Nathaniel Tapley

Select magazine from 1993 with a picture of Justine from Elastica on the front with the headline THIS IS THE FUTURE!

Dear Select magazine from 1993, The Future here, and I'm afraid I've got some bad news for you...

Paddington at the BAFTAs, but he’s doing Tony Montana’s ‘bad guy’ bit from Scarface.

Virginia Giuffre died aged 42.

Evergreen.

Billionaire Peter Thiel says that America is similar to the Weimar Republic "Liberalism has exhausted itself... Democracy, whatever it may be, has exhausted itself... Therefore, we need to start talking far beyond the Overton window."

Talking openly about this in public too, so I think it’s time to ask ourselves what we collectively want to do in response to a billionaire class that is not embarrassed about declaring themselves kings.

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing people local newspaper reporters are rarified elites instead of ink-stained wretches driving their Honda Civic to a crime scene so you know don’t have to rely on Nextdoor and the police press release.

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The Carmen Widonis says there were some there, but I'm not sure anyone else mentions them.

It's almost as if Morgan McSweeney is a fucking idiot

The usual exchange is that the compromises are made in return for either servicing another creator’s vision, whom you’re working for, and helping, or in return for payment, as work for hire.

Why would you insert compromises to align with the unexpressed whims of an average of strangers?

Prince Philip looking awful in a car

Not Prince Andrew looking awful in a car

Striking family resemblance...

Twit-Twoogie Howser MD

Prince Philip looking awful in a car

Not Prince Andrew looking awful in a car

Striking family resemblance...

This take must die. I know everyone loves their nan, as well they should, and it’s fine to simply say nothing here, but to take as an example someone who paid a settlement to one of the victims, is now dead and buried having faced no consequences for their complicity, and frame THEM as the victim?

She never lived to see this moment, but it’s worth remembering that none of this would have happened without Virginia Giuffre.

She had the courage to speak out against power and privilege when it was just her word against Andrew’s.

Thanks to her, justice & accountability may finally have its day.

Onto a bit with a train. The guard checked my ticket and blew his cheeks out. "Edinburgh? Be quicker to go by boat, wouldn't it?" This had better be worth it, #movesummit

A grim looking funfair in Barmouth, seen through a grubby bus window...

Okay, rail replacement bus from Snowdonia to Edinburgh. Do your worst! (Please do not do your worst)

Headline from a BBC article titled "The saga of a £165m rail line that keeps causing travel chaos".

Screen grab from the same article reading "Cornwall and most of Devon were cut off from the rest of the railway network for eight weeks, causing travel chaos. Since then, £165m of public money has been spent to try to prevent it happening again. So why, in January 2026, was the same line closed once more, bringing train cancellations for thousands of people during Storm Ingrid? It raises a question: is something more fundamental going wrong that could plague people across the UK travelling here for work, to see family or for holidays, for years to come?" with the last paragraph highlighted in yellow.

yes, it's called the fucking climate crisis which mentioned exactly zero times in this article 🫠

Screenshot of a home office tweet

If the PM reckons Jim Ratcliffe should apologise for spreading this exact same lie, should the Home Office apologise too, or? 🤨

There are no interesting questions to be raised about selfhood by a string of numbers, and I will not be lectured about theory of mind by techbros who are eager to extinguish actual human lives with actual theories of mind in order to attach more zeroes to their bottomless bank accounts.

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”

www.reuters.com/investigatio...

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A group of hotel housekeepers went on strike for the first time in 40 years.

And won!

Organising works. Trade unions work.

This is the story of @uvwunion.bsky.social & the amazing Doris.

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Given how Comfortables very clearly prefer fascism to even the mildest social democracy there's a very good chance this becomes Common Sense amongst pundits.

Better to get Reform's fascism now than risk the Greens building enough support to form a government in a few years time.

Fuck knows.

A Lenor scent booster named Spring Awakening

"What shall we call our in-wash scent booster?"
"Well, nothing says long-lasting freshness like Frank Wedekind's late-19th century psychosexual meditation on suicide, child abuse, repression, and death!"

YOU KNEW HE HAD RESIGNED IN DISGRACE TWICE IN THE PAST FOR LYING WHEN YOU ASKED HIM TO TELL YOU TRUTHFULLY IF YOU SHOULDN'T APPOINT HIM.

Thank you so much for doing it - it was great! Let us know when you have another book to talk about!

Labour Together was instrumental in Keir Starmer’s Labour leadership win

In Noc 2023, the Sunday Times revealed how undeclared funding had bankrolled Labour Together's support for Starmer

So... Labour Together hired APCO Worldwide to investigate the journalists behind the story and their sources

Watching this trailer makes me feel like an old man yelling at clouds because all I want to do is rail about how much work the lighting is doing in this trailer versus the tepid cinematography we get today.

Great stuff!