As an example, the potential impact on Liverpool FC

On GLP1 agonists, this blogpost from Dr James Kinross is a vital, cautionary, read. “…when we interfere at a population level with our most fundamental chemical machinery that defines our metabolism, our immune system and our brain development, there will be unintended consequences. Mark my words.”

Come on, @ofcom.bsky.social, get out your democracy/balance scales. Isn’t excessive, unchallenged, coverage in this instance tantamount to propaganda?

Farage: "All over the world, you apply for a work visa - that visa is for you. Not to bring your family... That is how a normal work visa works." Entirely untrue. Most work visas allow dependents, including in countries that the UK competes with for labour - US, Canada, Australia and 27 EU states.

Well, there we are. Hate speech.

Trump: Charlie Kirk was like a son to me. Also Trump: Laughs and chats through Charlie Kirk’s memorial service and eulogies.

I hope someone is compiling a list of all these Kremlin-sponsored/Russian imports… (ICE flights carrying deportees to Africa are also reported to be turning off their transponders, to maintain secrecy…)

Michael Gove on #bbcbh propagating yet another “here today, gone tomorrow” argument (blithely undermining a big 2016 position of his own): that politics (in the light of flags and a ‘unite the kingdom‘ rally) only NOW, in 2025, boils down to

Trump is about to abandon the Baltic nations…

He wanted a quiet break so he tried to go to Colombia. 😂 Honestly, this sort of total commitment to scoring some gear deserves our admiration.

With the unchecked race to build smarter-than-human AI intensifying, humanity is on track to almost certainly lose control. That's why FLI Executive Director Anthony Aguirre has published a new essay, "Keep The Future Human". 🧵 1/4

“People are glad to be foolish.” And, what’s more, joyous in being misled… Years ago, there were plans to teach philosophy in Primary Schools. If logic and critical thinking had been thoughtfully bestowed on young minds - how would the UK look now?

Now ask him about Hitler. Or Pol Pot. Or Judas.

*I don’t have time, between ballrooms and banquets, to keep up with every stray bit of world news. I have some very good backroom people to let me know anything that might be of interest. Did you like my purple tie at Windsor?*

Their specialisms may be different but there’s something blissfully similar about the way Baroness Lady Hale and @davidallengreen.bsky.social communicate the meaning and mechanisms of the law: succinct, straightforward and

NEW Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action? A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Odd no one seems to mention this, especially when Trump repeatedly declares the opposite.

Currently unreported in the UK, where - like the US - we’re all obsessed by Kimmel not the Kremlin.

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Ditto for water, mail, gas, electricity, telephony (ad lib…) “Slowly poison the whole bloodstream fills…”

A very AI-style solution. When you make unadulterated shit, simply call it “all good”.

This contains my favourite moment from the State Visit. The King biting his lip, excruciated, when Trump describes him as “a great gentleman - and a great king”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cx...

The best BBC news programme by far is More or Less, and that isn't even a news programme. I wish there was More or Less every day, and other programmes that were happy just to say things are wrong, rather than bring in some fascist outrider to give utterly specious balance.

Hearing Trump list a host of British authors he has never read is oddly compelling. I realised at the mention of Tolkien the world could do a lot worse than think of him as an oversized, freakish and contemptible, unhobbity hobbit Baggins would deplore.

Make it stop.

Whenever Trump finds himself in a place of worship and prayer, why does he always look so trapped and desperate to escape? Is God an unwelcome rival? Today, in St George’s Chapel, Windsor, before laying a wreath for the late Queen Elizabeth II:

From trusted sauce @mrhenrymorris.substack.com

Join Max Hastings, Times letter writers & many others in telling Trump where to go on 17th September

Drink up, Trig. Drink up, we're leaving

The optics of Trump riding in a regal carriage procession witnessed by not a single member of the public, let alone a crowd (even a nearby herd of cows averting their gaze), are truly splendid. Wonderfully pretend pageantry for the Great Pretender President. Perhaps even a Great British joke?

Agree with every word. Gareth Southgate still at a loose end. Get him in to draft the speech.

The UK isn’t blessed with an efficient water industry - and reservoirs are now at historically low levels. Are we about to become Google and Microsoft’s new Uruguay to satisfy AI data centres’ near unquenchable thirst? www.theguardian.com/world/2023/j...

Read this if you can, or head for BBC Sounds and listen to his remarkable interview with Evan Davis on #bbcpm today (about 50’ in). Max Hastings is in no doubt. Trump is deplorable, and the worst US President in history. And he’s content to protest with old adversaries to show he means it.

I think “unfairly” is the key word in Trump’s mind. Anything that makes him feel uncomfortable or slighted he takes as ‘unfair’ and therefore actionable. (A toddler who continually yells “‘S not fair!” Is often called a ‘Snot Fairy’…)

imagine getting qt dunked by ed davey. unrecoverable. you’re furious and he is serenely going down a log flume in bognor regis.

The data on #protein supplements and health outcomes has some big holes. So my son isn’t allowed Creatine powder and he is furious about it. Here’s why. #forthegains open.substack.com/pub/drjamesk...

Extraordinary study. After appropriate scientific ‘digestion’, bowel screening could soon be transformed. Can‘t wait to hear what @jameskinross.bsky.social makes of it.

“Quit thinking. It’s always hard and never helps.”

Don’t forget Baker’s own (currently politically homeless) cosmopolitan libertarianism! I’m old enough to remember a time when descriptions like these belonged wholly in the lexicon of the hard left, generally confined to smoke-filled rooms and

I do wonder if Chris Mason has been figuratively bound and gagged and is making desperate efforts to communicate his disquiet by offering increasingly blatant journalistic errors. Any other explanation simply doesn’t make sense. Even (yes) Mr Blobby would do better.

WTAF WATO! You basically allow a right-wing columnist to conduct an absurdly favourable vox pop on the "Unite the Kingdom" march. Why don't you do your own homework? Get one of your own journalists who attended to reflect on it. Absolutely pathetic.

Both of these are quite good explainers of what we know so far about Kirk's shooter, though I've not seen anything yet that would link him to the 764 network (but it's possible that could emerge) www.wired.com/story/charli... www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Free Speech. Hooray! #FreeSpeechOnFour

The best quote comes at the end. Big *kernel of truth* vibes direct from Musk, while claiming to be talking about the BBC: “You’re forced to pay for your own destruction. It’s insane.”

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.

Perhaps Governor Cox is trying to parse a narrative whose sources have, to put it mildly, been parsimonious with the truth. On motive, have bewildering evidential square pegs been rammed into ready-and-waiting round holes? Is that why the suspect won’t ‘cooperate’? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is a very good short piece at @goodlawproject.bsky.social on the (mis?)application of terrorism law with Palestine Action: goodlawproject.org/martha-spurr... My piece on same issue at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

I just asked Grok again whether there is any evidence that Tyler Robinson, the suspect arrested for the killing of Charlie Kirk, was a "groyper.” Below is Grok’s response.

@benansell.bsky.social Amidst the flurry/slurry of reporting on the Charlie Kirk murder suspect, a great many journalists - never mind capitalising politicians - may have bought an entirely erroneous set of “facts”, blithely fleeing the truth: bsky.app/profile/seth...

> the shooter is trans > ok the bullets were trans > ok the roommate is trans