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The Odyssey Release Date, Cast, Trailer And Everything We Know
The whole world has been waiting for Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey with bated breath ever since the project was announced in 2024.
Nolan’s first film since Oppenheimer’s Oscars sweep, The Odyssey is an epic tale of war, love and loss with a stacked all-star cast, and marks the director’s first movie shot entirely with IMAX cameras.
At last, the years-long wait for the British filmmaker’s 13th movie is almost over, with its release now less than two months away.
Excitingly, plenty about The Odyssey is still shrouded in mystery, but here is everything we do know about one of this year’s most talked-about movies…
What is The Odyssey about?
The Odyssey is based on an epic poem by the ancient Greek writer Homer, which follows the King of Ithaca, Odysseus, on his harrowing 10-year journey home after the Trojan War.
Over the course of his voyage, Odysseus battles numerous mythical monsters, including a cyclops as well as sirens and deadly sorceresses, before finally making it back to his homeland and family.
The story predominantly explores the drive to protect one’s family, loyalty and the use of brain over brawn to succeed.

Which stars are in the cast of Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey?
It’s no great surprise that A-listers are queuing up to work with Christopher Nolan, and the cast of The Odyssey is a real who’s who of Hollywood.
Matt Damon is taking on the lead role as Odysseus, with Anne Hathaway playing his wife Penelope and Tom Holland appearing as his son Telemachus.
Robert Pattinson will play Odysseus’ rival Antinous, a suitor for Penelope, and is joined by his Dune and The Drama co-star Zendaya, who will be playing the Greek goddess Athena.

Also playing pivotal characters are Charlize Theron as the sea witch Calypso, and Lupita Nyong’o, who is also set to play both Helen of Troy and her sister, Clytemnestra.
Rapper Travis Scott also appears in the film, playing a poet figure, with Mia Goth portraying the maidservant Melantho, John Leguizamo appearing as Odysseus’ friend Eumaeus, The Bear’s Jon Bernthal playing Spartan king Menelaus and The Smashing Machine director Benny Safdie taking on the role of Menelaus’ brother Agamemnon.
Rounding out the cast are Minority Report’s Samantha Morton as the mythical Circe and Yesterday’s Himesh Patel as Odysseus’ second-in-command, Eurylochus.
Logan Marshall Green and Elliot Page are also in the film, although neither’s role has been officially revealed.
Christopher Nolan fans will know the director has a penchant for working with the same actors across different projects, and many of his The Odyssey actors have appeared in his past movies.
Anne Hathaway starred in both The Dark Knight Rises and Interstellar, while Matt Damon also appeared in Interstellar, as well as Oppenheimer.
Robert Pattinson and Himesh Patel both appeared in Tenet, while Elliot Page worked with the filmmaker back in 2010’s Inception and Benny Safdie had a minor role in Oppenheimer.

What has Christopher Nolan said about The Odyssey?
Compared to many of his peers, Christopher Nolan is known for his love of practical effects and shooting out in the real world, rather than relying on CGI and green-screen technology.
The Odyssey will be no different, with the cast shooting in locations as varied as Scotland, Morocco, Italy and Iceland.
“By embracing the physicality of the real world in the making of the film, you do inform the telling of the story in interesting ways,” the Dunkirk filmmaker told Empire in November last year. “Because you’re confronted on a daily basis by the world pushing back at you.”
During a recent appearance on The Late Show back in May, Christopher told Stephen Colbert that he considered The Odyssey to be the original Marvel movie.
He claimed: “Even comic book culture, whether you’re talking about Marvel or D.C. or all the rest, a lot of it comes directly from the Homeric Epics.
“The thing about Homer is, nobody knows if that was a person. Homer, in a way, is the sort of George Lucas of his time.”

When asked what made him want to adapt The Odyssey for the big screen, he admitted that a subplot involving Odysseus’ dog Argos had really stood out to him.
He explained: “I’m a new dog owner. I’d never had a dog growing up. I didn’t have a dog when my kids were young. We denied that, and then as soon as they left for college, we got a dog.
“They love the dog, too, when they get to visit. I decided to do The Odyssey because it’s the ultimate dog story.”
What has the cast of The Odyssey said about the new movie?
Lead actor Matt Damon teased to Empire back in November that The Odyssey is “exactly what you want [from] a summer movie”, describing shooting it as “the best experience of my career”.
In a more recent interview with GQ, he shared how the film felt more like the big-budget films he made in the early years of his career.
He explained: “It was a really weird movie for me personally in the sense that I had almost a nostalgic feeling the entire time I was making it, because it felt like the movies when I started working. And I know that that’s going away.”
Matt theorised that, because of the way that the industry is headed, The Odyssey could well be the last of its kind.
“I knew that this was the last chance I was going to have to do something like this,” he claimed, adding: “I don’t think people are going to be given the resources to shoot movies that way for much longer.”
Tom Holland also called The Odyssey his “proudest achievement” in an April interview with GQ.

“I can tell you that it is an absolute masterpiece, and I’m taking myself out of that equation. Chris Nolan’s movie is fantastic,” the Spider-Man actor said. “It’s unlike anything that I’ve ever seen before.”
Tom promised fans they are going to be “blown away by the set pieces and sequences,” thanks to the scale of Nolan’s film.
“I was absolutely blown away by the scale, the scope, his ability to navigate such an intricate and heartfelt story in the middle of this insane kind of action movie,” he enthused.
Charlize Theron also backed up Matt and Tom’s comment about the filming experience.
The Oscar winner told Elle that making the Greek epic was “one of the best experiences that I’ve ever had”, stating: “All of us had a certain personality of wanting to push harder. And when you put a group of those kinds of people together, it’s pretty amazing what they can accomplish.”
And rewarding though the experience might have been, the stars have made no secret of the fact that the shoot was an especially tough one.
Matt admitted to GQ in June: “Every time we’d go somewhere, we’d be like, ‘Well, Iceland will be easier’. And then it’s raining sideways and it’s fucking freezing. Iceland was like, ‘Yeah, easy? Hey, hold my beer’.
“I’ve never seen people look so exhausted,” Robert Pattinson added about the experience in the same GQ article. “And this was only a third of the way.”
He continued: “I started a third of the way through the movie, and they’d already been to [two] countries by that point and people just looked like… I mean, at the end of every day people were broken.”
Some critics have already taken issue with The Odyssey’s historical accuracy

