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Not to open oneself up to accusations of being right-wing, but a minimum wage of nearly £30,000 a year and a higher rate tax bracket of £50,000 does look a little off

Jeremy Lewin killed hundreds of thousands without a signed employment agreement.

Fascinating - in a deeply depressing way - to watch Vance go from trying to position himself as the MAGA intellectual to just this… lowest common denominator, base ignorance, careless racism stuff that pleases no one

Listening to a report about Google chopping down a quarter of a million trees in Finland to build a data centre while washing out yoghurt pots for the recycling

It was only a matter of time, the target has been miles away from ever being achievable within the timeframe for some time now

There is no human on earth more easily or predictably baited than this man.

This is an absolute PEAK guardian headline

This is one of the most holy sh*t stories I’ve ever read in my life. www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-...

Apparently he spends half the film complaining about how Gen Z don’t know the meaning of real spy work

Just read up on this story and the fact Trump and Vance are defending Ramaswamy’s decision to run such an ad is truly despicable

This is fucked. Really bleak how entrenched this is becoming.

Emphasizing again that we cannot treat this as just business as usual. This is the President of the United States openly attacking an entire ethnic group.

This story

Ah yes, Cliveden, site of one of the Conservative party's most glorious episodes

I love the “not everyone can afford headphones” line. As if it’s obligatory to play shitty TikTok’s on public transport and you can’t possibly be expected to go 10 minutes without assaulting your eyeballs with mindless crap

This iconic view disappears forever next week. So for posterity, have this timelapse trip down Oxford Street from the top deck of the bus I’ll miss it, but also looking forward to pedestrianisation

I didn’t know much about about Abdul El-Sayed before watching this but I knew as soon as I’d seen it that he’d worked as a teacher — and sure enough he was an assistant professor in epidemiology. This is how you walk a student through a dumb take.

hatttttttte this I hate it I hate it it makes me so sad I hate it www.ft.com/content/989c...

This is 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨fascism. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

They should name it Gatsby

#Traitors always greatly complimented by Stuart Heritage’s live blog of the show

Just straight up racism

Is this basically all a ploy to not offend Ringo when his film gets the lowest ticket sales…

Wrong, chocolate hobnobs are literally the best, and the fact that BA have started handing them out on short haul flights as their complimentary snack only proves that’s the case

Absolutely dying laughing at 'heavily medicated' at the time. Yeah, I remember when I hurt my arm and was on codeine, I too started seeing secret Muslims whenever I looked at the Royal Family.

Wow wow wow. Has this sort of thing ever happened in publishing before? This is an absolutely huge deal for Faber www.thebookseller.com/news/faber-t...

Now that is quite a photo. (Credit: Doug Mills / New York Times)

Every song on here is a banger but putting Mr Brightside at the bottom of the list just feels like trolling, frankly www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/b...

OMG she is brutally bad at this

Mark Zuckerberg trying to drink Guinness like a hoo-man.

THIRTY THOUSAND. Thirty THOUSAND. THIRTY thousand. And the government does nothing why?

This is the best set of pedant replies you will ever read

An astonishing detail on the global shipping crisis

This really shows how much Brewdog’s previous owners buggered things up - astonishing that the current owners are essentially having to bribe pubs to take their beer, for what is still a very popular drink with customers

Fascinating piece in the times today about how tourists treat the Cotswolds village of Bibury like just one extended photo shoot. Instagram/smart phones really seem to have warped something in our brains www.thetimes.com/article/bd67...

Being a sentient person in 2026 means arguing in public for issues you never thought you would have to articulate out loud: "Read to your children yourself instead of outsourcing it to a robot!" "Don't televise executions!" Things like that.

2004: live-streamed killing of Ken Bigley held to reveal the uniquely medieval barbarism of modern Jihaddis 2026: live-streamed killing becomes US Govt policy www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jeeeeeesus wept.

Anyone notice how Pete Hegseth spent the first few weeks of the Iran bombing campaign in front of the cameras telling us how awesome it was going and now we haven’t seen him for months?

Burnham needs to work on how he explains the changes to the triple lock, that felt a bit of a confused breakdown of how it will work

Amazing contrast to Starmer's buttoned up style as Burnham delivers his speech stripped to the waist and covered in peanut butter, repeatedly diving into the audience

Found the NYT interview with Zuckerberg about his fashion choices deeply sycophantic but this anecdote is pretty funny www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/s...

Dear Gmail, I know what’s important in my Gmail, I’ve had years to work that out on your platform, you didn’t have to add a blue arrow to almost every second email in my inbox without asking…