Bold move by the crossword writer in the UK's i newspaper. But they likely realised that the typical Reform Party fan doesn't do cryptic crosswords so they're maybe safe from their ire. For those struggling with it - the key for is primary - take the first letters of the words.

President Trump criticises a CNN reporter saying she's a young beautiful woman but she never smiles and has hatred in her eyes

Three quarters of universities in deficit, tens of thousands of jobs being lost, & the government tells us there’s no money. They can, however, find close to the entire budget allocation for teaching from the Office for Students on a private theme park.

Paris. Last week, I was daring to give a paper on Mozart in Salzburg. Now here to tell them about … Boulez.

'Premium'

Hence the onslaught from governments in this country from Thatcher onwards on higher (and other) education.

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make me ready, Lord, for whatever

🚨 NEW: 27 Members of Parliament have signed a motion to reject the EHRC Code of Practice edm.parliament.uk/early-day-mo... Ask yours to join them: equalrecognition.eaction.org.uk/rejectthecode

Ah, so that's ok. Why don't we use this method for all government activity? Laws, perhaps, could vanish after a week.

Alongside colleagues, I have tabled a motion to disapprove the Equality Act 2010: Draft Code of Practice for Services, public functions and associations. We cannot support it, and we have a responsibility to our trans constituents to resist it. Please email your MP asking them to sign EDM 240.

This is obviously really bad, but what’s worse is that it isn’t headline news, and everyone concerned will still have a job tomorrow

Better late than never, I suppose. If it is a sign that the successor to the Starmer regime might just be a little better - it could be no worse - then it is to be welcomed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Absolutely and in the UK we have a vaccine only strategy where even most clinically vulnerable aren’t eligible for protection against an immune damaging vascular airborne virus. The guidance is still for handwashing for an airborne virus, despite the Covid inquiry. Labour are too wrapped up in …

This is news in a significantly lesser way than my saying ‘my local café was out of croissants this morning’.

We only went and won it!! 🎉🎉🎉 A newsletter has just won the biggest prize in British journalism Absolutely delighted. Huge thanks to Khadija and to all Democracy for Sale’s supporters 😊

Have just received my copy of this book, my chapter a little contribution to Kurtág’s centenary.

This Westminster phone thief is such a menace. Catch the phone thief. Find the phones. 🙄

People keep using "it is happening to CIS women!" as a wake-up call but, not to scold, it's also bad when it happens to trans women. It's a fucking wild thing to do, to yell and threaten someone in a toilet.

Let's hope - for I would wish this on no-one - Seema Malhotra does not become one of the women, like my wife featured in this piece, who are confronted by vigilantes in her changing room for the crime of having suffered breast cancer.

tl;dr: Alabama's ability to administer a new congressional map disenfranchising Black voters has been complicated by the fact that Alabama is celebrating Jefferson Davis's birthday today.

Motions concerning crime, children’s wellbeing, pensions, Northern Ireland, the King’s Speech, and even immigration have all been skipped by the Clacton MP.

'Last week, the Labour MP David Taylor called for Piker to be prevented from speaking, saying his presence in the UK was “not conducive to the public good”.' Taylor agitated for proscription of Palestine Action. How surprising to find he is a member of avowedly genocidal 'Labour Friends of Israel'.

Guardian: This brutal new drama about the resurfacing of homophobia which is scary, and transphobia, which we agree with 😉

Truly pathetic, and at the same time horrifying. Equating actual violent racist abuse from fascists with political anger at genocide in Gaza, as if they’re somehow the same problem. Mind-numbingly stupid, shortsighted, and selfish.

Presumably the ‘Free Speech Union’, ‘Spiked’, and the rest of the gang are onto the Starmer regime’s banning anyone daring to criticise Zionist genocide from entering the UK.

Hasan Piker and Cenk Uyger banned from entering the UK ...bananas. They're being treated like they're neo-Nazis with a history of starting riots when all that's happened is: they've been critical of Israel online. I can't stand Cenk Uyger but I'll point out insane Labour decisions when I see them.

St Erhard’s Church, Nonntal (Salzburg). First mentioned 1404. Completely rebuilt 1685-9 (Johann Kaspar Zugalli, concurrently working on nearby Kajetaner Church) with wings serving as hospital for Archbishop’s servants. Stucco work Francesco Brenno. High altar painting Johann Michael Rottmayr (1692).

Another clear centering of Trump’s emotions from a few days ago: the number of headlines and articles that referred to E. Jean Carroll that referred to her as an “enemy” or “adversary” rather than “victim.”

Blair now resembles the unwanted hate-child of Death and Peter Stringfellow. I suppose that, [reedy, Anglican voice] ‘in a very real sense’, is indeed what he is.

A rather notable absentee: almost-five-year Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn

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Once again, in order to provide a sense of scale, the Berlin Wall border regime resulted in 140 deaths in 28 years. This program to supposedly defend the US border from drugs has resulted in the targeted killing of more than 200 since September 2025.

The reason the UK is a service-oriented, low-investment, low productivity, low wage economy is because of that project to weaken labour. It's not an accident of history, or a moral failing by the British people. It was done by design and there is no plan to change it.

<adds to powerpoint of every single first lecture in Week 1> Because fuck yes. Embrace the friction, so you can actually be proud of your work and know you achieved something.

Brilliant piece on the state of universities, how we got here, their decline and this matters for so many reasons affecting society deeply. Worse still, it seems not newsworthy but, take even one away, and the whole town is affected. A very British mess and an abdication of deeper values.

This is, alas, almost entirely true. The thing I find most hurtful is that almost nobody cares. The silence is deafening. Goodness knows I didn’t choose this for money, conditions, etc. but to try to make a small, positive contribution to society. Is that unworthy of even a gesture of support?

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Good night

Palestinians forced to demolish own homes to make way for Israeli theme park

Trump: “I understand Artists are getting ‘the yips’ having to do with their performance on Wednesday, so I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime, and he does so without a guitar, DONALD J. TRUMP”

Good. Women's rights and trans rights are not remotely in conflict. 'Gender critical' belief and trans rights are in conflict, which is why 'gender critical belief' should not be protected - let alone privileged and prioritised, as it is at present.

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

There was never a better example of ressentiment than 'Brexit'. The sheer spite with which freedom of movement was stolen is not something I shall ever forgive. Absolutely no gain to them, nor even to their broader obsession with immigration: simply Schadenfreude at destroying our lives and futures.

So, according to misogynists, it's masculine for men to have wives that do feminine things, but also veganism is a feminine thing and that means your wife being a vegan also makes you feminine by extension... somehow.

The last 10 years in a nutshell: Nazi: I’m a Nazi! Media: Outspoken Man Touts Unconventional Ideas Nazi: No, I’m just a Nazi. Media: Meet the Dapper White Nationalist Who— Nazi: No, seriously! I’m quoting Mein Kampf! I love Hitler! Media: Why Both Sides Have an Extremist Problem.

The lack of fuss with which a restaurant will serve a decent amount of non-lukewarm tap water will always be one of the most important things about it.