When I was their age my parents and I would all watch the 6 o clock news or C4 news together over dinner. I’m not sure either of my kids have ever watched a scheduled news show all through. The whole concept of TV on a scheduled timetable is alien to them.

This resonates for me - both my kids have been following the Charlie Kirk and Jimmy Kimmel stories blow by blow, while knowing next to nothing about what is happening in British politics. TikTok is the reason.

As with norange, the shifty N between words

An excellent signature, via Reddit

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Fascinating that quite a lot of people in the replies perceive OE Dominic West as having been born into a working-class family

Probably good we got the state visit out of the way early really

If Isaac Chotiner asks you about your friendship with Henry Kissinger, you are already dead.

"which countries is nobility a specially protected legal condition in" is actually a pretty interesting question. it's not even all the constitutional monarchies - Sweden got rid of the protections in 2003, and now their title-confirming "House of Nobility" is just a private corporation.

Also, I think a lot of people (at least Americans?) don't know the order of precedence and don't realize "baron" is pretty far down on the pecking order. Like during the middle ages being a baron meant you were maybe raising a few dozen heavy cavalrymen to fight in the king's armies.

the vast majority of European nobility a) don't have their titles recognized by any government any more and b) mostly are just upper-middle-class families.

Going to be late for my 11am meeting because the daylist has just served up Tangled Up In Blue

The responses/QTs are very interesting - partly because the question is open enough to allow a lot of interpretation: does it mean small-c conservative, or reactionary, or old-fashioned/unfashionable, or "person was a huge racist but made great art"? Worth reading through the QTs to see the gamut.

"How did a back office function become so important to an economy with huge numbers of office workers?"

It's always good to be working for Which?, but today is the kind of day that drives that home very clearly.

The best view is that HR departments are there to try and keep management away from courts

Part of this is freelancers who haven’t really had to interact with how modern large businesses actually work, and part is how journalism as an industry has more or less opted out of modern management techniques and so journalists tend to view them as either voodoo black magic, bullshit or evil.

Do people really not notice or believe this? If you lived through the 80s-90s it’s surely incredibly obvious (I accept that millions of Britons did not live through that, but still).

Abolition of HR is of course a ridiculous idea but I wonder if they realise that what this would mostly provoke is a new age of industrial militancy.

So it turns out the bloke I thought was Jimmy Kimmel is not in fact Jimmy Kimmel and the real Jimmy Kimmel looks basically the same as Jimmy Fallon, with whom I also used to get him confused. Now I need to work out which American talk show host it is whose face I thought was Jimmy Kimmel's.

The government is stuck running a 20th century news operation – focused on traditional media – 25 years into the 21st century. But even worse, it’s even losing at that, not because of “comms” but because the government seemingly has absolutely nothing of its own to say.

The government is, y’know, the government. They could announce policies of their own in Monday’s papers, which the media would cover. But instead they just leave an endless news void, and end up chasing their tails trying to keep up with Reform on its strongest issue. It’s woeful.

Reform hold a press conference every Monday, for which they trail a policy announcement in that morning’s papers. Given Monday is a slow news day, that often means they lead the papers – and so the breakfast shows, and so they set the agenda for the week. It’s a good trick, but easy to counter!

Starmer absolutely deserved criticism for not speaking up clearly and decisively last week But he also deserves credit for these articles and words now. Keep these messages up More press coverage in Sunder’s thread

People are gonna get mad at me for this but fundamentally ed davey takes the current moment more seriously than most former or current labour people

Since the advent of Apple Intelligence (🤔) iOS autocorrect has taken huge strides. Backwards.

My one citation (something about computer games from 20 years ago) has been removed ☹️

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.

This is a fascinating question. I don’t remember the net ever not feeling real in some way - but I had email very early (1989?) and Gopher/FTP etc before websites really existed so while it felt magical in 1992 to log into some university in Utah, it also felt quite physically real.

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So there are now, in addition to the two warring leadership groups (Sultana progressives + Corbyn social cons), two splinter factions (Democratic Bloc + Our Party), and all before the party has a name or a membership structure?

Free starmer idea: naming all left wing actions very reform things. The princess diana mega solar farms. The elizabeth ii memorial workers right law. The winston churchil reparations bill

At Wembley for a gig and have found the least unpleasant place to have a drink which is… the Nando’s on the terrace of some sort of tourist trap “designer outlet”. Apart from the lounge cover of Radiohead playing over the PA it’s quite peaceful.

A, obviously. All the food of the world available in Britain and Ireland, plus France and, er, Greenland. The question is obviously moronic, but that gives us latitude to choose an obviously correct answer that’s outside the spirit of the question.

HMK is also not wearing a "formal tuxedo", because (1) a tuxedo is a semi-formal outfit and (2) what he is wearing is not a tuxedo, it is a tailcoat THE VERY THING A TUXEDO WAS INVENTED NOT TO BE.

The Seventh Doctor being iconic

The end of Scotland's "not guilty but don't do it again" verdict

BRB just sending Bryan Johnson a Mr Jones wristwatch to wear with that t-shirt

I’ve always found the Ben & Jerry’s cofounders absolutely unbearable. You sold your company to an international conglomerate. Absolutely everyone could’ve told you how that eventually goes. And some did. You don’t get to have it both ways!

“This is not a nimby organisation,” said Paul... who then went on to make exactly the same points that nimbies always make.

American contempt laws seem bizarre from the perspective of the English and Welsh norms. Over here, publishing this story (about an English case obv) would land the editor in court and then in jail in short order:

The NS column is bad for a lot of reasons (www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...) - it’s badly written and badly argued structurally - but this specifically is both a weak and a stupid argument. Either make the moral case or make a Swift-style shock case. Don’t make both in an attempt to hedge.

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Another thing I love about the present moment - Musk regularly goes 'don't worry, we are going to change THAT' whenever Grok produces an answer that doesn't align with his priors, yet the British Labour government thinks that they are going to be able to land an argument on there in 2029.

Not sure about Julian Asange as a 10, but with Dr David Kelly pulling the strings at the head of a midfield diamond I can see Dando notching 20 goals and giving Tuchel a headache.

Anyone mocking what Clive Lewis says here - and I hate the fact I'm agreeing with Clive Lewis - hasn't spent enough time with the mess of contradictions and conflicts which is the average low-information English voter.

A bit more like it (though nothing I can see referring to Musk’s incitement to violence and support for a coup). But it looks like a response to a flood of Labour MPs saying to No 10 ‘what on earth are you doing?’ - I wish it had come earlier as a principled response to the actual march

The last one I remember is the one he did in St Helen’s in response to Farage’s “our tanks are on Labour’s lawn” speech after the locals. Farage’s speech was an effective one. In response Starmer went immediately north not to announce a policy or policy direction, but to announce Farage was a threat

It's a tad concerning that columnists who five years ago would've condemned today's marchers as racist thugs, are today implicitly or explicitly supportive

The worst possible message emerging in British politics is "We'll tolerate jobless serial criminals if, and only if, they are being racist".