One way of describing this is a “market correction”. Another is that a bunch of slimy neo-fascist pricks have just watched their favourite enabler get his arse handed to him, and suddenly the world's biggest ever heist looks a lot less profitable. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

I wasn't making moral judgements back in the 2010s, I just didn't think Russell Brand was funny. So I never paid much attention until he started making news for other reasons. This is horrific. Sounds like it was happening in plain sight for 20 years. www.theguardian.com/culture/2026...

Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Right-wing extremism stops being right-wing extremism the moment Badenoch invites it into the party. Then it's just people offering to arrange contract killings, conveniently laundered into respectability by proximity to His Majesty's Official Opposition. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

It happens so much — it's so endemic — that there's a danger you get numb to it. I can't explain why this one hurt me so bad. Please, please spend a moment to watch this. And imagine it's your mum, sister, daughter, partner or friend. These people are monsters. There's no other word.

What's happening in France is hard to justify but easy to understand. In 1981 the UK had riots because 1 in 10 were unemployed and couldn't afford to eat. In 2026, 1 in 5 are IN WORK and can't afford to eat. What happens when AI doubles that number? What levels of policing will control it?