This is a pretty straight/fair writeup of my discussion with Charlie Mullins. [The headline is inaccurate: as the article says, I described him as racist for describing legal migrants who come here to work as "rubbish" who bring "8 or 10" people who claim benefits.] www.gbnews.com/politics/cha...

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Qatar up for peace prize?

I am in close contact with the Estonian government. We will continue to support our member states in strengthening their defences with European resources. Putin is testing the West's resolve. We must not show weakness. (2/2)

Today's violation of Estonia's airspace by Russian military aircraft is an extremely dangerous provocation. This marks the third such violation of EU airspace in days and further escalates tensions in the region. The EU stands in full solidarity with Estonia (1/2)

Reminds me of: Pirate 1: m’parrot’s died Pirate 2: at least that be a weight off your shoulders

Young woman just offered me a seat on the tube. Ffs.

I’m going to the US next month. Can I say that Charlie Kirk spouted racist hate speech? Or is that no longer allowed in free speech America?

Close enough.

Mandelson Crisis Starmer Acts! The new Private Eye is out now.

Trump could halt Israel/Palestine and Russia/Ukraine wars, but apparently doesn’t want to. Why not?

With Trump’s arrival in the UK I can’t help but think/hope of Starmer as the Good Soldier Švejk; feigning stupidity and obsequiousness in order to undermine the Russians, er, Americans

Prediction for next resignation/sacking: Morgan Mcsweeney

Gentle humorous songs from Adam Buxton. open.spotify.com/album/4XRor5... made me grin.

This ain’t bad from Streeting. Need much more of this from senior politicians across the spectrum www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Copying a pic in a look-draw-look-draw way reveals a lot about the pic you’re copying but also mistakes you (er, I) make. This is/will be Picasso’s 1937 Weeping Woman (my botched attempt)

Yep, basically this…

Today, as @samfr.bsky.social noted, was depressing. 100k people in central London demonstrating their intolerance. I wasn’t there to oppose and feel v bad about that. I hope our politicians will step forward to confront this. I certainly will next time.

Is topoeconomics a thing? If not, it should be.

Banksy graffiti gets scrubbed from courts of justice.

If you’re not completely aware of the Epstein birthday book then… here it is in full. It’s unpleasant viewing - but a glimpse into a distorted world of wealth and depravity. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

Mandelson has to go. Expect that tomorrow.

Cab for Lord Mandelson!

Excellent point from @jappleby123.bsky.social What on earth is the meaning/interpretability of a performance ranking that includes both input and output domains.

Had to come up sometime!

Those confidence intervals in full!

curious to see these CIs on the ranks, too

Publishing performance tables is a performative act. The NHS, Streeting, the - in his words - ‘elitist’ health think tanks et al all know this is not how to improve performance. But league tables are a signal to public of the more boring things the NHS does all the time to improve performance.

One of the best NHS performance statistics IMO came from the NHS Staff survey: ‘Would you recommend your organisation to family and friends’? Not included in today’s NHS measures…. www.gov.uk/government/n...

@podsaveamerica.crooked.com a view on us gerrymandering from Britain m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwBs...

Absolutely, been asking this for ages. We all need to step up against the increase in racism but government and politicians have a special responsibility to lead and voice opposition.

Farage said today he would said women refugees back to the Taliban.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

The anti racist Archers! Ffs when u find the Archers making a stand surely, surely! as a govt u could up your game on this?

Looks like Rayner resignation has given Starmer excuse to reshuffle on big scale. Maybe something he wouldn’t have done otherwise?

LISTEN TO THIS look back on Ambassador Caroline Kennedy’s statement to the U.S. Senate regarding her cousin RFK Jr.'s nomination for HHS Secretary: substack.com/@lincolnsqua...

Even the Archers addressing racism - where’s the government?

The power of simple kindness never ceases to amaze me. (How’d it get so dusty in here all of a sudden or is somebody chopping onions?)

Pic I did tonight as a present. Bit sub-Cézannish.

I remember the 1970s - not good.

I’ve lived in Nuneaton (jeez) and met kids who’d never been to Coventry (9 miles away). Not surprised by the insular racism. More surprised that national/local politicians seem shy to properly confront such behaviour. #notlegitimateconcern

One can only imagine the convo between Putin and Xi about Trump…

”…..vaccines against 14 common pathogens have saved 154 million lives over the past five decades—at a rate of six lives every minute. They have cut infant mortality by 40% globally & by more than 50% in Africa. Throughout history vaccines have saved more lives than almost any other intervention”.

At first thought this was complaining about PE’s own make over of their office.

Junction Road, Archway.

My heart. Members of the US Public Health Service (the uniformed service branch no one has ever heard of, who serve at the CDC and elsewhere in the US), massed within the CDC property, saluting their departing uniformed leaders who were escorted out by security today after resigning on principle.

Recommend reading the resignation letters of top CDC officials following the sacking of CDC director and the utter madness of RFK jnr vaccine and other decisions. I expect next step to be manipulating health stats to hide the consequences. www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Staggering that it’s come to this.

not at all surprising: arstechnica.com/science/2025...