Always fascinated by those men of a certain age who still stand up when a woman comes over to their table in the pub and then there's no clear signal of when it's polite to sit down again so they just hover there for 10 odd minutes awkwardly watching a conversation that doesn't involve them.
Is there a block on what test results you can check on the NHS App? I just have visions of someone on the bus on the way into work, staring at their phone and reading the words "prognosis negative"
People keep on suggesting the UK public are against the current Iran conflict because of memories of Iraq but I think it's more to do with an antipathy to Trump making risky, deeply consequential decisions. They don't trust him and whatever he does they're largely against.
I remember seeing polling showing the existence of Lib Dem to UKIP switchers and my main takeaway was that I don't understand the UK electorate.
This makes me wonder if we're seeing Reform to Green switchers?
Forget oil – the real threat from a Hormuz closure is a global food crisis
The global food system has far thinner buffers than energy markets.
buff.ly/L03iYVV
This from Adam Tooze sounds similtaneously highly believable and completely made up
The Economist uses the phrase "escalate horizontally" to describe Iran's retaliation and I think that wording deserves wider usage.
"Careful Dave, after a couple of drinks he likes to escalate horizontally"
I often think people overreact to stuff like this. What's Starmer supposed to do at McSweeney's leaving drinks, stand up and denounce him for fucking absolutely everything up?
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/
The internet tells me today is David Tibet's birthday so time for me to tell the time I was at an art event, Louis Wain psychedelic cat pictures if I remember correctly, where he was in attendance and Ed Davey was doing the speech for it and referred to him as David Tibbet.
Even Starmer, the lukewarm milky coffee of politicians whose whole raison d'etre was to tickle Trump's belly has finally had enough and doesn't care WHO HEARS ABOUT IT
This does feel like a moment where the Trump regime finally burns through any last remnants of good faith countries in Europe, Middle East and Asia had. What that means I don't know but the US didn't have to engineer a situation where we found out.
Trump rails against traditional US allies building up renewable capacity and then does this to them.
Lee Kuan Yew was the only one to be born a Harry?
What a load of vegetarian meatballs
Sure the news but I'm just struck someone named their child Bobson Dugnutt. Sorry I mean Markwayne Mullin.
Fair point.
Paul Krugman on the cost of the Iran conflict and what that tells us:
youtu.be/9LnguUdYSTc?...
NEW ANALYSIS: UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet.
All the details in our article: www.carbonbrief.org/...
Ukraine were trained in how to fight by NATO countries and they abandoned the taught approach because it didn't work. That should already tell people that maybe instead of mocking Zelensky we should be asking him what he can teach our armed forces.
The US administration suddenly realising "Oh hang on! What if we get Ukraine to help us with Iranian drones?" just shows the lack of strategic thinking in the Trump administration. UKR should already be a key US ally with knowledge in how to fight the latest form of warfare flowing both ways.
Zelensky should call Trump PT Barnum and tell him to wear a proper suit first
As someone having a lot of medical appointments at the moment I've been thinking similar things about the software GP receptionists almost always have trouble using. Two people staring at a screen in bewilderment, one saying "try clicking up here" while a queue slowly builds on the other side.
Yeah in the Cotswolds. And John Major took Boris Yeltsin to one too which is a bit more on brand,
If the internet ever sees the "ramen" I just made the 12 year old I'm getting cancelled.
Railing against imaginary Sharia law in the UK while praising a place that actually has a legal system based upon it.
We increasingly get Chinese tourists who I assume are students on a day trip from Manchester. I can understand that but this?
The only people watching the T20 cricket match in this pub in a small Cheshire town are two lads speaking, I think, Japanese. I really want to know how the hell they've ended up in this situation but I'm also English so I'm just going to ignore them.
China has more solar capacity than the rest of the world combined
