Difficult to think of a lower bar, though.

Nice punchline!

I gulped at hearing this described as a 'disturbance'. That's what what I call it when people are noisy on a night out, not when they're slaughtering eight children. Maybe I'm over-interpreting this, but the choice of words seemed part of the normalisation of gun violence.

So pleased Laura Kuenssberg is back this week. That means there is no chance Robert Jenrick will be asked about his promise to cut flight tax after a £40k donation from an airline owner.

Are you a fan of Fantasy? You'll love Trumpworld, a zany parallel universe where losing is winning, lies are truth, and a man sitting behind a desk and talking gibberish while shitting his pants is worshipped by a sinister cult of theocratic clowns helping him destroy the world.

And there was no need: no position to fill, post had been held by a career diplomat for some fifty years, reportedly excellent woman diplomat in post. But Starmer was desperate to get on Trump's good side - which is also an obvious strategic error.

<Takes note to use 'disassortatively' in conversation whenever the opportunity arises.>

And 'crisis' is far too mild a word for what is happeningto our climate. After all, we get used to crises. It is an emergency; it may soon become a catastrophe.

That, or living on a planet that is set to become uninhabitable, and under a political and economic system that refuses to address the issue or in any way provide for people's needs. Must be the recommendation algorithms...

Demi-sec?

Bookfinder? It's got the prices of most suppliers.

He says that as if it's a bad thing.

As usual, no-one benefits from or even wants this. Who are they trying to attract with this?

It's migration season! Monarch butterflies travel over 4,000 km to winter in Mexico's stunning oyamel forests. Witness the beauty of nature's incredible journey.

Whether it's Trump threatening a nuclear war on Truth Social or Hillary Clinton sharing risotto recipes by email, both leaders made controversial use of digital communication.

Please enjoy my cartoon for Tuesday's Toronto Star

These people need to grow up!

@hpartzsch.bsky.social Manatee news!

I read somewhere that this hasn't be the case since the mid-nineteenth century. I also wonder how that would work for, say, Singapore or the Gulf countries.

Not much oil that passes through the Strait is actually destined to Europe anyway, though, is it?

Reading is one thing, listening comprehension quite another!

Did I miss anything? As far as I'm aware, this man has no public function and has held public office for only a matter of months. He is a non-entity.

Brown - Blair vibe.

Anyway, even according to the immanent logic, which effects of migration are 'mitigated' by extending settlement periods? This is harmful for integration, which everyone claims to support. There is no genuine benefit, other than performative cruelty.

1 [Corporate brand ident: ‘Everlasting’ - with logo featuring a green drawing of an apple and a tree] 2 [SATAN walks on in front of the logo] SATAN: Hi there 3 I’m Satan, CEO of Everlasting* [*Formerly known as Hell] 4 and I want to talk to you about how we’re working… [SATAN opens a door into Hell] 5 [We see Hell, burning pit, tortured souls etc] … towards a sustainable future. 6 Over the last 6 millennia we’ve increased our fiery pit efficiencies 7 By pushing more souls in at once… [Souls being poked into the fiery pit by demons] ….with sustainably sourced soul-pokers. 8 Plus we’ve developed state of the art SCT* *Scream Capture Technology 9 To power the flaying machine! [We see the flaying machine] 10 And we’ve even got a page on our website [Satan shows us a screen on a laptop] with a nice illustration and some green writing… 11 about some vague community thing we did in a school. [Show photo on screen of Demons doing STEM lessons with terrified schoolschildren] 12 [Back to logo] Everlasting ⁃ For Eternity - SATAN: [walking off screen] Will that do [ends]

From 2021

That was exactly my thought! Weird specification about 'leather shoes' too - so no crocs, then: shame...

UK to give homes ‘free energy’ instead of turning off wind turbines Europe’s outdated and under-invested energy grid means huge amounts of renewable energy are wasted every year.

University of Oxford : maximising oil and gas extraction here would only save UK households up to £82 (€95) per year. A UK fully powered by renewable energy, would save households up to £441 (€510) a year on energy bills.
www.euronews.com/2026/03/27/e...

I did that in 2018. The Brexit vote convinced me that anything else would be precarious. It cost a lot of money and time!

You seem to be well under way, but I recommend the local authority submission service if it still exists. They check whether the application is complete and send it on, so it gives you some piece of mind and is cheap (unlike everything else in the process).

Claude Lévi-Strauss has entered the room...