This is awful news. One of the original legal bloggers and one of the very best. nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...

Young lads pushing each other off the jetty…a chap trying to catch catfish and then this…

We're going to be burying Mummy on May 23rc 2pm in Lurgan. Keep that day free 09:30 What do vou mean has she not buried already 10:27 No. She's in Ethna's house 10:33 w Why 10:38 Why what? 10:38 w We just never buried her 10:39 Oh fair, whyd it take so long to bury her? 1 thought you usually do that pretty quickly 11:21 Also, does Ethna not find it creepy having her in he house 11:22 Oh fair, whyd it take so long to bury her? I thought you usually do that pretty quickly Cos we got her cremated and just never bothered 11:33 Well she had the aravestone at the side of the house for years. 11:33 She's in the kitchen 11:33 Oh right ok her being cremated makes alot more sense than what I was thinking 12:12 Ha ha haaaa!!!! 12

This is an actual conversation I've just had with my son about burying my Mum who passed away two years ago.

Have I failed as a mother? 😂

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Moyes stirs up rivalry as Everton eye Europe and a derby debut to remember Upwardly-mobile hosts are raising expectations heading into the first showdown against Liverpool at Hill Dickinson Stadium

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Agree. My test case is pubs in Reform leaning areas of the UK where the chatter is not in the least bit the same as what is assumed by social media posts

Do they still get physical homework? My daughter has to have a chromebook, so most of it is on there (otherwise I suspect it would be forgotten a lot!)

As a fellow co-parenter, I can well imagine! My daughter does tend to forget her PE kit in there for up to a fortnight, though...

we’ve got human beings on the dark side of the moon but microsoft word will still not let me add a comment to a footnote

Her school has outsourced lockers from before she joined, sadly: I think they've tried to cut costs in ways which don't involve front line teaching staff.

The one thing I've never got used to about secondary school (and I'm now 4 years into my eldest being there), is the cost of hiring a locker for the year. Now £28 a year; dread to think what it'll be by the time my 4 year old goes

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

Again, I'm compelled to say that several years ago I wrote a piece for the NYT about me and my dad's shared love of Enya. In it, I mentioned that her music has been known to bring my father to tears and the fact-checking was so rigorous that they called my own dad - twice - to ask if this was true.

Nigel Farage refuses to apologise for the appalling Grenfell comments of the Housing Chief who he hired and fired.

Claiming it is the same as apologising for everything that happened in the last couple of hundred years.

He is a scumbag of the lowest calibre.

I'll get them now, to avoid both inflation and shrinkflation

That's a future promotion present sorted

Exactly why my students who remain interested in the process of learning - as opposed to those who just want efficiencies and answers - are those who do best.

I wrote a novel using AI. Writers must accept artificial intelligence -but we are as valuable as ever| Stephen Marche The Guardian The, GuardianOpinions

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Congratulations 💙

Nine photos showing the progression of the Grenfell Tower fire on 14 June 2017.

"Everyone dies in the end. It’s just how you go, right? You can’t stop tragic things from happening. Fires do happen."
Reform's Housing spokesperson Simon Dudley on the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people and left 70+ injured.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reform...

Headline: "Estate agents accuse Rightmove of charging excessive fees"

"That's our job," they added

The Buffalo Medical Examiner rules that the death of a legally blind elderly Burmese refugee dropped off by Border Patrol at a closed shop late at night in winter was a homicide.

He died of a burst ulcer caused by severe stress brought on by dehydration and hypothermia.

Travelodge boss was sent email by sex assault victim in 2023 The victim of a sexual assault in a Travelodge - by a man given the key card to her room - sent an email to the chief executive soon after the attack.

Travelodge's highest paid director, presumably the CEO, was paid £3.8mn in 2024. Her staff offered someone who complained about a sex assault in their room £30.

I struggle to see how this isn't a resigning matter.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Enjoyable scenes on the Sky News moon launch coverage

The Handmaids of Nashville, carrying signs with the names of the men who are in the Epstein files.🔥🗽

WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations.

She accepted three.

One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history.
www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

I’m not sure the lack of yacht ownership among young people is down to the perception that it’s not cool and trendy

What a wonderfully niche thread