Genuinely I feel like I'm going mad. I know that a vanishingly small number of Labour ministers making decisions about the private sector have actually worked in it, but I thought that was a bug, not a feature!

I had thought that the secretary of state's studied lack of interest in the facts before opining about the culture brief was just a prolonged sulk. But it is *actually* that the government thinks you get better culture policy when the minister is completely uninterested.

Seems “e-bikes” are joining “flat screen TVs” and “smart phones” on the Big List Of British Prejudices beloved of the know-nothings that infest all political parties.

Yep, every day in DC some low-level Federal employee is declining to take a cookie from a buffet at an event because it isn't clear who paid for it. And then, at the top...

honestly i really don't like that there really is a cabal of elite wealthy pedophiles. i would very much prefer if that wasn't true.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone

There is something about "I shot a man in Waitrose just to watch him die" that has never stopped amusing me

I hope they don't look at my profile

@bmj.com has issued an expression of concern for a paper claiming stem cell therapy can reduce the risk of heart failure. The move comes after sleuths and scientists critiqued the “complete mismatch” between the study data and the article itself.

So there’s one aspect of the BBC story that has received zero attention: Robbie Gibb’s potential financial conflict of interests. According to @arusbridger.bsky.social, he was just the bagman for the purchase of the Jewish Chronicle. 1/ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand

Global elites over multiple years for some reason

🎶 You will always find him in the kitchen (*) at parties (*) with girls in bikinis

probably something an innocent man would do

So anyway Tesla being outsold by one model by one competitor in China is probably why he’s moving on to robot and AI grifts

If you didn't authorise your aides to attack members of your Cabinet but you take no action when they did, you did authorise it.

DO NOT REPEAT THIS INSIGHT

the Thames Barrier (protects London from flooding) was recommended for replacement in 2013 due to climate change raising river levels much faster than expected and currently the Bodies Are Arguing about it but as somebody who used to live just east of it on the riverfront, there is a reason we moved

This is a lie. Trump and Epstein's falling out had *nothing* to do with Epstein being a "creep." That was, after all, why they were friends in the first place. It was over a real estate deal. Epstein outbid Trump on a Florida property Donald had told Epstein he wanted. Acrimony ensued.

So on Epstein, the Democratic position should be "Trump should resign." If you are a Democratic elected, practice saying "We demand the president's resignation" in front of a mirror as many times as it takes until the dry-heaving that comes from having a phobia about actually doing politics passes.

Having an inarticulate man who has never been in a grocery store give an inaccurate speech to people who are in grocery stores all the time that is full of easily disproven lies about how grocery prices are going down isn't a winning "affordability" strategy.

The software has chosen some weird images but I have been there. On BART just west of Berkeley

🦷 DIY dentistry should never be anyone’s only option. Across the country people can’t get an NHS dentist. Children end up in hospital with tooth decay and adults live in pain. NHS dentistry needs urgent funding and reform. It’s time for the Government to fix this gap for good.

It doesn’t matter where you live, or how salient your constituency is. The story is the same. Focus on voters and what they want. Put your hex-map of the battle for British politics away. This is not Risk, where you are placing all your troops in Indonesia or Kamatchka to defend at the margin. 16/n

Found the Triangle VTR story again.

"You can't throw us into space," yelled Ford, "we're trying to write a book."

The BBC edit was a stupid thing to do precisely because it gave the right an opportunity to muddy the waters, but I really struggle to see how it actually mischaracterised his position

you know what, I’ll allow it bsky.app/profile/stma...

Durham is built directly on rock. It is built on a large rock above a river. Using rock that they quarried out of the large rock from directly underneath where they built it. I will let you all decide whether or not that counts. View from the west end roof for context

HEADCANON ACCEPTED

Careful how you edit this lads, wouldn't wants to be treating anyone unfairly

Good to see restaurant product developers turning to food cultures that know what they're doing, as opposed to VC-funded, influencer-touted SM darlings whose products taste like obfuscated laboratory-produced sadness.

Penny wise and pound foolish? Greenwich announce selling the Waterfront site rather than develop using either Greenwich Builds or their developer Greenwich Homestart, which could use profit from sales to cross-subsidise affordable homes or services. www.fromthemurkydepths.co.uk/2025/11/12/w...

Sure, are all y’all gonna pay for it? And keep paying for it?

Brother Francis is so firmly supposed to matter and be important, even though he spends the great part of his life on a magnum opus which is based on a misapprehension and dies sadly. He's probably a contender for my favourite character in fiction.

I’m afraid I do think “it’s structural” has become Labour excuse-making. None of our problems are structural - having an anti-intellectual leader with no project is the problem!

Data centres are starting to feel like QE. Completely losing track of the value of money. $50bn is that a little? A lot?

A good example of someone using "economically inactive" to mean "available for work but choosing not to" and forgetting it covers students, early retirees, carers, severely disabled people, parents with very young children etc...

love that the new Epstein emails are basically "just circling back about Trump being a paedophile" and "RE: Trump's nonceness"

Seems like an odd choice for the next regeneration but Russell T Davies does have some radical ideas

Oh my God, there are people in University Parks practising Muggle Quidditch (or whatever it's been renamed to)

Fresh questions, and yet in another sense they are pretty much the same questions

You're right, but it would be a very interesting exercise for the political and media classes to face up to the reasons why Gary Lineker, despite being an excellent broadcaster, successful manager of a podcast network, etc, wouldn't be seen as his generation's Attenborough

Love to give advice to a sex criminal [🎁] www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

Come for me now, sweet basilisk Reduce me to a floppy disk For all the tortures you devise Are merciful compared with this

deadbeat dad to cybertruck driver to chat gpt user pipeline

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