A 34-year-old as a politician: My god he's like a baby. It's like they just elected an infant to be their mayor. A 34-year-old as an athlete: You have to admire the bravery of him attempting that dunk, knowing full well the grim reaper is right behind him.

Why do small children do that thing where they say “Mummmmmy??” and wait for you to ask “…yes?” before they tell you or ask you anything? When does it stop? I just imagined myself doing it with my boss’s name before every question and burst out laughing.

Higgledy piggledy Timothée Chalamet Has a name meriting Endless design Much like his forerunner Benedict Cumberbatch: Hexasyllabically, Easy to rhyme

Infuriatingly cannot find that post that was like, every time a right winger criticises London, Sadiq makes another statement saying that the city is full of bilingual polyamorists

hell yeah

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

also our political anthem is literally called the Internationale! it’s far more reasonable for us to care about NYC than it is for right-wingers to care about Trump

They’re calling it the wolfiest wolf who ever wolved, folks. And the boy, he cries wolf, but nobody comes. Big strong men come to me with tears in their eyes and say “Mister Trump, your last three wolves were chihuahuas.”

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum was groped Tuesday by a man on the street who kissed her neck and touched her chest. “If they do this to the president," she said, "what must happen to all the young women women?" She's calling for new measures to end harassment www.latimes.com/world-nation...

okay this is impressive but also this is more fuel for my belief that there are simply too many states

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

It shouldn't need to be explained to anyone, so soon after the Soldier F verdict, why Irish people might not want to be socially obliged to donate to a charity committed to uncritically commemorating all British wars, including Iraq and Northern Ireland, and financially supporting their veterans.

The interview Charlotte is talking about is a very good example of hypercaution being self-defeating. Labour gain nothing with most voters by not expressing an opinion on Mamdani. The right will attack anyway. What they do, however, is further annoy the engaged activist currently leaning Green.

So much of Labour’s comms is just weird and confusing at this point. Surely it’s really, really easy to decide to offer congratulations/support to a wildly popular left-wing candidate who has just pulled off a historic electoral victory

Not sure what they aspire to here? An Anglican communion made up of *checks notes* Nigeria, Uganda, the Diocese of Sydney, ACNA (although they're already starting to fall out over LGBT+ issues), maybe South America... and Ireland!?

useful thread that hints at one of the big differences between america and the uk - open primaries. a mamdani-like candidate outside would not be selected to be a major party nominee in the uk and would have to run 3rd party or as an independent.

ok i think that's all of them

From 'Politics and the English Language' by George Orwell

How big are these coach and horses that they can be seen from space?

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

And note that he never rejected what some sneeringly refer to as "idpol". Never came close to throwing minorities under the bus. On the contrary. The affordability agenda came hand in hand with him actively standing up for those principles. He could never have mobilised his base like this otherwise.

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

people have completely memory holed this which is a shame because I don't know that I've seen anything like it before or since. Natalie Maines, performing in London, said she was ashamed that George W. Bush was from Texas, and in response she and her bandmates had their lives destroyed

I missed this last week. The new English index of income deprivation includes UC working households who are on low-incomes AFTER HOUSING COSTS. This is a big deal technically & means we now have a hyper local measure of LIVING STANDARDS not just incomes. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

yeah why might it be harder for someone to break 50% in a three-way race versus a two-way race. obviously it has something to do with ideology.

Am struggling with the idea that people like me somehow don't understand the legitimate concerns of people who attended the Tommy Robinson march. I literally had National Front fliers through my letterbox in my childhood in Greater London and I went to school and university with actual fascists.

One of the corner shops near me sells all the usual drinks and then a random selection of international cans and bottles. And it’s always slightly worrying to love one of them in case the supply gets cut off. But the Canadian sprite+tea and the French Liptons watermelon and mint are both 💯

The cool thing about this is it incentives “real” news orgs to write stories with headline keywords that might be found by people googling for more info after being primed by the insanity!

I have been confronted with an ad for Advent calendars and so it is time for the annual PSA: THE TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS BEGIN ON CHRISTMAS THEY ARE NOT ANY OF THE DAYS LEADING UP TO CHRISTMAS THAT IS ADVENT WHICH BEGINS FOUR SUNDAYS BEFORE CHRISTMAS THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.

Good news.

Very pleased to see the Giving Tree back in @waterstones.bsky.social #Norwich. All the tags represent a book choice from one of Norfolk's looked after children and ensures they get a book for Christmas. I didn't have time to browse today so got a voucher for staff to use picking books. #BookSky 📚💙

“This is an extremely serious and troubling case that raises wider concerns about the academic freedom of staff and students at universities across the UK.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

I had no idea it was so hard to get an iron infusion — I was lucky to be given one a few days after my giving birth to my first kid, because I was still in hospital and very anaemic. (It felt almost as rejuvenating as a blood transfusion a year earlier did: it’s magic stuff, truly.)

Well-meaning Americans in my mentions: kindly do not recommend extremely illegal actions that could land people in the UK with a ten year prison sentence

The minimum wage is pegged to median earnings. It is only rising to keep up with higher pay and prices across the economy. It sounds like recruiters need to do that too, rather than blame the wage floor? on.ft.com/4hBPdIK City bosses warn on pay as minimum wage closes in on graduate salaries

Okay so you can escape Making Tax Digital if you are “a practising member of a religious society or order, whose beliefs are incompatible with using digital communications or keeping digital records”. So the question is who wants to start a religion

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Doesn’t the Guardian carry some liabilities for running stories about libel cases that seem, well, libellous

Sharing this a lot tonight - donated items in disaster only make things worse (pretty much without exception and anywhere in the world). There is a long history of this going very wrong particularly after hurricanes www.theguardian.com/books/2023/m...

HALLOWEEN PARTY HOST: what the hell are you wearing ME (pleasantly): A Michael Myers mask

The mystery of “what culture is she interested in?”. She did not go to a single Prom. She has no interest in who actually wins Baftas. She is not interested in the Mercury Prize.

Hi Lisa Nandy! I’m a BAFTA winner from a small town. Instead of asinine questions like this, why not tell us how we can continue to make a living in the eviscerated creative sector over which you notionally preside?

Frankly a crazy amount of editorialising in this write-up.

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

This is disastrous; hospices do such important work, not only to give people a good death, but to provide pain management and other services to people with terminal conditions. The staff in hospices work so, so hard and the fact that these institutions depend on charity to operate is a scandal.