There is no conceivable timeline where I needed to know who Delcy Rodríguez was.

Am I just grumpy because it's the first week of January, or is this Emma Barnett interview with Ed Davey far worse than usual?

Sublime shithousery from the @financialtimes.com 🤌🏽 Who’s who at X, the deepfake porn site formerly known as Twitter: shorturl.at/QkJ5A

Given his stance on money lenders, I'd urge caution

i would suggest an online safety act that can’t deal with CSAM on a widely used social network frequented by most westminster public figures isn’t doing a very good job of keeping anybody safe online

Hard to imagine they could be any sillier than the things you genuinely say

Just a stunning ability to look 'unleader-like' in any context you could summon

We had a good run

We have now reached the '9 year old is playing Shaddap You Face by Joe Dolce on a loop' stage of the Yuletide cycle.

Extremely healthy that the same platform shapes my country’s politics more than ever and is the only way to find out if my football team’s match is frozen off.

A classic NYE film, that brought on several flashbacks to the writing up period of my PhD.

The Telegraph's big book of woke things reaches Zulu (1964)

Hypocrite/other may soon become the salient political divide.

Bringing this energy into 2026

Bluesky is all 'Happy Christmas, please look at my cheeseboard', whereas the other place resembles the contents of my bin. I'm not sure this is sustainable.

This is a massive problem in Huddersfield too, and one Kirklees council have completely failed to take a grip on www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Both classic cinema and extremely near the knuckle commentary on the post-2010 economic model.

Interesting, if not extremely on brand.

A quick peek at the Twitter discourse

You see, I’m not convinced that a civilisation capable of interstellar travel would adopt Napoleonic tactics when it came to an invasion and simply advance slowly in ranks This is a feint; the real threat has yet to materialise

Huddersfield looking great at this time of year 🌊

When Henry VIII asked for an annulment

Wasn't completely sure what I thought about this move but Lord Frost's intervention has helped: I am now strongly in favour.

All around in my home town. They're trying to track me down

Nobody in The Moral Maze gets eaten by the Moral Minotaur, which is a fundamental flaw in the programme.

Whether it's an obscure adjunct professor posting that Charlie Kirk did some bad things or it's the president of the United States celebrating Rob Reiner's death, there's plenty of incivility on both sides.

The wonders of a Sky Sports imposed 12.30 kick off. Now I can have my weekend ruined a full 150 minutes earlier than usual. 👍

Of all the things I learnt today, this was the best

You’re not really supposed to say this bit out loud.

I’ve written the @resprofnews.bsky.social Sunday Read this week. I’ve looked at the value and importance of the arts, humanities and social sciences and what policymakers might do to support them at a time we are seeing major cutbacks in universities www.researchprofessional.com/news-article...

In the meantime DSIT tends to talk about ‘science’ in a narrow way and has a free win on the table to take credit for all the great arts, humanities & social sciences research it already funds through AHRC and ESRC!

Sad to have missed the Huddersfield soft launch of Gareth Hale's replacement.

Can the British state stop this obvious and easily solved scam? Let’s find out!

I've achieved a few things in life, but this is right up there

I think it says a lot about how our attitude to welfare has changed that the Christmas Bonus was brought in by Barbara Castle so that even the poorest families could afford a turkey and a few presents and now removing it would prompt protests and rising it would give the Telegraph an aneurism.

Yes, can't see any unintended consequences there. Great idea. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

My much repeated story - around 2013 when I worked in local government, the BBC reported on a survey that found most people hadn’t noticed any effect of austerity. A colleague said, “people are going to get up one day, look around and say this place is a shit hole, what happened?”

Theory: Half of political arguments would be solved if people all read a balanced 700-word news report on the topic.

Low-key hilarious that this has been up for 5 hours on LinkedIn and has received one 'like' (the comment was their own hyperlink).

The idea that within a notoriously glacial system you can tinker - during the cycle no less - with a framework that rewards past performance, and hope that this leads to more strategic outcomes is... bold.

Streisand effect-tactular!

Hooray, I've found the most depressing article of the year (spoiler: Ryanair didn't back down) www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

They remain the only government in my lifetime without a theory of how economic growth happens and a determination that it definitely not be through universities, immigration, high skilled services, tax simplification, trade relations etc

This Labour government’s talent for punishing its own natural supporters without gaining any new ones is something I don’t think I’ve ever seen in politics. What on earth are they smoking

To be clear, this is a tariff on our own exports. Yes, it will raise money - tariffs do. The question is whether it will also cut exports from one of our core economic strengths- HE.

"You see, I'm six-foot-one, and I'm tons of fun and I dress to a T You see, I got more clothes than Muhammad Ali, and I dress so viciously I got bodyguards, I got two big cars that definitely ain't the wack I got a Lincoln Continental and a sunroof Cadillac."

It's going to be fascinating if Twitter gets properly regulated again and there are localised economic collapses because the rage farmers of developing countries lose their income.

This sounds like the country’s worst minor league team

*swaps word 'website' with 'thing'*

Elon Musk spending billions of dollars to buy a social network to replicate what it's like to have friends who like you, and an AI to replicate what it's like to have a supportive father who praises you, only to have both consistently turn on him is Promethean torture if Prometheus had deserved it.