My little suggestion today is that if you have to read a T.S. Eliot poem you put, “Girl,” in front of the first line & read the rest in the voice of a drag queen reading someone to filth.

If they sent another Voyager out to the stars, with objects that aim to describe who we are as a species, it should include Annie Ernaux’s ‘The Years’. It is a masterpiece.

Dispatch kicks ass, brilliant. Buy it :)

The Guardian view on social science research: embracing uncertainty | Editorial Editorial: Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction

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I found this interesting.

Actually looks like Ai image. God help us :)

One flew east, one flew west, one flew over the cuckoo’s nest.

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I’m sure Hegseth will jump on this…

The Guardian view on the BBC’s future: who decides what news means? | Editorial Editorial: AI is interpreting journalism without regard for truth. The BBC must build the capacity to ensure its reporting is understood on its own terms

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A good take on an essential institution in a world where AI search results come from opaque and/common sources, not necessarily true ones.

Happy Birthday to Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and a massive thank you to her for inventing rock and roll

She was born on March 20th, 1915

This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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This is a life and death story for the UK – so why is it being brushed under the carpet? | Aditya Chakrabortty The news that healthy life expectancy is in decline in Britain exposes a serious truth about the state we’re in, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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This. And I think figuring it out is a worthwhile exercise.

For the first time, a British Sign Language rendition of You'll Never Walk Alone was performed at Anfield before Liverpool vs. West Ham ❤️

Delighted with how it’s going. Would love to see a manifesto that helps financially and economically literate swing voters feel good about the detail under this incredible vibe.

I was buying warhammer miniatures a decade after I last played it. Maybe one day, with the grandkids? Who am I kidding :)

Agree, and Polanski has had a go at people for calling him gap-toothed. This doesn’t sit right with me either.

In Somerset, I found glorious proof that the UK can build great council houses. So what is holding us back? | John Harris It was life-affirming to meet the residents of Rainbow Way in Minehead. But so much still stands in the way of Labour’s vision for social housing, says Guardian columnist John Harris

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It’s about oil. We all know it. Can you say it? I wouldn’t blame you if you couldn’t, but the largest proven reserves on their doorstep. Hard to ignore.

Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books? Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...

“imagination is not an optional extra, which we can humour in our children but safely discard in adulthood. It is at the very heart of everything. It is deadly serious, the necessary condition of political change, of love. It is the sharpest tool of ethics.”

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I’m ok with NY resolutions, but generally, if you knew you were going to die tomorrow, what would you regret not having done? Start doing that.

The year politics became brainrot You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

"For Kirk and for much of society today, words are not expressions with referents, but rather, performative speech acts with specific functions — in his case, owning the libs."

holy moly, what a blog www.theverge.com/policy/84960...

I'm asking John - and indeed all journalists - as a new year resolution to stop comparisons with a national economy and a household budget.

How many years have to go by until we can have coherent conversations in the media about the economy?

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A true original from an all too rare perspective!

Two wrongs do make a right :) #lfc

Alex de Waal · How to Measure Famine During the past year, as starvation started to appear in Gaza, Israel has clashed with the United Nations and aid...

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The super-rich rightwing are pouring money into Reform. Do ordinary voters really think their aim is to even out social inequality and make their lives better? Do they think they’re doing it so Farage invests in infrastructure and public services? Ffs. Democracy being beaten to death in plain sight.

Recently finished Anne Applebaum’s book on the Gulags. Devastating.

The bond markets hold inordinate power over us. Whatever else we wish to be true, they need persuading that Green policies are investment policies that make us a more credible economy longer term. Or we will Truss…

Illegal migration is not the cause of their problems. 40000 people a year, kept apart from everyone are supposedly impacting the price of groceries? Gas bills? Child poverty? Huge inequalities of wealth?