... Be more Brown - Gordon or Tina ….

This leads me to reflect on how the press (my own paper at the time, The Observer, where I was business editor ) splashed on the ‘psychologically flawed’ briefing, given by a deeply morally dubious Blairite team. The story in some ways holed Brown’s leadership below the waterline 5/

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Canada's official position at the UN General Assembly should be no more 3-on-3 hockey

Ultimately no neighbour wants to live next door to a successful private members’ club with people coming and going all the time, which is why they should support Liz Truss’s venture.

I want a rice cooker, but in a very real sense I have chosen 'being able to live in central London' over 'being able to give over any surface space in the kitchen to a rice cooker'. Are there any rice cookers you can suspend from the ceiling?

I am sorry. But I have nothing to add to the rice discourse. If I had anything I would add it. I am sorry.

I don't know how people survive without a rice cooker. They are the greatest invention of all time, behind the wheel and maybe chips.

A brilliant article that everyone commenting about Iran should read. The Iranian government is not your friend, and never will be, unless you happen to be a clerico-fascist enthusiast of mass torture and mass murder. But weirdly, many in the West who claim to be on the left seem to support it.

Menschliches Leben als Energieverschwendung.

This sounds suboptimal.

This lawsuit seems appalling to me, honestly. I feel for people whose student experience was lousy due to Covid but that's not the fault of universities. "I wanted in-person study." I'm sure you did. Nobody gets what they want in a global pandemic

Let's try this again 👋 Hi Bluesky - I'm Massachusetts' Attorney General. You might know me from suing President Trump nearly 50 times, beating Uber and Lyft in court, or being the first woman of color elected to statewide office in MA. I officially left X today - help me find my MA people?

This British 65 year old grandmother with a valid visa spent six weeks in an ICE detention center. She was shackled, transported and locked up. She was on a holiday in the US! Warning: ⚠️ Please don’t travel to the US! It’s totally unsafe! #USDemocracy #Pinks apple.news/AY1ljTV6PRD2...

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

Do they though

House of Commons library briefing on the legal position and conventions (4.2.2026) commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

The US Constitution begins to function

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

kids aren't immune to long covid. this research shows that some *lasting* fatigue in kids after covid infection is 2/3rds with consistent, unresolving chronic fatigue being 1 in 6 www.nature.com/articles/s41... for your kids sakes, you should be demanding air filtration in schools

Tariffs. I mean buy. I mean LOL. More analysis later.

Not sure how this can be true, since seems clear that the voting block most responsible for “all this” is Gen X, which is very famously the most saturated in sitcom and 20th century media culture, no?

Sounds rough! I avoid this ever happening to me with One Weird Trick

Bro, I am straight up not having a good time www.ft.com/content/b5d9...

Trump is using the presidency to get revenge for all perceived slights. I wonder if withdrawing from the Paris Accord, attempting to recreate WHO, the pseudo-UN Board of Peace, not paying dues, etc. are all attempts at payback for turning down his bid to renovate NYC's UN building 20 (!) years ago.

Danielle Smith announces a raft of referenda, seemingly designed to advance the UCP’s separatist agenda. albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/dani...

“The site features a graphic of a ghostly horse galloping above the Earth, and the motto: ‘Information is power. Reclaim your human right to free expression. Get ready.’… it appears to funnel users into an opaque, central system controlled by a US government agency.”

Jesus

Not even *mentioning* the Perth Agreement here is a bit weird (the UK Parliament can't just vote to remove Andrew, that also requires legislation in Canada, NZ and separately in every AU state) morningcall.substack.com/p/morning-ca...

Revisiting my 2022 longread in @prospectmagazine.co.uk about the monarchy as storytelling. This is why I think the Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor scandal is more likely to strengthen the monarchy than end it. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/384...

It's because they know that racism remains a taboo with the majority of British society and that being successfully labeled as racist kills your prospects British people have way to much tolerance for veiled racism - but do draw a line and open, unambigious stuff. So they try to pretend they're not

“Is there a technology that the left is excited about?” I was going to say European Train Control System Level 3, but actually, maybe this:

If a Prince can be held accountable, so can a President.

Another drop in London house prices plus the slowest private rent growth in the country according to the ONS. TfL data has passenger journeys down by 4% year on year as of October 25. Given the wider migration picture - doesn’t this all point to London’s population falling?

This sort of framing of stories about 'left behind' places is getting very tired. How have they been 'failed' by politics? They are the product of political choices - which organisations like the BBC have often failed to explain to people.

This is all very good and interesting, but I think one thing to say is that as someone who's currently experiencing a three cornered fight, the thing is as the world gets more multi-party deducing where your tactical vote should go becomes trickier and trickier.

It's not fiscal discipline if they're using the money saved from reimposing the two-child limit to cut beer duty. It's revenue-neutral. Leaving aside the immorality of that policy ...

Wise words from... *checks notes* Jeff Bezos (in 2017)...

It's quite something, I think, to write a column about the fallout of the Epstein scandal for Starmer without the author mentioning that he'd exchanged emails with Epstein in 2011 after writing a piece in which he'd said that Epstein wasn't technically a paedophile. www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Pluto was discovered 96 years ago today. It has possible ice volcanoes, including Piccard Mons (named after the Swiss balloonist, not the Star Trek captain). #astronomy Image: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

It may not work a third time but it’s worth remembering that the winning platform in the last two elections has been ‘shut up and make this all go away’ and Reform is offering something that is very much not that.

bsky was nicer when it was accepted as a common courtesy that whenever you reskeeted someone, you would also give their pfp a little forehead kiss

Joe Rogan is THIS close to getting it about the man who said this was all a hoax.

An extraordinary new column in the Daily Telegraph (no, that's not a typo!) by Ambrose Evans Pritchard. Yes, it includes two charts by Carbon Brief, sure. But stay for the concluding few paragraphs about the electoral suicide of climate denial... www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

Horse, Senate. It would be inevitable by 2028, if he actually owned a horse.

A very good thread for everyone who has questions about the FCC/CBS/Colbert/Talarico story —>

Historian of medicine here. Yes. Yes, they did.

She gets to “Sorry, I’m an idiot, I fucked up” eventually but my lord the throat-clearing www.independent.co.uk/life-style/h...

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Starmer needs to commission an independent inquiry into Labour Together- or he too becomes implicated in an increasingly unsustainable cover-up New by me in @theguardian.com on why PM needs to act on Labour Together hiring a PR firm to smear journalists www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...