Alan carr winning the game and then winning psychologically by forcing the others to forgive him immediately....total superiority

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

gbentl.medium.com/the-doughnut... One of the nice things about writing is it allows you to look back on how things that you found pertinent in years past have changed and I do think this particular type of annoying media commentary has reduced but the actual government is run by doughnut boys

hell yeah

This is such strange syntax

You think you know someone...

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...

In case you missed it yesterday, Britain's main upcoming problem will be that immigration will be far, far too low. Politics may have gone mad, but reality is an unforgiving thing. We need to start encouraging people in and paying them to stay. ukandeu.ac.uk/the-coming-c...

Increasingly convinced that we are living through the decline of mass literacy and cringe as it is, we all need to get into publicly celebrating reading books as much as possible.

One you go fash, you don't come back

Full on police state stuff

Suffolk and Norfolk mayor is going to be really strange as the tories scrapping supplementary vote means there is a good chance of the first green party metro mayor on like 25% of the vote

To browse Leyland is to gaze into the dark heart of Britain.

Its genuinely exhausting for everyone involved that the cycle is 1- BNP style policy gets announced 2- Labour comms say something like well yes but also no.... 3-Labour MPs and others clearly have a freak out about it behind the scenes 4-Labour comes out with a clearer condemnation of said policy

The actual regime that these people are hankering after is Dubai: a small elite of citizens, most immigrants to be transient, insecure and all immigrants to be second-class. In reality they would hate the world they would create and would find ever-more ridiculous scapegoats for their failure.

Hard to overstate how extreme this is. It would allow the government to deport someone at any time after ILR is granted if they claim any state benefit at all (including the state pension), or if their annual income drops below £38,700 for six months before *or after* IDL is granted.

If you go home with someone and they don't have an unfinished state of the nation play script on their desk, don't sleep with them.

The costs of the UK’s Global Talent Visa looks a trifle high in comparison to competitor countries - largely through the Immigration Health Surcharge (which critics say is a form of double taxation as they contribute to the NHS through normal tax on their earnings)

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/at-gails-w... rare good Vittles article

In the hands of the right interviewer that Jenrick "I remember watching Villa in the away end when I was 3" could be a modern day "I drank 14 pints a day". Pity he won't do any tough interviews.

Thottolenghi

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Calling things you agree with a "normie opinion" is the surest sign that you haven't conversed in depth with anyone normal since pre pandemic

British conspiracy theorists: ID cards are the start of NWO Nazism American conspiracy theorists:

Having a cap on numbers as there was under the last labour government could actually be good for the sector but this is obviously fundamentally unserious.

I'm genuinely coming to believe government social media regulation is an urgent public health and order issue

The King's army is theologically fascinating - evangelical protestants but they've recreated an Episcopy, Vestments, and a weird feast day

* in 2025, 50% opposed fracking in the UK, only 25% approved. This has been the case for 5+ years yougov.co.uk/topics/polit... * Liz Truss's premiership was ended partly because she enthusiastically backed fracking and her MP's freaked out when they saw above polling

Traded in some books and got 50p per book except for the highly sought after Capitalist Realism which was worth £2... Makes you think

There never *was* a 50 per cent target, though, there was a one line “it would be good for us to have the same participation rates as the rest of the OECD”, and this is…still true!

These are some of the most extreme restrictions on immigration in years. We're told to see them as benign because they're less bad than Farage's far-right extremism. But they are still terrible.

There are only 41,000 coal miners in the United States. By way of comparison, there are 100,000 **registered** yoga teachers, 361,000 Starbucks baristas and 265,000 faculty and staff members working for the University of California system alone.

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

Ignore the headline, this is one of the best + clearest arguments for immigration I've seen in the English language and its coming from a Spaniard share.google/YBwGLKvlmzg0...

In the future, everyone will run a your party membership portal for 5 minutes

Me when I'm offered a 3rd Jaegerbomb 5 mins after strawpedoeing a purple VK

Deciding to live a more analogue life + reconnect to what really matters. Instead of podcasts, I've got capital FM on most of the day, instead of Amazon, I do big purchases via QVC, and instead of reels/tiktok, I channel surf. Feel so much more relaxed and in touch with the people around me. 🥰

The your party drama all unfolding on X, a platform that no-one even vaguely left wing should be using as a primary communication method anymore, is also pretty damning imo!

One thing that stuck with me from campaigning for remain was the man who said to me 'if it's such a bad idea, why are we having a vote on it' which I didn't really have a good response to. I think a lot of the population still assumes that political leaders act responsibly...

column on why is the far right is obsessed with dubai www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Me when I'm offered a 3rd Jaegerbomb 5 mins after strawpedoeing a purple VK

As much as I think the government deserves huge criticism for its lack of response, it is highly annoying that the vestiges of the left in this country have spent their energies over the past week beefing and coming up with new ways to violate GDPR

Nail. Head.

I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less

Properly grim stuff from Reform, but the lack of proper pushback is even more depressing.