"Trees are poems that Earth writes upon the sky." Khalil Gibran Ralph Emerson art

💥 BREAKING: Russia’s “invincible” Moscow-Simferopol railway in occupied Crimea just got absolutely bodied by a Ukrainian drone. Service suspended, all passengers evacuated. 10+ trains between Russia and Crimea canceled. Ukrainian drones throw the best fireworks show! 🔥 #SlavaUkraini #CrimeanWind

This is just *so* good.

Gestapo: 'Did you do this?' Picasso: 'No, you did.' (True story)

You just *have* to have 2 Ali Baba laundry baskets. One for the lights wash, the other for the darks.

1/ Facts—and the institutions that verify and communicate them—are under intense pressure in the UK. Our latest report finds the information environment is structurally weakening, putting democracy at risk.

Chuffed to resurface this excellent good reading explanatory note by @francescoppola.bsky.social 2016 www.coppolacomment.com/2016/04/the-... "By 2035, there will be no NI Fund. Will there still be a #StatePension? We do not know. If there is, it will presumably be funded from general taxation."

Some details on the events of the Henry Nowak murder, taken from the judge's sentencing remarks, which go beyond the headlines.

New Event Next Week on '#Financial Stability Risks From Private Markets and Non-Bank Finance' A stellar panel chaired by @francescoppola.bsky.social 📅Thurs 4 June ⏰17.30-19.00 Sign up here 👇 niesr.ac.uk/event/financ...

UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students - www.ft.com/content/ded7... I don't really understand why any administration would not try to reverse the fall in overseas student numbers, but I guess I'm a naive liberal

Gertrude Jekyll roses, from my garden today.

one of the reasons i am always on about elite persuasion is that i have seen elite persuasion operate in real time. as toby documents here, the radical anti-trans push in the uk didn't come from some "bottom-up backlash," but was orchestrated and organized primarily at the most elite levels

My FT Alphaville piece posted today. No, the UK should not issue euro-denominated debt to try to reduce its borrowing costs. It won't work, and it could end very badly. www.ft.com/content/272e...

Good article. The proposal for euro-denominated UK debt that the article critiques also rests on an argument that is a perfect example of what Pettis called a "volatility amplifying" financial structure. It offers (potentially) marginally lower funding costs now for huge tail risk later.

Spot on from @francescoppola.bsky.social Back-door ERM is a really bad idea - www.ft.com/content/272e... via @FT

If you missed this week's #FullScottish with Elliot Johnston stepping in at the last minute for @islabarker.bsky.social who became unwell overnight. Huge thanks to Elliot and guests, @paulinestaffordsnp.bsky.social and @francescoppola.bsky.social and get well soon Isla.

My FT Alphaville piece posted today. No, the UK should not issue euro-denominated debt to try to reduce its borrowing costs. It won't work, and it could end very badly. www.ft.com/content/272e...

The New York Times filed a second lawsuit against the Defense Department, arguing that an interim press policy mandating that reporters be escorted at all times while on Pentagon grounds is unconstitutional.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Welcome to the kleptocracy. Now let's get the thieves and grifters out and restore the rule of law.

If this isn't "designed to stir up hatred" against Jews, what is? Why are the Met not arresting them?

I'm on BBC 5 Live Wake Up To Money in a few minutes. Brace yourselves.

So can we please ditch Palantir now?

The fact that Keir Starmer has drafted Morgan McSweeney back in to save him has to be funniest part of all of this. Truly committed to never learning a single lesson you have to give it to him

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

I have been called a Holocaust denier by my sister-in-law. On Messenger. I've blocked her. I will never see or speak to her again. And probably not my brother either. I feel very alone.

A very useful blog from the ONS. blog.ons.gov.uk/2026/05/14/h...

Stronger than expected GDP stats. Imagine this’ll mean more fretting about the increasingly noteable seasonal pattern but it’s good news. www.ons.gov.uk/economy/gros...

Kyiv tonight💔 Russia once again аttacked a residential building.

Avi Shlaim reviewing Omer Bartov's ISRAEL: WHAT WENT WRONG?: "As a historian, Bartov believes that the first step in building a better future is understanding the hopes and aspirations of the other, as well as the errors and sins of the past." 💙📚 🗃 #politics 1/ www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...

Escape from all these wars, pandemics and political infighting. Step back in time to the fourth century AD, when a Roman emperor tried to deal with the inflationary effects of, er, wars, pandemics and political infighting.

Very much this 👇

"There is a problem with legal competence– the power for the EU to negotiate a full-fat youth mobility scheme enabling young people to travel, study and, crucially, work." ✍️ @cbarnard.bsky.social & Denzil Davidson explain why youth mobility negotiations are so complex ukandeu.ac.uk/youth-mobili...

She understands she can’t actually deport him, right?

Circle revenue boosted as stablecoin demand rises amid volatility; shares up reut.rs/3RebB1F

oh my god, island of strangers rhetoric again. this week is not soon enough

A politician is the news about a houseboat. That is a good enough reason to link to this 2013 judgment, one of the most wonderful case reports in our legal history. Enjoy. www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWC...

Without rejoining the EU? Forget it.

Soundbites instead of substance.

Someone born in 1946 saw the Swinging Sixtes and "you've never had it so good". Someone born in 1960 saw a deep recession and the highest youth unemployment since the Jarrow Marches. Both are called (insultingly) "boomers".

This. He disappears when he is under any kind of scrutiny. Pops up elsewhere in a splutter of sulpher, new name, new grift.

😂 🤣 😂 🤣 😂

Why is no one pointing out the contradiction between the two Reform excuses: 1. That he was no longer in politics when he took the gift, and 2. That it was for his security as a high profile politician?

It must be mindblowing! #BookSky

There is a new Jewish Alliance for Reform UK, led by Alan Mendoza of Henry Jackson Society. He told its launch that testimony of Jewish ex-pupils of Dulwich is "an absolute smear campaign in press". But almost everyone else finds that testimony of past antisemitism sincere bsky.app/profile/sund...

Life. Don't talk to me about life.

As @mayfaircynic.bsky.social points out here it is pretty obvious what the agenda is here and I for one am not going to associate myself with it. bsky.app/profile/mayf...

Regrettably, neither I nor many other British Jews can associate ourselves with this. Just nakedly partisan and absolutely inimical to any serious attempt to counter antisemitism and racism.

This is what normalisation looks like.