As soon as The Odyssey’s first trailer dropped in December, sceptics wasted no time pointing out how historically incorrect they felt the armour and costumes looked.
In a Time interview from May, the director responded to his detractors, insisting that his research was thorough when putting together The Odyssey, and pointing out that our knowledge of the Bronze Age is based on “very fragmentary archaeological records”.
He said of the cynics: “Hopefully they’ll enjoy the film, even if they don’t agree with everything. We had a lot of scientists complain about Interstellar. But you just don’t want people to think that you took it on frivolously.”
There was also some discourse during filming, when the director’s location choices were met with backlash.
Matt Damon and Zendaya were reported to be filming a sequence in Dakhla, a city in the Western Sahara that has been under Moroccan occupation for the last 50 years.
María Carrión, the executive director of Western Sahara International Film Festival, accused the director, his actors and his crew – whether knowingly or unknowingly – of “contributing to Morocco’s repression of the Sahrawi people and to the Moroccan regime’s efforts to normalise its occupation of Western Sahara” by filming in the region.
While the filmmaker has not directly responded to these comments, The Guardian has claimed that The Odyssey’s shoot in Dakhla was completed in around four days, and was already over by the time the festival organisers raised their concerns.
Although some were concerned with the costume and location choices of The Odyssey, there’s also been a separate backlash centred on its casting.
Some online commentators have questioned why a movie based on Homer’s Greek epic appears to have no Greek actors confirmed in the principal cast.
Greek City Times even published an open letter which argues that Greek people are being ignored in a story so deeply rooted in Greek culture, history and identity.
Similarly, the decision for all of the characters to speak in American accents was one that raised eyebrows.
Unfortunately, The Odyssey has also been met with racist backlash over its casting

