The other nations should announce a bank holiday if England lose, just to balance things out.

Can't believe I logged on after a day of work to find such an aggressively targeted sub-tweet as this.

Gotta say, always impressed by Charlize Theron's work ethic. Even though she slept through the alarm, she made it to the photo shoot on time, even if she was still in her pyjamas.

Unfortunately, a stunned Paris is how they all got into this whole mess to begin with

It's not improbable that Reform fall below 20% in VI by the end of the year. It's reasonably likely that some Lab to LD/Grn voters will give Burnham the benefit of the doubt. What's definite is that both happening will lead to a flurry of terrible "whisper it, the two-party system's back" articles.

Apparently there's an otter candidate, also there's at least three now.

BBC: “what can you offer the people of Clacton?” Binface: “I’m not Nigel Farage.” Killer manifesto.

The creative industries employ more than 2million people, contribute around £130bn annually to the UK economy, or over 5% of GDP, while growing at double the UK average, but sure let’s cut government funding for arts education, that’ll help our ailing economy I’m sure.

The idea of a sport becoming “too inclusive” is completely absurd. It’s sport bruv. You can tell if someone is good or not on the basis of whether they win or lose, you don’t have to worry about anything else you aging freak show.

little to add to Platner discourse that others haven't said better. so i'll just say once again that the era of consequence free politics is no good and it is important to bring back shame

I think sometimes you should consider if these people have gone mad since you left, or if they were always mad and you just never noticed when you were there. Choosing to stay suggests an unhealthy mind at this point.

I don’t understand why the Americans didn’t just field their best team instead of the one with all the men on it.

I agree with Adam. The rest of the world should be rooting for Belgium purely for the lols. Lol, it’s Belgium. Go Belgium! We love your stupid Germany flag, but rotated 90 degrees!

Whenever my children return home from university for the holidays this is how I intend to announce it: “Prince Harry has formally accepted an invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace for part of his visit to London this week” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I’m not really sure what the problem is here. It’s long established political practice that a PR statement announcing something is the same as that thing happening. Claiming that the thing actually needs to happen isn’t following the rules.

They’re not wrong - from what I can see it only lasted two days and there was barely a thousand guests.

I can’t believe the establishment made Farage accept all those bribes!

All those attacking the English today, just remember: we were one of the first victims of colonialism.

Americans are so weird.

you know who else made a call to a higher power to reverse a penalty for us

The basic problem is pretty explicable and not exclusive to apprenticeships: training is expensive in both time and money and highly risky, before committing you cannot know if the student will complete it, whether they will be good at it, or even if there will be a job st the end.

“None of them seem to understand that an apprentice needs an employer.” - fantastic piece on why the UK’s politicians keep calling for apprenticeships while providing fewer and fewer:

Just remember: England was the first victim of Scottish imperialism before it spread itself across the world.

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He’s absolutely fucking right. We are vilifying THE SHIT out of the rich.

Oh no! Your conservative champion turned about to be a massive crook again. I wonder why this keeps happening to you. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Larry is the Elon Musk of cats

Larry, the crypto cat

So close! This is actually the opposite of the lesson of HS2.

The award for alt text should go to…

Some of us are old enough to remember when the people on there cheering on pogroms in Northern Ireland would say “Twitter is not Britain” and mock others for taking it seriously.

Lisa Nandy has awoken from her slumber. Come on lads, which handsome prince stole a blatant-sexual-assault-kiss and broke that witch’s spell?

For more on how to talk about tech sold as "AI" in more precise terms: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

When even policy based evidence making fails.

Not to brag, but the one (1) time I presented a paper at an academic conference, my audience was much bigger than that.

I want someone to do a live action adaptation of a Wizard of Earthsea with an all black cast just so I can see all the usual suspects have a meltdown over it being woke, followed by everyone else going: “what the fuck are you on about? The book literally says Ged’s skin is red-brown.”

This is a funny cartoon, but I would like to remind everyone that Ged is black.

I predict Tech CEOs will invent some way to have books read aloud to them as a replacement for podcasts. Some sort of book, but in audio form.

Okay, but that’s just how I look in a tracksuit anyway. Why is this Rick Owen fella trying to steal my style?

My other half just told me she got our youngest daughter a subscription to The Week Junior and my immediate reaction was: “okay. Was there no FT Junior?” Apparently there isn’t. Which feels like a problem to me. Someone needs to sort that out.

My other half just told me she got our youngest daughter a subscription to The Week Junior and my immediate reaction was: “okay. Was there no FT Junior?” Apparently there isn’t. Which feels like a problem to me. Someone needs to sort that out.

Okay, I’m gonna need some help from the Bluesky divinity peeps here If JD Vance basically says the Pope isn’t catholic, then where does he think bears shit?

WTF Man? Now I just feel bad for those musicians. There’s more people on the stage than in front of it. Why did nobody call this off? Honestly, I hope they’re just jamming and having fun together, because this is just sad.

A lot of Very Serious People are happy to defend criminals so long as they are rich criminals.

I think we reached the “this is just straight up immoral” part of the migration debate a while back, but “charging children to provide them shelter after fleeing from war” is pretty uncomplicated immoral.

Getting ready to watch Morocco in the World Cup knockout round? Here are a couple of fascinating Revolutionary-era American & Moroccan histories first, connections that make them the perfect team to be playing during the U.S.’s 250th anniversary week. Quick thread 🗃️ +

Last week the House of Lords spent three hours debating threats to democracy. What was striking to me about it wasn't any single speech, it was that half the room was describing one half of the problem, the other half was describing the other half, and almost nobody connected the two. 🧵

Ah, yes. Good idea to exclude Milton Keynes. It’s not like it has full employment and a highly educated workforce or anything.

Characters behaving rationally is irrational to me. Nobody I know behaves rationally.

That is such an hilarious answer. “The character said they would do one thing, but did the opposite. That isn’t believable.” Really? Are you sure? Have you met people?