I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

I see the LibDems want social media sites to have to carry warnings that they're dangerously addicitive. What will BlueSky's say? "You may get scolded if you forget to use alt text?"

Jim identifies a real issue here. I am stalked by ever more desperate stories of sexual adventure, none of which I have ever read or will ever read. It's like a constant, day-by-day trashing of the Times' brand. It has made me determined never to read it unless there's an absolute necessity.

Interesting to see on the other site, that the Centre for Policy Studies have already put out a tweet acknowledging the numbers that Reform have based their horrendous mass remigration policy on were incorrect...

Shout out to the couple at Charlie Kirk's memorial who managed to put aside their grief long enough to have a little snog before the speeches got going

I pick up a book, looking for a quote. Opening line "As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me." He could write that man.

Many, many aspects of the British state aren’t working. But the inability to manage fly-tipping seems emblematic. This was Beddlestead Lane in the North Downs today. The white you can see I the distance is the waste at the next passing place. At the bottom of the hill, there’s a burned out car.

Lib Dem Tim Farron MP tells party conference Reform UK "spent a lot of their time [at conference] giving a platform to people who think that the Covid vaccines gave the royal family cancer, to self confessed convicted racists, and worst of all, Lembit Opik"

During the past week, some patriot has expressed his or her #legitimateconcerns by putting St George’s Flags and Union Flags on lampposts at Elmers End Green, 10 miles from Trafalgar Square. Has anyone seen any closer to central London?

Honestly, scammers, you might get on better trying someone who has at some point owned a car.

"Democracies risk falling into a doom loop, in which restrictions on immigration mean ever greater demands on the purse of the native-born population and ever worse services, which in turn deepens opposition towards immigration" @stephenkb.bsky.social calls for honesty. www.ft.com/content/43da...

An excellent, clear-eyed FT weekend essay by @stephenkb.bsky.social setting out the choices confronting governments on immigration: on.ft.com/3IxIcvo

Amy Hunt after opening her water bill #Tokyo2025

I've just been reminded, for various reasons, of a piece that I wrote for @newstatesman.com's Staggers site defending the reputation of AA Milne's Eeyore and saying he should be our national role model: www.newstatesman.com/politics/the... I stand by every word.

There's no such thing as a Guardian story so perfectly Guardian it parodies... Oh, wait. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

As the article points out the context might be different (attacking agents of a foreign state rather than the enemy within) but the process is the same and, crucially, McCarthy was a junior senator not the President on.ft.com/3K7XMyl Is America entering a new era of McCarthyism?

Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first

Comedians are far quieter today than I would have hoped.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Come on, Sainsbury's self-checkout machine. Do I look like the kind of man who'd break stride in my busy life because I'd "like a receipt"?

Why are they staging a beating the retreat with members of the UK military dressed in uniforms from the American Revolutionary War? Hasn't someone had the courage by now to tell the royal family who won?

Melania's sent 3 small children in a trench coat on the state visit rather than coming herself

Cuomo just can't do things like this. It's not his comfort zone. He would make for a horrible mayor.

Facebook keeps showing me these Young's adverts encouraging people to watch the women's rugby world cup in their pubs. All of them feature someone holding a rugby ball. Please be aware that when watching sport on television it is absolutely NOT NECESSARY to bring equipment for actually playing it.

But he'd already made the most memorable possible final exit many, many years ago:

Beautiful Danny Kruger picture on the Wikipedia list of Reform MPs:

Dunning Kruger defecting to Reform is another win for nominative determinism

Just started my day by unfollowing someone RTing a meme featuring a Chomsky quote, and already Monday is slightly less awful

Andy Burnham rapidly turning into the Labour soft left's Boris Johnson: MP swaps underwhelming Westminster career for mayoralty which has profile but little scrutiny, and somehow becomes the answer to all their backers' problems, despite all the signs to the contrary.

Raise your left hand if you think Richard Burgon is a credible source for stories on Keir Starmer’s leadership of the Labour party

This exchange says it all.

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Musk is wearing a T-shirt that asks, "What would Orwell think." Orwell took a bullet to the neck while fighting Tommy Robinsons and Elon Musks in Spain.

Transport expert here: it might look cute. But motor vehicles make this squatting motion only when they’re very distressed.

I was drinking a martini when the waitress screamed, “Does anyone know CPR?” I yelled, “I know the entire alphabet,” and we all laughed - except one person.

People say the BBC lack flexibility in the modern digital era, but the launch and roll out of their 24 hour Charlie Kirk News channel in a matter of hours was pretty impressive.

Daughter’s off to a flea market. Utter con. In my day, if we wanted some we’d just pet a dog that had been scratching a lot.

A beautiful, quietly furious piece by @henrymance.ft.com on the shamelessness of those around Epstein, particularly Trump, and of Rupert Murdoch: on.ft.com/4gvu2HW

if you’re an isolated, angsty, strange young man, please know that you can become a Kierkegaard scholar instead of joining fringe online communities

A good, thoughtful Big Read from @edwardluce.bsky.social on this week’s appalling events in the US: on.ft.com/4nzPTQR

The thing is we all know Mandelson is already planning his next comeback.

Justin Webb just referred on Today to "platforms like Bluesky, where you can see the celebration of the killing" of Charlie Kirk. What I'm seeing on here is overwhelming condemnation; despair at the violence of US politics; alarm at where this might go; & calls for equal horror at other shootings.

Oh dear.

I am deeply disturbed by the shooting in Utah. Doug and I send our prayers to Charlie Kirk and his family. Let me be clear: Political violence has no place in America. I condemn this act, and we all must work together to ensure this does not lead to more violence.

I expect Trump is looking at a decree, excuse me, "executive order," revamping the SCOTUS uniforms to more accurately reflect the philosophical changes afoot. Something along the lines of what's modeled here:

TOP TIP: Draw extra attention to your Labour deputy leadership bid in a crowded field by throwing your fascinator into the ring, instead of a conventional hat.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

In the last 3 months, Qatar has now been bombed by Iran and Israel, both times with Donald Trump's blessing.