I'm a cycling nut whose bike spend p/a is embarrassing but this is such obvious shite. Unless you are racing or flinging yourself down big mountains, £1000 on a bike is all you'll need. People like me really don't need the tax break.

By coincidence, I was explaining to the students yesterday that the homicide rate today is *exactly the same* as it was in 1975. If you overlook Harold Shipman, Hillsborough, etc. it's not fluctuated much.

Anonymous Tory MP. "This is what happens when you are new to the party and don’t really understand what it is about. There is a line but she has gone so far past it, it is just a dot to her.”

Jonathan Liew is very good at columns.
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The poem in question.

Olga Tokarczuk on ID cards (well, sort of). From the book Flights, which you should read because it is brilliant.

Our house recently acquired a kitten and I'm going to use it shamelessly to promote this podcast.

This is all excellent but this bit in particular is 🧑🏼‍🍳😘

Anyone who knows me knows I'm not exactly a Corbyn fan, but what exactly are the left in this country supposed to do? Passively vote for a party that has used terrorism legislation to criminalise their political views?

This is David Anderson, former independent reviewer of terrorism, pointing out the dangers of proscribing Palestine Action. "It’s not the right to protest that is the issue here. It’s the right of freedom of speech."

This headline must surely amount to libel? There is a *huge* difference between chanting 'Death to Israelis' (which would be a stirring up offence) and 'Death to the IDF' (which is not).

I got a fantastic example of faux intellectual gibberish right here.