Thailand’s Navy seized a Cambodian fishing boat that it said was operating in Thai territorial waters, prompting an angry protest from Phnom Penh and adding additional strain to the two nations’ tense relationship.

Spot on. "Meetings happen, but the fundamental problem remains: Russia’s objective is not land, but the destruction of Ukraine. [..]The dark truth remains. Nothing could be more dangerous than any kind of victory for Putin or defeat for Ukraine." www.policymagazine.ca/in-ukraine-t...

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Good news. 👏👏👏

'St Paul's, Evening Light' (2024) by Matthew Alexander matthewalexanderfineart.co.uk

"Prominent economists, including from Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, calculate that the AI buildup was directly responsible not for 92 percent or 39 percent of gains to the U.S. economy in 2025, but as little as zero."

The Trump Organization signs a deal to build its first tower in Australia, in a project worth 1.5 billion Australian dollars ($1.06 billion) that developers say will become the country’s tallest building.

The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

"The report, reviewed by the FT, decided against using Palantir technology for Swiss military data since there was a risk that US authorities could gain access to the sensitive files." Yet here Labour continues to shove public money down its throat.

The thing is during the Cold War the explicit tradeoff was supposed to be: levels of economic inequality no one could seriously defend morally on own terms AND was socially corrosive, for personal freedom with respect to the state. Now....

It's funny how it is 🧐🧐

'Kensington Gardens.' (c1901) Paul Maitland's pictures are modest, attentive, and closely observed. He was a flaneur, a walker of the city, alert to its passing life, scenes which are rendered with a clarity that resists the dissolving shimmer associated with French Impressionism

Reform could gain another MP this Thursday. That's why we're urging Labour, Lib Dem, & other party supporters to lend their vote to the Greens this time in Gorton & Denton. We've carried out extensive research and it points to this being our best chance of stopping a very real threat from Reform.

L: Scoop in The Telegraph yesterday boasting: “The Telegraph has learnt that the King urged his mother, Elizabeth II, to veto the appointment but his warnings that it would end in disaster were ignored” R: Flunkey’s column from Eye 1668, three weeks ago. Stay ahead of the news; buy the Eye.

“A still more glorious dawn awaits, not a sunrise, but a galaxy-rise … a morning filled with 400 billion suns — the rising of the Milky Way.” Hello, my very oldest friend. It’s good to see you again.

‘We are living through dark, disturbing and dangerous times, but do not despair, the calvary is coming.” This is a welcome #CupOfJoe from The Boss. He has a long-standing history of donating to charity, often doing so discreetly in the cities where he plays.  @brucespringsteen.net 🔥

"Single vaccine could protect against all coughs, colds and flus, researchers say" www.bbc.com/news/article...

Cuba's health minister tells AP that US sanctions are no longer just crippling the island's economy, they're threatening "basic human safety." apnews.com/article/cuba-healt...

Dude, the butchers can’t sell anything because AI took their door away

‼️Officer detailed “mind boggling” cryptocurrency transactions between Kushner’s company & Russian individual. ‼️Fired for raising concerns about 100+ politically-connected individuals who had been shielded from typical anti-money laundering reviews. @levernews.com www.levernews.com/the-complian...

Who is surprised that tech built by rich dudes is biased against women 👇

A maternity ward doctor donated his own blood during surgery to keep a pregnant patient alive. One woman gained fewer than 10 pounds over her entire pregnancy. Another collapsed and had seizures during labor. (Published Dec. 2025)

Giant tortoises have returned to Floreana Island in Ecuador's Galapagos archipelago as conservationists release 158 juvenile hybrids to restore the ecosystem.

Where silence meets elegace Shaped by balance and intention🌳♥️

Just so I understand this right: The AI companies are buying up all the chips so that they can generate enough AI compute power to stuff it into all of our new phones, computers, and devices, but because they bought so many chips, there will be no more new phones, computers or devices.

The irony of the whole, "Rachel From Accounts" name, is that Reeves is the most qualified CX we have ever had in terms of qualifications, and in terms of experience, she did actually work in an economic role at the Bank of England for six years.

The Lee Shore - 1941 https://botfrens.com/collections/173/contents/40059

We appear to be at the planning and preparation stages of what would be an act of aggression of considerable gravity and scale, in manifest violation of the UN Charter.

U.S. forces have turned Sofia International Airport in Bulgaria into a major staging ground for aerial refueling of tankers to support future strikes on Iran.

Gangster diplomacy continues 👇

Four parties tied in the polls. A governing majority on just 34% of the vote. This isn’t stability, it’s a warning. If Britain is now a multi-party democracy, why are we still using a 19th-century voting system? Electoral reform is needed writes Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP

Council of Nicaea: "You have no authority here, Bedford Borough Council!"

Here is the finished female cardinal. The original and prints will be available on Friday :) #watercolours #birdart 🪶

👇Heckling the king certainly pays dividends. Perhaps we could all start talking about the excessive Royal Grant next?

Is this a “canary-in-the-coalmine” moment, similar to August 2007? This will be on the mind of some investors and policymakers as they assess the news that, quoting the FT,the “private credit group Blue Owl will permanently restrict investors from withdrawing their cash from its inaugural private...

Pearl Johnson (1926) by Laura Knight, the English painter, who was visiting the US, was later taken to a civil rights meeting by the subject of this work, a Baltimore nurse #womensart

Antonia Romeo appointed as cabinet secretary - @alexgathomas.bsky.social and I wrote last week about the challenges ahead for her and what lessons need to be taken from Wormald's tenure: www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/next...

NEW: The UK’s approach to fiscal policy needs a rethink. 📗 Instead of pass–fail fiscal rules and the consequent fixation on ‘fiscal headroom’, @benzaranko.bsky.social’s new report argues that the UK would be better served by a new framework, based around a set of ‘fiscal traffic lights’:

"...it's a mysterious and marvelous fact that our universe obeys laws of nature that always turn out to be expressible in the language of calculus as sentences called differential equations." — Steven Strogatz, 'Infinite Powers' 🔭 🧪 #Hubble images' description, sources, credits in the ALT text

State Sen. Neil Anderson (IL) introduced a "fetal personhood" bill which would define a fertilized human egg as a legal "person." IT could lead to first-degree murder charges for abortions. Senate Republican Leader John Curran called the bill anti woman & a no. abc7chicago.com/post/illinoi...

3 in 4 Britons say they see big gaps between social classes. But concern over inequality takes a back seat to other major issues like inflation, the UK economy and the NHS. 👉Find out more in Perceptions of #SocialMobility in the UK https://bit.ly/4oCzAmp

Today is my birthday and if you wanted to get me a gift, feel free to share my work 😊 🦊 🐟

This beautiful pendant dates from 801–1000 CE and measures just 2.6cm in diameter. It is made from gold and decorated with cloisonné enamel on both sides. On one side there is a lion with a green body and a protruding red tongue, on the other side is a delicate flower decoration. AN1896-1908.M.190

BREAKING: Ukrainian officials have said they will not be taking part in the Winter Paralympics, following Russia's participation