Great idea, senior Labour figures

Kings and queens.

This is really true for me. It's not that I don't recognize each one, it's that they all blur into one very quickly and it reduces how bad it all seems.

This is a clear description of the situation. I am a pragmatic voter but this is no way for Labour to succeed.

Podman tries quite hard to choose innocuous names, but I did have to look at this one twice.

This is really important to remember. If exactly the same things happened under a democratic president there would be constant self-righteous fury. And I find it hard to express how hypocritical it is.

But. Supposing it was all going to come crashing down, the first two days might look like this.

This is basically equivalent to what Liz Truss did, in that it just makes no sense, but if you're in charge of the biggest economy in the world you might be able to ride it out.

I'm very conscious that this is my job now.

This is great.

I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?

This looks like the best case scenario now.

“Under Donald Trump’s leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will defend your right to offer it in the public square – agree or disagree.” But the AP is banned from the Oval Office for calling the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of Mexico. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...

This is sophistry, finding ways to say indefensible things in plausible ways. Trump doesn't bother, but that's basically all that's left for Republicans. So that's what they do. It seems that Vance rather enjoys it.

Still internalising the Vance Munich speech. A sitting Vice President goes to Europe, barely says a word about the despotic murderous regime which has invaded its neighbour, and instead lectures his allies about freedom of speech. It’d be funny if it weren’t so serious.

I built this! It only helps answer questions that you could already use advanced search for. But it's a neat way to do it.

A summary of the human species. Cartoon from last year - that I felt was a bit underappreciated, so I’m sharing it again :) #earth #humanity #selfdestruction

I always appreciate the clear and no-nonsense live news updates from @andrewsparrowgdn.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

It's hard to argue with this.

I guess the comforting thing is we’ll never have to sit through another stressful US election ever again.

This is fighting the good fight.

I've never named this pattern, but I'm pretty sure I used it in the past week. Always be clear on the simplest representation of your state.

Starmer made several mistakes because he was apparently trying to court this popularity. It might be a good thing that it's gone, it might focus his mind more on doing the best thing instead.

✈️NEW RESEARCH ✈️ We need to fly less to stop climate breakdown. But excessive flying is dominated by the well-off. In Western Europe, the richer you are, the more likely you are to fly three or more times a year. It’s the wealthiest who need to reduce their flying the most.

This is something I've thought about a lot.

Not quite sure which newspaper this is from, but regardless: all of this. Love Sandi Toksvig

Oystercatcher? Or sandpiper?

Unsung heroes: the people who set the clocks on communal microwaves

IBM slide 1979

Just can't stop staring at these two photos from the BBC website ...

There's nothing less executive than a little smiley face flashing up on your hand dryer.

people say snoozefest like it's a bad thing. i would attend a snoozefest, no questions asked. name your price

Elon Musk buys a pub www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl3t...

Blackberries: grow delicious fruit, then defend them with nasty prickles. What's that about? Make your mind up please

Roasting coffee beans. The article I found doesn't mention whether you should have bought them 15 years ago but I guess it is best practice.

I found it quite easy to adapt to oat milk in many cases, but I will never adapt to the utter drivel that they write on the side of the carton

The last raspberries and the first blackberries.