Today I was able to wish happy 30th anniversary of #Parklife to someone who was in #Blur 😃

Pen and ink redraw of a recent Private Eye cartoon.

Here’s one for BBC Politics and #bbcaq tonight. How is it someone like Kate Andrews who works for publication with less than 110k circulation and has rarely discussed links to an opaque think tank, seemingly appears at almost every opportunity? Matthew Sweet #ThisIsNotBalance

Amazing coincidences do occur after all

Who really owns the Jewish Chronicle? Why the total secrecy? And how can Robbie Gibb reconcile being a BBC director with being nominal “owner” of the The Jewish Chronicle, which thinks the BBC hates Israel? My column prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/65…

A wonderful example of how poorly thought out the Rwanda scheme truly is:

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Cheer up people.

It’s possible to have good as well as bad shocks. Here’s how things could work out better than expected for the next government
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£13,000 - the annual cost to heat Rishi Sunak's pool

£11,502 - the new annual state pension

This just in from Popbitch. Our media is broken

That Labour leads the Tories by 11% amongst regular GB News viewers is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in politics for some time.

It wasn’t all that long ago that the Daily Telegraph was a respectable, sane newspaper.

Not distasteful: Breaking international law in order to deport victims of modern slavery to a brutal dictatorship

Distasteful: Criticising it

My Church Times cartoon this week ⁦Church Times⁩

When will these folks realise that we have about as much ideological influence on our students as does your average newspaper columnist?

Cecil Sharp House in Camden is the home of English folk, dance and song and an important - charming - venue. Now developments are afoot for luxury flats opposite. Well, what’s the first thing the super rich do when they move in opposite a place with live music?

For a man who wore an actual name badge featuring an entirely made-up name, this could be construed as progress…

On raising the age for buying cigarettes. From the new Private Eye, out now.

The cost of three attempts to ‘stop the boats’ will be £17m a day to take care of 115,000 asylum seekers who cannot be given asylum, integrated into UK society, or sent anywhere else bit.ly/3w7TkZK 402 arrived yesterday, 6667 this year, up 20% on same period 2023

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