Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners." In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures. Maybe Beth is on a diet.

Saying a wealthy person “is worth x million pounds“ implies that a poor person “is worth nothing”. Can we go back to saying a person owns x million pounds, or their fortune amounts to x million pounds, or similar?

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

After three incredibly eventful years, it is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to the United Kingdom. Auf Wiedersehen!

I’ve been having a few too many conversations like this. Them: Hi Kate, how are things with your work, with the world? Me: the university is under attack, democratic norms being broken in half, so, pretty bad. Them: But everything is going to come back and be okay after the midterms. Me: Uhh, no.

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

Starting July 7, 2025, the National Archives at College Park will shut its doors to the public. Only those with “legitimate business” can enter. A federal records facility—closed to the very public it’s supposed to serve? This should raise eyebrows. It smells BAD.

Big fat 0 for me

CBS reporter Scott Pelley: This is a warning that I fear many will look back on in five or six years and think “he was so right”. If you haven’t already shared this, please do.

Some free thoughts on how to behave... open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

In times like this, integrity matters. Well done 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 Top lawyers walked out of Paul Weiss to start their own firm—right after the firm cut a shady deal with the White House to dodge an executive order that would’ve limited its business. Some folks still have a spine.

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I had a productive call with Ursula von der Leyen this morning. We’re ready to build on our free trade relationship, bolster economic security, and work side-by-side on shared defence and security challenges. When Canada and the European Union build together, our futures are stronger.

Templars Temple Church, London #StainedGlassSunday

Seems bad that the new U.S. Attorney who is threatening to lock up Trump’s political opponents was working for Russia before getting his new job. But maybe it’s just me.

Before the election, I warned that there is no safe haven under authoritarianism. If they can ship Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a foreign prison—accused of no crime, with no trial—they can do it to anyone. Americans of conscience must stand against this now.

Hackers turn Silicon Valley crosswalks into mockery of Musk, Zuckerberg

I don’t think a better headline could have been written about what happened yesterday. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

And Canada's Prime Minister outsmarted the orange idiot. www.wallawallademocrats.com/other-voices...

More in No, Other People: New poll: “America would be better off if more people worked in manufacturing.” • 80% of Americans agree • 20% disagree “I would be better off if I worked in a factory.” • 25% of Americans agree • 73% disagree • 2% currently work in a factory

Booker: "This isn't just about Mr. Garcia. This is about every American understanding that this president is making an assault on the due process rights that are afforded to people in our country ... you cannot disappear people off American streets."

If you want to win a trade war, you gotta have something to trade that other side wants. And we're in a trade war with the very people who make all the things WE want. You're not going to win that.

The thing about writers and their cats is that cats are cool for the long hang. They love a good nap and the tapping of the keys sounds like a gentle rain to them. (Yes, of course, Wittens and I photobombed Poe and King.) 🖤💙🐈‍⬛ #coolforcats #cats #catlover #catnap #darkfamiliar #EApoe #stephenking

More than 50 bar organizations stand together with the American Bar Association to defend the rule of law and reject efforts to undermine the courts and the legal profession. Read the full statement: www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

The headline figure of water companies discharging 4 million litres of sewage a year is bad enough but the real picture is much worse. These figures are only for known, permitted outfalls & across the country there’s thousands of unpermitted outfalls pouring unknown amounts of sewage into our rivers

Re-reading Gatsby and I can’t imagine why this line stood out: “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess...”

Interesting response from Meta's AI chatbot when I said it had been trained on pirated books, including two of my own.

Reminder that ending the Affordable Care Act is part of Project 2025. It's been saving lives for 15 years. What us their obsession with killing it? #ACASavesLives #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory

Blue skies in London (Middle Temple)

And also of the unitary executive theory.

A good summary of the link between the rule of law and democracy by @joycewhitevance.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Over $1.75 trillion was wiped out from the US stock market today. Trump owns all of this.

If Musk and his Technoboyz can't stop a cyber attack at X, maybe they shouldn't have access to our Social Security? Just brainstorming.

Amy Coney Barrett sparks MAGA fury over Trump Supreme Court decision

@mcfaulmike.bsky.social: “Trump, Vance & others either have forgotten or never knew that Zelensky signed a ceasefire agreement with Putin in 2019. Three years later, Putin launched his full-scale invasion. So, signing another ceasefire with no security guarantees feels like suicide for Ukrainians.”

He is not just appeasing Putin, he is aligned with him. And every single client journalist, political shill & public/online cheerleader on both sides of the Atlantic is too. Against Zelensky. Against Ukraine. Against freedom. Against the most basic tenets of decency.

The effects of the House’s proposed “Medicaid cuts to pay for tax cuts” in one graph: a 3.9% boost in income for the top 1% of households and a 7.4% reduction in income for the bottom fifth of households. In two words: class warfare. www.epi.org/blog/the-hou...

The Atlantic writer Anne Applebaum says President Trump's dismantling of the U.S. civil service system, and his attacks on judges and his opponents, are part of a playbook on undermining democracy. 🎧 tinyurl.com/3w32xujf

Presented without comment. www.ft.com/content/a7c9...

I agree. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/feb...

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”