Trump says he will impose tariffs on generic drugs starting in August 2028, giving manufacturers two years to build factories in the US. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

Feels a bit like the hysteria over Ed Miliband was a bit of an unintentional bait and switch that distracted journalists from the amount of power amassed by Louise Haigh

I'd go further than that and say the discourse on this is emblematic of the broader British problem of not treating management itself as a valuable (learnable) skill.

This is the core point: neither opposition nor support of these 3 appointments has much/anything to do with the personal characteristics which would have dominated debate about these jobs [certainly within the adult lifetime of the PM in the 1980s/1990s] bsky.app/profile/robe...

Larry the Cat, Boaty McBoatface, Count Binface, these are all symptoms of a greater malaise. Purging them may alleviate the pain for a while but it won’t be a cure. For that, we must finally do what has hitherto been thought impossible. We must find a way to kill Mr Blobby.

new car headlights are way too bright

Seen a few people saying rough sleeping policy isn’t aimed at median public concern. Quite apart from any policy/moral imperative it really is - rough sleeping comes up time again in focus groups as one of the most visible signs of Broken Britain and community decline!

Got lost in the noise yday but worth noting the rough sleeping pledge was slightly more qualified in the release that followed

As public health minister, she was responsible for implementing SureStart. Knows her way around the health inequalities agenda.

This is a shame.

Don't worry! The England men's test team are playing Pakistan next month. Oh... oh God.

Just turned on football. Lasted ~35 seconds i think? Horrible.

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

Two housemates go on holiday in the Lake District.

The whole performative 6 music dad who's from the north and has a season ticket for the football thing is going to start to grate very quickly

Huge state subsidies expected for the production of cider, silage and dogs on string.

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Fascinating. I think of this kind of thing whenever I hear someone say that more NHS money should be spent on doctors and nurses "on the frontline". That, and the scenes in The Battle of Britain inside Fighter Command with WAAF using snooker cues to push wooden blocks across the big plot.

Still baffled by this. It's not the biggest rivalry in football bu the biggest IN SPORT!? I mean, there's so many bigger. The Calcutta Cup, the Ashes, India v Pakistan at cricket! Come on, over 1.7bn people fiercely invested in that one. State of Origin series. Eng v Aus in RL. The Ryder Cup?

The right creating a stab-in-the-back myth, centred around Boris, because the “points-based immigration system” they’d been demanding for years caused immigration to rise is just so fucking exhausting

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Once you start mass removal of citizenship on political grounds you've stopped functioning as a viable democratic state. But that was always where this agenda was heading.

Obviously having three hard-to-far-right parties and a void on the centre-right is dreadful for democracy but it also seems politically foolish for the party that has always succeeded by not being that

Quite, quite mad.

Most people will remember Sam Neill for Jurassic Park but I’ll always remember him from this masterpiece! He will always be my Merlin!

100 per cent. The grim indifference to 'you know we're talking about a person?' you get with a celebrity death coupled with horse race journalism and partisanship.

Documentary idea: Samuel L Jackson but as his Jules character from Pulp Fiction teams up with a Lancashire pig farmer to learn about raising pigs for slaughter and the pork meat industry.

Speaking as someone who played ini goal at school, those mistakes are fucking brutal. Jesus Nyland I feel for you mate.

This is not, in fact, 4D chess.

Eh?!

It's not big and it's not clever, and it's your own time your wasting.

Spain is trying and being threatened with economic sanction. And its not like you guys will do anything until the midterms

Timeline this morning quite neatly split between "lol binface!" and "fml binface!"

The Egypt-Argentina result is another data point in favour of this hypothesis

"How many dimensions does chess have" - the greatest thread in the history of BlueSky, locked by after 12,239 pages of heated debate by everyone blocking each other

Should Sky et al now have to give all the other parties a free 15 minutes without questions for them to make a personal statement?

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A good lesson from the Platner disaster is that charismatic populists who say the punchy things you like are often chaotic liars and you should watch out for that (see also: history)

belgium, belgium, belgium is the best!

I mean, this shit is called like Bonk and Magic Internet Money. As a species we've wasted way too much time, effort, money, regulatory bandwidth, political capital and computing power on this utter nonsense. The opportunity cost is huge.

SCHISM! We’re getting more schism discourse!

The hat is (supposedly) made from a pair of his trousers. The university crest on it was taken into space by an astronaut to the ISS. So I gained my degree only after being biffed on the head by a hat made from medieval space pants. A little sad that others won’t be able to say the same.

"If you put Saint-Saëns on one more time I'm going to scream".

This is going to be a sub-section in a report into a massive intelligence failure in a few years.

Les grands fromages de NHS are all in the House of Commons on Wednesday.

Now…

Ad Rock: you can disagree with the current All: POPE MCA: but if you push his buttons then you’re a All: DOPE Mike D: ordain yourself a bishop and you’re All: SCHISMATIC Ad Rock: excommunication is All: AUTOMATIC

Between SCHISM! and The Crimes of the Minions, things are pretty good on here this morning.