Nicholas Reed Langen

There is an alternative reality where Jean-Pierre wasn't press secretary and so Biden stormed to a second term

Peston showing that there isn't a boot he isn't willing to give a lick

'We' doing a lot of heavy lifting here

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

How much kool-aid do you have to drink to think that Bezos wants his opinion-shaping plaything to be profitable?

So heavily edited that the ChatGPT follow-up made the cut too

By proceeding with the execution before the jury reached a verdict, President Trump forced the issue. It's a strategy known as "stake-driving".

up there with whoever does the Guardian byline headshots, who I am sure has a personal vendetta against every single columnist

Not least because the insipid chatty style is distressing

It's fair to speculate if she is even self aware at this point

Yet another indignity he never saw coming

What the fuck

What possible use is Toby Young

Having started by ripping up the nation's metaphorical fabric, Trump's moved on to the literal

On the plus side, a sedate walking pace should be enough to outrun them

At this point someone should have gagged the spokesman and dragged them offstage before they fucked it all up with what follows

Legend has it that every new person to step across the threshold is anointed with the text of Brian

Bluesky will always bluesky

He heard they don't have hairgel in the UK

The rapid reductive descent to language like 'bigots' is part of the reason we're in this mess

This is, at best, five years late to the party

The lede is buried halfway through this piece when the author admits that Weiss is a 'close friend'

'Bucking tradition and legal precedent, President Trump has taken to executing suspected gang members on the White House lawn with a sawn-off shotgun, before marking his cabinet with their blood, due to what he says is rampant crime and to support his crackdown on illegal immigration'

Think a ring might be more likely than a Fannie...

Resharing this piece I wrote for @bylinetimes.bsky.social two years ago on Tories promising to leave the ECHR as the characters may have changed but the argument hasn't

bylinetimes.com/2023/08/15/m...

Tl;dr- leaving is dumb, but doesn't mean it won't happen

If Labour really wanted to be transformative, abolishing sisyphean inquiries that go on for longer than the crises would be a good place to start

Good, maybe the median voter will reconsider their view when told it's racist

Just as the state contemplates the possibility of a fully-funded assisted dying service, public funding for the award-winning Arthur Rank House Hospice in Cambridge is being cut by almost £1 million pa, risking the closure of nearly half of its in-patient unit. www.arhc.org.uk/protectourca...

Classy magazine, even classier writers

Have they still not got an actual name