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I feel like the BBC's kneejerk impulse to give Amol Rajan very job it has going could also be, from some perspectives, lazy

COOL. BIRD. SUMMER

Difficult day. Be clear why soon enough. Didn't want to go to a party this evening but made myself and so glad I did, proper life affirming time with some people I am very grateful to call friends.

Today, the Government launches plans to fast-track driverless vehicle trials in the UK. One of the companies involved says London presents a big challenge: “It has seven times more jaywalkers than San Francisco.” Except… it doesn't. 🧵

Are you entirely relaxed about the spread of conspiracy theory, and America's strange relationship with its own power? Will you be nowhere near from Oxford on Friday? If so, do NOT come and see this. (Or, I mean, you could. You'd still be very welcome.) bit.ly/43HGyxT

Yes. Exactly like that.

My daughter told my wife she was going to cut up some strawberries for her. Meet The Strawbster:

I miss what Twitter was. Too much of my adult life - work, friends, partners - has been bound up in it not to. But that Twitter doesn't exist any more. *Twitter* doesn't exist any more, and X is a hellhole and even if I could put up with that it'd suck because most people I want to talk to are here.

evening, all

Hampstead Heath has its own culture, and people should respect it.

really fun thing about this piece is that it's somehow got people yelling at me for being both a whiny provincial opposed to investing in London and a symptom of the media's Londoncentricity who doesn't know he's born

Can make a reasonable political argument that of the £110bn extra in infrastructure spending, there's no political benefit even in London from DLR or Bakerloo extension. Can make a policy argument that Met needs reform not money. But struggle to conceive of an argument against a tourist levy.

I asked a BBC spokesperson to set out any examples of the corporation drawing up specific plans to secure the support of voters for other political parties in the UK, but they were unable to do so bylinetimes.com/2025/06/09/b...

There's a town in Hampshire called Palestine, and other delightful English place names