Four people stabbed on Endell Street, right round the corner from the Poetry Cafe. Hope everything is under control now and that all that were hurt recover quickly. Awful news. news.sky.com/story/covent...

Covent Garden stabbing latest: Multiple people injured - as police arrest woman

A woman has been arrested after multiple people were stabbed in Covent Garden in central London, the Metropolitan Police has said. Follow live updates.

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"Sure this guy spent his days working as a guard at a death camp but he had a generous nature and a quirky sense of humour at his weekend barbecues"

I would totally buy a petrichor scented air freshener.

As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan

Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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I love how everyone just says they get dopamine from something when they basically mean they enjoy it but want it to sound a bit clever. But, you know, I hear that keeping a personal tally of your own neurotransmitters might require a lab and some technical staff which is tricky.

I enjoyed the Stewart Lee bit where he pretended to be Rod Liddle eating poppadoms and just stood there making crunching noises with odd pauses for about twenty minutes. Does that count as saying something nice about Rod Liddle? Cos that's all I've got.

Saying the words "London liberal" should immediately result in you having a bag put over your head, get bundled into a car and then dropped off for the night in Beckton or Thamesmead.

I sometimes visit online consumption communities that fetishise distraction-free writing devices or mechanical keyboards. Then I remember that the best, most prolific writers I know use knackered laptops with missing keys that are held together with gaffer tape and accumulated toast crumbs.

My internal monologue 24hrs after having my phone swiped by a toerag on an ebike. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEwr...

Greatest Wrestling Promo Ever Cut

YouTube video by Mark Warburton

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Ah, so when you have your phone nicked and you log into whatsapp on a new (but actually really old) device, it logs out all of your secondary devices and deletes your chat history on those too! Zucktastic!!!

I've been living in South London for 25 years but I finally popped my "phone snatched out of my hand by a toerag on an ebike" cherry today.

I read books, I play games, I watch films and I listen to music. I don't "consume media".

There's a bit of discourse about method acting right now. Here's a lovely video of Stephen Graham recalling his time with Daniel Day Lewis on Gangs of New York. Method is just staying in character on set, it's not being a jerk to all the people you're working with. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xO2...

Stephen Graham remembers the moment Daniel Day-Lewis went fully in character on GANGS OF NEW YORK

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I remember, when Russell Brand was doing his revolution cosplay, his fans would often tell me, "You don't like him because you're jealous about him sleeping with lots of women". They've obviously gone quiet now but at the same time I have no recollection of anyone I ever knew liking Jared Leto.

When I was a gardener, I found out that the company also had the contract for parts of Hampstead Heath, and I seriously considered a transfer. Then, one of the guys I worked with told me that he worked there and I asked him why he transferred to Acton. His answer? "Fuckin' Bill Oddie"

I really enjoyed The Odyssey. I also enjoyed Emily Wilson's hatchet job of it in the LRB, but it's ended up being the conduit for the inevitable deluge of middle class culture vulture contrarianism and all the "I'm too good for this" tedium it entails.

Reddit commenter wins the internet for today.

Just saw a goth family. Three of them, Mummy Goth, Daddy Goth and teenage daughter Goth. Like the three bears, but there's no way this lot would let Goldilocks live.

In other news, I was angry about Meta using a David Bowie song for their latest AI propaganda video but then I realised the song was Five Years, which is ultimately about needing human contact in the face of imminent extinction.

The biggest highlight from all my active years on Twitter was when a tweet of mine got two likes but those two likes were from the Natural History Museum's senior researcher in human evolution and the bass player of Joy Division.

Proper dickheads www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Orcas seen ramming prey so hard it explodes may be playing game

Scientists believe sunfish-smashing behaviour could be form of entertainment or to help younger whales feed

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www.theguardian.com/cities/2026/... One distinctive thing about the Elephant social cleansing project was that there was no hipsterfication phase. They eyed the real estate, bulldozed the Heygate and then the shopping centre. Right-to-buy flat owners were forcibly evicted by the police.

How Elephant and Castle risks becoming London’s gentrification ‘patient zero’

New £500m town centre welcomes its first tenant this month, but displaced traders say promises that they could return have been broken

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I keep looking up the clock and thinking, "One hour until the school run" and then realising that it's not only the summer holiday but that my youngest has just finished primary and I never have to do the school run again. Other parents were expressing their happiness about this but it makes me sad.

There's a certain kind of man who tells you that you have a great imagination but means it as a kind of dunk or gotcha. I'm 50 and I'm glad I haven't become one of them.

My wife visited the Cannes film festival when she was a student. She ended up attending the premiere of Dunstan Checks In. I only found this out after we'd been married for about ten years. There's no Orangutans in The Shining or Pyscho so they just can't compete.

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Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

It's so much more fun when Ireland qualify for big tournaments. There's a few hopeful moments but it ultimately ends with a 6-0 drubbing from Spain but it's all a laugh and the fans find a way to go home happy. Whereas there's nothing that fun about supporting the country of my birth.

England are losing, and John Stones is down injured. The camera cuts to Mick Jagger. Guy Mowbray says some pre-scripted thing about "He won't be feeling much satisfaction." YES BUT THERE'S A PLAYER CALLED 'STONES' DOWN INJURED. MOWBRAY! YOU HAD ONE JOB.

Everyone's booing each other's national anthems. Finally, after all these weeks, a football match.