Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%

However bad 1990s Germany could be (and the establishment was pretty bad), if you ended up a mass confrontation with Nazi skins at least the media and politicians the next day would call them extremist hools rather than concerned citizens

🚨🚨 #Switzerland’s star striker Breel Embolo has been barred from entering #US ahead of #WorldCup following a last-minute decision by US authorities to review his #clearance to travel. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/swit...

Got to be one of the most inflammatory statements ever broadcast on the BBC, let alone a current affairs show. Apparently, there’s a ‘regime’ that for ‘30 years’ has been operating against the interests of whites.

Seems like a pretty important finding for @torstenbell.bsky.social and others to read.

If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news.

The war that isn't sure keeps going.

It's not Farage in isolation of course. The sentiment is amplified by overseas actors, X and Elon Musk.

"The increasing involvement of technology companies in mathematical research raises the risk that research questions may come to be prioritized because of their amenability to automated mathematics, rather than expert judgment of their deeper significance."

Mark Carney, "We welcome the people of the world" "In all their diversity, in all that splendour" "We don't welcome the world's hatreds" "When you come to Canada you bring your faith, your tradition, your language, your story" "You leave behind your animosities"

That is, if memory serves, to support high cost subjects, underrepresented groups, and technical qualifications.

SCOOP: An internal Microsoft strategy document says that the plan for its just-announced “Scout” personal assistant AI is to “make people addicted” to the tool before rolling out additional functionality, 404 Media has learned.

Former UK technology secretary Peter Kyle agreed to include “more positive language about artificial intelligence” in a speech last year on the advice of Lord Peter Mandelson, co-founder of an advisory firm that worked for OpenAI and Palantir www.ft.com/content/1b3e...

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Striking changes in British Social Attitudes polling on attitudes to higher education. The proportion of people who believe a degree is not worth the time and money has grown from 14% in 2005 to 34% in 2025. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

It really is no coincidence that large parts of Westminster have remained on Musk's X as the algorithm increasingly promotes a distorted view of public opinion.

Of these seven cities, five are hosting World Cup soccer matches.

The glorious celebration of journalism that is the Paul Foot Awards feat. the exceptionally worthy shortlist being celebrated by Ian Hislop and the winner, @petergeoghegan.bsky.social for Democracy For Sale’s brilliant work exposing Labour Together

It’s all kicking off in Richmond.

Rank 1 in a 143 year time series.

Let us assume that we have a can opener...

Executive function.

References to Palantir have been redacted from the Mandelson files on the grounds that they would be "prejudicial to UK national security or international relations"

As much fun for some, I imagine, as going to the dentist.

So how was school today love?

OK then. What time are the Mandelson Files (Round 2) released?

Peter and Jane’s Irish Setter Pat (And the ‘real’ Pat) Artist: HarryWingfield

“This is censorship... This is a demonstration that some of the worst abuses in our time are not confined to kings, emperors, governments … but to a class of companies that have assumed the sovereign affect, and seek to assert their power the same way that some of those despotic nation states do.”

"Someone, somewhere, has taken the decision to defund astrophysics research in the UK, but no-one seems quite sure who that was, or why." The latest on the impact of the catastrophic funding cuts to UK astrophysics, by me, in @natastron.nature.com 👩‍🔬🧪🔭 ✒️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

i am counting 14 seconds between the first sign that the sprinklers are going off and the stadium DJ hitting play on "Umbrella." elite performance, that's why that DJ made it all the way to the WCWS

Support for Net Zero among MPs over time. From 81% support at the general election to 11%. That's quite the swing.

(1) that's illegal and (2) there should be a general prohibition on listening to people who flounce out of a political party the moment they don't get given a safe seat.

I haven't read the article - paywalled - but apparently the headline intimates something that's not in the article. This is *really* unfair as the inference from the headline can't be checked without payment. I imagine that's not great for her. And therefore very unfair.

Cancel culture. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m in the quiet carriage. Man in his 50s watching sport with sound up. Group of men in their 40s/50s getting loudly drunk. Every child & teenager quiet/using headphones. It’s not: ‘Younger generation need to learn how to behave.’ It’s ‘People who should know better have forgotten.’

I.C.E. maintains a strict dress code for people seeking to visit their loved ones caged at Delaney Hall. It’s clear the strict rule is useful pretext to deny visitors entry. #ICE #DHS

No, @zackpolanski.bsky.social , you must *not* listen to Reform voters’ concerns. The opposite. You must challenge them. Fight them. Oppose them. Stand up for the truth and for what’s right. Don’t make the same mistake Labour did. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Top health official held shares in key children’s home operator - www.ft.com/content/710e... via @data.ft.com

PR PR.

Sunday youtu.be/wubkrBd3-gg?...

Trump posts an image of his “drone port” on top of the White House, which raises the question of who they’re planning to drone in and around DC

So. It's a rally then.

Is it nonpolitical if it's religious and MAGA is the religion.

If you're interested in the history of hip hop (and have an hour to spare), this is fantastic. youtu.be/m3YXyK-gWvc?...

So. Low growth model.

Here we go yet again.

subtle.

More of this please. A Danish pension fund has blacklisted #SpaceX, calling it grossly overvalued with catastrophic governance thenextweb.com/news/danish-...

He seems nice. www.lbc.co.uk/article/refo...