Good job there are no big developments in the cyber world at the mo. 👀

We have heard nothing from Pam Bondi or her legal team. She didn't show up for her scheduled deposition, and half of the Epstein files are still unreleased.

We are left with no choice. Contempt charges are coming.

Time to explore if Canada and Mexico could pick up the games currently scheduled for the US, or perhaps postpone for a year and find a host that respects the competition.

Amal had been getting explicit death threats from Israel for years, telling her to quit doing her job if "if you want your head to stay connected to your shoulders," &c:

from 2024: bsky.app/profile/ophe...

and now:

CPJ calls for immediate rescue of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, trapped under rubble in southern Lebanon - Committee to Protect Journalists UPDATE: On April 22, the Red Cross reported that they had found the body of Amal Khalil under the rubble. Beirut, April 22, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists is outraged that the Israeli Defen...

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil found dead after being trapped in rubble following Israeli strike, obstruction of rescue:
cpj.org?p=583367

This tax trap has been a thing for a over a decade now, and has only gotten worse since the introduction of frozen income tax allowance.

For the love of god will a future Chancellor please put genuine, wide-ranging tax reform at the top of their agenda - to maximise revenue, more than anything else

Meanwhile, the US is split between the voices Trump hears in his head...

Oh, I very much agree. It just seems such an obvious potential catastrophe for them - they either lose the racists to Restore or lose the purely anti-system types. At the same time they split their vote.

(Of course, Farage and Lowe hate each other and so MAD may yet be their preferred path).

Hmmm, can someone give this graph to the Labour Party and ask them why think constantly raising the salience of immigration is a good thing?

Final sentence of this post is an entire fucking thesis

"It would be really bad if they don't work out this Hormuz thing, so they'll figure it out some way" is still the prevailing attitude.

Can see it in markets, media, politicians, public.

Bad can't happen, people in charge know what they're doing, it's all content anyway.

I find it... unsettling.

(Although that would depend on how the contest was reported).

Is there a risk of such an event back-firing on Reform? Suspect they'll find themselves having to compete with Lowe to win the racist vote and that might push them the wrong side of the line for those who are just anti-system rather than anti-human.

Having re-written the rules of Christianity, Trump is now re-writing the laws of maths.

Presumably actual maths will now be vilified as woke.

We’ve moved from alternate facts to alternate math.

America is done. This is truly insane.

Bugger.

Palestinian boy, 14, among two killed in settler attack near West Bank school Local officials and witnesses say attackers shot at students first then at those who arrived to help

Turns out some Israeli settlers aren't that different from terrorists like Hamas or Hezbollah. None of these terrorist groups are really searching for peace.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Can't help thinking that the biggest beneficiary of a Mahmood win would be Polanski. No place for "white liberals" in a Labour led by Mahmood...

Ffs...

Reading the FT front page story about a Chinese company introducing a battery with a 1500 km range & six minute recharging time & about how two Chinese companies own more than half of the global EV battery market & I am struck by the different realities the US and China occupy. We’ve lost the plot.

The midterm gerrymandering war and the Iran war alike show Trump's inability to imagine that the people he's picking fights with have any agency, any ability to respond.

He loves his "you don't have the cards" metaphor but he's amazingly terrible at actually thinking about whether they do.

Margo Martin @MargoMartin47 X.com Congratulations, Georgia Women's Tennis! The photo shows Trump and five white dudes in red ties standing in front of and completely blocking 10 young women

Priceless post from the official White House social media

While it's good for the state of the world that the referendum in Virginia was won - this battle to gerrymander as much as possible is a bad sign for US democracy.

This degree of polarisation and norm-breaking is hard to recover from.

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos’s Private Retreat For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.

"If you’re looking for a sign from God as to whether hanging out with the richest man on Earth is right for you, pay attention when he sends you not one plague, but two."

Holy shit Noah Hawley is good (and this very clearly demonstrates that he understands the Alien assignment).

screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

As if I didn't dislike fossil fuel types enough already.

There does seem a conscious effort to lock the West in the 20th century whilst China powers ahead.

IPPR on Ed Miliband's energy speech:

“The transition to net zero is the only way to protect the UK from a never-ending wave of international conflict driving up energy prices.

“Closing the Strait of Hormuz won’t push up the price of solar. Trump invading Greenland wouldn’t make wind more costly."

Please God, let Rosenior stay in charge at Chelsea until at least the 5th of May...