Sunday: an LLM disproves an 87-year-old mathematics conjecture, seemingly on the prompter's whim Monday: the UK govt dept responsible for thinking strategically about AI + research in the round is disbanded, seemingly over a petty civil service turf war. Good one. 🇬🇧🦶🔫

Ed M getting on the phone to Tehran in the morning

The Argentina behavior on every foul - encircling the ref & yelling at him - is illegal & no other team does it as comprehensively & often as they do, & it should not be tolerated.

😂😂😂😂😂

On why I didn’t like Andy Burnham’s speech open.substack.com/pub/jonathan...

Wow wow wow

Jude Bellingham. Selfish player, self obsessed. Should have left him at home

Thomas Tuchel right now

Wild game. Can’t work out if this is “man England really can’t hold a lead” or “France are brilliant” or “who gives a toss”

Oh thank god! Approximately £10 per taxpayer freed up to make a significant contribution on cost of living priorities!!!

You have to think at least 4-5 places in that final squad were wrong either tactically, mentality, form or fitness wise, which is quite an error rate from 23 (excl the GKs) (Chalobah, Henderson, Mainoo, either Eze or Madueke, and purely for fitness reasons, maybe Saka)

The German car manufacturers didn’t save us, now the German manager can’t save us.

What a bunch of unlikeable people to lose to as well. God I hope Spain smash them

I’m sorry to say that was as predictable as the sun coming up

Can’t believe I have to cheer the blueshite 😂😂😂

“There is no door. There are no ninjas”

When someone does something wrong “Sack [X] for being unloyal, disloyal” @jesslister.bsky.social

It will be peak Starmer if we win the World Cup, the genuinely big football fan PM has it as his literal last moment of official glory, and he celebrates it with an incredibly awkward photo and some terribly written social media commentary supposedly in his name

2030. An overcrowded prison cell Prisoner 1: what are you in for? Prisoner 2: armed robbery. You? Prisoner 1: about six months ago I said “Halò, is mise an tagraiche pàrlamaideach ionadail agaibh”

Tuchel is peak German. Absolutely love it.

Do ITV do audience research? There’s surely not a group of watchers out there who sit in a focus group, watch clips and think “yeah, those are my guys”

Henderson has his full kit on despite being injured. The full John Terry 😂😂

I may be cursing it but my god, the perennially injured right back and the injured star right winger is surely going to kill us at some point

Keir Starmer has the opportunity to do the funniest thing here

👇👇👇 (The League of Former HMT Officials speaks)

I swear to god this is a Yes Prime Minister plot (the little puppy for the Queen as a gift from the french) which has to be quarantined

Good line

Sure, “Egyptologist”. You mean the parts that the aliens didn’t build, right?

Frankly if I had £5m “gift”, free access to a Georgian townhouse in Westminster, access to a load of US money, and my own media channels, and my party’s support was peaking and may collapse, I don’t know why I’d hang around for a load of scrutiny, future failure, and £100k a year salary either

Outstanding game. Outstanding management. Outstanding tactics. This is what he is here for.

If you’ve wasted a squad space on Henderson, surely this is literally the time and occasion you bring him on for Anderson

It’s the dominance of the club game, and (relatedly) the number of games the English players play, especially as we go deep into European club tournaments. Compare us to the top French players for PSG. Half of our squad is always knackered by the time we rock up to tournaments (James, Rice, Saka)

Despite everything, still our strongest ally, and the best hope for world peace and prosperity.

I mean not to be England glass half empty but we’re properly fucked when a 35 year old Kane needs to lead the line next Euros and 37 years old next World Cup

Somewhere in Manchester, the big whiteboard saying “Andy becomes PM - day after World Cup win - national celebrations - big moment?” is gradually being rubbed out

It’s easy to be wise after the event but fuck it, we said it beforehand - going light on right backs given Reece James is made of straw, and not taking one of Foden or Palmer for moments against a low block and instead taking Henderson, while taking Madueke over Gibbs White to cover a broken Saka…

A comparative analysis could explore what creates social support for international education, say Glyn Davis and Anton Muscatelli https://ow.ly/uXK950Zeyj4

In addition, one for the “banning anonymity would make social media less toxic” crowd to ponder. These are all adults posting under their own names!

Shocked that people don’t want to be politicians. Christ this is horrible. Who posts this stuff underneath a perfectly nice and normal post. Just get to fuck, all of you

Brilliant idea, next PM. No one else has ever tried to manifest balance into being. That’ll happen any day now

Has England considered perhaps not fannying about at the back and defending it a bit

Tell me you don’t understand your voter base without telling me you don’t understand your voter base (1)

Trying to do a back of the envelope calculation to see if "this one secret trick will blow your mind!" is for the forthcoming teacher pay rise to be partly covered by a pension revaluation (ht @schoolsweek.bsky.social) schoolsweek.co.uk/schools-cont...

People ask me why I can’t stand Andy Burnham. It’s crap like this. HE’S A CAMBRIDGE ENGLISH GRADUATE WHO WAS A SPAD AND THEN A MINISTER IN LONDON FOR YEARS FFS enough with the oooooh northern working man of the people me.

Me at 8pm - oh, England are on tonight. Start of the pre World Cup! Quite excited! Me at 930 - well this will at least get me ready for bed….

THIS IS NOT A THING. IT’S NOT A QUALIFICATION

The first clue for MI6 spotting the Chinese spies is that they don’t start every post with “delighted to announce” or “personal news!”

There’s a story - I always thought apocryphal - that just before Gordon Brown used to go on holiday, Ed Miliband and others used to change their numbers on GBs personal phone as he used to just message them incessantly. Looking at this exchange below, maybe it was true