www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025... The final paragraph says: Johnson said: “This story is rubbish. The PDCA has been used entirely in accordance with the rules. The Guardian should change its name to Pravda.” So he's confirming the article's veracity, as of course "Pravda" means "truth"

Just when you thought Denmark was the country we should all aspire to be... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Historians are often tempted to tell you something is "worth about X in today's dollars." Here's why I think you should not do that, and what I think you should do instead buttondown.com/anotherway/a...

Does anyone know how to talk to a person at Virgin Media UK? I left them on 28th July but they've tried to bill me twice since. Luckily I guessed they'd be useless and cancelled my direct debit. Their phone menus lead nowhere useful. The most relevant option leads to them just hanging up!

'In 1923, she crossed a line few titled women dared to approach – and one few even imagined was ever really open to them – when she stood for election and won' www.heraldscotland.com/poli... @sandradick.bsky.social

Higher attainment gap stays the same this year but is still higher than ever other year since 2016. ANALYSIS from Education Specialist @jamesmcenaney.bsky.social‬: www.heraldscotland.com/news...

For the period 1995 to 2015, finance industry made a negative contribution of £4,500bn to the UK economy. Nearly two years GDP was wiped out and living standards have not recovered. But UK govts are again deregulating. It won't end differently.

I'm perfectly happy for DeGeneres to live here in the UK, but how is she allowed to do so, when women fleeing genuinely terrible lives are too often not? www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

This sounds like an Express headline. I suppose it's not promising the EXACT time that the rain will arrive.

During the First World War, a shortage of men meant that Dundee hired female tram conductors for the first time. But things did not go smoothly. The women did not get a pay rise when the men did - so they took legal action. Read the full story on our blog: dundeecityarchives.w...

Before And After (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2025/07/18/before-and-after/ - Mural by CitéCréation in Lyon, France.

@savebutterflies.bsky.social What counts as a sighting? Suppose I see a peacock butterfly, it flies away and then I see a peacock butterfly again: is that 2 peacock butterflies or just one because it might actually be the same butterfly making a second visit?

Sadly a hopeless case with Starmer in control, but what the heck, worth a try!

Somehow I'm not feeling surprised.

I've been watching a bit of Wimbledon for the first time in a few years. I think someone needs to tell the commentators that their job is to stay quiet apart from the occasional "oh, I say!".

Now climate change is getting very serious! www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Where's the Guardian's Martin Bedlam gone? No Thursday quiz for the second week in a row.

This is a worryingly Trumpian response by the UK Foreign Office. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I wonder whether there'll be a second date? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social @dundeecycling.co.uk

McDonald's says their new restaurant will be accessible to cyclists. What it will actually do is create a dangerous junction crossing Dundee's only serious cyclepath. It should not be given permission. @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social @dundeecycling.co.uk

People need to buy the rights to a novel if they want to make a movie out of it -- which is indisputably a separate work of art. People need to buy the rights to a song if they want to use it in a commercial -- and that permission is often refused. Why should AI get a 100% discount?

Bank robbers say asking banks for permission would kill the heist industry.

@dundeecycling.co.uk @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social

I want my wife and children to feel they can ride a bike in our neighborhood, not just me. We have shops, schools, parks, doctors, rail links to central London all within 5-10 mins bike ride. My wife doesn't feel safe, so we do a lot less than we could. It's an issue of equity. Choice, freedom

This is because every novel has short sentences now. This is how contemporary writers write. They don't care about "flow". Neither do they care about "rhythm". They write whole novels out of short sentences. Like this one. I hate it. It's unreadable. Just appalling.

GUEST BLOG by Alan Brown. Craiganour Estate has got away with a criminal offence. andywightman.scot/2025/05/crai...

Today I searched my shelves in vain for Slaughter House 5, which I know we have. I found 2 copies of Catcher in the Rye (1 bought because the other could not be found) and my old lost copy of the Mabinogion. What's the point of holding on to books if I can't find one when I need it? Clear out time.

I hear she’s got MS-13.

Competition on Madrid-Barcelona: Average fares down 40%; rail’s share of the air/rail market increases from 59% to 82%. inspain.news/competition-...

Why do we find people on phones on trains annoying? I used to think it was because unlike people talking in real life you only got to hear one side of the conversation. But yes, speaker phone conversations are annoying too.

Guilty of being Black in the vicinity of some White people committing a crime. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Yet another motorist is allowed to continue driving after hitting a cyclist. No wonder people are afraid to cycle when events like this are not taken seriously @dundeecycling.co.uk www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/cour...

And for those at the back who missed it, the climate in Denmark is pretty similar to Northern England (I.e. climate, average temperature and rainfall are more favourable in Southern England). All it takes is political will and a realisation that cars are required far less than many think.

Dear Volodymyr Zelenskyy, dear Ukrainian friends, you are not alone.

The irony of an AI company complaining that another AI company has stolen its intellectual property. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I've just signed up to take part in the #GreatUKWaterBlitz by @earthwatcheurope.bsky.social. Join the fight for healthy freshwater here: earthwatch.org.uk/greatukwater...

This #ValentinesDay, the Assynt Elm Project are seeking volunteers to help some lonely elm trees at the Little Assynt Tree Nursery. Some of these trees are too remote to cross-pollinate with other elms, so the Trust are planting new trees to keep them company🌳❤️ More info: https://buff.ly/42NkF1p

This is a remarkably calm article from The Daily Telegraph Wed, Feb 12, 2025. I access Press Reader through my library ticket, otherwise this might be behind a paywall. The economy is in better shape than it looks pressreader.com/article/2823...

January 13 marks 85 years since the death of Matilda, whose name at birth was Abake – meaning ‘born to be loved by all’ among the Tarkar people of Western Africa.

M. Thiberville, who lived in Paris, leaves a fortune to the town of Thiberville, whose mayor is M. Paris. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

£10.4 million of jewellery...? A bit of me is congratulating the burglar and none of me is feeling sympathetic towards the residents. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024...

Before you start complaining that you never see charity tractor runs these days www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/angu...

The Home Office continues to be basically evil. And the fact that the new government is making it worse is beyond betrayal of British values.

‘On the day Notre Dame reopens after a devastating fire, Scotland’s finest building, the Mackintosh School of Art, lies in ruins. Is it only Edinburgh that really matters in our threadbare cultural priorities?’ Interesting provocation by Neil Gilmour. www.reformscotland.com/whas-like-us...