Absolute top-class grade A trolling of your readers there, @financialtimes.com 👏🏻

If we can somehow harness the energy of some of the takes we’re going to see, Britain’s Net Zero targets are sorted

Still angry that Assassins Creed Valhalla made the Viking slavers the *good* guys #NORENG

Fantastic article from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com, this. My gut feel is this likely applies to SEND too: a mix of more need, previously unmet need *and* a big shift in diagnostic criteria increasing sensitivity over specificity. www.ft.com/content/063b...

Nice of Kemi to run a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Lib Dems

Who wore it best: Sunak flying to Manchester to cancel HS2? Badenoch deciding the best time to oppose Net Zero is the middle of a record-breaking heatwave summer?

It’s fun to think how much of the secret sauce of the largest tech companies is simply a relaxed attitude to enabling crime

Stutter pen again ole ole #FRAMAR

I struggle to listen to La Marseillaise as it’s such a banger - just so much better than our national anthem #FRAMAR

Zuck makes sense if you assume he’s been told that, if he gets enough datapoints, one day he’ll be made a real boy

You’ve all let Nigel down. I hope you’re proud, everyone.

Celebrity Love Island?

1/ Many of those now claiming aircon is being banned (which is untrue) but should be installed everywhere asap were until recently dismissing heatwaves altogether with "it's called summer." You cannot deny the problem exists one year and demand emergency solutions to it the next.

1am seems a sub-optimal time for a bucket of moules frites and some undrinkable beer but solidarité demands it

Ok this is pretty funny from FIFA. ‘Belgium? Not a real country, mate’

“We noticed you sometimes set text size to 120%, regularly post on BlueSky and your last use of Discord required three visits to Urban Dictionary. No need to photo your driving licence.”

I repeat: wishing for the yanks to get interested in football was a real monkey’s paw moment

People who say human sacrifice ended in Mexico with the Aztecs clearly haven’t seen what England plan to do with Declan Rice this evening

George Osborne Theory of Everything™ strikes again

To help [non-working] parents.

Loving the main character in The Pitt describing how a little part of him dies every time he sees a patient die and how it’s killing him… ten minutes after recommending a colleague goes into *gerontology*

This is a massively consumer-unfriendly act, from a company that only this week showed it can't be trusted not to delete stuff you nominally 'own'. www.ft.com/content/c1a7...

Satire truly can't keep up with 'you need to pay a subscription fee for your pervert glasses'.

This is worse than when that US website misunderstood and made mince pies with actual beef mince

I’d hope that Jeremy Hunt leaving traps for his successor was an unwelcome one-off…

"cutting capital budgets across the board to pay for defence – as has been widely reported – is a choice to backtrack on one of this government’s headline achievements to date: beginning to reverse historic underinvestment in economic and (especially) public service infrastructure."

Who was managing this German team? Deutsche Bahn?

Growing up, there was a barber in my town who proudly wouldn’t allow Asians in his shop and who was also a part-time magistrate. He’d be the first to sign up for this.

Yeah, fascinated if adding a click-through disclaimer suddenly stops this from being illegal

The diaspora attendance is great but I do think countries shouldn’t be allowed to host the World Cup if they don’t want international visitors

The trouble in the battle between: 1) HMT is too stingy and needs to allocate more to defence; and 2) the MOD will just waste the extra funds is that both sides are likely correct

I re-read Inferno last month and yet nowhere do I recall Dante mentioning the Northern Line

Given age differentials, the ‘will of the people’ is actually the will of the dead

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

“In retrospect, Muppet Lolita was a mistake and the executives involved have now departed the studios”

Thank you, Restore-backing counterparties x

When one side focuses on churches and apartment blocks and the other is hitting oil refineries, I'd bet on the latter prevailing.

Back to my position of ‘I’ll vote for the first party to acknowledge that trade-offs exist” (Going to end up spoiling my ballot paper aren’t I?)

Ultimately, British politics is simple in a way: people don't like the Cameron deal: they don't get as much state as they used to and although they have had substantial tax relief, they don't feel it. Either need to have huuuge cuts in spending and more tax cuts Or raise taxes and spending.

Labour PPC: my mum left school at 16 to have my eldest half-sibling Tory PPC: I work in financial services, as my father did before me Lib Dem PPC: mother was a CofE lay reader Reform PPC: I’ve never been awarded a peerage and, like Nigel, am pretty cheesed off about that

All Labour needs to do when passing the 16-17 voting bill is to extend the franchise to imaginary racist coalminers

Exceedingly bad news for 17yo furries who have a deep need to argue daily about British food

‘A 2% inflation target is too high and arguably should be zero’ ⬅️ Properly galaxy brained stuff. www.ft.com/content/285e...

I think Labour’s implementation is piss-poor and panicky, but also that BSky could benefit from the loudest voices on this topic not being largely male, child-free commentators.

How popular do we think reheated Starmerism with northern gravy is going to be?

Finally, somebody prepared to look out for that neglected section of the electorate: pensioners.

It is my non-hyperbolic view that everybody who brought hydration ad breaks into the World Cup should one day face trial at The Hague

Today is not looking to be a good day for the efficient market hypothesis

I think a big takeaway from The Genetic Lottery (a fab book that genuinely changed my view on a few things) is that almost every educational study would be better with some polygenic scoring, and so few do.

To repeat: Labour's strategy to go into the next election arguing 'it's us or the far right' does require them to, y'know, actually oppose the far right