Chris Connolly

More people who find reading hard should be told that yes, reading is hard!! There's a reason why we ask parents and carers to read to children from their first day on earth until they get too old to dance on our feet

Today experienced the 24th day of year hitting 30C in London. For perspective in whole of 1980s we had 21 days.

But who is also inherently sneery towards popular culture.

NBD, just 4% of global consumption taken offline… 👀

And good luck finding businesses to offer meaningful work experience to hundreds of thousands of 14 and 15 year olds. As ever a failure to acknowledge that our big challenge with vocational ed is our labour market.

While it looks just like a basket of Scottish gammons in undersized tracksuits, unfortunately I will bet you dollars to donuts these gammons are being drilled by Irish loyalist paramilitaries.

50% chance of £1M is also 50% of £0. In a bimodal distribution estimated value is not very helpful!

Tell me you’ve never been to the People’s Republic of China without telling me you’ve never been to the People’s Republic of China.

Britain has a stronger claim to Ireland than China has to Taiwan.

That Musk interview in full: State should stay out of AI But should force other AI companies to share their models with Elon Robots and AI will make money irrelevant but we should have high UBI But Elon shouldn’t have to pay more tax to fund it /1

Musk calls for the assassination of a reporter who embarrassed him with basic questions

You can game it out on our site if you'd like. We have an executive builder which lets you send whoever you want into opposition. devolvedelections.co.uk/northern-ire...

Strange way to talk about Craigavon but ok.

207 wounded tho

Pretty much.

🚨 NEW: Northern Ireland Assembly Voting Intention SF: 22% (-2) UUP: 16% (+3) DUP: 15% (-3) SDLP: 13% (+2) TUV: 12% (+1) AP: 10% (-1) GRN: 5% (=) AON: 3% (=) PBP: 2% (=) OTH/IND: 2% (=) Changes with April 2026 Via LucidTalk & BelTel

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie from the year? You turned 18? “You Were Real. That's What Made You So Good To Watch.”

A must-read from @davidaaronovitch.bsky.social alongside this thread from Sunder: open.substack.com/pub/davidaar...

Will would have soared to great heights in the USSR.

Всё хорошо (Everything is fine)

Here’s Connor taking Stancil apart with offensive maths.

This is the sort of VM that in the old days would have had Special Branch knocking at my door.

Will would have soared to great heights in the USSR.

Всё хорошо (Everything is fine)

Here’s Connor taking Stancil apart with offensive maths.

This is why progressives are so bad at making policies that are popular: the inability to see the difference between theoretical outcome and practical implementation.

I love how the writers of House of the Dragon got together and decided to make a show about internecine war in which the characters all have the same haircut and all have very similar sounding names and then put five years between each series, just in case you might be able to remember the plot.

Spandau Bullet

On this date in 1581, several provinces of the Netherlands denounced the ruling King of Spain as a tyrant. The Plakkaat van Verlatinghe (Act of Leave) made the case for human rights, popular sovereignty and freedom of thought. In a way it was our declaration of independence.

Spandau Bullet

A pox on him..turns up everywhere

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

British followers! BBC Two, right now. The aristocrats of Gaelic football, Kerry seeking their 40th title, versus the eternal nearly men of Mayo who are 0-for-14 since their last win 75 years ago (when, like today, they wore white). Ireland’s most compelling sporting storyline. Get on it.

Social media algorithms are slowly (then rapidly) giving birth to new ideologies. This combination of militarism, UFOs, Christian fundamentalism, and right-wing politics would be obscure without the internet. It's going to get even crazier when they invent a right wing AI to worship.

Interesting: There’s now an anonymous, moderated list of companies that stop responding after you interviewed with them

Scotland belongs to Ireland.

“Is Scotland tenable?” asks the quiz host, sparking family rows across Dumfries & Galloway.

No-one is making this claim. The claim is that taking the £50k, for very many people a life-changing sum of money, is the rational choice.

Last up is Andy Burnham. Mikel Arteta is Everton’s best player, he says, and he can’t get into the Spain team, so “I think it will be Spain”.

I love how the writers of House of the Dragon got together and decided to make a show about internecine war in which the characters all have the same haircut and all have very similar sounding names and then put five years between each series, just in case you might be able to remember the plot.

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

Which isn’t the same as murder.

This is a totally surreal moment in the Epstein scandal. They win the top award for exposing a pedophile, then have to shake hands with said pedophile.

If you know anything about the law you know the correct answer is to continue to negotiate and settle for the best deal you can get, which will be more than $50k, on the courthouse steps before a trial starts.

Or move to northern Ireland to enjoy the temperate climate :)