On the one hand, they don't fit on European roads and they have impressively terrible fuel efficiency. On the other hand, they are just very badly made and designed vehicles.

I think it makes sense if you assume that the Conservative Party's default setting is ultra-partisan dislike of Labour. Labour are doing badly so they automatically assume that things are good.

As someone who both pays Council Tax and has their bins collected by the arrangement in this area, I can confirm this is utter nonsense. I have no desire to pay people less for the same level of service as the Conservatives seem to want. The question should be why aren't more Councils doing it?

Jawarhalal Nehru’s entire family for some reason: We have created ethnic violence from our dad’s beloved political philosophy Never Commit Acts Of Ethnic Violence

Does no one want to impress Jodie Foster anymore?

Trump is the perfect synthesis of boomer and zoomer media literacy: if you play him a brief video montage with a confident monotone he will literally do anything you say

Give Trump a special Nobel Prize, made out of a compound Alfred Nobel personally invented.

you know what, i'm done being nice. would you like us to wipe your arse for you too, @parkermolloy.com

I have written to the Prime Minister with Liberal Democrat colleagues to urge him to withdraw or severely limit US access to UK air bases. If Trump is threatening attacks on civilian targets in Iran, Britain cannot allow our bases to be used to commit war crimes.

It does seem weird that in Europe you have terror attacks carried out on what is essentially a gig work basis but that the Iranians haven't tried to replicate that in the US.

Maybe the Labour MPs who boast about what their government is doing on workers' rights should do something about the same government eroding workers' rights for immigrants.

they were not in fact right to expel sudeten germans

I'm starting to think that part of it is that ignoring reality is psychologically easier than admitting that all your assets are worth a lot less than they were a month ago and that the good times are not coming back for years if not decades.

Sadly, I now really want a Star Wars with an Irvine Welsh script and characters like Princess Leither and Chewbaccy. "We call him Luke Skywalker nae cos he's always tripped on drugs but because he's a proper careless fucker and falls doon a lot. We used tae call him Luke Out."

Trams are the result of successful urban economies not the cause

Keep thinking about this whenever there's a new entry in this story. Musa absolutely right - a few years ago someone would have gone 'wait, he has said some vile things' and also someone would have said 'he's visibly not well, what next, are we putting on a badger-baiting?' Alarming regression.

I will die on the hill that it's inappropriate to call Easter "Zombie Jesus Day." Zombie is not a generic term for undead - it has a specific meaning. We HAVE a generic term for beings who have returned compos mentis from death in their original, physical bodies: Revenants.

I'm increasingly worried a broad based energy support scheme is will be necessary from a political point of view. The only way to avoid both shortages and a collapse in public finances will be some physical rationing. There may be a compromise but the public (& industry) will gate: rising blocks

X = VIDEO: immigrants can resurrect now. This is why we need mass deportations #Jerusalemfirst Bluesky = clearly the Romans faked the resurrection to justify further crackdowns #falseflag

9/ This heat map from Goldman's report shows that many Asian countries face an existential energy shock, with the total loss of Gulf imports of key refined products, especially fuel oil and jet fuel.

We are living through a climate emergency! We must urgently summon all our resources to ensure that our usage of fossil fuels doesn't change and people know they'll always be there to rely on.

Why the Vatican is at war with Maga—The US president seems to have accomplished the miraculous task of bringing together the American bishops, historically divided between… www.ft.com/content/aab3... Mattia Ferraresi @financialtimes.com

Having a mug celebrating the psychos who shot up my village pub isn't any better just because you also have one celebrating the psychos who blew up the one in the next village.

Photographs of a lovely sunny day, 10 minutes before the hail hit.

I simply do not believe that voters are incapable of understanding “1/6th of the worlds oil supply is blocked, we must use less of it” and if you do genuinely do believe that I don’t know what’s the point of engaging in politics

amazing that out of (a) the voters who told every pollster they expected tax increases during this Parliament and (b) the politicians who promised not to do it and have already broken the promise, it’s the *voters* who get the rap for being unreasonable

How would we know? The Conservatives in 2019 and Labour in 2024 both ran on impossible promises and most of their partisans have spent the time since complaining that the voters are unreasonable. When was the last chance you gave them to *be* reasonable?

