Is this the same Steve Reed who was the council leader of Lambeth and resigned that position three days after entering the Commons in a by-election?

"We interpreted our politics through the lens of the wizarding world." Okay then your politics are fucked. They are completely, objectively, fucked.

One of the points of Altemeyer's research on authoritarian personality types is that they tend to exhibit much higher degrees of social conformance sensitivity. They really care about what's normal and they really care about both feeling and being perceived as normal.

Not sure if this is being reported in Ireland, but literacy rates among adults in Ireland have fallen below the OECD average. 21% of adults have poor reading skills - the figure for England is 18%. For all that we trumpet our education system, and graduate levels, we're letting a lot of people down.

HSE needs to be investigating every university.

Haven't sent Traitors*, and not sure I could be bothered anyway, but is it too much to ask for a 'reality' show where winning is predicated on cooperation and community building? *Or indeed any of these circus events all the way back to Big Brother

Great. Everything is so fucked that somehow I agree with Greenwald. He nails it here, though.

The discovery that ‘Never Again’ apparently has a new, silent clause has been one of the more unwelcome developments of the past few years

I just want to remind people that when we talk about creating a "British ICE" and a concentration camp as somehow copying America, we already had the previous Tory government set up a concentration camp run by British military personnel for asylum seekers rapidly shut down after legal battles.

(Dude suddenly stops pushing his broom across the floor of the Death Star) Does this look like a big laser to anyone else

Fair play, "law enforcement losing the confidence of the community" is an unbeatable description of what happened in NI.

one of the reasons I don’t use AI to help me write is that I don’t need to I’ve decided to take this as objective proof that I’m a much better writer than anybody that does

Watch how quickly and easily the shift is from “Sir Keir is the shit hot, deeply respected flag-molesting authoritarian bastard that Britain begs for” to “This clueless, useless piece of shit could not put his trousers on the right way round while reading an instruction manual for trousers”.

Make this the theme tune, you cowards. m.youtube.com/watch?v=IiTr...

People talking about Nuremberg trials for ICE should be reminded that Lt William Calley, who carried out the My Lai massacre in Viet Nam, served 3 days in prison before Nixon commuted his sentence to house arrest, where he spent 3 years at home. His defence was that he had been poorly trained.

ICE thugs are kidding themselves if they think they can scare Italian journalists

I would not at this point bet heavily against Kemi Badenoch defecting

I think at this point the UK has accepted Paddington as the Death Bear, collector of souls. So, I think as a nation we should start smearing marmalade on the eyes of the dead and whisper “fare for the crossing”. It’ll feel weird now but, in three of four generations, no one will question it.

Acoustics Lay Language Paper Women in the island nation of Vanuatu create music in a unique way. Standing waist deep in a pool, they strike the water with their hands creating a unique variety of tones. https://acoustics.org/the-sounds-of-the-water-music-of-vanuatu/

A dedicated Nazi - she even uses the term ‘cultural Marxism’ - has left a dedicated fascist party to join the official Nazi Party UK Ltd. Groundbreaking.

I never went to no fancy University, despite what my impeccable posting style might imply. What I had was one really excellent schoolteacher in the otherwise grim Christian Brothers school I attended. He taught us to understand the logic of language, speech & thought. Once you know that, you're set.

Suella Braverman remains the only home secretary ever to be sacked for inciting fascist violence

In anniversary news which I can’t quite verify, it may be 39 years (possibly more) since the Indian Air Force dressed their helicopters up as elephants for Republic Day

What will slap about this is how many aren't going to make it under the wire in time. Your Luke Akehursts and Jess Philipses have networked enough to end up in the Dubai branch of Nvidia or third mic on The Rest Is Politics, but the other 400 or so?

Some tweets on the 'moonlighters': the covert secret society of the Land League in Ireland.

L: the Labour Party 2024 rulebook R: the 2025 rulebook Dougie Alexander first implied the relevant rule (which is discretionary anyway) was in place for “many many years”, then explicitly said it had been ”overwhelmingly endorsed by conference a few years ago”. Hm, Oct 24 isnt “a few years ago”

“Ace of spades cards, which have been used by white supremacist groups as a racist symbol and were called ‘death cards’ by some during the Vietnam War, were found in at least two vehicles after those vehicles were pulled over by ICE agents”

All flags in San Diego County have been ordered to fly half-staff through Wednesday in solidarity with Minnesota, and in honor of those murdered by ICE. www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/s...

They didn't block the West of England mayor from running for parliament in 2024 and didn't make him step down when he was elected.

In health, Burnham‘s idea that the NHS should be a “preferred provider” in a still marketised NHS a) wouldn’t have stopped creeping NHS privatisation b) wouldn’t have reversed the privatisation that had already happened c) was still too leftwing for the faction with a death grip on the Labour Party

The answer is yes. It's hard to stress how important Linux is about to be. www.theverge.com/news/658584/...

Aside from the laughable absurdity of all this ultra-victimhood shit, the whole ‘low IQ’ thing, which the president has been hammering away at for a full decade now, is straight up Nazi shit, especially now in a context when it’s implied that it’s ok to kill those people.

commiserations to non-Dutch speakers, who will never know what this is about

Genuinely the funniest possible panel line-up of all time and it's for a real estate conference in Riyadh

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Let's talk about the Aylesbury tunnels.

imagine if all that money had gone to teachers instead

'Collegiate'? Does this 'Labour source' mean 'collegial'?

The best headline I've seen about MN murder was "Gunmen still at large."

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it's time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Emmabuntüs DE 6: A newbie-friendly Linux to help those in need

If you were wondering where the US regime found their internal oppression & lies blueprint, take a read of the Statement from the U.K. Govt after the Bloody Sunday massacre in Derry.

The idea that the British Raj respected the rule of law is legitimately one of the funniest things I've ever read in my entire life

has anyone asked cressida dick for a comment on the shootings of renee nicole good and alex pretti? sorry, i mean *dame* cressida dick

"As we know there are more than 2 McDonalds in MN which means this is literally impossible"

From the genre "I never thought the suppression of the Malayan National Liberation Army / Mau Mau would come to Derry".