I agree: Sean Dunn is not guilty. This has been a “moments in living out the responsibilities you’ve assumed by selecting your username like seven years ago”

the wine moms are trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored

Surely the answer to this depends on ‘for who’? Andrew Mountbatten? Michelle Mone? Andrew Tate? I mean it is barbaric but we could all be tempted…

Was this the best use of my time today? No. Is it the most amusing way I could have spent the last 90 minutes? Absolutely. Pattern is free here: bit.ly/4nGGCGc

Oh yes we do think it is funny. Really funny. And this makes it so much funnier.

As a prophecy of what a Reform Westminster government would actually look like KCC is pretty much perfect.

@duncanweldon.bsky.social @jfb1066.bsky.social Discuss?

Watching RFK jr run away from someone collapsing feels like a harbinger of things to come

Fascinating stuff. There is still a lot to be found out about local histories of the war.

Finding out how long ago ‘Shirley Valentine’ came out was a real ‘where did my life go’ moment.

This is antivax level nonsense from Farron. There are actual studies of Sea Eagle diet in Scotland that prove this isn’t true.

Broads: Are They Really People? Join us tomorrow at nytimes.com as Ross Douthat and a Neanderthal model we swiped from the Smithsonian investigate.

The point wasn’t the remuneration deal - it was the insane ‘pump’ of existing shares - which can now be slowly dumped at a big profit before the marks realise it is all nonsense.

You may think this is an easy one, but what if you're a billionaire already planning to have retreated to an underground bunker in ten years, and need a technology which can persuade everyone else that everything is fine, really?

Free bus services are ‘a given’. Goes on to cite Tallinn Montpellier and Dunkirk. So a couple of hundred thousand Europeans get free bus services? (Feeling a bit salty that I pay $7 equivalent for a 2 mile round trip return ticket).

Musk recently said in an interview that he would not get any credit if he saved a bus full of orphans. He should realise that is because he has already killed the equivalent of 10,000 buses full of children.

Note absence of roads in the area of a Little Gaulish Village…

great day for the legal theory of "not guilty if it's funny enough"

Taking the think out of tank

Trump taking a victory lap because Walmart made their Thanksgiving meal smaller and crappier (and hence cheaper) is such a perfect encapsulation of his hucksterism

Lammy was IMO correct - Saturday is early enough (Poppies would have been sold on that day between the wars).

From a long term perspective the incredible density of roads in Ile-de-France feels significant.

I guess this the season for ‘what’s up with Remembrance these days’ so i suppose i should suggest an analytical framework. Three phases 1/At the early 1990s Remembrance Day was becoming pretty low key but it starts a big revival in 1994. This was initially to do with the D-Day 50th anniversary.

It is increasingly looking like it is only a matter of time before a US citizen is shot dead.

I’m a bit of a Pelosi fan but her decision to retire next year is 100% good news for a party which needs to break from gerontocracy.

The New York Times is going through some things, although not, regrettably, a woodchipper.

Let's not forget that the only reason we're not talking about Boston @mayorwu.boston.gov's victory tonight is because she won her preliminary election so decisively that her billionaire heir opponent dropped out. ✊

This seems inevitable - when the AI bubble bursts the stock market goes full 1929 (or possibly worse) and so the Administration will become increasingly desperate to stop that happening before the mid-terms.

People are taking the piss out of this, but I was intrigued by the Polish marking. Turns out it's an acknowledgment by the local community of three Polish squadrons who flew from a local RAF base, 22 of whom died in service and 6 of whom are buried locally. I think the mockery is uncalled for.

This is very nearly the actual plot of ‘The Mission’.

I know it is not the point but the names on this map of Guyana have a very strong ‘second volume of a middling fantasy novel series I borrowed from the library‘ vibe.

‘How the Poles created civilisation‘

If the sub didn’t split, you must acquit!

Mamdani’s win is a warning for media: Better get some leftist contributors or you simply won’t be able to cover/understand what is happening around America.

It's actually simpler than this: Q: Would an ignorant journalist refer to you as 'dusty'? [YES] A: You're an archive.

Genius suggestion. Of course HOW they lure Andrew into an RC church could be a bit sordid.

Anyone interested in pursuing doctoral study in military history (broadly defined) and especially in tje strategy snd economic statecraft of tge two world wars: please drop me a line www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/schola...

The current Championship is brilliantly distributed geographically with lots of great local rivalries represented - eg Charlton/Milwall, Portsmouth/Southampton, Birmingham/West Brom/Coventry, Ipswich/Norwich, the two Sheffield teams...

Latest sales figures show BYD are now absolutely curb stomping Tesla in the UK - massive change since last year.

Ironically the margin of victory is looking so huge that it might not have been entirely necessary to do this. California Dems are very angry and very motivated right now and any Republican incumbent under maybe +8 was probably toast In the midterms.

Happy MAGA git battered in the polls from sea to shining sea day.

Election results suggest American voters may find pig-headed neo-fascist criminality less enthralling as a system of government than it was as a campaign platform.

Lurie is a bog standard SF centrist mayor (pro-business social liberal) - in policy terms really pretty close to his predecessor and most mayors since Feinstein. The only real difference is that he is a rich white guy (like Newsom) . A lot of the discussion of Lurie is IMO is just code for that.

Eric Adams is amazing because when he won every media person was leaping over each to go “this is the normal sane leadership that the political left doesn’t understand normal sane Americans crave” and then every day since that Eric Adams has been like “Leprechauns are real and I’m going to cook one”

Self-promotion, but will be giving a talk on something I have been VERY slowly working on at University of Oxford next Tuesday (11 November) at 5 pm! talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/26c...

Couple of young guys outside Starbucks wearing “Who is Jesus?” t-shirts. Sad that this generation’s historical amnesia is so severe they don’t even remember his hat trick against Palace in the League Cup less than a year ago.

PA Supreme Court retains its 5-2 democratic majority! HELL FUCKIN YEAH!

Predictably - the Trump/Republican response to last night won’t be to try to earn more votes, it will be to suppress the vote.

This is absolutely horrifying. Our experience with the newly opened midwife led unit at the JR in 2008 was extremely positive but it was a pretty straightforward delivery.