Spurs’ logic-defying season proves something has shifted in football
That Tottenham stand a chance of being relegated from the Premier League is something the modern footballing structure is supposed to guard against – until it doesn’t, writes Rory Smith
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This is art
Anthropic disabled my Claude Pro account last week, saying I needed to go through age verification. I did so, and it restored my account..but on the Free plan. No refund on usage I had paid for. My only way of requesting one is a *Google form*. No response. This is a company apparently worth $380bn
Grim as hell
Well let's see how this strategy of telling "white liberals" to "fuck right off" works out in the local elections
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"Zack Polanski, leader of the Green party, said: “There’s nothing real about the Reform party. Their supposed policies to tackle cost of living are fake, they spin stories that are fake and now we know even their campaigners are fake.”
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NEW: I found two "news" websites active on X and other platforms—Al-Fassel and Pishtaz News—that are in fact U.S. government-operated anti-Iranian military propaganda mills. Both appear tied to U.S. Central Command.
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Kéré Architecture unveils compacted-earth Goethe-Institut in Dakar:
www.dezeen.com/2026/04/20/kere-architec...
THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026
* CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt
* Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2
* Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse
* Age of Electricity "confirmed"
* "Extraordinary" solar growth
* Batteries up 40%
* EVs up 20%
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Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.
The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.
Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.
"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."
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Farage has accepted £675,000 – a third of his income – from foreign sources since becoming an MP.
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🔴 Sri Lankan ‘Grifters’ Pumping Out AI ‘Energy Policy Rage Bait’ on UK Facebook Feeds
Experts say mass-produced AI misinformation is the “new Cambridge Analytica scandal”.
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Lewis Carroll's 'Alice in Wonderland' illustrations, 1959 by Finnish artist and Moomins creator Tove Jansson #WomensArt
But papers like the Times and broadcasters like the BBC just crawl up Farage’s backside instead of asking him the difficult questions and scrutinising his past failures.
Don’t pretend to care about probity with Starmer if you’re willing to red-carpet this piece of utter filth into Number 10.
What should have happened: the REIT paid no tax but the Tice companies holding shares in the REIT paid £98k tax on the dividends they received. What actually happened: none of the companies paid any tax.
Our new report: Richard Tice signed accounts wrongly claiming £98,000 of tax exemptions
A 🧵 with the evidence:
The location of the Strait of Hormuz on google with the opening hours shown at Mon-Fri 9.30am - 4pm
Someone has actually done this on Google 😂😂👏
Happy Record Store Day Canada
Reitman in his director's chair, surrounded by his cast-members
"They came by after lunch & Danny gave me the one-line version of it, which basically was ghost janitors in New York."
- Harold Ramis
The Ghostbusters team: Ramis, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ivan Reitman, Rick Moranis & Annie Potts
📷 Michael Ginzberg, 1984
A room of people applauding because the little boy has written his own name. Next, our times tables.
I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”
I'm a broken record on this but the radicalisation and brain rot of Gen X/boomers is a massively under-appreciated problem
The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
The significant year on year fall on boat arrivals is broadly unreported by BBC or other media. It has less to do with imminent government changes currently going through than a fall in "push factors" that is Europe-wide
