it’s such shibboleth of modern politics to blame politicians for failing town centres when the primary driver is - surely - all of us buying more and more stuff online

ALAW.

If you like data, here is something interesting for you: Bridget Phillipson interview on LK: 9m 40" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 31 Richard Tice interview on LK: 8m 23" LK number of interruptions/talking over: 9

In Italy, Charlotte de Witte threw a free 20,000-people rave in Genova. Organized by the City of Genoa and supported by Mayor Silvia Salis, who was also dancing backstage, the event is part of a wider campaign to bring music back into urban spaces. This is what your government could do for you.

Maybe the aliens will release the Epstein files?

I think we now have the answer

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

I guess that controlling the US somewhat offsets this inconvenience. In two or three years he'll probably have the UK as well.

Inject the hopium while you still can.

‘The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again…’

However you dice it, it’s been a great night for Thai-based cryptocurrency billionaires & Vladimir Putin - who, incredibly, is currently getting more good news from the UK than Ukraine.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Here's Nigel Farage's "Tiktok guru" and adviser, Jack Anderton, telling GB News that he would be "worried" if the Jewish population was growing in the UK. When do we start seeing all the coverage about the antisemitism crisis in Reform UK?

Evening.

Dawkins spending his entire career berating basically pretty normal people for being so stupid as to believe in God and then immediately giving himself Roko's Basilisk Derangement Syndrome after talking to the AI catgirl waifus is just the funniest shit.

List of those Starmer has called out for anti-Semitism: - The Universities - The Arts Council - The Green Party - Pro-Palestinian protestors List of those Starmer has not called out for anti-Semitism: - Twitter - Reform UK - The Trump administration Feels like there’s a pattern here.

5/15 And the asymmetry matters more here than just the threat potential. The US Navy losing a capital or line ship is strategic shock and PR nightmare. Iran losing some small craft or drones is not. That imbalance shapes risk tolerance on both sides. #Strategy #NavalPower #IranWar

Iran claims two missiles hit a US warship near Jask Island after it ignored Iranian warnings, the IRGC-affiliated Fars News reports. The US denies the claim. Unfortunately it’s no longer possible to believe either side.

We must stand in solidarity with Jews being attacked by antisemitic criminals and terrorists: no ifs or buts. We must stand in solidarity with Palestinians being murdered by the Israeli government: no ifs or buts. These are not contradictory positions. They are consistent ones. 🧵1/5

Can someone let the AP know that violating court orders is not a sign of "executive power. " It is a sign of contempt, lawlessness and authoritarianism.

Trump: "I took three cognitive tests. Aced all of them, by the way. I'm the only president to take a cognitive test. I don't think Obama could pass it. The first question is very easy -- it's a lion, a giraffe, a bear, and a shark. They say, 'Which one is the bear?'"

Goodbye, get lost, and we'll see you soon.

The King’s speech to Congress was remarkably political. He reminded them of their constitutional role in limiting executive power, called for Ukraine support, defended NATO, challenged isolationism, celebrated inter-faith relations, and urged action on the climate crisis.

ANGLO-AMERICAN CONSTITUTION!! ANGLO-AMERICAN CONSTITUTION!! ANGLO-AMERICAN CONSTITUTION!!

standing ovation after King Charles sings the praises of NATO and says "that same unyielding resolve is needed for the defense of Ukraine"

Shout-out to the Bond movies for making an evil tech founder a super-villain back in 1985, at least 25-30 years before the rest of us caught on.

this would fix the website

The State Department has finalized a plan to put a picture of Donald Trump in passports. A portrait of an actual president has never been featured in a passport before, let alone a living one in office. This is dictator stuff.

Bit late now motherfuckers

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Iran: “At the moment, I cannot see what strategic exit the Americans are opting for. “The Iranians are negotiating very skilfully. Or rather, very skilfully not negotiating. “An entire nation (the US) is being humiliated.”

People like small manageable reforms, but things will only improve with big radical measures. The power of government over the House of Commons and whips over MPs should be significantly reduced. MPs have to be constitutionally de-infantalised.

Ok fine I’ll do it myself. I’m fucking wheezing

O, it is excellent To have a giant’s strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.

🚨 NEW: Angela Rayner’s allies have told Keir Starmer that he must sack Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood for her to return to Cabinet Rayner recently branded Mahmood's immigration reforms "un-British" and a "breach of trust" [@thetimes]

If you think of this administration as a misfiring Apprentice task, it makes more sense. This scene really needs a cutaway to Karren Brady rolling her eyes and making disapproving notes in her little book

I understand that it is deeply inconvenient for everyone with money and power that the richest man in the world is a Nazi, but the richest man in the world is a Nazi

Once again, an international embarrassment. He has degraded the US entirely, with his stupidity and lack of basic morality.

A small point from the Mandelson/Robbins saga. Refom and many Tories argue for a civil service than can be more easily bent to the will and whims of their elected political masters. This is precisely what happened here.

Crackers.

OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened. Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah. (h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

An onion will do well for such a shift

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Better late than never: the growing consensus that Trump has lost his mind… open.spotify.com/episode/1JZC...

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

No more Mr Nice Guy, apparently.

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way