I encourage you to reach late middle age by any means necessary if for no other reason than to find out just how primo the naps are. No matter how much you like naps now you will not believe it

Philip Larkin, St Hilda's Street, Hull, photo by Jane Bown.

Dario Fo at 100: a deliriously funny playwright with a deadly serious purpose

You may mock but if you batch cook them at the weekend they’re a banging packed lunch

Horrific. The rise in antisemitism is so frightening. We see the rhetoric on here every day and that rhetoric is leading to violence.

The NYT front page is 49 megabytes, larger than the original install disk size for Windows 95 thatshubham.com/blog/news-au...

While this Labour government has had plenty of disappointing moments, this really is huge. Campaigners and experts have always told me this is the quickest and most effective way to immediately reduce child poverty. It took too long to get here but this is big.

I’m so glad we’re getting married in the Catholic Church so he won’t be able to divorce me for this type of behaviour

As someone who works in a different medium, I just decided to glance at this, and of course it’s very, very good.

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

Mr. Cohen, Cigarette and his Casio PT-30 keyboard.

all of this dovetails so perfectly with Marty Supreme tbh. the whole thing is about: a) the problems of pursuing a minority (but still very respectable!) interest, table tennis b) not being ashamed to be a striver. striving as heroism. naomialderman.substack.com/p/look-at-me...

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

Finally, Zara producing clothes I can wear in my castle with all my goblins

Applications close on Monday (16 March) for this fully-funded PhD studentship in the Ethics of AI and Philosophy of Science! Supervised by our CTMF Co-Director Dr Emily Sullivan, this studentship is part of the @erc.europa.eu project TOY: Machine learning in Science and Society: A dangerous toy?

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Richard III in the summer of 1485

Loved editing this gem of an interview by @stephanieboland.bsky.social with 91-year-old Shirley Hockridge – a podium finisher in proto-Tour de France Femmes in 1957... And still riding her bike! www.cyclingweekly.com/news/shirley...

One of my flower girls has added my wedding to the calendar at Herne Hill Velodrome. Take that, women’s league

Half proud the Hold Steady audience made the ceiling rain sweat in Dingwalls last night, half worried I now have conjunctivitis

Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.

🎶 [Morrissey voice] 🎵

Axel Springer CEO Mathias Döpfner: "Axel Springer was founded in 1946 under a British press licence. He built his company inspired by the tradition of Fleet Street. The Telegraph was his North Star." Full statement:

Not pictured: cheese vending machine

And look at this fabulously confident self portrait by Leyster

This is Judith Leyster's amazing 1631 painting ‘Young Woman Being Harassed by a Man’. She was well known in her day but SURPRISE! her works were later misattributed either to Frans Hals, her local contemporary, or her husband, Jan Miense Molenaer. www.thetimes.com/article/f41d...

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

requiem for vanished birdsong

*Kate Bush voice* New episode!

Great piece from @timharford.ft.com on the famous Asch ‘conformity experiment’. Yes participants conformed with the group. But it only took one dissenter to make the participant much less likely to conform - even when the dissenter is wrong! Lesson: Let’s value dissent! www.ft.com/content/f94c...

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precipitation shapes are getting out of hand imo

Cycling’s great secret is every bike shop has a staff member with design expertise to rival the average Cooper Hewitt curator

Revealing cross section of a road in England

"With a pint of green Chartreuse, ain't nothin' goin' right You buy the Sunday papers on a Saturday night." Tom Waits - Til The Money Runs Out.

R.I.P. Éliane Radigue, one of the most innovative and radical composers of our century- if you haven’t heard her music yet, prepare for something simultaneously delicate and oceanic. I don’t love the word “genius” but she deserves it.

L.S. Lowry died of pneumonia on this day 1976 at the Woods Hospital in Glossop, Derbyshire. He was buried in Manchester’s Southern Cemetery, beside his parents.

I’m delighted @peterbradshaw1.bsky.social also saw a touch of Adam Ant about Jeff Buckley in _It’s Never Over_ www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

I've been meaning to run this analysis for a while: the probability of voting Labour at GE2024 in seats *gained* by Labour was higher for people who were younger, more liberal, on the left economically, more likely to favour immigration, do not think immigration is the most important issue, etc.

Wrote about the quiet death of Britain’s buses, and why data sometimes leads to bad decisions. open.substack.com/pub/oliverfr...

People are way too focused on Margot Robbie being too old to play Cathy, and not on the fact she doesn’t look weird enough

Ash Wednesday is humbling because you find out which of your colleagues would and wouldn’t tell you you have something on your face

💸What if tax reform, inflation & interest rates were explained with memes, not jargon? The 🇨🇴 outlet Economia para la Pipol is translating economics into everyday language. In a new interview, we spoke with its co-founder María Camila González reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/colombi...

Trains

Are there any other Pancake Day songs? open.spotify.com/track/4CUUTu...

Hadn’t realised I could view my immunisation record back to 1991 in the NHS app - but I did, found a couple of boosters I should have, and got them booked, all within hours 👇 www.nhs.uk/nhs-app/help...

Not sure what’s more upsetting: this shift or the abject lack of Scotch pancake representation in the next chart