iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

No one should publish prose like this, especially in a book aimed at the general reader. Why, Gordon? Why?

3160

Writing about a multilateral charter of principles: “These themes recur in the Pact for the Future, which recognises that interdependence structured around extraction and asymmetric adjustment undermines legitimacy, whereas reciprocity transforms interdependence into partnership.”

590

The Future Starts With Us tries hard to move from the particular to geopolitics, but the leap between a football ground in Kirkcaldy and the World Health Organisation is too wide to breach.

150

The scope is broad. Too broad. ‘A requirement to ensure equity between regions and nations should be part of every country’s constitution.’ Should it? What sort of equity? Who would enforce it, and how? The intention is good. The details are lacking.

140

Gordon Brown’s got a big idea – and it’s painfully dull

thenewworld.co.uk

The former PM’s new book might have a point about cooperation, but it’s both turgid and naive

4203

Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 10h

‘Among some Britons, too, there is a degree of stubbornness allied with an element of the sunk cost fallacy: we made our bed when we voted Leave, so we might as well lie in it.’

3140

Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 11h

Invaluable piece. ‘… surely right to raise questions about the limited pathways towards recognition and self-esteem that British society offers.’

041

Reposted by Ros Taylor

Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 06/10/2026

Kemi is once again confronted by her arch-enemy, ANY DETAILS AT ALL. thecritic.co.uk/kane...

Unfortunately, like, I don’t know, the results of a charity fundraiser for the Kurds, the Tory claims for what they’re proposing grew a little in the telling. Newspapers everywhere were calling it a British “Iron Dome”, referring to Israel’s comprehensive – and expensive – system.

Nick Ferrari of LBC, a man who is to political weakness what Godzilla is to a Tokyo suburb, was doubtful that it would be possible to build a missile defence network that would defend the whole UK. “Well, because it’s mobile, it can,” Badenoch said, faltering slightly.

The LBC man closed in. “Is it moved by sea? By land? By air?”

“I do know that it would move,” the Conservative leader said. “I think certainly by sea.” She tried to explain. “It’s not one thing that’s sitting in one place.”

Ferrari wouldn’t let go. “How many units are there?” If the Daily Star’s barrister had been this good, Archer’s political career might have ended in 1987.

“How many units?” Badenoch repeated. “I can’t…” She resorted to

818839

Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

With thanks to @simonusherwood.bsky.social for letting me share his thoughts on whether the EU would let us just rejoin the single market. He thinks not.

130

Reposted by Ros Taylor

Ian Bond @cerianbond.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Good piece fm @rostaylor.bsky.social. Full-throated, all-in campaign by a convincing PM might get us in (tho next PM cd still reverse out); but the trench-warfare approach to negotiations (no to the euro, no to Schengen, yes to opt-outs for the City etc) wdn't energise voters here & wd alienate EU.

2115

I was 21 when it came out and I still recall it as terrifying.

030

Appealing in principle, but it depends how big and comfortable you want your conference to be. Blackpool was great if you were in the Hilton. If you were in a run-down hotel miles up the seafront, not so much. And these places take longer to get to: I flew (Guardian's choice) to Blackpool!

310

GIFs don’t necessarily animate

100

Sorry? You know my concerns? Have we met? Or maybe you haven’t read any of the pieces I’ve written about internet privacy? Of course you haven’t, you ridiculous troll.

100

I’m sorry but you can’t talk about the internet until you’ve had to build these gifs from scratch at 2am in a Clerkenwell warehouse in 1999.

3550

My reply to this is always: ‘I was working on the Guardian’s website more than a decade before you were born.’

4412

Ross Taylor is a fine Samoan cricketer, but our career trajectories diverged some time ago.

4210

Waiting for the point in my career when people stop calling me Ross.

3161

Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yup. As I explained in the article

100

By deliberately placing contestants in situations they would otherwise find ‘triggering’, Celebrity Traitors represents a profound critique of ‘woke’ culture. In this essay I will

171

Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I see you’re a socialist. Generally I presume that socialism believes in paying workers for the job. Or does that not count if we’re journalists?

030

Ros Taylor @rostaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

June, do you expect writers to work for free? Because when you bypass a paywall, let alone share the link to do so, you devalue our work.

130

The show’s format would work just fine without gravediggers locking people in coffins and piling soil on top of them. I wonder if the foreign versions relish this macabre stuff as much as we seem to.

251

I am prepared to admit Celebrity Traitors is pretty compelling, but I still cannot stand the coffin fetish and, even worse, burying people alive.

3111

And when I said hydrogen isn't going anywhere, I mean the pilot schemes in homes have failed – as one expert told me, "Ultimately people don’t want hydrogen boilers in their houses."

120

I should have interviewed you for this!

100