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🚨BREAKING: New CNN Poll says Trump is the worst President in history. Do you believe that? A. Yes B. No

@WilliamWhorton9 @HazelAppleyard_ @jk_rowling exactly - the important thing is not to seek some crowing of “told you so”, tempting though it is, but to actually cement the change in public mood by welcoming regretters and mind-changers.

Oop! Emma Watson has realised the tide is turning and is setting the groundwork so that she can come crawling back to @jk_rowling when it’s politically convenient! “I just don't think these things are either or. I think it's my deepest wish that I hope people who don't agree with my opinion will love me, and I hope I can keep loving people who I don't necessarily share the same opinion with."

Now that Nigel Farage is under scrutiny about his own financial affairs His latest interview tactic - lifted from The Catherine Tate Show - "how very dare you" Bullying bluster might work with @bbclaurak but it doesn't cut the mustard with the public

That the human mind treads a delicate line between order and disorder is a radical idea that’s gaining traction - and is changing our understanding of intelligence, consciousness and creativity #Echobox=1757245787" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">newscientist.com/article/249365…

I wonder why the right were so keen to see the back of Angela Rayner

The robin is the first bird to break the quiet, after the summer moult. I found out this week (from the lady on the RSPB stall) that the robin introduces a new song for the change of season, quite a melancholy air. I recorded a bit in a Yorkshire churchyard.

I love this @SalmanRushdie quote, which is referenced in the @ProfAliceS review: "At Cambridge University I was taught a laudable method of argument: you never personalise, but you have absolutely no respect for peoples opinions. You are never rude to the person, but you can be

@HJoyceGender thank you for all you do

Since the amazing, wonderful judgment this morning, I and my colleagues have been running around, giving interviews, talking to journalists who have FINALLY woken up to the fact that the law has been misrepresented and misunderstood for years. 1/6 spectator.co.uk/article/suprem…

Turns out the right wing hysteria about VAT on private schools was… right wing hysteria.

Isn't this quite massive? No more bringing back cheese from France???

Spare a thought today for the UK employers, government departments, health boards, academic institutions and sporting bodies who've been breaking equality law to appease activist groups. So many HR manuals to pulp. So many out-of-court settlements to pay. #SupremeCourt

@nee_massey London: Shepherd’s Bush Empire; the Electric in Brixton; Koko in Mornington Crescent. Birmingham: the Institute in Digbeth.

Good people,we’re starting to think about shows in 2026. Will be 30 years since the band got together, so there may be an anniversary flavour to them😊 My question - is there a venue you would particularly like to see the band play? The cap would be 1500+ so not your front room!

@George_D_water @FT … right up until Zelenskyy states Ukraine’s perfectly reasonable position and refuses to get railroaded by their BS

@FT It’s fascinating how people can watch the same video and draw such different narratives. It’s a 50 minute video, don’t trust the clips that only show the heated exchange. I honestly thought Trump and Vance were patient and amicable for the first 40 minutes.

Zelenskyy’s humiliation in the White House on.ft.com/4h5Aow2 | opinion

FT’s gone all Trumpy … pretty weird headline

Trump, Putin and the midnight of the 21st century, by @NickCohen4 open.substack.com/pub/nickcohen/…

How the Bud Light Debacle Predicted America's Corporate Vibe Shift ... Insightful as ever from former ad guy and acute cultural observer, Ian Leslie. Fascinating stuff on how corporate America misunderstood the "culture wars" open.substack.com/pub/ianleslie/…

Among those currying favour with Elon Musk, it has become an article of faith that the “mainstream media” ignored the UK’s grooming gangs scandal until the brave truth-tellers of X uncovered it, er, last week. Give over. Feminist writer Julie Bindel first wrote about the disappearance of Charlene Downes in 2004, a year after the Blackpool teenager went missing. And if anyone deserves credit for bringing this story to wider attention, it’s Andrew Norfolk of the Times, who doggedly reported on cases across the north of England, starting in 2011, despite legal pressure and accusations of racism. He won Private Eye’s Paul Foot Award for investigative journalism in 2012, with the citation pointing out at the time — almost thirteen years ago — that his work “has prompted two government-ordered inquiries, a parliamentary inquiry and a new national action plan on child sexual exploitation”. Norfolk then bagged the Orwell Prize for Journalism in 2013. Subsequent cases, including those in Rotherham, Telford, Huddersfield, Oxford and Oldham, also received widespread coverage. The news even made it to America, with the liberal New York Times running typically ponderous headlines like “Life in an English Town Where Abuse Flourished” and “Indifference to Child Rape” in 2014. That year, columnist Ross Douthat wrote that “what happened in Rotherham was rooted both in left-wing multiculturalism and in much more old-fashioned prejudices about race and sex and class”. Full story in the new Private Eye, out now.

The top 17 posts on my Twitter feed are from Elon Musk 😂 interesting algorithm he’s created

The brilliant Kathleen Stock on cries of "moral panic" and what's really going on with that. Yet another thought-ending cliché. @UnHerd unherd.com/2025/01/what-t…

Clue: the welfare of those girls may just not be his prime motivator. Taking a wild guess here.