Side note: if Andy Burnham becomes PM, he'll be the first one educated at Cambridge since Stanley Baldwin, who matriculated in 1885.
Just need everyone to know that the Belgium men's soccer team has new jerseys based on the art of Rene Magritte and this is the official photo shoot
Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"
This is an amazing question and also an amazing answer.
Very sad news... R.I.P. Marjane Satrapi! www.euronews.com/culture/2026...
A long and upsetting but illuminating thread (well worth reading but consider headspace)
This from @stephenkb.bsky.social deserves to be widely seen. It's the most clear-eyed take on the tragic events that led to Henry Nowak's death that I've seen. 'What his murder does - and does not - tell us about policing'.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4Jo...
The comments underneath David Gauke's typically sensible piece are the usual racist mess – including a conspiracy theory about Henry Nowak's parents having been cajoled by the government into pretending they weren't angry about his death. They always sink lower than you imagine.
Apparently they were ethically fine when he started working there, and he left when that changed. 🤔
Robert Hanks
Doug Mack
"Pressure on state system" – a system struggling with falling pupil numbers. These people aren't remotely interested in the facts.
This kind of thinking seeps into their mental model of unis too. Since a lot of senior MPs went to Oxbridge (or even just Oxford), they imagine, say, debate is a large part of the experience when 1) most unis don't have a debating union 2) most students don't attend a single extracurricular event.
