No one - Sturgeon included - disputes this. The point is there is no time limit for actually joining. Sweden has not since 1995. That is the point. The Times is dissembling here

Elon stans trying to troll the mentions as if any dunk I could come up with could be more humiliating to them than the fact that they're Elon stans

1/ Thread about some of Twitter's major advertisers and a few observations or things these companies should probably be forced to explain...

But will they let King Charles go?

And where did this man get the idea that people in Dover needed to 'take up arms' against refugees? Surely we'll never know

J.K. Rowling Wow JK Rowling boosting an anti-abortionist, what a shocking surprise 😐

do u realise you have to self diagnose before getting a professional diagnosis. do u think a professional just spawns in front of you and assigns you with autism without your prior knowledge

On this day 1605 Guy Fawkes began his journey to London. It would take him several days because his legs were made of old tights stuffed with newspapers.

NPR reporter Meghan McCarty Carino (@meghamama) wrote a viral tweet about Elon Musk, the new private owner of Twitter, being CEO of three companies. Within hours (or days?) her account was suspended. There was no hate speech. No harassment. Is this what Twitter is now?

NEW: a column in the Times argues that the only way to tackle obesity is through fat shaming (yes, you read that right).

It’s an astonishing argument to make, and unsurprisingly it falls to pieces under scrutiny.

Let’s take a look, and see if we can do better:

First, the author draws a parallel with smoking, declaring that stigmatising & shaming smokers was central to reducing cigarette consumption.

This is quite the claim, and ignores the fact that *by far* the biggest factor in reducing rates of smoking was heavily taxing cigarettes