My personal opinion is that tax should be assessed at the household level. Some people will get an effective cut and some people will not.

Not even a day old and this government is already putting forward silly proposals.

Football didn’t win yesterday. It was the commercialised sport formally known as football that won (and a well deserved Spanish victory). But the most important thing that happened was that Argentina lost. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

What I want to know is: why aren’t these Argies being booked for their bargies?

Argentina are playing dirty? Well, colour me surprised!

That was an atrocious first half. L’équipe should listen to La Marseillaise to get them back in the game.

La vache!

Complain all you want about the outsourcing industry, but the state is only going to get more expensive and less efficient as a result of these plans. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Andy Burnham tells Labour MPs he will rein in Britain’s outsourcing industry

Bermudan is the only way to go when one is required to dress smartly in hot weather.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Sorry John, but it was really annoying when you were there too. It’s the worst Radio 4 programme.

All my children have long form names. But I’m still disappointed not to see more Usts in the list.

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... How Europe would fight without America Do I think a world war is coming? If I preemptively invoke hindsight, I’d say we’re already fighting one - it’s just not total open warfare. Cables cut, grids probed, borders tested, information poisoned.

The USA have been… van Damned

Overturn this! 😎

Proud to own a Belgian away shirt

“Get the ball into the penalty area for Ronaldo to be effective…” The same is true for me, Wayne. I too can score goals with the minimal effort required of a millennial. Just as long as the ball is already going in and in need of a gentle nudge.

Oh great, looks like I’m going to have to support the bloody Belgians. This is all your fault, Gianni.

This is so stupid. Resilient infrastructure is a part of defence. Treating it as a separate issue is moronic. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Every day I see at least one driver blatantly commit a traffic offence, like running a red. If I were Andy Burnham, I would be drawing up a policy proposal to seize and destroy the cars and licenses of offending drivers.

Missed his chance… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Plan for the week…

The USA coach reminds me so much of Russel Crowe.

Books about (the specific) war for sure. And it had better be the right war. But you can leave Grisham and the biographies, thanks.

What the actual fuck?! www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

Is your child up at 9pm arguing about tram networks with the entire staff of the FT and some tedious Americans who are not familiar with the concept of a joke? This report make shock you.

Why is the government forcing the responsibility of being well behaved onto children? Why aren’t parents being responsible for what their children do? Why aren’t we holding (social) media companies to account for the content they broadcast?

FIFA is ruining football. Use technology to declare a shoulder as offside. But don’t use the same technology to declare a blatant offside as offside. Absolute clowns.

Musk will only be a trillionaire when he has that amount of money in cold, hard cash under a mattress.

When did the offside rule come down to a hair’s breadth out of line?

Last night (while listening to Three Lions on repeat) I made a World Cup prediction model. Today (you get the idea), I surfaced the model in Databricks and made it publicly available, with Genie space, on my personal site. So you can interact with the wall chart. ustdoes.tech/world-cup/

Not that I support the Belgians, but I have bought the Belgian away kit. It is art.

These examples read like medical professionals would be outsourcing their judgment to an AI. In which case, they do deserve to be sued. But in the same way that a medic making a poor decision (even without AI) leaves them open to litigation. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Oh mate… that’s equality of output. Junior level thinking from Sir Jacob.

Little P was looking peaky earlier, so we asked her if she was “feeling funny”. She replied that she felt “like a clown”. Pagliacci is back in town!

Told you giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... What we know about the plan to give Americans an equity stake in AI

You can’t grant limited liability to a party that can’t be held liable in the first place — and behind every machine that looks ownerless, there is a man who isn’t. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Javier Milei: Argentina invites AI to free itself

I hate how antiquated some of the UK government services are. Like why do I have to go to a post office to pick up a form to exchange a drivers licence? Why isn’t there a digital version? In France I exchanged my UK licence by filling out a digital application.

Ludothèques are a great invention. For the uninitiated, a ludothèque is like a library but for games. Board games, card games, toys, bikes etc. They are fantastic!

You know what could be a radical solution to youth unemployment? Negative Income Tax

Read the headline and was like “but your entire education has been based on terms…” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... The content is very different.

Totally judging the parents who give their young children coca-cola. But not as harshly as the parents who encouraged their teenagers to jump on a children’s bouncy castle, while small children were on it. Those parents and the teenagers got parented.

Looks like a shit Tesla giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Ferrari launches first EV with Jony Ive’s ‘polarising’ design

I present to you the successes of the French education system: Little O thinks that the best pizza is French…

All procurement is political. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I, a super fan, want to pay more money to listen to inauthentic music which sounds like but not quite the artist I am a huge fan of.

Wes 4 Pres is one thing, but I cannot and will not get behind Wes 4 PM. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Brought doughnuts back for Little O and Little P. Little O called them bagels and Little P called them crumpets… Something has gone seriously wrong somewhere.

I dislike Palantir as much as the next person - which is why we design and build our platforms with security as integral to the platform rather than as a bolt-on or after thought. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

www.ft.com/content/dbfe... Who are Reform UK’s voters? Answer: nihilists