Sounds a bit racist to me www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Okay, this government jumping from “of course we’re not going to stop communicating on Twitter” to “ban it” would be very, very funny

they want a civil war they have openly fantasised about a civil war they even want to export their naked violence to former allies

Feels like a dystopian speedrun this week.

I’m starting to suspect we’ve reached that point where the government know they should’ve abandoned Twitter already, but they’ve now spent so long justifying their continued presence that leaving now would be embarrassing, so they’re going to stay until something really awful comes along.

I think we should know this guy's name, as well

The TV and radio building in Isfahan has been set on fire.

A cardiologist says he is supporting the assisted dying bill after seeing “frightening, horrific” and “grotesque” deaths.

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier says that the United States is destroying the world order: "But there is also the fact that our most important partner, the US has broken with the values that it helped to establish and, above all, has played a decisive role in shaping over decades"

A lot of the people congratulating themselves for putting up flags and for yelling at asylum seeker hotels, for a start

I cannot stress enough that you should not do this.

Surely cannot be a surprise to anyone

Does anyone know what neighbourhood health is? There is no coherent rationale for it, no structure, no funding, no staffing, no premises. This ill thought-out plan is meant to be fleshed out through grassroots involvement, but there is little understanding & even less enthusiasm in general practice

..it is hard for GPs to be the glue that holds a community together. We cannot compensate for all the social needs that 15 years of austerity policies have worsened, nor can we be the driving engines of community building while we are trying to look after 2200+ patients each

Any time I'm tempted to check the news today, I'm just going to watch this instead. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/... Oh to be a falcon chick in the hands of David Attenborough.

Evan Davis’ conclusion is how fascinating it is that we can see the same video and reach different conclusions, with the implication that we can’t possibly know what actually happened. It is genuinely beyond pathetic. Not totally sure how he sleeps at night.

In which the Mail argues that disdain for a politician equates to an argument for being shot in the head.

The correct messaging about this incident is all right here being spotlessly delivered off the cuff by this Minnesota citizen

What on earth? Just like Farage, someone whose basic lack of human empathy was obvious from his teens and who has just got worse.

It’s indefensible for any public official, government department or MP in the UK to still be using X. They should all be following Louise Haigh’s example. Time to excise that cancer from public life.

a major american city is being forced to close schools because armed government agents are raiding and pepper spraying and terrorizing children and teachers for social media content

The alternative Real Farming Conference, at Jesus College, is for “people in the UK and around the globe who want to transform our food and farming system”. Speakers include Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics, and campaigning eco-lawyer Paul Powlesland. orfc.org.uk

A pioneering trial at Oxford University Hospitals is underway to test an anti-inflammatory treatment which seeks to reduce inflammation in the heart after a cardiac event. The first participant in Europe has now been recruited for the trial. www.ouh.nhs.uk/news/article...

How to win friends and influence people: block a key bus route in a left-wing city with your noisy tractors and anti-left slogans, forcing elderly and disabled passengers to get off and walk or sit and wait for half an hour. Time for Oxford Farming Conference to be moved elsewhere.

Jeremy Bowen really is an outstanding broadcaster. He's a reminder that public service broadcasting can be objective and impartial without needing to be balanced - indeed that balance makes objectivity impossible. I imagine they'll get rid of him soon.

I understand the pressures on the BBC, but Radio 4's coverage of the Minneapolis shooting is an example of "bad balance". It's all "the Trump regime says she was a terrorist, but Democrats say it was murder". The BBC has the footage. It doesn't have to treat truth and falsehood as equally valid.

In news that will surprise no one, Nigel Farage's Reform Party, a senior member of which has been convicted for taking bribes from Russia, consistently opposes sending UK troops to Ukraine.

Couldn't agree more! 🎯 We can't rely on Trump's America. "The chaos that Donald Trump is causing in the world makes the case for continental solidarity and explicit repudiation of Brexit divisions." https://bit.ly/4bpSs4R

Farage is being untruthful about his candidate's racism. Moreover, "patriotism" is not an excuse for racism; and is someone really a "patriot" in the first place if they hate the existence of non-white British people this much?

We are at the point where anybody who willing goes to the US is complicit in supporting a corrupt authoritarian regime.

Hello, historian of empire speaking: this is colonialism. All those recent scholarly apologists for historical colonialism lie unmasked: they really do believe colonialism was ethically good, and they think powerful countries should be colonising again.

Farage wants UK ICE. Shouldn't we just be saying this over and over? Anyone voting for ReformUK will be voting for the introduction of a UK SS, armed to the teeth and ready to terrorise.

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath www.fastcompany.com/3062989/50-r...

If you stop thinking of them as pests, you can start admiring their stunning colours and markings

Farage only has something to offer if there is a problem, if there is no problem he creates one by rage baiting

Meanwhile, in the UK www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Again BBC... Trump is clearly lying so why not just say that!!! Neutrality isn't the same as two-siding an issue.

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the scenes in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

I have no intention of going to the US for a very long time. The current regime probably wouldn't let me in anyway.

Young man against flames: whose miniature does he wear, for whom does his heart burn? Elizabethan romance by Nicholas Hilliard.

I raised the possibility of creating a community sponsorship area on our local FB page (covers 8 streets). Several likes, but then a 'NO THANKS' from one person who joined recently. Looking into his profile he's pretty racist and Reformy. Never expected to find one of them in our v woke area. 😭

'Vote Reform they say. Trust in Nigel Farage. Give him a chance. "Why not, What have we got to lose" Only the NHS Only the state pension Only workers’ rights Only human rights Only council services Only Benefits Only protections people fought decades to build Nothing important then' via Anti-Reform

You're either a "sometimes a semi-colon is the only thing will do" person or a " I will put a blowtorch to all semi-colons on sight" person. I belong to the first category, but I will not fight people in the second. I believe we can co-exist, separated only by an ocean many thousands of miles wide.

In July 2024, I warned that if Trump were re-elected, "The age of multilateralism would be over, and something much worse will take its place. The UK and Europe will need to find the means of defending ourselves". I was called "hysterical". Well, here we are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

They lost their nerve at the start, when they decided not to fight Reform but copy them. When they decided not to fight for human rights, but restrict them. When they decided not to fight for immigrants and immigration, but acquiesce to racism. They never had belief or nerve.

Sounds like Labour at the moment

Answer basically yes

A 15-minute neighbourhood, if you like

A decade long transatlantic panic about the civilizational threat of left-wing cancel culture and we now have an "anti-woke" censorship campaign taking out Plato at a major American university. Absolutely pathetic.

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