It's unbelievable that people this dumb are in charge of the most powerful nation in human history

A return to spheres of influence could make sense if you are a great power. If you aren't one, cheering it seems foolhardy. Once again, too many people are living mentally like Americans, not realising they are citizens of the periphery.

all meaning has collapsed in our post-literate society and i wrote a bunch of useless, useless words about it. read it if you, like me, are one of a diminishing minority who still reads www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

Rosalie Abella is appointed a Companion of the Order of Canada today. Here is what I had to say about a recent book on her career. thehub.ca/2025/09/06/a...

As it's the end of 2025, I'm just reposting our 'Outside the box' starter pack. This features accounts who think across tribal lines. Those on it have ideological sympathies, but are open to different traditions and consider issues on a case-by-case basis. Shares welcome ;-) go.bsky.app/HZxZgvh

As @yuanyiz.bsky.social said on the other platform, “(t)he Danish Army was busy dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, a blunder I trust they will never repeat.”

Model United Nations Was A Mistake

Vulgarity aside I don't really get why any sane human wants this when in a few years this will get torn up to widespread applause Saddam style.

This man is playing chess while the rest of us play checkers

Avoiding audience capture by flaming cons on Twitter and libs on Bluesky, I was v popular at school

As the right goes insane I was hoping the left would at least try to learn from its mistakes during the past decades and who the hell am I kidding oh well

For people who are that much into race science you would think they would know that Ahmed al Ahmed is not a Christian name.

Quite a position to argues that the wokes are destroying a civilisation built on Christian faith but gang bangs are fine actually.

Churchill’s Chief of the Imperial General Staff Sir Alan Brooke had English as a second language.

I am perfectly at peace with my own mortality; I just don't like seeing the vulnerable coerced into killing themselves.

It's cool Bluesky is becoming like Twitter in that people with public facing positions feel that they have nothing to lose by publicly lying.

It is currently doing the scrutiny work on the assisted suicide bill that the Commons refused to properly do. Long live their lordships I say.

Ooh that reminds me I might ask for Brenda Hale’s book as a Christmas present considering how uncharacteristically nice you were about it 😉

Fuck these people.

I honestly do not understand what one gets out of writing such a blatant, over the top take down piece. You need to be either perpetually frustrated and angry with your life or at least be able to get into such a mindest to write that review. It is either incredibly sad or borders on sociopathic.

You should, in fact, have enemies to your right.

I am never going to feel guilty again for being mean in a book review.

It's so funny the UK shortens attorney-general and solicitor-general to attorney and solicitor and US courts go with GENERAL.

When Twitter became difficult three years ago many of us here we happy to start on a new platform. Unfortunately this place seems to be less active than what it could be. My Bluesky is a pleasant but somewhat silent place.

Incredible we built a society where tens of thousands of people are forced to live in this misery just because the wealthiest people in America want more parking and because left-NIMBY cranks still won't let go of their housing Lysenkoism which insists that new housing causes gentrification.

A brief obituary for my father is here. The support from my online community here has been such a comfort in the last couple of difficult days. www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/h...

Um, this doesn't seem to acknowledge that you can have dual nationality and not be a migrant...

It's absolutely peak Bluesky that I criticised a powerful man for sexism over on X and people here are FURIOUS with me for somehow doing it wrong

Claire Lehmann objected to Hesgeth's unprofessional tweets and Joe Lonsdale called her a far left woman (both derogatory). Got angrier after Claire (we're mutuals) said public execution isn't cool. His supporters said if Obama could do it, Trump should be able too. Lots of "Real men kill, woman".

This is the hidden in plain sight heffalump trap in the Budget - Mahmood’s plan will deepsix whatever fiscal headroom the Chancellor has.

The future of healthcare if assisted suicide becomes legal.

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI. Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good front-paging.

Right this isn’t a matter of choice, it’s a legal obligation with legal consequences if ignored.

Tom Stoppard's plays were actually written by the Earl of Oxford and Asquith

Welcome Shabana Mahmood to your next four years of headlines!!!

Someone just uploaded a 6-hour recording of the court-martial of Xu Qinxian, the Chinese general who refused to take his army to Beijing in 1989. Astonishing stuff. youtu.be/m2NN0vSJ8rU?...

Dare I say it but you also write a very good nice review

While I was offline I reviewed Baroness Hale of Richmond's newest book. It's actually very good! I'm going soft. Free link here @ www.thetimes.com/article/6dd6...

Good and fair review. She is a serious person Baroness Hale, and deserves to be treated as such. She also seems to have put effort into writing the book.

I’d missed this being published. I know this is a niche point—& I think Lady Hale has tried to address it a bit from YYZ’s review—but I do wish more of these sorts of books would come not from the Great and the Good but those sitting a first instance, wrestling with litigation in the raw.

Her agents haven't paid me enough for me to confirm this.

While I was offline I reviewed Baroness Hale of Richmond's newest book. It's actually very good! I'm going soft. Free link here @ www.thetimes.com/article/6dd6...

A wise man once said that ‘jury trials are a fundamental part of our democratic settlement’. That man was David Lammy. Me for @unherd.com unherd.com/newsroom/scr...

I still think it's funny John Mearsheimer gave realism a bad name when all his Russia analysis is basically onthological security constructivism.

Quite the correction by the Telegraph. The publication in question is @freemovement.bsky.social

British citizens who marry foreigners will have to make sure their spouses have a minimum income of £12,500 for 3 to 5 years, or they won't get indefinite leave to remain, the UK government has proposed. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...

literally nobody has automatic ILR, that is not a thing that exists. meghan fucking markle had to apply for LtR

for comparison (and it's not a direct comparison): when my wife arrived here at the start of 2016, they added a third language test but you only had to do it if you'd arrived within 6 months of it being introduced. expanding that out to "major rules can change inside of a 5 year period" is very bad

'Not authorized': Family fights to regain Lemkin name from vehement Israel critic nationalpost.com/news/not-aut...