Most overused expression in social media? I’ll start: “rats in a sack”.

In all this hoohah about SCOTUS affirming the 14th Amendment right to Birthright Citizenship (jus soli), one can see how one might object to people gaming the system to get their child into it. Much like Kemi Badenoch’s mother did back in 1980.

Fox put in charge of chicken coop latest.

I agree - nobody should be allowed to cover their faces* (* Except out of genuine religious faith)

So proud of themselves that they cover their faces entirely to avoid being recognised.

Note that the BBC a) leads with Farage's denial, and b) leaves the ally's criminal conviction out of the headline

“Somehow”? A poor island nation of half a million held two of the world’s most powerful football nations to a draw, and then a third - until extra time, this being the knockouts so there has to be a winner. It was a phenomenal performance and one of the truly uplifting features of the tournament.

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Divine providence…. “Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first send mad”.

I would nominate trump to be remembered for 250 years. Every single school in the USA should teach its students about the cruelty, callousness, corruption, venality and incompetence of his administration, how it came about, and how it can be prevented from ever happening again

I wonder if the Founding Fathers, notably Alexander Hamilton, predicted *that*?

Yep, you got it: trauma surgeons want e-scooters banned - for *everybody* - because some children misuse them and get hurt. I look forward to the same surgeons demanding the banning of cars. They cause much, much greater harm.

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On the whole, I think the question should be “What has America done TO us?”

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I’ll bet a big part of the attraction of this proposal to government is that deliveries currently made in vans or by cycle couriers *on the road* would be replaced by autonomous trolleys *off the road*, thereby freeing up space for very important motorists.

The Times (via Politico): "Christopher Harborne, who has given Reform £15 million and Nigel Farage personally £5 million, owns a jet fuel company that sources from refineries using large volumes of Russian crude oil."

Morning… Take A Breath, photo by Sean O’Riordan, Irish photographer.

I can scarcely believe what I’m hearing from this govt spokesman (Lord Timson) on C4 News - they have to release violent and sexual offenders so they have room to jail violent and sexual offenders! How about not jailing respectable people for exercising their civil right to protest?

It's so depressing, but also so revealing. If Goodwin et al had even a shred of lgic, let alone integrity, they would be lauding this as an example of the integration which, rather than race, is what they pretend to be concerned about.

The graphic shows us that Labour is losing at least twice as many votes to other liberal parties (Greens, then LibDems) than to the right (more to Tories than Reform). So why the fuckity fuck are they so hell-bent on being a pale imitation of Reform?

We should all be able to get around our streets safely and with ease, but for many disabled people pavements are already an obstacle course. That's why we were on BBC Breakfast this morning talking about Living Streets campaign on delivery robots. Find out more: https://pavementoverload.com/

Don't make me tap the sign.

10% to Decathlon and 5% to BA Capital.

[Chutzpah is] "that quality enshrined in a man who, having killed his mother and father, throws himself on the mercy of the court because he is an orphan". (Leo Rosten: “The Joys of Yiddish”). https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15903757/Driver-crashed-Wimbledon-prep-school-court.html

I *knew* I’d seen something like this before! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Court_(Germany)

"These are not the cars of the future." @betterstreetsforbirmingham.org

Again, if Burnham keeps Mahmood at the Home Office, his whole coup will have been pointless.

I met a traveller from an ancient land Who said “two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert….”

Perhaps when the deniers start to take note of their trade journal and see the cost of climate change, they might finally resolve to do something about it.

All the people who are saying it's too expensive to tackle climate change today are the same people who twenty years ago said that climate change wasn't really happening

Hear, hear! www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The record-shattering warmth in Europe in recent days is the most severe heatwave ever recorded in the region and is unequivocally the result of climate change driven by the burning of fossil fuels, according to World Weather Attribution climate scientists

The multimillionaire Nigel Farage rails against climate action, while gliding from one air-conditioned building to another. He knows that he and his ilk will suffer least. But he is prepared to sacrifice everyone else to the demands of his fossil-fuelled funders. So much for "the man of the people".

The “concern” being that you won’t be able to misuse stocks and shares ISAs (intended for investments in, um, stocks and shares) to pile up cash tax free.

My gran has cocktail sausages for when my dog visits. That’s sane.

Well, he always did say he was going to drain the swamp.

These people are certifiably insane.

Eight years ago, about this time in 2018 (June 14-22 to be precise) I was in Iceland cycle touring the East Fjords. I experienced four seasons every day. Well, three - the temperature never got higher than 8°C. I think that was unusual. I just hope this is too, but I’m not confident of that.

So - I assume that means you can now walk into a bank brandishing a firearm?

And standing up to your neck in shit is better than standing on your head in shit.

“In a better state”. Yeah - we can’t staff our hospitals or schools or hotels or restaurants or pubs, or logistics or public transport properly. We’re decimating our GDP. So much winning!

Starmer goes out with a dog whistle on immigration. A premiership bookended by "islands of strangers", and "migration has long been a cause for concern" has been an absolute gift to Reform. Good riddance. Let's hope Burnham's got his head screwed on right. www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Stop pretending that the left has got more extreme. It’s the right.

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It would of course be expecting *far* too much for Danny Finkelstein to accept even the slightest shred of moral accountability...

Like many Oxford Freshers I suspect, I took a look at the Union., and recoiled. It hasn’t really changed, we just didn’t have the same media or use the same terminology in the 1970s.