Jon PENNYCOOK

The populist-right politician has a habit for rhetorical judo. Asked for signs that Vladimir Putin wants peace with Ukraine, she throws the question back at us. But behind the bluster lurks a skilled political manager

It has been brought to our attention that it is entirely possible Doug Ford does not understand that a podcast called "The War on Cars" might be in favor of things like protected bike lanes.

But when they have to, every young generation does. Despite the repeated derision of the older ones.

I lost my father to war - Falklands - so I am fairly cynical about what it was all for. I refuse to wear a poppy, not because I want to forget, but because it has been weaponised by fascists - how ironic is that? On Remembrance Day, I’ll wear this instead. Le Bleuet de France, as yet not hijacked.

And all those patriots with their Temu flags plus the Black Shorts brigade. Sorted!

Thank goodness for all those men of fighting age who are (apparently) flooding into the country to make up the numbers, then.

Poll reveals that 50% of young Britons would never fight for UK under any circumstances. Cue meltdown on talk radio stations and X. Well at least that's down on the 60% who said the exact same in an Oxford Union debate in 1933. Because... guess what kids... people don't want to fight in wars.

Those of us sensitive to the damage misleading terms can cause would appreciate it if you described these as 'Electric motorbikes' Scott. E-BIkes are as we know legal, safe and an incredible game changer re urban transport. Every one one of your committee's problems comes from Electric motorbikes.

A matter of safety - today I took part in a round table meeting on illegal e-bikes and lithium-ion battery safety. Conclusion - We have to tackle the source and the demand. Details - scottarthurmp.wordpress.com/2026/10/15/i...

*It's like the recent Ibizan "rich guys at the disco" policy *Why do rich people even want to *be around* any "popular music" *Rich people should be commissioning exclusive oligarchy music, like, courtly pavanes, royal operas

Beyond its bloat and paucity of revelations, the problem with “Musk” is that it wavers between two damning—but different—analyses. Register for free to learn more

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Hoping for expert help... we've spent the past 2h trying to find the MAC address of a device that we want to connect to our wifi network. The network demands its MAC address to allow it but there is no label or any other information for how to find it. Does anyone know how to do it? Urgently needed!

offered a tech job today to a young woman whose reply was: "OMG yes but why would you choose me?" And the fucking answer is because I spent my entire career getting to a point i can do that, without bother, and no-one can stop me. And it is a drug and it is magic. will never say that, obviously.

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It would also mean that much of the massive ongoing grid expansion and renewables buildout would be just to feed the new data centres. Grid operators association Netbeheer Nederland is right to ask government for tough choices on how many data centres to allow to be built, and where.

Assuming that they would actually get to build those data centres and get the connections, the new data centres would (at 90% capacity factor) use around 120 TWh/year, as much as all companies and households together use now.

Bizarre: Data centres have a total of 15 GW (15,000 MW) in queue for electricity connections in the Netherlands, grid operators just disclosed. That's roughly the current average national power use!

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Three years ago I wrote a piece for The New Yorker about how much the government had come to rely on one man’s companies: the rockets, the satellites, the cars, and, at times, the Ukrainian army’s ability to communicate. Then Musk actually went into government.

New project for you all: I produced “Musk,” Alex Gibney’s extraordinary documentary, rolling out now.

Top deck of a bus in York, fella wearing double denim got on, pulled a supermarket trifle out of his bag then started eating it using a Twix as a spoon.

It’s always fun when you see someone eating something slightly unusual to be seen eating in public. Hats off to the lady eating a large bag of rocket leaves, on the tube, like you might a packet of crisps.

I also love how their so proud of their air pump that they've lined it up almost, but not quite, perfectly in front of the "kitchen" window.

Looking at the floorplan that staircase makes sense as a bold architectural statement that creates a dramatic reception/dining entrance, now to take a big gulp of my coffee and check that it's a beautiful modern staircase...

One for the ages this. I have so many questions about the design decisions that led to this. My favourite thing is either the galley kitchen that you cannot walk down if someone opens a cupboard, or the staircase slap bang in the middle of sitting room. www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/8...

Reach group headline: Major update in Robotaxis on London's streets as weather is forecast for rain

English journalism: ROBOTAXI BAN BACK ON American journalism: in Wisconsin town, robotaxis not not not banned, council says mayor says council says

Sometimes you just gotta give up on a headline and start again

Ukraine should increase the tempo of attacks against Russian infrastructure, including data centres and distribution hubs. Vladimir Putin needs to feel that Ukraine can threaten his rule and Russians need to be aware of the war being fought in their name

Smartphone shipments plummet as memory crisis pumps up prices

I took my kids to my folks recently and we stopped off in Wigan for a pie, i was in heaven

Pie + chips + peas + gravy+ pepper = bliss

The Kremlin has spent years trying to replace Ukraine's government. Now Trump suggests replacing Zelenskyy too. But sure, let's analyze Zelenskyy's attitude.

A reminder that Ukraine are the good guys defending themselves and trying to survive. Literally nothing in the current shitstorm is Ukraine or Zelensky’s fault. Anyone dissecting Zelensky’s words/strategy to find faults has either hopelessly lost the forest from the trees or is doing it in bad faith

In my experience, when you do reader surveys and ask people to self report their interests, they self report the interests of the version of themselves they want to be. Then you look at the actual data re: what they read, and they unwittingly tell you their actual interests.

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Sam Altman can't even make OpenAI profitable. AI is a money incinerator, not a profit generator. And I doubt that asking a podcaster to pay $20 so you can type a single question into an LLM and foward the results is the key to making it profitable. And yet, my inbox... omg my inbox.

You would be shocked at how many random companies are trying to get me to buy their AI services or sell them my voice. It's so that I had to create an inbox filter to deal with it. Are there really this many people with bad business ideas, or are the big AI companies trying to build fake buzz?

As it happens... www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/bon...

If the EU banned mobile phones from having loudspeakers, the UK vote to rejoin the EU would be overwhelmingly in favour.