We have always been at war with Tylenol

The brave students who landed this week have chosen to answer loss with learning, despair with determination, and war with hope. They are an inspiration and I am deeply relieved that they’ve arrived in the UK & can now continue their education in safety. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

When it comes to handling Reform the Labour leadership echoes apocryphal accounts of how in the summer of 2007 the CEO's inner circle of a major player convinced itself that from the top it had a more profound insight into global trends than traders and financial analysts begging it to derisk

If Labour and other parties can't find a way to scrutinise, criticise and condemn a policy like this, they give Reform a free ride and make the future less safe & certain for those who come here, work hard and contribute.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

So much of the commentary on Palestine today without much sense of the deep history. No this is unlikely to make much or any practical difference. But you can say this is a debt which has long been owed. The UK promised a Palestinian state a century ago when the British took on the mandate.…

Then and now.

Argentina spends $1bn to defend peso as Milei’s crisis spirals on.ft.com/4gtNFzW

Notícia da @oglobo.globo.com "BC argentino volta a intervir no dólar; fontes estimam que autarquia teria despejado US$ 700 milhões no mercado" Link sem paywall ⬇️

Former Institute of Directors chief hit with ban over Covid loan fraud www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

A textbook example of how much damage one vacuous interview can do to a legacy spanning half a century.

From a Benwell street scene to striking seamen in South Shields - 10 photos of Tyneside in 1960

19 September 1865 | A Jewish man, Abraham Joseph Zousman, was born in Bardichev. He emigrated to Belgium. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 26 October 1942 in a transport of Jews deported from Kazerne Dossin. After the selection, he was murdered in a gas chamber.

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yeah, i do peer review

if you want to understand tailoring, you only need to watch mid-century movies, when actors were dressed by tailors, not brands. in the 1944 film cover girl, gene kelly's suit drapes beautifully, moving with him, not against him. collar stays on his neck, even as he dances.

Say what you will about them but at least Change UK managed to have a Nando’s dinner first

Times births column today

Brasil se consolida como destino ou passagem para quem enfrente barreiras migratórias em nações mais desenvolvidas bit.ly/3JHwkY8 #demografia #imigrantes

No tablecloth? Very wise, ketchup stains are difficult. I do hope somebody there will appreciate the Ridge Montebello.

Kyiv to Minsk in a -15C blizzard on a tiny Soviet-era prop thing, run by an airline later added to the EU safety blacklist, with an interior of ‘70s flecked wallpaper, a seat that didn’t stay upright, a drunk pilot with gravy stains on his sweater, & a hole in the floor I could see luggage through.

Time for our annual update of "Open Research across disciplines". pdf: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ K Reproducibility Network (UKRN) webpages: www.ukrn.org/disciplines/ Resources to add, please use (by 30/09/25): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... @camillakgilmore.bsky.social @priyasilverstein.com

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

OTD in 1939 Poland, as a complete surprise to us, suddenly ceased to exist so Soviets launched "special military operation" to "protect our compatriots abroad". Definitely not an invasion. Imagine that happening today

"we all make mistakes"

1/ South Korea's government has announced that it is launching an investigation into human rights abuses said to have been carried out by the United States' ICE agency against South Korean workers deported from Georgia, following further damaging testimony from the deportees. ⬇️

This woman is a genius. www.recipetineats.com/thai-red-cur...

Surprisingly balmy autumn night. Sitting in the garden enjoying a glass of grenache blanc, the powerful scent of a couple of dozen Brugmansia blossoms, and Hans Knappertsbusch's surprisingly well-rehearsed recording of Bruckner's 8th symphony.

This claim is baffling. The Met have witnessed many violent far right protests. It was obvious participants would be up for a scrap. BBC News - No intelligence 'basis' for face scanning at Tommy Robinson rally, Met says www.bbc.com/news/article...

One thing that has genuinely surprised me over the last year or so - not massively, but genuinely nevertheless - is that I had assumed there was a rather deeper cultural attachment to free speech in the US than turns out to be the case.

I confess I sometimes wonder whether Unherd should really be called Unhinged. But just occasionally, especially when it does reportage rather than rage-baiting, it comes up with real gems. This IMHO is one of them. unherd.com/2025/09/the-...

Time for the world to install a gigawatt of solar power capacity 2004: A year 2010: ~ a month 2015: ~ a week Now: A day ourworldindata.org/data-insight... 🧪

"America’s 80-year run as the world’s leader of biomedical research — and 50-year run as the global leader of cancer research — may very well be coming to a close, and for no apparent reason." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/m...

Animal shelter evacuated after FBI incinerates meth at facility www.bbc.com/news/article...

The losses of Korean investment in the US since ICE harassed and arrested Korean citizens who were preparing a new plant in Georgia might be higher than all the foreign investment Trump drummed up with trade war pressure combined.

Irgendwie ist aus einem Ruhetag ein Freßorgie-Tag geworden🙄 14:30 im #Millerntorstadion habe ich, eine eingefleischte Fleischfresserin, aus reiner Neugier geholt: ein veganer #Leberkäs. Boah🤩mega lecker💣 Textur & Biß gleichen dem Echten,der Geschmack ist richtig schön. Nach dem Abpfiff schnell🏡🚴‍♀️

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

#AncientSiteSunday - Labraunda, the site of the Sanctuary of Zeus Labraundos, situated in the mountains that overlook the Milas plain. It was a major sanctuary in Caria, particularly during the 4th century BC, when King Mausolus, the satrap of Caria, made Labraunda his family’s sanctuary.

Time to relocate the chilli farm to the warm, south-facing window.

Ce qui fait tout le prix de ce saint honoré dominical, c’est la violette confite au sommet du tourbillon de chantilly. Une simple bouchée et vous êtes transporté à Parme.

I've never seen bees in this garden before. But it appears there must be a hive somewhere locally, and they've now discovered my brugmansias, and the fact that no hummingbirds have claimed their nectar and pollen.

Foreign billionaires don’t get to incite violence against Britain. We cannot stay silent. 1/5 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

@stephenkb.bsky.social @Nicovel0 Wilson’s statement was strong.

Starmer as it happens hasn't made a public speech outside chamber since mid-July. Hard to think of a PM who has made so little use of the normative power of his office. Unlike eg Cameron who really did think No 10 had the capacity and obligation to attempt to frame debate on all manner of issues

“mostly adults” This is quite the piece www.thetimes.com/article/330c...

I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Telegraph headline feels inflammatory - there's no tearing, just careful removal of a flag from a grade 1 listed historic monument that belongs to the nation.