A long and upsetting but illuminating thread (well worth reading but consider headspace)

This is an amazing question and also an amazing answer.

Apparently they were ethically fine when he started working there, and he left when that changed. 🤔

The comments underneath David Gauke's typically sensible piece are the usual racist mess – including a conspiracy theory about Henry Nowak's parents having been cajoled by the government into pretending they weren't angry about his death. They always sink lower than you imagine.

Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social deserves to be widely seen. It's the most clear-eyed take on the tragic events that led to Henry Nowak's death that I've seen. 'What his murder does - and does not - tell us about policing'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Jo...

Very sad news... R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi! www.euronews.com/culture/2026...

Side note: if Andy Burnham becomes PM, he'll be the first one educated at Cambridge since Stanley Baldwin, who matriculated in 1885.

"Pressure on state system" – a system struggling with falling pupil numbers. These people aren't remotely interested in the facts.

This piece by Jack Watling is as good as many of my colleagues are saying it is. And a signal that policymakers in the EU need to start considering how Putin's potential strategic failure could affect Russia's long term trajectory www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukra...

"Before I knew it, he was luring me to a private island with all these promises of real estate deals and then making me have sex with children for his sick pleasure." Ouch. theonion.com/tearful-trum...

The case for Ed being the next prime minister considerably strengthened by this exchange, I'd say.

Again, the elite assumption that the masses are a bunch of racists seething with resentment about not being able to express their racism.

Does anyone know of any other examples of where a video synchs perfectly to other audio, like the This Is America video clip set to Call Me Maybe?

Being a Jew in modern Britain latest British Museum intimidated into cancelling an event about Jews, because Jews. It's not 'regrettable'. If this happened with any other community, it would lead to outrage. But it's just the Jews www.britishmuseum.org/about-us/pre...

radio 3: the miles davis will continue until morale improves

Somehow, Radio 4 seems to have managed to spend all day interviewing people who think that Tony Blair's "intervention" was a refreshing dose of common sense.

Sure hope they collar the culprit soon.

Vilhelm Hammershøi, Dust motes dancing, 1900

"At last we have created the Corporation That Eliminates Middle Managers from classic management text Don't Eliminate the Middle Managers!" www.programmablemutter.com/p/ai-isnt-ma...

UK #Art fans: #BBC4 is repeating Robert Hughes's landmark series "American Visions", last seen in 2001. Highly recommended. First episode: BBC4 Monday 25/05 at 22:00. American Visions, part 1: The Republic of Virtue

And it’s got one of the very best closing lines.

Oh, Merlin. Can I ever trust you again?

Big Bokassa vibes.

Alternatives to work #1: Film4 has This Gun for Hire (Frank Tuttle, 1942) at 11am – the film that brought Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake together. Graham Greene's novel is softened and prettified No!), but it's surprising how well San Francisco works as a substitute for London.

What’s the betting this doesn’t happen by the end of the year? theonion.com/trump-reques...

On the train and just heard someone say “Private property and the capitalist class are the root cause.”

On Vexations, written for today’s performance by Andrew Brixey-Williams in Ealing:

Streeting announces resignation, which is coincidentally the main emotion I'm experiencing.

#Reform has suspended new Sheffield councillor Nathaniel Menday, after further social media posts were uncovered which included a huge photo of a Nazi flag with a swastika on it and a photo of Hitler's Mein Kamf.

As everyone is talking about Labour MP Wes Streeting, a reminder he thinks people cycling only need protecting for 2 hours a day (Mon-Fri). With magic bollards. And if you're a weekend visitor to London, none at all. And insurance, obvs. www.taxi-point.co.uk/post/2019/08...

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".

"The desire not to have an argument means we rarely make an argument."

Headline on Radio 4 news, "Two more ministers have resigned from the Labour Party." FFS.

If only someone had told me this earlier.

My god, I had forgotten how much I loathe Conversations from a Long Marriage.

Excellent archive Andy Kershaw feature on Radio 3 just now (start of a series of four): www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

The Camera Man www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/se... Happy birthday to a gracious correspondent and a loving son

Ultimately, if your inheritance is an A&E department in a state of crisis, which both literally and metaphorically Labour's was, going 'I must do what's popular' is a dead end, because triage is never popular.

@cbuckthorn.bsky.social Just occurred to me that this is right up your street (son of a friend. I'm sure he's marvellous): visit-burystedmunds.co.uk/events/boile...

In case people haven’t spotted it this appears to be an attempt to block the annual Kinder trespass event next year. Screenshots sent to me today by a concerned local who wants to remain anonymous. @righttoroam.bsky.social @jon-moses.bsky.social @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

If you like quite long editions of Play For Today about industrial strife in the north of England in 1970, may I recommend "Leeds United!" by Colin Welland, which is available on Talking Pictures TV's streaming platform, Encore.

My grandson’s class were shown some Basquiat and asked to do their own versions, and he came up with this. NB He’s 6.

Polanski, knockers … this stuff writes itself

Leaflet for local Green candidate leads with “has made collages”. Dangerous populism.

“They [bikes] turn humans into this hyperefficient terrestrial locomotor because they make being on land more like swimming.” The most efficient traveller is you on a bike. #UrbanTruth A classic worth repeating, via Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social. #UrbanScience