The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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Remember, the war with Iran is necessary because it’s unacceptable to have aggressive governments run by theocratic lunatics launching unprovoked attacks on the rest of the world
If you're wondering why Starmer first refused US access to UK bases then granted it, I suspect the answer is the same in both cases: US plan is flaky as hell. Shd we join illegal strikes on a country capable of retaliating, with someone this clueless about what next?
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/01/u...
Well this is horrible.
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I wonder who Stephen the Dish was…
Oh! I am Green.
Andrew's completely broke which raises the possibility that a Norfolk duty solicitor is currently having the strangest day of his / her life.
What a lovely jacket, and a phenomenal blurb.
William Blake’s illustration for “The Tyger” has what appears to be a dippy grin for some reason.
The wonderful thing about Tyggers
Is Tyggers are burning bright
Their tops are made out of rubber
In the forest of the night
What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy,
Immortal hand or eye
Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers,
Their fearful symmetry!
Make sure to claim you love the petrichor.
Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick
We are the Mud People now, with our mud dogs and mud houses, mud in our pores and in our veins. If the sun ever returns and we stand still we’ll turn hard as concrete.
That penguin has an important message for us.
Farage was banging on about Turkish barbers, so these lads in Glasgow did this.
It's in Dumbarton Road, if you fancy a trim.
Absolute chills
It’s wonderful (lucky enough to proofread it) — short stories mixed with memoir.
Well this is an ~educational~ thread for Monday morning.
I usually hesitate to post obituaries but this one, of my literary agent, Georges Borchardt, born in 1928, is so unusual that it deserves to be widely shared.
An incredible 20th century life
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I have never understood this. Worked on the UK edition of an American book about the nitty gritty of personal finance, and had to keep saying ‘But this isn’t an issue here…’
Fantastic tranche of articles, and I was so pleased to see the Economist covering it so comprehensively. (One question—I looked for but couldn’t find any photo credits for front cover or any pics inside. Where are they hidden?)
COULD SOME OF THE SHITHEADS DIE NOW PLEASE INSTEAD OF THE GOOD PEOPLE
Treat the US government and ICE claims like you'd treat a Russian government claim after they've shot down an airliner or bombed a hospital. America 2026.
They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue.
Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.
Front page, Capital Gay, 30 January 1987. Main headline: POLICE RAID VAUXHALL
Apparently, it may have been 38 years ago tonight that police raided the Royal Vauxhall Tavern wearing rubber gloves, prompting Lily Savage to observe “Well, well – it looks like we’ve got help with the washing up”
I am greatly encouraged that Lars Lokke Rasmussen - Denmark's foreign minister - looks like the sort of chap who could avert a schism in the international order.
you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt
250 years of a shining city, something something.
I am hiding behind the sofa at the thought.
Prayer for Uninteresting Times Send me a slow news day, a quiet, subdued day, in which nothing much happens of note, save for the passing of time, the consumption of wine, and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote. Grant me a no news day, a spare-me-your-views day, in which nothing much happens at all, except a few hours together some regional weather, a day we can barely recall. Brian Bilston
This, please.
