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Interesting deal. South Koreans don’t have to pay any more should they be slightly interested in American cars. US customers get stuck with a 15% price increase on all the cool stuff coming out of South Korea.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada plans to recognise a Palestinian state at the UN in September, if certain conditions are met: * The Palestinian Authority commits to reforming its governance * general election in 2026 in which Hamas can play no part

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This weeks snapshot of 5 of the 209 new cases we received from local residents ( it’s not sum total of work done!) These updates are solely to help explain what MPs do in their communities and also not the sum total of our work but an insight into the constituency activity we do.

Check out this new series by AJE untangles on the "war on truth". It looks at the transformative impact of mis and disinformation in the digital age. This episode, called "Why are lies thriving?", includes interviews with myself Hossein Derakshan and Claire Wardle youtube.com/watch?v=yw_P...

So Canada will recognise Palestine if it does certain things, and our approach is that we will not recognise Palestine if Israel does certain things. I think the Canadian approach is better.

The fun thing about @listifications.app is you can deduce when posts get you blocked and/or added to lists, and on this one, fair play.

Something that’s been missing in the discussion of chip controls is that they’re not just having an effect on AI training runs. Chinese labs are also suffering an inference crunch. Or were, until the trump White House changed course. Me this week: economist.com/science-and-...

Putin’s still going kyivindependent.com/massive-fire...

Why stock markets aren't helpful indicators on the medium-long term impact of trade barriers www.ft.com/content/2fdf...

“The party for those old enough to have forgotten how bad things used to be.” (My entry for Reform campaign slogan competition.)

Comfort viewing suggestions please? Not completely sappy (my day hasn’t been that bad)

For any Washingtonians who missed my Politics & Prose event, or think tank ones, do come to this Jifeng Book event on "Zbig" tomorrow (Thurs) at 6pm. Nothing beats the atmosphere of a good book store.https://www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticketing/jf-salon731-edward-lee

What we need is to combine this with a database of European public transit upholstery

Proud of y’all for the 50+ puns in the quote tweets - big shout to Masturchef - but a pal just texted me LonelyFans so I’m afraid we have a winner

I have no opinion about Sydney Sweeney

Tonight's episode of The Oz Katerji Show featuring security analyst @jimmyrushton.bsky.social is out now on YouTube. Check it out if you want to learn about the protests that broke out in Kyiv last week and the latest details on the drone war on Ukraine's frontlines. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3MY...

Just enjoyed a rather brilliant showing of The Musical Medea at a lovely little theatre, above the Gatehouse pub. upstairsatthegatehouse.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...

See those lights Trump? You call them windmills. On the French coast, as seen from Jersey in the Channel Islands. We admire them here.

Looks like it's going to be a long night here in Kyiv, heavy air defence across the skies tonight.

A first foray into making cyanotypes (the kid art-directed the flower-based bookmark)

Ignoring the scammers appears to have bumped up my rate

LOL LOL LOL you wouldn't know my secret trove of documents, they go to another school. Embarrassing. www.foxnews.com/politics/pat...

Very happy to have contributed to this, speaking as one of Team @trowelblazers.bsky.social to the ever-inspiring Hannah Cobb and @kayth.bsky.social 🏺

Man’s totally cooked

If you speak more than one language, do you find yourself dropping words from different languages into a sentence without thinking because it "fits better"?

My capacity to enjoy Rage Against The Machine varies depending on who is president

We really are now quite far into "don't create a state power that you wouldn't be happy to see in the hands of Donald Trump or Jeremy Corbyn"

NEW: ChatGPT allows Google to index chats users share using the Share functionality - presumably misinterpreting "make this chat discoverable". The result? Frank admissions about sex lives and drug dependencies. My latest for @fastcompany.com www.fastcompany.com/91376687/goo... tip @techmeme.com

Wait until they gerrymander entire neighborhoods out of districts entirely. “LOL, you aren’t in any district. You can still vote but you have nobody to vote for”

"The wolf needn't always be too close to the door...." It's tough at the top.

Two dissents at the Fed is as good an excuse as any to dust off a piece I wrote for the Economist last year. www.economist.com/finance-and-...

"Arab states call on Hamas to disarm and relinquish power in unprecedented move" edition.cnn.com/2025/07/30/m...

Dollar Tree Eva Braun is teaming up with Poundland Spode?

