Mark Carney's speech really is terrific: full text is here and very much worth your time.

Thinking of all the people who said that Reeves had lied to give herself too much headroom in the budget. Feels like that £20bn is evaporating away quite quickly!

Holy hell, what an obituary

I’ve never felt so angry about a political issue. How have ALL parties decided that communicating through an app that generates sexual images of a dead 15yo is fine, actually?! To quote a brilliant piece by @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com I’m tired of felling insane all the time.

oh God this is so sad. Do read the New Yorker piece - it's superb.

not the kind of behavior I expect from the winner of the fifa peace prize

Absolute cinema

A gripping and remarkable story. Nathan Newby is a truly extraordinary man, and a most deserving recipient of the George’s Cross.

A gripping and remarkable story. Nathan Newby is a truly extraordinary man, and a most deserving recipient of the George’s Cross.

A friend of mine, aged about 4, having been told by her mum that if all she ate was sweets then she’d get a big belly, greeted a very pregnant lady on the bus with the words “I know what YOU have been doing!” This was hard for her mum to explain on several levels.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

A brutal, but very accurate takedown of the budget. The decision to focus the tax rises on young professionals (threshold freezes, student loan changes and salary sacrifice) is also perplexing when that group is one of their few remaining core voters.

While it’s great news that this won’t be called in it will be nearly a year since the first council meeting before this is approved, and nearly 9 years since the plans were first discussed. Way too long! www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/p...

"To say 'Zelenskyy is no friend of the working class' is an insulting, facile distraction from the fact that Sultana refuses to support the Ukrainian people’s fight for existence." Proper cold fury and moral clarity from @paulmason.bsky.social on Sultana. open.substack.com/pub/htsf/p/c...

Roath park lake in 1889! Has changed a bit !

Fascinating piece (again) by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. This spike in mid-life mortality is so much greater than I’d have expected. on.ft.com/47lh62V

Interesting interview with Nicola Johnston by @sionbarry.bsky.social. This bit (on the URC and Six Nations equity deals to CVC) is unbelivable. How can you not understand such a fundamental point about the deal you’re signing? Was the same true about the WRU? www.business-live.co.uk/enterprise/r...

Frustrating game overall. Missed kicks, poor discipline and an inconsistent set piece turn out costly. Weird to be disappointed after getting 2 points in Thomond Park, but the win was there for the taking. #CARVMUN

Brilliant catch from Bowen! #MUNVCAR

Do forward passes just not count anymore?! #MUNVCAR

Very good thread. There’s a need for cautious optimism in govt comms - will be hard with a difficult budget coming up, but is the only way of turning their position around.

A very fun piece about a very annoying practice.

A brilliant piece on Trump’s state visit. on.ft.com/4nGi28Q

Here's one factor English commentators will miss: on the left is a map of Welsh speakers, on the right is voting intention

The Virtues (Channel 4) is mine. Unbelivably emotional and also contains the best acting performance of Stephen Graham’s career (which is high praise as he’s so good in everything).

FT mag piece from me: Spent a long time looking into the Britannia hotel chain, beneficiaries of a vast amount of taxpayer money via the asylum system on.ft.com/47HEE46

I picked a fight with some hydrogen that's 93 million miles away. I lost. On my hatred of the sun, and the horror of sunburn. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

A fascinating, but disturbing read. This bit in particular did make me chuckle! www.ft.com/content/0e24...

So if you kill a child by driving carelessly and without insurance you’ll be out of prison within a year, and back behind the wheel within three. Crimes committed behind the wheel aren’t treated as real crimes. www.bbc.com/news/article...