Renowned author Dan Brown?

In 2016, I said Brexit would mean losing a decade faffing around to get back to a relationship with the EU that was similar to what we had, but a bit worse. I was wrong. I was far too optimistic. 10 years on and we have no bloody clue what our relationship with the EU needs to be. 20 years?

The frustrating thing being this has been obvious since the GE, but hey let’s still try and win over Reform voters…

Still, at least you’ve got a wide selection of racists on today’s various marches

It’s easy to forget that for the hardcore right, antisemitism really is the wellspring As in: they contend that immigration is being orchestrated by the grand Jewish conspiracy so it can get a complete stranglehold over the true Anglo-Saxon

Your periodic reminder that racists are comprehensively racist and we would do well to stop pretending otherwise.

Judging by the conversations I’ve just had in Makerfield my bus theory is correct (also true from chatting to people in Wigan a few weeks ago)

Dozens of empty Waymos invaded an Atlanta neighborhood and circled a cul-de-sac for hours with no passengers www.wsbtv.com/news/local/a...

So Badgers has been added to the BFI archives. Honestly this feels like quiite an honor. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNqb...

thanks, yougov

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If anyone is looking for evidence of misallocation within the economy...

This is the point

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

Tbf the Protestants have been a bit down on the Pope for a while

The parallel to quantitative skills is a good one, I think. Any calculation you might care to do has been automated for most of our lifetimes, & yet a good numerical sense - what numbers matter or don't, the scale of change & impacts, etc - remain invaluable skills, in life & professionally

Surely this is the hero Labour needs now

Great thread (h/t @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com) One slight variation on Derek's argument (tho like he says, social media is no good for nuance): Western attitudes to fashion are paradoxical. While its study is not considered serious, it has often been used very skilfully as a tool of power

And the ones who think they could win a tennis point off Serena Williams

So here's a though, triggered by a great piece by Sophie Pender at the 93% Club... Is the current culture war ferment caused - at least in part - because we still haven't settled after the social order got disrupted in the mid-C20th, when we said meritocracy was now the order of the day?

I personally love to read shit like "U.S. Pauses 'Project Freedom'" in headlines. Not all good jokes need to be complicated.

Like a gut punch, this quietly spoken sentence from Lubaina Himid who is representing the UK at the Venice Biennale www.ft.com/content/2a58...

I can't believe that, almost a year later, the Shrek gravestone still hasn't sold

If you spend a bit of time with the history of the 1st millennium in the Christian world, you encounter a lot of bickering over various theological and it can all seem a bit odd. Things like this remind you that maybe culture wars are the real forever wars

First came across these beautiful flowers courtesy of the 90s Amiga RPG ‘Elvira: Mistress of the Dark’ And they say you get nothing from computer games

Cthulhuriac

The Confederates would have won if they hadn’t lost. Strong analysis. No wonder Iran is proving tricky.

The BBC is running this story saying the business of passing catfish off as cod is called 'fish fraud' Surely there's another name for this....? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Looks better than Pizza Express

WTH is wrong with our political class that they think was justified

oh, THAT Shivon Zillis

At least the end of May. That’s fine then.

It’s all face-eating leopards

Something completely unique about the AI boom: the biggest capex spenders are doing so out of petty cash. There are definitely excesses on the foundation lab side but they're substantially all financed by equity investments.

if only Louis XVI had had a ballroom he might be alive today

Let’s not forget the argument that the last decade of British politics is a consequence of an MP getting pissed up in a Parliamentary bar

I don’t believe in conspiracy theories But wouldn’t it be *amazing* if the whole thing was staged so he could build his ballroom?!

A good reminder here from Giles, that costs can have benefits... It's one of those irregular verbs: I am over-regulated You are benefitting from an orderly society He is being prevented from killing us all with his crackpot behaviour

Very Gotham

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

I think quite a lot of people would say the government in general is going nowhere and that’s the problem

Ah yes, The Butterfield Diet Plan. It’s increbidle! youtu.be/1NjTWvl8x-U?...

Their feud boiled over in 1451, contributing to the early stages of the Wars of Roses

How often is big Nige setting his alarm clock and getting up early?

Good job it's not full, or this would have been a very nasty crash

Went to see Copenhagen at the Hampstead Theatre tonight, which was splendid. Thought I’d see what the reviews said. Not sure this reviewer actually saw the play…which is entirely about the conflicted morality of the Allied scientists building a bomb that was then used (as mentioned) on Hiroshima