Gareth Jones

There was an English (or perhaps Welsh) magazine or newspaper columnist, a non-driver, who lived in a remote place who sent himself a postcard each day to be able to cadge a lift to the village pub from the postman delivering it. History is silent on how he got home.

I’ve found it, I’ve found the worst take

Damn! That quiche...

Where are Downfall parodies when we need them? I mean no need to write new script - Trump writes it himself

Disney Asked Andor Team to Avoid Using the Word "Fascism," Says Creator Tony Gilroy - Reactor Now that Andor is over, Tony Gilroy is going gloves off regarding the show's political parallels

Andor didn't need to say the word. The story screamed it.

It's time to end the scandal of SEND services treating our children like cash cows.

Trump loves suing people.... so the PM should take a leaf out of his book. Starmer should sue the President for illegal damage to the British economy.

Don’t worry Donald - we will settle for £100bn, that’s how it works right?

🇬🇧🇺🇦 The United Kingdom will allocate £13 billion in military aid to Ukraine.

London says it will continue supporting Ukraine.

According to RBC-Ukraine, th announcement was made by the UK Minister for Defence Procurement after a meeting of the E5 countries’ defense leaders.

Tesla has to pay historical $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says A federal judge has rejected Tesla’s bid to overturn a $243 million jury verdict over a fatal 2019 Autopilot crash in Florida, dealing a significant blow to the automaker’s legal strategy as it faces a growing wave of lawsuits tied to its driver-assistance technology. U.S. District Judge Beth Bloom in Miami ruled that the evidence at trial “more than supported” the verdict and that Tesla raised no new arguments to justify setting it aside. The ruling, made public on Friday, means Tesla’s last hope to avoid paying the massive judgment at the trial court level has been exhausted. more…

Tesla has to pay historical $243 million judgement over Autopilot crash, judge says

Tesla denied having fatal crash data until a hacker found it The data was key evidence in the death of a pedestrian in 2019.

Not mentioned in the linked article, but important: this was the case in which Tesla tried to cover up and tried to delete the data from the crashed Tesla, for years, until an enterprising hacker* found it.

*I hate that word, and he didn't break into anything. But it's in all the news articles.

Hungary blocks €90bn EU loan to Ukraine days before war anniversary Viktor Orbán has intensified his anti-Ukraine rhetoric ahead of elections where he risks being toppled

This would be quite an escalation by Orbán - as he promised at the European Council in December to exactly not veto this, as long as Hungary was not part of the Enhanced Cooperation. This would make it a huge breach of trust (if there is any left).

Nigel Farage used to believe in reforming the voting system, now he's rowed back because it no longer benefits him.

We will keep fighting for a fair votes, not because it benefits us but because it's right for the country.

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English www.government.se/press-releas...

closing the strait of hormuz is kinda a "welps that was a mess, we got it reopened (dragged out that wreckage...), stuff is moving again" problem.

abqaiq is a facility in saudi that ~85% of their oil has to pass through. it's a complex desulfurization plant. How long would it take to rebuild that.

The back portion of the rover is visible, with rolling desert hills and rover tracks in the background. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Hills of rocky layers in a desert landscape. Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Both Mars rovers are still roving. Here’s Perseverance's latest view (L) and Curiosity's (R) — taken yesterday. Ride along at science.nasa.gov/mars/

Would summarise this as: treat voters like adult stakeholders and not children who need to be managed.

Basically the entire core of Microsoft pitch on AI is that it's the safe, responsible one that corporates and governments can use. So this is very much not what they needed to happen.

Lost my phone in London, with four credit cards and £150 cash in the case. Returned to me within 21 minutes. This hellhole of a city eh.

Choosing to believe AOC is reading my posts like a child believes Santa reads their letters

One of my lonely crusades at work is push back on "people with protected characteristics". We all have protected characteristics!

Jo Grimond 🌻

'The age of automation could be an age when the individual is trampled on & power is dangerously concentrated in the hands of big business & the state. Change must be humanised so that the new wealth...is used to give the individual a richer life & protect the weak' (Liberal Party Manifesto, 1964).🔶️

Some notes on the coming fun with Gibraltar

tl;dr There's an agreement, that needs to be in place for 10 April, but no one knows exactly what it is yet

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This is absoloutely not a hit at Hannah but... when we referance Jo and David Amess being murdered and the shock of that...

... we should also remember Andy Pennington who was murdered protecting his MP in 2000.

Staff count too.

Branscombe's Law (you're not safe to make coffee until after you have had coffee): today I poured all the water I had boiled for my coffee into a pan that needed to soak *before* I put any in my coffee, rather than using the leftover water *after* I made my coffee

Casework Crisis: Increase In Constituency Caseload Takes Its Toll The inexorable growth in casework is stopping MPs from fulfilling their other roles. Alice Lilly sifts through the inbox looking for what might be ...

The workload facing MPs and their staff is growing, in ways that aren't visible to the public: casework and the inbox.

For @thehousemag.bsky.social, I delved into what the workload looks like, why it's growing, and what this means for how MPs can balance the different aspects of their role

An illustration of a Rhinopteraspis - an ancient jawless fish, being used to promote Lapworth Museum’s family event on February 18th 2026.

If you thought your family was weird, wait until you see these guys! Meet your relatives at @lapworthmuseum.bsky.social ‘s family event tomorrow, February 18th.

Such a privilege to have been able to provide the illustrations for this exhibition.