What is your hope based upon Zack? How much will your plan cost? Words are cheap - real government is costly!

Green Party council candidate in Lambeth. In a normal world, it would not be sustainable for a Party which claims to be "anti-racist" to ignore this, or to try and punt it away by telling everyone that everything is ok because Zack Polanski is Jewish

an underrated, unforgivable belief that remains prevalent among pols and normies is that a rising tide lifts all boats when it’s been clear forever that a rising tide simply drowns the people on low lying land

It is clearly unacceptable that children are having to wait up to four years for NHS orthodontic treatment. A shortage of orthodontists, Covid backlogs, and long-standing NHS funding gaps drive this.

Heard a superb singer this weekend, Cody Quattlebaum. Beautiful sound, voice just speaks, resonates naturally throughout the range. Lovely quiet (and loud!) singing. He should be better known! This is from 7 years ago - he's even better now 😊 #opera #singing #music youtu.be/sDSCpLXdHVI?...

The historic irony that Tiger Woods can't drive.

Piker says Hamas — bloodthirsty terrorists are better than the democracy of Israel, and Democratic candidates are normalizing this by campaigning with him. This will rot the Democratic Party if it doesn’t correct course. Mallory McMorrow called it out. More candidates need to.

It makes me so sad for my Jewish friends that this needs to be pointed out.

UK PLC. Going nowhere. Fast.

Is there a way to donate to get new ones yet? This shit will not stand

Why is this government so useless on women's rights, and protecting single-sex spaces? On the one hand they welcome the Supreme Court judgment, on the other they are trying to thwart it. It's cynical, and insulting. comment.press/govt-womens-...

I like Ed Hussain's framing that Islamism is to Islam what Nazism is to the Enlightenment: both fascistic corruptions of what were originally progressive ideas. This might help more middle class elites realise that to get serious about Islamism is the only anti-fascist move here.

Israel Settlers are on a murderous rampage in the West Bank. This is happening with American taxpayer support. It's madness. www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_ent...

I like Ed Hussain's framing that Islamism is to Islam what Nazism is to the Enlightenment: both fascistic corruptions of what were originally progressive ideas. This might help more middle class elites realise that to get serious about Islamism is the only anti-fascist move here.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

I may be naïve but I don't understand we there isn't a reasonably reliable way to distinguish between postgraduate computational biologists from Sudan and people from Sudan who stab others to death with screwdrivers. Is this beyond all our science and philosophy?

I've just reviewed my 52nd Sticky Toffee Pudding. But what did it get out of 10?

Dealing with endless hip tendinopathy at the moment: psoas, gluteal and trochanteric. Months and months with little progress and many setbacks. My #training is currently around 20% of what it needs to be if I am to have the #triathlon season I planned and make it to European champs. 1/n

„The co‑host of the Fifa World Cup finals this summer is currently bombing one of its participating nations. The co‑host of the tournament has murdered the head of state of the third‑ranked team in Group G. Nothing quite like this has happened before.“

More superb work from openjusticeuk.org on the grooming-gang transcripts. Lots more work to do, of course, but so far the picture is really that religion and race were only - at worst- a *factor* in this mass crime, not the *cause*. 1/2

Polanski is a liar. This is not the first time he has lied. I doubt it will be the last.

I find these things almost as impossible to believe as the Big Bang. Utterly amazing. We just don't know anything, really.

I aspire to exude as much confidence as this little Kinesin protein strutting along a microtubule while hauling intracellular cargo. Look at that little guy go! 🔬🧪

Lib Dem Leader Ed Davey: "Tax exiles like Isabel Oakeshott and washed up old footballers who mock ordinary people who stay in the UK and pay our taxes... As we protect them, it's only right for tax exiles to start paying taxes to fund our armed forces, just like the rest of us".

#groominggangs Julie Bindel - 1.00 in - says "we have sacrificed hundreds of thousands of girls in the name of multiculturalism and community cohesion" She identifies the Labour Party particular, and it would be fair to say all "progressives" as well www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9uA...

