Can’t get more Simon Jenkins in @theguardian.com than admiring the aesthetics of Donald Trump. Gold encrusted Oval Office (and toilet seats), oversized tie, blatantly fake tan, heavily plastic-surgeoned female entourage, taste in underage girls, and McDonalds diet: a true eye for natural beauty.

I was intrigued so I looked into it. According to Duolingo blog.duolingo.com/large-langua... the lessons have always (until now) been created by humans. Where have you heard different?

Whether they do or not, the press are certainly determined to keep us all looking backwards eg in the FT

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Just spent 5 to 10 minutes trying to find where Starmer and team have saying “Project Chainsaw” as per @sundersays.bsky.social and @robfordmancs.bsky.social.

Can only find commentators saying reforming government = aping Musk, talking about chainsaws and chaos as a strategy.

WTF?

Foreign press:

It‘s beyond me to absorb the analysis linked in this article - but I see it’s an intellectual framework for tariffs etc.

Would love to know if anyone’s critiquing this for the layperson.

Feeling a bit surprised Team Trump might think they have a strategy, but almost no-one’s talking about it.

Hope that @lewisgoodall.com finds this mortifying

Huge supporter of the BBC generally, but I think their ability to produce quality reporting is going through a bad patch.

On the one hand, @edwardluce.bsky.social is on point with the sarcastic “Democrats will have no choice but to send him a strongly worded letter.”

On the other, the best the FT can manage in response to ethnic cleansing is a neutrally worded headline.

A fine variation of the classic “never play chess with a pigeon” in The Times

For pity’s sake, Guardian, how on earth did you end up going with a “lack of joined up thinking” as being the big problem here?

It would hardly be better if plans for ethnic cleansing had been well developed, would it?

It may be a bit of a niche symbol for the hard right? This yellow submarine pops up occasionally i2-prod.getreading.co.uk/incoming/art...

Genuinely surprised that Gerard Baker, a consistent and reliable Trump apologist, has it within himself to criticise Trump.

A hopeful little sign that tides can turn.

According to City AM today, gilt yields are up and/or down.

Good is bad (or vice versa), white is black, etc.

I’m not pretending to have any intelligent comments to make regarding gilt yields.

On the other hand, I’m not pretending to have any intelligent comments to make regarding gilt yields.

This from Musk reminds me of key facts of US healthcare:

It is expensive because it is privatised. They spend a lot on insurance paperwork and prevention of healthcare.

A high infant mortality rate. An indicator of quality of care. Being bad at keeping babies alive also a commentary on priorities.