The Guardian also appears to have got its facts wrong - claims the UK is 5th highest for its land size, but it's actually 5th in absolute terms (because it's a big country!) and ranks very low per capita (from the same study, www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decod...)

good www.bbc.com/news/live/cy...

today’s connections has annoyed me

hoo-bloody-rah - more of this please

this is repulsive

imho not enough attention being paid to Ludvig Åberg’e achievement, the only European to win their Ryder Cup singles match

Imagine how bad the US golfers would be playing if they weren't being paid.

oh yes ..

a splendid juxtaposition

i can’t believe i live in a timeline when Jeremy Bowen on Radio 4 Today can say the words: “negotiations have been pretty much frozen since the israelis tried to kill the hamas negotiating team”

good cop: just tell us what you know and we can help through this bad cop: tell us or we'll make it hurt cop who once did a marathon: I once did a marathon

got so annoyed with somebody in a board meeting today that i leapt to my feet and then just stood there looking exasperated thinking “why am i standing up?” … said “fucking hell!” and sat back down again which was cool

ACOG reaffirms that acetaminophen is safe for managing pain and fever during pregnancy. No reputable studies support suggestions like those in HHS’s recent announcement linking acetaminophen use in pregnancy to autism; in fact, high-quality studies show no such risk. https://bit.ly/47Wxc59

Trump is aggressively ignorant. He does not learn, actively resists it, and has surrounded himself with people who enable his stupidity.

so i’m spending 2 weeks in Tasmania in December - any tips?

It is wild to me that we had an entire national freak out about a Presidential candidate's mental acuity, and it *wasn't* about Trump—totally unserious country.

hardly the biggest problem here - but he doesn’t know what the R stands for, does he?

damn he’s good at this

The WGA’s statement on ABC’s decision to pull “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”

Bit strange to hear the Today programme interviewing the CEO of Newsmax like he's a public intellectual, then interviewing a Labour minister like he's a war criminal

TERRORISM EXPERT HERE: He cannot designate an idea as a terrorist group. There is no org called ANTIFA. There is no leadership or funding path or no membership. Also there is no terrorism law in America. Ask Luigi. He wants to call anyone a terrorist. That’s Fascism. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Exciting to see this ancient law, which baffled scholars for centuries, finally being used.

Another example of star bias - the picture chosen by the Spiegel to illustrate Real Madrid's controversial win over Marseille is of an acrobatic volley by Mbappé...which looped up 20 meters high then went out of play.

Rereading some George Orwell, I was struck by this quote: "In England all the boasting and flag-wagging, the 'Rule Britannia' stuff, is done by small minorities. The patriotism of the common people is not vocal or even conscious."

Absolutely !!!insane!!! to me that the UK government, lobby and newspapers litigate at length every minor infraction by the BBC, rival newspapers, or what some random columnist has posted. But all of them just carry on not even commenting about this media owner. He’s not hiding, he’s telling you!

idea for a policy: walking licenses - like driving licenses, but for people who need to learn not to dawdle or stop without warning in busy places

! I've been banging this drum for months Due process is how you determine things like 'is this person a citizen' & 'did they break a law' GOP's insistence that noncitizens & lawbreakers shouldn't get due process is putting the racism-cart before the logic-horse ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

This from @kevverage.bsky.social in the context of Scottish fiscal sustainability is interesting for a much wider set of reasons. E.g I would not have expected the Netherlands to be where they are.

to be like any other normal European country, a fiscally autonomous Scotland would have to significantly increase taxes and/or severely cut public spending - this is the simple truth that much of the SNP’s rhetoric around GERS seems designed to obscure www.these-islands.co.uk/publications...

Using the latest GERS figures, @kevverage.bsky.social compares Scotland’s fiscal position with independent EU countries and argues that a fiscally autonomous Scotland would need to dramatically reduce investment in public services.

i’ve seen some scruffy CalMac ferries in my time, but good lord the Isle of Arran is a disgrace

heading back to Islay for the weekend - if you’ve never had to depend on ferry services, you probably can’t appreciate how disruptive stuff like this is 👇

Fundamentally this latest ScotGov paper is just yet another demonstration that the SNP intends to fight yet another election on issues around independence rather than on their record in health, education, transport, crime and all the other things they have actually been responsible for for 18 years.

"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.

“millions”

These people are in a cult and live inside a batshit alternate reality and are trying to get as many Americans as possible to join them inside it.

I can

Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?” “I’m looking for the obituaries.” “The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.” “Not the one I’m looking for.”

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Scottish Green leadership election numbers …

9/ That outcome is what John Swinney is arguing *for*, whilst claiming it would cut bills in Scotland - a transparently ludicrous position. It’s hard to say whether stupidity or mendacity are driving Swinney’s rhetoric. Either way, he should be ashamed of himself.

you could make it up though, couldn’t you

this is a *fabulous* thread 👇

Fracking is devolved: the @snp.org got some free green cred by "banning" the fracking that was not going to happen. The most frackable rocks in the UK are the Bowland Shale in Lancashire; attempts to frack this were stopped due to the seismic effects. (2/2)

John Swinney’s rhetoric vs reality. The wholesale cost of electricity in the current Ofgem price cap is £85/MWh. Every renewable technology in which Scotland excels costs more than that. Some, like floating offshore wind (ScotWind is mostly floating) and tidal, cost *way* more.

I think this is a very interesting graph, but perhaps i’m too close to it - does it tell an obvious story when it comes to the challenge Scotland would face if required to be fiscally autonomous?

yeah, my mum used to cut my hair - what of it?

Good to see the appalling crypto casino (and Everton FC sponsor) Stake getting some media attention at long last; but it took a live-streamed death on their partner Kick's sick platform for this to happen in France. And in the UK? Nothing.