At some point the 'realignment' in British politics is going to come under severe pressure on the issue of national security and global conflict. It is not possible to be patriotic/nationalist and also pro-Trump/pro-Putin.

Lib Dem leader Ed Davey: “Keir Starmer should condemn Trump’s illegal action in Venezuela. Maduro is a brutal and illegitimate dictator, but unlawful attacks like this make us all less safe. “Trump is giving a green light to the likes of Putin and Xi to attack other countries with impunity.”

oh yeah? well, could a dying sex criminal do THIS? [bombs venezuela]

No, America has only legitimised exactly what Russia tried to do to Zelensky and a potential Chinese invasion of Taiwan by breaking international law! The man’s an idiot as well as a bigot.

The rebranding of machine learning to AI has broken so many people's brains on both sides of the discourse I swear to God..

Had a flashback to New Years Eve where I flat out denied any knowledge that Kent exists. Asked someone where they spent Christmas and they said in Kent and I went "oh, where is that? No, I don't know it" and she spent 10 minutes trying to convince me Kent does exist, why am I LIKE this?!

incredibly wild that we live in a country that the government gets you to upload your id in order to have a chug so as to "protect children" while simultanously shurgging as our social media overlords allow for their ai to create inappropriate images of children.

NY needs whatever a constitutional monarchy on a municipal level is so it can have him continuing to do this in perpetuity while a string of sewer-socialist prime ministers actually govern

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only person that remembers Toby Young was just relatively recently a social pariah after he was booted from an appointment to a state position when it was revealed he was involved in a secret white supremacist eugenicist conference at UCL, and also creepy sexist tweets

It’s worth mentioning, though it’s been said repeatedly: the Lizzie Line carries 1/6th of UK daily rail passengers (not including the Tube) and has already paid off its entire costs. And if HS2 had been committed to, without plans being tweaked every 5 minutes, Phase 1 would be opening next year.

Good interview in the paper, this. I think Sadiq is right: London 'needs' to be less successful than it is for a bunch of political arguments here in the UK to work, hence the fictions being invented about it:

The comments on this are all about how sweet it is and I feel insane. Using AI to make fake memories of your grandma with dementia and telling her they happened and then filming her reaction

"and Babushka, who did NOT die

Many, many years of Wesołych Świąt.

Many, many years of Wesołych Świąt.

And Tiny Tim, who did NOT die, was present at the end of the universe, having witnessed every black hole evaporate and every proton decay. Even so, Death would not come.

Probably Fable II. I know Molyneux is a hack and it largely fell short of the ambition, but was a beautiful game that genuinely got me excited about what the 360 could do. I must've had a dozen playthroughs, each with a different home, job, partner, outfit, weapon. None of the tedium of some games.

Literally demanding it should be illegal for people not to like them. Totally incapable of accepting any responsibility for themselves www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In a very real sense, inserting a bunch of ahistorical bullshit is the essence of a faithful adaptation of Homer

I'm not so easily shocked these days, but it might actually be shocking that the vice president of the United States is as violently, smugly, publicly racist as he is.

I think on some level conservative NIMBYs oppose more housing because they dislike the idea of young people having more choices in how their lives are going to unfold

I agree with this fully, but it reminds me that the sexual revolution is the kind of success that’s so huge I feel we (the left + liberals) need to remind ourselves how much our antecedents achieved. The womens/gay lib movements transformed society so comprehensively, the right is *still* fuming

Mark Hamill's latest comments on the Last Jedi is really funny because you can apply the same logic to A New Hope. "Wouldn't you think Obi Wan Kenobi, a jedi master, would know that if you don't block a lightsaber slash, you'll die."

I swear this whole Jake Paul thing was a literal storyline in Friends?

"Jake Paul has gone to the hospital with a suspected broken jaw."

Excellent thread this. The NYT interview made me think we need to rediscover shame in the modern world - that is to say, if your reaction to the Coldplay kisscam was anything other than to laugh and go 'wow, what a way to get caught' and thne move on with your day, you should be ashamed.

I would like to report that I saw Starlight Express for the fourth time tonight and only cried once. That is growth.

Interesting how the conversation for the person to "come back" and topple Starmer is always Burnham. Why is Sadiq never part of the equation?

Virginia Heffernan wrote this shortly after the 2016 election and it still holds true

Can I just shock you? I think public transport infrastructure is good and these people should fuck off.

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I find it *incomprehensible* that people can claim they are "fighting for the rights of women and girls" and not apparently acknowledge that - at the very least - many many reasonable women and girls *disagree with them about this*.

It's wild. We have so many real problems as a country, and instead a large chunk of our political class would rather hallucinate that one of the safest big global cities in the world is actually dangerous.

It would appear that Baroness Falkner is somewhat flexible with her opinion of when it is or is not acceptable to question the judiciary. It could almost appear that she chooses depending on whether they align with her own gender critical beliefs.

You might think from the headline that this is a story about a trans kid suffering medical consequences from a large drug dose but nope! It is just an interview with an estranged father who is angry that his child happily transitioned. archive.ph/Tmthz

All else aside, just fascinating to pretend that the values of the Enlightenment are *not* part of the heritage, culture, and way of life of Europe?????

Not to be a snob but I despise how Emcee has become the 2:22 A Ghost Story stunt casting for male roles - Cabaret easily one of the most vital, matter or fact and "more relevant than ever" musicals and not a jolly wheeze where you don't need to actually act.

The U.S. *was* feeding poor people then Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance illegally killed off USAID.

BBC News of course quick to quote Peggie’s response to her great “victory,” but thus far at least zero interest in securing any quote from Dr Beth Upton, who has been cleared of any wrongdoing, which one might think would be relevant after dragging her name through the mud for months.

She was trying to essentially ban trans people from working in hospitals and got defeated! You wouldn't know it from how the judgement is being reported by the BBC *and* other media at large.

Frank Gehry, architect, dies aged 96 on.ft.com/49UCrTX

If you're banning trans people from being treated as their acquired gender in any context, you're functionally banning people from being trans. You're treating it as not an equally legitimate thing to be.

It's worth remembering that the government could stop the exclusion of trans people from public life any time they want.

Yeah this sounds terrible. Definitely a good target for a crank miserabalist campaign.

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

"Well, she's no Zack Polanski" is one of the most quietly devastating reads I have ever seen (on Zarah Sultana's charisma or lack thereof)

The Nuzzi story isn't about an affair, it's about the extraordinary corruption, moral stupidity, and cliquishness of elite media. (From the Feed Me Substack.)