Extraordinary story. An OnlyFans model and reality TV star opened a for-profit children's home which has now been suspended for multiple serious failures. To call the children's home market a train wreck would be a serious understatement.

‘Can Liverpool hold onto their 15-0 lead, or will there be late drama here at Rodney Parade?’

‘There’s a certain madness to it’ … fans await new chord in John Cage gig with 616 years left to run theguardian.com/music/2024/feb…

Cognitive dissonance (n): when the media marks the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike and accepts it bought the government’s lies about Orgreave, at exactly the point they report Rishi Sunak calling almost wholly peaceful marches against war crimes in Gaza ‘mob rule’.

George Galloway may exploit Gaza for his Youtube moments but when Bashar al Assad besieged, starved, and slaughtered Palestinians for 5 years in the Yarmouk refugee camp, he was justifying it using language similar to Eylon Levy's. He is no friend of Palestinians or Muslims.

Ten years since we lost this goat

I dug into the budget sheets to have a look at the realities of modern day touring costs for a bunch of artists. Such is the struggle for many established acts to tour profitably, it’s been declared a cost of touring crisis. theguardian.com/music/2024/apr…

Natalie Elphicke, who has just been welcomed to the Labour Party by Sir Keir Starmer, cruelly and publicly tormented the victims of her sex offender ex-husband Charlie. She claimed ***after his conviction*** that he had merely been punished for being "attractive and attracted"

Sally Rooney books but they're Wayne Rooney tweets. (2024 Edition)

‘WhaT doeS tHe ElecTIoN meaN for the FTSE?’ on.ft.com/3wPnwsZ

Extraordinary if true. ⁦The Guardian⁩ says Mossad chief menaced ICC prosecutor: “You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.” theguardian.com/world/article/…

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This story, man. Free to read today and tomorrow, just like everything on The Times and The Sunday Times “The dead teenager, the lying suspect and the black box that proves it” thetimes.co.uk/article/95eafd…

Children in Glasgow protest in February 1971 after the BBC announced they would be pulling Scooby-Doo from their schedule.

Time for the policy specialists to step up and the political correspondents to retreat. We need to understand what’s being proposed and whether it’ll work, not endlessly opine on whether Labour will face threats in 2029

WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich is free. This is a day of great joy and relief for Evan, his family, WSJ colleagues, and all those who campaigned so hard for his release. It is also a great day for press freedom. Follow the story here (no paywall) wsj.com/articles/evan-…

Anyone who puts Goodwin on their TV or radio show is now a supporter of explicit racism. There is no excuse anymore, it's not even slightly hidden.

How many people know or care what a “rabbit” is on budget day? I’d be interested in the polling. As far as I can tell only markets, journalists and Lindsay Hoyle judge budgets by the number of surprises

The NHS will pay the King’s duchy £11m over 15 years to rent a warehouse for ambulances...it is being charged 67% more than the previous tenants paid. Great reporting from Sunday Times Insight team George Arbuthnott Jonathan Calvert Katie Tarrant The Times and The Sunday Times