Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

I cannot wait til fashion moves on such that women’s clothing shops are not wall to wall brown (sorry, “chocolate”)

RE: new #Bluey episodes, a reminder that the reason Bandit (the dad) is an archaeologist is because dogs love digging up bones! However, Bluey’s creator Joe Brumm is also brother of renowned Stone Age expert, Professor Adam Brumm, who specialises in the earliest known cave art found in Indonesia…

This would be madness - this Govt has already made deeper (proportional) cuts than Trump, deeper cuts than the Tories, etc. It also would not actually help fund defence in any meaningful way. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

This was fun and result feels about right

This does make me think that the stories about Tice not paying tax / Farage £5m bung etc may be much more powerful than any amount of pointing out racism, etc

Does anyone know of travel insurance providers that would pay out for a holiday cancelled due to fuel shortages? Meant to be taking kids on first flying holiday in August, our usual provider have said they would not pay out in that instance…

Joel’s right and it’s part of how parochial the British political class has become that hardly anyone says this, and that hardly anyone points out that Labour’s ODA cuts have literally killed people.

I knew levels of understanding of the good USAID did were low but the idea that a senior politician thought its health work was 'mostly abortions' has still blown my mind

Lewes wins “creepiest playground” award

Hello Bluesky, this may be a bit of a longshot but does anyone on here know a penguin expert who might be up for answering a couple of questions about penguins for me?

My one and only addition to the Harry Potter discourse is to share that in Russia the sound ‘h’ doesn’t really exist so he is called Gary Potter

My three year old just came and told me “something peculiar has transpired, in my room” and I’m not sure whether to be more impressed by his vocabulary or worried about what sort of scene I am about to witness

Looking at the map of road closures for Brighton Marathon that I’ve just had through the letterbox and I’m sorry but that is just such a very long way to run. Why would anyone want to do that

I registered a Ltd Co last week and have already received 3 pieces of personalised junk mail from banks and accounting software. Given that no other institution knows yet, can only assume HMRC or Companies House have sold my data. How is this legal/ GDPR compliant?

Making light of the death of human beings in this way - even if they are “combatants”, however defined - is disgusting

Police Scotland fined after sharing contents of victim's phone – including intimate images and her medical records – with the officer accused of her rape, and sharing it with his Police Federation rep and his solicitor. Words fail me. news.stv.tv/scotland/pol...

How about animas who belonged to famous Britons on bank notes?

Thoroughly enjoyed this @economist.com obit of Philippe Gaulier. My life is enhanced by knowing there existed a perennially angry, anarchist clowning teacher who charged £2300 a term and “growled” at students saying “this is so, so shit!”

A week left to reply for this fantastic role. Closes 15 March

This looks a) incredible and b) like a nervous breakdown waiting to happen

I’m sorry but these things should just not be legal!

Inexcusable and unforgivable. We should not be supporting this in any way

Tomorrow in the Commons: debate on cuts to FCDO – it faces the largest cuts of any department, especially in overseas development; Foreign Affairs Committee chair Dame Emily Thornberry warns staff cuts of 15–25% without a clear strategy are 'alarming' (h/t Hansard Society)

A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it. The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform. If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.

We’ve been repeatedly told that climate change will remain a priority for U.K. aid - along with global health and humanitarian. If this is what happens to a priority issue what are we going to see elsewhere?

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Useful definition of “sectarianism”, the word of the moment I do find it really weird that Starmer has used the same framing for the result as the Tories and Reform

I will never understand what people think they are going to achieve protesting in *Brighton*. The seat of government is one hour away, if you feel so passionately about your issue then get on a train and go somewhere you might actually be noticed

Just take a second to think how Labour would talk about being beaten by a plumber from a working class background in Bolton if they were a man.

I can’t quite believe this is real. From the leader of the party whose candidate lost their deposit, no less

At the time my job meant I was in and around Parliament almost every day and the atmosphere was so weird. Talking about literally anything else felt like playing pretend when there was this huge thing unfolding in the background and absorbing everyone’s thoughts

A sensitive request: I'm looking to speak *anonymously* to parents or trusted adults who have supported teenage children/relatives through early relationships that showed signs of coercive control or other forms of abuse. [Please do share this post] DM me or email [email protected]

This is an interesting an informative study on who/how African countries responded to aid cuts. Unfortunately, the countries most dependent on aid, were least able to effectively respond. www.cgdev.org/blog/how-afr...

Norman Conquest is one of my favourite history books ever, and I read a lot of them. Not only fascinating in its own right but really eye-opening on how much the U.K. is still shaped by it today

Very 2026 that you can now pay for a premium delivery service, which means that they promise to deliver it to the location it is actually intended for

A state so small, that it will fit neatly in your bedroom closet, from where Danny Kruger will be counting your sexual partners, and Matt Goodwin will check you are using each ovulation wisely and sending you a tax surcharge if not.

as someone with a) small children and b) a period house covered in lead paint, this is terrifying but important. (We are in the process of addressing it but it is neither cheap nor straightforward!)

Sharing a tip I came across on Substack, an extremely satisfying way to spend 5 minutes: Open Gmail in a web browser. Replace /mail/ in the URL with /mail/#sub This will open a list of all the companies you are subscribed to for emails, with an unsubscribe button for each one.

Someone's told him that writing In single lines Like this Is authoritative But if you do it all the time It's incredibly annoying And comes across like a racist haiku

my god I need to wake up Friday morning to the news that Matt Goodwin is not an MP, I can't bring myself to feel strongly about who wins but I really, really need him to lose

Agree with all this except honestly I'm less optimistic that anything will ever be done to prevent more harm. People in power simply don't care. It's only girls, whatever. Big tech is deeply hostile to women and, ofc, #banthepervertglasses - as.ft.com/r/da4838c6-4...

Discomfiting to read about the investigations into maternity care at University Hospitals Sussex, where I had both my children. Both times I had the impression of generally great staff working very hard but chronic understaffing.

Three kids in my daughter’s class of 30 have two-mom families, I don’t think I’ve ever even had to explain it, it is just totally normal for her

Anyone looking for a new professional challenge…?

“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him…”

Can highly recommend heading off to Paris for the weekend with your best mate for no reason whatsoever 🇫🇷

Bluesky GMT schedule: 7am-9am: What did He do while we were asleep? 9am-10am: Complaining about NYT games 10am-2pm: Remember when that kid called Matt Bianco a bunch of wankers? 2pm: The horrors recommence

Nothing like enjoying your slightly cheaper pint while imagining the toddler crying from hunger that paid for it.

So pleased to see he got his hat and backpack back - the detail that he was asking for them absolutely broke me the other day