Deploring Israel's actions as a state isn't antisemitic. Attacking Jews and symbols of Jewish culture in supposed retaliation for Israel's actions is however *textbook* antisemitism and these are not complicated thoughts to simultaneously hold in one's head.

I'm in this post and I don't like it

This portrait is a powerful artistic statement about the consequences of centrism and splitting the difference over time

There was never any other strategic choice to make. When the US casually announces it is going to take your territory, this is the minimum response required.

righty tighty, lefty loosey

Never has there been a greater gulf between production design (in this film, precise, detailed and ornate) and cinematography and lighting so poor that it makes all of it look like generic CGI smush.

Wuthering Heights, the novel, should have both a content warning and a quality warning. Absolutely horrible book.

How The Light Gets In, or How the Right Gets In, How the Dark Gets In, How the Shite Gets In. Etc. Just horseshoe politics for the privileged, as it always was. No doubt it'll be an even bigger success this year.

Once again reminding all the usual suspects that you don't understand how big the boats going through that strait are. You think you have an idea in your head of what size the boats are, but you're wrong. You're probably a whole order of magnitude out, even. They're so big, dude.

Pour white wine on it then cover with salt, leave it for a few hours

still shaking my head at how Ed Davey has managed to do something more embarrassing than Nick Clegg's autotuned apology song and it isn't even about anything important

OMFG I hadn't put the sound on before. "This is Britain. And in this glittering scene, this perfect fusion of man and mineral, we know that conflict will always perish... in the brotherhood of flags. This is Britain. And everything's alright. EVERYTHING's... ALRIGHT. It's ok. It's *fine*."

Oh FFS.

Yes, I'm sure that will no hold no interest whatsoever, and also that it was filled in fully and correctly.

This is fucking moronic and I hate it. Reducing literature to "reads better" as if it's about accuracy rather than expression is a concession to machinery. (I correctly chose 5/5 human passages.)

Get rid of sweeping. This is pure curling. Art.

Lack of common biblical literacy is not only a cultural but a political problem. Knowing what Arminianism, dispensationalism and (these days) the prosperity gospel are is critical to any interrogation of American religious politics and fundamental (pun intended) to understanding the death cult.

I have many, many vague and doom-laden thoughts about what a post-literate society shorn of the ability to hold context by a constant flow of shitty entertainment looks like. But then sometimes a pair of screenshots crystallises exactly what I'm frightened of.

Is anyone other than South Africa actually good at rugby any more?

First Past the Post has even lost Bogdanor. We're really nearing the end. www.ft.com/content/38d8...

This is just very Tory, I'm afraid. Not the party I once knew.

Agree. Ultimately the 'respectable' line that Starmer has been good on foreign policy died with Khamenei. Can we stop the US starting wars we believe are ruinous and endanger our allies? No. Can we stop him waging information war on us? No.

What is striking about this piece, which argues for Starmer to show us what his core beliefs are, is the total lack of any information as to what those beliefs might be. "decency" and "pragmatism" as imagined here are reactive character traits. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Well I guess you might say... He got... booooored... of peace. *The Who's Who Are You cuts in*

Yes, I do think the decoupling of aerial bombardment from the language of 'war' itself, as though dropping bombs is materially less warry than soldiers on the ground, was probably a mistake.

Breaking: *Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON *Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord *Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation *Questions over legality of paperwork www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

One of the weirdest things about British politics at the moment is the consensus view that Badenoch is now doing quite well on the basis of no discernable electoral or polling evidence whatsoever.

As the analysis starts of the Gorton and Denton result, I wanted to flag some aspects that my experience yesterday suggests are being over or under-played (Caveats - I went to Longsight, Gorton and Denton town centres and spoke to as many people as I could, but it was mostly during the working day)

I feel seen

Woe poor mcsweeney! Who could have foreseen his downfall except literally everyone

So just as a final word on this by election before polls close: No matter what the result, Gorton and Denton is supposed to be in a category of safe seat that should essentially render it uncompetitive. The fact that it isn't is a damning indictment of Labour's time in office.

Robert Jenrick attends Nazi rallies, Suella Braverman dreams of deporting people to Rwanda, Keir Starmer says we're an island of strangers. The open racism and far right rhetoric is more extreme in Lowe's case, but it's been there for a long time.

Greta Gerwig could never.

What a remarkably credulous piece of stenography this is. It is extremely troubling that the police are willing to go to bat publicly for Palantir to this extent. Even if we accept the need for new tools in a world of data-heavy crime, I guarantee there are other companies offering them.

It's my birthday today. In the age of constant online surveillance, I'd like to know: what is the weirdest birthday greeting you've been sent by a corporation or business?

The curling is good.

It’s weird how none of this has led to broader debate about whether we should have a royal family at all.

Can't. Jacking the ball.

Oh. Oh my god. I had seen this trailer and I couldn't quite figure out why it was bothering me so much (other than being quite a crap trailer on its own terms). Now I know.

The Winter Olympics: the two weeks every year where I sagely opine that they should have gone with the in-turn on that deciding end.

Lisa Nandy, do something important challenge

This. It's almost like they've never had a real job. The private sector is riddled with examples of terrible, incompetent management. I would actually venture it is more common in the private sector.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

Look, let ye among us who has not forgotten signing paperwork to incorporate a company to facilitate a multi-million dollar process cast the first stone. *yeets rock*.

Also, people seem to have forgotten that Rishi Sunak had already appointed Tim Barrow to the role, a perfectly sensible alternative if it was felt Pierce had been there too long.

If there's anything more English than this I'd like to see it. Also, custard v cream v ice cream is a red herring. If the STP is good (not burnt) and the sauce is good and plentiful enough, nothing else is required. CONTROVERSIAL, I know.

Well, it turns out these gross, faux macho Cummings/Trump style briefings weren't confined to McSweeney.

Romeo's behaviour during Brexit, when it appeared she was made Trade perm sec based on her eagerness to signal alignment with Boris et al, also ought to be disqualifying in my view.