Rebecca

We should be honoured to host, teach and learn from these people not exclude them. I'm ashamed of our government.

We have awarded these people contracts in the Ministry of Defence. What the fuck are we doing.

The current world chicken population is larger than the planet-wide non-chicken bird population not just today, but at any point in the history of earth.

I'm sure some people got rich tbf.

Went to the gym and it was full of young people sitting/lying on the machines looking at their phones in the aircon.

NEW - Mandelson was offered a "higher tiers" briefing on January 6, before his developed vetting was confirmed on January 29, emails appear to show.

This mean he was offered highly classified briefing from the FCDO as US ambassador before he finished the formal vetting process

Lizards. Yoga with lizards please.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.

I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.

1/ Here's what I can share:

17. At the Hearing, Ms Kreisberger KC, evidently on instructions and in the presence of Mr Bavasso, told me that the reason why the deadline was missed in this case was because the legal team working on the matter had been proceeding on an interpretation of rule 112 of the Tribunal Rules which Aramark now accepts was erroneous. She was at pains to assert that this was not a case where there had been a careless failure to meet the deadline. She told me that "minds were applied" to rule 112. She explained that Simpson Thacher & Bartlett understood the effect of rule 112(2) to be that the day on which the Report was published and notified to the parties (i.e. Thursday, 15 January 2026) should not be counted at all. Against the background of that reading of rule 112(2), they read the phrase "day during which the event or action from which the period is to be calculated occurred or took place" in rule 112(3) as referring to Friday, 16 January 2026.

Appellate lawyers: I have for you a nightmare morsel this evening. Lawyers counted the appellate deadline wrong and now a merger has to be undone.

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I spent 45 minutes trying and failing to convince a full bird Colonel with multiple Afghanistan and Iraq deployments that Afghanistan is not an Arabic speaking country. I was helped in this discussion (to no avail) by two Afghan interpreters who were more polite than I was.

One thing I've been stressing is that, if Hormuz traffic remained stopped, the monumental oil supply shock will manifest as sharp price spikes in wealthy nations that sap disposable incomes

In poorer countries, the shock will manifest as outright physical shortages.

This godforsaken idiot piece of shit.

but.... they are stopping the flow of oil within the Strait of Hormuz

that is what is happening

and you are constantly bombarding Iran already

that is also what is happening

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell recounting how as 1 woman out of 50 physics undergrads at Glasgow Uni in 1960s, she learned not blush because male students wd whistle & catcall louder every time she entered lecture theatre. (A uni tradition to treat women this way at time. Teacher or student. Every time).

Amazing story of how players for Mount Pleasant FC in #Jamaica have been BANNED by US government from playing against L A Galaxy in #Concacaf Cup

What are implications for #WorldCup ???

With me & Charlie Methven (who is co-owner of Mount Pleasant)

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they are spending a lot of money that used to go to flu vaccine campaigns etc. on whatever this is

It's so bad that we've reached a point where members of Congress casually discuss stripping citizenship from and deporting people because they don't like their views.

This is what scholar of genocide A. Dirk Moses calls the logic of permanent security: 'we need to eliminate them, before they eliminate us.'

It is not rooted in any form of reality, but on the desire to *remake* reality, categorising people as threats in order to justify eliminating them.

Large tortoiseshell butterfly confirmed no longer extinct in UK Early spring sightings show colourful insect is a resident species for first time in decades, says conservation charity

Some nice news for once.

This is one of the maddest press conferences I’ve ever watched.

It is quite possible to see the Trump presidency entirely through the prism of market manipulation for private gain.

Here in Europe we've got to wait another couple of weeks. 😱

Reverse cowgirl because I’m teaching myself to knit

tonight the White House touched the stove and went oof ouch owie. Tomorrow? The stove shall beckon again

$100m?! What?!

The danger to my job from AI isn't that AI can do my job, it's that my job is made even more precarious by the way AI is shaping ideas of the value of work. It can't do my job, but it can be part of convincing people (incorrectly) that my job isn't necessary.

Andrew O’Hagan · Stay Classy: Mummy’s Favourite The late queen can be held responsible for much, but nobody could accuse her of seeming to enjoy her role. For the...

jesus CHRIST.

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Time is nearly up to have your say over the future of the BBC! The consultation closes today, Tuesday 10th March, 23.59. Link below 👇🏽

Golf club firm owned by Trump’s sons merges with drone manufacturer

What an odd thing to happen.