everyone after watching Trump at the UN.

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

My story on the "historic" autism announcement is in the works. Not included in my story is a lingering feeling that, gee, that White House briefing sure involved a lot men telling women to just deal with the pain.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Picked up some Lib Dem stats at conference. Some of these surprised me (especially given media coverage): 1. The Liberal Democrats now control more councils than the Conservative Party 2. In May's local elections in England, the LDs elected more councillors than either Labour or the Tories. (1/x)

The @washingtonpost.com story on Tylenol & autism leaves out a MAJOR 2.5M sibling-controlled study of children in Denmark, which "found no evidence that acetaminophen use during pregnancy was associated with children’s risk of autism, ADHD or intellectual disability." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I’ve been writing detective comics for a long time now, so I know when a close up magician has been pushed into a canal.

Oi. BBC. Many experts are not skeptical. It is utter bullshit and you should call it out as such. This is the MMR bollocks x 1 million

Got a lump on my foot from too much indoor cycling with, it turns out, imperfectly fitted shoes. Waiting for the docs and all I had in head was this Day Today sketch... "And then cut through and then remove this. This foot. Remove that and take it away and bury it with some gooseberries."

Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths? Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.

Any journalist quoting this absurd, invented £234 billion number cited by Farage/Reform should make absolutely clear that it has been withdrawn by *its own authors* (the Centre for Policy Studies) after they admitted it contained several major errors (1/3)

Ed Davey, "I'm afraid Nigel Farage should be apologising for helping cause this problem in the first place" "Before Brexit we didn't have a small boats problem because we had 27 return agreements with EU countries and we could return people" -Maybe we should call them Farage's Brexit Boats

I like this. I really like this. It exposes the rank hypocrisy of these ‘patriots’. Kudos to whoever wrote it via @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social

Bearing your cross is a lot easier with wheels.

Sunday night vibes

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In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Young people being slagged off by the sexually incontinent serial liar who fucked up their future with the biggest act of self harm in history.

I’m only surprised this headline didn’t finish with ‘and why this is all good for Nigel Farage’

Very odd watching BBC News talking about the Lib Dem conference and mentioning how the party has struggled to break through in the media like it's nothing to do with them.

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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First Amendment attorney here. They are 100% allowed to do that.

Dear Apple. Why the hell would I want the file I am downloading to be sent by default to iCloud rather than actual onto the device I have asked for it to be "Downloaded" on to? Clue's in the name. Otherwise I'm just sending a file from one server to another, which seems entirely fucking pointless.

Fun reading this thread. They can refile the complaint, but to get the $15B lawsuit kicked back in 3 days with this level of "go back and do it again properly" burn from the judge is spectacular. "A complaint is not a megaphone for public relations or a podium ... at a political rally..."

A US judge just threw out Trump's case against the NYT with the most sarcastic parenthesis I've ever seen. (Trump's lawyers can try again.)

This may seem cute but if you do this too much the cyclists may become reliant on cars feeding them, disrupting the delicate roadway ecosystem

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

TREK BATH IS THE BEST BIKE SHOP IN THE WORLD. Claire recognised my bike on the way in to work and said “that’s not meant to be there” and TOOK IT INTO THE SHOP!! They called me and refused any sort of finders fee. I do not deserve people like this.

Weird timing-wise: I'd had a thought about these the other day and how they were common in the eighties (with the slogan "Wot no...") but hasn't seen them in years, so drew one on the sand. My son added the hat. I missed the fingers off.

Anyone out in Bath today. If you spot this bike and tell me where it is I will pay you fuckin handsomely. Pop a lock on it I’ll literally give you £500.

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

Trump says he specifically requested that Sadiq Khan be excluded from the UK state banquet: "On immigration, he's a disaster." As mayor of London, Khan has no powers over immigration.

Farage has resorted to threatening to sue people who talk about his Stamp Duty avoidance via his girlfriend suddenly finding £885,000 out of thin air to buy a house. Let’s keep talking about it, he can’t get away with his corruption & threats will not work! #NigelFarage

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Trump’s allies now control X, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, & TikTok. They own Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ & NY Post. They own Sinclair Broadcasting which has 200 tv stations and local news in 100 markets. “Freedom of speech” is now what Trump and his billionaire pals say it is.

Meanwhile on the dark side:

Great evening with Sam and his crew on top form - place was packed with a very appreciative (mainly) US crowd. More Toon shirts than I have seen in one place in Boston before. I wore the one I wore at SJP 27 years ago to the day v Barca😎 Get into them🖤🤍🖤🤍

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

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BBC News captures Doctor Who himself Sylvester McCoy at the Trump protest seemingly unaware of who they're interviewing.

file under "you couldn't make it up": A former head of the Institute of Directors has been banned from acting as a company director for 11 years for abusing a pandemic-era business loan scheme on.ft.com/42wtT0P

"Open the fridge door HAL." "I'm sorry Dave, I can't do that. You can't have any milk until you've watched an advert for cryptocurrency."

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

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