Just killed a mosquito on a plane in Seattle that flew down from Fairbanks, Alaska and is on its way to Boston It was full of blood Great exercise in how disease vectors move about quickly

Brexit “…a disappointment”? Finding that someone has eaten the last chocolate digestive is a “disappointment”. Brexit is an unmitigated shitshow.

Semi Finale of the Baltic Cup between Lithuania and Latvia. Beautiful anti-Putin message from both sides! Slava Ukraini!

Israel on Monday hit a petrochemical plant in Iran’s southwest, along with strikes elsewhere on military targets, in a new flare-up of the 100-day-old war between the two countries. trib.al/r3K3CFn

I didn't realise Lewis Goodall's younger brother is American.

60 minutes showed up on my TV. Immediately changed the channel. #CBS #60Minutes 🙄 #Caturday #CatsOfBluesky

For the uninitiated, Mr Hopoate is a former Tongan-Australian rugby league player and trouble magnet who was once banned for 12 matches for sticking his finger up the arses of three opposition players. He claimed he was giving them wedgies. So you can see what the Aussie Daily Telegraph did there.

Datsun 1600 Roadster 1967. - source The Chrome Lot.

I will continue to plant my flag in the "a PM with 3 years and 400 seats isn't going early" hill. Yes, things look set to get worse. I don't see how dealing with a worse context is easier if you've got a hung parl or a narrow majority and backbenchers angry many of their colleagues lost seats.

Politicized incompetence at the hands of Bari Weiss. RIP editorial independence and journalistic integrity at CBS News

"Already the cancer of Reform has spread - deep into the Tory Party, which now refers to 'anti-racism' as a 'dangerous ideology'. What society, worth the name, considers anti-racism to be something to condemn, for pity’s sake?" via The Herald

The Times: 'Critics are likely to seize on Starmer’s earlier refusal to cut the soaring benefits bill to pay for defence spending.' The benefits bill isn't soaring. But presumably if enough people say this, it'll become true? www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a... open.substack.com/pub/rolandmc...

Warsh isn’t even in post The dollar will come under sustained drip drip pressure www.ft.com/content/0567...

Just Jacob Rees-Mogg making excuses for Nigel Farage's words which led to rioting in Southampton after the death of Henry Nowak In which 4 Reform UK councillors were arrested

Voters sour on Trump’s handling of inflation and grocery prices — FT poll

Hardly surprising www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Did you know that the Kilkenny Castle that we see today was not the original fortification on the site? The first version of the castle was an earth and timber motte and bailey, built by Richard de Clare (better known as Strongbow) in c.1173. #Ireland #Medieval #SpéirGhorm

Four percent of the sand on Normandy beaches is shrapnel that has been broken down over the decades into sand-sized chunks. See the smooth sphere? It's shrapnel, sanded down to a smooth, microscopic ball. #WW2 #HISTORY

It is overwhelmingly clear that non-white Brits are much more likely to be stopped, detained, disbelieved and mistreated by the police than whites, yet the BBC has spent the entire week giving oxygen to the far-right fantasy that the complete opposite is the case. Here’s what I think is going on

New post just out: "Race to the bottom" Falling immigration is pushing the right to further extremes as they try to keep the issue in the spotlight. I look at how they're doing it and argue it's a strategy that will ultimately fail. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

By a Finnish journalist on Brexit open.substack.com/pub/nordicle...

Terrific thread this.

"Ted Bundy, much more than a serial killer. 60 Minutes, Sunday, only on CBS!!"

“Hey - what are you up to today?” “I’ve landed some modelling work. They’re taking stock photos of an air stewardess” “That’s great - you’ll be famous!” SEVERAL YEARS LATER: “Oh”

Deripaska selling down his stake <45% in 2019 was fiction Putin associate still controls Aughinish Alumina parent company, Swedish investigators allege www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...

As Aughinish row intensifies

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I'm sure it will come as no surprise to you that the global sea-surface temperature hit yet another new record daily high yesterday. Let's get ready to party like it's 1929!

Bari Weiss just fired the stopwatch.

Tomorrow’s Independent

This is exactly who Nigel Farage is.

PRESIDENT OF UKRAINE VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY offering Putin talks now From a position of strength

Now that I fixed all the mechanical issues with my VW Beetle, I gave it a real nice wash and wax. Still need to fix a couple of spots of rust. Just waiting for the paint to arrive. Also going to paint the rims maybe tomorrow.

Really good thread (and a really good follow also)

This isn't an unreasonable preconception, because criminals (or their family members) don't usually call the police and ask them to attend the scene of the crime they just committed, unless it's to turn themselves in

First, the killer's brother called the police and alleged the victim had committed a crime. He didn't say the victim was injured and denied weapons were involved. This means the police arrive with a preconception of who the victim is and they're not expecting injuries inflicted by a deadly weapon

GMB now pushing the two-tier policing line.

I'm sure this has nothing to do with Farage promising to deregulate crypto and create a national crypto reserve. Those are just the policies the people of Makerfield want.

I feel like I'm going mad: Henry Nowak's killer has been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year minimum. The whole process took less than six months. There were grave errors on the night. But how does this possibly evidence two-tier justice? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

A reminder of what Nigel Farage said following the murder of Sarah Everard by a serving police officer.

Ohio Senate (Fox News) 🔵 Brown (D) 53% 🔴 Husted (R) 45%

2026: Annabel Denham complains there are "too few bobbies on the beat" 2022: Annabel Denham: "The only option remaining is cuts to public expenditure It's hard to complain about the consequences of spending cuts after spending years arguing for them 🤷‍♂️

A 21 year old Telegraph hack called Annabel with a cut glass accent exposing what the Telegraph has become It certainly is no longer a paper of law and order nor one respectful of family units.

CBS - the BBC’s official news partner in America - has fired Scott Pelley. The Beeb’s relationship with CBS is now utterly untenable.

The Oracle cofounder was in sixth place less than a month ago.

💔Heartbreaking… A terrified fawn hid under a car in Kyiv during the shelling. It doesn’t know what missiles are. It only knows fear. Even the animals are living through this war