Man got on the train to London at Elstree, at about 7am, swigging a can of Stella. I know levels of drinking are overall in decline, but attitudes to public drinking really have changed in the last 30 years.

X owner RTing Lowe, saying millions of people need to leave or should be made to. I don’t think it’s too much of a leap to suggest they mean non-white people.

Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:

Trump's approval rating is in freefall

Good morning!

Big feature today leading @bloomberg.com UK on what reversing Brexit would mean for the economy www.bloomberg.com/news/feature... Brexit may have already cost the British economy between 2% and 4% of GDP, according to Bloomberg analysis released today

ok yes i'm in this post and i don't like it

Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.

This is the thing that Jess Phillips complained hadn't happened in her resignation letter.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

HULK GOOD EMPLOYEE SERVING PUBLIC NOW, WORK FOR SOUTHEASTERN

What happens when energy security is threatened? In the 2020s, it means speeding up deployment of renewables and electric devices. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Every time I'm minded of the Bird and Fortune sketch about the South Sea Bubble. -Was there not a scandal attending investment in tulips in The Netherlands but ninety years ago? -There was but this is not the same case at all. There, you had actual tulips! Here, there is nothing but the shares.

Really tragic news - what a landmark work Persepolis was

@bloomberg.com exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

One of those people you can't imagine not being on TV/Radio

It's an interesting dichotomy to simultaneously call for calm, say violent protest is wrong, and moments later say there is a two-tier policing system and we need to put a stop to it.

My biggest act of middle aged rebellion is removing the UTM link from the end of a URL when sharing it so that the brand won't know where that share originated from.

Almost every day at new job someone says "I know you from Twitter." See, it was all worth it.

NY Times chairman: "Our profession has been too quiet, too passive, and too fragmented in the face of abuses by the companies leading the AI revolution." More in Bloomberg's Tech in Depth newsletter www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

A pedantic point I will not relinquish: Burnham is not the "mayor of Manchester," a city, he is the mayor of Greater Manchester, a city region.

Don't think people realise quite how deeply split by age current voting intention is. This is the latest YouGov for under-50s: Green: 26% Lab: 18% Reform: 14% Tories: 12% LD: 11% And over 50s: Reform: 36% Tory: 22% Lab: 16% LD: 12% Greens: 9%

I have mixed feelings about PMQs but the loyal backbenchers asking different versions of "does the PM agree he's doing a great job" is one of the more perplexing elements of it.

Quite extraordinary statement from such an established figure

"Brexit has made the UK economy smaller than it otherwise would have been. The effect has not been a sudden collapse, but a gradual and cumulative drag on trade, investment and productivity."

Burnham spokesperson tells @alexwickham.bsky.social that he won't call a snap general election if he replaces Keir Starmer as PM www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I learned from @katie0martin.ft.com today that Ask Jeeves / ask.com only shut down _this year_, a distant memory of the dotcom boom. www.ft.com/content/ec83...

Signs of internal divisions in Moscow: Bloomberg says Russia's Finance Ministry and Central Bank privately warned Putin that current defense spending is unsustainable, but the Defense Ministry is demanding more funding, not less. Putin says to start with the nonmilitary spending cuts.

Latest: Iran says it's ending talks with US in protest over Israel's military action in Lebanon. US oil price rising, US treasury notes falling. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... It doesn't feel very relaxing.

See also every major party's focus on "growth" without any serious debate about one of the key economic levers to actually make growth happen

I bought a toothbrush from Amazon. This is a signal that the Amazon algo has never seen a person more desperate to buy a toothbrush since the invention of the web.

Trump on getting a deal with Iran: "Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end." www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Markets: not relaxing... Brent crude up 3.4% to $94.17 a barrel today.

UK faces the everyday real-world consequences of "take back control" on border access and the end of free movement www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Pinch punch first of the month. Gas van no rebounds. IYKYK.

Looking forward (potentially) to another decade of chaos in Westminster politics, as @alexwickham.bsky.social points out: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It does seem an extraordinary expense and hassle to actually go to a major tournament these days www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This is brilliant. Jen’s pieces on Manchester should be required reading for anyone following Burnham’s progress in Makerfield and beyond

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... ‘Bonkers’: the audacious plan for a 1mn-person city near Cambridge Love to see someone putting their passion into motion and making stuff happen @shivmalik.bsky.social

Very good on the winners and losers as the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote approaches (gift link) www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New dystopia just dropped

Quite the timing for this in the context of UK/EU looking to strengthen their own defenses as US support looks uncertain

Russia’s war of aggression has crossed yet another line. A Russian drone incursion struck a densely populated area in Romania, injuring civilians. On EU territory. We stand in full solidarity with Romania and its people.

$200bn difference between SpaceX’s original IPO target and current one, @bloomberg.com reports www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Telegraph, Sun and Mirror hoaxed by AI picture of Thai police in drag pressgazette.co.uk/news/thai-po...

6,000-word essay on why I still haven't read Tony Blair's 5,700 essay because it's too long.

Vermeer’s Girl With The Pearl Earring will be shown in Osaka, later this year, and the press conference was as Japanese as you’d expect #Vermeer

Retailer Currys saw purchases of such products (fans) jump more than 2,700% year-on-year over the latest holiday weekend, while John Lewis Partnership Plc saw an 800% surge, spokespeople for the companies said. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Tony Blair has been more successful than generations of professors in getting people to produce response essays overnight.

On the champions’ league final this weekend and how Orbán won’t be there to preside over a country and national sport he dominated for so long.