How tall can you get those pruning devices on poles? I’m thinking about flags.

“Blue Labour” is beginning to look pretty brown.

Only just seen this. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ! Christ, they’re stupid.

We don't live in a world anymore where you can do one piece for the Telegraph and an interview with the Guardian + appeal to two different audiences with different messages. Anyone interested can see what you're doing.

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

This country made significant progress against racism in my lifetime - but we did not do so by chance. There is a visible visceral regression in experiencing of overt racism because the toxic fringe with the most extreme views have a sense of permission & impunity www.easterneye.biz/racism-in-uk...

So murderers who (a) murdered people a long time ago, and (b) did so while employed by a body of which we generally approve, shouldn’t be prosecuted? Where does this leave Shipman’s older victims?

They've lost the 9yos

It is close to impossible to significantly reduce child poverty with the cap in place so they could never really come to any other conclusion and have credibility.

I suspect that where I mostly get my news from is seeing people going on about something on here, so googling the BBC website to find out what’s happened. I appreciate that’s very reactive.

House is full of little knocking and scraping sounds as the dog navigates badly with his cone of shame. It’s supposed to be on for 12 days now, God help us.

I don’t have a subscription to Disney (as far as I know, anyway), so aren’t directly engaged. But if the point of the boycott was to protest the suspension of the chap, and get that reversed, then the rational thing would be for those who boycotted to now de-boycott, surely?

If you, like me, are the parent of a neuro-atypical child dreading this autism press conference, please remember: These are the people hurting our kids. Not us. They are the ones stigmatizing and pathologizing them. They are the ones peddling untested science. And we should be very, very angry.

The media - no, we're not going to report on serious Lib Dem policies The media - yes, we will report on fun stunts The media, also - the Lib Dems need to show they've got serious policies

It’s long-wave history time again as polling in #Wales - now a two horse-race between the civic/cultural nationalism of #Plaid and the toxic “Empire 2.0” fantasies of #Farage - looks extremely familiar…

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

The king must be a lot smaller than I thought. He’s shorter than Starmer, and he‘s pretty tiny.

Surprised to find that neither of my boys (18, nearly 21) had heard of Robert Redford. Both had heard of Paul Newman.

Crikey.

TLDR: Make racism shameful again. While you’re at it add fascism too.

Just reviewed my first paper that cites an entirely hallucinated paper I had apparently written 😬

There is a serious failure in UK govt, politics & media to take sufficiently seriously what Musk said & meant with "fight back or die" = Violence (interethnic civil war) is inevitable so pre-emptive violence - vs migrants, minorities & political opponents - is necessary to avoid existential erasure

I can’t help feeling that the only lesson for UK Labour from the Liberal Party recovery in Canada is that Labour will be OK if Trump makes a serious* play to annex the UK. *“serious” in Trump terms…

I just asked the AI that comes up on google searches for case law about LiPs using AI and getting false references. Both the cases it came up with exist, but it attributed a false quotation to one of them …

This is more like it

Almost every extremist attempt to socialise violence - from Hitler to Rwanda, from Northern Ireland to Musk yesterday - sees extremists present as counter-extremists, to posit an existential threat & to propose political violence as necessary for community self-defence. Musk offers a paradigm case

I’ve looked into this now. I can’t find an example of a far right march or rally attracting much more than 10,000. A far right march on this scale is completely new for the UK.

I voted Labour last time*, holding my nose, on a sort of popular front basis. But that requires that Labour at least form part of an anti-right-populist coalition. They are looking more like a bunch of von Hindenburgs at the moment.

The horrible truth is it’s not shocking. It’s par for the course.

The insistence of 3/4 of those with strongly racialised grievances that they do not have a racist bone in their body can be seen as a grudging tribute to the antiracism norms of the last 50 years The 3% market for owning the racism is being given a big shop window by Elon Musk but isn't growing

Weird grinding of the gears as I scroll from right wing thugs holding up the English flag to brave democrats holding up the Georgian flag …

If anyone hasn’t read this yet, you really should do.

There’s a passage in The Mauritius Command that makes me think that O’Brien didn’t get the distinction between a baronet and a baron.

There’s this denigrating assumption that people like Gove share, that the vast majority of people share shitty views, because the 30% or so who do *say* the rest of us do.

This is untrue on most major issues (though the media eıite don't know this). It is untrue on immigration in particular. Untrue on climate, on Trump, on human rights, on inciting racism. And much else

What do they mean by “unfunded”? They can’t possibly mean the (about) 40% of every research and teaching academic’s paid work time that is supposed to be devoted to research, can they?

A debate Labour badly needs to have:

Why (oh why) has the Supreme Court website stopped having that handy chronological list of cases each year?

“Lazy luddites” FFS! Has she any idea how hard it is to smash a steam loom?

The degradation - I am quite sure voluntary in most Republican members of congress - of (pretending) to actually believe that having reserve soldiers amble around a city really reduces crime …

Retirement flats - buying a leasehold, anyway, not AST renting - are a con, they are an utterly mad idea, except insofar as they are a scam.

I have just received a suit I bought on eBay, the vintage of which is claimed to be the 1940s. I believe it. The trousers are so high that - I swear- they cease at just four and three eights inches below my nipples. I adore it.

20 years ago, Parliament argued anxiously about whether suspected terrorists could be tagged and curfewed and confined. In 2025, government asks us to allow such powers, and more, to be used without safeguards on any temporary visa-holder: tourist, student, spouse of a UK citizen ... /1

Vote people, vote …

My dad flew one of they

Oh God. I’ve discovered vintage suit sellers on eBay and am teetering on the edge of a self-destructive downwards spiral …

@dieworkwear.bsky.social Could you possibly give your views on four button v six button double breasted suits, please?

@damiancummings.bsky.social you’ve seen that that alleged video from Chicago is a lie, have you? (In the sense of true, but three months ago and not Chicago)?