"sandwich hurler" is up there for me with "aloof wife"

Sky / ITV merger on the cards... ISkyV? SkiTV? What's the betting on how many UK broadcasters are left by the end of the decade. BBC and one/two others?

Which one is more English?

Neither government nor defense requests anything at this time…not even an afternoon snack. So that—and I know you’ve been waiting for it—is a wrap.

It’s the boomer dark web.

Apparently the defence team said that this kind of case was their bread and butter.

Six press releases from the anti-Musk Liberal Democrats in the past week - of perhaps a dozen - are based on (or primarily link to) a post on X. Is that not quite bizarre? Surely they want to be breaking Westminster's addiction to the hate site?

I presume this means they acted as an intermediary, using Treasury funds, not that they took the risk themselves. Not clear.

Got it. Nancy Pelosi is retiring from government because she is being forced out by angry, emerging leftists in the Democratic party. Not because she is 85 fucking years old. This fucking guy.

The Bank of England held rates today. A close call—we think the Bank could have gone further and cut. Inflation should fall, the labour market is cooling, growth is sluggish, and the Budget is likely to remove demand. Some less-noticed nuggets👇#BoE #UKeconomy

She's 85 years old. That might have something to do with retiring.

Oops. Fiscal ‘black hole’ crept in there.

Optimal road pricing is just the technology for self driving cars minus all the stuff that does the self driving. ie a tiny computer telling us where the car is. That's my contribution.

😮 Norway finds out that its electric busses - produced by a Chinese firm - can be remotely controlled from China! The good news of this is that the Norwegians realised this because they did a cybersecurity test. We need to think about, and test, stuff like this more. www.focus.de/panorama/wel...

There's something quite wonderful about X/Twitter's Head of Global Government Affairs saying the company invests "significant resources to improve the enforcement capabilities across the world” *just days after* Elon said that it doesn't "censor people"

Open, transparent government from Reform (or whats left of them) in Kent I see

Oh yes

Great piece, though the ‘ceded the space’ argument could have been challenged explicitly (the challenge is there implicitly- it’s not a level playing field). Also OffCom’s very weak comments could have been rebutted.

There is a political opportunity for a British politician with half a spine

Pretty clear that human-level general intelligence is already here. In humans.

I 'intuitively' feel the opposite. As a journalist and academic I am 'trained' endlessly on other people's content that I don't pay for directly.

Shocked — SHOCKED — to discover that Neom might always have been a pile of baloney. ig.ft.com/saudi-neom-l...

Please can you promise to bail us out because potential lenders think we might not be able to pay them back because perhaps what we build won’t generate the revenues to pay them back but they are wrong, scouts’ honour.

This is really excellent data journalism... Elon Musk has declared war on the British government, it just doesn't realise it.

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.

Another quasi advert silent about the privacy concerns associated with a covert filming technology

All of us who will never actually get elected to anything going 'Excel is so great though!'

How are we ever going to re-normalise the very important and useful lost concept of shame if we deny ourselves pointing and shouting and laughing to denounce the specific individuals expressing and amplifying eminently shameworthy opinions?

Interesting chart in here showing how much more English Premier League teams earn from TV than teams in the other major European leagues. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

This would be extremely interesting if true, but that's a big if www.newscientist.com/article/2503...

And all the rest of you still active over there are keeping it going. Posting your substack? You're keeping X followers happy there. Intervening with your liberal commentary? Laundering the crazy content, convincing X followers that it's a normal platform.

I get that singling people out and dunking can be overly pointed for some purposes, but the alternative is disembodied criticism of some Platonic posted form which sets the reader extra and unnecessary detection work - what is this opinion exactly and who has it and why?

I’ve done my bit and ditched the bitch #exX

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

The day that Twitter peaked for me. And also probably for Bruno.

Sometimes I think I’ve come up with the mad take and yet they always outdo me… bsky.app/profile/toma...

'we can dare to tweet our hope on X'

lmao

My take on today’s tariff arguments at the Supreme Court. Short version: LOL slate.com/news-and-pol...

Someone is probably paid to write these. This would be a fun job.

His country has the levers; sanctions, $ to Ukraine, arms supplies. But obvs Trump does not have the disposition to organize pulling them.

Lots of politics nerds would be amazed how little lots of politicians care about political knowledge.

Can’t believe MainFT beat @theonion.com to this scoop www.ft.com/content/b7f6...

I have no words

Touching or striking requires that the assailant maintain grip on the sandwich through to contact with the target. This was a throw which should be legally distinct.

This really the cracking of speeches: a banger. Worth reading in full.

somehow, woke Gorsuch returned

Has Trump been through a regular airport even once in his life?

If I were a billionaire president with terrible taste I would decorate the Oval Office with opals and quietly change all the stationary to The Opal Office just to mess with people

Haha, dude is writing checks he can't cash