Giving a talk tonight on ‘Science and politics in the national archive’, at the Athenaeum (!) It’s about how I do history and what I find out It’s accessible and at times entertaining Very happy to repeat it for a more public and broader audience. If anyone interested get in touch

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I’ve said it once, I’ll say it again. Ignore the haters, London is the 🐐

Most of the Telegraph's columnists these days are a little too, how shall I put it, savoury for my liking, but Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is consistently worth reading. This piece on China and fusion energy is great www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/e3464a3...

Privileged to have written Dickie Bird’s obituary for The Guardian. An eccentric innocent treasured by so many. Every time I met him it was an invitation to rediscover my inner child. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...

The rise of the ‘woke right’

How something can be both shocking yet also not surprising in the least www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Chris Wilder 1, Artificial Intelligence 0. Maybe he is a man for our times after all www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Very interesting revelation in @kitty-donaldson.bsky.social's evening newsletter: Andrew Gwynne, one of the MPs rumoured to be thinking of standing down to make way for Andy Burnham, has applied to the Commons authorities to retire on medical grounds.

Another very strange thing about this pic is that the keeper isn't wearing gloves

The 49ers-led syndicate of rich folk who own Leeds United had a whip-round this summer to raise £120m for players/home improvements. To persuade everyone to chip in, the 49ers made a 50-slide pitch deck that set out their grand vision. One found its way to me. www.nytimes.com/athletic/658...

I’ve heard he’s a genius musician but also a bit of a mug

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Holiday snap of sign on Suffolk church door. Can’t help thinking it would have been fine if it had just ended with the word “church”

Incredible gallery of Martin Parr's near-70 years of photographing the mundane and turning it into art www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

London's mudlarks at war: feuds, fights and slurs on the shoreline. It's a Bank Holiday so for one day only, I'm making this brilliant piece by @susborne.bsky.social free to read. There's also an experimental one day flash sale for the first 25 people! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-mud...

'“Elections are won from the centre” goes the old adage, but increasingly the centre itself has changed as the world becomes not a place of wide-tent compromise, but of irreconcilable differences.' This week's column www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I read a lot of film/TV interviews but this one with @ralphineson.bsky.social (and fine #lufc fan) was one of the most insightful into the life of an actor that I can recall www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

There is optimism in Boston despite the Trump cuts. Steve Rose reporting for Seascape www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters

SCOOP: Evidence growing of “devastating impact” for publishers from "AI summaries". Two studies show big falls in clickthrough - one suggesting falls of up to 80%. Google says the studies are flawed, but publishers say the company refuses to provide solid data. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Watching this thrilling moment of football in individual frames with 10-second intervals courtesy of the ITVX app

In meta-Yorkshire news, ladies in the queue at Barwick post office this morning discussing how much nicer the weather is in West Yorkshire than North Yorkshire #yorkshire

This is the best/worst penalty shootout I've ever seen

Not a huge rugby league fan - this on the other hand ... #lufc

Further evidence, if needed, of the appalling stratification of European club football. Hard to see UEFA doing this had it been a Barcelona, City, Milan for example

A €5.5bn project has transformed Germany's Emscher river -- Europe's dirtiest -- from ‘the sewer of the Ruhr’ to a place where nature is starting to flourish. By Ajit Niranjan www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Also - and surely more to the point - what about an event where fans of literally all other clubs don’t care?

So much respect for Ben Stokes and what he’s done for England cricket, but opting to bat last on this pitch was such a weird call

What could possibly go wrong? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

They won't do it of course, but this is a great idea www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

This deep read from Ed Pilkington of @us.theguardian.com sets out the Trump administration's systematic plunder of America's assets, and it is truly shocking in scope www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Almost feel sorry for McKennie here. Looks like he’s being held at gunpoint #lufc

A capa do The Guardian Weekly

Is this a Telegraph opinion piece template?

Good to see Russia, experts in this matter, weighing in www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

There is at least one survivor from the 242 people who were aboard the crashed Air India plane - Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a British Indian man who had been visiting family in Ahmedabad

Thanks to PR email for this great pitch for a new A24 horror movie (or has it been done already)

Anyone who's inadvertently had a Google search question "answered" by Gemini won't be at all surprised by this www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It’s the largest city in western Europe without a mass transit system, but could Leeds finally get a tram system? (and why not to hold your breath) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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So far so good for #lufc. Harsh points deduction for Fulham though

Ukraine must urgently be given the €300bn of frozen Russian assets | Phillip Inman

Holiday romance?

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I saw this commercial too and yes it is insane. If you’re cooking pasta sauce and mess it up you can bake tomato cookies instead. Literally the message.

Congratulations #Sunderland, commiserations #bskyblades. Playoffs are brutal … just glad #lufc not involved this year

What an extraordinary piece by my Guardian colleague @archiebland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...