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Procurement and life sciences correspondent at HSJ, formerly natsec/GWOT geek.
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Really starting to wonder whether everything really will be alright in the end.

I think Biden had a bit more leverage over Israel than he was letting on.

Not very parliamentary there.

I have a "big voice" to indicate displeasure to offspring. They find it extremely funny.

Broadcast Kneecap from Glastonbury, but voiced by an actor

One brings two!

I suspect there may be a useful fudge for this in the VPAG review. Not sure what shape that could take, however. www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

This paragraph is doing a lot of work. nymag.com/intelligence...

"We overcame the Pharaoh, we will also overcome Keir Starmer" is a quote for the ages

Water usage goes down... bill goes up. Good to know I'm doing my bit to support those poor, benighted senior creditors.

Spotify just hawked up The Stranglers Waltzinblack and now I’m going to have to rewatch everything Keith Floyd made. I don’t want to; it’s how it goes.

"I've resigned as Chairman of a massively racist party by mistake"

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

Rift Widens Between Elon Musk, Anyone Who Ever Met Him

Don't think this will have much impact straight away but it shows that the core problem of Farage parties - that they're one man bands - hasn't gone away.

I think the American people have very decisively taught politicians that they collectively hate inflation a lot more than they hate unemployment

...our senior creditors?

It's TACO Tuesday

The King is dead, Long Live The King. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

No one chafes at something like the FT. www.ft.com/content/8bfd...

Firstly, she’s certainly changed her look recently. And secondly, do we call her HMS Glasgow only on official and State occasions or is it all the time?

Aah yes, the three genders

My brother and I were on our bikes at opposite ends of a very long, very straight, very flat, otherwise deserted road. We proceeded to cycle towards each other at a moderate pace before colliding, clashing heads as we both went up over our handlebars, and bending the front wheels of our bikes.

🚨 Exclusive 🚨 Ian Rush has put his name to a 90-minute, score-settling, AI musical in the style of Hamilton about his legal battle against a Surrey scaffolding company and a small Wigan law firm, in so doing attacking, among others, Robbie Fowler and Jamie Carragher. 1/7

Google, please define "Brass Neck".

New post just out: "Running Hot" A guest post today from Ed Balls (yes that one) + his research colleague Dan Turner. It looks at why the US economy has grown so much faster than the UK's (pre-Trump). And what Rachel Reeves can learn from that. (Free to read) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

If you listen carefully you can actually hear the hot takes gently cooling in the podcastosphere.

Every time Eurovision is on it reminds me just how _great_ Eurotrash was

It's not just Begum. Old colleagues at @tbij.bsky.social spent years investigating deprivation of citizenship under the Coalition and Conservative governments: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/projects/cou...