UK: A Brit posted photo of him holding a shotgun while on holiday in Florida, when he returned home UK police arrested him, seized his devices, jailed him overnight for violating the 1986 Public Order Act. The process was the punishment. After sharing a photo of himself posing

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Trump to strangle #Venezuela? Maybe. And fixing the end of Castro's successors in Havana has been #MarcoRubio’s ultimate foreign policy goal since he was elected senator from Florida in 2010. He then became the Senate's leading hawk on #Cuba foreignpolicy.com/2025/11/03/mil…

Saddam was bad. Taliban still bad. Fundamental question is , therefore: given the results of US intervention in the Middle East, why would similar tactics WORK south of #Mexico? And, er, why wouldn't Trump then act upon his December proposal to make Mexico a US state?

Sir James Cleverly, previously Home and Foreign Secretary: "The only reason #Reeves is still in the job is because Starmer knows that if he throws her under a bus, he's going with her." express.co.uk/news/politics/…

#AI adoption? Underwhelming economist.com/finance-and-ec…

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Hey, be hip! That old papyrus-based media is soooo last century. For real and lasting depth, Insta is where it's at, oh yes

The upside is that their kids will disown them

Some people have difficulty judging design. But these clocks👇🏿 are unequivocally AWFUL

When #Putin gets serious about suppressing the UK, he could well begin the mission with... #Ireland mol.im/a/15332565

CLOCKS AWAY: "The manager with the stopwatch has been an enduring feature of industrial capitalism." on.ft.com/49Nq3Fi Er, Industrial Revolution ~1750. Modern stopwatch - 1816. FW Taylor, factory time and motion studies - C20th woudhuysen.com/tayloring-peop… What tosh Financial Times!

No wonder the UK's council #clocks are stopped - we're on Labour's gramophone-record road to socialism: fixing 3 foundations, delivering 5 missions, cherishing 6 ambitious milestones, having 7 pillars of the growth mission, fairness, 💤

James Woudhuysen Hilton Holloway I’ve been to both of the Braun design museums in Germany in the last couple of years. Berlin, and Kronberg im Taunus (near Frankfurt). My dad has the Dieter Rams record player, that he bought new in 1960. And we still have the receipt 😀

In my living room: old and new... the valves made for a light show of different stations - eg DDR FUNK (though there wasn't a lot of funk coming out of the DDR...)

James Woudhuysen Nice. Looks like they have those units in the museum. I miss those far off days when you could tune to exotic sounding place names on the dial, once reception improved after dark, and listen to all kinds of different music and languages. It’s just not the same on the internet.

He started visiting my window years ago, long before I ever expected to form a bond like this. It began with small things, a tap on the glass early in the morning, a shadow landing on the sill, a curious pair of eyes watching me while I read or drank my tea. At first, I thought

FEARLESS MUM, HIGH BRAIN-TO-WEIGHT RATIO: having built a nest in my South London garden, she came back to me repeatedly to get food for her chicks...

Apart from the collapse of UK military manpower and kit, there's also... the much more dangerous collapse of MORALE