Delighted that #Paraguay are out. Horrible team in every position.

This Sunday times story about Farage is properly extraordinary Confirms so much of what I - and many others - have been hearing for a long time and begs *massive* questions about Farage’s finances, rule breeches and more www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Want to run a fake London estate agency and repeatedly scam people out of thousands of pounds through rental scams? The good news is that for £250 you can join all the official renters' protection schemes and do it with a UK government badge of approval! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-ren...

Paraguay are an awful collection of football players. #WC26 #WORLDCUP2026

Liz Truss set up CPAC Great Britain with a lawyer who used to work with sanctioned pro-Russian oligarch Firtash Many of guests at Truss’s gathering have also parroted Kremlin talking points New by me on Democracy for Sale open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

Extreme heat can be dangerous, even deadly—but properly hydrating can go a long way in helping you stay safe, Rachel Sugar wrote in 2023. Revisit her writing on the dos and don’ts of hydrating in a heat wave:

Morning! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Brussels rebuffs UK request for ‘decision-shaping’ role in EU

“London wants a “decision-shaping” role in the rules and regulations that Britain has agreed to follow as part of its push for closer ties with the EU.“ You had that when you were a member of the EU. Sorry Britain, thanks to brexit you don’t get to shape those decisions anymore 🤷‍♀️

This kind of whining - from France - is so very Brexit. Until we take responsibility for the inevitable consequences of our own stupid choices, we will stay stuck in a sulky dead-end calling other people names. Boris Johnson rejected these data sharing arrangements. You get what you pay for. (Times)

Pleased to share recordings and slides from our workshop last week on the potential and perils of new technologies in opening up archives... Videos and bullet points from m'learned colleagues (and me) here. 👇 (1/2) lustre-network.net/event/glow-r...

Some 61% of Russia’s billionaires remain untouched by the UK’s sanctions regime, including at least four with documented links to Britain through property, business interests and family connections. My report for @bylinetimes.bsky.social with Molly Gordon Boles. bylinetimes.com/2026/07/02/s...

Wicklow hotel cancels ‘secretive’ Peter Thiel conference

During a photo session with a young fan, Egyptian staff are assaulted by cops in Dallas. Egypt is Australia's opponent tomorrow morning. Aus squad include six players of African heritage plus another from Sri Lanka. This could easily have been us ... #Profiling #WorldCup #AustraliaEgypt #Socceroos

Planet Germany has selected Isar Aerospace to launch a Pelican Earth observation satellite aboard a Spectrum within the next 12 months. europeanspaceflight.com/isar-aerospa...

Back to the old houses: something from me on one of Burnham’s few explicitly stated policies - council housebuilding as.ft.com/r/c7559f9c-4...

If a foreign national lives in social housing, Reform says its polcy is to evict, and to deport, regardless of circumstance (eg would cover Commonwealth migrants here 10-25-50 years!). Housing Today ask why this has been little noticed or scrutinised www.housingtoday.co.uk/in-focus/cou...

Times report on BBC investigation into people-smuggling… Lots of talk of “losing” access to critical information. Rather than Johnson not bothering to secure it. And Farage wanting an even harder Brexit. The stubborn refusal to face the consequences of our own govt’s stupid choices has become absurd

the NIMBY, joyless Soho Society have put a statement out and I love the very delicate and precise phrasing of this, from "been involved in Soho" to "on average, many of the trustees"

Xitter's community notes are working overtime calling out people trying to claim Mamdani's attempts to conserve power is socialist. This one might be my favorite.

New Soft Landing podcast featuring historian @helenebismarck.bsky.social , author of 'Fantastic Kingdom - A Stranger’s Notes on a Contrary Country'. In which we discuss Britain's outlook & political culture: the good, the bad and the ugly. Listen here now: rolandmcs.substack.com/p/podcast-ex...

RTÉ News: Domestic economy posts healthy growth of 4.7% in 2025 - CSO www.rte.ie/news/busines...

Bizarre story: Two journalists were removed by police from a corporate-sponsored Freedom 250 event in Brussels after they asked US Ambassador to Belgium Bill White about his threat against an American citizen/Belgian resident who had emailed Zac Brown Band urging them not to perform at the event.

Nope, the EU still isn't giving the UK a special deal however desperate politicians and media are to escape the trap of being just another third country. Next.

Solar and wind are currently meeting 90% of Britain's electricity demand. grid.iamkate.com

There's definitely some derangement going on here. And it's not on the part of the journalists. Read the US ambassador's email to The European Correspondent implying he has the Belgian security services wrapped around this finger. Then think of how the Belgian PM gladly attended his party.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Merz unveils €10bn tax cuts to revive German growth

The EU is designing industrial policy for its own market and its own manufacturers. The UK, having chosen to leave, now finds itself on the outside asking for exemptions. That isn't punishment. It's what "taking back control" looks like. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

PAUL NEWMAN & JOANNE WOODWARD getting breakfast going in the kitchen of their Beverly Hills home in 1958.

Pete Buttigieg having Child Protective Services called on him and not being allowed to talk unsupervised to his four year old children until they're interviewed is just about the darkest shit I can remember in politics.

At times harrowing, a BBC Northern Ireland account of Jeffrey Donaldson’s double life leading to his conviction last month, with huge implications for the DUP youtu.be/rZTjQipzOkg?...

Lovely story

Since Brexit, the UK no longer has a data-sharing agreement with countries in the EU, making it difficult to check criminal records. Remind me, what were the Brexit benefits we were promised? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread:

Wow

How the Gibraltar border will look post-treaty youtu.be/blKRSbZTlZU?...

Sorry @hugorifkind.bsky.social have to disagree with you both on Irish pubs. Up until the 1980 many Irish pubs had table service. Indeed one had to serve an apprenticeship to become a barman/maid.

Musk is effectively approving the murder of Jo Cox here

UK/EU treaty on Gibraltar formally adopted by Council www.chronicle.gi/eu-completes...

Morning… Take A Breath, photo by Sean O’Riordan, Irish photographer.

¿Cómo es posible que solo informe TVE de este ESCÁNDALO? García-Castellón, cuando estaba en activo, cenó con Abascal para que no recurrieran el ARCHIVO de Plus Ultra También libró a la empresa de un pufo de 3,7M con Bankinter Golpe de estado judicial

Appreciate the mention, @euobserver.com! And spot-on take from Samuel Dempsey about how much the Brussels bubble still doesn't understand that the old America is gone. euobserver.com/224878/the-e...

The Telegraph isn't funny any more. It's seriously grim.

Bethan's Rock is a small grey stone on display at Poole Museum in Poole, England. It was donated to the museum in 2019 by a five-year-old girl named Bethan, and it has since attracted significant attention on social media and become the museum's most famous object. - Wikipedia

Too cheap to meter. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

How have these 'patriots' forgotten that removing citizenship on racial grounds was literally a Nazi policy?

RTÉ News: Man guilty of attempted murder of three children at Parnell Square www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

It’s very hard to escape the conclusion that these people don’t have a problem with violence against women or child abuse, per se. They’re just against “braaahn people touching aaahr women and kids”, precisely because they see them as THEIRS to assault and abuse…

Musk shared a free download to a film on X that promotes attacking migrants and portrays them as rapists. One Muslim family of a perpetrator are murdered. A few weeks ago we saw pogroms on our streets. Imagine if I promoted a film that attacked Jews or Christians? Why is he allowed to do this?

Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087...

RTÉ News: Spanish galleon docks in Sligo for 12-day visit www.rte.ie/news/connach...