I have never wavered in my position that there can be no compromise with RFK Jr. He is a dangerous fraud who has caused incalculable damage to public health. It’s extremely disappointing that the President of the American Medical Association was doing a photo op with RFK Jr. this morning.

This is excellent. People who know what they are talking about

Beyond words wicked

Just now realizing for real that the DOJ just vamoosed all the real evidence of CSA and child sex trafficking in the released Epstein Files. They hid it all. They gave direction to FBI and DOJ officials to break the law and bury all evidence of serious sex crimes in the release.

Every time I hear men talk about destroying this planet so they can travel to a dead one, I think about how miraculous the existence of Earth is, and how capitalists should never be permitted to make decisions about space exploration.

It's not enough. Too little too late. This man should have been removed from power long ago. The harm he's done is unquantifiable and irreparable.

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children." —MLK Jr.

First class stuff.

You’d think they’d feel some shame about deplorable & short sighted decisions like this. Instead they advertise it. And Labour thinks it makes us more likely to vote for them? Think again.

It will be a long time before people understand the consequences. Wouldn't surprise me at all if future administrations take the blame for the US not ever again being trusted by any other nation.

One manifestation of that fragility is that a *lot* of the criticisms of Timothy essentially imply that only the most progressive denominations of Britain’s religions should be allowed the same rights of free expression as the rest of us.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... I want the minimum of relationship with America. I don’t want the U.K. to embarrass itself any further. We are Europeans: geographically, culturally, historically and socially. We need to go back into the EU; if they’ll have us back.

How Australia killed populism open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Hahahhahahahahaha! So he KNOWS he’s cocked up BIG TIME and does what he always does…blames Biden and Obama Pathetic, cowardly and completely unbelievable. What a massive dunce.

The earliest and perhaps clearest case in my living memory, of people voting against their best interests, was the case in the 70s of the Swiss canton referendum, in which women were allowed to vote, deciding by overall majority to continue barring women from voting. Since then, Brexit and Trump.

If you think Benjamin Netanyahu wouldn’t prioritise naked self-interest over the security of the entire world, you really haven’t been paying attention.

Dog having pee is deeply significant. Architecture epitomising the Age of Reason, and we are nevertheless brought abruptly to remember our humble origins. We reach for the stars, but look up from the gutter

the ideal amount I would like to think about measles is zero and I resent that I had that once and no longer do

Even taking Trump’s confused reasons for the Iran war at face value, it’s still a total disaster | Jonathan Freedland

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How Paris beat the car www.ft.com/content/882e...

The fragile insecure flower is crying again.

This very straight news piece buried deep within the FT never uses words like corruption or insider dealing but every detail is quietly devastating. Why is the FT virtually alone in the UK media in covering this important story?

Desperately hope Jonathan Powell writes another book about working for a chief of staff who is determined to ignore everything you've written and prove everything you've said right the hard way.

If Catholic priests would just confine themselves to kiddie fiddling, just as they have done for centuries, and leave the money fiddles to the laity, they would be allowed by the church to get away with it. Just as they almost always have done. For centuries.

Mary Trump: “For Donald, there is one reason and one reason alone. He's in trouble, and he knows it. This isn't simply about changing the subject. That, of course, would be bad enough. This is to keep himself and the world from knowing what an inept, depraved, compromised fraud he is."

Well, that's a departure from the usual grounds for arresting Catholic clergy.

11 Mar 1065: At Tynemouth the body of St. Oswine, king of Deira is discovered #otd (John Armagh)

Chris Murphy: "I Just came from a two hour, closed door classified briefing on the war. It just confirmed to me it's totally incoherent. We are not gonna be able to achieve any of our stated objectives ... this is a disaster of epic proportions, a 10 day debacle"

Imagine where we would be if Al Gore hadn’t been cheated out of the presidency

Imagine how different everything would be had the U.S. enthusiastically embraced renewable energy back when Carter put solar panels on the White House or when James Hansen first testified about climate change before Congress in 1988. For one thing, over 150 Iranian schoolgirls would still be alive.

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

Doubt much of the electorate have noticed but the mess Badenoch and Farage have got into over Iran shows just how beatable they are.

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I am so full of admiration for Charlotte Nichols’ courage in talking about this - particularly awful that as a woman in public life she will have had to consider first how people might use this information against her, especially online. Hope she has all the support she needs.

I still think about this a lot.

“The UK's official climate adviser said the cost of meeting net zero is less than A SINGLE (my CAPS) fossil fuel price shock. £4 billion of additional spending per year to 2050 is required to stay on track for net zero, according to the Climate Change Committee.

Watch the Prime Minister of Japan react to Prime Minister Carney. #cdnpoli Shock and delight as Carney surprises her speaking Japanese.

Irony rolls its eyes as it rolls over in its grave.

On World Book Day I’d like simply say that we need more libraries and book swaps. I’d like to see them everywhere. In every community, shopping centre, school, social club. Wherever we go. And they should be stocked with lots of brand new books as well as old ones.

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This is superb, as ever from @bbcrosatkins.bsky.social who should be in charge of political content in the BBC. Head and shoulders above all domestic political commentators. Unemotional fact based unpeeling of bullshit

There’s a kind of mass hysteria on the right: a howling insistence that they must be obeyed. They’ve lost whatever minds they had in their populist raging. It’s a cult. A total collapse of morality, independent thought and responsibility. God knows why anyone else would join in.

Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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A useful record of Farage’s failure and his inability to cope with it. A cheat and a very bad loser who would happily trash democracy to get the result he wants. And then remove our rights to stop us holding him to account. Such a corrupt, egomaniacal liar should have no hope of getting power.

Have you been watching Dirty Business on Channel 4? Sensational stuff. I hope there will be repercussions and serious action taken, including the abolitioon of the Environment Agency and its replacement by a fully-funded department including scientists and investigators with real legal powers.

Undoing the sexual revolution, repealing the Renters’ Rights Act…literally every day these guys add a new liability to the pile.

I'm a recent convert to the TLS but I adore it and learn a massive amount each issue. This is from a review on a couple of books about time and it has just scrambled my mind.

Oh dear. He's gonna have to give up his title of the Prince of Darkness. Soon he'll just be plain old Peter Mountbatten-Darkness. www.ft.com/content/778e...