Even a died in the wool atheist like me is lost in admiration for priests that try to do something for those in their community that everyone else has forgotten. If you can, do a small act of kindness & give something to Crisis or your local foodbank.

Mick Bailey Hi Mick, although there are exemptions for work purposes, you must not have a work Christmas lunch or party, where that is a primarily social activity and is not otherwise permitted by the rules in your tier. You can find more information here: gov.uk/guidance/guida… Thanks

Well that escalated steadily for four years.

We need to stop calling QAnon a conspiracy theory. At this point it's more like a social cult. It's not about one event like 9/11 or the Kennedy Assassination - it's a decoder ring for every event that happens in society. It's a filter through which its adherents view the world.

And that's because of insight #3: people don't share content because it's good. They share it because IT MAKES THEM LOOK GOOD! Nobody cares where it came from, what matters is that it helps grow people's interest in them when they share it.

If you haven't ever read 'Everything is Obvious' by Duncan Watts, now seems like an apt time – among many useful examples, it introduced me to this classic illustration of hindsight (extract from: newscientist.com/article/mg2112…)

(more broadly, the whole row is as will davies also pointed out yesterday a nice example of a point we make in Brexitland - namely that in a society where racism is universally seen as wrong, the most intense arguments are over what counts (or doesn't count) as racism)

This is a lovely moment with Romilly Weeks and #PrincePhilip x.com/DrJamesKent3/s…

(General point: As a nation the U.K. really needs to stop asking the BBC complaints department to rule on all our deepest cultural issues and just go to therapy.)

hardmaru I wish they had also created a diverse dataset of rugs so that it didn’t confuse black stripes with cliffs and I could finally get my entire house cleaned 😂

Does seem odd that the focus in so much of the papers around David Amess's murder is around political discourse. I'm all in favour of less shouty/angry hyperbole in politics but it wasn't why he was killed.

"The first duty of Government is to uphold the law. If it tries to bob and weave and duck around that duty when its inconvenient, if government does that, then so will the governed, and then nothing is safe—not home, not liberty, not life itself." Thatcher in 1975...

Wordle 360 1/6 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 😄👍 My day has come.

Over 3.5 years on, this prescient thread is the best read on VAR and why it is so problematic in football.

New abomination just dropped

@pjohanneson LEGO is always an adjective. So LEGO bricks, LEGO elements, LEGO sets, etc. Never, ever "legos."