I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

Hard to devise a better metaphor for the past decade and a half of Premier League football than Man City winning while playing with an extra man.

The revelry in their cheating currently on display at Anfield is only a reflection on how poorly the players & manager at Manchester City have understood the situation in which that club finds itself. They’re an awful bunch & I can’t wait for them to get their comeuppance.

English football just finds itself in a completely ludicrous, damaging situation now. And it has been a very long time coming

Dear tv and radio producers. Thankyou for the invitation. But, no, I do not want to appear on your show to defend the idea that I am English, after 50 years of living and working here, because the increasingly feral right want to turn this into a "debate" and you cannot see how you're being played

No, competitive tendering and transparency in the award of public contracts would do.

I still love this so much

Badenoch would do a deal with Reform in a heartbeat, no matters what she says.

The world does not consent (but Sam Altman does not believe consent is required). But the world would consent to many bad things happening to Sam Altman and OpenAI.

I often see people argue that clean energy is not reducing emissions, because it just adds to rather than replaces fossil fuels. This argument is deeply misguided – clean energy built since 2005 has displaced 23 billion tons. I dive in over at The Climate Brink:

When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.

Mind-boggling - just mind-boggling Now expected to peak at an extraordinary 4.2C in December

The ability to pour hundreds of millions of pounds into a loss-making TV channel, bent on wrenching British politics sharply to the right, is yet another of the ways in which extreme wealth is trying to remake UK democracy. It needs to be part of any serious conversation about political funding.