3/4 of the way through this and Mitch Benn is delivering a tour de force. Safe to say he likes Blade Runner. A great listen!

The breadth of issues that Ariane de Rothschild and Epstein discussed is extraordinary, including her husband’s alleged substance abuse issues Benjamin de Rothschild died of a heart attack in 2021. Edmond de Rothschild Group told the FT she met Epstein as “part of her normal functions” at the bank

Excellent and depressing in equal measure

A classic of the genre!

While some cities still say, “That would never work here,” others are setting aside excuses and turning ambition into action—reclaiming streets, reimagining mobility, and shaping safer, more inclusive public spaces. These are 35 cities in 20 countries we visited this year that are leading the way.🧵

The judges’ scores for this year’s wreath laying are in.

"Look at his face, JUST LOOK AT HIS FACE!". #lestweforget

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS: TOKYO DRIFT with David Hoare shows.acast.com/smershpod/ep...

An excellent (if somewhat depressing) read

I'm cleaning up my camera roll, and I realize I have a lot of pictures of pavings, an obsession of mine. I will add them to this ongoing thread until I run out of them, I get bored or I forget. I will try to give some basic info for each of them and rate it. THE ULTIMATE PAVING THREAD

Here is a 🧵on what I think the ideal cycleway should look like, based on many years of me cycling on Dutch cycle infrastructure all over the country 👇

An update on the war following a recent trip. The situation has improved compared with Fall 2024. Russian offensive momentum slowed significantly over the winter, though it is premature to claim that the front has stabilized, especially following AFU withdrawal in Kursk. /1

The last time Newcastle won a domestic trophy was before Jamal Khashoggi was born

Anyway, if MailOnline are going to stick their story behind a paywall then I'm going to make mine available for free for 24 hours. So have a read, stick this in your WhatsApp group, and just help me spread the word about where to get the real thing. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell. This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

“there are Neville Chamberlain’s in every generation” George Monbiot’s takedown of Matt Goodwin and the Reform party is a thing of beauty 👏 #bbcqt

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

Here’s a short story about who wins and loses from the status quo of our inheritance tax rules - and about, what you might politely call ‘sub-optimal’ journalism🧵