Craig Ryan

Total fucking disaster.

True to form, after some tepid denials, Le Pen and Bardella have resorted to threatening Mediapart, saying the online paper's journalists should get out their "bullet-proof vests". They're just who they always were. www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/p...

Jordan Bardella, No 2 in Marine Le Pen's fascist National Rally party is in deep shit, after investigative news site Mediapart revealed his deeply anti-semitic past. (It's all the usual anti-Jewish bollocks, there's nothing original about him). English version: www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/p...

Pow! That's gotta hurt for all those unionist Trump fans (like Ian Paisley Jr). www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

Why do ICBs have to make a "business case" to NHS England for redundancies when it's NHS England who ordered them to make people redundant in the first place? A second slap in the face for people losing their jobs in an increasingly pointless reorganisation. #NHS www.hsj.co.uk/integrated-c...

Like this a lot but not sure why the Oxo cube is there.

Totally agree with John Gruber here. Kagi is just better search (probably more important in your life than you think). Better results, no ads, no "promoted" links, and no horrible 'AI Summary'. (Kagi gives much more useful AI results, but only if you ask for them). Give it a try. bit.ly/49uPdYa

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

This doesn't seem credible. If they were willing to U-turn ("block" isn't the right term for an appointment No 10 made itself), they wouldn't have announced Mandelson's appointment before vetting was completed. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

DOGE turbocharged the deficit. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/wea...

The government claims the #NHS “is the best-placed system in the world” to take advantage of AI. My soundings with digital professionals and NHS managers working in this area suggest they're kidding themselves. My latest for Healthcare Manager. www.miphealth.org.uk/news/plug-us...

Péter Magyar calls on Hungarian President Tamás Sulyok to resign: "He didn't say a word when thousands of Hungarian children were abused by pedophiles — pedophiles who were appointed by this govt, awarded by this govt or pardoned by this govt... Resign... We don't need the puppets of the mafia."

I don't think there's any point or message to this. It's just a deranged old man posting random narcissistic shit. (Trump, not our John obviously) x.com/johnsimpsonn...

Trump says Pope Leo is "weak on crime" but the Vatican's crime figures compare pretty favourably with the US's. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A lesson we in the UK need to learn... fast.

Magyar is asking Hungary's president, a puppet of Orban, to resign once he gives Magyar the mandate to form a Govt Moving quickly

🇭🇺🗳️Résultats sur 37% des bulletins dépouillés 🔵Tisza (Magyar, conservateur) : 51,2%, 132 élus ⚫️Fidesz (Orban, droite populiste) : 40,1%, 59 élus ⚫️MH (extrême-droite) : 6,1%, 8 élus 🟣DK (social-libéral) : 1,2% 🟡MKKP (satirique) : 0,7% Le Fidesz ↘️ constamment, et la majorité des 2/3 est à 133 sièges.

Orban's out. Don't expect him to go quietly though.

"The Art of the Deal"

#TIFOS

Trump's peace "deal" is an absolute joke. He's achieved nothing.

So in what possible sense is it a "win"?

How on earth can the trip planned by King Charles possibly go ahead with Trump making statements like this?

Another one of those pointless interviews on the BBC where a so-called Trump "insider", this time Ezra Cohen, comes on and just repeats Trump's lies and distortions unchallenged. "Trump supporter supports Trump" isn't news and isn't interesting. #r4today

Hey up @england.nhs.uk. Where's the 'model neighbourhood document'? Asking for a friend. Well, quite a few friends actually.

Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Believing that a population will “rise up” with no weapons or structures against a bloodthirsty regime that killed tens of thousands of them only a few weeks ago takes a special kind of stupidity.”

The bottom line…. Please god listen, Labour. For all our sakes you must genuinely rethink and reset. Stop gaming your moves through the nasty prism of the rightwing media and speak to your core voters instead. They can come back but only if they believe in you again.

Fascinating stuff. Seems to me the biggest shift was between 1400 and 1500. Shakespeare's language is familiar to us; Chaucer's ain't.

I mean he can't even do shit stuff properly. Why 10% last night and 15% today? He just makes it up as he goes along. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Unless there is a determined agenda for work in the everyday economy - services like retail, hospitality, and care - then democracy will remain unstable. What industrial policy for the working majority looks like. And it's not just spread AI. This week's piece. open.substack.com/pub/anthonyp...

Taking off my partisan goggles for a minute, it is monumentally and historically stupid for Labour and the Greens to be slugging it out for the right to come second to the fascists.

Britain’s global standing, and a service of tremendous value to the world, being destroyed by little, little people, with little, little imaginations, and their little, little accounting ledgers.

Stat of the day. Ten years of protectionism, pro-manufacturing policy, China economic confrontation and US manufacturing employment has surely gone up? Nope. It's down. From 8.5% to 8.1% of employment. The new nationalism is many things but a job engine ain't one of them.

This disqualifies Farage from any office in the UK whatsoever on national security grounds alone. Tankie nonsense.

Sam Altman was right - this unironically is PhD-level intelligence

NHS deal with AI firm Palantir called into question after officials’ concerns revealed In 2025 briefing to Wes Streeting, officials warned reputation of tech firm behind US ICE operations would hinder rollout of data system in UK www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

This is an amazing piece of work by Andy Greenberg at WIRED: the inside story of a Chinese-run "scam compound" in Laos and one enslaved worker who risked everything to blow the whistle. Long but worth it. apple.news/Ac2HtjYPtQh2...

There's something I never expected to hear: "Italy are 133-8 with 4 overs remaining". Had to rewind to make sure I hadn't misheard. #r4today

American workers just took home their smallest share of the nation's wealth since 1947 — even as corporate profits soar. Why? This chart has the answer.

Wheels are off. CQC still hasn't replaced CEO Julian Hartley who quit last autumn. And now have to appoint a new chair first. And all this while the CQC is supposed to be reinventing itself.

so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter

There's a strong similarity between McSweeney and Mandelson in that both convinced their leaders they were indispensable, but when you step back and look at what they've actually done, there's almost nothing there.

who could possibly have predicted? www.ft.com/content/fc3c...

It already is, isn't it?

Don't get the Palace fans blaming Glasner for this situation. FA Cup, Community Shield, best ever PL season. Glasner's done his job, the board flatly haven't done theirs. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Note the consultation happens AFTER "operating model" design and even after "detailed organisation design". So many #NHS & public service reforms go wrong because plans are set in stone before a lip-service consultation, which we all know is going to be ignored. www.hsj.co.uk/workforce/dh...