While thousands of rail commuters are forced to stand in the aisle, first class sits empty. It makes no sense to divide up our trains like this.

It's time to scrap first class and return those seats to use.

To recap

Israeli scholars at Harvard report Israeli has killed at least 377K Palestinians.

Israeli military memos report at least 83% of Palestinians killed are civilians.

Israeli military memos report 0 evidence of Hamas stealing aid.

Israeli hostage negotiators report it is Netanyahu—not Hamas—blocking a hostage deal.

And now a UN report confirms that Gaza is suffering famine.

This. Is. Genocide.

May every complicit politician, pundit, & corporation face the accountability they deserve.

Amnesty International's Sacha Deshmukh on todays protest in Parliament Sq.:

'“The protesters... were not inciting violence & it is entirely disproportionate to the point of absurdity to be treating them as terrorists...

We have long criticised UK terrorism law for being excessively broad and vaguely worded & a threat to freedom of expression. These arrests demonstrate that our concerns were justified'!

By 9.00 the arrest numbers 466!

#politics

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/09/palestine-action-arrests-london-largest-protest-ban

the schism between Rachel Reeves & Andrew Bailey (BoE) is deepening, with each unhappy with the other over Revolut's aspiration to shift from FinTech to fully fledged bank.

Reeves has been keen to support Revolut, organising a meeting with key regulator to ease their way, while Bailey then cancelled the meeting(s) on the basis of Reeves desire to accelerate the regulatory process.

More indication that Reeves just does what financial services wants?

#FinancialServices #regulation
h/t FT

As Trump advises Starmer to curb immigration & cut taxes to beat Farage, an important Q. becomes even clearer:

If you adopt your opponents' policies do you strengthen your own position or theirs?

Adopting others' policies just legitimates those polices, encourages waverers to vote for your opponents as the real thing & (as Labour are finding) alienates your base of supporters.

If you approach your opponents position, abandoning your own, do you gan more voters than you lose?

#politics

Enshittification comes for open source:
Slack is kicking two large open source groups, Cloud Native Computing Foundation and Kubernetes, off of their donated enterprise tier, giving them one week notice to migrate multiple years of data to a new platform before it's all deleted: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/16/cncf-slack-workspace-changes-coming-on-friday-june-20/

Instead of learning from this experience and not trusting the good will of profit-motivated closed source companies, it looks like both projects will be moving to ... Discord. Because "people know it." Will we never learn?

(Dropped Cory because he's probably getting tons of spam from this. Sorry!)

#enshittification

Hmmm.... you'll recall that business representatives & analysts argued that increasing employers national insurance would lead to a massive round of job cuts (and a hiring freeze) due to the costs being piled onto employers...

well in figures from MakeUK (that represents the manufacturing sector) 'headcount expectations' despite the NI change & global economic disruption remained positive - which is to say firms expected to keep hiring.

So much for taxation doom merchants!

#business
h/t FT