The Green's have so much dangerous nonsense once you scratch the surface, ripe for exposure. On any health-related issue, an attack would be particularly salient given Polanski's hyno-boob history. (I can't quote-post the clip so it's screen-shot. The original is on the author's profile)

As Popper says somewhere, the really distinguishing thing about democracy is that it allows you to get rid of leaders you don't like. It is perfectly legitimate, therefore, for a democracy to legislate so that groups who would take that right away cannot come to power.

I learned (on X) that this is an example of multiethnic success, not multicultural. So there we are.

@thebiglebluesky.bsky.social Hello Hugh, nice to meet someone on here who appears to be open to more sorts of evidence! I'm on here rarely (it seems pretty ideologically captured to me) but can you recommend any more, similar accounts who are open to reason and not abusive about alternative views?

Trying to discuss the grooming-r@pe scandal on BlueSky is pretty wild! Makes flat-Earthers seem positively rational and 'evidence-based'.

Yeah, you are just repeatedly missing the point now. I can criticise the academic field of sociology for failing to be truthful or investigate a very important sociological issue without saying that every sociology researcher is morally to blame. Again, this is obvious and not complicated.

Yeah, I guess that’s the point. It’s not in your area of research so you wouldn’t be expected to cover it, but it’s also not in anyone else’s because to speak truthfully about it would be career suicide. So you just get Ella Cockbain’s activism dressed up as science. That’s the collective failure.

You’re wrong about academics not having influence. The 2010 Home Office report that denied the issue and is always used by people trying to obfuscate away from action cited academic Ella Cockbain 20 times as an authoritative source. 16 years later, Casey Review said the obvious - junk social science

one of the problems with the "prediction markets have social utility" thesis is that acquiring true information to beat the markets works better the *shorter* the timeframe before the rest of the market gets that information because you can cash in more quickly x.com/itslirrato/s...

Any voting irregularities should be investigated. It’s a really important issue But the idea that 4k+ votes were ‘stolen’ is Trump level nonsense V worried British media could end up in same place as US, legitimating ‘stolen votes’ claims by parroting BS lines from Farage and Co

It's odd to me that I now care much more about post 2060 Britain - when I'll be soon checking out - than I did about similar timelines in the future when I was younger. It's having kids, I guess, and thinking that I would like to advise them the best I can.

If you only ever accept the arguments of people with whom you agree about everything, then pretty soon you will not be able to accept any arguments.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

The shameful role of UK academia in the grooming-rape gang scandal. www.thesurvivors.org.uk/research

Good piece by @profserious.bsky.social , raising as many questions as answers 😊. E.g. how can we investigate rigorously whether academia has been captured by certain ideologies or not without subverting the academy?

Radicalisation, Capture & Subversion … disrupting critical thinking … the pressures on the conditions for reason ... by @profserious.bsky.social profserious.substack.com/p/radicalisa... #CriticalThinking #InstitutionalIntegrity #Governance

"Crowds in Iran appear to celebrate amid reports of leader's death" news.sky.com/video/share-...

Over to Pamela Stephenson, Rowan Atkinson, Mel Smith, Griff Rhys Jones, and Billy Connolly (guest-starring as Ayatollah Khomeini) #iran

On more serious matters, how do I short shares in #padel? It's nonsense, isn't it?

As Popper says somewhere, the really distinguishing thing about democracy is that it allows you to get rid of leaders you don't like. It is perfectly legitimate, therefore, for a democracy to legislate so that groups who would take that right away cannot come to power.

The world seems to be dividing along yet another axis: Those who think you can never, under any circumstances, attack in a pre-emptive way, no matter how guaranteed it is that your enemy will attack you. And those who think that if an attack is inevitable, then a preemptive attack is justified.

The US and Israel have stated multiple times that part of their intent for these attacks is to encourage Iranians to rise up in arms and fight the regime, which is simply not happening for one reason or another. The wedge between domestic Iranians & diaspora online Iranians is larger than expected.

So in the region, Iran and Afghanistan share a border, Iran is being bombed by Israel and the US, and the Taliban is being bombed by Pakistan. That airspace must be something.