There you have it, it’s already started. Glad I didn’t invest my time there.

"learned" this today.

Nobel peace prize is going to be a big source of controversy today.

The conservative party are doomed to extinction. They are grasping at straws. Proposing policies that no party who expects to manage a country would propose.

The typo "Busker Keaton" appears in this article. I recommend it as a great name for a band or even a nom-de-tune for an individual. Move quickly because it will be gone soon.

From today's perspective, it is so difficult to understand how someone like Hitler could have come to power, surrounded himself with loyal supporters, and brought a large proportion of the population with him. Thankfully it will never happen again.

I am (still) in favour of digital ID, but it was sold to us as a way to worsen the lives of the worse off.

For those living in the UK, this is great news. Often annoyed by the government but this is a major positive change to health care services. I did not realise the barrier to doing this was the GPs themselves.

I am surprised to learn that "recovered memories" are still a thing. I thought they died off in the 1980s.

Currently writing a screenplay based on The Parallax View, except it is a slapstick comedy.

This is a story about cash and confirmation bias.

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I wonder if there are any experts who are not "skeptical."

Labour's response -- we are already doing the evil, so we don't need Reform.

“Migrant workers from the rest of the EU… were young, working, made little demand on the education system, virtually no demand on the NHS, and they weren’t unemployed. They were generating much more than they took out.” #BrexitBrokeBritain #RejoinEU apple.news/Aqq_OLK5MQDS...

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People on the left hate being told what to do, and want to do things their way. People on the right like being told what to do, and want to do things their leader's way.

Sally Rooney unable to collect award over Palestine Action arrest threat

Suddenly Schelling becomes even more relevant.

I thought this would never happen.

I wonder if there is any appetite for a Labour/Conservative coalition in the UK.

Channel 4 to mark Trump's state visit by dissecting more than 100 of his lies, in what the channel describes as “the longest uninterrupted reel of untruths, falsehoods and distortions ever broadcast on television”.

Looks like there is a good opportunity here to publish pretty well anything you have in Energy Economics.

What did he say?

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This could finish Labour. They are fools. But I am afraid of what will replace them.

NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before. Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.

Apparently the world offers a lot of joh opportunities for psychopaths. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Despite appearances to the contrary ...

I don't know why they bother with this. We know what the supreme court will say.

If I were a burglar or pickpocket I would be putting these days of Palestine Action protests into diary.

Scraping the bottom of the beatification barrel.

The problem with this policy is that there is no one who is actually suffering because of refugees, so no amount of tormenting refugees will improve anyone's life. This policy will have no effect because the refugee is a mythical enemy that can never be defeated.

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One thing Nineteen eighty four got so right was the effectiveness of the five minute hate. Orwell did not realise, however, that a 24 hour hate was even better.

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This seems like a great idea, but I am not aware of democracy lessons currently being taught to students before they vote at 18. Why have we not previously been preparing people for their voting responsibility?

I like Woody Allen, but surely he must realise this was not a great idea.

This is an interesting problem. The cake shop owner says she is "out of pocket" but she has in fact earned less than she might have if all her orders had been legitimate. Also, she wants Just Eat to check complaints, but that would be costly and Just Eat will not want to bear that cost alone.

“If I said I was wearing a Palestine Action T-shirt would you get here quicker?” From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Although self-driving cars are a crazy solution to problems that should be solved by trains, buses, bicycles and better housing, it is inevitable that they will be better than human driven cars.

This is a heartbreaking story but a good reminder that we should never have heroes.

See Toronto. They are replacing their ferries with electric ones, but the bike lanes ...

The evidence is clear - 20mph zones save lives. In London, they’ve cut deaths and serious injuries by 34% and child fatalities by 75%. That's why we need to see more 20mph areas. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rail fares could be subsidized (and should be) by road tolls. Its an amazing absurdity that roads are free to use everywhere.

Yvette Cooper scrambling to come up with a rationale for the proscription, but she needs more time.

What a marvellous thread.

I sort of understand why The Guardian keeps Simon Jenkins on for "balance." But he is a clown nonetheless and I really wonder if there is not someone serious out there who could take an alternative perspective and make it credible.

Its obvious that Trump simply repeats whatever the people he is with at the time are saying. Today there is this and his comment on Russia/Ukraine. Once he gets stateside and Vance et al get their hooks in him he will change his tune.