A wonderful line from the big magic egg inventor, who has been “doing this for probably 3,000 years”
A wonderful line from the big magic egg inventor, who has been “doing this for probably 3,000 years”
Just because you're paranoid, etc www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Just because you're paranoid, etc www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
I get why people compare worries about kids on social media with previous moral panics but I think an important difference is that when previous generations worried about computer games or rock music they were worrying about things kids did that their parents didn't understand.
Now for my last, soothing, bedtime check on The War so I can really lie awake and think about it
NEW: Treasury confirms the Spring Statement would have been better like this www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
They look so delicious!
Ben, I must refer you to the Fish Labelling (England) Regulations 2003, in which Dicentrarchus labrax is designated: "Bass or Sea Bass". Tell it to the judge!
If you'd like to start a campaign to amend the legislation I'm with you. And chapeau to anyone who lands one of these delicious beasts
Tune in to hear about the EXPLOSIvE government files released this week that NO-ONE ELSE is talking about (unless they're REALLY into sea bass)
@anooshc.bsky.social & @willdunn.bsky.social I really enjoyed your latest podcast episode, thanks.
It's so refreshing to hear about some of the other things that happened this week when one political event risks becoming the sole topic of every political podcast (I know you covered this well too).
Great article on the Thames Water disaster, driven by Wall St vulture funds, who profit from pollution and fleecing British billpayers.
Over double the % cost of your mortgage is the price we're paying in debt via water bills. By @willdunn.bsky.social
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I watched nine hours of Your Party hustings to bring you the inside story on this week's most important election result, for this week's Sketch: www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
Abandon all hope at the Your Party hustings
Zoom-related difficulties besieged the party’s CEC election hustings
By @willdunn.bsky.social
Shocking scale of Thames Water's vandalism revealed by the always excellent @willdunn.bsky.social:
Revealed: Thames Water's environmental and financial disaster. New research reveals Britain’s biggest water company has been illegally polluting rivers at an even greater scale than previously thought.
🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social
New: the biggest ever study of Thames Water reveals the huge scale of the company's illegal sewage spills www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Surely the AI answer to this question is: "just take it, pretend you need it to cure all disease or destroy all jobs or whatever"
"It is striking how many peers tried, and failed, to enter parliament by democratic means."
🖼️ @willdunn.bsky.social: The House of Lords's cosplay democracy
The taxpayer hands over about £1,000 in expenses for each of Daniel Hannan's opinions. Worth every penny!
From this week's Sketch
www.newstatesman.com/politics/dem...
A fantastical Illumination of a dog with a snail's body on parchment from Jacob van Maerlant’s Der naturen bloeme, c. 1350, The Netherlands.
🐌 🐾 Dog snail!
This is one of the fantastical Illuminations on parchment from Jacob van Maerlant’s Der naturen bloeme, c. 1350, The Netherlands.
🗃️ #arthistory #medievalsky #art #dog #design #booksky #dutch
This is a blunt falsehood from Farage. 3.5m Epstein files were released on 30 Jan and on Jan 31, the FT carried a front-page story on Mandelson (see image).
People like Farage seem to dislike reporters aslking questions. If you do like reporters asking questions, pay for some (any!) journalism.
On the latest episode of the @newstatesman1913.bsky.social podcast, @willdunn.bsky.social and I chat Labour’s unpopularity contest, the joys of figure skating and consider advice from RFK Jr's nutrition chatbot...
Interesting piece, but I think there's a risk of overthinking this. If the revelations from Bellingcat or the Litvinenko inquiry show us anything, it's that the Russian secret services are staggeringly incompetent.
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That also sounds very possible. The CPS said he took "around £40,000" in bribes in less than a year... if Karla had a budget for £80k then someone's in trouble!
Some thoughts on Nathan Gill, the former leader of Reform in Wales, who got a ten-year sentence for taking Russian bribes
- from this week's New Statesman sketch www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
"People will hate this product but we've unleashed a political nightmare, so they'll have much bigger things to worrry about"
Tracking Putin’s agents through Westminster
Reform MPs were conspicuous by there absence at a debate on malicious “Russian influence campaigns”
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