I’ve reached the age where I’m always ready for bed at 10pm and I don’t need to set my alarm to wake at between 5-5.30 to take the dog for a walk or whatever. I don’t know if this is good or bad.

See yimbypod @jamesomalley.co.uk @mjrobbins.com for on the disaster that bbc local reporting has become

Damning

Yeah I'd only had three PMs by the time I turned 21. Think that's the lowest possible total for anyone alive today.

my sense of hope

Blue Labour will say “better to turn Camden into a marginal in order to win Barnsley” and then get absolutely destroyed in Barnsley.

These numbers are wild "More than 250,000 drivers were reported for speeding on the roads of the West Midlands last year - a rise from 111,000 in 2024." @ianwalker.bsky.social @adamtranter.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Quite rich to criticise Green voters for not working when the median Reform voter died in March 2025.

Not just 100k trap but also at 50k, especially for system 2 grads

this!

I think what is happening is that we have created a society that structurally favours older people and social media and working life is dominated by younger people almost definitionally. Inter generational changes are not well comprehended by aggregate stats.

Our colleague needs your help keeping a 1,200-year dataset alive! If you have botanical expertise or are based near Arashiyama, Kyoto — DM her or email [email protected].

Think that just as with computing, AI will change the economy, will change what is on school curriculums, will change what and how teachers do administrative tasks…but in terms of best practice in classroom teaching, not that much.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Please pause to consider for a moment 193 years of age. Jonathan the tortoise had been on the scene for nearly three decades by the time the US civil war started. The best part of a century when Titanic sank. We’ve lost a real-life time lord

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

Dartmoor has been deliberately set ablaze tonight. An apocalyptic photo of swaling (moorland burning) that I’ve been sent, of the moor alight at Corndon Down, Spitchwick Common. All burning is meant to end on Dartmoor today, 31st March - and many birds will already be nesting this early spring. 😢

How can this go on for another 3 years?

There's a whole array of strategic bungles in this operation, it deserves a thread. 1/ below

The Jewish News, which I am proud to work for as Deputy Editor, has published an editorial on this week's Iftar prayers in Trafalgar Square www.jewishnews.co.uk/voice-of-the...

Thank God Starmer is in charge, really. If it had been any of his immediate predecessors, we'd currently be at war with Iran, playing lapdog to a deranged US administration, unable to say what we were doing or why.

So much winning

It’s remarkable how slow so many people have been to recognise the malevolent and disruptive behaviour of Elon Musk towards British politics. This was clear from the time of the riots in the summer…

Re: gutting WaPo "The idea that the average person is going to subscribe to scores of individual blogs, Substacks, YouTube channels, etc., and thereby replicate what he or she once got from the New York Times, Washington Post, or CBS News is just fantastical." cathoderayzone.com/culture/when...

There's more. On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary. Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.

The next day, Lord Mandelson met Larry Summers himself. Lord Mandelson's private secretary sent a note of the meeting to him at 1.22pm. Within two minutes, Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein.

Alex Pretti was one of us. Rest in power.

Our initial analysis is up. The video footage appears to show that the gun was taken away from the man before he was shot. He was UNARMED before any of the shots were fired.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1775

Victoria and David Beckham in happier times on their wedding day.

“and in other news, President Trump has ordered the bombing of Venezuela” “Caracas?” “not according to his doctors”

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Three days ago. No more words.

For political hacks like myself, 'put it in the curriculum' is the oldest and hattiest of old hat policy ideas. Why do we think schools should solve all our problems? What if we thought differently about life skills and civic education? howtorunacountry.substack.com/p/schools-ca...

The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

If you could please do us a favour and RT (or whatever it is on here) my writing CV I would be extremely grateful. I am a very capable writer of words, mainly “humorous”’ and if you have some PROPER paid work for me, please DM me. Thank you for your time www.mathew-owen.co.uk

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@norcrosscricket.bsky.social Any podds dropping soon?

Well I was not in the Starmer needs to go group but this could change my mind

In a Maths meeting, we were discussing whether manipulatives (such as algebra tiles) are allowed in GCSE Maths exams? If not, can you state where this is written in the JCQ regulations? #Mathstoday

The ever-impressive @iandunt.bsky.social speaks for many of us.* * It looks like things might be starting to change at the top of the Govt since this was filmed.

Thats the hundred final decided

Well that's F1 over for another year

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