Meanwhile, certain right-wing parts of the internet regrettably exploded when it was revealed that Lupita Nyong’o would playing Helen of Troy, described in mythology as “the most beautiful woman in the world”.
One such critic was Elon Musk, who has spent the last few months complaining on social media about Lupita’s inclusion.
“Casting a Black woman to play a White woman in a foundational work of European literature is no more right than casting a White man to play Shaka Zulu!” the X owner claimed, referring to the South African king, while also Elon branding Nolan “an anti-White racist”.
Right-wing commentator Matt Walsh claimed in another X post that “not one person on the planet actually thinks that Lupita Nyong’o is ‘the most beautiful woman in the world,’” despite the star being named People’s Most Beautiful Woman after first rising to fame.
Lupita has since addressed the racist backlash, reminding those who have an issue with her casting that The Odyssey is a “mythological story”.
“Our cast is representative of the world. I’m not spending my time thinking of a defence,” she told Elle in May 2026. “The criticism will exist whether I engage with it or not.”
She added: “It spans worlds. So that’s why the cast is what it is. We’re occupying the epic narrative of our time.”
Nolan praised the Oscar-winning actor during the same article, enthusing: “The strength and the poise were so important to the character of Helen. And Lupita makes it look effortless.
“I’m sure there’s a tremendous amount of discipline and training that goes into projecting that kind of poise and feeling the emotion bubbling beneath the character, the layers of the character right there underneath.”
Has The Odyssey been adapted for the screen before?
While Christopher Nolan’s take isn’t the first adaptation of Homer’s The Odyssey, it looks to be the biggest and most epic adaptation to date.
Kirk Douglas previously starred in an Italian version of the story in 1954 called Ulysses, while the Coen brothers’ 2000 musical-comedy O Brother, Where Art Thou? turned Odysseus into an escaped prisoner in the American South.
The most recent adaptation of The Odyssey came in 2024, with the film The Return.
Starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, the movie covered only the last act of the story, depicting Odysseus pretending to be a suitor to win his wife back – and killing the men trying to pursue her.
When will The Odyssey release in cinemas?
Mark your calendars – Christopher Nolan’s take on The Odyssey will hit theatres on July 17 2026.
Is there trailer for The Odyssey?
There certainly is. Give it a watch for yourself below:
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Reform retract grim attack ad following legal challenge
On 30 May, Reform UK posted a grim AI slop post which depicted refugees holding ‘Vote Andy‘ banners. Now, the party has been forced to take down the post following a legal challenge from the creator of the banner image:
Stanley Chow: "My work has been used without permission to share a message that I fundamentally disagree with" pic.twitter.com/76wuglQq8K
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 6, 2026
NEW: Nigel Farage has deleted a post using Andy Burnham's portrait after the artist launched legal action for using it to push "anti-immigration" messaging
Stanley Chow VS Reform
Stanley Chow is the artist who created the now-familiar cartoon of a dour-looking Burnham with a red background. Chow is a Mancunian and a second-generation immigrant, and has said that Reform’s AI monstrosity “misrepresents what the image stands for and what I believe in”.
He added:
For me, this is straightforward – my work has been used without permission to share a message that I fundamentally disagree with. To see my portrait, created to represent something positive about Manchester and Andy’s vision for the city, being used without my permission to push agendas, including an anti-immigration message, is fundamentally unfair and wrong.
Chow sent a letter to Reform HQ requesting at least £5,000 in damages and an apology. Reform claimed in response that their post was fair use, and that the party has:
removed the posts in good faith and without any admission of liability on our part
Reform also claimed the legal action was “politically motivated”. Given that Reform is a political party, it can argue any action against itself is ‘politically motivated’. In other words, its spokespeople shouldn’t get away with using it as a get-out-jail-free card.
Dehumanisation
Regardless of whether the post ends up being legally sound or not, it was clearly disgusting. The people who travel by small boats to the UK are human beings who face tremendous risks. Turning them into a sick joke like this demonstrates that Farage & .co put very little value on human life.
If you think they don’t have a similarly low opinion of British lives, by the way, you’re going to be in for a shock should they ever take power.
Featured image via Carl Court (Getty Images)
By Willem Moore
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Teachers Reminisce About The Days Of Brutally Honest School Reports
A headteacher once wrote in Dame Judi Dench’s school report: “Judi would be a very good pupil if she lived in this world.” Meanwhile, Sir Stephen Fry fared worse: “He has glaring faults and they have certainly glared at us this term.”
And it seems this level of brutal honesty is sorely missed among some of those teachers penning today’s school reports.
In an eye-opening r/TeachingUK post, one educator shared that “every year it quite annoys me how we aren’t allowed to just flat out tell the truth about a child in the report, everything has to be reworded as a positive as not to offend anyone”.
“For example, the child in my Y4 class who throws chairs and calls me a stupid c*** every day is now being described as ‘working towards making more positive choices in the school day’,” they noted.
“I remember getting my school report back (I was mostly a good kid) which explained how I spent most of the time chatting and not listening, and my mum went mad, best believe I sat and listened as to not get another report like that.”
While they caveated that some school reports in the 1990s did go “a bit far”, the teacher suggested “everything has to be worded positively” in modern-day school reports. And many seemed to be in agreement.
“Yeah it’s gone too far the other way,” said one commenter. “There’s a difference between saying a kid is rude and cruel vs saying they have been acting rude and cruel, and we should be able to say the latter.”
Another chimed in: “It’s daft. I think there’s a lot of reasons honesty should be allowed in reports. One of them being that we are seeing many cases of undiagnosed SEN [special educational needs] such as ADHD, ASD etc where school reports can be a vital piece of info.”
Some suggested that because reports used to be handwritten, teachers “got to be brief, and absolutely brutal”.
“I’ve seen ones that boiled down to ‘John has no aptitude for science and should not continue’. That was it; no euphemisms, no niceties, just absolute honesty,” shared a teacher.
“We were discussing today that we should be allowed to rank the child in parental discussions about behaviour. If that child is the number 1 problem in class you should absolutely be able to call them out on it and make it crystal clear to parents that their child is the worst; not this ‘well other kids in the class…’, ‘boys will be boys…’ excuse-making you get, the cold hard reality that your child is the worst kid in the class.”
But there were a handful of respondents who disagreed that school reports decades ago were not so different to those of today.
“Nah, I’ve read my old school reports from the 90s and they were full of the same old banalities that we use today,” said one educator.
“There’s this false nostalgia for the days of honest school reports, whatever that means. The biggest difference between the reports I received as a child and the reports I write now as a teacher is that the former were handwritten! Can you imagine going back to that?”
Another teacher said that there’s more contact between schools and parents nowadays, meaning serious issues are usually raised before report season, “whereas for some in the 90s, the report and parents evening were nearly the only contact they had with school”.
They ended: “In my view, the long, detailed school report itself is a bit of an anachronism now because of this change in the home-school dynamic.”
There’s been growing discontent with school reports for some time, both from teachers and parents. Back in 2015, The Guardian reported how both parties were increasingly unhappy with “robotic” school reports.
At the time, a deputy headteacher revealed in an op-ed how “many teachers no longer feel that they can tell parents what they really think about their children”.
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Here’s What Vanilla Is Really Made From
We’ve written before at HuffPost UK about the fact that cloves and capers are both technically flower buds, while figs are technically inverted flowers.
(Don’t even get me started on their horrific historic relationship with wasps).
So, what about vanilla, which comes in a pod? I’ve never quite been sure whether it counts as a fruit, a vegetable, bean, or something else – never mind how it’s actually grown.
Where does vanilla come from?
Vanilla beans are not actually beans – they’re really the unripe fruit of an orchid. So, vanilla itself is a fruit.
The pods grow on the climbing plant of the flower’s vine. This long, thin fruit can grow up to 20cm long and can take up to nine months to mature.
They aren’t harvested when they’re fully ripe, though; vanilla is usually picked when its base turns golden-green.
These fruits barely have any smell when they’re picked. The famous vanilla scent comes from enzymatic reactions in the fruit as it’s cured.
Traditionally, the pods were steamed and cured in the sun for about 10 days before five to six months of drying. This process leads to tiny crystals called vanillin – responsible for that sweet smell and taste – forming on the surface of some pods.
The higher the grade of vanilla, the more of these crystals it may have.
Something similar happens to capers; when they’re cured and/or salted, they release mustard oil and rutin. That leads to their signature tang and the little white spots you sometimes see on their skin.
Why is vanilla so expensive?
The vanilla orchid is hand-pollinated, even to this day.
While they can be pollinated by insects, too, only one tiny species of bee is designed for the task. These don’t live in all the countries that produce vanilla, either.
And it’s not like the bees (or hand-pollinators) have got a huge window to do their jobs, either. Vanilla flowers tend to stay open for just six to eight hours at a time and usually only do so once a year.
Hand pollination is “an extremely tricky process done with a slim toothpick,” Kew Gardens explained.
After that’s done, you have to wait almost a year for a usable fruit.
The long curing process, along with “the practice of manual pollination, makes vanilla one of the most expensive spices (after saffron),” spice and extract company McCormick’s Science Institute said.
Is there fake vanilla?
Yes, lots of it. In fact, I’m now convinced I’ve never eaten real vanilla in my life.
Imitation vanilla is a far cheaper, though arguably less delicious, version of the flavour made from manufactured extracts.
Less than 1% of the world’s vanilla flavour (vanillin) comes from vanilla orchids, Scientific American said.
Other ways to achieve a similar taste involve guaiacol, a fragrant liquid made by distilling wood-tar creosote or tree resin. That’s responsible for about 85% of the world’s vanilla flavour.
And manufacturers use lignin for the rest, a substance found in things like cow manure and wood pulp.
So, Kew Gardens explained, “much of the ‘vanilla essence’ commonly used today is actually made from wood pulp or coal tar”.
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I Worried My Daughter Loved Her Toys Too Much. Then, Another Family Lost Everything.
When our daughter was preschool-aged, Princess Ariel dolls littered every room. Our once tranquil interior – a blend of coastal and cottage design – looked like an ill-kept aquarium full of plastic ornaments but no actual fish.
Our child dressed the part, too: Whether headed for the playground or grocery store, her tiny toes poked out beneath a sparkling green fishtail.
As a former clinical social worker, I knew imaginative play served an important role in child development, but I worried about the degree of fantasy we were helping her cultivate. I was also exhausted. While she twirled in a red wig, I was miscast in the role of Prince Eric. My throat ached from forcing a deep voice each day.
One evening, I found rose petals scattered around plastic doll furniture and knew a wedding ceremony was imminent, but I couldn’t bear another moment of make-believe. I begged my husband, Tomer, to take over.
“No way,” our daughter said. “Daddy’s no good at dolls. Mommy’s the best.”
It was a contest I wanted to lose, but never did. Tomer insisted he lacked creativity, but I suspected he was feigning incompetence to gain more personal time. When would I reclaim an adult life? His career was thriving, but I’d traded mine for full-time parenting.
Tomer tried to help out, but when left alone with our kid, he took her shopping for more toys. It was a strategy he employed to avoid actual playtime.
“I can’t sit on the floor,” he said. “It hurts my back.”
One morning, I found scissors beside a life-size styling head and followed a trail of synthetic hair into the bathroom, where red clumps clogged the toilet.
As I plunged the bowl, guilt churned my stomach. After all, I depended on their shopping sprees to catch a break. Determined to change course, I insisted Tomer try something new – maybe an art project – while seated comfortably at the table.
Later that afternoon, laughter echoed from the dining room. Were they crafting? Yes. It seemed a miracle until I looked up and saw toilet paper, probably three rolls of it, dangling from the chandelier.
“It’s a coral reef,” they explained.
Tomer winked. “I did the parts she couldn’t reach.”
Our daughter jumped around. “I did the rest all by myself.”
The “rest” amounted to stacked paper cups and piled pillows. A roll of alluminum foil covered our wood flooring to achieve water’s reflective quality. In the middle of the table was a silver-plated fork.
She beamed. “That’s Ariel’s hairbrush.”
I frowned. “That’s fancy cutlery.”
“That we never used,” Tomer said.
What could I say? The man had done as I’d asked. I went to bed feeling a mix of hope and dread.
By morning, the coral reef had grown. Paper cups climbed the stairs; alluminum foil lined the banister. I could’ve cleaned up or made them do it, but I lacked energy, so the reef kept expanding.

