Gee we've had some rain. Overdue, I suppose. #c4news

'Vexatious nonsense', Rusbridger sums up perfectly Trump's threat to sue. #c4news

Can't help thinking with a lot of stories, including those about Trump, 'bullies claiming to be victims'. #c4news

The destruction is bad enough in itself, but the irrevocable nature of it is horrific. Guillermo Galdos report on illegal gold mining in Amazonia. #c4news

A pal of mine took a couple of valium frying back from Bangkok and was awoken by cabin crew giving him CPR in the aisle after they'd landed!

Thought that was a good report by Sophie Braybrook on dangers of tanning products sold online. #c4news

Return to the 70s. Weird and harmful the fashion for looking tanned. #c4news

A long time past time to kill the stigma about raising income tax. #c4news

'Always a pleasure. Thank you.' #c4news Smooth.

New research finds no link between Tylenol use during pregnancy and autism, despite Trump’s claims www.statnews.com/2025/11/10/h...

David Dimbleby not even questioning that he's always wanted to run the BBC. #c4news

'...since he's been in the White House.'#c4news Exactly. All the American media have caved since he became POTUS again because he abused the power of the office to force them to do so.

Gary Lineker would be a tremendous piss boiler.

When is someone finally going to stand up to the lying bully? #c4news

Quick thread on the BBC and the political and societal significance of recent developments: One of the main reasons the UK has historically been so much less polarised than the US, is that Britain has a shared source of information, consumed and trusted by most people regardless of their politics.

Lying liar lies with fake threat to sue media that quoted his words. (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

At an event where a speaker said: "The moment you are transparent with your trust and safety rules, you give a guidebook to your enemies on how to game them." Which feels pretty much where the BBC has ended up! All this focus on being open and transparent just gives levers for opponents to pull.

Tate will mark the 250th anniversary of JMW Turner and John Constable’s births with Turner & Constable: Rivals & Originals, due to open on November 27, to showcase the works at the centre of the painters’ legendary feud side by side. (£) www.thetimes.com/culture/art/...

Oh. Times has been reporting for months now on all the rich people leaving London. (£) www.thetimes.com/uk/london/ar...

Thesis committee. Charles Bridge Prague.

Why leaves change colour in autumn thetimes.com/comment/regi... One September I spent a few days in Dawson City, sleeping in my tent in the (free) Yukon River Campground on the west bank. Each morning I could see the turning colours spread down the forest on the east side.

Letter in Times today from @paulabarkermp.bsky.social Bob Blackman @laylamoran.bsky.social @elliechowns.bsky.social

Government borrowing costs don’t look alarming compared with other major economies. Successful tax-raising budgets in the past have generally pulled one big lever. A long list of smaller and more complicated taxes can easily backfire. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

It takes a village to raise a child, and sometimes it takes state, law and community to control one. Blaming parents is too easy. (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

People with ME/CFS in Aneurin Bevan UHB can use the Symptom Management Service at any age or level of severity. Read more about it and let us know your experience, especially of the Paediatric service. tinyurl.com/53wyc6ry

In the last week I've used up five hours chasing a repeat prescription and an emergency outpatient appointment for my son. Phone the outpatients line every day at 8.30am, wait in the 20 person queue and hope for a cancellation is the current advice. Exhausted and fed up.

A months-long siege of Bamako by an al-Qaeda affiliate threatens to topple the Malian junta, which had turned to Russian mercenaries to fight the jihadists, and turn the nation into the first in Africa to be ruled by an Islamist terrorist group. (£) www.thetimes.com/world/africa...

I fear that if Johnson were asked this today, there would be lot of umming & erring, some guff about "the custard of conciliation" & "the tiramisu of time", but he would refuse to answer. That a US President tried to overthrow an election is now unsayable on the British Right & in much of the media

Very interesting paper. Confirms what we knew from cross-country studies - large, rapid effects. The really interesting part is the firm-level analysis, which shows similar, if somewhat lower, magnitudes. www.nber.org/papers/w3445...

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

This accidentally turned into a short thread. Bit of a rage-thread I'm afraid. Please read to the end if you can. Thanks

New post just out: Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list". No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks. It desperately needs a new approach. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/f...

Eligible for solar panel scheme. Surveyor came June. All planned out. Signed contracts. Scaffolding up last week front & back & in neighbour's yard on one side. Panels delivered this morning at 8. Installation team arrived. Oh. Historical water damage in roof. Can't go ahead.

I made this picture in Alberta. frankkingphotos.ca/2023/11/10/u.... A solemn and moving experience.

Vladimir Medinsky: "To stay in power forever you need a constant enemy, you need a war that doesn’t personally threaten you." But guess what? He thinks he's saying that about Ukraine. However, this is much more applicable to Russia.

Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection. Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?

Toby Young?

The Edge of Everything is a slim, bright volume of poetry and nature-celebrating prose written in tribute to Lottie Williams’ recently-passed father. A book of light, loss and life, where the ordinary becomes extraordinary ✍️ Julie Brominicks

Available here www.youtube.com/watch?v=fni6...

'Globally the lessons of war have still not ended them. A human life is still treated far too cheaply. But today is a celebration of its value. Lest we forget.' #c4news Really good report on Remembrance Day by @symeonbrown.bsky.social

We should care about bats and newts while providing places for people to live. We're clever enough to do both. Thing is, we're not very good at looking after each other or sharing this planet with other life. We're selfish & exploit everything. 😞 Thought Helena Dollimore did well there. #c4news

Boris Johnson, that heroic champion of absolute honesty and the whole truth. #c4news

The problem with the BBC (or any media) doing things like that is that the one misjudgment is used as 'proof' the whole is fake or at least untrustworthy, which of course is not true. #c4news

I am currently out of the philosophy department on parental leave. if this inquiry is about classes for next semester, please email the chair of the department. if your inquiry is about the nature or existence of the external world, please consult René Descartes' work

We weren't awful this afternoon. We stuck at it. We had periods when we did some good things. But there were also some bad moments, loose errors, poor shape in defence, not winning our own lineout, etc. #Cymru #Wales Need to tighten some things up. And we must beat Japan.

Thought third series of #BlueLight was good, better than second in fact. Though not sure about the lad's last words after the car crash. 'I'm OK,' or 'It's OK'. Can't recall which. Think mine would be 'God that was awful.' Or maybe 'What a f***ing waste of time.'

Understaffed FAA Recommends Pilots Just Go With Their Gut https://theonion.com/understaffed-faa-recommends-pilots-just-go-with-their-gut/

In some ways, the breaking of the taboo on ever raising income tax rates should be welcomed. It would be much better, though, if it were the product of a carefully thought-out tax reform strategy. (£) www.thetimes.com/business-mon... By @dsmitheconomics.bsky.social Hard to disagree.

Her decisions may have had a small impact on borrowing costs & inflation. Other factors, like BoE policies & decades of poor growth have done more combined damage. Perhaps Reeves’s greatest failure has been to not see all of this coming (£) www.thetimes.com/comment/colu... By @tomcalver.bsky.social