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Pubs to stay open until early hours in push for UK growth Exclusive: Plans for England and Wales would help the ailing hospitality sector but have attracted criticism from health experts

Because hangovers and productivity go hand in hand, as everyone knows.

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This is worth a watch.

Greg Abbott sends the elite Meal Team 6 from the Texas National Guard into Illinois.

We would like to thank Kristi Noem for bringing cameras with her everywhere and collecting evidence for her future trial at The Hague.

Don‘t threaten us with a good time.

Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.

Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

And don't forget those checks and balances. Very checky and balancy

Did you go to university?

Yes if you create tools that have learned from artists’ work (literary, visual, musical) without compensation and which can then create low quality but high volume content, rendering many artists unemployable.

As today is World Octopus Day I’ll again mention that a Spanish equivalent to “like a fish out of water” is como un pulpo en un garaje. It means “like an octopus in a garage.”

It’s straight from a Stewart Lee routine: ”what, literally? They built *how* many reactors while we were redefining what a woman is? Five reactors?”

The Truth About Integration I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

Also, people claiming the right to lecture on ‘culture’ and ‘integration’ when they represent a dying political party and desperately oppose broad societal trends clearly lack any sense of self awareness.

The invective that Daisley hurls at Muslims he would have hurled at my great-grandparents when they came here and indeed much of it is still true of the ethnic group he slobbers over. 'Aggressive integration policies' do not work in France and would diminish Jewish life here in the UK.

Whereas stealing artists’ work is killing their industry, so…

Presumably Michael Gove (MA English, Oxon) agrees with his protégée’s approach.

After a trip across Ukraine on trains that keep running in spite of Russian air raids, nothing says welcome home quite like those three magical words:

Rail Replacement Bus

It would be damn fine thing f they did.

“Words cannot express how much I love this. Humor is critical in stopping the Fascists.” Below, another caption reads: “Portland Protestors Baiting ICE Agents With Donuts on Fishing Poles Calling it ICE Fishing.” Image shows protesters holding fishing poles with donuts tied to the ends, facing several uniformed officers standing near bicycles on a city sidewalk.

Maybe Macron can help. He’ll have plenty of time on his hands…

Think an underpriced 2029 scenario is "ungovernable mess".

They survived the Nova party massacre. Two years on, they are still hiding The State Expects Survivors of the Nova Festival to Recover, but With Hostages Still in Gaza and the War Dragging On, the Personal Tragedy Persists. 'I Knew We Had an Army, We Hade a Police Force; I B...

Some of the saddest stories are the ongoing trauma suffered by survivors of the Nova Festival.

Arad Katz fled the festival in a car with friends. He saw Eden Ben Rubi standing with police officers at a junction, so didn't offer her a ride. She was later shot dead.

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“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight

If they’d offered “incredible invisibility” then I guess it might have been worth considering, just for the experience.

Up to 25,000 Cubans could soon be fighting for Russia.

It is reported that Cubans are promised about $2,000 per month - far more than they can earn at home. It is also possible that they are promised jobs in construction but then sent to the frontlines.

From today’s politico playbook: Exhibit A: "The Boriswave — and we should call it that - has f*cked us. Our record on everything in the last government, prisons, immigration, economy, is sh*t," one Tory figure lamented last night. "There's naivety at the top about just how much time they need to be spending doing surgery and showing we're learning our lessons from the last government, and the whole 'we'll look like the grown-ups eventually' thing isn't going to work."

From today’s Playbook - I find it curious that none of these political geniuses ever seem to consider how UK GDP growth might have looked in the few years post Brexit (a time of acute focus on relative economic performance) w/out immigration.

FAFO etc

It was going fine until brilliance filed a me too complaint…

Crossing the Line: an Israeli - Palestinian love story

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