I occasionally test Chat GPT to see whether has finally become useful for looking up simple trade questions such as “what is the US tariff on x”. Can confirm it is still completely useless.

Today's gerrymandering news in Texas; the close of Justice Kagan's dissent in Rucho v. Common Cause, the 5-4 decision that green-lighted partisan gerrymandering in 2019

The fact that even the maximum student loans don't cover living costs is grotesque. The fact that they're offered at high interest rates pretty much forever just compounds the insult. A society that will help everyone but the young - who it hates. www.northamptonchron.co.uk/community/no...

Enjoy this bee.

US scrapping of de minimis is very bad news for small businesses around the world, and for consumers to see the benefits of global trade. But part of a global trend. www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

"No wasps were found, officials said" abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory...

Six months into Donald Trump’s turbulent second term, his relations with Europe, Britain included, amount to separation but not divorce, writes Andrew Adonis. www.prospectmagazine...

This is a horrific story: a disabled man has stopped taking his medication in order to end his life because he can’t access NHS or social care. And yet having spoken to so many disabled people left in the most dire conditions, I can’t imagine he’s the only one. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

35 people, families with children! How in hell does anyone, even Braverman, try and fearmonger about children unless they are actively aiming, particularly in the current climate, to provoke violence against them? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

What, to check they look a bit embarrassed?

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The Russian earthquake prompted some papers to publish a list of the biggest recorded earthquakes. One was in the currently unoccupied Rat Islands in Alaska. I can think of a few people for which it would be a fitting home. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/u...

Literally never misses

Since the 2023 war began, Egypt has become an unintentional host to an estimated 100,000 Palestinians from Gaza. Without legal status, Palestinians from Gaza living in Egypt exist without rights, writes Youmna El Sayed.

Upcoming as soon as a website is fixed I have a piece on how the UK needs to get off the regulatory treadmill that means nothing gets proper attention, and it was written before all the takes I see on the impact of the online safety act.

Waller and Bowman dissent on the Fed's decision to hold on Wednesday, the first time two board members have opposed a monetary policy decision since 1993

Waiting for dinner to arrive…

Court gives one of the founders of Palestine Action permission to proceed with her case for a full judicial review of the Home Sec’s decision to proscribe the organisation bit.ly/476gRKA

“Those found guilty of drug trafficking face the death penalty in Saudi Arabia. Of a total of 217 executions since the start of 2025, 144 have been put to death for drug-related offences” f24.my/BLSj

Flowers in the pot by the front door are looking very sunny and cheerful this evening. 💛🌞 #flowers #gardening

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Olaf Scholz' traffic light coalition in #Germany never had a chance. The new government, despite giving itself €1,000bn to spend on defence and investment, needs to cut another €170bn until 2029 from the budget.

Ozzy Osbourne's death is being treated like the death of Diana

Flowers in the pot by the front door is looking very sunny and cheerful 💛🌞

Essential viewing, for those wishing to understand those of us who went through our teen years in the 1980s. Sadly, hauntingly relevant today. Too many of us did not act on the lessons we should have learned then.

On my @LBC show... 7pm Is Keir Starmer guilty of "moral failure" over Palestine? 8pm Cross Question with Zoe Strimpel, Will Hutton, Natasha Devon, Jonathan Gullis 9pm Are we in danger of going OTT about restricting what children watch, if a ban on Youtube is being considered?

This is a great piece by @jonnelledge.bsky.social: jonn.substack.com/p/what-cars-...

What a joyful #moneybox. What you wish you’d known about money - featuring @deborahmeaden.bsky.social, @bobbyseagull.bsky.social, David Fishwick (Bank of Dave) and Kirsty Stone. Plus, of course, lots of our listeners

A day visiting Prague castle & St Vitus cathedral…

#DonaldTrump Convicted* rapist Bragged in a TV interview about walking in on semi-naked teens taking part in his beauty pageants Talked on tape about 'grabbing' women 'by the pussy' Discussed his daughter's sexual attractiveness on TV Close friend of #Epstein #Maxwell *in a civil court case

Trump continues to isolate the USA from the rest of the world.

🎧: In this week’s Q&A episode, @arusbridger.bsky.social and @lionelbarber.bsky.social discuss Mehdi Hasan’s viral debate against far right Republicans. Plus, how much do an editor’s personal opinions affect their outlet’s coverage? www.prospectmagazine...

