Targeting crime, and especially the sort of petty crime that makes people feel like a place is unsafe or run-down, is something New Labour did well, in the face of a lot of initial criticism from both right and left.

there would be significant room for a Labour Home Secretary to lead a reforming agenda with socially conservative vibes that could unite the party, it’s just that it’s on crime, not immigration

Reading the comments, I'm surprised how many people don't think that their favourite "inequality campaigner" being a fantasist matters. www.ft.com/content/5c48...

Correct: www.nytimes.com/athletic/745...

The rollout of high speed internet in Uruguay worsended early childhood development. But not because the kids spent too much time in front of screens, because the parents did. cepr.org/voxeu/column...

My son just told me is favourite sentence is: “I didn’t say we should kill him” because if you emphasise each different word it changes the entire meaning

Let me introduce you to... the parenting spreadsheet My column this week (300 free clicks): as.ft.com/r/8afe1f37-b...

This is basically every story that I write about London now, you don't have to want to live with Germany bureaucracy to want someone to do very basic checks. And the 'ease of setting up a business' is great (I've done it myself! It was so easy!) but unfortunately it's created scam central nation.

A 20% charge would work out to about $32 million for a fully-loaded very large crude carrier at current oil prices. That’s far higher than the tolls that have been charged by Iran, which have previously been described as reaching $2 million www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

WHOA DHS does not say that the agent feared for his life… just the vague concern for “public safety.” So he killed him just because he did not want him in America, not because of any specific threat to agents?

ICE says he “weaponized his vehicle.” Same line that is already falling apart in the killing of S. Araujo. Same line that fell apart in murder of Renee Good. Same line ICE misused so often in Chicago that a Fed judge said it was “difficult, if not impossible, to believe almost” any such claim.

It is 23c (73f for the Americans) in Dublin and everyone keeps asking how on earth we are coping with the heatwave

You could fly from New York to London in three hours on a scheduled BA flight

Some of the people celebrating American excess are not what they seem. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Employers pushed staff to use AI more. That has backfired ft.trib.al/tsFW1Gq

Reason to be cheerful

Another great example of how AI is killing the incentive to actually provide any of the data AI requires to be any good at anything

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party? - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @financialtimes.com Possibly the most informative article I've read this year

Rode a driverless autonomous bus on London's roads in live traffic. Worked great. Main issue was it actually followed the Highway Code which is a challenge when you're competing for road space with south west London's SUV drivers. www.londoncentric.media/p/londons-fi...

was such a “ya we truly give zero fucks about player welfare” decision to have this match in Miami in the middle of July. 90+ (32+) degree heat and 65+% humidity. just ridiculous conditions to play potentially 120+ of football.

Hi England, here’s the Christmas tree we’re sending you for Trafalgar Square this year.

Blimey

Love the way that ITV have hired a woman who knows exactly what she's talking about specifically for the purpose of being disregarded by two halfwit men

There's certain people who have to learn the difference between an organisation "disappearing" vs not posting on X anymore. I just watched a video of two very self-serious people who clearly spend too much time on X talking about how Bellingcat has just vanished.

I am in awe

Such a long list. Jumped feet first into the shallow end of a pool (aged approx 8) Tried to front flip off a cliff on skis (aged 19) Tried to back flip off a jump on skis (aged 26) Got my car stuck in Kenya then got out, in a spot full of lions (28) Sunk a kayak in a lake full of crocodiles (29)

This is why I ultimately think AI will get much less useful pretty soon as a general purpose research tool. That is, it won't actually have access to most of the web any more. You'll have to upload your own information to it

For the past year and a half, we've talked a lot about a "Democratic Tea Party" (and the analogies are imperfect). But two defining traits were: -A sclerotic GOP establishment that didn't recognize shifts within the base happening underneath their feet -Insurgents exploiting that opening

There's a certain joy in realising, after an England win, the main thing I want from this World Cup is Argentina to lose, and so actually France being so dominant is totally fine

Just heard a man on the El exclain loudly to the woman he was with "New York is a real place" and somehow in Chicago that feels like a transgressive thing to say

As bad this looks, this could totally be a note from a human editor accidentally left in. (The example in the follow up tweet, not so much...)

Just analytically, I think this is a very good editorial from the NYT on the whole Platner affair, that makes the point it wasn't the oysterman thing that made him popular - it was offering change, not wait-your-turn politics: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...

Love to deal with the Chicago Tribune! Hello, we have also updated our login system and you are now logged out. When you log in again you won't be able to actually read any articles any more or use your subscription. Also by the way we are quadrupling the monthly price

NEW: He was picking up a work crew to take them to construction site at 6 a.m. on Tuesday morning. ICE showed up. And now this small business owner, the father of three American citizens, is dead. www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-h...

I just had a rental car - a Mazda - which actually did have physical buttons for everything, including a funny sort of joystick which controlled stuff on the touch screen (mostly switching the map view). The touch itself disabled except when parked. Transformationally better

We woz wrong about oil www.economist.com/leaders/2026... From The Economist Now we have published this mea culpa the oil price is obviously going to reach $200

We talk a lot here about X going Nazi, but the sheer amount of racist, anti-black, Islamophobic, antisemitic, racist and homophobic content I see on Facebook nowadays overwhelms it. And unlike X, which does at least still have a Following feed, it's much harder to avoid.

Why do so many bog-standard American roadside hotels/motels have indoor swimming pools that nobody uses?

Springfield, OH hate crime. Haitian father shot driving his kids to church. "They said he was going to give someone a ride and 'they just shot him. I don’t know why.'" Consequences of hate from our gov't. www.springfieldnewssun.com/local/crime/... @gregsargent.bsky.social @jimswift.bsky.social

not an original thought but it's wild to read so much excellent historical scholarship that relies on newspaper archives and realize historians of the future will be stuck with, uh, whatever this current news landscape is

somehow this is FIFA's fault

Genuinely

Turns out that our police officer allocation problem isn't to Chicago. New York and DC also aren't putting cops where they're needed most. More over at Vital City: www.vitalcitynyc.org/cities-arent...

So far this World Cup has been very good for my theory football players shouldn't be older than me

"His wife has said that he relied on an inhaler for asthma, but ICE agents rejected her attempt to give them the device when he was taken into custody."

Gravity batteries are great but flywheels are the most heavy metal physical energy storage

USA Today on the first ten minutes of the game yesterday. Truly, two nations divided by a common language.

Belgium players mocking the US and Trump's meddling in the World Cup by doing the Trump dance after scoring the 4th goal against the USMNT

Well. The good news for America is nobody is going to be talking about FIFA corruption for the rest of this