I suspect this might be my problem as well…

(which ultimately was his downfall when he tried to take on the film industry in his obsessive pursuit of what he deemed the truth)

Episode 2 gave me an interesting link last night that I wasn't previously aware of - that Roy Cohn, who worked alongside McCarthy to turn the post-war reds-under-the-bed crusade into a TV soap opera

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Lot of mad people around these parts, sure, but blue tick media accounts coming on here to whine about how they’re not praised enough to make it worth cross-posting on BSky is not exactly a great look. You have to make at least a modicum of effort on a social platform to build the audience you want.

This isn't whataboutery - this is D Trump's transactional foreign policy vision, which is extractive and singularly corrupt.

Please believe Elon Musk when he tells you every day that he is a racist, white supremacist. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Who are these people and how do they pass any form of lightweight due diligence, let alone vetting for clearances, given the profound exhibitionism? www.thetimes.com/article/9ee0...

Kash Patel is a serious person with a serious understanding of personal and personnel security, don't you know. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

It’s incredible what can happen when you try ❤️

I hereby challenge Eric Trump to a debate on the merits of Bitcoin at the time and location of his choosing. Hell, Donnie can come too.

The Epstein documents released weeks ago are full of university administrators, professors, and trustees. With students demanding transparency and accountability from their schools, academia faces a nationwide reckoning over how it courts and indulges deep-pocketed benefactors.

Just Pete Hegseth, the US secretary of war, ruling out the actual hard work to be completed in Iran, with all its unseen and unsexy nuance. www.thetimes.com/article/7af8...

NEW: Rachel Reeves announces the government’s fiscal headroom is forecast to be slightly higher - up from £21.7bn to £23.6bn - by 2029/30 (although OBR forecasts were done before Iran crisis).

Ask the public what services they want to cut, or what services they're happy to be rubbish, and you get a very different set of answers. They'll say cut foreign aid, ofc, but that's all but gone already. What next?

This illustrates exactly why we shouldn’t be adjusting policy based on these forecasts. They aren’t worth the paper they are printed on.

2026 forecasts are probably not much better.

Safe to say that 2028 growth forecasts are meaningless at this point.

Sorry, but it had to be done.

I suppose if you wanted to find out what it feels like to be a refugee/displaced person, that's one way of going about it. Highly doubt that it'll change sentiment towards existing refugees and asylum seekers, somehow.

admirable pettiness

Howling.

Regime change in Iran is a necessity on human rights and economic survival grounds, but the US administration doesn't appear to be best placed to protect and support Iranian civilians in exercising their democratic rights in a near or long-term capacity. Just look at Venezuela.

Every now and then, Pinterest brings the ultimate goods in Maths LOLs

Pinterest isn't just for your baby shark memes and fluffy cat photos.

worried I'm an especially weird type of guy* *no interest whatsoever in seeing "Wuthering Heights" but not because I dislike Fennell's work - I thought Saltburn was thoroughly entertaining - but because I sincerely don't know what WH is about and don't especially care to find out

also later played mentor to none other than a young D Trump. Which explains a hell of a lot when you consider both men's personal ideologies and convictions that the ends justify any means. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016....

As always, my point about international law is that either you take it seriously or you do not. It is hardly international law when you invoke it only against some nations but not others. The clue is in the word “international”.

The reason people send their kids to private school is not to get the highest grades, as there are cheaper ways to achieve the same outcomes. The real reason is to either enter into or cement their place in a more exalted social network.

People who lick their fingers when turning pages are absolutely disgusting. Give it a rest. You're giving me the creeps.

It makes my current situation as that older woman out the other end and very much married, enjoying something that once seemed inconceivable for someone selfish with her time, all the more pleasant.

The 20-something without much care or thought for the wives and girlfriends at the other corner of the triangle - check. The realisation of a pending pregnancy on her part - check. And becoming the older woman displaced by a younger woman, the replica of me 10-15 years prior - check.

The interesting thing about reading a piece like this with multiple narratives and as an older woman, is seeing recognisable life stages played out through other people's experiences. www.thetimes.com/article/223e...

Less Board of Peace and more Bored of Peace, amiright. Matthew Syed bang on the money as ever. The rampant corruption and idiosyncratic caprice of Trump render his military campaigns untrustworthy. www.thetimes.com/article/9469...

See also this excellent piece by @julianborger.bsky.social for the Guardian on the absence of a legal mandate for the US administration to conduct its attack on Iran. No one ever accused D Trump of wasting coverage. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The EU's guide to safe sex this summer recommends that those engaging in such practices "not share sex toys" and "use disposable gloves for fingering or fisting". www.euractiv.com/section/heal...

"Müller added that the ECDC’s focus reflects a broader problem in European sex education: It’s primarily directed at young people, even as STI rates rise among older adults".

There is every possibility that the outflows that have occurred within the last 48 hours, as seen by Elliptic and Chainalysis, have been to a) support terrorist financing and b) preserve the Iranian regime via its proxies.

But the even more interesting aspect is who has previously benefited from crypto outflows to those wallets - most prominently, Hamas. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Interestingly, such outflows during internet blackouts in Iran during protests (and now airstrikes), while diminished, have not completely abated and suggest that "some have access to the exchange's cryptoasset holdings even when its website is inaccessible".

It could signify capital flight out of Iran, towards - as Elliptic points out - crypto wallets that have seen such outflows (though to a lesser extent) since new sanctions were imposed on Iran in January.

Those outflows could point towards extensive use of traditional hawala networks in the Middle East - a form of informal value transfer system that operates outside of regulated banking systems - that's been upgraded to incorporate crypto.

which - as the latter points out - went down following strikes on Iran. www.chainalysis.com/blog/iranian...

Couple of fascinating insights produced by Elliptic and Chainalysis about large cryptocurrency outflows from major Iranian exchanges such as Nobitex - www.elliptic.co/blog/iranian...

The key part IMO.

- but the ability of rightwing populists of either gender to drag any political conversation around to micro-level immigration issues is a total grind.

Couple of fascinating insights produced by Elliptic and Chainalysis about large cryptocurrency outflows from major Iranian exchanges such as Nobitex - www.elliptic.co/blog/iranian...

Great catch by Deloitte. Reducing public charging VAT from 20% to 5% would be a huge incentive for drivers/consumers who've put off making the switch to EVs because they aren't in circumstances that allow for domestic charging - www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/369078/...

Trump and Hegseth have such contempt for (most of) their allies. Why bother supporting the US when the response is this sneering?