Once upon a time, Republicans were actual democratic socialists
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2w ago1956 Republican National platform.
Jon Henley
@jonhenley.bsky.social
Paris-based writer of European allsorts at the Guardian
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2w ago🎶🎶🎶WE'RE ALL GOING ON A SUMMER HOLIDAY🎶🎶🎶
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 2w agoSent an email to 9 Europeans and immediately received 6 automated vacation replies. 🫠
Some personal news, as they say: I've been awarded an honorary doctorate of literature from the University of London. Genuinely v chuffed
Gotta hand it to Zel. Perfect riposte, impeccable comic timing.
Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 4w agoevery so often Zelensky gets a chance to go back to to being a funny guy on tv and it's like his eyes light up and he loses 5 years of age look at his face man is SO HAPPY to just be crushing a punchline
I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year
Saw this ad for a goat on Facebook. It’s perhaps the greatest advert I’ve ever read. It’s just superb.
Says the Telegraph on er BlueSky 😊
The Telegraph@telegraph.co.uk · last mo.The progressive version of Twitter offers a world of vicious, sneering odium that only those who see themselves as kinder humans dish out 🔗 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/03/is-there-anything-more-pathetic-than-a-bluesky-user/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_li_pathetic-than-a-bluesky-user/
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
![That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.
I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.
That’s great advice for life.
It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:yvbszlkc7d75ixkid5g2zmw7/bafkreiar4z6n6pfk7wob2gznv6l6euw7ltxbetgto5drfd4wqzjalldp5m)
++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"
To mark the launch, The Guardian publishes an article based on our latest data on the rise of far-right parties across Europe: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Nearly a quarter of voters in Europe now back far-right parties
Analysis by more than 150 political scientists finds proportion who back such parties has increased nearly fivefold since 1995
theguardian.com
This is a terrific read
Esther Addley@estheraddley.bsky.social · last mo.Ten years to the day since the Brexit vote, and thank goodness for all that political stability it brought. This oral history of the referendum campaign, from those who were behind it, is a pretty bracing reminder of the farce and tragedy of it all. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Story of the day for readers of French. Dark doings on the terrain de pétanque ... (h/t @apiln.bsky.social)
Lads. You can take an England fan out of England; you can't take England out of an England fan www.independent.co.uk/sport/footba...
England fans ignore police pleas to leave Dallas pub after drinking 5,000 beers
England supporters stayed out until early on Wednesday morning following an event at the Londoner Pub in Dallas
independent.co.uk
PSA if you're in France and plagued by spam calls: I cannot recommend highly enough an app called saracroche. It has 16m dodgy numbers in its constantly updated database and it *just blocks them*. It's spared me an average of six spam calls a day since I installed it. Brilliant.