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Whatever our daughter didn’t own, she created from found materials. For a mermaid carnival, she sprinkled sugar on lint gathered from the clothes dryer and called it cotton candy. I couldn’t help but feel proud of her resourcefulness; moreover, since the mess was homemade, I thought things were improving.
Then, Disney released a new movie. Tomer took our daughter to see it, and when they returned, she ran straight to the chandelier and ripped off the toilet paper. As Scott Tissue drifted down, our kid shouted, “Let it snow!”
By nightfall, a new cast of characters moved in. For every Queen Elsa, there was also a Princess Anna. A single snowman named Olaf seemed to reproduce despite having no mate. Ariel’s ocean turned to ice, but our daughter still invited mermaids to every “Frozen”-themed event.
When I complained about the new purchases, Tomer pushed back. “It makes me happy to see her happy, and nothing makes her happier than another doll.”
But there was one night that Tomer seemed to share my concern. He came home hungry, peered into the refrigerator, and found nothing but dolls, apple juice and faux food.
“Olaf is hosting an ice cream social,” I explained.
“This is out of control,” he said.
“But look at her creativity.” I pointed at the bottom shelf, where she’d placed a sea monster molded from Play-Doh and green Jell-O.
Tomer sighed and ordered a pizza.
Our marriage dynamic resembled a seesaw. When one of us overindulged, the other would try and contain the madness. Then, we’d swap places all over again. Meanwhile, we never conquered the clutter, and I worried the mess amounted to worse than aesthetic harm.
“What if she ends up caring more about material possessions than human relationships?”
“She’s not going to care about toys forever,” Tomer said.

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Time proved him right. In late 2019, our daughter stopped playing. It seemed sudden and felt sad. Then, the Covid-19 pandemic arrived, and we got stuck at home with all those abandoned toys. Like everyone else, we ran low on toilet paper, too. Oftentimes, I caught myself gazing at the chandelier, longing for the backup supply that had once draped down.
Another month into lockdown, I learned through Facebook that a local family’s home had caught fire. Everyone survived, but they’d lost all their possessions.
Our daughter made an announcement. “Those kids need toys, and my toys need kids. I want to give everything away.”
Together, we moved her playthings outside the front door. Our daughter used ribbon to tie makeshift masks over every miniature mouth. She hid lollipops and Post-it notes inside Queen Elsa’s ice castle. “Enjoy! Stay safe!” Tears leaked from my eyes as she kissed each Olaf goodbye.
We watched from the window as a truck pulled into the driveway. Out popped the parents and their three kids. They ran toward the mountain of toys, and what had seemed like too much for one child instantly transformed into the perfect amount to share.
Our daughter grinned. “Look. They’re so happy.”
Her empathy exposed my foolishness. I’d wasted precious years worried that our daughter’s attachment to toys amounted to selfishness, but our daughter had always demonstrated kindness in all of her imagined scenarios. No doll was ever bullied or left out. I’d been focused on the cluttered surface and missed the deeper level where our child had been developing interpersonal skills and moral character all along.
Regret overwhelmed me. I wanted to go back, but of course, time kept moving forward.

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More recently, our daughter celebrated her Sweet 16. Before we started decorating, she insisted on removing the final traces of the coral reef: three plush mermaids were still hanging from the chandelier. They’d watched over our holiday meals for longer than a decade.
Today, the mermaid trio sits in my office. Maybe a future grandchild will spark generosity, but for now, they’re all mine. A source of inspiration whenever I’m facing a new challenge, I notice the pastel plushies decorating my bookshelf and am reminded to search for deeper meaning in whatever seems to be taking up too much time and space.
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Jon Snow, Former Channel 4 News Star, Shares Alzheimer’s Diagnosis
Veteran news presenter Jon Snow has disclosed that he has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
The 78-year-old shared during a new interview with the Daily Mail that he was told he had the disease, which is the most common form of dementia, four years ago.
He explained that he wanted to go public with his condition to raise awareness around Alzheimer’s, saying: “If I don’t speak out, who will?”
Jon will dive deeper into living with Alzheimer’s in a new film, Jon Snow: A Last Big Story, which will air on Channel 4 on Saturday 20 June.
Having stepped down from Channel 4 News in 2021, after more than 30 years with the broadcaster, he came out of retirement for his latest project, which saw him investigating the aftermath of a mining disaster in Zambia.
In the film, Jon is heard saying: “At the beginning I wanted to hide [my diagnosis], there’s so much prejudice. Any sort of hint of mental decay, you’re sort of dead.
“There are moments when it pops up but it’s not an all day every day condition, and that’s what I cling onto.”

