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This morning the Department for Culture, Media and Sport have published a refreshed and updated list of Areas of Research Interest. These are an important way for researchers to engage with policy, so please do read them! www.gov.uk/government/p...

John Malkovich has just acquired Croatian citizenship via his grandparents and is doing a series of ads for the tourist board, which at a frankly awful time for me are giving me life m.youtube.com/watch?v=2TKB...

Maybe if they're doing bread and circuses, they'll bring back the lions? I'm sure the bread will be protein-infused, at least.

This picture is a metaphor.

Aside from everything else, "I'm lying to those other guys, definitely not you, don't worry about it," seems like a bad way to build trust in a negotiation.

It’s the 36th anniversary of this today

Two thoughts on this: 1. English is just broken German with broken French sprinkles on top, so hey, have at it. 2. The Speaker of the House in Jamaica is married to the Prime Minister?? Trying to imagine that in the UK and struggling.

God bless this man for wrangling a national newspaper column out of a trick my 7 year old showed me. Truly one of our finest.

Today feels a good day to repost my most popular blog of last year www.freewheeling.info/blog/swiss-hs2

A FIFA official is accused of stealing funds that were recovered after another FIFA official stole them a decade ago.

Liverpool John Lennon Airport is actually closer to Widnes. It should therefore be renamed Widnes Mel C Airport

Had a boo-boo on my finger and the only plasters we have in the house are magical unicorn ones for kids. It's helping me be brave.

I've been sent a cold contact email offering me training to "Overcome Imposter Syndrome as a Women in Leadership". Not sure how many women I are, nor how high in leadership they am, but we're excited to find out.

OPPORTUNITY - Lead Narrative Designer - EA - Battlefield - Hybrid - UK Absolutely affiliated (a chance to work together!). Shares very welcome! jobs.ea.com/en_US/career...

Good weekend.

most frequent main language (excluding english and welsh) in england and wales by council area!

I've been struck recently by how the Great Man theory of history is proving more successful than I would have previously guessed.

Happy one-year anniversary to the craziest sign I've ever seen in the window of a pizza shop

Spotted on Tumblr…

"Reports suggesting he wants $500 million to stay" ... "The egos need to get dropped," DeChambeau said. Brutal work by that journalist, brutal. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/a...

I think about this comic all the time.

Around minute 94 of THE MUPPET MOVIE (1979), during the closing credits, we see Miss Piggy speaking briefly to Janice in the screening room, and the film finally passes the Bechdel Test.

Had a dream last night where there was a new series of Blackadder with Blackadder as the UK Ambassador to America, and now feel this needs to be made.

Most Reform-leaning councillor names: - Barry - Thomas - Adrian Most Labour: - Angela - Laura - Dave Most Conservative: - Roger - Phil - Nick Most Lib Dem: - Tim - Sam - Richard Most Green: - Jonathan - Ben - Kate

STUPENDOUS www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In July last year I was approached by an agency, who had a brand, who had a famous spokesperson, who likes chess. They wanted me to design a game with this spokesperson, a bit like chess but better, faster, kind of Chess 2.0. That's not quite what happened. This is. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq_5...

From today, no one in England and Wales will be criminalised for ending their own pregnancy

One detail I hadn't realised about parliament finishing today - today is the last day a hereditary peer will ever sit in the House of Lords.

Anybody got any magic tips for if the d-pad on a PS5 controller mysteriously stops working?

Happy Miss Congeniality Day to all who celebrate!

Adding my voice to a chorus of praise for a biting, cantakerous, darkly funny and invigorating piece of writing, adorned with a coda of heart-rending tenderness. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

Photographer Chantal Pinzi's photogragraphic series of women skateboarders around the world, including in India #WomensArt

Just finished THE PASSENGER by Cormac McCarthy, a book about a protagonist who is too tired and sad to deal with the plot so he just wanders off.

If you want to brag that you banged some young guy, you post about it anonymously on Reddit, not write a piece in a national newspaper.

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"The purpose of a system is what it does."

Embracing dadhood further by getting into the brining of meats. One must accept one's fate.

Other people's children. Oof.

First still from "Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory" (Sony Pictures Imageworks / Netflix / 2027), an animated movie by Jared Stern & Elaine Bogan. Set in modern day London after the chocolatier is released from prison for the crimes committed in the original story. www.netflix.com/tudum/articl...

Bonkus of the Conkus has been an intrusive phrase in my head for a solid four days now. it's partially because, obviously, very funny combination of words. the other reason is that Olive Oyl's reaction reads exactly like a Naomi Wolf tweet.

Have been waiting almost two years for the right article to smuggle this fact into. (From my leader on America's misguided war on taxes: economist.com/leaders/2026...)

Nobody talks about the time when Razorlight got radiation poisoning from the polonium meant for Litvinenko.

I left my home near Clitheroe to look for work and I'm so homesick. I was looking for a job and then I found a job and, heavens knows, I miss Ribble now.

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar calls for the UK to rejoin the European Union: "I remember when I was a diplomat in Brussels... We were able to influence decisions. At the time, the Brits were also part of the EU. Let's hope they will rejoin."

Can't wait for them to found Your New Party. Then immediately splinter, of course.

Many things were being blocked by Orban in the end What we'll now discover is how many of those instances will stay stuck because other countries were just hiding behind the Hungarian veto and letting Orban take the flak

ORBÁN CONCEDED

💥🇭🇺🗳️First results of the Hungarian parliamentary elections are in: with 14.72% counted, the opposition leads with mandates nearing a two-thirds majority. Everything points to Viktor Orbán’s defeat and Péter Magyar becoming Hungary’s next prime minister.