“From now on, the Dar'Seq abroad is worth 14% or so less in terms of other non-Earther currencies. That doesn’t mean, of course, that the Dar'Seq here on Qo'nos, in your pocket or purse or in the Imperial Treasury, has been devalued. Qapla!”

absolutely wild thing to say about someone who murdered their dog because they got bored of it and still got confirmed anyway

Got back from an hour's cycle and it took 10 minutes for my hands to warm up enough to take my helmet off. Must be spring.

we could give people more cash to help them cope with inflation?

This is a good point, but not for the reasons the author thinks. Europeans should appreciate that this is a widely shared opinion and should therefore not expect a well-deserved coronary to fix NATO - you just have to accept that you cannot rely upon America any more and must plan accordingly.

*incredibly* humourless 'I researched this for a novel once': yes, she would go "well they're doing that a lot. They crucified a thousand people on a single day last year. That's what they do, they crucify a bunch of people. Poor Josh. He was kind of an intense guy but he didn't deserve that."

I think it’s a sign of how wrongheaded the fuel duty cut proposal is that your replies to critics of it aren’t defending it but just pointing to the smaller, less salient parts of the package.

"Somebody who may have overtaken me on my bike appears to think that the death of somebody isn’t deserving of a show of sadness. Instead, because they were on a bike when they were killed, the most important point is to tell the world they saw a different person on a bike cycle through a red light."

This is bad, but I'm not convinced it's solely an issue with British politics as opposed to politics more generally. Much of western Europe has reacted to supply shortages by cutting fuel duty rather than admitting that 20% less oil has consequences and we all need to use less.

I never knew Poirot was a ski jumper.

Genuine question. Most airlines are hedged for the rest of the year but presumably that means someone is taking a total bath if this goes on too long. Who precisely would be taking the fall?

The Davey pitch to Liberal Democrat MPs is essentially: “if I involve you in decisions, god knows what daft announcements you might come out with” while himself making daft announcements.

I got lots of problems with these people but one of the biggest complaints I have is none of them know any of the pop culture references they keep using in memes. This guy literally threw the detonator out the window so no one would die

It is really bad, my farmer friend told me it's now costing him nearly £60 to fill up his car with red diesel.

I think we need a new political party based on blunt realism. "Fuel duty cut?" - we can't afford it and it won't help "Send the Royal Navy to the Gulf" - we haven't had enough ships for decades and it won't help "Cut the number of immigrants" - immigrants are more productive than you gammon

Here's a spicier take. If you're on the left, an idea that it's gonna be really important to understand going forward is that, if you create a tighter labor market and higher wages for low-skill workers, it will cause prices of low-skill labor-intensive goods and services to rise (and that's ok)

I think a decent element of this is simply that Cromwell is seen as a representative of the Parliamentarian cause and that is seen as preferable to Stuart absolutism. Because of a lack of knowledge about the rest of the Parliamentarian side, people then feel duty-bound to support Cromwell.

Fail to see why it's a bad idea to encourage a septagenuarian resist lib and trained paratrooper who the Secret Service are not allowed to search to meet Trump.

This whole "Crime as a Service" trend is really under-covered – it's widespread across Europe. Enemy intelligence agencies don't need secret agents or embedded saboteurs any more, they just need to find some idiot 16 year olds on a Discord who'll firebomb an ambulance station for pocket money

Yes, Trumpism’s view of geopolitics is essentially “what if the Soviets were correct” - nobody has agency outside the superpowers, everyone acts due to cynical material interests, America is a hive of racist reaction, human rights is basically a fiction, capitalism is intrinsically corrupt.

The stuff about him has been known for years of course but it's heartening that people are finding out

9.1C in a ten kilometer radius would imply that an average data center has a heat and energy density on par with some of your cooler stars, and I dont think thats likely?

This iron age man buried in Sussex was so proud of his awesome helmet that he developed an archaeologically detectable neck injury from wearing it so often.