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Jon’s wife, Dr Precious Lunga, said: “Life doesn’t end with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, but it changes dramatically. You can have Alzheimer’s and still be a valuable member of society but you need support to navigate it.”
The Bafta Fellowship recipient began his career in journalism at LBC in the 1970s, before he moved to ITN, serving as its Washington correspondent and diplomatic editor.
In 1989, he then made the jump to Channel 4 News, where he remained until the early 2020s.
The CEO of Alzheimer’s Society, Michelle Dyson, said: “Jon’s decision to talk publicly about his dementia diagnosis is a real act of courage and his story will resonate with so many.
“His support for Alzheimer’s Society will help spark a national conversation about dementia that we so desperately need. Despite being the UK’s biggest killer, dementia is still not treated with the same urgency as other major health conditions like cancer.
“Alongside his wife Precious, Jon is shining a light on the need for faster, fairer access to diagnosis. An early diagnosis can unlock vital support, help families plan ahead and potentially open the door to participation in clinical trials.
“Yet too many people across the country are still waiting far too long for a diagnosis. We look forward to working with Jon, whose long-standing commitment to speaking out against injustice will help ensure the harsh realities of dementia cannot be ignored by the UK Government and the NHS.”
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More Brits than not disapprove of Farage’s riot-stoking Henry Nowak rhetoric
On 2 June, Nigel Farage gave a speech in which he called on Britons to react with “pure, cold rage”. He said this in response to the conviction of Sikh murderer Vickrum Digwa, and to a recording of how the police treated his victim Henry Nowak. On the same day that Farage made his speech, a white riot erupted in Southampton; since then, Sikhs have face increased harassment.
Clearly, Farage is banking on more Britons than not buying into his violent rhetoric. According to a new poll, however, things aren’t going how he planned:
Kemi Badenoch received the most positive ratings for her response to the Henry Nowak case (+12 after rounding). Yet perhaps most striking is how many voters remain undecided or don't know. pic.twitter.com/3ACVaCBT91
— Opinium (@OpiniumResearch) June 6, 2026
Latest Opinium @ObserverUK poll
Nigel Farage received the lowest (-6).
Farage — Incitement
After the initial backlash, Farage warned that the white riots we saw in Southampton were “just the beginning”. Obviously, those who thought Farage incited the riots saw this as a threat, and with clear reason. His argument for it being “just the beginning” was this:
large numbers of young white males think the police are prejudiced against them.
Oh, do they?
And why do they think that?
Is it because you’re telling them that, despite all evidence pointing to the opposite being true?
The police officers who handcuffed the stabbed Nowak committed the grossest of gross misconduct, but suggesting this one incident completely invalidates decades of evidence on racist policing is willful incitement.
Farage’s cynical reasons for riling up the far right are obvious. In the Makerfield by-election, Reform UK is facing a challenge from its right – specifically from Restore Britain. Reform politicians are trying to neutralise this challenge by presenting themselves as even more far-right than their rival.
Response
In the Opinium poll, more people than not disapprove of Keir Starmer’s response too. Starmer’s response was fairly measured, but it’s predictable that the public would react negatively, because he’s a polarising figure.
Zack Polanski also attracted more disapproval than approval, albeit with a significantly lower levels for each. This is likely because Polanski didn’t make an obvious play for political capital, and with good reason. After all, this is what the father of Henry Nowak said following the conviction of Digwa:
Henry Nowak’s father said the following earlier:
“We want to use Henry’s heartbreaking story to make change for the better. We do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension. We want his story to help make our streets safer for everyone.“
These…
— Simon Harris (@SimonHarrisMBD) June 1, 2026
The fact that Farage ignored these words no doubt added to the negative response against him.
The only politician above to attract more approval than disapproval was Kemi Badenoch. As we reported, though, Badenoch was every bit as dishonest as Farage; she was simply less violent with her rhetoric.
Specifically, we took issue with Badenoch saying she’s tired of people arguing about ‘whether Black or white lives matter more’:
Of course, this was never the message of the Black Lives Matter movement. Badenoch is suggesting otherwise because she — like Farage — is a liar and an opportunist.
The Black Lives Matter movement sprung up in response to racist policing in the US. These police officers were responsible for a disproportionate number of Black deaths, giving the impression that Black lives were less important than white lives in the eye of the American state. The slogan, then, was created to state that Black people’s lives do matter – not that they matter more than anyone else’s.
The fact that Badenoch was able to make this case without being corrected shows how effective the anti-Black propaganda has been since the 2020 BLM marches. And make no mistake; it’s precisely this sort of propaganda which has driven voters towards Reform UK.
As Opinium also notes, the majority of voters ticked ‘neither’ or ‘don’t know’. This suggests many simply aren’t tuned into the culture wars which are raging every day on social media.
Polarising
According to one poll, Reform and Restore currently occupy the second and third places in the Makerfield by-election. Obviously it’s grim that so many Britons are willing to offer their support to the far-right. At the same time, the people who don’t support Reform really don’t support Reform. Farage’s big challenge, then, isn’t going to be any one party; it’s going to be tactical voting.
We’ve become accustomed to thinking Reform is doing ‘well’ despite appealing to fewer than a third of all voters:
Via @findoutnowUK, 4 June (+/- vs 27 May) pic.twitter.com/ME032l3BiA
— Stats for Lefties
POLL | Reform lead by 10pts
Ref: 27% (+2)
Grn: 17% (-2)
Con: 17% (-1)
Lab: 15% (-1)
Lib: 11% (-1)

(@LeftieStats) June 5, 2026
Many of the 70%+ who can’t stand Reform are going to be working to keep the party out. And the more Farage doubles down on white supremacy, the truer that will be.
Featured image via Ryan Jenkinson (Getty Images) / Finnbarr Webster (Getty Images)
By Willem Moore
Politics
Rees-Mogg urges Tories to step down for Reform
Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, Jacob Rees-Mogg has argued that the Tories should step down for Reform UK in the Makerfield by-election. The problem with his argument is that Reform seemingly wants to replace the Tories, and so any attempt to work with them will just benefit Farage:
Jacob Rees Mogg says the right needs to work together, and a vote for Restore in Makerfield will lead to Burnham winning (who he describes as a hard left semi-Corbynista!) pic.twitter.com/SctCXo1iRA
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 7, 2026
Reform, Restore, replace
In the clip above, Kuenssberg puts the following to Rees-Mogg:
Nigel Farage had a big fallout with a man called Rupert Lowe, who was a reform MP, and he set up [Restore Britain]. Do you think there’s a risk that Reform might lose because of that fallout and the right splits?
Kuenssberg was referencing the fact that Restore could be the difference between Reform or Labour winning the Makerfield by-election:
Via @Survation, 1 June (+/- vs 22 May) pic.twitter.com/IXTHwUTabh — Stats for Lefties
POLL | Burnham expands lead in Makerfield:
Lab: 49% (+6)
Ref: 39% (-1)
Res: 8% (+1)
Grn: 2% (-1)
Lib: 1% (-3)
Con: 1% (-1)

