He's going to wipe out a civilisation but also help the people of Iran. And the regime is completely new and more reasonable but also need to be wiped out. He might as well be dribbling.

You wrote a novel using AI? Cool. It's like that time I ran a marathon using a Ford Focus.

Again, the allegation here has to be left unsaid because the moment you spell it out it makes no sense – to affect the result here the claim needs to be that Gorton and Denton was full of Muslim women who wanted to vote Reform, but were coerced by their husbands into voting Green instead.

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Your occasional reminder that X is a disinformation machine run by a very dangerous idiot whose GROK increasingly spreads batshit conspiracy theories... And no sane person or anyone concerned with truth and decency should be on it.

Who does Trump think he is? Al Capone?

McCarthyism is back with a vengeance on both sides of the Atlantic, with major government clampdowns on people challenging official narratives. Yet we hear not a peep from those who get so exercised about students not wanting fascists to speak at universities. Cos that's the real threat, isn't it?

Remember: Donald Trump created this crisis. He walked away from the Iran nuclear deal that was working, promising a "better deal." He didn't deliver. He escalated, abandoned real diplomacy, and has now led us into a conflict that puts us all at risk.

There is always a tweet.

Stefan Collini in 2013: "Future historians ... will at least record that, alongside its many other achievements, the coalition government took the decisive steps in helping to turn some first-rate universities into third-rate companies." #HigherEd #UKHE www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

An interesting, amusing, and also deadly serious insight into the vagaries of “AI”. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I’m sure Indian billionaire, Sunny Varkey, wants to give Farage a ton of cash to improve the lives of the people of Clacton. And definitely not to lobby for crypto or fossil fuels or to have first dibs on the firesale of British assets (eg the NHS) that Farage is bartering for power. FFS wake up UK.

No response yet from Reform pundit and activist Tim Montgomerie about his party's selection in Gorton and Denton

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

Starmer “can leave Nigel Farage marooned on the wrong side of public opinion, fanboy to the man who insulted Britain’s war dead. Starmer can cast Reform as the party in thrall to Trump, and Reform’s opponents as the true defenders of Britain’s sovereignty and independence.” Let it be so.

Carney at Davos: “we negotiate from weakness. We accept what is offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating. This is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.” — and thus dies the myth of Brexit.

OMG, he actually did the ‘I can’t be sexist, my wife is a woman’ line.

Researchers warn UK has a “finance curse” – an oversized sector extracting wealth instead of creating it. If Britain wants to feel better off again, we need a financial system that invests in the real economy – not one that gambles with it. Andrew Curry explains @eastangliabylines.co.uk

If Trump’s concern was drugs, he’d not have pardoned Honduras’s corrupt leader; if terrorism, he’d have gone after Iran; if world order, Russia; if preserving US power, China. If democracy, human rights or humanitarian motive, dozens of other worthy cases. What’s left is oil. And Epstein.

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

As per a quote tweet: "You can’t blame online misinformation when you’re a news channel. Parsing the quality of sources is the entire job." Otherwise you are just a propaganda network.

Welcome to the UK where a right wing academic seeks to defend a man who wrote: 'Head for the hotels housing them and burn them to the ground.' By describing that incitement as "anti immigration"

Rosie Holt is so brilliant at sailing so close to the edge that some people think she’s actually a Labour politician. Scary that Labour are so crap on this issue that it’s plausible!

This sounds like both an admission of guilt and a rallying cry to complete the January 6 attack and install a dictatorship and make their rule permanent.

Great cover!!! 🙂👏

Farage has been consistent for 15+ years. Opposing decent pay and conditions for ordinary hard-working young people and expectant parents. Meanwhile, he makes a mint hawking bullion, presenting tv shows and flying to the USA to big up his interests - instead of serving his constituents.

So many disappointing parts to this story of heroism and bravery for those of a far right persuasion. Firstly the attacker wasn’t Muslim or a refugee and secondly the selflessness of the person doing his job who saved so many lives was a Muslim. How will they cope in this difficult time.

Realized I never said "unquote" after reciting a famous poem in 10th grade. Sorry if you thought everything I've said since is Shakespeare

How did a high-stakes meeting between Trump, Vance& Zelenskyy turn from diplomacy to open confrontation? Lotte van Burgsteden, @christelvaneck.bsky.social &I unpack conversational polarisation as it unfolded live in the Oval Office. @polcommjournal.bsky.social contains link to transcript #openaccess

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Absolutely amazing. Where you gonna go Matt? Hope they don't treat you like shit for some irrational reason.

So you've got a Canadian "journalist" covering the trial of an Irish citizen, who lives in Spain and whose costs are being covered by a South African born migrant living in the United States. Break out the flags lads....

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

Glad to see Nigel Farage has finally remembered Nathan Gill, former leader of Reform in Wales - found guilty of taking bribes from Russia. Maybe he'll now remember how much he took from Putin's propaganda broadcaster Russia Today for all his TV appearances when he was a MEP?

I'm sorry to harp on, but how can Kemi Badenoch *possibly exist* in a party alongside a guy who complains about not seeing enough white faces. How is that possible?

A meme for the modern university...

Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness…! 🙂

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Always thought that was an interesting implication, that Orcs had the concept of a ’menu.’ Like they usually ate out in restaurants, and chose their favourite hors d’oeuvres.

‘we suggest that chief amongst the beliefs implicit in managerialism is the idea that management in itself is of greater importance than the primary activities that are being managed’ (Hussey/Smith (2010): The Trouble with Higher Education, p.20) #HigherEd #UKHE

Every pundit who took at face value the idea that the Right sincerely cares about free speech, or ideological diversity, or in fact has any principles at all, should be wearing a dunce cap and writing a lengthy mea culpa right now. Not for our catharsis but for public awareness at least

Women against the far-right launch "Women dare to tread and to speak where the prime minister does not" northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politic...

Lovely to see you looking so happy. 🙂

The real 'two tier' divide in British politics is between the wife of a Conservative councillor calling for refugees to be burnt alive, being treated as a brave 'political prisoner', and the protestors calling for the end of mass starvation and genocide, being treated as domestic terrorists

This is disgusting, and surely counterproductive. Starmer and co have totally lost the plot.

This is surely correct. apple.news/As4PhqNhcT-K...