Donald Trump's Pentagon is going to buy millions of dollars of drones from Donald Trump's sons. But *do* go on more about the corruption of Joe and Hunter Biden.

Well this hasn't aged very well. It can be added to the extensive list of Johnson's crap judgement calls

A step forward. But it's still a wishlist of what the UK wants. Tradeoffs have to be faced up to but govt has to admit that if loss of sovereignty means having a say at the table where big decisions are made, it's not really a tradeoff - the lesson of Cameron's Competences Review.

NBC News reported today on allegations that while functioning as DHS Sec. Kristi Noem's top aide, Corey Lewandowksi sought kickbacks from contractors he helped get DHS business. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... The article includes this extraordinary section involving DHS contractor Salus Worldwide.

Nobody would bemore delighted to see more EU-UK rapprochement than me, but I am simply exhausted by the way in which such a major decision is entirely framed in terms of what is politically expedient in Westminster. How about pursuing goals because you think they are right?

‘We need to think much bigger’: trade minister calls for greater ambition in UK-EU reset

Sanchez is right. The data tells us Brexit was a colossal act of self harm.

New piece. The US campaign against Iran has revealed one major story which people are not acknowledging. For reasons of both internal US weakness and technological development, the US is showing it has almost no chance in a war against China in the Western Pacific. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Very well said

Arturo Ui is up to his old tricks!

the Norwegian campaign against enshittification is pretty great tbf vimeo.com/1168468796

The US “social safety net” wasn’t designed just as emergency aid. Under FDR’s New Deal, it was a power-balancing project meant to give ordinary people the economic freedom needed for democracy to function. Our new paper from Jamie Keene explains why we’ve lost that vision and how to rebuild it. 🧵

Migration makes for political deflection and migrants an easy scapegoat, but most "concerns" around immigration are flat out false and driven by hostile rhetoric. Reality is, on a day to day basis, people are more worried about how they'll get through to the next payday. news.sky.com/story/manufa...

Sadiq Khan urges Labour to campaign on rejoining EU at next election Mayor of London says returning to EU now more desirable because of economic instability caused by Donald Trump www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Hundreds of thousands of Muslims fought in the world wars. The armies that fought+won the second world war against fascism had an ethnic + faith mix that matches the Britain of 2025 more than that of 1939-45, so arrival of Windrush is the story of black RAF servicemen returning to Britain in 1948

Now he doesn't even know he's president...?

A scientist who worked in the ER during COVID, here since he was 8, no criminal record, on his way to his newborn in the NICU—grabbed by ICE and still being held

This is the conservative pitch to most Americans: Sure, you might be suffering as a result of our policies, but other people -- people who are different from you, people you don't like -- they're suffering a lot more than you, so it all works out.

Have you called your Senators and Reps about the SAVE act, which should be called the Stop All Voting Everywhere act since it is a step in that direction?

Dripping with the right kind of “populism” Keep’m coming...

I'm in #RejoinEU ❤️ 🇪🇺

Yes it’s the handling of Brexit that’s the problem, sure

Really worth listening to @sarahoconnorft.ft.com & @jburnmurdoch.ft.com on AI, productivity, and jobs on @soumayakeynes.ft.com The Economics Show @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/e36c...

Email etiquette, a timeline 2015: Scrupulously edit all emails, FULL punctuation 2017: Don't use too many exclamation marks! People will think you are a small girl! 2021: Occasionally leave out full-stops as a power move 2026: One typo per email to show an AI didn't write it

BBC 'motion to dismiss👇destroys Trump's case (and the credibility of his Tory and RefUK supporters). www.scribd.com/document/101...

Another stunning victory for Blue Labour.

Confirmation that Israeli government will do all it can to stop a ceasefire/negotiations .... giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

"The EU isn't doing reset negotiations with us to do us any favours. It's doing reset negotiations to get what it wants... And one of the things they want is greater mobility for young people." 🎙️ @anandmenon.bsky.social was on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social to discuss the UK-EU reset

It's good to a see a Labour Mayor talking serious about our relationship with Europe. If this Government is serious about growth, joining the single market and customs union needs to be on the table. Show your support for the single market by signing our petition: link below.

The special relationship doesn't exist. Our fantasy about it deprives us of our dignity. But we can once reacquire our national pride if we make hard decisions about our future. inews.co.uk/opinion/brit...

They said it would take 193 years to clean London’s air. We did it in nine. 💨 London has now met legal limits for nitrogen dioxide air pollution.

Currently the Israelis are systematically killing off anyone the Trump administration could reach out to for a deal that ends this quickly

Sure. The marginal cost must be less than the average direct (departmental) cost, which is in turn less than the average cost including central overheads. Each extra student, home or away, at £9K must more than cover their marginal cost.

Grotesquely evil people

Keep standing up to Trump’s ongoing attacks on the First Amendment. Keep pressuring media outlets and corporations to protect the free press. Collectively, WE have power. Giving in to tyranny only invites more of it.

"clarity"

How about we not put young fools in charge of big decisions?

Today, on the 58th anniversary of the My Lai Massacre, people will post about Calley or Thompson or draw frivolous comparisons that illuminate nothing. No-one will get the number of dead right, and no-one will name any of the victims. My Lai has been reduced to an empty metaphor...

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

Warning a defensive alliance that it faces a “very bad future” if it doesn’t convert itself into an offensive alliance is not terribly compelling.

Israeli police kill two young Palestinian boys and their parents in West Bank

so for me the oddest part of the process, when those red flags were raised by the (adequate looking) due diligence was that Starmer did not ask the Cabinet Secretary to quiz Mandelson but left it to friendly political aides. His duff choice of process which he should have been warned about.

When a president’s anger and a regulator’s power collide, the First Amendment stops being theory; suddenly the line between criticism and government intimidation begins to vanish. Subscribe. Comment. Share! therealmichaelcohen.substack.com/p/the-war-on...

I guess marginal costs are most readily seen when it comes to seminars & marking seminar/exam papers (opp'ty costs?) IIRC 'marginality' (made-up word 😉) the increased marginal cost of lecturing to 60 students vs 40, must be close to zero… unless I'm misremembering the concept from 45+ yrs ago. 😬

Oh my God. What an absolute fiasco

This whole administration continues to be an object lesson in the catastrophic folly of letting unserious people have authority over serious things

David Borenstein co-Dir Mr Nobody Against Putin:’BBC is so so important.They came in early for us they took a risk with an extremely risky project+they gave us the resources we needed..if you don’t have people coming in+supporting projects like this early they’re just not going to get made” #Oscars

I've been trying to find data on marginal cost of teaching students. Average costs include grossly inflated admin overheads. Extra EU students at UK rate would probably easily cover direct costs of teaching esp. where there is spare capacity. Financial impact depends on revenue from