One for @apiln.bsky.social ?

This is one of the best commentaries I've seen on this. I'm a magician, so I'm familiar with cold reading techniques, and this makes perfect sense.

"Labour looks set to drift leftwards" if only ... 😕

Yes, that Godwin

Use only water or fresh air on tear gas or pepper spray. No milk, vinegar, antacids, urine, etc. and especially not in eye. Thank me later, An actual expert

So it has come to this 😕

To clarify: it was the Green party that beat Labour, with the Lib Dems in fourth place behind Reform www.brighton-hove.gov.uk/council-and-...

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There is a well used line that "elections are won from the centre" except Labour aren't fighting from the centre, they are fighting from the right. Attacks on human rights, international law, migrants, trans and non-binary individuals, the disabled etc, aren't centre ground attacks. 20/

FIN

@nesrinemalik.bsky.social notes that students are "abandoning Labour" - as they did in my own student days in the mid-1970s, many preferring the IS (forerunner of the SWP), Sue Slipman's CPGB or even Peter Hain's Young Liberals. What followed in 1979 was of course Labour losing power for 18 years

Entartete Kunst ... ? www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

a mix of gibberish and easily disproved lies, since many countries have mail-in voting I wonder if major outlets will lead with "Trump posts multiple lies about voting" or not

Buried in The Observer yesterday was this: UK police knocking on doors demanding details of social media accounts of people, to pass to a foreign government, simply because they happen to live near where a US politician wanted to have a holiday observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

What Devi said. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Vance is staying at Dean Manor, the home of Johnny Hornby, founder of lighting firm Luceco. The village has a rich tradition of hosting clowns, formerly being home to comedian Ronnie Barker. It was also David Cameron’s constituency home as MP for Witney. #fourcandles

Letter of the day (in the Times)

We are sad to report that longtime Blue Peter Editor Biddy Baxter has died at the age of 92. We salute a true pioneer, who navigated changing times in the television industry with instinct, tenacity and style.

BBC Radio 3 BBC Proms 2025 Now Playing BBC Concert Orchestra, Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser & James Emmanuel War

can't believe professor Margaret Boden is dead. during my MSc and early days of my PhD, her work heavily influenced the direction of my intellectual development. rest in power, professor Boden 💕

Cleo Laine, Britain's most successful jazz singer, dies aged 97

My university has announced a fund to essentially poach doctoral students from US institutions. DM me if you do work on the history/social impacts of AI and are interested in being poached 😂

One other 7/7 thread today. Because I think how the bus network got running again is a real testament to some serious heroes that day: The bus drivers and staff who got that network running again and got London home that night. And TfL/the Mayor disobeyed the Security Services to make it happen /1

Where is the moral panic? Where are @lisanandy and @Keir_Starmer? Or are we saying Rod Liddle can use his national platform to call for state violence and it’s fine But if Bob Vylan chants about actual state violence it’s “incitement”? At least try to be consistent.

Grok is a full blown nazi now.

BBC Radio 3 Earlier... with Jools Holland Now Playing Bob Dylan, Merry Clayton & Brothers and Sisters Times they are a changin'

Princess Ann's stylish dress in Roman Holiday has pockets, but what would she use them for? Presumably she never carries money or keys #AudreyHepburn #RomanHoliday

From the Nitpicker's Guide for Deep Space Nine Trekkers, published in 1996. The reviewer didn't think the state of the United States in 2024 as shown in the episode Past Tense, Part 1 was believable. Sounds like @roberthewittwolfe.bsky.social and Ira Steven Behr were pretty close....

"Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea" - Dr Johnson

very fun to read frederick douglass accurately describe the problem with the pardon power in 1867

Nigel Farage wants attention for *saying* he’d scrap the 2-child benefit cap. But in the vote against it, did he show up? No. Zero Reform MPs voted against the cap in July. Green MPs put it in our costed manifesto, signed the motion, and voted to scrap it. Actions not words.

RIP

Looks like ChatGPT still has a Ted Rall problem @tedrall.bsky.social

"nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine" The forgotten clause of the Balfour declaration...

I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few: 1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.

The Telegraph article has, extremely oddly, falsely claimed that one of the best-known lines in English literature contains a semicolon.

YCNMIU 🤦

Pence: "Individuals who broke into the Capitol, who assaulted police officers...should have been prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law...The heroes on January 6 were all wearing uniforms...To have pardoned the people who assaulted police officers that day, was wrong."

RIP Joe Don Baker. Darius Jedburgh in Edge Of Darkness, one of the best mini series of all time. Cape Fear, Junior Bonner, Charley Varrick, Panther… the list goes on and on. 👇 German movie poster for Ein Mann nimmt Rache AKA Framed. 👇👇 Bob Peck and Baker in Edge Of Darkness #JoeDonBaker

@isabellamcrae.bsky.social Hi Isabella, your piece in the current Issue doesn't give a title or link for Amnesty's report on social security in the UK and I can't find it on their website, can you please advise? Thanks

I need you lads to understand that Europe has an average birth rate of about 1.4 No charismatic politician bothered to tell you how fucked that makes us. But as we get older, we need more care, more GP appointments… Without immigration we will have no pensions very quick.

The Greens now have nearly 200 more councillors than Reform. This is not something you'd be likely to guess from all the copiously salivating media coverage of Farage & his crew of billionaire-backed far-right chancers.

Btw: My ★★★★★ review of Edge of Darkness on Letterboxd boxd.it/8tNBvD

Trump's official store is now selling "Trump 2028" hats

Giorgia Meloni conveniently arranges a visit to Uzbekistan for 25th April, thus avoiding the ceremonies to celebrate the 80th anniversary of Italy's liberation from fascism.

Last week, DHS and Secretary Noem's staff and spokespeople suggested that because Mr. Abrego Garcia had $1,100 in cash on him when arrested outside Home Depot seeking day labor, that was strong evidence that he was a member of MS-13. I guess that raises a similar question about her $3,000.

Fight fiercely, Harvard!