“You're thinking of the $175 billion in tariff money all wrong. As if I had the money back in a safe. The money's not here. Your money's in the White House ballroom, the renaming of the Department of Defense, the $10 billion transfer to the Board of Peace, and a hundred other unauthorized actions.”

Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons

UK median annual wage for employees is £31,056. £25,880 after income tax and NIC. Graduates take home even less. Tax thresholds frozen since 2021. Millions can't afford to buy homes, start family or business. No govt curbs profiteering. Can't build sustainable economy without redistribution.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Here's the documentary that 1.1 million Hungarians have watched over the past week, documenting the damage that Viktor Orban's regime has done to health, education and public transportation in Hungary with English subtitles: youtu.be/9NQEcLIiOpM?...

Elon Musk is talking about Nigel Farage's Reform Party: he says Reform are trying to eradicate white people in Britain. He is a radicalised + increasingly racist lunatic - obsessed with theories of white racial extinction + promoting the idea of civil war in Britain www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

Cllr David Wimble, Reform Cabinet member for economic development at Kent County Council, says he might defund Margate's Turner Contemporary Gallery to spite the local MP Polly Billington.

Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever: “We must integrate our market and use it as a weapon against the great imperial blocs.”

It is slightly irritating that the Guardian uncritically reports his claim that taxpayers are spending "an ever increasing proportion of our national income on out-of-work benefits” without pointing out that it is, in fact, false.

Jeffrey Epstein survivors speak out #SuperBowl #SuperBowl2026 #SuperBowlXL "I was 14" "I was 16" "I was 16" "17" "14" "There are about a thousand of us" "It's time to bring the secrets out of the shadows" "It's time to shine a light into the darkness" "Release all of the Epstein files"

Statement from #AlexPretti’s untimely and tragic death. It’s bad enough that he was killed, even worse they are maligning this you man who by all accounts was a wonderful human being The world and the US is watching aghast with horror at what is happening

Compare what Noem said to the video.

Apart from anything else there are no penguins in Greenland. Unless he’s invading the South Pole too….

Worth a listen. The FM seems to be trying to use the electoral threat of Plaid (‘seperatists’) to generate leverage for the Welsh govt in dealing with the UK govt so as to ensure that it treats Wales ‘fairly’ in those areas in which it has *already* refused to act (rail, justice, crown estate) 1/

Left: President Trump, "Canada lives because of the United States" Right: Prime Minister Carney, "Canada doesn't live because of the United States. Canada thrives because we are Canadian" "We chose to build a bright future worthy of the ground on which we stand, we chose Canada"

This really is superb. Probably the most coherent analysis of where we are that I've heard from any politician - certainly from any leader.

I wrote this two weeks ago… www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-t...

If there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻‍🍳 💋

Again, the people who seem to be most damaged by social media aren't the kids - who are quite good at navigating it - but the middle-aged, who get caught up in extremism, fooled by misinformation, trapped by scammers, and addicted to porn. Stop focussing on the kids. Start with the rest of us.

I haven't read the article, and I haven't looked at the poll - and I'd still be absolutely certain that the people who think it's rising the most are the ones living in areas with next to no immigration.

Lauffeuer #Iran #cartoon #karikatur

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

Sarah Cooper is back. 👏

Rupert Lowe - as Southampton FC chairman - was responsible for significant acts - *primarily of omission* in his time - that saw child abuse in Hampshire football continue that the club could have stopped. By Lowe's [OTT] standards, Lowe should lose his citizenship over this bsky.app/profile/sund...

fascinating, i was under the impression that the only reason people would ever learn anything is to get a job and the only thing universities should do is ‘produce graduates’ (and maybe vaccines)… if only we could learn something from this story in the UK

Searched back through Blue Sky for this. Which is one of the best things I saw all year in any medium.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

Yup.

Really helpful explanation of the ruling in the Peggie / NHS Fife case from the Equality Network - @lgbtiscotland.bsky.social. www.equality-network.org/a-short-summ...

True headline: “Peggie Found By Tribunal To Have Committed Transphobic Hate Incident”

Astonishingly biased reporting from the @heraldscotland.bsky.social - perhaps unsurprising considering how it has covered this whole case. Quotes from Peggie, the Tories, Alba and Sex Matters and not a peep from anyone with a differing view. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2568084...

I've been really struck during the recruitment process for such talented new additions to the @scotiet.bsky.social board by how much I gain by - and enjoy - being a charity trustee. Not least the opportunity to meet interesting & dynamic colleagues, but also a huge range of professional skills.

This btw is kinda serious because, whilst I don't cover Find Out Now because anyone finding Alba (a party that, not intending to be indelicate, clearly died with its founding leader) consistently above 5% is obviously wrong, other sources do, and lack of polling diversity is giving a false idea

Some of our funding schemes will close for submissions this Friday (5/12)! Whether you're thinking of doing fieldwork, organising a conference or workshop, or could use financial support in attending a relevant event, make sure to get your application in!

For context the 'Middle England' referred to here is the 0.5% of households living in homes worth more than £2 million

Evan Rush's story is typical of the extraordinary young people SIET is able to support. After studying law at the University of Glasgow, using what he describes as 'a widening access route' then, with some help from SIET, he's started an LLM at New York University. vimeo.com/1097335855

@scotiet.bsky.social, is a charity supporting young Scots to overcome financial obstacles in order to study overseas. I've just set up its Bluesky account and would really welcome some follows to get things moving. If you'd like to know more about us - www.scottishinternationaleducationtrust.org/o

SIET makes a new round of awards - congratulations and good luck to our newest fellows! "Thank you for granting me the sacred gift of being able to follow my dreams and apply myself to my education." Brendan Norris, SIET Fellow 2025 www.scottishinternationaleducationtrust.org/post/siet-aw...

Please read this and remember what this woman says here.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

True, but it's very hard to believe that either Badenoch or Starmer will see another conference as leader. The only risk the pretenders face is the emergence of other claims to the crown.

Stark language from this Labour MP speaking in opposition to the government’s asylum proposals “The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning.”

Glad to see my analysis on Greater Manchester's productivity growth being the highest in the country cited in this OECD blog. The authors say devolution is likely part of the answer - and we need to go further so places have the revenue to get on with delivering. oecdcogito.blog/2025/11/06/i...

What you’re witnessing is a populist assault on the BBC. This is not an institutional scandal in any meaningful sense of the word. It is an attack on public service broadcasting. iandunt.substack.com/p/extra-edit...

Do we need humanities graduates to deliver the industrial strategy? Yes we do. www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/do-we-n...

Indeed, election perversion operations are being pushed right now. Though the palpable air of panic is at least something to behold