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  I am definitely no bee expert, but I think they might have decided that they’re sick of getting stuck in the house…. Will see what the bee man says! Edit: nope, just too hot :( Edit 2: no, they seem to have gone!

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  Huh. It’s not a bad day, if chilly, but apparently we’re not having a walk.

• Post #2667240

  Huh. Sunny and hail.

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  https://spectator.com/article/much-of-the-traditional-media-coverage-referred-to-these-two-marches-as-the-far-right-march-and-the-pro-palestine-march/ Perhaps the strangest thing about the Unite the Kingdom rally was just how unremarkable it felt. There were no mass chants calling for the death of particular groups, no calls for the eradication of foreign countries, and no flags of terrorist groups or tyrannical theocracies waved in the crowd. Nobody cited scripture to urge the slaughter of ano...

• Post #2667238

  https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15824193/Ed-Milibands-wind-turbines-social-panels-bad-environment-Government-privately-admits.html The Government has privately admitted Ed Miliband's wind turbines and solar farms are bad for the environment. Astonishingly, it shows for the first time that Labour realise the rush for Net Zero will come at the expense of the environment, but are pushing ahead anyway. Bureaucrats admit the plans may destroy 'nationally recognised sites, l...

• Post #2667237

  Incredibly quick and easy, took ten minutes to get it in the oven.

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  A friend of mine is on holiday in Italy and sending about fifty photos a day, of everything from architecture to hotel rooms to food, to basically her entire WhatsApp contact list (I have muted her, it was driving me nuts). This was a particularly unfortunate juxtaposition when I came to my daily check of what she’s been up to.

• Post #2667235

  https://www.spiked-online.com/2026/05/17/the-gross-hypocrisy-of-teen-social-media-bans/ The problem here is that the Australian government’s apparent concern about protecting children collapses completely under scrutiny. As many have pointed out, far more explicit corners of the internet such as Pornhub and OnlyFans remain only partially policed, inconsistently age-gated, and easily evaded with a virtual private network (VPN). Children also continue to inhabit the gaming-platform, Roblox, which...

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  While a trans-identifying person might be left feeling upset – or, after the current fashion, ‘unsafe’ – to hear themselves referred to by their sex-based pronouns, the person prohibited from stating objective facts or forced to speak untruths is caused no less distress. Insisting that someone comply with your gender preferences – that they, in effect, become part of the self-identification process – when you know they don’t want to is coercion. Insisting they do so on pain of being accused of h...

• Post #2667233

  I’m really enjoying this podcast. It’s basically Dr Annie Grey pontificating. https://www.historyextra.com/membership/historys-greatest-dishes-season-1/

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  Interesting detail: https://spectator.com/article/how-dangerous-is-the-cruise-ship-virus-outbreak/ There is a key part of this story that has not yet been told. When the ship docked at Ascension Island, having had one death at sea and disembarked a second case at St Helena (who died on arrival in South Africa), a third person was ill. The doctor on Ascension, Bill Hardy, realised he was seeing a cluster of infections so he called the British Overseas Territories’ on-call infectious disease me...

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  Horrible thought: I hope I’ve not inadvertently turned into a blue LED headlight wanker. I think this car is too new for that. Hopefully.

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  https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/05/02/graham-linehan-transgender-supreme-court-ruling-labour/ It’s long past time the state stopped pretending the trans movement is anything other than a demanding, entitled male sexual rights movement. There can be no progress until that aspect of trans activism is acknowledged. Trans rights activism is uniquely violent, aggressive, dishonest, entitled and sadistic. It isn’t enough that the cases stop. The police need to start policing the men bringing th...

• Post #1780513

  Guido has an update on the rent boy trial, nothing very exciting: https://order-order.com/2026/04/29/starmer-arson-trial-three-accused-of-taking-cash-from-russian-speaker-on-telegram/

• Post #930915

  I win the “stupid hotel toilet/bathroom door” contest! (It is a single room, in their defence.) I’m away this weekend, behave yourselves.

• Post #930914

  Oh god, there’s a weeb convention in the hotel.

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  https://spectator.com/article/textbooks-will-always-beat-screens/ John Jerrim, a UCL-based educational researcher, conducted an experiment where 3,000 pupils took PISA tests in maths, science and reading. Over three months, half the group did all their work on paper and half on a computer. At the end, the paper-based group scored 20 points higher than the one working on screens – the equivalent of half a year’s extra schooling. Nearly 100 per cent of ten-year-olds in Singapore, Taiwan, South K...

• Post #644162

  https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/opinion/ai-doppelganger-deepfake-grammarly.html Like all writers, I live by my wits. My ability to earn a living rests on my ability to craft a phrase, to synthesize an idea, to make readers care about people and places they can only access through words on a page. Grammarly hadn’t checked with me before using my name. I only learned that an A.I. company was selling a deepfake of my mind from an article online. And it wasn’t just me. Superhuman — the parent c...

• Post #441122

  Some good news: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/02/27/koran-burner-wins-landmark-blasphemy-case/ A man who burned a Koran in a demonstration outside the Turkish consulate has won a landmark blasphemy case at the High Court. Hamit Coskun, 51, previously succeeded in overturning a conviction for holding up a flaming copy of the holy book and shouting “f---- Islam”, in what he insisted was a political protest. The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) appealed against the decision, claiming hi...

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