Inexplicably, my son’s very standard state school - in a mixed area, not a particularly affluent one - arranged a £4K trip to Kenya last year. I keep meaning to do a story on the astonishing escalation of the school trip.

Trump ignores a question from a woman reporter but says, "I just like to watch her talk. Good job. Thank you darling."

Very interesting hour or so with @alexnurse.bsky.social at the @activetravelcaf.bsky.social presenting his research on the impact of social media campaigning on elected politicians when it comes to active travel.

Statement from AG Pam Bondi:

Hey news people: I know you like to pretend this doesn't exist, but you need to pay attention to the Nazi drama on Twitter. Basically, it seems as if Elon just restored two major neo-Nazi accounts that were banned by his product head, and might be about to fire the product head for banning them

Love 'cult-de-sac'. Love this kind of thing. One of my favourite examples is 'well, we'll burn that bridge when we come to it', an enjoyably fatalistic mistaken phrase.

The Spectator (owned by GBNews owner Paul Marshall - estimated wealth of £800 million) doesn’t like taxing wealth fairly.

I wonder how they got to this editorial decision?

Let’s tax wealth fairly, fund front line services & make hope normal again.

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Then: the office of the future will be paperless

Now: keep paper records

Chatting with the 84 year old across the ward who was originally from Cobh in Cork. We talked about Skibbereen, the beauties of Bantry Bay etc. He grew up right on Cobh harbour

@ginny65.bsky.social