It is counter-intuitive to many, but the purpose of weighing the pig is to fatten it.

Colour me skeptical that employers who don’t bother with current right to work checks will suddenly feel motivated to ask for “Brit cards”.

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

At a rally during which the President of the United States vowed to crack down on leftist political activists, the BBC Radio news coverage leads with him beatifying Charlie Kirk as a “martyr”. The media is seems incapable of understanding the moment we are in.

Watch the Dutch kick Disney in their tiny mouse gonads…

Trump criticizes Pam Bondi for not charging his adversaries quickly enough, in a Truth Social post that looks a lot like a DM. truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

Well done to the @libdems.org.uk on Oxford County Council for designing a congestion charge that _appears_ to allow the residents of Oxford’s most affluent areas to drive to the city centre free of charge while charging working people. Brilliantly reading the political moment – well done!

More free speech activism from the MAGA government.

The federal government is dictating what speech is permitted. *DISNEY SAYS 'JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE' TO BE PREEMPTED INDEFINITELY

This will of course be welcomed by the free speech champions of the right.

A reporter just asked the U.S. president a perfectly legitimate question about his attorney general's vow to prosecute people for constitutionally protected speech. He responded by threatening to prosecute the reporter. The threat itself is an abuse of power. It ought to be an impeachable offense.

There are some many weasel words in this story, even a weasel would be embarrassed to read them. In Some Records, Fed Governor Listed Atlanta Home as Secondary www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/b...

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

This is unhinged, dangerous, and reckless. At this point I don't know how you conclude anything other than that Musk is trying to foment pogroms against immigrants across the west.

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

Which work? Calling for gay people to be stoned to death? Blaming airplane crashes on black pilots? Anti-vax bullshit? Election denialism? Pushing Great Replacement Theory? Kirk’s murder is awful and ominous for this country. But no, we don’t need to honor him or “continue his work.”

Oh, THAT Charlie Kirk.

A Palestinian teenager starved to death in an Israeli prison in March, and his body still hasn’t been returned to his family — Haaretz archive.is/Yzonm

I like this graphic because it implies that the opposite of violence is Irishness

Didn’t want to believe this was true. It’s true.

still thinking about the Montana knife maker who said you don't have to worry about tariffs if you buy american. and then three months later, he realized he imports swedish steel and german equipment. and even MiUSA equipment costs $100k more now because of tariffs

This notion that tariffs create a dual-priced market where imports are more expensive but US-made goods remain cheap is dead wrong. The domestic supply curve is upward-sloping. If demand for domestic-made goods increases, yes, US producers gain market share, but they also charge more.

It is as bad as we have ever seen it. The scenes of famine in Gaza are simply barbaric. As MPs of Israeli and Palestinian descent, we hope though that recognition of the State of Palestine will serve to flame the embers of hope for peace. My open letter with @alexsobel.co.uk

Based on my back of the envelope maths, Thames Water seems to believe I am likely to use somewhere in the region of 100,000l of water in a year. Do they think I am a fecking merman or something?

Marxian analysis doesn't do a particularly good job at explaining the late 19th century, but it can be really productive for understanding medieval societies.

Dear me, what has happened the Jewish Chronicle? Anyone with a GCSE in Spanish, or access to Google, could tell you Cúmplice Innocente means “Innocent Accomplice”, not “Complicit”. It seems the new editorial team are happy to just make things up to support flimsy accusations of antisemitism.

Northern Ireland’s deputy First Minister “paying tribute” to criminals committing acts of theft and criminal damage of CHEP pallets on a massive scale. www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

In other news, the Israeli Defence Minister has announced plans to build an encampment on the ruins of Rafah in which 600k Palestinians will be put in and not allowed to leave, other than to a third country. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/w...

Walmart Manager: “Get back to work while ICE taser a customer! Escort all witnesses from the premises!”

I just want my parcel…

Má tá “criminal offence” déanta ag @kneecapceol.bsky.social Dé Sathairn i nGlastonbury níl ciall ar bith fagtha sa domhain .

Ye wouldn’t be surprised to see a bottle of Buckfast in there.

When you hear the Israeli state allege antisemitism, bear in mind that last week the Israeli government called an Israeli newspaper report, detailing the testimony of Jewish Israeli soldiers, a “blood libel”.

What I find interesting about this @nytimes.com piece is the contrast of the specificity of coverage of Israeli strikes (an oil refinery, no collateral damage recorded?!) versus the generality of detail of Iranian strikes (“buildings”, “neighbourhoods” etc.)

Fun new project! Are you a history or science teacher interested in AI? If you have just ten minutes we're running a simple research project testing whether or not teachers can spot AI generated homework answers. More info at link, feel free to share! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

How is a culture rooted in sectarian hatred so quick to turn xenophobic? 😒 www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Is there a worse customer experience anywhere in the world than trying to register to use the BP Pulse app? I don’t think so.

Just the IDF “inconveniencing” foreign diplomats by shooting at them, no biggie¡ www.rte.ie/news/middle-...

Irish cuisine has hit the TL

If you want an idea of how Israel’s Eurovision public (297pts) vote is completely unrelated to anything to do with music, consider that Yuval’s song, supposedly the most popular in Europe by a massive margin, has been streamed on Spotify 5.5M times. Switzerland’s Zoë Më (0 public pts), 4.5M streams.

'Rooftops', a poem by @amitmajmudar.bsky.social from our April / May 2025 issue. Save 20% on the current issue in our flash sale (ending this Thursday): thelondonmagazine.org/product/curr...

The stock market is the imp on your shoulder saying "it's only 3am, the night is young, take another molly and Red Bull and see what happens." The bond market is the other imp saying "yeah but you've got a job interview at 8, and you don't even have clean underwear."

A lot of people asking if Elon Musk really did a Nazi salute are now very quiet as Twitter is the only place you can stream Kanye West's new song, "Heil Hitler."

for some additional perspective, US imports from china were an average of $1.2b PER DAY in 2023, which are still tariff'd at ~145% now. the US/UK trade "deal" is quite literally a rounding error in the scope of Trump's Tariffs

NEW from me: Trump’s trade “deal” with the UK is a farce—it only affects 0.3% of US imports, got basically no “concessions” from the UK, and barely lowered overall US tariff rates That’s an extremely bad sign for “deals” to come www.apricitas.io/p/farce-of-t...

Once again reminding everyone that all the Russiagate stuff was basically true and Trump just successfully covered it up and the media repeated his lies about it until everyone forgot! Something to think about!

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...