Martin Nesbit

The answer to our earlier quiz, for cricket fans of a certain age, was “an acute anuria episode”.

Pretty sure we’ll save the follow on though.

Sunny Oval from the JM Finn stand. England bowling.

Cricket at the Oval on International Beer Day. What could possibly go wrong?

WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

Screenshot of tweet from Liz Truss. You really don’t want to see it, but it’s about the Parthenon Marbles.

Run that one past me again, irrelevant cretintroll clickseeker? WHOSE national culture?

Happy 4th of July everyone- this is the most American thing I’ve read today - please read every word: Goodbye to All That www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

Confused? All you need to know is that the Iranians are full of shit, Bibi is full of shit, and Trump is full of shit—and it all makes perfect sense.

Netanyahu has spent the better part of two decades trying to strong arm the United States into an unprovoked war against Iran and finally found a president stupid enough to do it for him. Unbelievable.

So, it turns out Starmer's big sin was following what the evidence showed, when it showed it, to the person he appointed to look at the evidence. Scurrilous, isn't it.

To those who still somehow say you’re overreacting to say we are far past the point of historic crisis, go back to summer 2024 and say that in less than a year the president of the United States would be deploying the literal Marines on American soil to deal with and intimidate his political enemies

Both very lovely. Hiroshige’s links to the imperial fire service were new to me.

We've been celebrating #GreatBigGreenWeek and highlighting the big and small things we do to support environmental responsibility. The best thing was coming together for a #CommunityLitterPick now we're a @cleanupuk.bsky.social #CleanUpHub. Find out more: www.stmargaretshouse.org.uk/sustainability

If the feds’ objective is to “liberate” Los Angeles and California from its democratically elected leadership, then this not a peacekeeping mission but a program of invasion.

"Confusion today as budget retail chain poundland accidentally sold itself for £1"

“Trump didn't deploy 2,000
National Guard troops on
January 6 when the U.S. Capitol was under siege...

But he deployed 2,000 today in
Los Angeles.”

Would have been interested (but not sure we should be endorsing Lutfur Rahman’s music events….).

This isn't actually funny at all; it's a window into Trump's worldview, because he absolutely expected any German official to be upset over the Nazis losing.

Because if Trump were German, he would be.

Because things like "they were fucking Nazis" are way less important to him than "on my team"

Making Carbon Count – Dr. Danial Sturge Making Carbon Count: Setting up a new Carbon Regulator, calls for government to take charge of how carbon emissions are measured and managed.

Useful @energysyscat.bsky.social online event this morning on our proposals for setting up a carbon accounting regulator es.catapult.org.uk/insight/maki.... Welcome support from Chloë Fiddy at IEMA.

🇬🇧🥤🧵[Britpop thread] incoming

(For those who don’t know me, I’ve got form for this over on twitter - some links further down the 🧵)

Incentive to stick with it is the link to an epic playlist at the end. 1/22

The idea that the hapless illiterate goons who write for @telegraphnews.bsky.social are responsible for something that might be considered a “record” is particularly compelling. It’s like thinking of the Daily Star as the Gazette.

The Telegraph is now having to publish so many corrections to articles where it attempts to find *any angle whatsoever* to attack net-zero polices that it makes sense to start tracking them here.

These are the ones published since Labour won the election.

"We are happy to correct the record."

There is a massive crossover in the people who don't think Lucy Connolly should have been convicted of a crime for inciting racial hatred on Xitter, but who celebrated the excessive imprisonment of people who were thinking about protesting against climate change.

Look, I know I’m old and out of touch; and I fully endorse your efforts; but is there any way you could not call them “creatives”?

YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive First fault rupture ever filmed: M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar

I have experienced multiple earthquakes, but this video of a strike slip earthquake in Myanmar on March 28 triggering a surface rupture and a large and dramatic horizontal displacement—the first ever caught on camera—is astonishing.

Keep your eyes on the right third of the screen, beyond the gate.

I cannot state this strongly enough: If you are upset about the way this government is treating trans people and immigrants, and you have a Labour MP, for God sake write to them.

So let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street

Hey you know how he was Robert yesterday morning and now he's Leo?

It's that easy to respect someone's chosen name.

In some ways the second worst problem foisted on you by Madison and Jefferson.

Ah. I did indeed read the article, just not carefully enough. I was, by coincidence, looking at the entrance to the Turing Institute only last week wondering what went on in there.