The silver lining for England is that they (including the top two batsmen in the world) did this to themselves

Australians right now

There is still a way for England to win this but it involves Stokes never being able to use his right arm ever again

Traditional Ashes service has been resumed

Mani’s passing reminded me of this piece of brilliance youtu.be/35mNB234cx4?...

the country whose bureaucrats got their King to invite Trump for [very Nicholas Witchell voice] an unprecedented second State Visit, probably needs to let this pass www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

someone tell the Telegraph the new REF panels just dropped

Did Khawaja… walk? Fool.

Happy World Television Day (yes)

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This is a good piece of revisionism about the before and after of 'Madchester'

Book launch for The Politics of Feeling with @ajsecor.bsky.social and @jemgilbert.bsky.social @will-davies.bsky.social on 25.11 at 15.00 in London. Details here, last time I checked there were a couple of tickets left www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-politi...

A society that was doing well culturally, politically, intellectually would show zero interest in Curtis Yarvin

Scotland bloody hell

Piecing together the recent statements of our tech oligarchs, they are fine with bubbles, just as long as they're 'rational' ones that don't ever burst

THE ASSET CLASS, my first book, will be published by @wnbooks.bsky.social on 9 April 2026. It’s a narrative investigation of private equity, a secretive and relentlessly destructive wing of finance that penetrates almost every aspect of our lives - and it’s available to pre-order now!

Think I've found my new favourite newspaper column

Where do the people whose votes Labour is currently chasing get their political information/news? Do they even get any? And if they do, do they even believe a word of it?

I’ll have another pint of your best Ozempic thanks barman!

Important and remarkably timely piece by @trillingual.bsky.social in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/ins...

Raise the rate of gambling tax and then class all asset purchases as 'gambling', job done

After the ‘smorgasbord’ or tax rises, can I suggest the ‘small plates’ of public service improvements? Expensive and disappointing but generate good Insta-content.

Turns out the temporary alliance between "writing stuff" and "meaning stuff" was good actually

fwiw they would have got murdered over the income tax rise, and the drum-beat of apocalyptic warnings of ungovernability would have become deafening. Easy on here to be IFS-brained about this and forget exactly why they bottled it.

Starmer worried that if he 'sacked' one of his aides, they might just turn up for work as normal tomorrow anyway

The last decent coffee in New Cross is now the cafe created (and branded) by the developers of some new flats for purposes of rent hikes/asset appreciation

NEW EPISODE: Why the right wins online - and what the left need to learn Why are right-wing influencers so successful? What does the left need to learn? What do we do when biggest platforms are owned by billionaires? Ayeisha is joined by Dunya Kamal & @will-davies.bsky.social 1/2

What does 'briefing' actually mean in this absurd Downing Street story? You ring up your trusted hack and say "hi, I'd like to file a brief against Wes Streeting?" Surely you need to share some actual beef or gossip that harms the target

Not often that I think the world needs Tony Blair's thoughts on a topic, but would watch a 60 minute interview with him on the topic of Epstein

You wouldn’t know the scientific journal, it goes to another school

Hey, The Times history editors, I have some diaries to sell you

Streeting praising Starmer by comparing him favourably to "10 Downing Street" is quite the neg

Of all the staggering detail in that New Statesman piece, this but stood out for me. People were reluctant to tell Starmer Miliband had refused to move? Not sure whether it’s Starmer or his aides that look worse here.

The super ego. They invented the super ego.

Anyone know what Robbie Gibb's equivalent of 'people laughing at Musk smoking weed on Rogan', 'Vance noticing people didn't like the Netflix Hillbilly Elegy', 'Trump getting roasted by Obama at press dinner' or 'Andreesen getting sick of people making fun of his pointy head' is?

Great piece by Fred Turner on the pivot from Californian ideology of connection (which built the web) to Texan ideology of extraction and theocracy thebaffler.com/salvos/the-t...

A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The tweets below demonstrate that impartiality was always a trap. If the issues are GIDS and Gaza (which is the implication), it should be possible to report on them without caring what either the Telegraph or Novara say in response. Once you have to 'balance' the two, obviously the former will win

A piece I wrote about the manufactured ‘impartiality’ panics that greeted Tim Davie’s arrival just over 5 years ago, when GB News was still a glint in Robbie Gibbs’ eye www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

"Hey, student, we saw you from across the bar and really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?"

Eventually ‘impartiality’ will mean no human editors, producers or directors, just a vast archive of things that have been captured on camera to be mined, and quite a few things that haven’t happened but might as well have done

bro are you fucking kidding me

My new article with @econsocjournal.bsky.social on Gary Becker's analyses on suicide is out! I use Becker's assertion that ‘Most (if not all!) deaths are to some extent suicides’ to reflect on how the late Chicago School framed death and mortality as a choice, thus normalising mortality inequality

The last 15 years of HE policy in the UK: Gov: act like you're in a market! universities: OK Gov: not like that!

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Don't understand. Is John Lewis now selling 12" house records?

Irony of Britain's situation is that the recent chancellor most guilty of putting "political convenience over economic imperative" was George Osborne

Is the Chancellor actually going to cut national debt?