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Having my cough-cough 60th birthday at Antep Kitchen on the Cowley Road, Oxford. What a great place.

Seem to have missed more tariffs while I was out and about. Such is this US President. Still won't deliver what he claims or be the transformed world order others fear.

That's a venn diagram I'd rather not picture

🚨 NEW: Labour claims voters in Gorton and Denton are now being put off voting for the Greens due to their plans to legalise all drugs

Police are still digging into the former prince Andrew investigation. Unmarked police cars were again at his previous home, the Royal Lodge, in Windsor Great Park, today. Thames Valley Police is expected to continue searching the 30-room property until Monday, the BBC reports.

Yes, indeed. I've had this with people going on an on about throwing back tear gas grenades....

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski: “Germany and France together are now too small to govern Europe. Together they do not even have a blocking minority. “Poland is not only the largest of the ten countries that joined the EU in 2004. Our economy is now among the 20 largest in the world. 1/2

The US government can propose as much money as it likes for an ever-expanding defence budget, but if it can't hire enough skilled workers and ensure enough modernisation for shipyards it still won't be able to slow down the maintenance and manufacturing crisis that is weakening the US Navy

People keep talking of Trump in comparison to European fascists of the mid-twentieth century but I wonder whether Bokassa is a better comparison. Mindless extravagance combined with delusions of grandeur at an extreme level.

Good read on Labour’s way forward from @jessicaelgot.bsky.social and Kiran Stacey.

Don't do Captain Tom, don't do Captain Tom

What idiot scheduled this against the curling

As many as the next two navies combined, perhaps?

I've moved on from hats and now I'm crocheting recycled acrylic and merino wool crop tops in moss stitch in my favourite colours... #crochet

I'd read a piece on how much different the technology of rocketing to the Moon is now compared to back then. I get that the computers are better but are the rockets better?

This is true. If you created a character like Trump for a novel or a movie people would say he's not believable.

A hard second. Even in my most wishful of thinking I know he won't lose his deposit, but so long as he loses I will be happy

Me to my youngest: if a strange man stopped his car when you were walking on the pavement and said, would you like some mini eggs? If you get in my car, I’ll give you mini eggs. What would you do? My child: I’d get the mini eggs! Me: uh Child: ….and then I’d kill him.

It occurred to me as I watched Chelsea take the well-worn path to disintegration that all three league clubs* that play in claret and blue are currently in the Premiership. *Scunthorpe are currently non league.

Every Steam Winter sale precipitates a bigger Balance of Payments crisis for me personally than the one Trump claims the US is in to justify his 15% Section 122 tariffs. When is Congress going to give ME unlimited power to smite the people selling me roguelikes and RPGs at competitive prices?

This makes perfect sense, and a version of it would be a far better prospect for the UK government than Labour's current "detain and deport" focus, which inevitably hits victims of exploitative employers more than exploitative employers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

But dammit as a non-Welshman I can't tell you how much I wanted them to win.

You can complain all you like about paying for privileges, but £50k to have to sit through a meal with Badenoch does sound like some kind of punishment. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I guess it's now illegal to help your spouse pack for a trip. This is some soviet shit

Tariff rebates will go to the importers that actually paid them, because the government knows who they are and what they're owed. Most couldn't pass those refunds on to final consumers even if they wanted to. The fun part is if these 122's are ruled illegal a year from now, all this happens again!

Nobody ask why this man is zooming in from a Holiday Inn in Norwich

Props to the guy who keeps signing me up for "Ted Postol" google updates for the last 12 years. That's proper dedication

It's sort of funny that Wales have a player called Blair Murray and Scotland have one called Huw Jones.

Bagging profits. Bags now account for £16bn - 15% - of European airline revenue

I only do 2 socials, and don't always post the same stuff on both. If you want arty photos of places and things, and story updates from my travels inc. to museums & archaeological sites, follow me over on 📷 Instagram 👇 www.instagram.com/rebeccawragg...

The Supreme Court found that the Trump administration can't misuse a trade provision intended for narrow emergencies to usurp broad power over tariffs from Congress and so they immediately pivoted to misusing another trade provision intended for emergencies to usurp broad power over tariffs.

The English Muslim community here is being persistently and repeatedly abused by racists and bigots during the holy fasting month of Ramadan. Some of the bigots harassing the local Muslims claim to be Christians, yet they preach hate, not 'love thy neighbour', during the holy fasting month of Lent.

Yep this is madness. This should be between students and the govt.

Just when you thought the Golden Girls theme song couldn't go any harder

A few still remaining, do message if you're interested!

What a thoroughly annoying response to Scotland winning last week and having a week in Spain. Good on the Welshies. #SixNations #ScotlandVsWales So glad I'm also Irish.

Govt clearly worried about Plan 2 student loans campaign as it considers changes bit.ly/4c6QhDU but what would make it ‘fair’? Or even ‘fairer’?

The eldest is stuck on a tricky bit of Hogwarts Legacy. The rest of the family are crowded around, reading out contradictory bits of online advice and generally shouting at the television. I’m not sure this is entirely helpful.

Trump raises tariffs to 15% on imports from all countries www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026... Definitely statesmanlike and not a silly tantrum

“Don’t go – not with Trump in charge. It’s totally out of control." Excellent account of the unlawful 6-week detention of a UK citizen on valid US tourist visa. There's plenty of similar examples. Other takeaway is the pathetic response of UK consular officials. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tawney, The Acquisitive Society. The appeal of MAGA is to pretend this transformation never took place.

“J.D. are we a laughing stock yet?” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

It’s not the robots you should fear bit.ly/47533PJ you don’t even need a body to damage a human

Trump says he’s putting tariffs up to 15%, the day after he said they’d be 10% following the Supreme Court ruling. He’s flailing, knows he’s losing control.

