looking forward to the Black Flag remaster, the best of the series, not least because it's willing to have genuinely morally shady protagonists instead of a designated good guy faction. contrast Valhalla's 'the vikings were just settlers facing discimination and they only raided the bad churches'

From each according to their ability to each according to their nerd

"it's 8.30pm. Do *you* know where your children are online"

Oh shit. Someone has used the phrase "anti bedtime left" in front of Starmer and he thinks it's a labour party faction. That explains it.

The 16/17 year old social media curfew isnt about protecting kids from harmful content. It's not even pretending to be. It's literally a government policy to regulate children's bedtimes

A modest proposal

This is true. Justice For Wednesbury Corporation!

Crash (1996, d. David Cronenberg)

The thing is, for years he really wasn't. He knew that keeping the far right out of his movement was essential for his eoectrol sucess. The fact that he's given in should worry us all

“Your politics A-Level project is to research on the internet about the effectiveness of a ban for 16-18 year olds researching on the internet.”

It's just a rumour that was spread around town Among the planning proposals Within weeks they'll be re-opening the socials And notifying the next of kin

🎶Once again It's all we're skilled in We could be shitposting🎶

🎶Iiiis it worth it? A new winter's coat and shoes for the wife But no posting on the boy's birthday 🎶

I haven’t reached an internal consensus on an u-16 ban yet but feel very strongly that 16-25 year olds are having both rights and responsibilities stripped from them and this is a Bad Thing.

On the one hand the social media ban for under 16s and internet watershed/ curfew for 16&17 year olds is ill thought out, draconian and harmful. On the other hand it may do real damage to the influencer economy. So who can say of it's bad or not

Between the lines. 2 seasons of 90s cynical perfection and one of half baked spy bollocks

We keep babyifying ever older people (16 and 17 year olds getting tech curfews, the woo-woo stuff around sentencing under-25s). Think it’s an underappreciated (and mostly bad) consequence of being an ageing democracy:

The internet will also now shut down at midnight GMT, after the playing of God Save The King

This is a fantastic site that I used to give a presentation to my wider team too a few weeks back

That's not what "shire" means, NYT

Synthesis: put games workshop in charge of space x

i would simply make housing affordable to first time buyers and renters without in any way affecting the asset wealth of existing owner occupiers. Easy to do, but nobody has yet dared to do it properly

I am going to continue to push back on "high skill migration" even if I am the last dead ender. The UK has a much more pressing shortage of low-skill labour than high-skill labour. We have people giving up jobs as magic circle lawyers to take care of their parents.

Reading the subhead here I saw "founded in 2004" and I thought, oh, is parkrun only 12 years old...

‘A huge spectrum of people coming together’: how parkrun made it to its millionth event

Me being me, I thought the ‘directory’ that was being created here was an equivalent of the dictatorial quinumvirate established in France after The Terror. But maybe that would be too co-operative for cats. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“What did you say the honourable member for Dagenham’s name was? Mr McNaughton? Oh boy…”

I have questions. That should probably go unanswered.

Universal Basic Warhammer when

I think I'm going to declare this my best ever post.

To be fair, stopping the boats would be pretty simple. Though those calling for it wouldn't like it. Small boats are a symptom of how effective the UK has been at closing down other routes of entry. Reverse that and small bits crossings disappear

All of this reminds me of the great line from the late John Prescott: "Of course I'm middle class now. I keep my coal in my bidet."

Tolkien: oh it's no big deal Tolkien: just the top guy in catholicism talkin' about gandalf Tolkien: nope nope not a big deal at all Tolkien: sorry you can never experience that, clive CS Lewis: Tolkien: but that's what you get for picking anglicanism Tolkien: lmao loser ass religion

Ken Clarke? Or did he prefer a different brand?

Tony Iommi has already detuned his MBE to MBEb.

OK... not directly comparable in terms of absolute percentages. Subjective working/middle class (%) Midlands 40/27 North 42/26 Scotland 41/27 South 37/30 Wales 42/20 Occupational working/middle class (%) Midlands 27/73 North 26/74 Scotland 29/71 South 22/78 Wales 30/70

The key to understanding the UK is that as a society we are *obsessed* with social class, but are completely unable to agree on what it is and what it means. Like tom bomobodil it's strange and completely unfathomable but everyone agrees it's important and powerful.

Some day I will resist the temptation to make a contrived Joe Biden is Neil Kinnock and vice versa joke. But today is not that day.

Sir John Norton Griffiths (MP for said constituency c.1914) caused more damage to Romanian oilfields with a batman and a spanner in WW1 than a fleet of bombers in WW2. Shot in mysterious circumstances in Egypt in 1930.

The things you can see on bluesky. No, former industrial towns in the north of England do not, in any way, "receive the same amount of respect as slaves did" And Charlie Brown did not, in fact, run a gentleman's club in the red wall

the last thing a racist sees when they’re stuck in a shit pub cornered by Fatboy Slim

It's just struck me: if King Charles ran to be a labour MP he'd say his mum was a truck driver and public sector worker and his dad a first generation immigrant.

I'm ashamed that I'd not pug this together before, but it tickles me no end that the constituency of the most combative MP on bluesky is the name of a legal term for extreme unreasonableness. Nominative determinism in constituency selections on action

'We need to connect with the left behind regions with no cities. Like Surry'

Labour politicians are playing on hard mode trying to claim working class status like this, Tory MPs become working class just by getting at Saturday job at McDonald's

Politics? That's an entirely different career from acting altogether.

Surely you can't be serious!

Completely changed the game when people discovered the "Imploding Premiership" condition combined with making the PM's political experience a dump stat completely eliminates the cool down time on getting rehired post scandal saving so much time compared to the New Labour/EU Commissioner Strat

Fortunately, all music is folk music

Ended up in Kingsway parkrun which was... a absolutely lovely community event. Nice coffee, lovely people, suprisingly large numbers and good course. Bit of humour. Celebrated everyine. Excellent. Parkrun is truely one of the best things about the UK.