Tom Runnacles

Murray went on to found Endell Street Military Hospital in London, staffed entirely by women. One of the most successful military hospitals of the war. Its motto was: "Deeds, not Words." When the war ended, she ordered the suffragette flag raised, to the sound of cheers from the male patients.

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Thinking Allowed is, along with In Our Time, one of the two most purely Reithian shows the BBC produces; i can't believe sacking Chris Mason wouldn't have saved more money

A pretty key & funny theme in Rome worship is that the statues look very austere and white, ie “classical”. And arguably “white” in racial sense, tho I think that’s overstated. But most were originally painted. And they looked very different, more florid and certainly to modern eyes more eastern.

🔴 We asked Tony Blair's think tank about charging businesses £500k for political access at party conferences and why one of its sponsor's logos disappeared after our reporting last week on TBI's alleged cash for access scheme This is what they said

Perhaps they could operate some sort of rota system. Every New Year's Day the King opens a big shiny envelope and announces that for the next twelve months everyone in the UK must be Sikh.

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

Disdaining fortune with his brandished steel Which smoked with bloody execution, Like Valour’s minion carved out his passage Till he faced the slave, Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps, And fixed his fucking head upon our battlements

I would love to ask a prominent BBC journalist to give me an example of an illegitimate concern. Is seems to me that it has become a question not of fact, logic, or ethics but of volume. If a big enough proportion of a village was anxious about Bigfoot or Chemtrails, BBC would cover it in a way...

See nobody wants to work anymore

If we look for a moment at Elon Musk, for instance, you can see the harm he's inflicting is not because he has developed super-advanced technologies beyond everyone's wildest dreams, but because he uses the power he has carelessly and believes he can act above the law. That is the danger.

Think government is firmly in “announce some kind of change to the triple lock, increase income tax, hope that changes UK’s relative position and that Governor Fungible (D-Somewhere) wins the 2028 election”:

[Benoit Blanc during a Reacher Christmas episode crossover] Listen, son, I myself am of the conviction that violence is the crude weapon of an incurious mind, but I will admit that my gigantic friend here makes the most convincing argument I've yet heard on the virtues of expediency through force.

the year is 2027. gas costs $83 and lettuce is at war with us. however every location on every map now says AMERICA

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Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible

I see that Toby Young had written about an elite university messing up by elevating someone who may not have been actually qualified to be there. Interesting stuff

clearly there was a mewtiny

spoons bans the pervert glasses! share.google/mZkPIxfAaJ86...

the american paradox

New post out: There's going to be a lot of talk about wealth taxes in the run up to the budget. So we asked one of the country's leading experts to give us a ten year plan for doing it right. (£/free trial) open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/t...

With the rise of self-driving vehicles, it must only be a matter of time before we get a country song where a guy’s truck leaves him too. 🐢💨

The case for state intervention is discussed at greater length here substack.com/@chrisdillow...

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

As an academic, I have decided to pre-empt AI taking my job, so I am going to take ITS job! I am going to start hallucinating, lying to my students, and drinking 700,000 litres of water

I don’t think prison is the solution to most of our problems but I do think a judge should order Elon Musk to disassemble these turbines by hand and eat them piece by piece.

New in PN: Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism "Graham died a coward. From Gingrich to Trump, he embodied the movement-to-racket transformation of the GOP. Has America ever seen a capitulation so self-abnegating as his conversion from snarling Trump critic into swooning cheerleader?"

@playtyperguy.com: "What people remember most about Judas is that he betrayed Christ. Their prior friendship ... isn’t exonerating. ... Perhaps Graham’s Democratic 'friends' are willing to give him the Jesus Christ Superstar treatment, but he doesn’t deserve it." open.substack.com/pub/ser1897/...

Steve Schmidt sucks but he had Lindsey Graham dead to rights here and it was brutal

I went to Porto Montenegro to find out why so many Reform money men have businesses registered to a grubby looking office building a stone's throw from the luxury yachts on the glittering marina. Feat. me visiting my first casino. www.opendemocracy.net/inside-refor...

and such small portions!!!!!! 😤

Oh, have I not told this one here? Okay. So Grandma had The Charisma.

"Trump’s fixation on percentages—and on money generally—has distorted the discussion of what an alliance is, how NATO generates collective strength, and what the members must do together to address the increasingly complex security environment they face."

This Is Just To Say I told you so about that thing you disagreed with me about of which irrefutable proof has now emerged Forgive me it is too delicious too sweet not to remind you that you were wrong

"What no competent government can deliver is Scandinavian levels of welfare provision sustained on American levels of taxation, with immigration reduced. Yet since [Brexit], this has been the quixotic demand of the UK electorate." Me, on Starmer, Burnham and Brexit: www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

"Not ALL the single ladies" - Nuancé

Diane de Vignemont writes in clear language about the Society of Saint Pius X, which is hankering for the good ol' days of Vichy France and a Judenrein Paris. "In France, our history won’t let us call it merely traditionalist. We know exactly what to call it."

Hugely going to regret doing an essay based on a @stephenkb.bsky.social rant.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

people reading Dante’s Inferno in 1321

I wish the media would stop feeding oxygen to Grampa's ranting about the reflecting pool. It's just going to give us all algae.