Foreign journalists trying to cover UK politics right now #Farage #Clacton

Fair play to Rachel Reeves, this is exceptional work

So the voters of Clacton have a choice, between a cynical attention seeking idiot who will do nothing useful for them and make their constituency a national laughing stock, or... yeah you can probably see where I'm going with this.

TFW you're playing a video game and you screw up so badly you reload the last save point out of sheer desperation

Why Your Parents Are Driving You Up the Wall and What To Do About It www.hive.co.uk/Produ... Dr Dean Burnett's increasingly important book for young people, about the parent-teen dynamic, makes the perfect gift for someone else's older child. #Parents #teens #gifts #book #psychology

So, you're a reactionary bigot? That don't impress me much

Why Your Parents Are Hung-Up on Your Phone and What to Do About It blackwells.co.uk/boo... Dean Burnett's book for young readers is an increasingly essential read in the time of social media bans, manosphere concerns, AI slop, and more #Books #Teens #Phones #tech

Emotional Ignorance - Misadventures in the Science of Emotion www.hive.co.uk/Produ... Dean Burnett's fifth and most personal book delves into the real science of emotion, and exposes just how baffling, but vitally important, it is, for every aspect of modern life. #Brains #Emotions #book

2026 saw the publication of the 10 year anniversary edition of Dean Burnett's global smash debut book, The Idiot Brain www.hive.co.uk/Produ... So, if you've already waited over a decade to get it, you should buy it now. You're already overdue! #TheIdiotBrain #Brains #Books #Neuroscience

How hot is it? It's 'The cat is 6 inches away from the dog and can't be bothered to even mildly assault him' hot. #Pickle #Forest #heatwave

If you're free this Saturday and are in Penarth (or are willing to go there), you should definitely come and see my talk for the Penarth Literary Festival, all thanks to the great people at Griffin Books www.ticketsource.com...

The social media ban is based on evidence-free scaremongering and paranoia, exhibit A: "My kid can't be harmed by social media because he does BOXING instead" I'm not anti-boxing, but the idea that it's automatically safer for your kid's brain than social media is WILD! www.bbc.co.uk/news/a...

"I think the lawn has got too long. We're getting apex predators in it" #Pickle #CatsofInstagram #grass

I'm going to hazard a guess and say "Because the ketamine king of Me speech is triggered to the marrow by the very sight of a non-white person who is better looking and more talented than him" So, any non-white person, really

Always loved Terminator 2, but I honestly feel Robert Patrick doesn't get the kudos he deserves for giving us possibly the greatest, most flat-out terrifying antagonist in cinema history. I genuinely think all the later sequels were doomed from the get go as he left nowhere to go in terms of threat

Huge thanks to anyone and everyone who attended our neuroscience panel at The Royal Institution a week ago. Interesting and enlightening times had by all, I feel. If you missed it, I'm at Pints of Knowledge in Camden on June 2nd, so do come along to that instead www.tickettailor.com...

A post insisting "Books are good for you!" because they build up your cognitive reserve... illustrated with AI generated imagery. This is very much a 'mixed message'. Like someone saying "You should really eat more fruit" while they napalm yet another orchard.

You know your dog thinks you were out of the house too long when he's figured out how to make his own tea while waiting for you. #dogs #tea #beagle

Wife: "How did you sleep?" Me: "Not great, got a lot on my mind" Me at 3.46am:

"Prime Minister, here's that metaphor you ordered"

Saw someone pointing out that David Attenborough celebrated his 100th birthday even though he's publicly expressed concerns about the dangers of overpopulation, as if this was some form of 'gotcha'.

It's all kicking off in my home town!

My home valley's constituency Bigger Reform vote than I'd like? Absolutely ...but given some of the, uh, 'sentiments' expressed by old friends and even close family in recent years, waaaaay below my more pessimistic predictions Dai Iawn Pawb

Early days, anything can happen etc. ...but this does not scream 'confident of victory' to me.

Copilot's AI 'hints' have infested my Word documents, so trying to write anything is like having it critiqued in real time by a hyperactive 6 year old "What does that mean?" "Are you sure about that?" "Why don't you do this instead?" "Who's that?" "Is that really a word?" "I like this word better"

Saw that the Reform lot are flyering in my area again

Obviously this is bad and stupid and should be condemned... ...but if ANY country has zero right to complain about a major trading partner saying "We're going to arbitrarily change our existing deal because we've suddenly decided we don't like you for childish and idiotic reasons", it's the UK

Absolutely. The fuck. Not. And any of my countryfolk knowingly deciding to vote for surrendering yet more of our culture to English millionaires who would be happier if we all died are clearly a bigger threat to our nation than any immigrant.

Six years ago since we lost Dad to #COVID19 Sunny evening and a beer seems the way to go Godspeed, old man

Four years ago this very day, we brought a bouncy beagle puppy home for the very first time. Today, he had a glorious run on the beach, and enjoyed several egg yolks. Happy anniversary Forest. You massive idiot.