There should be a strict rule in the Chagos Islands debate that if you can’t point to them on a map, you shouldn’t be allowed to express an opinion about them.

The handiwork of a guilty man and his criminal henchmen who thumb their nose at the law, Justice, Congress and the American people.

Wrote a letter to Donald Trump, putting him right on a couple of points about London. This one stood out: London’s life expectancy is better than *all 50* US states. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-a...

How Google Maps determines restaurant survival. This brilliantly unearths the political economy of the algorithm here. "You start seeing an algorithmic market - one where visibility compounds, demand snowballs, and who gets to survive is increasingly decided by code."

It was great when FIFA got rid of Sepp Blatter and all the corruption stopped.

The BBC is the latest part of ‘the public realm’ to feel the wrath of the right. The playbook is wearyingly similar. Underfund them. Hold them (piously) to the highest standards. Pillory them for all errors. And then co-opt, or neuter, them. 1/2

A quick note about money and comedy and power. www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...

Can't disagree with Gavin Barwell. It's high time the right in this country cleaned house. They won't though, because this is what the right have become. The likes of Barwell are very much a minority.

Trump says Putin has “let me down”. (To the surprise of nobody other than the US President).

The whole thing is an important read. But the second paragraph (in particular) is a tiny masterclass in constructing a line of argument.

I’m old enough to remember when Conservative Party leaders believed in law and order.

The Justice Department has removed a study from its website which found that "the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism”, CNN reports.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

Luton v Tommy Robinson: the myth of a town divided – video

funny how if you give "legitimate concerns" a poke they quickly turn into "organised fascist intimidation"

Iconic moment at the Downton Abbey premiere

How did we miss this? They like roundabouts because to use them you have to give way to the right 🤦🏾

Been working on and off with Kotlin Multiplatform for the last few weeks. Building on the work of Jetpack Compose is, IMHO, a smart decision. It's good that things like state management exist out of the box, something that the Flutter world apparently loves to re-invent.

Angry at insinuations that judges who granted or overturned Epping injunction were politically biased. I've known both Cons & Lab lawyers who've become judges. Whatever their previous politics they take seriously their judicial oath to do justice without fear or favour

4/ The seating chart is the smoking gun: Trump was flanked by Treasury Secretary Bessent and Commerce Secretary Lutnick alongside his security team. This wasn’t Ukraine-focused. The economic officials’ prominence confirms that sanctions relief and trade deals were central to Trump’s agenda.

After much deliberation, I think I'm going to give Kotlin & CMP a go for a mobile client app. The worst case of it not working out is having to implement the iOS API using Swift UI. Compared to the route of Dart + Flutter, which I was going 2 take, I'd suggest this is a far safer route to take.

It's time to consider whether to continue with the assumption that the mobile client is going to be written with Flutter/Dart or, instead, consider a shift over to Kotlin. Personally, I've never been a fan of Dart, and it seems that every time I load up an existing Flutter project, it never works.

Morning, America. This is what it looks like to have a President spend millions of taxpayer dollars to play golf in Scotland while his party guts healthcare and food programs. (And on a point of golf etiquette, only a galactic piece of shit walks off & refuses to get his own ball from the hole)

The British trade deal wasn't what they said it was, the Vietnamese are still yet to confirm Trump's announcement, and the Japanese say they're not signing a binding agreement. The White House has released the text of ZERO (0) deals, and maybe it's all just social media posts all the way down.

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

Sorry, what?? A Reform supporter who has even changed his pub's name to 'The Reform Club' would've voted Remain if he had understood the impact of Brexit?

Let’s get this Petition over the finish line—just 13k short of the 100,000 for a parliamentary debate: Retain legal right to assessment and support in education for children with SEND petition.parliament.uk/petit...

It’s as bad as you expected:

Standing with @GuyPearce in calling for conscience over silence. The suffering of men, women and children in Palestine is a humanitarian crisis we must address. Let’s voice our disdain and act to stop this atrocity. #StandForHumanity #Palestine #ConscienceOverPolitics

thank you Private Eye for taking apart this flakey headline-grabbing research

To be clear: Tony Blair’s championship of fossil fuels has no connection whatsoever with the very large amounts of money his institute receives from Saudi Arabia …

My one contribution to the Olly Murs discourse would be the more time he spends in the gym the less time he can be in a recording studio and that's a good thing. Thank you for your attention in this matter.

I continue to be amazed that, once you've got your #FSharp to compile, more likely than not, the code will 'just work'.

"Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is at risk of losing his Ottawa-area riding as the party scrambles to send in volunteers to save the seat he has held since 2004, two federal and two provincial Conservative sources say." from: www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Who could have seen this coming? From @justcalma.bsky.social

Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine across the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with US President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter. www.ft.com/content/5d84...

Autism is not a disease. Autism is not an epidemic. Autism is a multifactorial genetic-based neurological condition. And it’s not caused by vaccines or nebulous “environmental toxins.” A thread 👇🏻 1/

If I’m being honest, I’m feeling pretty down about my small business. I’m working so hard but it’s been very quiet. It’s bloody difficult at the moment. Please have a look at what I do and repost to spread the word. www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

This past week, the Chinese learned 1) exactly where Trump's pain points are; 2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches; and 3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president. Highly useful information.

My latest blog post explains why we don't use our tests as documentation anymore and prefer to take a look at the production code directly: www.planetgeek.ch/2025/04/09/t... #fsharp #dotnet

Extraordinary story highlighted by @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning. Make it make sense. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

I support the US garment industry. I don't believe in making life harder for immigrants or erecting blanket tariffs. So how can we reshore some of our US garment manufacturing without xenophobia or protectionism? Here's my view. 🧵

THIS IS WHAT A TRADE WAR LOOKS LIKE -

The latest rise builds on the success of the minimum wage since its introduction in 1999, and its turbo charging since 2016. In 2024, the share of workers across Britain on ‘low’ pay has fallen to its lowest recorded level (data goes back to the 1970s).

Trump administration basically wants to seize control of Ukraine's resources. Why should we work with these people? www.ft.com/content/896d...

Ahead of Trump’s “tariff day” April 2, let me reiterate a basic fact. Value added tax systems do not distort trade. European consumers pay VAT US consumers pay sales taxes End of story A 🧵to make this painfully obvious if the above is not clear 1/

This is hilarious. #Greenland

Maine caved and enacted a trans sports ban at the University level but it's still not enough. Stop capitulating, they won't stop taking from you. They'll keep going until there's nothing left.

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself: