It's their speciality.

The Danes lost more soldiers per capita.

TACO it is then.

Coalhenge: Britain’s colossal wonders

Why the awe inspiring cooling towers of our pensioned-off power station should be preserved as monuments, by Jonathan Glancey for The Critic

➡️ thecritic.co.uk/author/jonat...

He's always been a dick.

MPs legislate. That's all they do. Now they complain about that.

I can’t help thinking that when, in future, people ask what UK political leaders said as it became undeniable that US saw European liberal democracy as its no1 strategic foe, Starmer and others will regret that the answer is “not much, shuffled awkwardly, looked at their feet”.

... texture like sun

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

"A system built on specialisation, efficiency", that right there is the death knell for the current university system in the UK, if (big if) government pushes it through. They actively don't want HE to grow, they will intervene, apparently, to help it shrink.

per this morning's education committee.

So some conviction politicians would be useful.

Perhaps she could have usefully saved to get him a chin.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

How many people would be involved? It's all performative nonsense.

Getting Britain out of the hole A plan for the UK economy

New essay out today by me and @acjsissons.bsky.social - ‘Getting Britain out of the hole: a plan for the economy’. You can read the whole thing here getting-out-of-the-hole.uk

A chart mega-thread follows 🧵

Nor will they talk about the wrecking ball that is Brexit. It's destabilised everything.

Brexit and being Reform-lite are your biggest problems. How about having an honest discussion with the electorate about the consequences of leaving the EU and not perpetuating myths about immigration?

Well said. I'll not vote for people that back this.

I assumed you were referring to playing snooker.

Ipswich Town 1 Ronaldo 0 🤣

UK borrowing costs up after markets spooked by Reeves’s income tax U-turn Pound down 0.5% against dollar in early trading after chancellor drops plans for upcoming budget

Just as UK Higher Ed has gone past its red lines and the business will be in advising unis how to hold on and benefit from failures, all the work in politics looks like coming from Labour MPs who want to survive 2029 and return to office after Reform implode. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Clowns.

My all black cat Tibbles who landed on his back all by himself while I was petting him and he was enjoying every second of it. But then started to wonder how he ended up there. And ultimately, just after the picture was taken, intervened with an attack on the hand.

Moments before the attack.

*scratch scratch*
*purr purr*
*scratch*
*purr some more and louder*
*scratch the belly some more*
*purr purr … wait! That’s my belly!*

**ATTACK THE HAND!**

#Tibbles #BlackCatsRule
#CatsOfBlueSky

Leonard and Hungry Paul review – this Julia Roberts-narrated comedy is the perfect antidote to modern life Alex Lawther and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell star in this adaptation of Rónán Hession’s understated 2019 novel. Its quiet celebration of the gentle life is the opposite of today’s frantic TV – even if it does...

This is quite marvellous 👇
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...

Tel Aviv football derby between Hapoel and Maccabi called off after rioting Israeli police make nine arrests, citing ‘disorderly conduct, riots, injured police officers’ and infrastructure damage

If only there were some clue that there was a genuine policing concern around Maccabi. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

The thousand year old sport is kicking it in front the thousand some year old monument. #londonsumo #stonehenge

No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder I SAID, THE TUBE *IS* GETTING LOUDER.

The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: “rail corrugation”.

You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.

Isn't it because we ran out of royals and had to import some?

Happy birthday to Dr. Mae Jemison, the first Black woman to travel in space, who began her communications to #NASA with "Hailing frequencies open"—and guest starred in #StarTrekTNG's "Second Chances."

Not much mention in the media coverage that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans have a bit of a reputation.