UK universities cut jobs, research and teaching amid squeeze in overseas students - www.ft.com/content/ded7... I don't really understand why any administration would not try to reverse the fall in overseas student numbers, but I guess I'm a naive liberal

Sports films are always so cringe. Pain. #DearEngland

Oreshnik VS garages

Day 1551 of my 3 day war. I spent $25 million on an Oreshnik missile to blow up someone's garage. Ukraine spent $50,000 on a drone to blow up a key oil pump station. I remain a master strategist.

Benefits of renationalisation. I'm losing count already. Oh yeah, a new train livery that's literally disgusting ✅ Apart from that?

Here’s the lying fraudster Farage meeting the Russian ambassador he claims he has never met. Lying conman

It was my regular supermarket until I heard it was being sold to private equity. I didn't stick around to watch it deteriorate after that.

I remember this little building but don't recall what it used to be. I worked nearby. Good reminder with payday approaching to donate to Ukraine's steadfast defence.

Russia also bombed the Chornobyl museum in Kyiv today . 40 years after causing the tragedy , Moscow bombs the very museum that remembers it . This is just so Russia

Russia destroyed the newly opened National Chornobyl Museum in Ukraine

And this is a huge problem when, for instance, people get upset when something doesn't get called genocide, because all genocide means to most people now is 'thing really bad', so if you don't call it that they think you're saying it isn't really bad.

As C. S. Lewis observed, human nature tends to transform every descriptive word into a meaningless synonym for “good” or “bad”, (and by calling it “verbicide”, I don’t think he was talking about our better nature)

Restore is on 7% in that Makerfield constituency poll. I wrote this week why they're a threat that needs to be taken seriously. And why splitting the Reform vote isn't worth the normalisation of what is, in effect, a neo-Nazi party. samf.substack.com/p/is-andy-bu...

I don't know what actually happened at Starobilsk and I doubt we're going to properly find out. Would say there's no chance the huge attack on Kyiv could have been set up in just a few hours as a response to that (but it could if the Kremlin knew it was going to happen)

Just a shopping centre. I bought wrapping paper there once. Needless to say, no possible military justification.

Just a shopping centre. I bought wrapping paper there once. Needless to say, no possible military justification.

Since Ukraine began to increase attacks on Russian oil refineries, Russia has been looking for an excuse to carry out an indiscriminate missile strike on central Kyiv - even before Putin’s little Red Square parade, - so the warning of a potential Oreshnik strike is not surprising.

The Mandalorian and Grogu manifesting itself at Blackheath station

As for every tournament, I’m just going to put it up because it bears repeating: “Three Lions” is not a song expressing a sense of entitlement about “football coming home”, but a song expressing a sense of hope persisting against bitter experience.

I think it is more a case of Ukraine enforcing it's long range sanctions that has made whatever the US wants or doesn't want immaterial. Ukraine can now shape the outcome without US 'help'.

Back to the future A single market in goods was Thorneycroft’s big alternative to EEC in 1956 It failed then and will fail again - not least because the UK is a services economy that needs a single market in services (which needs FOM) www.ft.com/content/b13e...

If you post a comment about Nigel Farage, please don't bother to attach a photograph. It's not necessary.

On the positive side, real discussions happening. Interesting to note that EEA, customs union or similar IS an available option after all, if the UK can sort out its neuroses. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I can't stand the use of that expression whenever there's a coalition. It shows the very facile view a lot of British people have about politics. By that logic, almost every government in Europe is 'in bed'. Grow up, honestly.

Get to where Iceland, or at least Switzerland is, then apply at a point where it would be relatively uncontroversial. Iceland mulls over joining every so often and there's no hysteria from anyone about their choice either way because it's built on arrangements and trust that are already working.

⚡️ Tsikhanouskaya to soon visit Ukraine, Kyiv says after snubbing Lukashenko. The news comes after Kyiv dismissed a proposal by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko to meet President Volodymyr Zelensky amid surging tensions between Kyiv and the Belarusian regime.

Brexit has certainly harmed the UK, but any "Rejoin" effort would have to reckon seriously with the manifold ways in which the EU has changed in the decade since the 2016 referendum. My comment in today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social ⬇️ observer.co.uk/news/politic...

The lion lays down with the lamb. In the UK, even the steam railways are using solar. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I say just bring back blue and white. Holland has yellow trains and sticks to that. Belgium has grey. Germany red.

I can't stand the use of that expression whenever there's a coalition. It shows the very facile view a lot of British people have about politics. By that logic, almost every government in Europe is 'in bed'. Grow up, honestly.

What bothers me most is what it says about the lack of introspection on the European side. How is Merkel's legacy re Russia not seen as anything but a colossal failure? Apparently Merkel regularly called Putin during Crimea's annexation. Going back to that is frankly an abdication of responsibility

Hungary proposing a 2 term restriction on being PM. Reassuring to see Magyar doing this even though he would be preventing himself from being PM for more than 8 years.

All I'm saying is when a 5 year old does their youtube video about how far they travelled for free on UK buses in a day this summer I'm here for it.

Free bus travel would have made more since 15 or so years ago when more places actually had bus services. In a lot of places you can't really do much by bus now, or not unless you want to come home at 2pm.

Get to where Iceland, or at least Switzerland is, then apply at a point where it would be relatively uncontroversial. Iceland mulls over joining every so often and there's no hysteria from anyone about their choice either way because it's built on arrangements and trust that are already working.

Free bus travel would have made more since 15 or so years ago when more places actually had bus services. In a lot of places you can't really do much by bus now, or not unless you want to come home at 2pm.

All I'm saying is when a 5 year old does their youtube video about how far they travelled for free on UK buses in a day this summer I'm here for it.

British trains should just go back to being simple blue and white, in the same way Dutch ones are yellow or Belgian ones grey. Extra points deducted as always for 'full steam ahead' in the title 🙄

I think people don't realise that if they can't be more sensible about democracy, we will lose it.

"identify the biggest hurdles facing the introduction of mass transit systems" You. You're the hurdle.

Hungary proposing a 2 term restriction on being PM. Reassuring to see Magyar doing this even though he would be preventing himself from being PM for more than 8 years.

What bothers me most is what it says about the lack of introspection on the European side. How is Merkel's legacy re Russia not seen as anything but a colossal failure? Apparently Merkel regularly called Putin during Crimea's annexation. Going back to that is frankly an abdication of responsibility

This is a failure of journalism, on a really basic level, but it is also a failure of political leadership. It was going to fall simply in the basis of what the previous govt did. But Starmer somehow conspired to actively spread the impression it was rising.

Southampton lost their appeal. Some would say they never had it. #PUP

Well done to everyone who's kicked up a stink about this today though

everyone who said this would inevitably be backtracked on: did you expect that you would be right /within the same day/

🇺🇦✈️ Two airports in Ukraine could reopen at once: Boryspil and Lviv, - Telegraph ▪️The main condition. Planes will not take off until Ukraine closes its skies 100%. The country needs additional air defense systems (Patriot-class) to protect the infrastructure of these cities and air corridors.

Lots being said about Russian oil today. Here is my understanding... The UK government had planned to restrict imports of refined petroleum products made in third countries from Russian crude oil. That restriction had not yet fully come into force in the UK. 1/2