Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

This doesn’t matter at all. Just exclaim NOBODY KNEW either with an exclamation mark or a question mark.

i trust that if we're posting we're recovering

thank you that's 25 years of top flight journalism experience right there

in summary: for fucks sake

Finally there are three people on BBC News channel right now doing a deep dive on two part vetting processes including our very own best beloved George Parker and it makes me very patriotic and proud

However I do really enjoy the moment in a political scandal when we all laser focus on the specific moment when the wheels came off. So I do need to question how Olly Robbins has managed to convince so much of today's press that it wasn't his job to tell anyone what he found out because.. vibes

Personally when I commission a two-part vetting process - one to complete due diligence by officials and a second developed vetting conducted by UKSV, a division of the Cabinet Office - I absolutely do not want to hear any further details

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just discovered a note on my phone that reads cook dinner. jesus christ we've got to get rid of the phones

Thank you! That’s a view I will use!

I mean that's way too many, i'm going to get in trouble but i skipped a couple of weeks so maybe it evens out. Enjoy! And have a lovely weekend!

The Starmer-shaped hole where a prime minister should be Mandelson scandal shows he has never successfully made the transition from an opposition mindset to a governing one

You're going to be talking about Starmer this weekend even to the teens, based on my Friday night, so read @stephenkb.bsky.social so you have something intelligent to say as.ft.com/r/18df925a-e...

Lander 23 — you don’t watch Punchdrunk’s latest show, you play it Audience members are the main characters in a ‘live-action video game’ from the pioneers of immersive theatre

I really want to go to this as.ft.com/r/37a71fd5-f...

A trainspotter’s dream: our own station on England’s most scenic railway The Settle to Carlisle line traverses some of the Yorkshire Dales’ most spectacular scenery — and its Victorian stations have been turned into cottages to rent

No one's going abroad on holiday right now so please enjoy a viaduct, the Yorkshire dales and a Victorian cottage. Contains bonus footage of lush views from train! as.ft.com/r/9321d6ac-4...

Sitting comfortably? The portrait is making a comeback In the age of AI, paintings feel real again

Absolutely baffling to me, a person still haunted by a hideous studio family photograph taken in 1988 and therefore believing it to be naffest thing ever, but apparently the family portrait is back! Pose nicely around your vinyl collection and DVD library! as.ft.com/r/59a0393a-2...

What is a city without children? As urban housebuilding strategies around the world increasingly push families out, the ‘sidewalk ballet’ — and heart — of community life is under threat

Idk if anyone here enjoys articles discussing how infrastructure and housing affect social behaviour but if you can maybe find someone, do share this thoughtful data-rich piece entitled What is a City without Children as.ft.com/r/d10db957-a...

Anthropic chief Dario Amodei: ‘I don’t want AI turned on our own people’ The tech entrepreneur on Claude Mythos, repercussions from the Pentagon dispute — and his message for the super-rich

Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, is everyone's least worst AI boss. Pls enjoy an extremely timely and newsy Lunch with the FT covering all your worst Luddite nightmares, bluesky as.ft.com/r/a1c4280d-1...

The return of Londonophobia Reflections on an ancient prejudice

Londonphobia is not new, but the city's enemies are all the right people to be enemies with writes Janan Ganesh who proposes Holloway Road into Highbury Fields as the biggest tonal shift in London, tho will entertain other bids as.ft.com/r/681c0974-f...

The coming global food crisis Hunger and even famine are foreseeable consequences of the war on Iran. Now the world must act to shield the poorest from effects that will continue long after the fighting stops

Current status of the strait notwithstanding, the damage is done. We face a global food crisis. This devastating but unhysterical essay demonstrates brilliantly how consequences ripple and what can now be done as.ft.com/r/38a9a25e-3...

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hahahahha which also might involving blagging a cake

The only one i can rely on to tackle the big issues is @robertshrimsley.bsky.social

some absolutely shocking detail on the silverback gorilla manosphere on Radio 4 right now. It is clear David Attenborough has been sleeping on this and we should send in Theroux.

Alphaville: Why the Extremely Paywalled FT’s Shitposting ‘Skunkworks’ is Still Free to Read Robin Wigglesworth, the editor of the snarky, meme-y Financial Times finance blog spoke to AMO about the debate over keeping it outside the FT paywall.

Lovely piece from @bronmaher.bsky.social on Alphaville, "the FT’s Shitposting ‘Skunkworks’", with input from @robinwigglesworth.ft.com, @lionelbarber.bsky.social and a small contribution from yours truly

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not since BIopic and BiOPic has there been such a Radio 4 stand off. I love it.

aristo marmite

Delighted to have @rahulabhatia.bsky.social in the magazine this weekend. His essay on Dubai and the psychological bargains its residents make in order to justify staying in place while a war hovers in the background is just beautiful... as.ft.com/r/cb855c7b-9...

OK i need everyone on the radio to stop saying splashdown

i walk past these most days without ever thinking i wonder what it's like inside because it just looks... sweaty?