The bridge is open for billy goats. The only thing prohibiting transit on the bridge right now is the troll waiting underneath.
Monday is a great day for striking defendants' names at Westminster Magistrates' Court
We have a Ms Bangs up for criminal damage and assault by beating, an alleged thief called Mr Looney and a Mr Sherlock who has fallen out with the police
This is very good...
Rereading Nye Bevan’s greatest Commons speech
On Suez, 5 Dec 1956
The war where, as he put it, “the reasons change all the time”
Just replace “the canal” with “straits of hormuz” — and weep
www.theguardian.com/theguardian/...
this means it is not open for transit
Irony is dead (and buried, and dug up again, and then cremated).
I was on a panel this week at the Royal Society, talking about AI and the future of women in science, and Wendy Hall asked us about the consequences of a future without women working in AI. And my reply was that we don't need to imagine that future. It's here. It's the present.
You know that Mike Tyson quote, “Everyone has a plan until they’re punched in the face”?
Well sometimes there isn’t even a plan.
Everyone is 12 now.
We're a week away from him spending half a billion dollars to equip them all with nunchucks.
Could this be a solution to the Strait of Hormuz?
This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast.
They’ll play this in museums in future.
(🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)
Also learned some things: bsky.app/profile/heat...
Absolutely - I skeeted about it yesterday and my feed was filled all afternoon with lovely suggestions of animals, from Gordon the Gopher to that elephant that 💩 on Blue Peter - quite restored my faith in humanity tbh.
i, for one, am delighted that we finally have a definition of “woke”
The juxtaposition of the first and second items of business for this Privy Council meeting is hilarious.
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The sheer strategic stupidity of bailing Russia out of its economic hole by launching a war that entirely foreseeably spikes the oil price - and then having no minesweepers in place to deal with the foreseeable fallout. Rank incompetence.
*TRUMP: WHEN OIL PRICES GO UP, WE MAKE A LOT OF MONEY
Had a chat with the formidable Meg Hillier as Treasury select committee launches its inquiry into student loans: she frets that it's part of a wider picture of 20/30 somethings getting a really rubbish deal: www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
If I was the global economy, I would simply not make my energy system dependent on passing commodities through a narrow strait in a geopolitically tumultuous region.
Keir Starmer's in Northern Ireland and I think they've given him a multipack of Taytos as a welcome gift
New inquiry on student loans launched by Treasury Committee !!
@guardianheather.bsky.social interviews Meg on it in today’s Guardian
www.theguardian.com/money/2026/m...
If you have something to say about student loans (don’t we all??), pls fill out our survey !
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majestic
For goodness sake, now the LibDems are banging on about Churchill and badgers, I expect better of Ed Davey...
It's not though, is it?
Wearily tapping the 'he's just saying words and they have no real meaning and cannot be taken as indications of actual policy or views or strategy or indeed anything with practical application' sign
Look after yourself x
the string of attacks this morning on shipping in hormuz feels like iran proving that they can still keep the strait closed
If there was only some way to harness Mandelson's chutzpah to power the grid we could avoid an energy crisis.
