1/ This Yanis Varoufakis screed made me so angry the only way I can salvage my day is to go through it line by line as catharsis.
You are welcome to come on the journey toward my aneurism with me.
An angry h/t to @sianushka.bsky.social for bringing this into my life.
unherd.com/2026/04/why-...
Private Eye very good this week on Fleet St hindsight
View over the Olympic village in Munich
A walk around the Olympic village if the weather is good and wander past the Eisbachwelle at southern end of English Garden to see the dudes surfing, rain or shine.
This country's ability to rinse the young and then berate them as lazy avocado addicts is ridiculous.
They're so up against it, it's madness.
- as.ft.com/r/094f3968-1...
Stephen Collins comic on Twitter addiction
@stephencollins.bsky.social made the point best
For this graphic we compare the terrain of the three most expensive rail projects in the world.
HS2 costs an eye watering $537mn per km despite being built on relatively flat terrain.
Read Gill Plimmer, @pickardje.bsky.social and Jonathan Vincent's excellent article
www.ft.com/content/3f73...
Telling them it’s not that deep and doing repeated 6-7s is also quite effective.
Both my two teenagers started going to the library to get school work done a few years ago. (One now at uni, the other now taking same approach.)
Hard agree. That’s a bare minimum.
Republicans are honoring Charlie Kirk’s memory by declaring war on the First AmendmentThe guardians of ‘free speech’ sure had a change of heart.
We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...
Ah but @tobyn.bsky.social Bailey *knew* a high-spending, tax-cutting budget was coming and *that's* why he deliberately queered the pitch with his totally unnecessary QT announcement because he was a Big Lefty Keynsian out to get Liz!
Liz explains the coup www.ft.com/content/30e5...
Good piece by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social -- someone needs to keep saying it. I've grown tired, moved on to Trumpworld, but good if the debate is coming back.
How do you get the teen to do things?
What’s going to happen to the unsolved riddle from the sculpture in the CIA’s garden when the only person who knows the answer dies? Great long form journalism here - worth buying the FT in hard copy so you can read the magazine for this
on.ft.com/3JbOOjh
I spent the day with Curtis Yarvin and the "dissident right" at a garden party in Surrey and wrote quite a few words about it.
My cover story for today’s FT Magazine
on.ft.com/4ooXS4t [GIFT LINK! 🎁]
Happened to me the other day in Germany. Then realised I’d been running a VPN to get BBC Sounds to work 😂
98%
That's the decrease in the annual number of single-use plastic bags in the UK since a 5p charge started 10 years ago (it's now 10p)
Not all environmental problems are that easy to tackle, but change is possible
Resharing the Mail's 2015 splash, which has aged well
www.gov.uk/government/p...
Trains from London to Frankfurt or Geneva are not impossible to do, but they are hard (and I am also perplexed - why Geneva and not Basel, as Basel looks easier)
Anyway, preliminary conclusions from my #CrossChannelRail project here: crossborderrail.trainsforeurope.eu/preliminary-...
Photo of a news story displayed on a screen in Frankfurt underground station with the headline “Deutsche Bahn plans train connection from Frankfurt to London”
Old enough to remember last time this was promised (in 2010). Weird that doesn’t seem to be mentioned much.
Congratulations!
Also: a very warm and friendly man. (Having met him briefly in 2014 at Jackson Hole and shared a group hike with him and others.)
#Gewitter in Hessen
This is a very good Trichet anecdote and surprises strongly on the upside
Brilliant.
Confused over who's in the running to become the next pope?
But you do have some knowledge of financial-crisis era central bankers?
This is the thread for you!
Photo shows induction hob and some non functioning dials below it from a previous hob.
Still have the old dials from the (not so good as not induction) hob below as a kitchen appliance memento mori.
Yeah, the aggressive beeping of our newish induction hob drives me crazy. One set of beeps seems reserved for “a pan is too near the edge” which rather negates its selling point of allegedly being allowed to put the pans “anywhere” and it just senses where they are.
Superb exhibition.
