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Committee stage on the hereditary peerages bill began with a classic

The UK is among the worst nations in Europe for child poverty. In the UK, 11% of 15-year-olds reported they had skipped a meal in 2022 because there wasn't enough money to buy food. In the Netherlands and Finland, this number was 3%.

This man is an idiot. Trump claimed Biden spent $8 million "making mice transgender." The White House tried to back this up with records of funding for research into cancer, asthma, and HIV, some of which used *transgenic* (genetically modified) mice. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

🤦🏻‍♂️FOR EFF SAKE—Trump: “$8 million to make mice transgender”—no, it was for transgenic mice, a core method in biology & medicine to study human diseases via animals! Please, for the love of God, trust scientists! Let’s also elect more scientists to office.

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Anybody else feel like this rogue lower cap "n" speaks to a broader carelessness?

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Elon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Within an hour of starting interviews, I had the names of a 10-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl who had died because of decisions by wealthy men in

When most people things used to be better in the good old days, they're usually either lying for effect or just wildly misled about the world. But if you're a print journalist it's actually all true. You're like a pitiful Saxon living on the ruined outskirts of Roman Londinium.

This quote from a Quaker elder... "The only resistance I could put up was to make tea and drink it in front of them without offering them any.” thetimes.com/article/ea7dab…

Fascinating piece by Rhys Blakely thetimes.com/article/9aee7b…

Scientists hope to create lab-grown Tyrannosaurus rex leather by the end of the year, using amino acid sequences recovered from fossils. “We’re not bringing back any species here ... This is a way for us to demonstrate the power of engineering biology.” thetimes.com/uk/science/art…

Worth a read: Andrew Sullivan on how Vance lectured Europe on free speech -- and then set up a new social media surveillance system in the US; How Sullivan has cancelled foreign travel due to fears abt how US immigration might treat a Trump critic, etc... thetimes.com/article/1cc9ab…

Grateful to Rhys Blakely for his detailed and attentive article on lawnmower poetry in The Times and The Sunday Times today, and delighted to read Sir Andrew Motion, Michael Laskey, and Mark Waldron's comments on the 'microgenre' 📰 thetimes.com/culture/books/…

I don't have to tell you what happened to these three boys. You already know. How awful is that?

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Musk’s interview went great: Reporter: What is your thought on the ban of foreign students, you were one of those kids, right? Musk: “I think we want to stick to talking about spaceships.” Reporter: I was told that any topic is good. Musk: “Well no.”

This would have been unthinkable even 10 years ago, yet the data is unequivocal: the world at large now has an overwhelmingly more positive opinion of China than of the United States, with 79% of the world's countries favoring China. This data was compiled based on a survey of

Researchers have confirmed: if peer-reviewed study funded by meat industry, findings are far more likely to allow red meat as part of a healthy diet. Studies were not reaching contradictory conclusions, but asking different questions. (£)thetimes.com/uk/science/art… By Rhys Blakely

Apropos of nothing: London is a much safer city than it was 15 years ago