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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 42m

As I say there's definitely a health aspect there as well

Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 1h

And pubs genuinely weren't that much more expensive either!

Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 1h

Anecdotally I do think the Gen Zers I know drink less than me and my friends did at that age. Seems partly a health thing but also a money thing - it is SO much more expensive to go drinking now than it was while I was at school, I know I couldn't have afforded to drink as much now as I did then.

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 1h

There are reasons to think the claims that Gen Z “doesn’t drink” or even drink less than millennials did at their age aren’t true – it seems to be partly a Covid effect and partly some dodgy stats.

But I could easily believe they drink earlier and go home earlier. Pubs look *quiet* after 9pm now…

Rob Davies @byrobdavies.bsky.social · 1h

Pub industry folk: What do you make of this?

I'm sure it's not unwelcome but will it make much difference?

My impression is that you're struggling to fill space until 10pm, let alone 1am.

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 1h

Also, I don't know I'd go so far as to say I love it but Michael Bay's The Island is (aside from some deeply annoying product placement) a perfectly watchable action sci-fi flick with some clever ideas, and I'm surprised it was SO poorly reviewed.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 1h

Danny Boyle's Sunshine has its critics, and I kinda understand why, but I'd go so far as to call it one of the best sci-fi films of the 00s.

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Layla Moran MP 🔶🕊️ @laylamoran.bsky.social · 2h

The war is Gaza has gone on two years too long. I welcome this ceasefire of course but it’s hard to celebrate after we’ve had such misery and destruction. In this war we’ve seen the worst of humanity. In its aftermath I hope we see the best.

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Christopher Mathias @letsgomathias.bsky.social · 11h

Jack collaborated with neo-Nazi twins to make a documentary. He was a fan of white supremacist Richard Spencer. He has tweeted 1488, the alphanumeric code for Heil Hitler. He wrote an unreadable anti-antifa book. Last year he wrote a book abt the left called “Unhumans.” That he’s now speaking here…

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 12h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 12h

41) Wake Up Dead Man

The third Knives Out film is entertaining and suitably twisty, albeit the big reveal is a little unsatisfying. Better than Glass Onion, still not as good as the first film though.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 12h

Depends on the urgency I guess, but also quite often you won't get the time you want on Monday, you'll get a random extremely inconvenient time at some vague point in the future.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19h

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food.
On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch."
That, Taher says, "is a lie."

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 22h

I wrote about Robert Jenrick's embrace of blood and soil nationalism for @bylinetimes.bsky.social

"The British right is adopting an increasingly extreme form of ethnic identity politics, while failing to explain what the rest of us are supposed to be worried about"

bylinetimes.com/2025/08/19/r...

But what about “ethnic change”? Yes, the proportion of Islington’s population who are (like me) white British has dropped from perhaps 85% to about 40%. This change is indeed visible. For West, it is “far beyond what any group would find tolerable.” What he doesn’t and can’t say is why exactly I’m supposed to find it intolerable. Why should I, or my neighbours, be more concerned about what race or ethnicity the kids are at the local school than the quality or financing of local services, or whether the council is successfully balancing the need for more housing with the interests of long-standing residents?

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 20h

I'm very sorry to hear that Ed, hope you and the family are doing OK

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 22h

Worth noting: waiting times are falling (I actually got a GP appointment on the same day for the first time in literally years a few weeks back) and the Tories may want to be careful about calling attention to an area where Labour are genuinely improving things!

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 22h

"We used to ring up our GP and get an appointment on the same day," says Kemi Badenoch. She does not add: we're all looking for the guy who did this!

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 23h

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 23h

Honestly I think some people are deeply wedded to toxic ideas around weight, eg that slim = virtuous, fat = lazy & ill-disciplined. These drugs are fundamentally threatening to that, because what they show is nope: it’s often hormonal, & almost anyone can lose weight if they just tweak that balance

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 23h

Suspect we'll go full bore or near enough for that one, before the Ireland players disappear off again for the Autumn Internationals.

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James Austin @jamesdaustin.bsky.social · 23h

I have a very simple solution to this: Invite her to be around the table.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 23h

You could say this about the attitude towards the arts and culture sector as well. It's both a huge boost to the UK economy AND a huge source of global soft power influence. Yet successive governments (and particularly the Tories) at best dismiss it, at worst seem to hate it.

Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · Aug 6

Continues to be extraordinary to me how successive governments of all political stripes seem determined to undermine the university sector, one of the few areas in which the UK remains one of the world leaders

Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · Aug 4

Even given the inherent seriousness of the situation, I'm still laughing at this from the Home Office. One day they'll hang this in a Museum of Terrible Policy.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 23h

Could definitely do with a bounce back.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 23h

I think they mean English Literature more than English Language courses, but it's very bizarre given the wider push for asserting Britishness that you'd then cut the courses that celebrate the literary achievements of the English language.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · Apr 30

Remember, whenever a politician says fewer kids should go to university, they don't mean their kids

Tyron @tyron.bsky.social · Apr 30

god this man's ideas would be more disastrous for local economies than mephedrone and spice put together

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 1d

At some point these imbeciles are going to realise that arts courses are *funding* the courses they do like and if they cut those places unis will just go bankrupt so no maths or science either.

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 23h

Interview with James Lowe in the IT this morning, Leinster instagram account posting clips of the first 23 training this week: suspect Leinster might be going very strong for the game against Sharks this weekend.

The Irish Times @irishtimes.com · 1d

James Lowe ready for the storm after the calm as Leinster face Sharks at home

Rested after bruising Lions tour, winger knows he has to ‘show up physically’ in his opening game for Leinster

www.irishtimes.com

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 1d

(To be clear, I am a history nerd, studied history and very much found it to be a worthwhile degree, but there's no reason to see it as inherently better than English Lit or sociology or anthropology unless it happens to align with your interests.)

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Hugo Gordon @hugogordon.bsky.social · 1d

Notably NOT included in this list (despite it occupying the same sociological non-STEM space as many of the degrees they've decided are unworthy) is history and classics, presumably because so many Tories (including famously Johnson) are history nerds.

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