If you want to imagine an incredibly bleak future, you'd start by trying to make a country like the UK economically self-suffucient. Amazing thing for someone who was the economics editor of a major newspaper for decades to say.

Europe is a large continent inhabited by many Europeans.

Seeing the Corbyn apology formulation in the wild

We would make a load of money we could invest in renewables though

Personally I would abolish all scarcity and therefore the need for price signals

As many have said, Booths is above everyone else. Sainsbury's is better than Tesco. Co-op can be better than Tesco too depending on location

SLS, NASA's Moon rocket 🌙🚀

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“Ties with Britain are at a low point” I wonder who did that

chat is it good when the economist is making 3-d renders of dollar bills shaped like cockroaches

Man oh man what a story. Just spent 5 mins staring out of a window

Maybe Bluesky will get mad at me for saying this, but this is a bizarre headline because if you actually read the article it says the exact opposite. Please consider reading the whole article before doom-sharing the irresponsible headline.

Nothing has given me greater pride in British (and other) sport in the past few years than the Footy Scran account. The American mind cannot comprehend.

It’s the usual pre-world cup friendly where nobody can be arsed to try

The biggest wasp? Hornet? I’ve ever seen has just flown inside

Like the Russians, it's nice to see that someone still believes in us. Even if it is always our enemies these days.

I think "the welfare state got substantially bigger during this period" should make the claim at least a *little* controversial.

Can't stress enough how basically banning people from renting single family homes (which is the flip side of banning companies from renting them out) is basically economic redline with lefty vibes (only the well off can live in suburbs). Sadly I think that is why it is so popular.

$200/barrel incoming

He is so, *so* whiny

Seeing someone in uproar they have to pay CAD$40 for the new borderlands DLC and like fine if you can't afford it or want to wait for a sale but £22 is really not that bad?

Mamdani isn't even anti-Zionist! Not sure that term is useful for anything anymore.

Thing is, Trump has the foreign policy analysis of a third worldist campist, he just thinks it’s good. NATO is vassalage to the US, Middle East wars are colonial resolve extraction, defence spending is a mafia protection fee

flashbanged against my will once again by the fact americans use the stove to heat up water for tea

I'm not confident this is a good idea

I think this is a faultline that runs throughout the administration: They have no theory of mind, and are completely baffled by any motivation more complicated than immediate material gain.

No it won't!

I guess one way to defuse this is pay Iran a load of money. Well done everyone

On some level you just have to dislike foreigners, per se just not want foreigners around, to get the decision making of various powerful people in this country. I think that's quite a common way to be! But it is entirely alien to me, I think it quite pathetic and contemptible really.

It's giving "Business as usual" in March 2020.

It might be a funny joke but I don’t want war with France

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How should policymakers respond to higher energy costs? My ConHome piece on two unpopular realities - we cannot afford to do much, and that the price mechanism is a useful way to change behaviour. conservativehome.com/2026/03/30/d...

Right-wing anti-immigration points but leftistly

9.1C in a ten kilometer radius would imply that an average data center has a heat and energy density on par with some of your cooler stars, and I dont think thats likely?

saw this story being shared with a snarky comment and I think it’s actually important to take a moment and say: this is outrageous

we are still in LOTO Ed Davey territory apparently. From 5th place in the popular vote.

strange to do it now?

this is actually just the way chris mason talks about politics

I love how Wikipedia's "Did You Know?" box has managed to combine both an insanely banal fact with a Michael Gove jumpscare.

I think this oped by Tony Blair gets key boundaries wrong for sincerity in challenging antisemitism in UK. It goes too far in insisting on agreement with several of his views of Israel/Palestine & war in Gaza conflict as a litmus test for challenging antisemitism institute.global/insights/new...

Zack Polanski explaining why with Kemi Badenoch as leader the Tories can't have a racism problem

“We are facing a real shock…probably beyond what we can imagine at the moment.” Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank, explains why the disruption from the Gulf could last years

My politics is backing woke multicultural DEI because it is the optimal form of capitalism, the only system that functions

Congrats everyone

Greater Manchester Police: We’ve concluded our investigation into alleged ‘family voting’ at last month’s Gorton and Denton by-election, finding no evidence of any intent to influence or refrain any person from voting.

Since Iran choked off the Strait of Hormuz, the focus has been on oil flows. But farmers around the world are starting to panic as the cost of fertiliser — their own form of liquid gold — skyrockets. Is this the start of a global food crisis? Today's Big Read is on #FTEdit 👉 ft.trib.al/CNQWcyJ

One of the ways in which the world seems to have video game design is that you can’t drink seawater to become less thirsty. It’s real “Earth beta v0.3 patch notes: nerfed coastal cities. Infinite water and strong food generation through fishing is too powerful”