If I’m reading this correctly, and I think I am…

Russians are now sh*tting bricks

www.gazeta.ru/science/news...

This morning I’ve seen Olly Robbins’s appearance before the select committee described as ‘box office’, while a commentator flagged up another key political moment with the words ‘bring the popcorn’.

That’s one of our main problems right there.

Isn't the explanation (flawed though it proved) that he thought Mandelson was a kindred spirit of Trump's and therefore would be better at handling him? Which would be a risky explanation to make publically.

The folks who blather about 'Western civilisation' are preventing teaching Plato and (some) Shakespeare

SELL THEIR HOUSES TO WHO, BEN? YouTube video by Husky Rockatansky

It's all a bit...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9FG...

I think a lot of it is down to what flights you regularly take. Going off on holiday, a nightmare to miss. Taking a shuttle from New York to DC, meh.

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This new weapon means war will be over for good doesn't have the best of track records.

Idris was I ere I Sir Elba

Yes, that is correct. I don't have @timhayward.bsky.social's dedication to posting through it.

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:

When was it ravelled?

"Don't make me repeat myself" - History.

All these posts saying "I can't believe I agree with some right wing bigot or other" really bug me. It's not us who've changed our minds. It's them finally admitting we were right all along.

Lovely piece, thanks.

Land is not permanent - but we think it is Entire civilizations depend on something that is subject to change and over which humans have no control.

We expect our cities to last forever. Yet the land on which we build them is constantly changing. Our folly, perhaps, is to think that only we have the right to reshape land.

My reflections on recent visits to Holy Island (Lindisfarne) and Turkey. coppolacomment.substack.com/p/land-is-no...

No ideas but in whatevers

New times, same old arguments. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism blog discussing the latest developments in the rapidly changing international order and how post-Brexit Britain is stuck in delusions of greatness and cries of Brexit betrayal: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/04/new-...

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they're the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive-because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about "Western civilization," while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

Really powerful, hopeful paragraph from the latest article in the Atlantic by @adamserwer.bsky.social

"I called my parents and said this has been the craziest pizza delivery ever. I left a pizza boy and came back a pizza man," Lemmer said.

Was going through old chats and found this incredible quote from a pizza guy who saved someone's life with CPR

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong Instrument’s Loud, Resonant Crash Can Be Disruptive

Poor Sleep Linked To Gong https://theonion.com/poor-sleep-linked-to-gong/

I am, of course, supposed to be writing something else, but I'm too pissed off.

I've not seen anyone claim that it explains everything, and Kevin Drum certainly took pains not to, but the theory that it made a contribution to violent behaviour seems credible enough. Where does it fall down?

Quite a flex to turn up at the presidential palace, get him to confirm you as prime minister, call him unfit to serve with no moral authority, tell him to resign, and then pose for a picture

Toward the more tragic end of leopard stories, but definitely within the genre

Alf Dubs: Labour Is Weakening Refugee Rights – I Had More Success Under The Tories As Lord Dubs leads the charge against the government’s immigration changes, he talks to Sienna Rodgers about his disappointment in Labour, his hope...

“…in the end, I think we have to approach human rights issues with certain principles. We have to say something is right, and we stick by what is right”
www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Wasn't he just trying to win himself credit on the far right for performative cruelty?

3. He thinks the media are timid enough to accept it.

Steve Laws 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @Steve_Laws_ · "I'm voting for the hang nonces and deport millions party" Everything else is noise. Lord Miles Official @real_lord_miles · 2h "Deport? You’re a fucking liberal. I have better solutions"

Rupert Lowe's £2500 Cromwell Club donor Miles Routledge is posting on X saying that Steve Laws is "a fucking liberal" for only wanting to deport millions of migrants and ethnic minorities.

Restore donor Routledge (who prays for a new Hitler by 2039) says he has "better solutions" than deportation

It's telling that:
a) he caught enough pushback from the religious right to delete something, which he almost never does
b) those people have not used this influence to cross him on anything more substantive than a gross but fundamentally superficial aesthetic insult to their brand