In the late 18th century, ‘you are a thief and a murderer and you have killed a baboon and stolen his face’ was a common phrase used to express contempt for someone.

Can I see y’all when you were 21 👀

Voter Le Pen c’est voter Poutine.

Henceforth I read only books from the 1960s

Could you pass the US citizenship test? Apparently, I can but not that well. It's a random 20 questions from a larger pool. Some of them are hard. I'm not even sure which ones I got wrong. taketest.xyz/us-citizenship-…

My contribution to the greenfield lesbian bar story: one of the owners was the Smith college cheer coach. The other owner (in same polycule) made this mix for the showcase. It was deemed unusable for performance. Please listen to it it’s incredible

Scottish students who sound Scottish are at the bottom of the social hierarchy at a university in Scotland That is the reality I found at St Andrews this week 🧵

Exc: Darren Jones on the "coup", the secret deals that got Andy Burnham into Number 10, and what Labour needs to do now. Interview with Starmer's former right-hand man in this week's New Statesman: our Labour conference special newstatesman.com/politics/po…

A printer in 1631 forgot the “not” in “thou shalt not commit adultery.” I’d like to think somebody had an affair because of that.

Ireland was the first country to ban smoking in most workplaces, a change inspired by New York City

Jean-Luc Mélenchon blames Ukraine’s “deep strikes” on Russian territory for intensifying the Russian threat in Europe.

Britain shouldn't rejoin the EU as it is. It should rejoin the one that must come next for today’s world: a superpower built through radical reform that can compete with the likes of the US and China. Read TBI's new paper, Beyond Leave and Remain: A Path to Rejoining a Reformed Europe: institute.global/insights/ge…

🚨 NEW: Andy Burnham is set to scrap the law that bans football fans from drinking in the stands "I don’t see how it can be fair that some supporters of one sport can be treated differently"