Man from nation whose comparable-sized global city has three airports, none of which they have managed to build a direct rail link from the city centre to yet, comes to Heathrow and announces that the British can’t make anything work.

This is the same Noah Smith who, on arriving in Poland, complained that Warsaw airport doesn't have any escalators, when it has more escalators than the state of Wyoming. I'm not sure he should be allowed to travel unaccompanied; it seems to be too much for him.

I can't imagine a job i'd like to do less. Managing an organisation held to a ludicrous standard by roaring idiots on a daily basis, while the main mediums it uses are all in decline and it's starved of resources.

Daniel Hannan was born in Peru

Haha

We are doomed

Fine and moving column from Caitlin Moran

Ed Luce watching democracy die in the United States of America

Maybe on occasion Labour's permanently on-the-fence comms operation could try taking its cues from, er, the PM

The Louvre reopened today, but it wasn't the Mona Lisa that lots of people wanted to see ... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Apeocalypse

True dat LinkedIn is entirely sufficient unto itself

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This one million times over

Double kudos to @jonhenley.bsky.social and the @theguardian.com for: a) taking the trouble to report on a set of continental European elections where the far-right didn't sweep all before it! b) calling the far-right the far-right, not 🤮 'the hard-right'!

For the removal of all doubt

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

This detailed demolition of @gullyfoyleuk.bsky.social's "75 Brexit Benefits" by @alanbeattie.bsky.social deserves wider circulation. Intellectual garbage disposal is a valuable public service!

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Thread of the day, no notes

In a nutshell (as usual with @casmudde.bsky.social 's observations)

This must at least partly be due to the unwritten media rule that bad news is (almost always) bigger than good news

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Totally, absolutely this

More hey ho

Hey ho

Free speech latest www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Very, very classy reply from Swedish pm Ulf Kristersson to Orban's crass posturing

This is very good

Spot on

Extra Manchester show added. November 15th. Tickets on sale. Please do come tickets.thelowry.com/en-GB/shows/...

The problem is that ‘this is not who we are’ is coming to feel a little empirically unconvincing. It might help if the PM actually stood up and made the case for a liberal, tolerant and inclusive country.

STOP APPEASING FASCISTS. Just sums up everything wrong with this government's approach at the moment, encouraging division rather than finding ways to bring the vast majority together.

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Trump sets up impossible preconditions as an excuse to do nothing on Russia, including a requirement that every NATO member first join his trade war against China with massive tariffs.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Good grief

Nobody has free speech like America has free speech latest

Mandy runs out of road www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

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If you read one article today, etc ... www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Imminent announcement of France’s next PM. Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu? A man appreciated by all parties…

Pretty fine sunset from my window as France descends into ever deeper political chaos

Ah, the travails of the translator ... On the irresistible rise of "they", the third person singular pronoun that actually, er, plural. Love this thoroughly expert discussion by @john-emdall.bsky.social www.ataa.fr/blog/article...

Smart!

Your heartwarming read of the day www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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Nate Silver seems to have become exactly the kind of evidence-free opinion merchant he once aimed to drive out of business

Jeez

Resistance growing in France against the Bayeux tapestry going to London: it's too fragile to travel, experts say, and Emmanuel Macron favoured the big political gesture over decades of expert advice (by me) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...