Mad fact... 42% of Labour Prime Ministers have had to fire Peter Mandelson.

Off to see Die Zauberflöte this evening. Daft story, lovely music.

So much is extraordinarily dreadful about Trump's regime, and here's just one (truly dreadful) example.

Many congratulations @alanrenwick.bsky.social

The media have developed a bad habit, fed by 10 years of psychodramas with Brexit, Johnson, Truss, et al. They've (mostly) lost their sense of the civic good.

"Strategic attention deficit disorder"
#Lovely #wato

Hero

Not to mention Ralph Fiennes learning his salph liennes

The cruel misinformation of a data status indicator on your mobile that says "5G", when in fact there is no 5G, not even 1G.

Trying and failing to log into Bluesky for 80 straight minutes so I can make a post about how the website is bad

Harald Bluetooth, a Viking King, united parts of Denmark and Norway. The bluetooth logo is a H and B in old Viking runes.

Yup, this media framing is monotonously fixated. But it doesn't stop govt ministers from taking the interview by the scruff of the neck and articulating some bold short and longer term strategies. Problem is the govt is so averse to bold strategy.

Tom Paine in Our Time: Common Sense at 250 with Joe Rezek - Boston Athenaeum

You can watch my Boston Athenaeum lecture on the 250th anniversary of Common Sense on their website, linked here. It's a little Boston-centered, a very local talk! But with themes that resonate broadly, I do believe. And quite a lively crowd.

Thanks for sharing. I'll watch with interest.

For one minute, thought it was @countarthurstrong.bsky.social

The Strategic Defence Review, which Robertson spearheaded, came out in September 2025, as I was writing the last chapter of my book, which is focused on foreign policy and strategy. I read that entire document and interviewed a number of experts about it. A few thoughts. 🧵

Got it. Love it.

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Get well soon!

Same here

Brick as a permeable screen

A beautiful rotating brick screen, which provides shade and privacy, but allows for ventilation

South Asian Human Right Documentation Centre, built on a tiny 50m2 plot in New Delhi, India

By Anagram Architects

I told the waiter that the Hollandaise tasted funny. He said that was because it was ‘Lol’landaise. Which was a sauce of amusement.

I guess that would make taxi passengers cabbage

FT Correction: Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as “solidly in my fuck it era” rather than “solidly in my fucking era”.

Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...

Social media websites come and go. But the absolute unit is forever.

The Etymological Problem with Apples I remain resolute in the belief that ordinary, ten-a-penny words are far more interesting than the rare jewels and prized flowers of any language’s lexicon. Miss me with your petrichor an…

If you'd welcome a windfall of historical language and etymology, all connected to the humble English word 'apple', then boy, do I have a new article for you.

The star word leads us into the murkiest prehistory of English and the debate over an absent consonant.
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omg

He's the original oxymoron