*leans into microphone*

"AS YOU KNOW, I steered WELL CLEAR of Peter Mandelson when I became Labour leader"

Have we stumbled across some sort of alternate timeline here

Standard website transfers to Independent with more than 30 staff leaving The Independent has completed a "long-term" deal to run the digital operations and print advertising of The Standard.

The Evening Standard employed 364 journalists and staff when Lebedev bought it for £1 in 2009.

It now has 16

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I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

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“Patel’s drinking has been a recurring source of concern across the government. They said that he is known to drink to the point of obvious intoxication….On multiple occasions in the past year, members of his security detail had difficulty waking Patel because he was seemingly intoxicated…”

Well that bit’s true, no one is laughing

They’re really missing a trick not teaching it at journalism schools at this point frankly

Enjoyed how Industry S4 flipped the script and had a MALE journalist shag one of his sources, but still, of course, felt it important to show journalists always shag their sources overall

Matt Levine is suitably brilliant on this very weird tale

This feels very ‘we’re heavily moving into NFTs’ stage of the AI bubble

Struggling shoe retailer Allbirds makes bizarre pivot from shoes to AI, stock explodes more than 300% Allbirds announced a deal with American Exchange Group to sell its intellectual property and other assets for $39 million in March.

This is one of the weirdest pivots I’ve ever seen
www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/a...

JD Vance is the ultimate Reply Guy. He’s Well Actuallying the Pope about Catholic theology.

Around *1/5* of all the species that live in a natural forest need dead wood.

So no, it's not 'wasted' or 'untidy'. Even in your garden, spare a thought and leave it for them.

Vance warns the pope should 'be careful' when talking about theology Vance, who is Catholic, said the pope was wrong in saying Jesus wasn’t on the side of those who wield the sword, pointing to the U.S.’ helping defeat the Nazis during World War II.

Honestly, where do these people get off
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your party was a 10 month long sociological experiment conducted by harvard university. the study is now complete, thank you for your time

Losing it at him saying the pope is ‘weak on nuclear weapons’

Your regular reminder that the US had a pain-stakingly negotiated and workable deal with Iran when Trump came to power, but he tore it up. He's now desperately trying to secure a deal much worse than the one he set aside.

The UKVI rejected the application, explaining that they were not satisfied the applicant was genuine given they had quoted the wrong founding year. The university subsequently confirmed that the applicant had provided the correct year and the UKVI caseworker was incorrect, but the decision could not be reconsidered. In another case a foreign student was rejected from obtaining a visa to study at the University of East Anglia due to a dispute over whether the university was in Norfolk. The applicant asserted correctly that it was, but the UKVI caseworker appeared to confuse Norfolk with Norwich, which is the capital of the county, and rejected the application - believing the applicant was wrong.

I hope the new Permanent Secretary at the Home Office is going to be able to look at the UK Visas and Immigration’s practices
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"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"

first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note

RFK Jr. Lied His Way Into Office and American Health Is the Victim He is pushing quackery as science as health secretary

Kennedy canceled $500 million in mRNA research and announced no new mRNA projects will ever be initiated—killing the technology that produced the fastest vaccine rollout in human history.

Radiohead’s Kid A album versus Radiohead’s OK Computer album

Pitchfork’s best albums bracket final is out. lol

Lidl to open 50 UK stores in year ahead – and its first pub Almost 2,000 jobs will be created, with retailer vying to overtake Morrisons as Britain’s fifth largest supermarket

Lidl opening its first pub is the sort of thing that must make comedy writers on topical news shows rub their hands with glee
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But we also replaced one Khamenei with another; empowered the IRGC; did nothing for the protesters, killed over a thousand civilians, including hundreds of children and lost at least 13 US service members, alongside over 500 wounded); left Iran with enough highly enriched uranium to make 10-12 nuclear weapons; gave it greater incentive to try to build them; irreparably tarnished America's reputation; did lasting damage to the US and world economies; depleted our arsenal of scarce missile-defence interceptors; diverted valuable military assets from other regions; empowered Russia with an oil price windfall; triggered further conflict in Lebanon; further eroded domestic and international law; and may have left Iran in control of the most valuable waterway in the world, in a position to earn tens of billions of dollars in revenue per year through tolls, while holding the world economy hostage.

So @jderbyshire.ft.com asked @philgordondc.bsky.social if the Iran war is the US’s Suez moment. He said no, but then pithily and pitilessly sums up how it has been a comprehensive strategic failure. Oof!
www.ft.com/content/0cbc...

Big fan of the FT making it clear that Mid Suffolk council does not have control of the UK’s nuclear codes
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That is objectively a very funny phrase.

Yes pretty much…

Excellent reporting on the horrors Lebanon are seeing under the recent Israeli attacks
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I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

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Hall of fame FT correction