Go on … it’s rare that having your name shouted in ALL CAPS is a good thing 🤪

Jonn Elledge@jonnelledge.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anyway, since I am in a good mood, to celebrate the imminent arrival of 31 Inventions That Built Out World, here's 31% off the newsletter (DYSWID there). Go on, i'll probably do the weird shouting your name in all caps thing

This is a shame. Only ate there once and it was fabulous. A loss for the town. www.thesun.co.uk/money/398970...

Michelin-starred UK restaurant shuts with IMMEDIATE effect as chef 'devastated'

A BELOVED Michelin-listed restaurant has closed after nearly 10 years of service. The owner has said the decision to close the town centre eaterie “feels like a bereavement”. Sorrel Restaurant in D…

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Please take a moment out of your day to marvel at the balletic poise, calm elegance and graceful athleticism of the panda.

Thanks @burgerandlobster.bsky.social for a great meal tonight. Very kind of you to offer free meal. Lovely food and staff were amazing. Wife’s first time for oysters and never again but that’s not on you 😜

Seems like we keep Torsten at pensions @henrytapper.bsky.social 🎉

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2w ago

7 Cabinet ministers and over 40 junior ministers continue in prior roles. These include Torsten Bell at HMT, Jake Richards at Justice, and recently appointed Calvin Bailey, Veterans Minister

Our long-promised pension dashboard is the one easy deliverable for Andy Burnham's Government next year. More importantly, it's an essential win. Richard Smith has a… https://henrytapper.com/2026/07/20/richard-smith-calls-for-andy-burnhams-help-the-pension-dashboard-needs-the-new-prime-minister/

Richard Smith calls for Andy Burnham’s help; the pension dashboard needs the new prime minister.

Richard Smith has a message for the Prime Minister on his first day in charge. We will hear over the next few days news of our new Chancellor and the place for our Pensions Minister. Much will change but pensions will still need the support of our Government. We will continue to depend on the state pension, on occupational pensions and on what we did and do with personal pensions.

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Reckon the status of this match is no longer “the match no one cares about”

A thread well worth your time.

Jennifer Williams@jenwilliamsft.bsky.social · 3w ago

AB, a 🧵

5. Introduce your Underpants Gnomes answer, that works like a perfect syllogism. The answer to growth is Beefing Up the Growth parts of government, giving a Growth Duty to regulators, or measuring all the regulations and taking out only the bad ones.

Can confirm that ch5 coverage vs itv for last couple of decades is shit 😟

Maybe it will grow on me/the team will improve but Tour de France coverage on five seems very weak compared to itv and channel 4

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream

www.maptap.gg June 23 98🎯 97🔥 98🎯 75🙂 80👏 Final score: 856 For once, I luckily got close to the us ones close and then flopped on rest of the world

My workplace is Microsoft first which in reality is Microsoft only. We have a m365 licence at home so can use their apps but striking how seldom I do when I have a choice. Just particularly grumpy as forced to use sub standard software at work when better free/cheap alternatives available.

love writing a first person column that inspires the picture desk to think "ah yes, a sad piggie it is"

The New World@thenewworldmag.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Soon, Britain will see its first proper wave of private renters reaching retirement age, as they weren’t able to buy while working, and the results of this may be cataclysmic ✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

Feeling smug today www.maptap.gg June 8 98🎯 100🎯 98🎯 88✨ 97🔥 Final score: 949

Our quiet couple of pints on last night of holiday turns out to be anything but. Turned up at pub as penalties starting

Not done one of those "fly into a panic because number go down" special offers in a while, so: Father's Day's coming. 10% off annual subs AND I'll throw in a three book for any dads (or, frankly, anyone else) who might like it. Come on Rodney, you know it makes sense.

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New blog post: GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/ Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It …

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

Within the UK's Civil Service you occasionally hear the expression "being invited to a meeting without biscuits". It implies a rather frosty discussion without any of the polite niceties of a normal meeting. In general though, even when people have severe disagreements, it is rare for tempers to fray. It is even rarer for those internal disagreements to spill over into public. Which is what…

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Robot lawnmowers … do they actually work? I hate mowing the lawn - anything related to garden apart from sitting in it drinking beer. They seem like an offering from heaven or is it a case of I still have to mow the lawn and justify to wife why I spent few hundred £ on a toy

I'm doing a story on cuts to the Universal Credit disability payments - I'm looking to speak to anyone who started claiming means-tested disability benefit (LCWRA, either in ESA or Universal Credit) for the first time when they were in their 50s or 60s My DMs are open, grateful for any reposts

Phew.

There are no losers tonight according to hosts … unfortunately think uk proves that wrong

That is quite a brave costume 😳

Moldova prompted mass drinks refil, toilet break and get dessert break here. Biggest dress of the night though

do you want an entire hour of two straight men discussing the history of the Eurovision Song Contest? then, do we have the podcast for you!!

Episode 14: The Surprising History Behind the Eurovision Song Contest

Spotify video

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Talking about death; - some practical posts on how to help the bereaved. henrytapper.com/2026/05/06/t... Thanks @henrytapper.bsky.social. Also credit to @greenmirandahere.bsky.social for her excellent sadmin piece giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... ‘Sadmin’ — the side hustle nobody wants

Talking about death; – some practical posts on how to help the bereaved.

It is hard to talk about death, but some people let their feelings out in written words and share them with those they know, those they don’t , those they’d like to know. My frie…

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Sheesh. Just discovered our gps online booking form is only available during core hours. Just why? When been up all night with sick child and 111 says probably fine but get go to check in the morning, why not let me submit it now instead of set alarm to join the morning melee.

I'm personally a big fan of absolute ultimogeniture... Pick your favourite rule of succession with @jonnelledge.bsky.social, my guest writer this week. www.broadhistory.com/what-is-that...

What is that primogeniture thing, anyway?

The rules of succession; or, how to pick your king (and avoid a queen)

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Oh ffs, the defining questions will be whether you’ve kept inflation under control, improved earnings, decreased waiting lists etc. a government trying to be more British than opponents has already lost; the only question is to whom.

Politics UK@politicsuk.com · 3mo ago

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer says he can win the next general election for Labour "I think we can... it’s likely to be Labour versus Reform. An election where the defining question is, what is it to be British?"