Deaves

Humpback whale caught stuck in fishing equipment off the coast of Iceland 😭 too stormy to dive down and cut him free until the morning 😭 stay strong!!!

Fun fact via @ironeconomist.bsky.social: the national minimum wage is £12.21. If you are over 21, it is illegal to have a low-paid job in the UK.

Pop Base tweets: "Kim Kardashian said on ‘The Kardashians’ that she believes the moon landing was fake: “They’re gonna say I’m crazy no matter what, but like, go to TikTok. See for yourself. […] There’s no gravity on the moon. Why is the flag blowing? The shoes that they have in the museum that they wore on the moon is a different print in the photos. Why are there no stars?”"

"go to TikTok. See for yourself."

Carry yourself with this confidence 😂

The entire story of the GFC is people working in markets doing the exact opposite because all the incentives pointed in that direction. No one is rewarded for correctly seeing a risk unless they get their timing exactly right. And they'll get a lot of abuse for trying.

I keep being told spending cuts are easy. Honest proposals such as those recently outlined by Policy Exchange show they are not

My column www.ft.com/content/f086...

I find the Grokopedia thing pretty alarming tbh not even because I think it will succeed in itself but because I do think there is now a very serious threat that we 'lose' wikipedia in some form which would be an absolute tragedy

on.ft.com/4hwRuoB Reeves must get whatever growth she can

British Council ‘selling everything it can’ to survive Cultural body plans more job cuts, sale of assets and closure in 35 countries to stave off ‘financial peril’

Literally one of the greatest soft power brands on planet earth driven into the ground by successive British governments that embrace failure, decline and irrelevance.

on.ft.com/3Wq1XIT

Car headlights to be reviewed after drivers complain of being 'blinded' at night Concern over the glare from brighter headlamps is prompting the government to review vehicle design.

“Car lights are getting brighter”, one of those things which was me going mad/old. Vindication! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wtf

Is saying that the Jews run the world antisemitic or just vigilant? Tune in for next week's episode of "is it racist to be racist"

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

This is an interesting piece but I just read it going “the missing bit is the section on how the internet has fried everyone’s brains”.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is just getting silly now

Ok but it is amazing that after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, CompareTheMarket pulled the adverts, then retconned the meerkat into being Ukrainian

Tbh, even watching TV with adverts feels very Reform coded these days.

Note how, when the government’s condemnation is timely, the rest of the Westminster ecosystem does in fact, react differently!

NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin Exclusive: new anti-fraud system fails to account for fact many return to country via airport in Irish capital Parents in Northern Ireland have had their child support payments stopped as part of the UK government’s crackdown on alleged benefit fraud simply because they returned from a holiday via Dublin airport. So far 346 families have had their benefits frozen, an investigation by NI online newspaper, the Detail, shared with the Guardian, has discovered. Continue reading...

NI parents caught in UK crackdown lose child benefit after travelling via Dublin

It’s very golden girls
“Esther Weinstock is dead. We grew up together, she was my best friend”
“I'm so sorry, what happened?”asks Rose
Sophia replies “She was fighting an oil rig fire in the Gulf of Mexico. She was 88!!!”

YouTube video by Montclair Immigration Network The last speech of Ronald Reagan as president was on immigration

"We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people -- our strength -- from every country and every corner of the world."

youtu.be/2R8QxCD6ir8?...

Feels incredibly bad that the barriers around this sort of open racism have been degraded so much that a sitting MP (from the party currently leading the polls, no less) will engage in it on TV with a smile on her face.

Starmer needs to get serious about governing — and quick The prime minister has to change or his party will seek a change of its own

'Should they move left blah blah, no they need to worry about Reform blah blah' - this stuff is babytalk, they are the government, they need to worry about persistent inflation, poor public services and our exposed public finances:

Greece accuses British Museum of ‘provocative indifference’ over pink ball Event seated guests near Parthenon marbles, which Greece wants returned, and raised £2.5m for museum

Definitely not getting them back if you carry on like this
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People are getting very mad at this thing which has been very obviously true in every single poll; Mamdani is much less popular in NYC than you would expect, quite unpopular state wide in blue NY, and *very* unpopular nationwide. You can make very good arguments for *why* it’s true, but it simply is

🇺🇦 Zelensky: A meeting with leaders has already taken place in London. There will be more sanctions against Russia, and in the direction in which the US has decided.

Today, all members of the Coalition of the Willing agreed that this is how we should continue to put pressure – on Russian oil.

Labour should keep releasing tidbits every few days to keep the Tory party and half the lobby down a rabbit hole than no voter has the slightest interest in.

Opinion | You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator

You Can Kill a Democracy Without a Dictator www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/o...

With a gift link because I think it is very important for people to understand this:

Well, seems completely pointless to pre-register, you still have to have your photo and fingerprints, and speak to a guard, and do this every time (!) how many photos of my blank face does the EU need? Perverts.

I am genuinely fascinated by the China story, just witnessing in real time a political party convince itself that it had a completely different (and insane) foreign policy to the one it had.

The app works this time! Easy and quick actually. Let’s see what the border is like!