Gotta say, I'm not really into like way that Lord of the Flies looks like it's been shot using some hipster camera lens from the 1970s and weirdly processed slide film

Pitch: a cosy crime Sunday evening BBC detective drama. Twist: the detective is the Speaker of the House of Commons.

This is great. A blogger writes the same account of arriving in a town, using English from 2000, 1900, 1800, etc. Pretty easy back to 1600, but by 1400... www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Truly the past is a foreign country

Normally don't bother with tradslop accounts but why would it radicalise me 70 years after the event (and decades after the backlash)?

I’ve been a slacker for years. Here's what I learned when I started working hard. Me for the Times www.thetimes.com/business/com...

I’ve been a slacker for years. Here's what I learned when I started working hard. Me for the Times www.thetimes.com/business/com...

High-functioning slacker's five rules for working hard when you have to. (£) www.thetimes.com/business/com... By @rhymerrigby.bsky.social

For years, I’ve successfully avoided hard work. No longer. Here's 5 things I've learned. www.thetimes.com/business/com...

According to South London lore, there's an ounce at the end of every rainbow

I’ve as much sympathy for Gemini AI maker, Google, shouting about people stealing their intellectual property as they had for the original creators that they ripped off to build Gemini

I think, on some level, I always knew the future was going to look like this

Youngest daughter is now massively into radicchio. This is what middle-class parenting is all about.

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

A whole state-of-Britain drama series in one Guardian letter

Sometimes it's very confusing being a hipster

Rate bit of good news here for Labour.

I don’t want to laugh at a small business but also VERY funny

Sad news from Wikipedia. Following lengthy discussion on the talk page, they've removed Matt Goodwin's claim to be the first in his family to go to university on the grounds that it [checks notes] isn't true. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Ma...

"You have to put a lot of effort into not going mad." - @rolandoliphant.bsky.social relaying a message from his friend in Kyiv

Ate an egg with a crack in it for breakfast this morning and, according to Reddit, I should be dead already

Chaos behind the scenes. Two-thirds of the crew who worked on Amazon's $75 million Melania Trump, the movie asked for their names to be left out of the end credits.

Just reading today’s newsletter from @stephenkb.bsky.social and it is baffling that in effect there’s currently no viable centre right party in the UK despite the enormous political space available for that sort of proposition.

www.ft.com/content/d0b7... No thank you.

Steal (Amazon) starts out promising but gets ridiculous pretty quickly. By the end it feels like they're just throwing dozens of financial conspiracy thriller ideas against the wall to see which ones stick.

Went cycling for an hour because it was cold and sunny. Have spend the last 45 minutes remembering that I have really sensitive teeth.

Hate to say I told you so.* *Oh, who am I kidding? I love to tell you I told you so!

Cheeky

About 80% of the mess in our kitchen would go overnight if I could just bring myself to buy pre-sliced bread

Slide projector, free to a good home, on an SE London wall. Tempted. Inviting friends round for dinner and breaking between courses to show them your holiday slides (perhaps with cocktails) would be one helluva hipster flex.

Can't help but feel the quote marks are in the wrong place

Vance on the economy: "You don't turn the Titanic around overnight"

"Say it ain't so, Tonty"

Another proud day for America.

Did a potato write this?

News of the Loos

‘Rob Brydon provides work for ghostwriter and illustrator’

Surprisingly cute little street, sandwiched between Lewisham station and a big Tesco.

Why is Donald Trump changing his mind every five minutes and saying completely mad stuff an embarrassment for Keir Starmer? It feels like it should chiefly be seen as an embarrassment for the United States.

Getting MAGA vibes from my pasta

Some perspective: The S&P opened down -1.3% on Trump's Greenland saber-rattling. That's $750 billion of wealth destroyed -- roughly equal to estimates of the value of Greenland. And so ~in dollar terms~ his shenanigans have already cost the US one Greenland, and we've got nothing to show for it.

There is no strategy www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Tell you what. Not a great time to be a mid-sized nation going it alone

Brooklyn Beckham: it's time to address the shadowy shape that's difficult to photograph in the room

Have to start spending all your money on the real powerhouses of the British economy: gambling, WarHammer, and OnlyFans.

The shape of this pudding reminds me of a nuclear test. Very 1950s Atomic Modern.

Absolutely fascinating chart. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@gilesyb.bsky.social this is what the inflection point looks like - chinas emissions will be tanking very soon e360.yale.edu/digest/china...