This deserved more attention.

Here is a poster that hung in my house my entire life, and which my mom gave to me when we moved to CT. The photo in it was taken in downtown Portland in 1978, and the man in it was a bar owner at the time - six years later he became the Mayor. THIS is Portland humor, which is not new!

It amazes me how Heathrow built this huge terminal 5, an unbelievably large and spacious building, and then designed the interior with as many small corridors and bottlenecks as possible. Genuinely an achievement in cursed design.

The BBC just can’t stop wasting licence fee payers’ money.

it's not FOR us

Private Eye nails it

By me this week - the happiest thing I've got to report of late, with a glorious trip over the summer to Montreal "Forget EVs. Cycling is revolutionising transport." www.economist.com/internationa...

I don't order takeaway that often, but there's a definite shrinkflation thing going on with serving sizes, isn't there? Just had ramen, this place are using the same tubs as before but only half filling them. Makes it pretty blatant.

Legal, Corp Comms, Public Policy.

The Sun corrects Katie Lam's numerous errors and lies about foreign nationals claiming benefits. archive.ph/vQ7Tn

Very excited for my flight to California... let's see here... next Sunday. Oh. Good.

French PM Lecornu resigning after 13 hours now makes the Lecornu the shortest length to measure political time. For those of you using old measures this is 1/18 of a Scaramucci or about 1.2% of a Truss

In her lunch with the FT the OnlyFans CEO says her company pays more tax than the entire British fishing industry. Quite a stat.

Reddit trying more algorithmic recommendations has shown me that the subreddit for the Godfather movies is surprisingly active. So many little corners of Reddit where, like, what more is there to say?

Not to make light of the editorial failure, but look how far Twitter lies now permeate in to normal discourse. We think we know about the racism but the utter contempt for truth since Musk bought the platform is deliberate & very dangerous. You can’t foment racism with fact checkers in the building.

This is kinda funny, but imagine if we applied it to men. "Starmer's wearing a dark grey suit! Just like Boris did! Ha!"

comic book authors: we invented the punisher as a cautionary tale about vigilante crime fighting the director of the fbi: at long last, we are implementing the ethos from the classic comic book the punisher

As a little Friday morning treat, I was reminded today of one of the greatest letters ever written: lettersofnote.com/2009/10/28/w... when the spring is upon us...

This one is particularly good. “How dare you call our policies racist, some of our voters may have had parents who fought in the war”

One more

Some good news. London is meeting legal limits for toxic NO2 pollution for the first time – almost 200 years earlier than predicted – following the Mayor’s "world leading air pollution policies," City Hall announces. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone - and similar policies - really do work.

Yes Keir

I really enjoyed this, grab it cheap while you can.

EARTH MUST DIE Featuring a load of my favourite comedians - too many even to fit on the trailer! Joel Fry! Martha Howe-Douglas! @alexhorne.bsky.social! Tamsin Grieg! @5teviem.bsky.social @mrholness.bsky.social! @misterabk.bsky.social! @rosieisaholt.bsky.social! MORE Please RETWEET and WISHLIST

British Airways has no time or patience for your pulp fictions.

Mrs R: "There was a woman on the ward today who didn't want to take paracetamol. We've had to explain that we're not giving it to her because she's got a fever and we want her to feel better, but because she's got a fever and if we don't get her temperature down then her baby is going to die."

Banger of an intro paragraph When I see people write like this about finance, it spurs me to be braver in my own writing. Very very well done @dsquareddigest.bsky.social on.ft.com/47ZzGzI The grimdark future of credit risk models

💯. Progressives have to stop franchising out their consciences to the courts. Politics is about moral choices. The problem with Reform's proposal isn't that "the courts won't allow it". It's that it's grotesque and inhuman. If we're democrats, we must believe that this argument can be won.

Recently slow-cooked a pork joint in orange juice. Kept the juice and just used it as the base for gravy with a roast chicken. It was spectacular.

That I entered the workforce in 2008, just before everything got steadily shitter for nearly two unbroken decades?

HS2's Colne Valley Viaduct, now Britain's longest railway bridge, with elegant 80m arches over the lakes, designed by Grimshaw Architects. They provide the first three pix. Not shown: the 4m noise barriers that I bet didn't stop a single NIMBY complaint, but do now remove any view from the train.

Happy anniversary of my one and only banger of a tweet.

Still think Labour should have started with a massive sweep of reforms like these, while they had the political capital. There's still time, just about.

Nintendo are continuing their devilish practice of making joyful things that millions of people will want to spend money on, I see. The cads.

5 parties on more than 12%, winner gains seat with under 30%. Results like this used to be rare, freak outliers. Now they are routine (there was a second just like this yesterday). Electoral chaos.

- You know what they call a burrito in Paris? - They don't call it a burrito? - No man, they got their own system. They call it a French Taco. - A French Taco. What do they call tacos? - Well tacos are tacos, but they call them les tacos

A man has been arrested following a fire at Labour MP Sharon Hodgson’s constituency office in north east England.

Been trying Edge recently as Chrome was doing weird stuff to my laptop. Microsoft's browser seems to have trouble signing into Microsoft online services. Gives me real comfort about my own failings.

Thinking out loud: Russia tested NATO's defences on the Polish border. They saw that the Europeans respond together, but raggedly. And the the US isn't paying attention. And they know that the Europeans are massively ramping up spending, but it will take a few years. Logically...

‼️🚫🇷🇺 "The European Court of Justice has struck down an EU approval for Russia to build a nuclear power plant in Hungary, arguing that it was unclear whether Viktor Orbán’s government followed EU procurement rules when awarding Rosatom the contract without a public tender." @financialtimes.com

When talking about the next election, it's important to remember that we are currently roughly half way between this tweet and when the next election will actually be held. Good luck predicting anything

"I accidentally claimed you were an FBI informant because I panicked in an interview" is 100% the setup for a Veep/Thick Of It scene.

Rumour was of a big ‘out with the dead wood’ reshuffle this month even before Raynergate & frankly things are so bad now PM has nothing to lose, so stand by your beds I guess

These are the things that make me proud to be British 🫡

Bayer Leverkusen have sacked Erik Ten Hag after just two league games in charge. That's so brutal, it's remarkable.

Happy 'greatest correction ever' day to all who celebrate