Alan White

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“He also later rated the sting of Synoeca septentrionalis as a 4, describing it as "Torture. You are chained in the flow of an active volcano. Why did I start this list?",[3] saying the pain lasts up to two hours.[3]”
UK's hottest day of the year has got hotter Maximum recorded temperature by year, 1970-2026
Shock and confusion as forensics sighted at police incident but also uh Peter Hitchens
three possible AI-driven paths: - tech singularity end of scarcity, ai boosted growth, or complete human extinction
Epstein goes ham on Peter saying he never gets anything from him for all the help he has given
Shabana envisages a "Panopticon" justice system via AI
Badenoch approval climbs past Farage
“Bishop George Berkeley is perceived to have lived and died here”
It was also at Lord’s, four years earlier, that Hughes shared a now legendary exchange with the England batter Robin Smith. Feeling on top of their duel, Hughes snarled, “Smith, you can’t fucking bat.” After the next ball was dispatched for four Smith retorted, “Make a good pair, don’t we? I can’t fucking bat, and you can’t fucking bowl.” It is safe to assume that Hughes addressed the denizens of the Lord’s pavilion a little more gently on Friday.
Saved by Stoppard Sir, In 1993 my wife and I went to see the first production of Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (obituary, Dec 1), and in the interval I experienced a Damascene conversion. As a clinical scientist I was trying to understand the enigma of the behaviour of breast cancer, the assumption being that it grew in a linear trajectory spitting off metastases on its way. In the first act of Arcadia, Thomasina asks her tutor, Septimus: “If there is an equation for a curve like a bell, there must be an equation for one like a bluebell, and if a bluebell, why not a rose?” With that Stoppard explains chaos theory, which better explains the behaviour of breast cancer. At the point of diagnosis, the cancer must have already scattered cancer cells into the circulation that nest latent in distant organs. The consequence of that hypothesis was the birth of “adjuvant systemic chemotherapy”, and rapidly we saw a striking fall of the curve that illustrated patients’ survival. Stoppard never learnt how many lives he saved by writing Arcadia. Michael Baum Professor emeritus of surgery; visiting professor of medical humanities, UCL
How to cancel a tnt subscription
A no 10 spad is overheard asking what gilt yields are
Oxfordshire has Thames Water hosepipe ban extended
BBC home page
Bush Twin Towers meme
At one point during cross examination, the prosecutor Peter Wright KC called Barton’s explanations “nonsense”, to which the former player responded by asking: “Are you calling me a nonce?” Wright in turn responded: “No, nonsense.”
Le Carre is under surveillance and drunkenly wanders up to his watchers to ask them the way back to his hotel
Neil O Brien on the “progressive capture” of Eng Lit by virtue of the fact various modules that have been a thing since the 60s are being taught
they emailed a guy called Bill DeBlasio. He gave his opinion. It wasn't the mayor
Katie Lam’s LinkedIn in which her grandparents’ refugee status is written about at length
My job here is done
A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones
A pro Russia account shares a Jenrick video
Darren Grimes says reform will cut waste in Durham
Election voters by party, and their jobs, showing Reform and Labour voters are miles apart
Favourite tv sitcoms of gen z millennials gen x and boomers
Trump “Before I even arrive at the Oval Office, I will have the disastrous war between Russia and Ukraine settled. It will be settled quickly. Quickly. I will get the problem solved and I will get it solved in rapid order and it will take me no longer than one day. I know exactly what to say to each of them.”
47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March
Why do I hate umbrellas? How long have you got?
In 2013, Lehrer said he was "very proud" to have his 60-year-old song sampled. His response to the request to use the song was "I grant you motherfuckers permission to do this. Please give my regards to Mr. Chainz, or may I call him 2?".
William Sitwell John Torode’s sacking ‘over a rap lyric’ puts all middle-aged men like me at risk
Our analysis shows reform won’t find much council waste to cut
I've covered quite a lot of BBC 'scandals' in my time as media editor at BBC News and as I look at the headlines across the media, and the bashing the BBC is getting, I keep in mind that stories about the BBC are often used by other media organisations as a stick to hit the corporation. And sometimes, there are other corporate interests at play for those who want to see a weaker BBC for their own benefit.
PoliticsHome understands that among concessions being floated to dissuade rebels from blocking the bill on Tuesday is bringing employment support forward, and allowing existing claimants of PIP to keep their payments even if they fail to score above 4 points on any one criterion. This would mean existing PIP claimants would be protected from planned changes, but new PIP claimants would have to score above 4 in one area to receive the benefit.
Grok: “Evidence shows Donald Trump's name is in Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs, part of the "Epstein files," but there's no indication of wrongdoing. The files were released by Trump's administration on February 27, 2025, contradicting claims they were withheld to protect him.”
Ukraine drone attack reports
YouGov polling on who’d be the best PM shows Farage is not actually that popular
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merry-Go-Round_(Gertler_painting)
Nick Ferrari accuses Kemi Badenoch of a 'dereliction of duty' for not seeing adolescence
Lovely stationary shop shuts down because of LTNs
Studio Ghibli Manchester drunkenness pic
Woman slams selfish paragliders who ‘made her think Hamas were invading Doncaster’
Dog shoots man news story
1Xtra plays as much music from before 2020 as after it, among other sad facts about a lack of music discovery
Kemi tells Trump Zelenskyy is not a dictator
Kemi having a big chat with Jordan Peterson for some reason
Kemi Badenoch doing culture stuff rather than idk engaging with generational foreign policy challenges
Kemi reading the telegraph and getting ready to tread on a rake
Guardian rinses Musk for claiming 'it's the people at SpaceX or something'
Adrian Chiles has lost all faith in zips
It is amusing
It’s the Liz truss lettuce also if you alt text shame you suck, my feed my decision
Private Eye story about how musks prejudices are being fed back to him
That won't do!
“More people are interested in the NHS than what happens on Twitter” says Starmer
It says right here on GB News that Elon Musk has been torn apart by Eamonn Holmes