At an alternative comedy show for seven-year-olds. Wish me luck. In good news: it only lasts an hour! How bad can it be?!!

Cost of the water in a £1.60 bottle of Glaceau Smartwater, drawn from a publicly owned spring, according to this Observer article? £0.00003 No, I haven't got the decimal point wrong.

A "max-three-hour-mum" who focuses her time with her children on "high impact" activities like vacations? Ghastly. However, so many men over the years have behaved in the same selfish way, so the criticism of Emma Grede (shurely 'Greed', ed.?) feels a tad sexist.

Shocking research by The Observer into how little companies pay for the spring water they bottle. Coca-Cola's Galceau brand bottles up to 674m litres of water in Morpeth, for example. Its turnover is about £30m. It pays £6,070 for the license to take the water. Harrogate Spring Water pays £6.348.

📢 Once more for the people in the back: - Most [more than 95%] of archives have not been digitized. - Most of humanity's knowledge and memory is *not* reachable by LLMs. - Believing that AI can provid you with comprehensive, definitive, "intelligent" results is folly.

The Economist summing up Starmer in pointed fashion.

Attacks hit neighbourhoods in Gaza City far beyond the line Israeli forces are meant to hold under the ceasefire.

Anyone staying up to watch France Reserves vs England Reserves in the World Cup tonight? Nah, thought not.

Really interesting thread about Burnham.

The Torygraph leads with this about Burnham and Kinnock as if it was a bad thing!

The best description of Thatcherism I've ever read.

Cherry bakewell jaffa cakes? I have no idea where our nearest Sainsbury's is, but I need to find out.

Shame on the not-so-Greens.

Every morning it's a battle to get the seven-year-old out of bed. Except, of course, for the first morning of the school holidays...

Watched Ann Droid assuming it'd make me laugh - the brilliant Diane Morgan and the absolute genius of Sue Johnston. And it is funny. By goodness is it poignant.

Love #TOTP Fridays - a little for the music and the memories, but more for the community of fabulous people it brings together here commenting on it.

Poignant to hear a mention of Black on #totp

"I'm going to fight for the right to get into your..." Yeah, they weren't really thinking "heart", where they? #TOTP

Bruce Willis really can't sing, can he? #totp

The historical parallels are terrifying.

Seems if you post anything positive here about Andy Burnham, the Corbynistas and Greens (in many cases the same) are going to pile in with their predictable hostility. It's like being on X, only with the hard left on the attack rather than the far right.

Andy Burnham, "Britain took a series of wrong turns in the 1980s" "The country surrendered control of the essentials: housing, water, energy, transport, and left people exposed to higher costs" "The right use the phrase, take back control.But they are the ones who gave it away in the first place"

Farage and especially Polanski must be panicking. Come on, Andy!

There's a woman happily chasing her child around our daughter's school playground who looks exactly like a demented Liz Truss, and it's truly scary!

Brian Leveson: was a Lord Justice but not a Lord. Was also a "Sir" but would be called "My Lord" in court. Now not a Lord Justice but a Lord. But not a Law Lord, obviously.

In a massive blow to pedants everywhere, Lord Justice Leveson is now Lord Leveson

It's so easy to beat science.

Brexit killed people.

Political sketch-writing at its very best, even by the incredibly high standards that @mrjohncrace.bsky.social always sets. A brilliant takedown of Truss, Toby Young, IDS and other idiots on the right.

I raved about "May We Feed The King" here a few weekends back, after I read it from cover to cover. Delighted that Rebecca Perry has won this award for her quite magnificent book. Almost Ishiguro-like in its writing. Almost Perfume-like in the way it evokes texture. Booker winner next, I hope.

If Liverpool had lost a European final last night, I'd be wandering round feeling bereft today. England losing in the World Cup? A real pity, but...

Absolutely brilliant thread.

Blatant breach of FIFA rules. Overturn the result. Kick Argentina out. 3-0 to England.

"what should we label these copper nanotubes?" "well, the symbol for copper is Cu, 'nano' is N, and 'tubes' is T" "let's go with CuNTs then. great work team" doi.org/10.1039/b614... (visual abstract), submitted by @richvn.bsky.social

If Jurgen Klopp does take over, I'm supporting Germany in the next World Cup. Less painful.

Love that Argentinian player Alexis Mac Allister. If only #LFC had someone with that amount of commitment, skill and aggression... (The ultimate illustration of how awful Slot was as a manager.)

Come on, Spain... FFS.

Two minutes left. Can Harry Kane and Jude Bellingham start playing now?

Not stressed about the football. Not stressed about the football. Not stressed about the football. SO F#CKING STRESSED ABOUT THE FOOTBALL.

Did the BBC opening credits for the football really just show footage of British soldiers from the Falklands War?

Two small steps from home. Come on, England!

Ian Byrne's speech in the Commons about the Hillsborough Law was truly magnificent and deeply moving. Sorry: the link takes you to X. But it really is worth a listen. His fortitude and perseverance in fighting for this law has been awe-inspiring. #JFT97

This would be a huge mis-step by Burnham if true.

I dislike Badenoch intensely, but by goodness was she impressive at Starmer's final PMQs just now. Funny and thoughtful.

The comments in reply to this are fab!

A quite wonderful and moving article by a journalist who has done so much to help to bring about #jft97

The most important football-related thing this week, World Cup included. #jft97 #ynwa

This is brilliant!!!

Argentina. Spain. HOME.