...but it's not always effective. Interesting analysis co-authored by @PeterMartin_PCM.

Altogether now: “They’ve got a vicious streak a mile wide!”

*gulp*

Let’s look at the important questions here.

A must-read for all GoT fans.

Brilliant reporting by @andrew_r_gray on a civilian shot by US troops during the Iraq war.

A little unfair, but rather funny.

Crumbs. Like everyone else, I had no idea.

Difficult to tell. They left out Valentina Tereshkova, who is a member of the Russian State Duma.

Nice to see my old friend @sauerka joining in!

Important and right.

Good advice.

Honest admission of error from@OliverNorgrove. At least I called this one at the time.

Grim photo essay.

Sometimes what you get from literature is rather similar to what you bring to it.

"In short, the government should not have been caught by surprise. If it intended to create a Brexit showdown in parliament, the Tory’s whips office should have had a better grasp of how to achieve it beyond simply assuming it could run down the clock."

Rather brutal stuff, but necessary reading, from Trevor Smith.

Good heavens, this is awful.

In the early days of The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed and John Cale had a day job playing Batman and Robin at birthday parties.

Gawdddd.....

Diddums.

@CharlieJane writes.

Cut off from the rest of Germany by a Belgian railway line. (The railway closed in 2001.)

This is a great profile of @BorderIrish - well worth a look.

Interesting!

1100 years of serving drinks in Athlone!

The USA’s “entire education system is a scam, perpetrated by a few upon the many.”

If Heaney is fashionable, the times are good; if Yeats, watch out!

Can't argue with that.