Who is winning the war in Iran? For the first few days of the conflict — during which the United States and Israel rained hellfire down on residential blocks, military sites and civilian infrastructure, and assassinated key political figures including the Supreme Leader — few would have said Tehran. As the world’s most powerful militaries […]
Reading
When Royal Mail workers hear about their job in the news these days, it tends to be only bad news. When poor delivery rates, collapsing service quality or Ofcom statements are reported with depressing regularity, the workforce are seeing what they’ve known for too long. But what helps even less is the response from Royal […]
On Thursday 7 May, voters across Britain will go to the polls. In Wales and Scotland, voters will elect their devolved parliaments; in England, almost 5,000 councillors will be elected in local authorities from Plymouth on the south-west coast to Tyneside in the north-east. In London, all 32 boroughs will hold all-out elections, with every council […]
The British pub, in all its rich diversity and versatility, has long been an undisputed central component of life on this island. Despite this, hospitality as a sector has been historically neglected as a site of political and industrial struggle, instead playing host to drinking sessions after the ‘real work’ has taken place. Nonetheless, the sector […]
In 2022, Dame Tracey Emin — the art world’s former darling enfant terrible — requested that the government remove one of her artworks from 10 Downing Street. The piece in question, More Passion (2010), was a neon sign previously gifted to the government’s art collection when David Cameron was in office in 2011. It was […]
By sticking to the correct and popular position on Donald Trump's Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues Adam Bienkov
From the innovators who brought you Taking a Nap and Just Chilling, Free Time is a luxury experience beyond your wildest dreams.
Free Time isn’t just a new product—it’s a total wellness optimization platform. It’s not an app but rather a mind-blowing vessel of unstructured time where you can do anything your heart desires, or nothing at all.
Your Free Time comes loaded with options that are as boundless as your imagination. You can lie on the couch and read a novel, or just space out and drool. Go for a walk if you want. Stop and stare at a bird and take dozens of pictures, if that’s your kink.
Do you want to buy a big pretzel from that German food truck and eat it for twenty minutes, even though that sounds like way too long? Go for it. This is Free Time. Dip it in cheese and stand around like an idiot while you chew your pretzel and watch everyone run around like rats. Why are they all so fast and angry? Because they don’t have Free Time.
Want lower blood pressure? Less work anxiety? Fewer violent urges? Free Time delivers all of those according to groundbreaking research at the Johns Hopkins School of Leisure.
The United States launched a war on Iran, not to eliminate a nuclear threat, but to seize control of the world’s last major accessible oil reserves
Every year, the global campaign organised by the Union for International Cancer Control invites people affected by cancer to share their personal experiences as part of World Cancer Day. These stories provide an important human perspective on the realities of cancer. They help build solidarity, encourage early diagnosis, and ensure the voices of patients, survivors, families and carers are heard around the world.
If you are the sort of person who noticed that Keir Starmer appointed former British head of Amazon Doug Gerr to lead the Competition and Markets Authority and wondered how that could possibly be right, then Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It might be the book for […]
“The threats posed by Iran to the United States, while potentially serious, weren’t imminent. So Trump and his officials have redefined ‘imminent’ to include distant, indirect, and theoretical risks. They’ve stretched the word beyond any semblance of its meaning.” — Will Saltan, The Bulwark
- - -
Listen up here, you jobless paid agitators. The US had to attack Iran because Iran has been an imminent threat to the US for forty-seven years. Some critics will probably say that a forty-seven-year-old threat doesn’t sound so imminent and that I don’t know what the word even means, or have never seen a dictionary, and don’t really understand how language works. To them I say: photosynthesis. Followed by: This is not the time for linguistic nitpicking.
Written by guest blogger María Fernanda Silva
Something is shifting in how organizations think about AI. The early excitement around what it could do is giving way to a harder, more important question: how do you build AI that actually holds up — at scale, under pressure, and over time?
On 14 May 2026, New York City becomes the place where that question gets answered. The Drupal AI Summit brings together enterprise leaders, digital decision-makers, and senior practitioners from across the US and Europe — not to explore AI in theory, but to share what responsible, durable AI looks like in practice.
