I tend to agree with this. I'd like to see further measures to discourage smoking, but public health measures need to make sense in terms of people's capacity to make choices, and illogical measures won't command respect and thus won't be effective.

Having a Genesis trip while doing chores this pm. Wind and Wuthering is my favourite of the post-Gabriel albums (though nowadays I doubt they'd be forgiven some of the lyrics of Blood on the Rooftops, great number though it is 😟)

open.spotify.com/track/70GJ8HzZ…

Yes, and obviously yes, and I would sign up for this tomorrow and today and yesterday, but pretty much our entire political system and commentariat is dedicated to ensuring that this shouldn't even be seriously discussed, let alone allowed to happen.

112 years ago today, Joseph Phillipe Lemercier Laroche, the only black passenger on RMS Titanic, died when it sank.

THREAD

Sorry to see this. Another legend from my early cricket watching days, memorably at Headingley in 1972

Derek Underwood, England’s greatest spin bowler, dies aged 78 theguardian.com/sport/2024/apr…

Is there actually a memoir by Liz Truss, or are there only other people's satirical versions of one?

10/ So it's pretty clear what happened here. There was a tragic attack in Sydney. The familiar accusations that the perpetrator was Muslim circulated initially. The war in Gaza also prompted some to instrumentalise it to make propaganda points - eg Rachel Riley's 'global

6/ I think particularly problematic is that two British journalists/media personalities Julia Hartley-Brewer and Rachel Riley MBE 💙 both connected the attack to Islam. As people who work in media, they should, in theory, know better.

The German state has completely lost it twitter.com/yanisvaroufaki…

If you have to move to North America and still want to have the same climate as back in the old country.

Excellent, and disturbing post by Jeremy Green || Turn off The Light labourhub.org.uk/2024/04/12/tur… via Labour Hub

The EU's new asylum regulation has an anti-Rwanda clause.

WTAF 😱

Brunnera with ladybird