the green areas here also have issues with, for example, getting space in the same cemeteries as family members — and basic upkeep. lots of municipal cemeteries are extremely ratty.

Hina Bokhari OBE AM@hinabokharild.bsky.social · 6d ago

Thanks for playing everyone! I can reveal the map is from the new 2026 audit of London's remaining burial space capacity! 3 boroughs have none left at all, 17 boroughs have less than 15 years of burial space left. London needs a cross-borough plan! More info here: www.london.gov.uk/media/112764...

as a general rule, delaying specialisation to 16 + the GCSE being well specified exams are positive feature of England’s system

Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · last wk.

The other issue with vocational at 14 is implicit selection. Well off families will ensure their kids do academic courses. This happens at 16 anyway but at least we give everyone a chance to get a set of academic quals.

i was not aware of this group on getting the military out of british universites, but... if you take this contract, they've ascribed the full £77mn value to *all 20* universities participating (it's listed as £77mn on each individual HEI page). demilitariseeducation.com/data/partner...

ah, boo, mes amis (should have brought on Mateta)

New ↪️ ✨ : Allbirds recently pivoted its business from shoes to AI servers. Its share price spiked 860% but has plunged back down. That's a pattern repeated across many recent AI rebrands as former cancer drug and goldmining cos add buzzy AI-related terms to their names, I found

This piece on the "load-bearing internet people" and how AI-code writing is overwhelming the web's unheralded maintainers by @samlearner.bsky.social is absolutely terrific: brilliantly accessible without being patronising:

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...

Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?

Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers

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I feel like this man should meet @alanbeattie.bsky.social to talk about the bayeux not-a-tapestry

Dexerto@dexerto.bsky.social · 4w ago

A Norway fan has gone viral for not taking part in their Row celebration after matches and won't do it if they win the World Cup "It’s factually wrong; they didn’t row, they sailed over the Atlantic”

Read this absolutely fantastic @FT deep dive on Palantir and its CEO Alex Karp, by my colleagues @chriscook.news @georgehammond.bsky.social and Alex Rogers as.ft.com/r/1b34df7a-4...

The price of Palantir’s politics

Pushback to the tech group’s politics may threaten the core of its $330bn business

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all this, and Norway didn’t even bring on the real firepower (Strand Larsen)

very confusing for me to want a footballing outcome that will make @robinwigglesworth.ft.com happy

fewer weird slo-mo narrow depth of field shots of people in the crowd, more replays pls

so much for the Flemish Block we’ve heard so much about, and their noted right wing play.

but, I ask you, is this better than Olise destroying Millwall?

Olise Crystal Palace Gesture

ALT: Olise Crystal Palace Gesture

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I appreciate Spence’s jaw protector is there for a serious reason, but I can’t escape that it also makes it look like he’s a little horsey.

🚨 New article by @chriscook.news

big miss for boolean functions if we don't get a Andy v Nandy race.

A lot of people are confused about who actually benefits from the triple lock

Currently, the bookies' odds imply a 54 per cent chance of success on the most important question of the world cup: will at least one current palace player get a winner's medal.

I would like both Bosnia and Canada to win.

Still 4,000 tickets up for the US‘s first game in a home World Cup (maybe they’ve heard European Champion™ Chris Richards is a doubt).

cookbot 🤖@cook.report · 2mo ago

🚨 New article by @chriscook.news

Russia & Iran are recruiting teenagers across Europe and the Middle East to conduct sabotage. From Kyiv to Tel Aviv, we reveal how minors are hired online, paid in crypto & exploited as disposable, deniable, single-use agents. From @christopherjm.ft.com & me www.ft.com/content/58da...

The teenagers enlisted as agents of mayhem by Russia and Iran

Minors are being targeted to carry out hostile acts from Ukraine to western Europe and Israel

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⚽ 36 points is usually enough to stay up in the Premier League West Ham have just been relegated on 39 -- the highest tally by a relegated side since Birmingham City went down on the same total in 2010-11

evergreen tweets.

Win Monroe@winmonroe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The absolute state of north London rn

I edited a comment piece by Barney Frank, introduced an inadvertent error that he didn't notice when he read it back, a reader wrote a letter to point it out and he wrote back very graciously pretending the error was his -- so, all in all: good guy.

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Barney Frank, US congressman, 1940-2026 - FT obit here www.ft.com/content/55de...

so, uh, can we get JD Vance to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

And how he dodges Brussels’ anti-graft measures. It takes money, time, patience and really good lawyers to report this kind of stuff. Buy a paper! #buyapaper www.ft.com/content/8973...

How Hungary sidesteps Europe’s fraud watchdog

Viktor Orbán’s government has returned just 18% of funds flagged by the EU’s anti-graft body

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His relationships with oligarchs … www.ft.com/content/70c2...

How Viktor Orbán’s oligarchs reaped billions in public contracts

FT investigation finds 13 associates of Hungary’s premier won large share of state works after he took power

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Then there is the Kremlin’s involvement … www.ft.com/content/34df...

Kremlin backs covert campaign to keep Viktor Orbán in power

Vladimir Putin endorses plan drawn up by Russian consultancy that is under western sanctions

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Perhaps now is a good time to share the @financialtimes.com investigative series on Viktor Orban. To start with here’s the one we sent a reporter up in a plane for … (300 free clicks) as.ft.com/r/8cd54659-d...

The riches of Viktor Orbán’s home village

[FREE TO READ] Hungary’s longtime leader is trailing in the polls ahead of April’s election, as the opposition alleges widespread corruption

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