I have come to believe that stationery is hard.

Let’s start with the 2mm clutch pencil. The Staedtler Mars Technico 780C Clutch Pencil has its faults, but has fewer than its competitors. It is the best 2mm clutch pencil. It is easier to get the black one. Try to get the blue one, which is simpler.

Owen Jones nails it here.

Here is the basic truth: the Labour right ran out of ideas long ago. For the permanently crisis-stricken Britain that emerged after the 2008 financial crisis, they have no solutions

The bigger problem is that this is true of the entire UK political class, not just the Labour right.

Crikey, Apple, for £150 quid couldn’t you at least have offered backlighting?

Okay. Sitting here, listening to the thump, thump of the alien invasion and pretending it’s not happening.

ChatGPT can’t wield a broom, so how does AI help local authorities deliver non-statutory services? On way is to target street cleaning to the most politically salient wards, thus obscuring the overall failure of service delivery by ensuring local influencers are satisfied.