Niche request: can anyone recommend a good book on the Eighty Years War? English please, nobody with my surname is going to understand Dutch.

NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

The logic of buying Nvidia rather than shitcoins is (crinkles brow sagely) „in a goldrush, don’t pan for gold, buy shovels and sell them to the mugs digging at a huge markup”

The Chinese character for "AI" combines the character for "danger" with the character for "profit warning"

What on Earth is this? An "in depth" BBC article about free speech in the UK that only cites examples of right-wing/ 'anti-woke' speech being suppressed. How can you mention Lucy Connolly but completely ignore Palestine Action / Just Stop Oil? Gob-smacking. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bloody kids. I was doing this in 1999-01 and honestly that was less of a casino.

The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

Crypto hoarders turn to share buybacks in push to boost falling stock prices - on.ft.com/4mtEYXS

„Top secret”? There were over a million people involved in the exercise

„IMF unable to throw even more good money after bad”. The IMF is desperately deep in the hole on Argentina having lent a ton of money - $44bn including latest commitments - in the teeth of its own stated principles.

How it started

Farage: "All over the world, you apply for a work visa - that visa is for you. Not to bring your family... That is how a normal work visa works." Entirely untrue. Most work visas allow dependents, including in countries that the UK competes with for labour - US, Canada, Australia and 27 EU states.

This is not an appropriate occasion for a holding response.

🤬 It hurts because it’s true

Someone should tell Stats for Lefties that it does have to be a particular 14 words to be “the 14 words”

„So, Paul, what do you do for fun?”

Given Yanis’ s track record, the best hint Your Party can do is ramp up and prolong the row.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

Fucksake, this #discourse AGAIN? Yes this platform is smaller, very observant. But I don't spend all day being force fed Nazi slop or getting harassed by Nazis on a Nazi platform specifically engineered to amplify Nazis. It's not a hard decision, let's all just move on.

We got some incredible geniuses over at the bad site

It is the same social phenomenon as "people who write for the Express read the Guardian". Everyone wants cachet from the liberal intelligentsia. It's specifically bluesky users they want to be read by. Talking to the audience they get on Twitter is killing them.

“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.” Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

What’s more astonishing: 1) that the president clearly believes, and repeatedly suggests, that asylum seekers are people from mental asylums, or 2) that no journalist has ever challenged him on this and no mainstream media outlets have done any deep dives on this story?

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

I am. Widespread issue?

Shot

Idk, I still somehow fancy this United to blow this

Mrs Brown’s Boys level with Blackadder. This country is done.

Recommended, not in a „worthy initiative” way but because it’s proper interesting and informative journalism about London and nobody else really does it.

Absolute peak Range Rover Parking: 2 spaces, one of them Disabled

Car loaded to bursting, just arrived in the Northern town that will be my daughter’s home for the next three years.

Every leftist who ever made fun of Change UK now forced to concede their own Change UK is worse

Last RT, I have an idea the US First Division landed at Omaha beach but the point is well made.

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

From Feb 4th 1939

This remains one of the underappreciated transformations of our lifetime:

But what kind of political regime would designate antifascism "terrorist"? 🤔🤔🤔

Parenting a teenager means endlessly cannoning between desperate attempts to keep them alive and desperate urges to kill them.

NEW: Britain’s fiercest libel firm, Carter-Ruck, acted for the $4bn OneCoin fraud and threatened its critics. Now they’re being prosecuted at the SDT. Their response? An anonymity order to cover it up. But Carter-Ruck just lost that order - and it's all coming out. Thread

Big Ange has left Spurs. Spursyness has not left Big Ange.

For Reasons (not me, nothing life-threatening, or even likely to be a problem after a few days) I’ve been in A&E for four hours now. And really ready to stab anyone who wants to dismantle the NHS or harass the people (yes almost all immigrants) who work here.

This. 1000 times this. It’s like we don’t count.

Well yeah because his replacement will be a sock puppet.

I can't believe they put this clown on the fucking board, Christ.

More people have been arrested for this Epstein protest than for the Epstein child sex ring.