Then land-girl Thora Hird murders a bunch of Germans with a captured machine gun, taking to the barricades to defend the village until they can get word of the German invasion out. One of the greatest WW2 (and suspense) movies ever made. Absolutely not joking.

Another ex-Tory MP - Adam Holloway - defects to Reform UK, much to the despair of Dominic Cummings (LOL).

We are on the ground, ready to help the countries affected by wildfires. Through the EU Civil Protection Mechanism, countries are deploying their firefighters, helicopters, and airplanes, alongside the EU's own rescEU firefighting fleet, working hand-in-hand with local teams to fight the flames.

Been at the county cricket all afternoon and there is something timelessly soothing about it, especially after days/weeks/months of being immersed in online fury. Old blokes with their sandwiches. If you want to go to the loo at LCCC, ladies, come and watch Lancs play Glamorgan, there’s no queues

Zuckerberg's aim is to create a start-up-like unit focused on developing superintelligence that is unencumbered by the bureaucracy of his $1.8tn company -but supported by its well-capitalised business But investors, and even insiders, have little insight into its vision and budget. Will he succeed?

did a double-take cos my brain first registered this pic as Gavin Newsom

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Oh no. Internal comms have discovered Canva.

I don’t know. Maybe I should start a new journal. I’d call it “Papers That Interest Me.” The only grounds for acceptance or rejection is whether I think to myself “Hmm, that was interesting” after reading it.

This is a very good point by Janan Ganesh

Political trust is at crisis point and the decline of community infrastructure is a big part of the story. As pubs, youth clubs and libraries disappear, loneliness grows, and so does support for the radical right. Nick Garland, research fellow at IPPR, for LBC 👇 www.lbc.co.uk/opinion/view...

yeah, hardly any commercial aircraft flying in the south-east, and loads on the ground with their transponders on

I'm not going on holiday tomorrow*, but if I was going on holiday tomorrow, I doubt if I would be going on holiday tomorrow *I'm going on Friday. It'll be fixed by then, right??

not my original spot but can't find the op cos I thought it couldn't be real. but on a whim I checked and yeahhh I think the New Zealand School of Music probably does need to think about changing its name

Trump has announced a 25% tariff on India.

Superb and scathingly sceptic post (by ⁦‪@bryce.lol‬⁩, natch) on Morgan Stanley’s prediction of a $3tn data centre capex boom. on.ft.com/3U4pHks

This is brilliantly forensic and spot on about the different experiences by generation in terms of access to income vs access to wealth in the UK.

Reform rapidly becoming the Home for Failed Tories.

I think we can all name a few writers on UK politics who seem to be exempted from normal editorial considerations.

Contrary to accepted wisdom, the customer is not always right. Fred Sirieix, French maître d’ and First Dates presenter, has seen plenty of obnoxious behaviour. www.prospectmagazine...

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This is ... just... wow MAGA is not suffused by the brightest or the best...

ah that takes me back, that was one of my first stories at the guardian US to go energetically viral www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015...

sorry, I cannot let it lie: I do believe this is one of the worst articles I have read for a while. I don't know how The Times allowed it through. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/... Set aside the quite dreadful use of "rearranging the deckchairs", appalling cliche that no editor should allow 1/

We love seeing the Palace of Westminster through your eyes 🎨 Thank you to Instagram user anthropologist_diary for sharing this beautiful watercolour and ink painting of Elizabeth Tower.

The UK recognising a Palestinian state on the basis of a two-state solution does not "reward" Hamas. It is a direct contradiction of Hamas and Netanyahu's competing visions for a one-state solution and an attempt to preserve the only model that could achieve peace. Good to discuss on i24News.

This is horrifying, as you’d expect. I had been wondering how anyone was continuing to justify this to themselves, and the answer seems to be a relentlessly angry barrage of deflection, blame and denial.

Because Oasis are at Wembley and bucket hats are fashionable people somehow believe there’s barely any difference between now and 1995, *even* while acknowledging the gadgets that fit in their pockets and contain all human knowledge

I quite like how the photo credits for these are just "Bank of England". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The Fed is expected to stand pat on rate cuts today, but we could see multiple dissents on the vote itself. Powell may also lay the groundwork for a September cut. Here's our summary of what to watch www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/b... @nytimes.com

The UK recognising a Palestinian state on the basis of a two-state solution does not "reward" Hamas, as the Israeli government claims. It is a direct contradiction of Hamas and Netanyahu's competing visions for a one-state solution and an attempt to preserve the only model that could achieve peace.