Absolutely fantastic statement for the Telegraph to make in their article where not only did the provider of their MRP forget to remove Greens from constituencies and suggest Reform's strongest seat in Scotland would be Strathkelvin and Bearsden, *they didn't even do D'Hondt correctly*

My latest. I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer. One way media can fight back against male violence: If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more. You’re her killer. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

This is the point. It is easy to look like the greatest team in the world ever if you are up against teams at a much earlier stage of development.

"The wind was not the beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the Wheel of Time. But it was a beginning."

omfg that's SO cunty I love it

Shocked, shocked to find out that young conservatives in US universities are more likely to be antisemitic.. forward.com/news/818719/...

@pjtheeconomist.bsky.social times column this week is an incredibly pithy (even by his standards!) summary of the issues and changes in working age welfare - including why spending on it isn't out of control.

Note to self - you are no longer a young man. Do not demonstrate conversion kicks for the midi players without a proper warm up. In other news, my hips are sore!

We are at the moment when Caesar's right hand man offered him a crown and, when the crowd got angry, he hurriedly turned it down.

Ur Fascism 3: The cult of action for action's sake www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/o...

The Head of the IMF is correct.

Hall of fame FT correction

This is like all the Americans who started talking confidently about the Hejaz a few years back.

The @acjsissons.bsky.social / @johnspringford.bsky.social cooperative is back. Basically, they argue that the Chancellor is playing the right game but on too small a pitch because of Labour's manifesto red lines and the Home Office. They are right. getting-out-of-the-hole.uk/labours-red-...

Following exciting Bluesky excursions on the Persian Wars and the Avignon Papacy, I am almost curious what special historical interest the Trump administration is going to activate through their stupidity next. Taking bets on: the Seleucid Empire, the Cathars, the Battle of Lepanto.

Latest #Artemis image to drop is my newest favourite! "A New View of the Moon" ICONIC! 🔭🧪 📷: NASA images.nasa.gov/details/art0...

If you attack Persia, a great empire will fall.

Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.

I view this as a massive victory against the most annoying people on social media

has anyone coined "Rorsharch leftism"? if not, bagsy

"Private equity funds and related asset managers own water companies, apartment blocks, student accommodation, care homes, children’s homes, funeral parlours and more" This debt-driven parasite must be stamped out if the UK wants its public services to survive www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the problems with large supermarkets is that they're built with drivers in mind and so have enormous car parks in front. But why oh why can't they put the car parks round the back or at the side so that customers on foot or using public transport can access a shop on the street edge?

I'm a bit of a broken record on this, but usurping the power of the purse isn't just one constitutional violation among all the many others. It is, uniquely and singularly, the death of constitutional government altogether. Game over, end of story, you now live in an autocracy.

Good people are almost always prepared to work for less than their market value for a while if they're doing valuable and interesting work. Good people generally won't work in the kind of system that backbench MPs have to tolerate, not for any money.

Jesus to Mary Magdalene

Going by the snow that's currently pelting down outside my window, we have entered "third winter".

There is a massive academic literature about inequality by now, the vast majority of it produced by people who don’t like inequality, and they have developed a variety of ways of measuring it. Just because you don’t like these numbers isn’t a reason to disregard all the research

Right?

I used to write the WaPo editorials on US-Africa policy, as well on as human rights and politics on the continent. To describe hundreds of thousands of deaths on the continent as “messy” is an absolute abomination.

"Everybody's looking for the next Sinners but nobody wants to pay for it." David F Walker always nails it

Yes Minister and the story of the "British sausage". I know that Reform want a time machine back to the 80s but didn't know they were pinching campaign ideas from them too!

this incredibly polite smackdown from Gail was a tour de force. I still think of it all the time.

Direct empirical confirmation of my theory of the "immigration doom loop" in UK politics.... ☹️

New paper that I co-authored last year is (finally!) out in the world, on the value of creative and cultural R&D and innovation. The paper addresses the fact that limited SciTech-focussed definitions of RD&I minimise the UK's capacity to invent and innovate theaudienceagency.org/en/valuing-c...

wish SCOTUS would examine "a well regulated militia" with the granularity they are debating "domicile"

narratives of “distress” alert klaxon

i don't see what good can come of this visit

it's ridiculous that this "London has fallen" bullshit has been allowed to fester for so long. The best time to deal with this was a few years ago, and the second best time is now

Another culture war to distract people from their socio-economic condition.

Because nothing brings the carnival feeling of a world cup like an army of ICE thugs "forcing themselves" on cities.

We RE-OPEN at 11:00am on the 1st of April! See you here? 📼 Dr Tom Horne

This is the definition of an apartheid state - different laws for different peoples - Israel approves death penalty law targeting Palestinians - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT

A wee reminder for US military personnel - the end of WW2 established that "we were only following orders" is not a sufficient defence when those orders are illegal.

For those who don’t already: Take time to listen to music and do nothing else. Don’t scroll your phone, don’t text, don’t flip through a book. Just sit there and listen. Maybe even close your eyes. You might be surprised what a beautiful and therapeutic experience it can be.

Every single intelligence agency in the world will tell you that Iran doesn't have a nuclear weapon and, once you have them, you then need to miniaturise them to fit on a long-range missile. Who does Prof Glees think would be nuking us? Russia? The US?

Is he trying to, I dunno, *manifest* his way out of this?

Jessica: I love that you read a newspaper. Watters: I read more than you. Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Post. Jessica: And you still say this crap on TV after you've read all that?