The economy was much worst for the middle and upper classes in 1974-1976

wow, I'd assumed they would have not said anything about it

Good morning and happy Thursday to everyone. The United Kingdom just arrested former Prince Andrew. Your turn, America.

On "woke" consumerism:

www.ft.com/content/3c15... Great article

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

The initiative will provide €325 (£283) a week to 2,000 eligible artists based in the Republic of Ireland. This follows a pilot (for which 2,000 artists were randomly selected from 8,000 applicants). ‘The scheme recouped more than its net cost of €72m’ www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Words by me 😁

Interesting factoid - For the first time ever at a snooker ranking event, all four semi-finalists at the World Grand Prix this weekend are from China.

age verification? *This* was my first computer

I have written a piece on the seductiveness of Kraftwerk

In today's Euphemisms news

What the fucking fuck is this fucking weirdness???

Crazy story www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#OtD 4 Feb 1968 a fishing boat from Hull, England, sank, killing all but one of its 19 crew. It sparked a powerful direct action campaign by fishermen's wives which rapidly won health and safety improvements in the industry stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1042...

First time in Paddy O'Sheas for a very long time. Really happy it's still going.

In case anyone hasn’t seen one of the greatest videos of all time m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ue1U...

The end of civilization is nigh

From X’s head of product. Is this the first time someone from Twitter/X confirms it? I thought it was only a theory in the past

Shot and chaser from new Epstein batch

Five years ago. Incredible. Everyone was talking about a Johnson third term and Labour's 'decade in the wilderness'. Only FOUR of that most senior team are now Tory MPs. The BoJo effect.

What are we doing here Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless economist.com/united-state... from The Economist

Is it real? Who cares. The only problem with it is the D+ grade. Generous. Norwegian PM reply to #Trump 😂

Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?

Genuinely the funniest possible panel line-up of all time and it's for a real estate conference in Riyadh

Funny how placing the party above the law tends to generate outcomes like these

All the time.

"somehow these are GENUINELY the words coming OUT OF MY MOUTH." Indeed 😆

The lawless London story propagated by Donald Trump, Nigel Farage and an army of AI social-media personalities is a test case of the ability to impose a manufactured political narrative on an uncompliant reality www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Cartoon 《Human Bait 》 In Minneapolis, ICE arrested a 5-year-old coming home from preschool and tried to use him as human bait.

LOOKS LEGIT

This is wild

Quisling spectator.com/article/euro...

is it 1996? [checks watch]

Those Chinese wind farms are quite well hidden, tbf.

To be fair, Trump is not the first American to complain about not being able to get a piece of ice in Europe.

All this because there is an offshore windfarm near the Trump golf course in Aberdeen

The windmills are starting to turn all over Europe. We will not see them still again in our lifetimes.

Did you know that the first biographical article about a woman on Wikipedia was about Rosa Parks? Her refusal to give up her seat in 1955 sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped end bus segregation in the US. Learn more about her legendary act ➡️ w.wiki/3P

Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42, post the 2nd sentence. "A few days later, Chiang's forces reached Changsha, the bustling capital of Hunan, set amongst rice fields in the middle of a fertile valley, and took the city without firing a shot."

My Pink Floyd book, now in paperback

I remain awestruck that you can be chief WH correspondent of the New York Times while apparently accepting the version of history that you were taught in grade school in the 1970’s

There should be a rule that if you are a Known Sports Poster you can say things like “holy fucking shit” with zero context but if you are primarily a Known Politics Poster that gets you like a two day ban

Here is the full text of Carney's speech. Very much worth reading. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...

Gossip from the making of the first Superman film, from Michael Palin's diaries

Kemi Badenoch tells the BBC's Matt Chorley that if she were prime minister, Donald Trump would simply not be like this.

Gangsters