Flag makers in China, presumably

Kemi you’re an idiot

Let’s go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “Owning inarticulate liberal kids in mass audience settings for the sake of producing viral videos isn’t real engagement, much less education,” our columnist Bret Stephens writes about Charlie Kirk. “Did Kirk ever lose an argument, at least in his own mind?”

“It was Ted Heath, then the Conservative leader of the opposition, who sacked Enoch Powell in 1968 — at a time when 74 per cent of the public agreed with Powell’s sentiments” www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

10 months late to this very good thread

“What we so often describe as politics is, in fact, a series of shoves: splenetic, emotional and with a wilful blindness to consequence that can be exploited by those with a clear destination in mind” - chilling but important read from @jonathanliew.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Tried U for United Kingdom. Then B for Britain. Then G for Great Britain. Was about to give up then finally noticed this….

Disgraceful.

“Despite ethical concerns”

On the same day in the Telegraph:

"We are the patriotic party" says Nigel Farage, who just spent the past few days slagging off his own country to a foreign superpower, while encouraging them to impose sanctions on our economy if we don't do what they say

Have I understood these new UK road markings correctly?

Obviously in the interests of impartiality this should be considered alongside an opinion piece in The Daily Telegraph

Another natural resource where humanity is living beyond its means: alarming

Labour's next biggest losses are to left-liberal parties (Liberal Democrats and Greens). Reform's growth in support has mostly come from the Conservatives and non-voting (much less from Labour). These reflect patterns of party-bloc voting that we saw in the 2024 UK GE: tinyurl.com/y5pv7thw

Narrator: it didn’t

I used to live in China (where Twitter was banned) and could never imagine this wonderful resource being blocked by a democratic country. However that resource is a thing of the past and the time to ban X is now long since overdue.

There's no better poster child for the mess the UK is now in than the fact that the Financial Times - home to the "how to spend it" supplement on luxury geegaws - is now one of the most left-wing media channels in the country simply because it's still interested in reality.

"The top story of the moment is the one story that our most influential newsrooms won’t touch: That the United State has become an authoritarian state." — Dan Froomkin @froomkin.bsky.social presswatchers.org/2025/08/we-h...

“Brexit was based on a promise to bring back control… it has weakened our control of our own borders by ending collaboration with our neighbours… Farage helped create conditions in which small boats come here, and blames the political class for consequences of a populist cause he promoted.”

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

About a sixth of the public endorse very extreme views on making legal/settled migrants leave & then follow up on the specifics. (This overlaps with the 8% who say they support violence in protests & liked the riots, so it should be challenged, not indulged)

100% this

⬇️ Data on data centers

Freedom of speech is not unlimited and the laws of this country restrict it for people who advocate others to be burned to death. It's not difficult.

The Daily Telegraph seems to be relentlessly negative about everything these days; it’s exhausting. Today’s exhibit: a “Worst Songs of All Time” feature, which …er… has Blue Monday and Champagne Supernova on its list.

oopsy

A lot of column inches in Singapore this week about the sudden closure of the much-loved independent cinema The Projector - a real loss to the island's cultural scene. cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com/entertainmen...

When a BJ realtor describes the apt as "豪华装修“

"These are the proverbial adults in the room. They had the power to create friction for fascism. They have instead created a glide-path."

🎯 www.thetimes.com/article/b4b0...

that summit could've been an email

Sigh. Once again The Telegraph is printing misinformation for its readers

Move over unpaid internships, you can now pay to go to an office and pretend to work

My cartoons for this week’s @theguardian.com books #holiday #vacation #reading

Horrific photos of the aftermath of the 1945 atom bombs in Japan, 80 years ago. A sobering reminder as conflict increases around the world. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/w...

What an unbelievable hour of sport to cap a truly amazing cricket series. Congrats India and commiserations England. Incidentally why is the final Test of the summer finishing at the start of August?

Today’s headline is whether it is worth spending money to save mountain villages from climate change; tomorrow’s will be about saving coastal cities, low-lying countries…. The less we invest to limit climate change the more it will cost www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Horrific-sounding flooding in the mountainous areas around Beijing - two years on from similar extreme weather on the other side of the city “A local man in his sixties said that he had never seen water levels so high”

Harrowing but important report by @cnn.com’s Isobel Yeung on the impact of the USAID cuts in Afghanistan youtu.be/z9DFpfc5N-M?...

Oops www.straitstimes.com/singapore/en...

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

‘Despite his wife’s opposition to the “expensive, risky, useless” idea, Zhang began pursuing his submarine dream’

What an incredible story (England’s goalkeeper was hit in the face in the last few minutes of extra time on Thursday, which I didn’t think would help her with the penalties… in fact she was born with a condition that affected her ability to determine distance) www.thetimes.com/article/09c1...

Trust @jonathanliew.bsky.social to have the best take on last night’s Lionesses quarter final against Sweden www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Reform = absolutely terrible party

Interesting comparison on the opportunities driven by technological change. On the other hand, a guitar pedal hasn’t knowingly led to the rise of deepfakes.

The Manhattan Project v2.0

Another amazing end to an evening of sport! 🇬🇧🚴‍♂️🥇🇮🇪 🚴 🟡 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🏏