American beef isn't healthy. It's full of growwth hormones. Even less healthy when it's made into burgers.

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

J. H. Prynne wrote a guide to reading works of literature for Cambridge students. This was the postscript:

She's voting Reform, isn't she.

The underlying structural problems of UK politics that the country doesn't have the resources to do everything expected of it and a Westminster class in denial about this doesn't go away in the event of a new PM.

Harlow is also in Essex though. But I agree with the general sentiment.

I KNOW I'm going to sound like an old fogey (and I'm not a nostalgia-crazy Reform voter) but God knows how we managed to survive childhood/teenage years before mobile phones. In my case in the 1970s. My parents didn't even get a landline until the 1980s.

Laura Kuenssberg was the same when she was in that job.

How about Chip or Markwayne?

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.

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OMFG I had to go and check that this ACTUALLY happened.

Since when does the BBC ever do chyrons with a political party's branding, rather than their own? Not to mention this is during a pre-election campaign purdah.

(h/t @iainsol.bsky.social)

For those who may not have seen-

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Tice ‘happy to put things right’ after ‘he failed to pay £100k in corporation tax’ Mr Tice said last year Angela Rayner would resign if she had “any moral decency” after admitting to underpaying stamp duty

Richard Tice deputy leader of Reform ran four shell companies which did not pay any tax on profits between 2020 and 2022.

He's now offering to "put things right".

Go on then Richard - resign.

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Brexit. British Exit from the EU. But also stands in my mind for British Exceptionalism. That of being as a country so different to say France or Germany or any other that we couldn't really be happy members of a bloc.

Which was always nonsense.

Is Ukraine winning the drone race? Barely six months ago it appeared that Russia was ahead in the drone race.

New post from @ldfreedman.bsky.social

"Is Ukraine winning the drone war?"

The Russians certainly think so.

What are the implications of Ukraine's innovations for the war and, more broadly, for how other countries should be thinking about drones?

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Jesus built my car
It's a love affair
Mainly Jesus and my hot rod
Yeah, fuck it

Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry

brilliant -- Morning Joe put together clips of Pete Hegseth reciting a fake Bible quote from Pulp Fiction, along with the Samuel L. Jackson scene from the movie

Rejoin is coming Customs union is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future.

Rejoin is coming: Talk of the customs union and single market is a distraction. Only full membership offers a compelling vision of Britain's future

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The number of people crossing by small boat this year compared to last year. The fall is very real and not seasonal. Little difference in numbers during the winter but since numbers increased in spring, half as many people are coming as this time last year. This is mainly because of European trends.

Pardoned Jan. 6 rioter to plead guilty in child sexual abuse case, adding to pattern Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 rioters were already indefensible. As many of them run into fresh trouble with the law, the move continues to look even worse.

Another Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump will plead guilty in a separate case involving child exploitation of multiple victims.

David Daniel has reached a plea agreement in connection with a pending charge of sexual exploitation of a minor and possessing sexually explicit images of children.

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Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

In which I gently suggest that George Robertson’s intervention was a really asshatty thing to do,

NEW: ‘Hitler was right’, says star Reform activist – HOPE not hate By Harry Shukman and Sarah Hadley A well-known Reform activist who campaigned for the party in the forthcoming local elections has denied the Holocaust and...

Reform Essex activist who hosted Nigel Farage at his tanning salon is also a Nazi superfan who believes that "Hitler was right."

Excellent work from @hopenothate.org.uk

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Old Testament is all smiting and begatting. No wonder MAGA love it.

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Good news. But at Sussex University last weekend they told us they had closed so many language courses that links with EU institutions have dwindled and Erasmus returning won’t change that.

BBC News is going very hard on its investigation into advisers who help people ‘fake’ asylum claims, focusing especially on people who falsely claim to be gay. But it doesn’t say what percentage of claims are made on the basis of sexuality. As of 2023 — the last available figures — it was 3%.

We need an innovative industry to produce both high-end complex systems and cheaper new technologies. To this end, we can learn from Ukraine’s expertise and experience.

In an increasingly complex security environment, a strong relationship between the EU and NATO is central to European security.