The most important book I ever read was Roald Dahl’s memoir “Going Solo”, because it was the first non-fiction I’d read. I remember a Eureka moment where I realised reading was something I could enjoy, but I just wasn’t a fan of fiction.

“Trump’s attitude to American Military power is indistinguishable from that of, say, Jeremy Corbyn”

First time a world cup host has been bombing one of the qualifiers

So I’m watching Back to the Future, and even though I’m on approximately my 638th watch of this film something occurs to me. How come the plutonium is used up on each journey? It’s got a half-life of 24,000 years. If it’s good now it’ll be good tomorrow. Why can’t he just come straight back?

Some heroes wear clocks

Look at this insanity. Can we get rid of FPTP already? The winner here got barely 1 in 4 votes.

R4 comedy voxpop just now (before I smashed the off button) Reporter: what do you think of the result? Man: who won? R: the greens Man: oh no R: who do you support? M: I wanted Reform R: did you vote? Man: no R: oh Man: [sadly] I just like Nigel Farage This is the kind of Reform voter I like.

The first woman in Parliament to appear in the Guardian's 'best-dressed at Glastonbury' feature. You'll never sing that, etc...

Love this.

wheezing

🚨BREAKING🚨 Robert Jenrick has defected from Reform to the Greens.

There was a rumour in Russia that the Lunokhod lunar rover launched in 1970 contained and was controlled by a KGB dwarf on a suicide mission

At the oldest Spanish-language parish in Minnesota, the next five Fridays mean one thing: enchiladas. “Lenten enchiladas is our biggest fundraiser of the year,” Rev. James Bernard said. Video: Elizabeth Flores/The Minnesota Star Tribune.

What's a line of delivery you'll never forget?

The Bayeux Tapestry up in lights at Piccadilly Circus! Tickets on sale from 1 July for the exhibition at the British Museum, opening in September. First chance in 1,000 years to see this iconic object back on British soil.

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator... stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

What you wrote: “took my four year old to martial arts class…” What I heard: “KUNG FU KINDERGARTEN”

Advanced AI models are willing to deploy nuclear weapons without the same reservations humans have when put in simulated war games. The scenarios involved intense international standoffs, including border disputes, competition for scarce resources, and existential threats to regime survival.

Great book. Great pint. Looks like a great pub too. Jealous.

oops. White nationalism is a helluva drug.

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Fifth-tier Tamworth FC made over $250k off the back of their FA Cup match with Tottenham last season, taking them from overdrawn to having over $100k in assets 💰 It goes to show how massive these cup ties can be for smaller clubs 🤯

Why does no-one leave steaming hot pies next to street-level open windows these days? This is not the future the Beano promised us

Can’t believe this little guy turns 6 tomorrow. He’s such a great kid.

"John Prescott would be loving this"

so you've probably heard about the London measles outbreak. A lot of people are talking about anti-vax misinformation, but that's not actually the problem here. The problem is austerity. 🧵

One of the weirder cold symptoms I’m experiencing, I can only describe it as phantom pains in the tonsils I had removed some 36 years ago.

I’m really sad this Winter Olympics is over. It seemed a very well-run games so the focus was 100% on the athletes and the incredible things they can do.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Thy literally put it in the Louvre www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

Oh this is a very fun thread!

“The guy did a great job for a competitive rate. I’m really pleased with it”

Lovely to read an interview with someone behind a game I 100% loved. I think anyone who played GPL for any length of time is still completely in awe of it. It was a truly great piece of work.

Happy birthday to this young man, and really to us all

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

This clip is all over the other place and has made its way onto GB News and Talk TV so I’ll do a bit of an explainer here too! The clip doing the rounds is of a fantastic police officer telling a group of Muslim men that a Christian preacher nearby is entitled to freedom of expression. 🧵 1/19

if trump wants to raise tariffs, why doesn't he just go through the republican-controlled congress?

Olympics are fine but nothing beats the thrill of watching the map with the little car carrying my pizza

Si Señor!

No-one noticed the text scratched into the welding mask when this was first broadcast on the BBC, back in 1979, did they?

This is the Alysa Liu performance everyone is talking about, and yes, you should watch it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCrF...

Friday’s @thetimes.com cartoon times.newsprints.co.uk/morten-morla...