“Death toll in Middle East surpasses 1,100 as missile strikes continue.”
— The Independent
Gas prices continue to surge in the US, rising 14 percent in a week."
— New York Times
- - -
Questions are flying, ever since the start of Sepharax the Cruel’s Thousand-Year Blood Reign. Whether it’s the Pit of Souls or the Child Reapers, there’s a lot to be worried about. But most of all? The price at the pump.
It’s confusing, but our explainer has you covered.
The Undead
Unfortunately, the appearance of armies of the dead, awakened to wage indiscriminate war on all humankind, could potentially push gasoline beyond $3.50 per gallon.
False media reports of thousands of Kurdish fighters launching a ground offensive against Iran ended up endangering the very people living under the bombs, reports Dr Charles Kriel
I’ve made contracts with every sort of lowlife. I’ve been to the crossroads. I’ve been down to Georgia. I’ve signed agreements with legions of lawyers, living, as I do, in the details, and ended up with the souls of everyone except Daniel Webster, that prig-tastic blowhole.
But Donald Trump? Not worth it.
Maybe you thought I already owned Trump’s soul. How else could someone so gob-smackingly incompetent fail upward all the way to a second presidential term? But social media, misogyny, and the ever-loving shit show known as the also gob-smackingly incompetent “Democratic Party”—that’s on you, humans. As folks in our Fifth Circle say about Trump, “Wow, does his shit stink.” And that place reeks so bad, the demons wear gas masks.
It’s a truism that every child should be wanted. While there are plenty of exceptions, the birth of an unwanted child often turns out badly for both mother and child (and father, if they are present). Sometimes, once a child is born, the fact that they were initially unwanted fades into irrelevance, and the bond […]
Over on the Doctor Who website, UNIT offered a very interesting note/update on Rose Tyler (Billie Piper) is fueling serious fan speculation.
The Central American nation never fully recovered from the loss of its megafauna
The post Restoring Panama to When Prehistoric Beasts Roamed the Jungle appeared first on Nautilus.
How to tackle a common kitchen problem with fluid dynamics
The post Physicists Uncover How Long It Takes to Get the Last Drop of Syrup appeared first on Nautilus.
“Looksmaxxing”—achieving the hottest, manliest version of yourself—can be intimidating. It’s hard to know where to start, but we recommend with your jaw. Crack that bad boy wide open.
A big, broad, shockingly vast jaw is the bedrock of masculinity. You’ve heard of the jaws of life—get ready for the “jaws of wife,” because the women will be flocking in short order. Plus, while your jaw’s wired shut and healing, nobody makes you talk about your feelings. You can sit in silence with your boys for six to eight weeks. Soon enough, you’ll be mewing in your newly minted maw.
Next, take a look at your legs. Those gotta get longer. A lot longer. You can surgically break and lengthen them at either the femur or the tibia, dealer’s choice. But for the record, breaking the femur hurts more, so men who choose the tibias are betas.
It takes a family to drive research for a rare disease forward
The post Saving the Girl with Dementia appeared first on Nautilus.
Labour’s campaign in Gorton and Denton, following the familiar modus operandi of the Labour right, was one of the dirtiest and most shameless campaigns the Party has fought in its history. Islamophobic dog whistles, dishonest claims about tactical voting, lurid accusations, and the absence of any substantial political offer did little except convince already sceptical […]
Alex Kingston, who played River Song on Doctor Who, gave the best explanation for how the series created a safe space for kids to face fears.
Carrie Brownstein delivers a few sports-related tips and pointers.
- - -
Q: My partner is the captain of a coed dodgeball league and has started hinting that he wants me to attend more games. I went to one recently and found myself feeling secondhand embarrassment for him. The self-serious competition, the mock leadership, the flaring tempers, the matching uniforms (which he designed)—all this ado over a game we all played as twelve-year-olds. I’m not usually so judgmental, but something about watching him get so worked up about these games has brought out a new side of me. I truly don’t know if I can go to another game and keep the grimace off my face. How do I excuse myself from attending without hurting his feelings?
Dodging Mortification
Minneapolis, MN