Trial by combat, surely.

AMAZING. Wasn't he living in Blackfriars beforehand too?

Unnamed source on KS: "He's an asshole who's out of his depth."

Unnamed source demonstrated unfortunate US-isation of our body politic but other than that, lol.

Prince - Black Sweat (Official Video) YouTube video by princevevo

10 years 💔 youtu.be/vG-e00c6uT0

Has to be done!

Tonight is Salome at York Hall for me!

Lachrimae, though... Anyway, tix bought for the festival in Norwich.

OMG thank you! Ticket bought

sucks

John McDonnell is right, of course. Keir Starmer has only ever been in charge in name and was simply approving an appointment for one of the gang, as instructed.

Shot from Thames film

Saw William Raban’s Thames Film at the ICA this weekend and bloody good it is too. The brown river was ever a dangerous place.

Holy hell. They have knitwear patterns.

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Electronic

AI employing ppl is not the thought I was looking for for my Sunday evening

Good.

The statements about "oh we didn't know it was only advisory" are obvious bullshit ofc.

I'll leave the rest of the Mandelson stuff for others to comment on, but this (from Darren Jones) is the Wrong Thing. Why would you give the security services a veto on appointments? There shd be a place for political discretion - and being held to account if that judgement turns out to be wrong.

The Mad King (RSC) promo pic. It appears to be a crown in the mud or perhaps post fire debris.

Just nabbed tickets for The Mad King (Game of Thrones) at RSC. Happy Friday to me!

100% agree. It's a concept that requires a good noun.

Allbirds is turning into a company that owns or leases masses of advanced computing power with the latest and most powerful Nvidia chips and then rents that out to companies developing AI, who need lots and lots of computing power to train their models. It's quite a long way from selling shoes.

A generation of just-in-time energy policy is the big one, I think.

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The sheer scale of the intimidation @francescaalbanese.bsky.social has faced is nothing short of horrifying. www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

Roger Scruton, can you hear me? Your boy took a hell of a beating!

Courtney Williams has been charged under the Espionage Act for speaking out about sexual abuse in the US military www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Read the Carreyrou “Adam Back is Satoshi” piece. My issue with these things is that if Satoshi were still alive, I think those coins would have been moved by now. Unless whoever it is has lost the keys which admittedly accords with my experience of early bitcoin adopters.

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This is that rarest of things, a genuine must-read

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