"There is an old saying in politics: if you want loyalty, get a dog. The trouble for Kristi Noem is that she infamously shot hers as a 14-month-old puppy after failing to train it properly. So, freshly fired by Donald Trump, she has absolutely nowhere left to turn." inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

It’s obviously not his fault but he has the least cool voice ever before heard in human history

Children are writing about capybaras more than ever, according to Oxford University Press. The annual Children's Language report is compiled from 500-word stories sent into the BBC. 'Book', 'comic' and 'novel' all appear more than in 2015, while 'Kindle' is down 77%. corp.oup.com/feature/oxfo...

Utterly, utterly stupid US administration

I really loved this short clip. Going to go and read some poetry now

Completely mad proposal from the Commons to hide the names of MPs staff who have parliamentary passes which could prove invaluable to vested interests looking to buy access to Westminster. Staff members taking hospitality + freebies would no longer be identified.

There's an impact assessment of the visa break published alongside the rules. It's estimated to reduce the number of asylum claims over the next 18 months by 1,400. Given over 100,000 claimed asylum last year, barely changes the system challenges, while having a high impact on individuals

Trying to think what the longest “storm” has been? Iran’s nearly fifty years, Myanmar depends on your ethnicity, not sure how you’d deal with Somalia

Why do these photos of Vance and Dolan have identical photoshopped hands on them?

Free day place for a student at the theology libraries conference. If you want it I thunk it's there for the taking (sudden readvertisement 20 days before conference suggests lack of applications...)

Not sure I can put this poster up at youth club tomorrow

Just finished reading the updated Nairobi-Cairo proposals on the future structure of the Anglican Communion and I loved the reminder of these words of Michael Ramsey's: www.anglicancommunion.org/media/546289...

Not World Book Day, but any excuse to share this Platinum Jubilee post from the DfE official Twitter account:

A cartoon reminder that tomorrow is World Book Day (In the UK anyway). Originally for the @theguardian.com

“He’s the best political strategist Liz Kendall has ever worked with”

Tonight I’m very grateful to work with colleagues who pray for me. Really makes a difference.

Let us return to invitations specifying “Undress but with swords, on account of the Revolution.”

All of this Trump induced chaos presents another glorious opportunity for the government to finally break any fiction of their election pledge and raise income tax to fund the overdue and critical reforms in last year's Defence Review. They won't.

Deeply sorry to hear of the death of Bishop Andrew, Bishop of Guildford. Anyone who knew him even briefly would have seen his kindness and his optimism. More than once he reminded me, when I needed it, to have faith that God is good. May he rest in peace, and rise in glory.

I do love a ghost gable like this found near Ancoats in Manchester - but it's rarer still to find the intangible signs of the puff of smoke from the chimney...

America is so Athenian it genuinely hurts

Not sure about Nintendo’s latest venture

discovered this week that the bishop hadn't come across gonks before. Now on the look-out for a gonk wearing a mitre

I don’t think we bewail enough, these days. Gotta up those bewailing numbers; those are rookie numbers.

Seeing a lot fewer posts using the words “war crimes” that I was expecting

It makes sense that, if your administration’s entire underlying ideology is the Führerprinzip, you would think killing the Supreme Leader of another country would result in that country’s regime instantly collapsing. But you would be wrong.

Great to see the RC bishops in the US getting involved

Caught me on the counter (It wasn't me) Saw me bangin' on the sofa (It wasn't me) Even had her in the shower (It wasn't me) Even caught me on camera (It wasn't me) Saw the marks on my shoulder (It wasn't me) Heard the words that I told her (It wasn't me)

The more I hear about inverse proportion, the less I like it.

"I'm gonna mix the teams up a bit. Tommy, you'll go over to Advance. And Rupert, can you move over to Restore..."

Matt “The Reform Party Does Not Have The Answer To Britain’s Problems” Goodwin

Hannah Spencer walking into Westminster, sucking her teeth, tutting, and muttering "tell you what, you've had some cowboys in here."

Well, yes, but it’s important to remember where they got their names. Gorton is the term for ocean debris purposefully thrown overboard by sailors to lighten their load and denton is the term for ocean debris not intentionally thrown overboard, for example in a shipwreck

Labour: no one’s as self-aware as us

Great to see my old history teacher, now a priest, featured in this article. Who knew Mr Crook could not only teach the Norman Conquest speaking English but also grow a congregation of a hundred speaking Cantonese

And lo, it came to pass

It’s mutated a lot! Would be a suitable subject for @originstorypodcast.bsky.social - I certainly now regard it as a) basing its energy on excluding Muslims, which won’t have been the case in 1930s; b) denying the history of Christian antisemitism; c) rhetorically conscripting Jews.

Ah, but what about the judges not in this country

the lyndon b johnson campaign’s “in your guts you know he’s nuts” response to barry goldwater’s “in your heart you know he’s right” in the 1964 presidential election. all timer imo

So apparently one of these is 'salt of the earth, tells it like it is, speaks to the masses' and the other is not.

very cute

I feel seen

These MPs brains are getting cooked on Twitter/X

PAPA LEONE YES

Everyone in Ely is clearly having behaving very normally www.elystandard.co.uk/news/2585975...

Smoot-Hawley? Will it work?

The penguins have their revenge.

An amusing headline/poll when you remember the most straightforward way for him to do so is "become a Roman Catholic"