If you want to read Peter Mandelson's full pitch for a job to the billionaire CEO of Glencore, Ivan Glasenberg, it's here. It'll make you feel better about all the cover letters you've written over the years for jobs you didn't get.

INBOX: Washington Post Ukraine Correspondent Lizzie Johnson announces that she has been laid off in the middle of a below-freezing war zone without power, heat, or running water.

My dear friend Nader alerted me to two Iranian members of the Arsenal family, Aref Jafarzadeh and Amir Housein, who were killed while seeking freedom in Iran. We remember them. ❤️

Fascinating new report on EU dependency on China, Turkey, chile, even Russia for critical minerals Exposes gulf between political rhetoric and facts on ground. Not mining, not refining enough . Will take 20 years to open some mines. - european court of auditors www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Two things to learn from this. 1. The rightwing newspapers are lobby groups whose purpose is to advance the class interest of their proprietors. 2. Lobbyists for the rich and powerful lose their jobs if they are not prepared to lie. www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

"Evil sets in motion enormous forces - but only in vain, as it prepares fertile ground for unexpected goodness to sprout.” JRR Tolkien We can but hope.

China’s President Xi Jinping has purged almost the entire Central Military Commission that oversees the PLA. Hard to believe this is only about corruption. www.ft.com/content/a065...

going to use "at my most enigmatic and expansive" to describe the next time I have a few too many wines

This counteroffensive in the northeast, which is ongoing, amounts to one of Kyiv’s few concrete battlefield successes of the past year, and proves—the troops say—that Ukraine’s military, when properly armed and organized, can still push Russian forces back. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

we read to save ourselves

Caesar III (1998)

Lighting 115 candles tonight. 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ 🕯️ #Arsenal 🔴⚪

Semenyo and Guehi… in January… is absurd. All while being investigated for financial breaches and not cooperating with the league. Really a stain on the competition.

Stages in Picasso’s depiction of a bull, with progressively increasing degrees of simplicity and abstraction (from ‘Bull’, lithograph, 1945/6)

If I were Arsenal (or an Arsenal men's player) and one of our women's players had a GoFundMe up for their mother's cancer treatment, and the total sum needed was the equivalent of, like, 3 days wages for a top men's player, I would just make sure it was covered.

Iran is facing the most serious and wide-ranging unrest in years. Over the past ten days, demonstrations have spread from Tehran’s Grand Bazaar to cities and towns across all 31 provinces - and they continue to grow in scale and intensity 1/5

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Bukayo Saka agrees new + improved 5yr contract at Arsenal. 24yo England int’l currently at #AFC until June 2027; fresh terms to summer 2031 in process of being finalised. Deal to recognise winger’s standing among Europe’s best 🚨 @theathleticfc.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/athletic/625...

The use of the Oreshnik was a predictably weak Russian gambit and it is easily explained. Russians are absolutely desperate. The situation for them is getting out of control, across the globe. Their allies and their power are disappearing on a huge scale.

Every country needs to be following Finland's lead here. Media literary skills are going to be crucially important in the age of AI, where knowing what's real and what's not is going to be increasingly difficult apnews.com/article/fake...

This is what happens when you recklessly extend BRICS right up to America’s borders and ignore America’s legitimate security concerns.

Great powers have always, to some extent, written the rules for themselves. But this should be a reminder that for all we might lament the “rules based order”, it’s largely gone, if it ever existed. Hard power is the only thing which matters now. Europe needs to wake up to the new realities.

🧵1/12: Russia’s economy hasn’t collapsed, but it is suffering immensely. It still runs, but only because the central bank keeps it alive with constant REPO liquidity. What was once emergency support is now the daily operating system. 📷: @evgen-istrebin.bsky.social

Pope Leo is spitting. www.npr.org/2025/10/09/n...

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

Hideaki Anno's Neon Genesis Evangelion started 30 years ago today on Tokyo TV!! 🎵Zankoku na tenshi no you ni Shounen yo shinwa ni nare!🎵 Without a doubt one of the works of fiction that has had the greatest impact on my life, for all the questions and interpretations it raised for me.👌

Gabriel goal... GTFI 👊🏻 #Arsenal 🔴⚪

Gabriel winner, topped up with Garry Neville tears on the commentary... 😂👏🏻🤌🏻 #Arsenal 🔴⚪

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Saka calling out the penalty overturn "It's things like this that always go against us"

There needs to be a word for the sense of futile rage you feel when you are waiting on a very important message and your phone goes and it's some sales email or a notification you could not possibly care less about from an app where you're certain you said you want no notifications whatsoever.

Coming as I do from a BBC comedy background, I have a shitload of suggestions for how to make great television programmes more cheaply (such as not budgeting them at $10m+ per episode) none of which anyone is interested in. They don’t want cheaper TV. They want cheaper people.

tfw Andor gets 14 Emmy nominations but none for best lead actor/actress or supporting actor/actress

If all goes to plan over the next few days, Arsenal will have made six first-team signings before the start of their pre-season tour. That has never happened before at #AFC in the 23 years since the current transfer window system was introduced.

Statement from Arsenal Supporters Against Sexual Violence.

Nottingham forest owned by Evangelos Marinakis have signed Igor Jesus, a Brazilian international forward for a fee that’s reported to be just £10m, from Botafogo a team owned by John Textor. That’s all.

first thing that came to mind

⚽️🧨💰Fit and proper person? Profile of Manchester City owner, coddler of warlords and named co-conspirator in US’s ‘largest kleptocracy’ case Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Months long investigation with @declanwalsh.bsky.social Free to read on link below: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/w...

NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

In 5 days, Thomas Partey will no longer be an Arsenal player

If an unnamed Premier League midfielder does leave an unnamed Premier League club, it's because they couldn't agree a contract that suits both parties. I won't forget that and I hope the wider fanbase are louder and more organised if a situation like this ever comes around again.

snarms 🐍💪

Warner Bros Games Montreal seemingly started work on a new Batman: Arkham Knight game with a cool twist, but instead we got...

“We’ll just apologise for that language from the US President Donald Trump” @news.sky.com

Some 100 private jets will fly to Venice for Jeff Bezos' wedding, and I recycle yoghurt cup lids.

i think these professional antivaxxers are literally demonic www.bbc.com/news/article...