Woohoo! Congratulations to new #F1 champion, Lando Norris. Delighted to see McLaren win both championships whilst playing fair.

I feel like I should be more excited for a 3-wsy #F1 title decider but I'm mostly just nervous it'll end in farce

Study after study shows campaign ads barely move the needle. So where does money’s real power come from? I ranked the five ways money corrupts politics—from least to most corrosive. What I’ve learned from 15 years of tracking political money:

Das Signal, presumably The Signal in other countries, on Netflix is absolutely worth your time. A tightly delivered superbly paced modern day sci-fi thriller. In German, mostly, but you know how to turn on subtitles.

Interesting. We had a lot of fun playing Toon back in the day but I hope they come up with a system more suited to the kind of game it is. The original was way too crunchy for what it was.

Can't help but feel Red Bull are compounding their mistakes again. Rushing Lawson in without even a season in F1 behind him led inevitably to his rushed replacement with Yuki who then missed out on pre-season testing. Now Hadjar gets rushed into Red Bull and Lindblad gets rushed into F1.

The UK isn’t prepared for the next pandemic – and nor are many other countries. kucharski.substack.com/p/we-arent-p...

McLaren's impressive line-up just got stronger. I think it's wild that Fornaroli hasn't got a seat for next year after back-to-back F3 and F2 titles but hopefully he can land a seat in F1 for 2027.

Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇

A fascinating read.

An Italian driver looking like he's going to win back to back F2 and F3 titles? How is it that Fornaroli isn't being talked about for an F1 seat?

I am increasingly convinced that the massive extra tax being raised from graduates is one of the explanations for the dismal performance of the UK economy.

Hey! Some good news :)

Oscar Piastri is set to sign an exclusive sponsorship deal with Viagra for the final two races. A spokesperson for the drug said: “It will be a huge marketing boost if we can resurrect Oscar from his flaccid F1 performance in the second half of this season.”

McLaren seem keen on throwing away the WDC this year, huh? Not at 2007 levels of stupidity yet, but heading in that direction. Keeps thing exciting for the last couple of races, I guess. #F1

Gmail users!! They've turned on AI scraping by default now...Here's how to turn it off. Pass it on!! www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

Know the difference.

Louder for those in the back: data centres are not infrastructure. The primary spending is on GPUs which have a five year life under load and are outdated within two years. Only a small amount of spending is going on the rest. Also: this article was substantially written by AI, wasn't it?

This week is Road Safety Week & a chance to talk about Barbara Castle! Barbara was Transport Minister for three years yet she was able to introduce the Breathalyzer, a proper integrated transport strategy & more! This was done despite fierce opposition. 📸 Photo from the Parliamentary Achieve

Computers I never had: the Acorn A3020 #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

My brother getting called a nerd by Scalzi is a proud moment for the entire family.

Seems like a good thing for politics, even if a disaster for political science. Politicians should be making setting out stalls not mooning focus groups.

Trans people are waiting 25 years to get access to HRT on the NHS: It took me 5 hours! “The whole time I was talking to my GP I couldn’t stop thinking about how my experience was so totally & completely different to that of a trans person. The contrast was impossible to ignore” #TransAwarenessWeek

Anyone who goes to Paris because they want to get good coffee has missed the target by at least a country. But Starbucks is so much worse than that. Every now and then I have a Starbucks because, like Strongbow, I am seemingly incapable of remembering how truly awful it actually is. ...

chatgpt is down, post handmade em dashes

In 2020 Keir Starmer and Alf Dubs urged the then Conservative Government to restore their commitment to family reunion for child refugees, saying there was a “moral argument” to protect desperately vulnerable young people. Five years later Dubs condemns Starmer for doing the complete opposite

Still sticking with my idea that Mahmood was chosen principally because those running the Labour party think they can get away with massively racist policies if they can someone from a minority to front them. Utterly cynical.

In justifying her horrendous, Tommy Robinson pleasing, asylum plans Mahmood claims "while asylum claims fall across Europe, they are rising here". Here's the facts behind that claim. Look at that graph. The UK doesn't take many asylum seekers compared to other countries in Europe. 1/

In 2023 @tom-clark.bsky.social got me to write a chapter for his book on UK poverty about how immigration limbo, which Labour wants more of, makes people destitute. It was the most distressing piece I've ever worked on. We sent a copy to every MP. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/6081...

"The Contracting States shall as far as possible facilitate the assimilation and naturalization of refugees. They shall in particular make every effort to expedite naturalization proceedings and to reduce as far as possible the charges and costs of such proceedings"

We should stop the boats because it's dangerous, and we should stop the scapegoating of immigrants because it's wrong and cruel. Controlled migration is good for the country, helps build our economy and diversity strengthens our communities. (1/6) 🧵

As the racist pandering leadership of the Labour sinks to ever deeper moral lows, these stories about the reality of the evils they are planning become even more important.

The best way to understand what is actually “driving the small boats” is “if something carried a one in a 100 risk of death, would you do it it it gave you ten more years of healthy life?”

Vote for us! We'll do the thing you hate but be sad about it! Except without the being sad about.

The inside details of the Your Party fiasco are just as exciting as the external chaos.

🧪 Reddit user u/ElementreeCr0 asks: Should I be worried about the smell of "offgassing" plastic? Answer: environment.samellman.org/2025/04/envi... If you have a question for me about chemistry or the environment, just ask!

The problem with rule by opinion poll is that the positions that are popular don't form a coherent policy platform. Keeping their tax promises but failing to deliver a better country won't make them popular either but will make the UK worse in the long term.

🧪 ADHD isn’t just a childhood condition. Our major review pulls together genetics, neuroimaging, comorbidities, and treatment data to map what adult ADHD actually looks like : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

If you're looking to fill a gap in your Youtube schedule this Halloween - or indeed, any particular day you come across this post - this might fill it. A 40 minute reading of cosy paranormal adventure 'Argana Zeit Ruins Halloween'. youtu.be/84JGfoduIS4

#Samsung are now on my "never buy" list for appliances despite the fact I've like all the ones they've made so far. This company cannot be trusted not to force this onto other devices as an update.

Right. Hitler's DNA. Brace yourselves for a deluge of misinformation and bad science. I'm in Australia, so do get in touch if you want some expert debunking.

Genuinely proud of where we filled up on our drive to Heathrow today.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

There's no way you can convince me that humans were not meant to cradle a mug of their favorite hot beverage in their hands when they are cold. Pottery must have been invented before humans moved into colder climates, or else no one would have borne the indignity of doing without.

It's genuinely bizarre that, of all things, the BBC is having resignations over how an American politician gets presented. The BBC does now owe impartiality to the Democrats and Republicans.

One of the most precious things about Remembrance is that it sets no political tests. It asks only that we "remember", and that we do so in the silence of our own thoughts. It doesn't dictate what we remember, how we remember or what lessons we draw. That's between ourselves and our conscience.🧵

Delighted to see this from Newnham College.

I wonder if Kendrick would be up for making a diss track about ICE? Something devastating but also catchy. Imagine if those unlovable fucks just got to hear people humming and singing it everywhere they go Imagine years from now it comes on the radio and they feel like shit again

Kemi is trying to single handedly put satirists out of business, isn't she? There can be no other explanation.