When you do a blockade you're meant to starve the enemy, not yourselves...

This is because Americans, regardless of individual politics, do not value the lives, living standards or dignity of people who don't live in America. Their culture and ideals have created a nation of sociopaths incapable of basic empathy with anyone outside their direct knowledge.

Had anyone asked this clown if there's any other type of racism he thinks people should be more nuanced about? www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ap...

Every since the reporting on Farage's schoolboy racism, he's got a lot less cautious in his public statements. Really leaning into it now.

Lots of debate on the timeline about this one, but isn't the most plausible explanation for unusual polling results a methodological error?

Not the first time an unpopular PM has achieved a lasting legacy that started with a defence of the Falklands...

What the fuck?

But Donald Trump isn't Israeli?

This is another case of a journalist with his phone number calling up then getting him to attack the UK with a suggested line of attack. At this point it's treason.

So the organisations policing competitive sport are going to have to change. Complete no brainer. They either segregate competitive sport by sex, or end it for women. Parkrun more interesting. www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...

Your reminder here that Ioannaidis absolutely shat the bed during the pandemic to the point it ruined his reputation. He got every single thing possible to get wrong, wrong, from the number of deaths to the invention of vaccines while embracing wild conspiracy theories about fake causes of death.

That is of course if there's a World Cup. Can't fly planes without jet fuel.

It's no good blaming billionaires when you buy the goods and services that made them billionaires. It's not just their fault, it's yours too and any politics that tells you otherwise is a con.

Banger after banger on Lauren's show today. Apart from Kneecap, whose BBC love for is inexplicable. They're a comedy rap act. And not a good one. Éire Clown Posse.

Just been reminded via LinkedIn about MongoDB and how the fuck did that ever escape censure via political correctness?

Can I just say how great it is having flunkies. I'm organising a workshop and I just have to be the creative genius issuing instructions and ideas then the flunkies turn my vision into a programme and presentations.

A few weeks back I mentioned that the town I live in has named streets after Oliver Cromwell. Now the local paper has a letter praising the actions of the Puritans. There are also adverts for a nearby Wiccan and Witchcraft festival. The 17th century is back, baby.

Oh well. Advised somebody at work not to escalate a (trivial) conflict they had with a colleague to their manager. I didn't tell them it's because I believed they were mostly at fault. Perhaps I should have done. They've escalated it.

Tbh this is a shitty tactic. Everybody knows Trump says stupid stuff. She should be asking about the destruction of the USAs biomedical research and regulatory infrastructure under him.

The greens policy making process needs reformed if the objective is to reduce crank proposals. But this solution is how the hard left end up controlling it.

Quintuple the number of MPs. You won't ever change harassment or media insanity, but you can lower the odds of being a target. Safety in numbers. The herd protects.

Illegitimate children.

Two thoughts on this. 1. Please find someone who isn't Paul Nurse to comment. 2. Thinking in terms of politics is, I feel wrong, think in terms of worldview - politics, ideology, culture, religion, etc. Most people aren't political, everybody has a view of the world. www.ft.com/content/2c6b...

The internet would be a better place if software engineer was a regulated profession that prevented its members from expressing personal views online.

It's not good, is it, that the Americans haven't realised they've lost the war?

Tbf, the US not caring about malfeasance in public office is exactly why they have unleashed these horrors upon the world.

Election material from the Conservative Party came in the post today in the form of a letter from Kemi Badenoch. Lots of anti Reform stuff in it. But no mention of local issues or the fact that a Residents Party are the local favourites. Or even that the current MP for the district is Kemi Badenoch.

Well, as somebody who did a semester in zoology and dimly remembers population cycles, you can make reasonable predictions about population changes given the environment the population exists in, what these projections show is falling prey populations as a response to a boom in predator numbers.

If we had a culture secretary or a functional media regulator people would be resigning for this.

A practice that isn't illegal but clearly should be is adding water to meat so it weighs more. The equivalent of adding a massive head to a pint to being it up to the line.

The trouble with this sort of survey is it never asks people if they would pay the cost of cruelty free meat. So it doesn't work as an argument for change using public opinion.

Questions to which the answer is yes.

Maybe I'm being incredibly naive here, but isn't it a sign of civil service system failure if civil servants don't inform ministers about people who fail vetting where there is ministerial liability for appointments?

But as a Presbyterian he believes in biblical infallibility. Which is worse.

He's going to do a Henry VIII.

This stuff is fucking nuts and as a basic bit of due diligence their potential clients need to say to themselves this is fucking nuts and, no matter how good the product, what exactly are we getting into here?

I don't think this is true. Many scientific bodies refused to correct mistaken beliefs in public when those beliefs are politically salient because they fear the consequences. If that's not culture wars engulfing science, then what is?

Better than smack.

If anyone wants to know who the worst people in the world are, it's active members of an allotment association. Just a cluster of cunts from the chairman, and it's always a man, down.

Lads if you cared about climate change you'd be angry at your Green Party for opposing proven solutions because they're not perfect. When your party is acting in a way that favours the fossil fuel industry you should be upset. If you care about climate change, of course. Perhaps you don't.

Beginning to think being a sanctimonious crank is a feature of Green MPs www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Aging democracies haven't come to terms with age related cognitive decline. Perhaps the only solution is to have a maximum voting age. 70 would do the trick.

My sparky mate has just bought a brand new range rover, so business must be good.

Put 300 miles of range in my car last night for £2.50...

The trouble with politics is that being a devious shit is considered a important asset in rising to the top, whereas in most functional organisations, while it may have occasional uses, it's not a trait that gets rewarded with leadership positions given the associated risks.

Signal though?

Part of child's homework. Presented without comment.

Come on, he can't be that dumb. He's just lamenting that the wrong kind of fashy cranks won. He bet on the other lot.

Not now, IWM...