We have strayed so far from god’s light

(Trying to explain participatory democracy to an American) imagine a gun

Anyway, my opinion about Star Trek, which is Good and Correct, is that two things have gone wrong: it is best served by 22 episode seasons, which streaming has killed, and also it is a franchise that needs you to inhabit the worldview of a Centre-Left Army Guy that few in modern US TV do.

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haters are one of Chicago’s most vital exports. they don’t grow them like that anywhere else. if you have been hated by someone from Chicago you never forget it. Leo talks like a guy who has to call up his confessor twice a day to yell about some new Truth Social post that’s making him see knives

Wow, it's almost like he's rebuking... somebody in particular. 😏

Please Bill, they're not the HOA. They're Rhodesians, much worse

'No Kings' is the answer to the question 'Is UCL the best university in London?'

It is the anniversary of the My Lai massacre today. I'd say that even more than most years, it's important to remember what happened. And the role Hugh Thompson, an active serviceman, played in both stopping and publicising it. Despite enormous military, political and public pressure to stay quiet.

there will be no jobs on an uninhabitable planet, sharon

I'll be honest - like any Star Trek series I would of course go in with an open mind and a lot of hope for great stories. For me, I feel like that era should conclude with SNW. Let's look forward, not backwards, and chart new territories. I want to explore the unknown :) #StarTrek

The British constitution is fundamentally based heavily in the implied threat of beheading.

arguably the biggest news of the week that Lisa Nandy is currently doing something related to her brief

Look all I'm saying is we've tried chaos *without* Ed Miliband

'And we're delighted to have, as our guest, the former No.10 Director of Communications...'

Ed Milliband is doing good work and the Government hates to talk about it.

Someone just ran into the pub I was in and shouted "The war on the Soft Left is over!" and everyone started cheering and crying and making toasts to Ed Miliband and a state driven green energy transition. Never seen anything quite like it

Right that the prime minister has resigned. His successor, Keir Starmer, has a very difficult inheritance.

well, champagne Sunday it is

In keeping with Keir Starmer Thought, this comes three days too late to be of any political value or appease anyone

had three glasses of wine at dinner last night and told my Labour friend "THE MILITRAIN IS COMING BACK INTO TOWN, CHOO CHOO" so I guess that's where I'm at, personally

"But if it's 1000 years from now, why do they talk like people today? Why are there disabled people, and fat people, and why do they still listen to our music, and—" Stop. It's not a documentary about the future. It's a sci-fi/fantasy show about the present. It always has been.

"take the weekend off"

It builds on the work Labour have had since coming into government, with the approval for development of almost 5GW of wind farms across 5 sites and over 4.3GW of solar farms in 12 locations. Labour really are leading the way on Green energy - both nationally and globally. 3/3

The fact prices were well below the pre-auction maximum the government were willing to pay suggests significant competition & robust bidding to secure a deal to sell the electricity that will be generated. So this is an excellent win for our Labour government & particular our Energy Secretary! 2/3

Labour have secured a record breaking 8.4GW of additional offshore wind capacity. The auction is the biggest in European history, with long term prices secured at about 20% lower than the maximum. The sites, off England, Scotland and Wales, are enough to power 12 million homes! 1/2

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)

If you missed this question to Nigel Farage from The Critic's Rob Hutton – and it was over an hour into the press conference – then it was a particularly good one. The answer was... vague.

Winter has cast its spell on South London. There's frost upon the pile of fly-tipped sofas this eve.

Listen I'm not saying this with complete authority but the only times I think the Royal Navy operated this widely on such a wide ranging and unfocused basis was the anti-slave trade operations

For the record, I can barely speak Portuguese beyond a few tourist phrases 😅

The Bakerloo Line stuff is the most pathetic talking point to come out of the British right. The Conservatives hallucinating a national malaise as a result of their own (correct!) decision to get as much our of the old rolling stock, which has a trade off in terms of maintenance.

Are there any other countries whose "patriotic" publications pay foreigners to write about what a hellhole they think their country is?

I don't know what to call it, but there is a very common and annoying social media phenomenon where people demand validation for mildly antisocial behaviour, instead of just feeling mildly guilty about it like a normal person.

A little treat for fans of noughties rom coms & internecine socialist shenanigans

Again: if you think that going “it’s a problem if you can’t see what is objectionable about this mural” is “silly”, you yourself are a racist and an appeaser of racists, just like the government we now have.

Every so often I run into one of the sanctimonious "pet ownership is unethical" types, and 100% of the time it turns out they don't know how pets end up in shelters. They think it's a supply-and-demand situation where if people stop adopting then the cat factory will simply cease production. 🤦‍♀️

Under new plans to be unveiled by Labour, UK citizenship test has a whole section on Northern Ireland. If you get any of them right, you don't get citizenship.

we decided to give the computers that run society the weakness from the 1966 television show "star trek" where you can argue with them in plain english to defeat them

Listen I understand some people might not know this but the big lesson of the World War Two thing was that "determining the value and traits of people based on genetics is bad, actually"

We are about six to eight weeks away from someone saying that this country was destroyed by the Empire Windrush in a public forum

The natural home, just from an 'what is the audience' for Doctor Who outside of the UK is 'what streaming service has Star Trek' and IMO Doctor Who also consciously benefits from the awareness it should be more 'domestic' than Star Trek.

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.