Omg poor wales 😭

Private Eye acknowledges the genius of our political commentariat.

This is such a weird thing to say (from the MP, not Sam), and yeah, really indicative of the information environment they are uncritically swimming in.

I appreciate all of these detailed analysis of what’s wrong with the policy, but the crucial thing to keep in mind here is that Donald Trump sincerely, literally does not understand what a tariff is and when that is your starting point, nothing beyond it really matters.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court STRIKES DOWN Trump's "emergency" tariffs. The vote is 6–3. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Simon Case started in September 2020, when - and I've gone back and checked this - Things Weren't Great

Fascinating piece by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com - UK graduate earnings premium is shrinking because the economy is bad and there aren’t enough high paying jobs >> www.ft.com/content/649d... ‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question

Les Wexner's attorney during the House Oversight Committee deposition on Epstein: "I will fucking kill you if you answer another question with more than five words."

Great report by @rhistorer.bsky.social on yet another bit of the state in tatters because of short-termist sensiblism: bsky.app/profile/rhis...

Wow

Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to life in prison for leading insurrection in South Korea www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Just sell it to the Yanks for a quid and tap out at this stage.

Love that he really has been caught here, “oh no. I’m not supposed to be here”

Another drop in London house prices plus the slowest private rent growth in the country according to the ONS. TfL data has passenger journeys down by 4% year on year as of October 25. Given the wider migration picture - doesn’t this all point to London’s population falling?

this is just being british and middle class

Peak Guardian

Jesse Jackson, US civil rights leader, 1941-2026 ft.trib.al/INvlLZ4

This has obviously been written by AI. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f....

Whether it’s ICE, or vaccines, or foreign policy, this administration just has a total disregard for human life or human dignity. Continues to shock me.

A reminder that if you live in England or Wales & were born between 1970-1990 – or even before 1970 – you can help protect your community by getting the MMR vaccine free from your NHS GP now. I did last year. www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...

Nadhim Zahawi thinks London is now unsafe, because the other day a tired-looking man walked past him during the morning rush hour.

www.ft.com/content/8882... Europe needs ‘emergency mindset’ to survive, warns Danish PM

Breaking news: The head of Dubai-based logistics group DP World has left his post after revelations over his ties with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein heaped pressure on the state-backed company to take action. ft.trib.al/4o4KICy

NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

These days if you invented the spinning Jenny they’d throw you in jail

Ah. I always thought they were the same person.

Sanae Takaichi's gamble of a winter election pays off - the LDP (…again) wins Japan's election, with enough seats to govern without its former coalition partners in Komeito. The PM tells Japan's NHK there will be no cabinet reshuffle – i.e. that her party intends to govern alone.

[watching curling] after 1 min: ugh this is dull 10 min: spin on that stone is off 30 mins: three in the house means nothing if your centre guard is ripe for a pick and roll 1 hour: SWEEP BITCH SWEEP

How Epstein propelled investment career of UK power broker Ian Osborne, a onetime PR man and adviser to David Cameron Epstein guided him in setting up Hedosophia (now one of UK’s most important start-up backers) and even appointed him to one of his own investment vehicles www.ft.com/content/8b04...

This quote from a Reform UK councillor sums it up beautifully. Cross-boundary moral outrages, exported online and sold (especially, but not exclusively) to generations that grew up before the internet, are such a central feature of radicalisation today. www.kentonline.co.uk/maidstone/ne...

Wonderful things are happening on X Dot Com

Why is the rugby on? It’s a Thursday?

Trump: "Mike Johnson is a very religious person. He does not hide it. He'll say to me sometimes at lunch, 'Sir, may we pray.' I'll say, 'Excuse me? We're having lunch.'"

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

If there's an Alan Beattie out there from Northern Ireland who's reported a loose manhole cover to the NI Department for Infrastructure, they've emailed me to say they receive a high volume of ironwork related enquiries and unfortunately it is not possible to investigate all enquiries immediately.

Enjoying this story from Iceland where they introduced a pay-per-km road tax in January. One coach driver has been billed for driving 1 million km in January. He would have had to drive 25 times round the world, going at 1300 kmph. www.ruv.is/frettir/innl...

Miss Piggy stuns at ‘The Muppet Show’ premiere.

People tend to assume that obviously The Rich must be coining it, if everything around them is shit Nope! We've just had 20 years without substantive economic growth and everyone is worse off

Goldman Sachs’ top lawyer Kathy Ruemmler sought Jeffrey Epstein’s help to secure a top job at Facebook just months before the sex offender’s arrest, and advised him on how to respond to press coverage of his crimes. ft.trib.al/P3CyJeg

This is insanely de-loo-loo. Some jaw dropping moments in this. apple.news/A2TCvtI7MQ-y...

This is so incredibly grim www.ft.com/content/6a76...

Alistair Darling and the official Treasury were always aware that investment banks had an inside track to Number 10. But the brazen nature of that inside track is rather breath-taking.

“Have you got tickets for Harry?” The Harry I got tickets for:

Not just Andrew, the Norwegian Crown Princess was writing stuff like this to Epstein in 2012 www.nrk.no/norge/kronpr...

Hate hate hate hate this

Google Translate got better and better overtime and had a short window of being brilliant, before getting, one assumes, AI slopified, and coming up with stuff like this - (the word I'd googled was "muchacho")

Kyiv residents share photos and videos on social media showing their freezing apartments and how they are trying to keep warm.

Another well targeted ad, thank you meta

Going back to the other day's conversation, this would be a great opportunity for a skewering, gentle interview, with such questions as "But how does it work?"