At the Munich Security Conference, Zelenskyy showed former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak real-time casualty data from the front. - 80% of Ukrainian kills are from drones - Russia is losing 1,000 soldiers a day.

An unhinged presidency.

What a pro- 40 years old and still going strong.

My half-joking the Supreme Court has made things worse hypothesis is becoming less of a joke

Trump raises his brand new section 122 global tariffs from 10 to 15%. www.zeit.de/politik/ausl...

Update: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/b...

Would you love to write a memoir on your experiences in nature or your life in the garden? On 19 March, I'm leading a memoir workshop (10-4) in the beautiful surroundings of @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. Do come & join us! www.botanic.cam.ac.uk/education-le... #naturewriting #memoir #Cambridge

Algunos días soleados.

#Scotland loves our #NHS It will be interesting to watch the campaign for Holyrood unfold as claims and counterclaims are made. At the end of the day, I suspect, it will be the lived experience of those who use, and work to deliver, the service that determines if/how people vote on this subject.

Tbf it was kinda surprising he didn’t go for 15% right away

He just really wants Americans to be poorer

My expert analysis on yesterday’s tariffs is the same as for today’s match at Twickenham… Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha😂😂😂😀😀😀

Netanyahu Plays Trump and American Jews for Fools — Again www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/o...

Well that was unexpected 🏉☘️😀

What a couple of weekends it has been to be both Scottish and Irish.

With enough time you could do a frame by frame of which deranged bits of twitter have fed into this.

I wrote about koi carp and how fish ponds are a big trend among the nouveau riche for @inc.com www.inc.com/chris-stokel...

Listening to a podcast about tariff rebates: What's really fun is how the whole process will make it incredibly bloody obvious who has been paying these stupid taxes. It isn't the Chinese who are about to sue the US Federal Government, it's US citizens.

there's a cat face in there somewhere but not sure where!

See you there?

If people didn't buy coffees they could afford their own country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I might be alone in this but if I encounter this kind of comment in a profile piece I'm likely to think that the journalist is a twat.

The UK elite is still playing ‘I’m not elite, you are’

The BBC has its problems—but they are nothing compared to American billionaires who control much of US media, writes @arusbridger

Why are so many people using Claude Code and saying "this is not just next token prediction?" It is, isn't it? Did they just not understand that next token prediction could be able to write working computer programs?

Most by-elections don’t matter – but Gorton and Denton does www.independent.co.uk/voices/gorto...

An underpriced risk for EU-US relations is a scenario where a process through which Fico and Orban fall from power is declared illegitimate by Trump who then threatens sanctions against Europe if outcomes in Hungary and Slovakia are not reversed

Incredibly brave now everyone knows what the regime are prepared to do about protests

A bloodbath at Twickenham....ireland scores 3 tries in 10 minutes... England still to wake up...

Well, this is more like it. #sixnations

Why hasn't Peter Mandelson been arrested and subjected to the glare of publicity...? Has the Commissioner of the London Met lost his nerve - unlike the courageous chief constable of Thames Valley?

This @theguardian.com piece is fantastic like everyone says. Bravo to those who worked on it. www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

Random file format question — say I'm inventing a new format that's effectively a zip file full of html and binary image assets plus a manifest JSON. How would I design this format so browsers could download the manifest via HTTP range requests and then use that to fetch specific ranges for files?

Pay attention to Cameroon. Trump is off-shoring a Gulag operation

Even if this claim could be verified, and it is not beyond the realms of possibility that there are 350 people seeking asylum across the whole constituency, it would account for roughly 0.4% of the electorate, so not even everyone living there. Hardly a big issue.

I think I need a “Small Business Doola”. Does such a person exist?

Just endless, endless bollocks

Well well well. From The Guardian today. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Has anyone seriously considered that we just club together and present him with some shiny award every day so long as he sits quietly in the corner and shuts up? It's all he really cares about

I see you are working on job applications again dad. I am here to help

This is a sublime weekend read from the great @cynthiao.bsky.social, telling the story of a B-movie producer who claims to have stumbled upon a sprawling corruption scandal. Full of twists and turns and geopolitical intrigue. Lovely stuff. www.ft.com/content/7767...

Ok, so maybe the food at Wahaca is neither authentic nor particularly good but Master Chef and Bake Off combined have still inflicted near infinitely less harm on the world than the Apprentice.

Is this retrospective? I have some receipts somewhere

Sorry guys obviously didn't coordinate my Saturdays away with @samuelmarclowe.bsky.social and the Supreme Court...

Dude, the butchers can’t sell anything because AI took their door away

“Like the spirits in the Inferno, they are punished by the attainment of their desires.” Tawney on the idle rich (The Acquisitive Society)

One of the most perceptive comments I’ve had this morning in the course of a conversation about monarchy and republicanism. I’ve long argued that republicans need to make a positive case, not just a negative one: I think John puts his finger on why they aren’t (yet) very successful at doing that.

Love that in France he was known as Docteur Glamour

Fish and chips, yes wholly indigenous

Front page of Guardian magazine today.

And again, people will do anything to bring back smartly appointed independent shops apart from pay a small premium and a bit of inconvenience Vs the supermarket.

'Mosaic aims to give first- and second-generation researchers with a non-Western migration background better access to science by funding PhD positions. Its next iteration will also include researchers who would previously have been targeted by the NWO’s Hestia programme.' 1/2

Brits can take criticism of British food; just not from a nation that puts sugar in its bread

BBC carrying this great family photo which you can project a lot onto if you are into doing that. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Someone made a reel of my list of words used with only one other word www.facebook.com/share/v/1AJj...