As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free

The loud aggressive litigant pulls the case and pays indemnity costs to the other party, and enters into a compromise which leaves the other party far better off than before the case was brought.

Bullying and boasting, but based on blundering and bombast.

The Artemis II crew captures a portion of the Moon coming into view along the terminator – the boundary between lunar day and night – where low-angle sunlight casts long, dramatic shadows across the surface. This grazing light accentuates the Moon’s rugged topography, revealing craters, ridges, and basin structures in striking detail.

A closeup of the moon fills the bottom diagonal 2/3rds of the photo, and it shows hundreds of large and tiny craters, lit brightly by sun. The distance a small blue planet earth, dusted with white clouds, is rising over the moon's horizon. The rest of the sky is pitch black

On the left, poking into the frame, is the round edge of the Artemis 2 capsule, with a solar panel jutting off diagonally at 2 o'clock. In the middle left of the screen is the moon eclipsing the sun - so the moon is mostly dark and ringed by a bright grey-white corona

NASA's photo galley from yesterday's lunar fly-by are bonkers gorgeous

full gallery here: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna...

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back

Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

This is really good to see and a key recommendation from the paper I wrote on decentralisation a while back.

www.labourtogether.uk/all-reports/...

europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz

This proper tickled me

In praise of Jeremy Bowen His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.

NEW | A rare positive edition of the newsletter…

IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN

His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/in-praise-...

Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.

This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.

44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

A consistent recurring theme of Farage byelection losses over a decade - Oldham 2015 with Ukip, Peterborough 2019 with Brexit Party, Gorton & Denton 2026 - is to talk loudly about electoral challenges about minority voters. But never to actually put the case to authorities. Media should spot pattern

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“As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that.””

So, just to recap, we have two random DOGE bros with basically no knowledge or experience in the humanities (and at least one of whom is a college dropout), who just went around terminating grants that had gone through a full grant application process by feeding in a list of culture war grievance terms, selecting out the grant titles based on the appearance of seemingly “woke” words, then asking ChatGPT “yo, tell me this is DEI” and then sending termination emails the next day from a private server and forging the director’s signature. This is what “government efficiency” looks like in practice: two guys with zero relevant experience, a keyword list built on culture war grievances, and a chatbot confidently spitting out 120-character verdicts on federal grants that went through actual review processes. The experts who might have explained what these grants actually do? Locked out. The director whose signature appeared on termination letters? Couldn’t tell you which grants got cut or w

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"?

www.techdirt.com/202...

There is a concerted attempt to promote a myth that the Equality Act is disadvantaging particular groups, especially white men. I will let you form your own views as to what motivates that narrative. What I can say is that it is neither what the Act aims to do nor what it does. / end

Positive action: an explainer

BBC Newsnight covers Reform's pledge to scrap Equality Act [as Braverman mentioned it today]

"Whatever intention was of passing the EA" says Zia Yusuf, "it stops discrimination against some people in its current form, but actually industralises discrimination against others"

A common misconception

Why didn't Farage just answer the question about Reform's education policy?

Why did he seek to mock and ridicule the journalist asking a perfectly legitimate question and try to deligitimise the FT?

Easy. That's who he is. An arrogant man who doesn't have any policies beyond pointing at the sea.

AI is revolutionizing the world! A Playstation now costs $5,000 and this is the last phone you will ever own.

I’ve never felt unsafe in this bougie neighborhood a day in my life. This is a 25 mph zone, full of fancy bars and restaurants, a curling club, salons, boutiques, and one of the busiest coffee shops around. They are doing their damndest to wreck everything here.

I don't know if non-lawyers understand how insane this statement is. I honestly can't think of anything remotely comparable in non-lawyer speak. I guess the closest would be a surgeon saying "Imagine if I had to wash my HANDS before doing surgery!"

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

The UK did this deal, btw, at significant political and financial cost, so that the US could keep operating a crucial regional military base at Diego Garcia.

Donald Trump and Marco Rubio both welcomed the deal. There is nothing in it for the UK other than helping the US relationship. So: hmmmm.

'These tariffs are a massive slap down for the globalists from President Trump.' Ben Leo reacts to Trump's new 10% tariff on goods from the UK and several European countries President Trump is trying to save the West from itself.

130,000 Small and Medium-size Enterprises in the UK export products to the USA.

Courtesy of Ben Leo at GB News, we now learn that they're all "globalists" and no doubt part of some Illuminati like conspiracy.

Borders expert here! This ia a steaming pile of horseshit.

It's January 17th 2026, written out as 17/01/2026 here in Germany, the first of several special #StarTrek dates in this 60th anniversary year. I'm glad that I found Star Trek and Star Trek found me. Looking forward to many new discoveries in Star Trek episodes of old and new this year! 🖖

That 'BBC boycott' in full