(@LeftieStats) June 5, 2026
The right split isn’t happening because of a personal beef between two men; it’s happening because of the growing contradictions between Reform UK’s rhetoric and its actions.
As an example of this, take Zia Yusuf. Yusuf is one of Reform’s most prominent politicians, and he’s constantly arguing that white people are the most oppressed group in the UK:
Structural anti-white racism is embedded in British policing pic.twitter.com/kGAiu5PDnT
— Zia Yusuf (@ZiaYusufUK) June 3, 2026
If you’re a far-right voter who buys into this, why would you vote for the party with Zia Yusuf and Suella Braverman in it? Why wouldn’t you vote for the all-white Restore Britain, which is more obviously following through on Reform’s propaganda?
If you are that sort of voter, no doubt you’ve been trained to believe every prominent Black or Muslim person in the UK got where they are at the expense of a more qualified white person. Yusuf has literally made the argument himself:
The NHS will shortly be more than 50% staffed by ethnic minorities.
So the army of DEI officers on princely salaries – presumably their sole focus is to hire more white people?
What am I missing?
We need a return to merit based hiring, and anything other than that must be made… — Zia Yusuf (@ZiaYusufUK) January 29, 2025
How did Yusuf not understand how easily this would be turned against him?
Reform politicians have also argued that the sight of Black and Asian people on the TV should make a person apoplectic:
Sarah Pochin MP: “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people.”
Caller Stuart in London asks the Reform MP if her party will do anything about the 'representation of demographics in TV adverts'.@petercardwell | @SarahForRuncorn pic.twitter.com/RivnW1tusj
— Talk (@TalkTV) October 25, 2025
Reform think they can create an environment in which voters are hopping mad at the sight of prominent non-white people, but also that they’ll gleefully vote for Yusuf and Braverman.
Restore have realised this isn’t wholly the case.
And this is why the British far-right has split.
Delusional
Back to the interview, Rees-Mogg responded:
Well, I keep on banging on that the right should come together. We need to work out how we can cooperate to win elections like this. There’s a by-election in Aberdeen South going on at the same time. What I suggested is the Tories should help reform in Makerfield in return for reform helping us in Aberdeen South. That If we could win both of those, that would be very positive for the small C Conservatives in British politics.
And I think Restore, Restore vote is a wasted vote. I mean, it is not helping anybody.
First things first, Reform UK clearly aren’t “small C Conservatives”. We’re talking about a party which threatened to build detention centres in the constituencies of those who refused to vote Reform; not a party which is looking to rein-in the deficit a bit.
Secondly, Rees-Mogg is off his penny farthing if he thinks this idea is going to benefit the Tories. The reason Reform is doing well is because the party has done to the Tories what Restore is now doing to Reform. Successive Tory prime ministers talked a big game on being anti-migration while simultaneously increasing migration. This created space for a party to their right to call out the contradictions and to capitalise on them.
While the Tories are greatly diminished, the reason they’ve retained any sort of vote share is because not every Tory vibes with the uncouth Farage or the army of shitheads who worship him. Should the Tories start validating Reform by entering into electoral pacts, they’d be at risk of losing what voters they have left.
In other words, Rees-Mogg is either considerably less intelligent than his education might suggest, or he’s working to promote Farage’s interests. And there are other signs that he is indeed Farage’s man:
Just Jacob Rees-Mogg making excuses for Nigel Farage's words which led to rioting in Southampton after the death of Henry Nowak pic.twitter.com/Kvym4Th2g5
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) June 7, 2026
Divide and divide again
It’s worth noting that the contradictions which have become glaringly apparent in the Tories and Reform aren’t unique to them. Restore is also facing criticism for failing to follow through on its promise of ‘blood and soil’ white supremacy – specifically for working with the Pakistani-born Ben Habib:
I love it when nazis have a meltdown.
They're kicking off because Rupert Lowe invited Ben Habib to campaign with him https://t.co/qntI6ZxMvB
— Mukhtar (@I_amMukhtar) June 6, 2026
Reactionary right-wing politics are just that – a reaction to whatever’s happening. And in their cynical attempts to rile up voters, all of these parties are at risk of collapsing in on themselves.
The duty of anyone who actually cares about this country is to help ensure the collapse happens sooner rather than later.
Featured image via Ian Forsyth (Getty Images) / Alishia Abodunde (Getty Images) / Ryan Jenkinson (Getty Images)
By Willem Moore
Politics
How Much Money Do OnlyFans Models Make?
OnlyFans launched in 2016 as a social media platform designed to help influencers, musicians and other creators connect directly with their fans through paid subscriptions.
Adult content creators, in particular, flourished on the platform, with some earning six figures annually – and others bringing in that much in a single month.
While that kind of money may sound enticing in a “should-I-quit-my-day-job-and-give-it-a-shot?” kind of way, the work isn’t easy.
OnlyFans creators say that building a fan base, streamlining your workflow and maintaining a content calendar takes far more strategy and consistency than many people realise.
Plus, the platform itself can be unpredictable: in 2021, OnlyFans announced plans to ban sexually explicit content, only to reverse course days later following intense backlash.
What does it take to make bank on the site? What kind of explicit content are they offering, exactly?
Below, OnlyFans adult content creators who are making it work delve into that, and what they think of the recent controversial Euphoria storyline involving Sydney Sweeney’s character, Cassie, joining the site.
Responses have been edited and condensed for clarity.
Skylar Mae: “I’m making roughly over $1 million dollars a month right now.”

“I got into OnlyFans while I was in dental school. My family was struggling with medical bills after Covid, and I wanted a way to help support them financially. At first, I saw it as a side hustle, but it quickly became my full-time career. The growth happened really fast. My first month was honestly mind-blowing, and by the second month, I realised this was something real that I needed to fully focus on. Eventually, everyone at my dental job found out, and I ended up getting fired.
When I first started on OnlyFans, I was only posting bikini and lingerie content. There was no nudity at all in the beginning. Over time, my content naturally evolved month by month into more suggestive content, and years later, I eventually released my first boy-girl video.
Across all my platforms, I have around 9 million social media followers total – 4.5 million on Instagram, over a million on TikTok, and another 1 million on Twitter. Building that audience has taken years of consistency and hard work. I’m making roughly over $1 million dollars a month right now, which still feels surreal to say out loud. But I’ve worked incredibly hard to build this business and make it successful.
One of the biggest misconceptions is that this job is somehow easier than a traditional 9-to-5. In reality, I work constantly – holidays, birthdays, weekends, all of it. When you run your own business and want to succeed at a high level, you’re always ‘on.’
Another misconception is that success on OnlyFans only comes from doing extreme or outrageous content. I completely disagree with that. I’m one of the top creators on the platform, and I’ve built my business by creating content I’m personally comfortable making. If your audience connects with what you create, you can absolutely be successful without constantly pushing boundaries.
As for Euphoria, I actually think it’s great publicity when mainstream shows reference OnlyFans because it opens the door for people to better understand how the platform works. Of course, some portrayals are exaggerated or unrealistic, but overall I think it helps normalise conversations around creators and online work.” ― Skylar Maye
Jessica Barton: “You go from 9-to-5 to 24/7.”

