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Another in my series of Reform Voters Are Not Like Anyone Else: Favourable opinion of NATO among all Britons: 59% 2024 Lib Dems: 71% 2024 Tories: 70% 2024 Labour: 67% 2024 Green: 59% 2024 Reform UK: 49% (YouGov)

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Having read for research purposes no fewer than four articles by opinion columnists about how dreadful Bluesky is, I think my conclusion is "kind of interesting except I notice that Financial Times and Bloomberg journalists seem to get on fine and have lots of mates here"

I log off for like 15 minutes and the world's weirdest man has announced a new type of knowledge to replace all recorded information because his electric parrot dissed Catturd2, is this a fair summary?

Svitlana Tsikhanouskaya's husband, Siarhei has been released from a Belarusian prison She entered politics after his arrest She had no contact with him for several years x.com/Tsihanouskay...

Author Val McDermid and her wife, geography professor Jo Sharp, take part in the Pride parade through Edinburgh city centre on Saturday afternoon 𝘐𝘔𝘈𝘎𝘌: 𝘑𝘢𝘯𝘦 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘰𝘸/𝘗𝘈 𝘞𝘪𝘳𝘦/𝘗𝘈 𝘐𝘮𝘢𝘨𝘦𝘴

⚡️ At least 13 injured in Russian attacks on Ukraine over past day. Russia launched 272 drones overnight, including Iranian-designed Shahed-type suicide drones, along with two aeroballistic missiles and six cruise missiles.

For those enjoying the Noel Edmonds articles in the press this week, why not read some from New Zealand www.stuff.co.nz/national/300...

Mortifying experience at Pulp last night but taking comfort that I’m not the worst person Jarvis Cocker has ever impersonated

Happy Glen Sannox Day to all who celebrate

Insane that Poilievre’s probable return to Parliament via the easy peasiest by election seat in Alberta is being framed as a triumphant return. It’s a shame walk for a loser.

Community And Choice Are Not Bubbles Disclosure: I am on the board of Bluesky and am inherently biased. Adjust your skepticism of what I write on this topic accordingly. It seems a bit odd: when something is supposedly dying or irrelevant, journalists can't stop writing about it. Consider the…

David Goodhart complains that everyone on Bluesky was mean about his Standard piece on race in London last night. One of his major complaints is people weren’t brave enough to post their criticism of him on Twitter. It’s no fun owning the libs if they’re not there to squeal!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No one tell that guy who wrote the Evening Standard London Cannot Be The Capital Due To Skin Colour article but I just walked past a bus stop and didn't stop to chat, I was carrying some cans of beer

"Farage is the sort of guy that drives you out of your favourite pub." Lord Chris Patten questions why the Reform leader remains a political force - suggesting gutlessness and a squeeze on living standards fuel his rise. @lewisgoodall.com

It's a real emergency and the denialists mustn't be allowed to win

It's pretty wild how much of what Putin says publicly is precisely calculated pitches to the American far right. *PUTIN: CONCERNED ABOUT WORLD DRIFTING TO WORLD WAR 3

PUTIN: RUSSIANS AND UKRAINE ARE ONE PEOPLE, AND IN THAT SENSE THE WHOLE OF UKRAINE IS OURS

But I was told this was about NATO expansion?

she should have been clearer that the NYT reserves the right to make an endorsement if it's seeking to promote a serial sex pest. After all, it's in the public's interest to create a precedent to defend the careers of other powerful men the editors might happen to know.

Really important points in this, made all the more effectively because of the calm, considered but firmly moral tone

Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out. benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

Medical Experts Hopeful That Gene Editing Will Soon Allow Sick Kids To Have Super Weird Pets theonion.com/medical...

Assisted Dying Bill passes Third Reading 314 to 291.

Assisted dying passes by 314 votes to 291 Or, if you prefer, British politics’s favourite ratio: 52-48

BREAKING | MPs vote for historic assisted dying bill

After the barrage of illiberalism in recent times, this vote on assisted dying - following the vote on late abortions - is welcome. The starting point for such significant decisions should always be with the individual where possible, and not the State imposing its view on the individual.

A majority of 23 for the Assisted Dying Bill in the Commons, on a free vote, means the legislation will now be considered by the Lords, with further amendments likely www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg...

Petition: Head Teachers of North London Schools who are reported on/interviewed or appear as a guest, on national media to be banned from using social media or their smartphone between 8AM and 7PM. This is the first step to a more sensible debate about social media use in schools