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Opinion | I fully understand Latin American migrants not wanting to be sent to South Sudan. But when they read my reporting on Biden's late-term frailty, I think they'll understand that their deportation is serving the common good.

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Inappropriate book covers. (I found this gem on ebay.) If you have more, please post them!

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A lone voice. It crieth in the wilderness.

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I'm reading the report behind these headlines about glyphosate and it may be the most scientifically illiterate thing I've come across (although it's a close thing with the recent MAHA report). 1/n

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Loved this, and now have a reading list for the summer. Thank you, @questingvole.bsky.social

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

This is excellent, I think

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A passing mention? In MY book? On our blog, indexer Tanya Izzard discusses passing or minor mentions in indexing, and why indexers sometimes have to leave things out

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Free speech latest

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They told us Trump would protect free speech, markets, and democracy. They lied. Now we have the receipts.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

This is v interesting, and the more so for being (winces) granular

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"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds" gizmodo.com/its-breathta...

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

The 31-month sentence for Lucy Connolly for a tweet has been the subject of fierce media coverage. Here I set out a balanced explanation of this sentence and how, had she not followed good legal advice, the sentence could have been even heavier. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

submitted 11 days ago • 17 comments

Dear Mr. Clegg I have started a business, selling the contents of your house I knew when I launched I did not have legal access your house Without this access my company will not be profitable Others have told me I have a flawed business model, but I disagree Please advise how I should proceed

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The sheer barefaced dishonesty of a regime that is snatching people off the streets for their speech; painting over testimonials to women & minorities in US history; subjugating universities & trying to crush research into subjects it dislikes, standing as a champion of "free speech" is staggering.

submitted 9 days ago • 48 comments

Yes, yes, yes

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In Dublin for the literary festival, and I have no notes to offer on the water in the hotel. BRB just going to arise and go now.

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Ian is right. Remarkable piece of writing, and an extraordinary testament to a parent’s thoughtfulness and love.

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I DID NOT, but I do now

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Tickets go on sale today for the stage play of The Spy Who Came In From The Cold at the Soho Place theatre. First time a le Carré novel has come to the West End, and Spy is a zinger :) spyonstage.com

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Delighted to be taking part in this amazing event @hayfestival.bsky.social among so many brilliant writers - I'll be on stage Saturday 31st May at 7pm, chatting with @adamrutherford.bsky.social waste.lnk.to/hayfestival2...

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A lesson Trump learned from term 1 was he was “stupid” for leaving a tonnnnnn of money on the table, and as u can see he and his orbit are making up for lost time. Latest for @rollingstone.com from @timdickinson.bsky.social and me:

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Not a gang member. Not an activist supporting Hamas. A white Danish welder with four blonde kids and a pregnant wife called Savannah, applying for citizenship after 12 years in the US- jailed for a month without trial for forgetting to sign a single form www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-arrests-...

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On Brexit Wars, the umpteenth sequel in a tired fantasy franchise and the possibility that, in the latest episode, reality may be fighting back .. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

Amazed this person asked a librarian for actual imaginary books though tbh

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Arts journalism

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Lordy. I thought the person in paragraph five of this piece I wrote yesterday was a satirical invention, but no. www.spectator.co.uk/article/star...

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At the allotment, locked in battle with couch grass, horsetail, bindweed etc. Why is it that the plants we want drop dead at the first sign of a stiff breeze, and the ones we don’t are hardy, rhizomatic and basically unkillable?

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Duncan Campbell’s death is a cruel loss to journalism. Wise, kind, universally trusted, universally liked. Writing wonderful pieces to the end www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

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Hey isn't it weird that every single AI lab is saying that their ultra-powerful flagship AI model is just around the corner, but it isn't ready yet and you can't see it and they don't know when it'll be done? Isn't it strange that everybody is having the same problems?

submitted 19 days ago • 82 comments

How very entertaining of @questingvole.bsky.social to ask me to review Keith McNally's memoir iykyk www.spectator.co.uk/article/keit...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

This is actual BS. It is absolutely imperative that we push back against this move towards us not owning any of the media we pay full price for. Personally…I won’t be purchasing a Switch 2. These models lock you in in a way that’s completely manipulative and immoral.

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Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

submitted 20 days ago • 41 comments

Little known fact that Grover Cleveland used to ride around the world in the Statue of Liberty and have sensitive national security discussions inside it, before taking possession of it himself after he left office.

submitted 20 days ago • 203 comments

Hear bloody hear

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