This is a terrific post from @naomialderman.bsky.social - with genuinely helpful advice

From the brilliant “Get In” by @patrickmaguire.bsky.social & @gabrielpogrund.bsky.social This, surely, has been part of the Starmer project’s problem from the start… A man who doesn’t think of himself as a politician is actually PM.

I’m happy to have written this piece - I think every media org should be focussing on a sense of belonging and making their subscribers/members feel part of something

Thanks @adamwagner1.bsky.social for this excellent articulation of how so many of us feel Recently someone told me they were sorry the “last few weeks” had been “so hard” for my community. But it’s not just the last weeks. It’s been years of othering & one-sidedness open.substack.com/pub/adamwagn...

Great letter in @thetimes.com

This is a very good piece. The framing has been inaccurate, distracting, and even dangerous. The event was humanitarian and the murderer knew only that Jews were there

Late to this obituary of the remarkable Andrew Norfolk, a brave and principled journalist - one of the best. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

You shouldn't need to know this to condemn it, but this is the context of the event where the shooting took place. (www.bbc.com/news/article...)

@damejulie.bsky.social waiting for your Spurs wisdom today!

Cannot believe it. And Ange gets a trophy in his second season… #winners #coys

Very cool to see a visitors’ book at the gorgeous Chirk Castle signed by Venetia Montague - also known as Venetia Stanley - “star” of the brilliant Precipice by @robertharrishome.bsky.social (yes, she appears to have visited with Clementine Churchill, wife of Winston…)

I’ll take it! #COYS

Lovely, moving letter in @thetimes.com #VEDay

Matt nails it (again) #Reform #elections

Very sad to hear about the death of Mike Peters of The Alarm. I still love his songs (68 Guns, Strength, The Stand, Rain in the Summertime…) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Great evening listening to @steveperryman.bsky.social a terrific speaker, talk about Spurs past & present. He explained the importance of a “real” captain among other things, sadly saying we don’t have one at Spurs these days. Def not a fan of Levy or Sugar! I even won a prize in the raffle…#COYS

There is only one Martin Wolf, the FT’s chief economics commentator. So why can’t (won’t?) Meta stop deepfakes of him? Read his column and weep! on.ft.com/42ukJTb

I have lit a candle for Syunya Toibis, murdered for being Jewish, aged only 5. And, as always, I think of my father’s family who were also killed in the Holocaust - my great-grandparents, great aunt and uncle, and their young son, Leon. #yellowcandle

Why didn’t we have any Olympic and world champions at my kids’ sports days? Great video of the great Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce ensuring her 7 year old son can hold his head up high youtu.be/Qi-dvVe12Es?...

The arson suspect wanted to kill Gov. Shapiro for what he “wants to do to the Palestinian people." So… he wanted to kill a Jewish governor because he wants peace and self-determination for Palestinians? huh?

Bloody hell

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Just cheering myself up with this stat

This piece by Sean O’Neill is excellent, and so moving. I clearly remember when Jean Charles de Menezes, an entirely innocent man, was killed - and the lies told in the aftermath. A must-read in @thetimes.com www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Excitedly waiting for the Liz Truss response where blame for all this could range from an “anti-growth coalition” and the “economic establishment” to the London elite (NY elite?) and dinner-party circuit, woke culture and of course the @financialtimes.com …

Wow - our White House Watch newsletter, a brilliant, authoritative, non-partisan email, written by Steff Chavez and @emilygoldberg.bsky.official has won best newsletter in the Americas at the Wan Ifra awards. 🎉🎉🎉 wan-ifra.org/events/digit...

I have never seen anything like this in my life. Politics and international trade as game show leaderboard…

To see a member of a (once) friendly government talk like this about a hugely respected journalist is actually horrifying.

2025 - not exactly what we might have expected.

This name is just too perfect - sounds like someone from a Monty Python sketch (it’s from a building in Rochester)

The rewriting of history and dismissal of the achievements of so many people, is truly frightening

Liverpool have had such a Spursy week…

The political is always personal - there are (horribly) going to be many stories like this, I fear.

I see that the public have solved philosophy…

This is the content I’m here for…

Fascinating article about Hollywood actress Merle Oberon, who hid her real background - free to read www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/a...

words I never imagined writing in my lifetime..... General Sir Richard Shirreff, the former Nato deputy supreme allied commander in Europe, has told Times Radio: "I think we have to assume, after the events of the last 10 days, that we cannot in any way count on America as an ally"

Need to be cheered up a bit (as we all do)? Do book for The Producers, which is transferring to the West End. It's brilliant, hilarious & the cast, esp @marcantolin.bsky.social Andy Nyman & Joanna Woodward are great. (What would @officialmelbrooks.bsky.social think of this content warning though?)

Please - no articles about why people should wear suits (wearing particular clothes does not make you more knowledgeable, or indeed right about foreign affairs)

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People still have…principles??

Keen to find out just exactly what opinion pages which are only about supporting "Defending personal liberties and free markets" will cover, and how far the opinion will range....

Thank you @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social @theatlantic.com. I'm amazed not to have read more on the propaganda & degeneracy behind all this. And I think many people/organisations have been played As you say: "It requires a suspension of belief in humanity." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Yes, this appears to be real - paving over the White House rose garden… www.nytimes.com/2025/02/14/u...

Have to keep telling myself not to be shocked about anything for the next four years…

My and Adam Rose’s op ed in todays Times www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Surprisingly strong performance from Richard II here…

This, from @yair-rosenberg.bsky.social @theatlantic.com is good, thoughtful and more interesting than most of what I've read on this today "Nobody Wants Gaz-a-Lago" www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

Oh no, one of my top newsletters, Peter Coy @nytopinion.nytimes.com is shuttering. That’s him & @pkrugman.bsky.social gone. His newsletter was always insightful - now he’s also off to Substack. Looking forward to seeing what the NYT does next messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/dynamic/rend...