Terminator starts promisingly, being about two naked men on a quest for some trousers, but then goes off in a different direction that isn't as interesting.

You have to say England’s bench have really come on and dominated the all-important “theatrically gesticulating at the referee” phase of the game.

England are doing nothing differently to last year but just have the nause to win these games, because they've grown into how Borthwick wants them to play.

"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.

If you want to see a government ACTUALLY “losing control” of something, helpless in the face of organised crime, look at this: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

🇧🇪 Well done #Brussels: The Best Places to Go in Europe in 2026 “This often-overlooked European capital is having a cultural moment, signaling a shift from a bureaucratic hub to a creative powerhouse” @cathhart.bsky.social @jrowanbxl.bsky.social www.cntraveler.com/story/the-be...

Those are eye-wateringly high numbers. If we were a serious culture, nobody who predicted Brexit would be economically beneficial would ever be given the time of day again.

Increasingly convinced that misplaced nostalgia is a gateway drug for fascism.

happy Partially Muscled Skeleton Stands by the Perimeter Fence and Screams for Thirty Seconds Before Vanishing day

Growing up in a time when “selling out” was the most shameful thing you could do and then being forced to live through the 2020s feels like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

In his intro to his book on Arnhem, Martin Middlebrook recounts meeting a man at the annual commemoration who claimed to have been at Arnhem Bridge. When Middlebrook asked him for more details (which unit he was in, where at the bridge he'd ended up) the guy rapidly made his excuses and disappeared.

I think this line was not considered particularly icky in 1993.

"As we wrestle with our own predicaments abroad, the Churchill of history is a better guide than the Disney version". @patporter76.bsky.social on why we need to engage with the contradictions & compromises of the actual Churchill, not the "loveable bulldog" of myth. thecritic.co.uk/winston-chur...

"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years

yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing

My daughter is 21 today. Most memories of that moment are as precious as can be imagined. All but one. open.substack.com/pub/pauljenk...

Even a simple factoid like this gets overlooked, but it was not long ago that *everyone* directly knew multiple examples of people taken away by this at something preposterous like age 22

Monday

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Seems petty but I strongly resent Truss turning up at the Cenotaph. Quite apart from her appalling record on literally everything, she's gone full Twitter Fash and as such is the antithesis of everything my friends died for.

Claude Francis Barry’s paintings of WW1 are amongst the most accomplished of his works, with his images of searchlights across London being the most evocative - here (1918) he used small concentrated dots of colour to create an atmospheric haze of light.

Really enjoyed watching the Enola Holmes films with kids 2 (11) and 3(10). Perfectly judged breezy tone with exciting-but-not-too-scary jeopardy. Looked up if they're making a third and, unfathomably, it's going to be darker in tone because everyone wants to make bloody Prisoner of Azkaban

We had fucking congressional hearings over Mortal Kombat.

This is starting to feel like Eddie Jones levels of mucking about with selection for the sake of it www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-...

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

I am not a lawyer, just a historian, but one fundamental problem with the political debate about the EU, especially in English publications is that the whole principle of the acquis communnitaire is not understood or taken seriously. The EU is a framework of rules, not an alliance.

The trailer for 'Sinners' was particularly guilty of this, was very glad I didn't see it until after I'd seen the film.

lol

𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑎𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑜𝑣𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒

Got my nose broken in St Andrew's on New Year's Eve 1997 for being An English in the wrong place at the wrong time. Mate got bottled. We considered ourselves a bit unlucky but no more than that, it was just one of those things that could happen to you on a night out in the 90s.

Anyway, stoked to see how the political tendency that has spent decades cutting mental health funding, advocating for driverless trains and mocking attempts to ban big knives deals with a train driver and guard’s swift action helping end a mentally ill man’s rampage with a big knife.

Not all heroes wear capes

would you like to experience schadenfreude so intense you might die of joy

Scrooge, but for literally anything related to Halloween

To add to this, if it turns out that the attack raises other issues e.g. mental health services, or drug use, or internet- induced psychosis, these people will have precisely no interest in addressing them.

so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.

The avalanche is crashing down the slope towards us, visible from miles away. Are we going to do something about it whilst we still can?

I think there's a lot in this. A lot of modern populism seems to be based on people feeling able to reject the idea that other people might know more than them about pretty much anything.

Not sure "absolute nightmare fuel" was exactly what they were aiming for.

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

Hartmannswillerkopf in the Vosges has extraordinary views, and the most extensive surviving network of WW1 trenches I've ever seen.

Astonishing that they spunked a bazillion dollars up the wall on something I had never heard of until about five minutes ago

the german word for when you very clearly recognize someone in a movie but when you look them up on IMDB you haven't seen anything they've been in

Seems a bit harsh to single out Jason Isaacs like this.

I feel like an under-remarked bit of this is: who even watches adverts any more? My kids barely know what they are.

We will fight them on the quiches

Brussels Facebook nostalgia groups now posting AI videos of an entirely imaginary version of Brussels in the 60s so people can comment "why isn't the city like that any more?"

With everything going on in Brussels right now, it’s important to remember how many people (men) are invested in the city’s failure