Another completely fictional English placename for the log book: “Snettisham.” theguardian.com/uk-news/articl…

Why does Ireland hate Israel? Soviet infiltration and Michel Foucault, it says here. telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/05/2…

I have measured out my life with identical William Keegan articles about Brexit.

Finger on the pulse stuff here from My English Dads.

You never see them in the same room, do you?

“Starmer straddles Attlee and Blair.” 👀

Jesus Christ.

When the books are written about Tory politics from the financial crash through to Brexit, Gove will be seen as the central figure, and I don’t mean that remotely as praise.

When I worked in Corbyn’s constituency, it was more or less a full-time job not running into him. Whatever one’s feelings about the man, it’s actively perverse to say he doesn’t put himself about the place.

Given how annoyed the hacks are that there’s even an election at all, they should definitely do this. Why stop at six?

Cometh the hour

oh no, gutted

There’s a lad wandering round central Dublin at the moment with a ‘Trump 2024: Take America Back’ flag in one hand and an Israeli flag in the other. I can only imagine the fascinating conversations he intends to have with the cityfolk!

Genuinely cursing the person who forwarded me this Miranda July interview. nytimes.com/2024/05/05/sty…