James Smith

I’m sorry for your loss but your post infers this person killed your friend, which the article does not mention, which is a major omission?

‘Policies to boost growth’. Why has no one thought of that before?

And a VC with a reasonably progressive research record - examining the limits and contradictions of neoliberalism etc etc.

You need a branding detox Frank!

Tell me that’s not a UoE branded tweed jacket too!!

Imagine, if he was only one of the political strategists in the country they might not be topping double figures in current polls.

Maybe telling my son to ‘smash the opposition’ during his basketball match wasn’t a great idea….

WE NEED MORE TARIFFS!!!!!

"We called London a war zone and moved to Dubai by mistake"

Academic tourism.

I’d have to produce a lot more teaching material!

‘It’s going to kill the town’ said one of the town’s pensioners, who make up 25% of its 8,000 residents. Death and Demographics….

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away…..

BBC’s problem is it basically peaks with Andy and the Band.

They realise that all their financial projections are based on a certain level of immigration?

@stevebrusatte.bsky.social this seems like a thread that captures two of your interests. I quite liked the graph of dinosaur knowledge vs age a few responses down…

Board/Bored of Peace

Hopefully Labour learn the obvious lesson.

Even nominative determinism can’t save the horrific Goodwin. Maybe Labour now realises cosplaying Reform-lite isn’t a vote winner. Well done the Greens on ensuring it was not ever in doubt!

Given the name of the route only contains one accurate word I think they should be selling the vino in larger measures.

No ranting either??

The point of essays is the journey, not the destination. Or occasionally both.

I’m calling Anthropic Misanthropic from here on in.

Weren’t Anthropic making great play about appointing a chief ethics officer just past? Consigliere, more like.

Paul Embery being selective and disingenuous - who’d have thunk it?

East coast blue skies are tricksy

The piss artist formerly known as Prince.

Horse meat set to be banned in Italy amid draft equine bill Law defines animals including horses, donkeys and mules as pets and is backed by opposition parties

First they came for our pesto di cavallo, then they came for our cappelletti di brodo…. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

I'm not a great fan but many recipes are important regionally and Parma alone must have a dozen horsemen butchers. And, are rabbits not pets too?

Aren’t they advocating more a stick than a carrot approach to encouraging child breeding? And I think they mean an actual stick.