What a load of absolute cod-psychology shite only making things even more hellish for people trying to find work. This is infuriating

Unpaid carers of adult children are left out of this support. Yet they still have to provide transport for their loved one to attend activities, medical appointments, social services, groceries, etc. Paid carers don't fare terribly well either, having to pay for their own petrol for work.

If you can bear to read something in the Daily Mail, make it this

So many questions about this photo I just found, captured by my Dad at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park, London in 1958. He should have been a photojournalist.

Still reflecting on this video. I think it implies that the average American cannot understand written satire, can’t spot internal contradictions, and doesn’t question an author’s motivations. Can that be true? Could explain a lot.

The 'they have the mentality of terminally-online 12 year old boys and everything they do appeals to 12 year old boys' rule remains undefeated.

Breaking: Someone who received a settlement from Epstein’s money manager was a Trump accuser.

A street off Scotswood Road, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, photo by Colin Jones.

The guy who filmed Andrew Tate dancing in Dubai

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946. In 2007, the US president was born in 1946. In 2017, the US president was born in 1946. And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

He’s a parody of a parody of a parody at this point.

In his small French town, Dominique Pélicot easily found 90+ men willing to rape his wife while she was drugged and unconscious. Hundreds more saw the messages on the forum and did nothing about it. None of them were billionaires, but the poison is the same... substack.com/home/post/p-...

"The men implicated in the Epstein files reinforces that I spend half my life explaining to men that their simplified, optimistic view of other men doesn’t line up with the experience of women and girls trying to dodge sexual harassment, assault and abuse attempts." - Leslie Morgan Steiner

This tracks The National Geographic voice caps it off though ☠️

It’s not just that a large majority want Britain to rejoin the EU, it’s the fact that the majority steadily continues to grow…

Tech bros and boosters of LLM AI appear not to have the insight to realise that a huge swathe of the writing online is by angry incels, rejection sensitives or obsessives (because most people don't post their rants about relationships etc for public consumption)

Could not make this shit up.

Tyneside morning, 1950, photo by Harry Morrison.

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

This is blackout poetry to me

My dog looks like a medieval drawing of a lion

" I never stand near open windows"

"Blackmail is a known theoretical issue with AI agents. In internal testing at the major AI lab Anthropic last year, they tried to avoid being shut down by threatening to expose extramarital affairs, leaking confidential information, and taking lethal actions." 🙄

FYI I’ve opened this up for full public reading, listening & sharing after requests from paying subscribers. Their support allows me to do this kind of public interest journalism on Aotearoa’s political economy around housing, climate & poverty in public. #nzpol thekaka.substack.com/p/why-not-sp...

Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this

Encouraging to see some members of the US Olympic team wearing masks to protect their health ahead of competition.

In an interview with NPR, Melinda French Gates confirmed that she ended her marriage with Bill Gates because of allegations contained in the Epstein files.

Wow. The front page of tomorrow’s Charlie Hebdo magazine in France.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

It really does feel like part of their game plan was that leftist/liberal/progressive areas would just lay down. That we would be like, "Oh terribly sorry let me walk away." They mistook compassion for weakness. They didn't realize compassion is fighting for those that you care for.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

He spent decades bringing the religious right to power. Now he's marching to undo it. Rev. Rob Schenck spent decades helping build the Religious Right—commingling church and state to advance conservative causes. Now, he says he must confront the damage he helped cause.

Tips on coping from the Renaissance Inkstand with a Man Distilling his Brains, maiolica, probably Urbino, ca. 1600. Inscribed in black on back of chair: “[…] CERV[...] IOTUTO LIETO” (Mi lambico il] cerv[ello] io tutto lieto; I distill my brain and am totally happy) (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

NYT video analysis confirms victim’s gun was removed before he was shot. So he was unarmed. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/minneapolis-shooting-federal-agents-video.html

It’s no comfort, but the official DHS line being “he can be killed by masked agents of the state because he had a legal gun” is such an interesting new frontier in how Trump has made the conservative movement very publicly and embarrassingly abandon every principal it once claimed.

WHO removing Us Flag

This is one of the most unsettling three-paragraph sequences I've read in my life, and I've spent two decades reading the most deranged people on the planet.

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

You’ll Be OK

I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."

La forme des nuages, par Bill Whitehead

Despite industry leaders promising that agentic AI is the future, taking care of virtually all human tasks within the next few years #CarnegieMellonUniversity researchers just released a paper showing that even the best–performing AI agents fail to complete real-world office tasks 70% of the time