In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand. Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

I'm at the old world dying / I'm at the new world struggling to be born / I'm at the ccccccccccombination old world dying and new world struggling to be born

(should add that readers in US/UK also to blame - if people here were ready to buy flimsy little paperbacks that look like they may crumble to dust if you stare at them for too long, we could have the sort of publishing breadth eg France still has!)

Lord Nelson was 5ft 6in. His statue is 17ft 4in. That’s Horatio of 3:1.

Aside from a few AI generated images, there is no evidence any "wars". The wild west here is the media, police and schools spreading unsubstantiated bullshit when they should know better. Classic press fueled hysteria, just like with the momo challenge in 2018 and rainbow parties in the 2000s.

Looking forward to Preston finishing seventh this season and ninth next season. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Hi hello just QRPing some info abt this coming in from the other site. This news is fake, it was a hallucination.

Obviously Red Dwarf is the first line, but this reminded me just how much I loved his novel Incompetence back in the day. Bit nervous to revisit it considering just how Brexity I later realised it was, though.

Important stuff.

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Sometimes you're really struck by just how long this guy's been around. Note he's tagged here as 'former' Israeli PM. Remarkable.

Who do Britons trust on the economy? No one really. 26% trust the Conservatives 25% trust Reform UK 21% trust the Liberal Democrats 20% trust Labour 17% trust the Greens

Hey what's the opposite of nation building?

Genuinely just realising that when Americans say the brits don’t use seasoning they literally mean onion powder and garlic powder.

Please enjoy this view of the crocuses at Ham House, Richmond. 📷Hannah Mawdsley

💥Oxford St Pedestrianisation Approved💥 With the majority of Londoners supporting the change, I'm delighted @sadiqkhanlondon.bsky.social has approved the plans to transform this iconic street. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is so stupid and I laughed like a drain

Fun fact: video gaming as a sector is worth more to the UK economy every year than the music and film industries combined in GVA. Maybe it's not your thing, cool, whatever, but you definitely still benefit from the fact other people enjoy it as much as they do and being a snob about it is passé 🤷‍♀️

Full of admiration for what Emma does in threads like this one. Read it, it’s interesting.

Just turned the rugby on to check the score. I don't think I like rugby anymore.

Fascinating to me how the Labour strategy gets the core truth of UK elections - you have to own the centre - but then is 15 degrees off, in what is proving a disastrous way.

"According to Re:Russia..., the army’s bill for manpower has gone up from 3trn roubles in 2024 to more than 4trn in 2025—around 2% of GDP. Nearly 40% of that is payments for deaths in service" www.economist.com/briefing/202... From The Economist

I’m sorry, I know it’s a minor point, but crack dens are traditionally indoor establishments. What the scaremongering Labour minister is describing here is a crack paddock.

Just took my occasional glance into the abyss (logged into Twitter) and the algorithm served me up the conspiracy theory that Western history had 300 fake years added in, the Dark Ages in fact didn't happen at all, and we are actually living in the year 1729.

With caveat constituency polling is hard there are only 250 odd expressing a preference, but if this is close to where we are next week then result would really come down to ground game on the day.

Sharing from a friend, a passage from the Leveson Inquiry regarding the British actor Denholm Elliott, who died of AIDS in 1992. Three years after her death, the News of the World journalist Paul McMullan did the following to his daughter—neither a celebrity nor even someone of public interest.

Labour lost three by-elections yesterday - all to different parties mobilising disaffected voters on their liberal left flank: Greens (see below), Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru. Starmer/McSweeney strategy of marginalizing the left flank to go after socially con Reform curious continues to backfire

Two very big things here: 1) since sanctioning of Rosneft and Lukoil, the largest exporter of Russian crude is an entity called "Redwood Global". It SO HAPPENS that they share an e-mail server with a group of Azeri traders who EU sanctions officials believe are pals with the chief exec of Rosneft.

Now that's art (non-ironic).

This is what gaming is all about

Maybe paying to read the article would clear this up, but "We don't want to be a superpower. Just a great power." Is a pretty funny line to draw.

This is the pinnacle of being an uncle. No one has ever uncle'd harder.

"I don't want anything to happen to him, while my mother's alive" Don't know why this came to mind today.. www.youtube.com/shorts/F4xJF...

We have launched an investigation against Shein under the Digital Services Act. It will focus on Shein’s sale of illegal products, including child sexual abuse material, its addictive design, lack of transparency of its recommender systems. More: link.europa.eu/rVJcB9

Ahead of the Scottish Parliament elections, Interactive Entertainment Scotland has published its manifesto, outlining practical steps for the next government to keep Scotland a leading hub for video games development and innovation. Read the manifesto and join the conversation: zurl.co/8DuNM

I finally started playing Expedition 33 this week. It is FRENCH with a capital FR. Also quite Japanese, confusing character-buffing system included. Good stuff.

A fascinating thread, showing very clearly how small changes in voting behaviour could create wildly different national outcomes. First Past the Post... what a system.

OTD in 2022 George Galloway released one of the absolute, all-time classics. He has yet to delete it, show humility, or confirm/deny if this means he in fact being paid to act like an idiot, or if he just does it free. #JustAskingQuestions

So deep in the closet he's just been offered some Turkish Delight by a tall blonde lady.

-sigh- Clive Tyldesley. He's the best we could do. Apparently he was known as "Tiddles" to his classmates.

100k today is the same as 50k in 2000 and I don’t remember people desperate to pile all the thresholds on 50k in 2000. Just a real money illusion I think.

📍Today, the EC informed Meta that blocking third-party AI assistants from WhatsApp may breach EU competition rules. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

He's doing what for a penalty?

I'm sorry, we were doing child poverty stats without counting all the money being given to their parents?

Enjoyable poll finding. c25 per cent of people have an unfavourable opinion of of Keir Starmer’s performance as prime minister but think he should stay as prime minister.

”Provocative” is like “intellectual.” If other people use it to describe you, maybe you are. If you use it to describe yourself, you’re more likely just an asshole.

Ten year-old me would be staggered at how many times a day I refuse additional cookies.

The woke scolds are trying to make this about racism. But Musk is right. It's about historical and scientific integrity. When the God of Thunder disguises himself as a swan to seduce and fuck a queen and the resulting baby hatches from an egg, *of course* the baby will be white. It's just science.

He’s just describing The American Dream but you’re supposed to hate it for some reason