Why would someone set themselves out as a weather expert and get something so basic wrong? And why would people follow them? bsky.app/profile/meto...

This is bollocks. It says more about the poster than anybody or anything else.

Mason: "I vow to myself I will never be this far away from a prime minister ever again."

Between this and Tesla’s insane valuation, Musk is primed to incinerate enormous amounts of capital value. If you were an anti-capitalist plotting a way to crater trust in the system, it would genuinely be hard to come up with a more effective mechanism.

You know, this is what is so pathetic about social media. You follow someone because of their political commentary. Then they decide you're interested in what they cook. When you tell them you aren't...

When supply is limited by volume, rents are created. Taxing rents is not economically inefficient. Economics 102.

Fun fact: Paul Weller has (at least) eight children.

Met Police will ask the CPS to consider charging up to 57 people & 20 companies over the Grenfell Tower fire Alleged offences include corporate & gross negligence manslaughter, misconduct in public office & fraud 72 people were killed in the disaster

Seriously, I'm sure this is how these columnists come up with their ideas:

Recent immigration continues to reshape the UK labour market. 15 years ago working-age adults born outside the EU were about 10 percentage points less likely than the UK-born to be in work - a *huge* gap. Now they are significantly *more* likely to have a job.

Repost if you’d like me to represent the UK at #Eurovision 2027.

CNBC TV show footage of the far right march in London They've just about filled Parliament square With barely anyone between Parliament square and Trafalgar square On the cover image, look at the bottom, there's a giant screen, with pretty much no one to watch it

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

So we are starting to see who funded Lord Frost

Examining the impact of California’s Senate Bill 328, the first statewide mandate requiring later school start times for middle and high schools, on adolescent sleep, mental health, and academic outcomes, from Jialu Dou, Rania Gihleb, Osea Giuntella, and Jakub Lonsky www.nber.org/papers/w35184

Alina Burns, found guilty and sentenced to more years in jail than she has been alive, lived, from the age of 7 to 10, in a succession of "temporary" hotel rooms with her teacher parents and siblings. www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-engl...

Trump approval ratings are a great guide to places you do and don’t want to visit (via Morning Consult): 🟤 Georgia: -6 🟤 North Carolina: -8 🟤 Pennsylvania: -9 🟤 Nevada: -9 🟤 Arizona: -11 🟤 Michigan: -14 🟤 Wisconsin: -15 🟤 Texas: -3 🟤 Alaska: -5 🟤 Ohio: -5 🟤 Iowa: -7 🟤 Maine: -17 🟤 New Hampshire: -18

"Why doesn't the US have national health insurance?" Fascinating new paper from Alsan and Neberai out in QJE @qjeharvard.bsky.social finds: rise of private health insurance in the US was enabled by 'strategic, interest group-financed effort to shape citizen views and influence policy' #EconSky

The Lowest winning vote share in the 2026 Local Elections was Tyseley & Hay Mills (Birmingham), won by the Green Party on 20.5% electionmaps.uk/le2026

It is an easy thing to rejoice in the tents of prosperity. Thus could I sing and thus rejoice. But it is not so with me.

In the same month Nigel Farage bought a £1.4mn house in cash - weeks after he got a £5mn gift from Christopher Harborne for his "security" (h/t @alifortescuenews.bsky.social ), Farage put in an app to rebuild his house in New Romney into a modern three-storey home with a basement conversion

This seems significant. When Reform are shown up to be utterly incapable, the old guard might be prepared to work together to do some actual council work.

Just no. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

I used to listen to The Jam as a responsible teenager and say, "that's cool, but it's more complicated than that." Now I'm nearly 60, Paul Weller is nowhere to be seen, and I'm shouting, "Come on, boy. Come on, girl..."

I have likely missed the serious discourse on this. I'm a big fan of Jess Philips, but the technology does not exist to stop children taking naked pictures of themselves. Or, in so far as it does, the technology is "not letting children have cameras".

What's this? Accusations of payments (bribes?) being taken by Johnson and Farage to 'rig' elections? Sounds VERY serious. Can we move on from gossip to look at this REALLY serious story and ensure EVERY LAST DETAIL is fully examined to find out the full truth?

Who'd have thought it.

Am increasingly of the belief that politics in this country would immediately become 15% less shit if the existing crop of lobby hacks were fired into the sun and replaced with, I don't know, goats.

So Starmer's big Europe offer is an ambitious youth experience scheme. That's what he wants to be at the heart of the UK's new relationship with the EU. That's it? Is this a joke?

Jewish people have described their own traumatic experiences of anti-Semitic behaviour by Farage. He has effectively called them liars. By inviting him, the BoD is taking his side. They absolutely would not do the same with anyone on the pro-Palestine left. It is blatant hypocrisy and it stinks.

Even Reform insiders acknowledge that something is being unleashed that they can't control Have spoken to several who say Farage has been able to "hold the line" so far but freely admit they don't know what comes next (albeit without taking responsibility - they point to rising populism globally)

The assumption that the govt wants to win the next election might not be correct. As I wrote here, "the Labour right is behaving as if its incentives are not to win the next election but to get cushy jobs outside politics after it." chrisdillow.substack.com/p/bad-incent...

Prime Minister Péter Magyar inaugural speech: "The psyche of the whole country was poisoned by politics that was artificially inciting hatred. The Hungarian state is not allowed to do anything like this ever again... This era is, once and for all, finished."

In Havering, Reform won 71% of the seats on 36% vote share. In Ealing, Labour won 66% of the seats on 30% of votes. In Westminster, the Tories won 59% of the seats on 35% of the vote. In Sutton, 44% of the vote gave the Lib Dems 93% of the seats. Under FPTP, whoever wins, the voters lose.

Wish You Were Here 1-5: Feels like some sort of expansive symphony full of different moments, and then you realise it only lasts 13 minutes. Dogs: Just another Animals song. Wait. What? 17 minutes? Are you kidding me?

I wonder how many of these 1000 new Reform councillors will still be in position in six weeks' time.

Combining geolocated data on turbines from the US Wind Turbine Database with data on over 120,000 households and consumer purchasing records to assess whether proximity to wind turbines affects mental and physical health from Niklas Rott, Douglas Almond, and Osea Giuntella www.nber.org/papers/w35131

Interesting one. I suspect a lot of Lib Dems held their noses and voted Tory to try and keep Tory-defecting Reformers out.

H/t @kuntieplopkins.bsky.social for alerting me to this “nearby specs“ scanner app Now available both via Google and on the App Store for 🍏 devices Here is the Apple link (given there was a bit of an issue downloading originally) No data collected Get the word out apps.apple.com/gb/app/nearb...

The culinary equivalent of AI slop.

His closest aide sentenced to 10.5 years for spying for the Russians. Failing to disclose £5m donation and how he bought a house in Clacton. A decade of school antisemitism and racism. Cavorting with Neo Nazis and planning mass deportations. What is the media love about Farage?

On August 1, 2025 Trump fired the head of the BLS and claimed that the agency’s data were “rigged.” The rise in uncertainty from this cost is estimated at about $20b in GDP, from @nickbloom.bsky.social, Erica L. Groshen, Duncan Hobbs, and Michael R. Strain www.nber.org/papers/w35135

Any discussion of the normalisation of racism in the UK has to recognise the fact that you can go online anytime and hear people getting paid handsomely to be openly racist.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social and his Policy Exchange cronies in misrepresenting poll results for political reasons shock. I have nothing but contempt for people like Mansfield.

Badge of honour. The boy is a twat, anyway.

When prominent politicians are trading votes for punitive policies , that makes me ashamed of the country I live in.