My latest, for Foreign Affairs, with Michael Liebreich and Lauri Myllyvirta, on why US fears about Ukrainian strikes on Russian refineries are misplaced. Strikes force Russia to export more oil, not less: foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/why-uk…

Thread of surreal sculpture details 🧵

1. Water flowing over toes

An interesting, if exhausting way to spend 2 days. Day 1 - verifying (=unfolding & counting into piles of 100), Day 2 - counting. They fed us #Celebrations chocolate to keep us going.

Evergreen advice from this Victorian election poster from 1874.

Very much relevant to how you use your vote today, exactly 150 years later.

It’s very challenging in this environment, but excited to have this guest post from two scholars looking at the difficulty of measuring antisemitism — and the sensitivity of the results to exactly which method you choose.

slowboring.com/p/why-its-hard…

Tulips in the spring sunshine brightening up #Chiswick High Rd, thanks to Abundance London

Our largest Chiswick garden, Beaconsfield Gardens off Acton Lane. Absolutely buzzing with insects (and birds, people, dogs).

What a lovely moment. A mention on The Apprentice for the Cheesewick Cheese Market, which revived a godforsaken patch of concrete next to Chiswick High Road — it was started by volunteers like Oliver Holt Karen Liebreich — thanks to the whole team

All hail Private Eye Magazine

Jonson Cox, who Chaired Ofwat between 2012 and 2022, was awarded a CBE 'for services to the water industry' in 2020, one year after Paula Vennels was awarded a CBE 'for services to the Post Office'. Just saying.

Question for clever folk out there. What (animal?) is making these strange passageways? In an Alpine forest.

a reminder that Thames Water’s debts have grown from *zero* to over £18bn since privatisation - with billions sucked out in dividends

Cox (and son) Sam Winter-Levy and friend Moritz Hafner winning the Boat Race ten years ago, before Thames Water 💧 had filled the river with shit and e.coli #boatrace

Getting ready for ski touring. Must have well-ironed skins Morphy Richards UK

🚨 We’re introducing a whistleblowing portal to make it easier for water company workers to safely report wrongdoing they’ve witnessed at work.

Reports will be treated in confidence and we may use findings to support our enforcement work.

Read more: gov.uk/government/new…

What a melancholy comparison. It’s time, lavishly & liberally, to replant street trees, widen pavements, rip out ugly lights & reclaim streets from their highways officer overlords

Dickens Street, Toxteth, 1911 vs 2023

📸 via the great Liverpool: Then and Now who is very worth following

Welsh Conservatives 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This is what you're doing here, not just supporting the abuse but using it in your campaigning, you are encouraging and enabling people to take out their anger and frustrations on people cycling
medium.com/@karen.liebrei…

Russia backs Trump, and Trump helps Russia in return. This has been true for a decade. See my 'Road to Unfreedom.' We need to defeat Russia's candidate. Our system will break under the weight of a second term.

I planted 3 in Chiswick parks five years ago and they are getting there...

Catching up with #TheRestisPolitics and #Leading while plodding uphill #skitouring Rory Stewart ALASTAIR CAMPBELL
600m altitude = Scaramucci + Tucker Eskew + Robert Sapolsky