“I was working in a strip club during Covid and we immediately shut down, so I had to pivot. Who knew that pivot would change my life forever? I started off more Playboy style: very clean and basic but sensual and sexy. Legs closed.
Then I have gotten more sexually comfortable with myself and exploring new things, so my levels have increased to toy play, but I keep things solo. I have 550,000 subscribers, and I make about $175,000 to $225,000 a month. A bit over $2 million a year.
Content creation is no joke, and it kind of sucks that it’s hard for normal people to understand that, but you go from 9-to-5 to 24/7. We never sleep. We never stop, and we are always hunting for the next creative idea, which can also be draining.
I think that people never understand the business side of it [and think] you can just do this for fun or quick money. That’s not how it works, and you will not succeed, and this will be all over the internet forever. You dive in headfirst, or don’t dive at all. It can be life-changing in both ways, good and bad.” ― Jessica Barton
Jade Vow: “I jumped straight in at the deep end and started filming content with my partner.”

Photo courtesy of Jade Vow
“In 2018, I jumped straight in at the deep end and started filming content with my partner Josh. The majority of my content is filmed in a super amateur style, leaving in all of the awkward and funny moments. I don’t shy away from showing as much personality as possible, and I pride myself on my content feeling relatable and authentic.
Over the years, I’ve managed to curate a strong brand and build a loyal following, so now I have a steady income and a relatively chilled workflow, but it took a lot of hard work and consistency to get here. On OnlyFans alone, I tend to make anywhere between $10,000 to $40,000 per month. It varies a lot. There are also other platforms where I make a few thousand a month as well – it all adds up.
I’ve worked 9-to-5s where I’d come home and collapse out of exhaustion at the end of the day, so I know how hard it can be. But there are times where I actually miss that. And it can also be quite challenging knowing that your entire income could change overnight and be completely out of your control if an account gets deleted or if a rule changes. It was only a few years ago that OnlyFans themselves said they were banning adult content on their platform altogether. Scary times. Luckily, they quickly backtracked on that, but these are the kinds of life-changing decisions that are out of our control.
[Before], if someone asked what you did for a living and you said ‘OnlyFans’ or ‘amateur porn,’ people were shocked, curious and entertained. Nowadays, if you tell someone what you do, it’s more like, ‘Ah yeah, so does my aunt.’
– Jade Vow
I’m not keen on the Euphoria plot line. Firstly – and this is a little selfish – but I like sex work feeling taboo. Before lockdown, when so many new people joined and it became more well-known, if someone asked what you did for a living and you said ‘OnlyFans’ or ‘amateur porn,’ people were shocked, curious and entertained. Nowadays, if you tell someone what you do, it’s more like, ‘Ah yeah, so does my aunt.’ It’s not a dirty little secret anymore – it’s mainstream – and as someone who got into the industry because they have a true love for the naughty things in life, that takes away a bit of the appeal.
Secondly, popular non-sex-worker-run shows tend to paint OnlyFans in a bad, or at least inaccurate, light. Wearing a diaper and dressing up as a baby, as Cassie does, is massively against the rules, for example. There are already so many negative opinions surrounding sex work – we don’t need shows like Euphoria creating new harmful stereotypes and damaging opinions of the industry even more.” ― Jade Vow
Majesty Nasty: “Sex work has taught me how to fully live in my truth.”

Photo courtesy of Majesty Nasty
“I got into OnlyFans when I was about to be engaged but I didn’t know my partner had already exposed our home videos to the world. I decided not to be sad but just embrace it. When I decided to join, Covid had just hit and I was tired of working three jobs. I was working at a club bartending, working as a home aid and I was serving at a restaurant. In 2022 I finally decided to quit all my jobs and do OF full time. I make $200,000 to $400,000 per year, depending on the economy and my energy that year.
When I first started, I was only shooting solos and randomly dropping tapes that me and my ex had together. Once I decided to make it full-time, I started to explore more into women. I decided to finally live in my truth about the love I have for women. My content now is [broader] than it was when I first started.
After actually locking in with it, I felt more open and free. Sex work has taught me how to fully live in my truth. My fans honestly love my personality and humour. I have fans who ask me to do story times, and then I have fans who just want me to just exist. My favourite request I have ever gotten has to be the time I had to do a karaoke video. The fan knew I liked to sing, so he just wanted to see me happy. Sex work has helped me be able to finally feel liberated about my body. As someone who has dealt with sexual assault, it has helped me gain my feeling of power.
But I hate the way TV depicts sex workers, because they make it seem like we’re just girls who were fucked up and decided, ‘let me do porn.’ With Euphoria, I feel like some points in the show were valid, but it doesn’t depict the industry as a whole. I am a Black woman in this industry, so I get treated a different way than others. On the show, Cassie was praised by the internet and people love her, but I don’t get that love fully. I get mainly hate, with a few dashes of love. I’m labeled as a whore, whereas if you’re white, it’s labelled as liberating. ” ― Majesty Nasty
Holly Johnston: “I was excommunicated from the Mormon church” because of OnlyFans.
“I started OnlyFans in the summer of 2021 after my husband passed away. I was trying to support three kids on a middle-income salary while working in HR hiring nurses, and I was drowning in medical bills my husband had acquired before he passed. I also wanted to be present for my kids and be there when they got home from school. One day I was sitting on the couch watching TV when I saw a news segment about another OnlyFans model. The media highlighted how much money she was making, and she was around my age. I thought, ‘That could be me.’ At the time, I didn’t even know what OnlyFans was, but I immediately started researching, building social media accounts, creating a business plan, and launched a few months later.
My first month was good, and within a few months, things were going so well that I quit my job. With content, I started slow. At first, it was more Playboy-style content and tease videos, but over time, it evolved into full adult content. That transition was more about business strategy than comfort. During my first year, I was making over $50,000 a month, and by the next year, I had reached seven figures. This was not luck. It was hard work. And I was excommunicated from the Mormon church, which I grew up in, after I was outed as an OnlyFans creator. But you couldn’t pay me any amount of money to go back to working for someone else.
Today I have over 4 million followers across multiple social media platforms, and it took about two years to build that audience. That growth came from consistency and work ethic. I posted four times a day across platforms, constantly created content, engaged with followers, studied algorithms and built relationships online. Most people think the money comes from OnlyFans itself, but the reality is that the majority of the work happens outside the platform through marketing, social media strategy, content creation, editing, messaging and behind-the-scenes admin work. I regularly work 80-hour weeks.” ― Holly Johnston
Kit Barrus: “If it was so easy, the average girl on OnlyFans wouldn’t be making like $200 a month.”

