed at the Iranian regime hardliners and at Democrats ahead of the midterms, the President this morning sent a clear message.....

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake By A Horse Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where they want to go. The main food the humans give me is hay and oats. But I am thinking it would be nice to have a different food. I am thinking I would like to try cake. Yes, yes. Cake. I know all about it. When humans eat cake, it is in glad times. It is the food for a celebration, such as when a woman becomes 47. I have seen cake on the Fourth of July. When humans have a cake, they stand around it and clap hands and smile and say happy birthday at each other. Sometimes there are beautiful markings on a cake, such as balloons or a pink shape. Sometimes the top of a cake is on fire and a boy must blow on the fire with mouth wind. This is the scariest cake. I do not want this kind. But I will eat any other cake. Any cake that is not the fire cake that tries to kill the boy. Please understand: I do not get money for doing work. I do not get to go inside the house. All I am either doing my horse job or standing in my pen or eating food off the floor. I always do these things. But I have never once gotten cake and I would like it very much. I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children. I am more helpful to the farm. Children do not move the heavy things like me or let anyone ride on them. And yet they get cake. Maybe the humans will realize this. Maybe they will say, "You know who deserves cake? That horse. That horse whose back we are always on." Every day I dream about what it will be like if I get to eat cake. Here is what will happen. First, I will walk to the cake and putt my nose at it like hrrfff to make and stomping my hooves to make sure it is not a snake. Then I will trot in a circle to show that I am a horse and I am large. After that, I will nuzzle the cake to …

The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me.

It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

guys this is so nice :') I love that we're all online watching a thing that's good instead of bad :')

... And all those people making all those decisions knowing that to get it wrong might mean calamity. Nerves of steel.

I was telling the kids about the launch earlier. My three year old said 'can I go?' No hesitation.

Nope, still can't get over the fact we last did this sort of thing 54 years ago.

Gratified to learn that 3 out of 4 of the Artemis II crew are older than me. Still time!