Never ask A man his salary A woman her age An Indian chef how much ghee went into the recipe

I’m going to be honest, I’m not sure they are returning at 16:00.

There's a risk that Manchester (which is encircled by the M60) is "the south" by this definition 🤣

Can’t help thinking this one has bindun

Some stats: There are 99 players at this World Cup born in France. Of those, 76 are not playing for France (That's not just a football story. It's a history lesson) 2/5

Room 101: people who leave the notification sounds on their laptop unmuted 🤬 *Ding*ding*ding*ding* (launches commuter, and their laptop, through the high speed train window)

This! @liverpoolphil.bsky.social rehearse in an old church. Last Monday it was 23 degrees during Monday evening rehearsal. Today...25.

Burnham's big devolution speech should be taking place in a city not called Manchester (Leicester, Wolverhampton, Coventry, you take your pick) and I would have thought it was obvious why.

Chat, remind me how long Kwarteng lasted in office?

Art deco ceiling (x2) and hallway (x2) light fittings; potentially original to the house (1930). Either them or the occasional tables which are (Google image suggests) no later than mid-1930s.

Following on from the Marilyn Monroe centenary, a happy 100th birthday to Mel Brooks, born a few weeks later and wonderfully still with us. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...

bought a little grippy pushchair fan and it comes with a torch(?) for pure war of the worlds vibes

Sometimes, I truly wonder, do people think the AI-assisted mammogram is a radiologist putting your scan into ChatGPT with a prompt like, “Find all the cancer and make a meme of my puppy on the moon”?

An excellent use case for why people really need to be able to define “AI” and recognize it’s an umbrella term, not a synonym for heavyweight commercial LLMs/frontier models.

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

absolute height of comedy is when they cut to the goal and you see how many kid keepers they've got

are we sure

Reason 267 that you will pry my physical media from my cold, dead hands...

With Japanese I say "Metropolitan line was built before the Meiji restoration* I.e. 1863 Vs 1868

My version of this for how fast airplane technology developed? Orville Wright flew both the Wright Flyer and a Lockheed Constellation

More than half way to Net Zero in UK The key fact is that most people believe it is a long way off and hard. Only 8% believe we're halfway there. www.gov.uk/government/n...

I know a lot of you won’t care and I don’t expect you to, but FYI, this ‘refurb’ is not like. Redoing wallpaper and shit. It’s replacing 100-50 year old wiring, piping, boilers, insulation, etc. it’s a listed building renovation of a national symbol and major tourist site.

Pro tip jonn's commentary during this video is more fun if you imagine he's just talking to himself and it's unrelated to the dog.

Oh this is fun! The Rotterdam Phil plays a farewell prank on Lahav Shani by the musicians switching instruments! 😂🤪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8mY...

I didn't take a water bottle to school in the 80s. What I did do was have a splitting headache every sunny day. Water bottles are good.

This is awesome!

Ignore the fact that you've eaten the same ice cream for 30 years without issue, it's YOUR FAULT for not asking or checking the NEW ingredients. Cool. Cool.

It's terrifying when companies do this with dangerous allergens. I'm not saying that nothing should contain milk, but they shouldn't be allowed to add it to previously allergy-safe products without having a big, obvious notice on the packaging for several months.

"Huh - John, there's a lot of background noise where you are?" "Yeah, got the window open, sorry, and it's too hot for my camera to work" (is in the beer garden with a gorgeously cool pint)

That's some party, Scotland! 🥳🤞

I thought kick off was later and I’m sad I somehow missed it but that’s a great result for Scotland.

Somewhat unsurprisingly, solar is generating almost 38% of power being consumed in the UK right now.

Move over Keir and Kemi. Here's the real Prime Minister's Questions: Binface and Burnham! #PMQs

We just aren't generally conscious of AC - because it's set at a pleasant temperature - until it gets so hot that going to the supermarket to cool down becomes an inviting prospect. Whereas the US approach appears to be "wanna pretend it's winter? Hope you brought a sweater even tho its 35 out!"

Side note: I wonder if some of the European resistance to AC is down to having first CONSCIOUSLY encountered it on holiday in the US where the tendency is to have it set unpleasantly cold. Loads of European public or publicly accessible buildings have AC & nobody actually wants Tesco to rip it out

Heatwave-proof train picnic 😋🫠🥵

Last night's shopping took three glorious, A/C filled hours (we do visit 4-5 shops so this isn't as insane as it sounds)

Free air conditioning: M&S is always reliably freezing but all supermarkets have AC. Cinemas, department stores. Not AC but your local stone-built church will be much cooler than elsewhere, and opento the public. Home: Curtains closed. Windows open until it’s hotter outside than in, then closed.

Here in Andalucía many British tourists hide away from the midday sun ("mad dogs and Englishmen" vibes) and then wander around in the late afternoon wondering why it's so hot and where all the locals are...

Excellent thread in general but this is a particularly good photo (would not have wanted to cost Brown a point at anything, really)

Okay, since Right (Reich?) Move have taken down THAT house tour... ...here's the one line every historian dreads hearing from someone, and why.

this is something that has thrown me during more modern heatwaves that weren't common in my childhood. my brain just forever processes that temperature as "package holiday in mallorca".

This heat is so disorienting. Even at this time of night, when it’s actually got to a nice temperature, it’s a temperature that makes my brain go “we’re abroad!” yet I am visibly in Bloomsbury.

When you combine stuff like this with the ongoing heat jamboree, anyone talking about abandoning net zero should be laughed out of town as not just unserious but deeply, deeply stupid.

"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

No contest.

Should have got a retired signaller on to debate the pros and cons of letting the London Northwestern semi-fast from Crewe out in front of Burnham's train at Rugby, thus compounding the Pendolino's delay. (This is why I'm not a broadcast news producer.)

He would be bloody on time

9:24am this morning on Ardeer Beach on the Clyde Coast. This is the time when the Earth's northern hemisphere reaches its maximum tilt towards the sun, meaning the sun appears at its most northern point in the sky. This marks the exact moment of the summer solstice. #scotland #summersolstice

"WITNESS HISTORY IN DALLAS" is certainly a *choice* for an advertising slogan, FIFA.