“In early 2022, I was unable to really pay my bills at the time working as a personal trainer and going to school, so I made an OnlyFans to make ends meet. I have now left the traditional job market to do OnlyFans exclusively, although I did choose to finish my degrees.
I started off immediately making vanilla content. It was really just me masturbating and interacting with my audience and with the camera. I was really good at talking, so I did a lot of JOIs [jerk off instructions] and just really worked on interfacing and creating this rapport with my audience, so it was a lot of talking, a lot of storytelling, that kind of thing. My content has evolved, it now includes other people, although I’ve maintained that theme of storytelling and trying to really talk and establish some intimacy with the audience, but nowadays I offer girl-girl, boy-girl, fantasy, funny stuff, role playing, like all kinds of different things.
I make anywhere between $250,000 to $360,000 a month, depending on the month, and I have made that for the last six months or so. Doing this is definitely easier for me than a standard job, but it’s… I wouldn’t say that it would be easier for most people. I have really bad ADHD, so this kind of job allows me to hyperfixate, but then back off a little bit. It’s constantly changing, constantly evolving, and that fits in with my brain and how my brain works.
But I think that, like, for most normal people, they’d find it very stressful and they would find it very difficult to establish any kind of rhythm or consistency. If it was so easy, more people would be doing it and the average girl on OnlyFans wouldn’t be making like $200 a month. If it were so easy, everybody on OnlyFans would be making thousands and thousands of dollars, but that’s just not the case. I’ve met girls who are grinding, grinding, grinding and not necessarily making very much money.” ― Kit Barrus
Politics
David Lammy denies police are ‘institutionally racist’
Speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, David Lammy has denied that the police are institutionally racist. In doing so, he referenced the Casey Report — a report which found evidence of institutional racism in 2023. Lammy claimed the force has moved on since then, which is surprising to hear, because the Met refused to accept the findings of the report:
And when the report was published the head of the Met police refused to accept the finding that the force was institutionally racist.https://t.co/WA6oTjcQGW
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 7, 2026
David Lammy — Left in the past
Justice secretary and deputy PM David Lammy was speaking to Laura Kuenssberg, who asked him:
Do you think that the police are institutionally racist?
Lammy responded:
I actually think we’ve moved on from that period of institutional racism that was very real in the Stephen Lawrence era. That’s not my experience when I see policing. Of course, there are problems. But as a result of the work that Louise Casey did a few years ago, I do, I have seen seen a response from the police here in London.
Because this was within her world view, Kuenssberg accepted this response, and asked Lammy to be even clearer in his agreement with her:
And so the problem is not of the scale that it used to be. And that phrase “institutionally racist” shouldn’t, in your view then, be applied to 2026?
Lammy responded:
I don’t personally recognise that as the appropriate description today.
So, what did the Casey review actually find?
The Casey Report
This is what Maryam Jameela wrote for the Canary when the Casey Report was released:
A review into the Metropolitan police has found the force to be institutionally racist, sexist and homophobic. The report, written by government official Louise Casey, was commissioned after serving Met police officer Wayne Couzens was charged with the kidnap, rape, and murder of Sarah Everard. Since then another officer, David Carrick, has also been jailed for life for dozens of rapes and sexual assaults stretching back two decades. Furthermore, many other Met scandals have emerged.
Without hinting at how bad things were a mere three years ago, Lammy suggested that the Met have now rid themselves of their many prejudices – prejudices which have tainted them for decades. Contrary to this opinion, our own recent reporting has covered:
- December 2025, the BBC uncovered that the Met failed to “adequately investigate a gang that was blackmailing people on Grindr, a gay dating app“.
- November 2025, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IPOC) found that two detective constables had a ‘case to answer for gross misconduct‘ following the murder of a victim of domestic violence.
- October 2025, Panorama published an undercover report which documented a “a vast array of truly heinous and discriminatory remarks and actions from… officers“.
Additionally, as Rachel Charlton-Dailey reported for the Canary:
There’s also the fact that the police are already massively biased towards disabled people within the Met. In the Casey review, it was found that 33 per cent of staff with a disability or long-term illness had been bullied by other officers. The report stated
disability discrimination is the most frequent claim type brought against the Met. But there is no willingness to learn from these cases.
Unasked questions
The evidence we have suggests UK police forces are still institutionally racist, sexist, ableist, and more. And this evidence doesn’t go away because Nigel Farage found a single case which might suggest an anti-white bias (if you ignore the actual details).
If Kuenssberg was a competent interviewer, she would have drawn attention to the continuing allegations of institutional bigotry that the police attract (particularly the Met). Because she isn’t — or because Lammy’s answer supported her worldview – these points went unmade.
Featured image via BBC
By Willem Moore
Politics
Sarah Michelle Gellar Remembers Buffy Co-Star Anthony Head In Instagram Tribute
Buffy the Vampire Slayer actor Sarah Michelle Gellar has paid her respects to her former co-star Anthony Head in a touching tribute.
Shortly after the news broke on Friday that Anthony had died at the age of 72, Sarah Michelle, who worked with him on Buffy for many years, took to Instagram to publish a bittersweet post.
Quoting the show’s heartbreaking season five finale, in which Buffy gives a tear-jerking monologue about why she had decided to sacrifice her own life to save her sister Dawn and the world, the post began: ”Tell Giles I figured it out and I’m OK.”
Giles, Anthony’s character in the show, was Buffy’s “Watcher” or mentor on all things slaying, before eventually becoming the titular character’s father figure over the course of the series.
She continued: “Well I don’t have it figured out and I’m not OK.”
“But I know I’m the lucky one because I knew you,” Sarah Michelle wrote, before giving a shout-out to Anthony’s daughters, Daisy and Emily.
“Thank you to Daisy and Emily who not only shared their dad with me, but with the world.”

Getty Images via Getty Images
rah Sarah Michelle’s post included a slideshow of backstage photos of herself and Anthony.
The last slide showed screenshots from an exchange Buffy had with Giles in the season two episode Lie To Me, in which a character Buffy thought was a childhood friend ended up double-crossing her in an attempt to become a vampire.
After Buffy realised she’d been conned by her friend, she turned to Giles for some guidance and comfort.
“Does it ever get easy, life?” Buffy asked Giles, to which he responded: “What do you want me to say?”
“Lie to me,” Buffy then said, prompting Giles to tell her: ”Yes, it’s terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true. The bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats.
“And, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies and… everybody lives happily ever after.”
Check out Sarah Michelle’s post for yourself here.
Outside of Buffy, Anthony made quite an impact on the small screen, especially here in the UK.
The British actor was well known for playing Rupert Mannion, the smarmy former owner of A.F.C. Richmond, in Ted Lasso, in addition to roles in Little Britain, Merlin and an iconic string of Nescafé ads that aired in the 1980s.
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