It's been 20 years since my controversial essay "Iraq Is a Toilet and We Must Crap All Over It" was published in the New York Times. I have since reconsidered a lot of what I said and thought at that time, starting with how toilets work

I’m sorry but these are not “tough decisions” for politicians. They are tough decisions for those forced to choose between heating their homes and eating.

How many beautiful children. How many perfect children who look enough like my son to stop my heart. I will never understand how people have more allegiance to an ethnostate and its racist ideology than to the actual people of the world.

Amazon paid no corporation tax whatsoever in either 2022 or 2023, while pocketing millions of pounds in tax credits. That's why Britain can't have nice things.

Incredibly bizarre to me when Americans talk about guns as casually as somebody would talk about a car. You know those are made to shoot people to death right

This report from @sustrans is really good. It highlights how even the cost of a cheap bike can be out of reach of so many people. Cycle2work schemes only help the better off. It doesn't help the self employed or those not working. Cycles are enablers sustrans.org.uk/cyclingopportu…

Shout out to the guys in the comments of every youtube video who go "can't believe they missed the chance to say X" and X is the worst joke you've ever heard in your life

Humanitarian groups in Gaza share their location with Israeli officials and then get attacked by the IDF at the same location. Here are 14 examples of that happening. My latest for Responsible Statecraft: responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-hamas-w…

dark horse contender for favorite video online. can't even think about it without laughing

My reaction to this was "shoukd just be everything off Steal This Album" and to my surprise that's mostly what they actually chose

tgif the 13th. have a great evening…. if you dare

The thing about this genre of treating people with respect despite ‘political’ differences and making bridges across divides is that it often collapses the moment you stop talking about feelings and start thinking materially

Who’s got a fiver? #Reforestation crowdfunder.co.uk/p/reforestatio…

Dear Applicant, We regret to inform you that Guinness no longer publishes the world record for "World's Tiniest Ass", because it was too sad