For interest, you can track where Royal Navy ships are here, it's public data. See if you can find one currently in British waters www.cruisingearth.com/ship-tracker...

With UK universities slashing budgets and doing redundancies left and right, I am really worried about the survival of many of the digital projects that were funded in the past decade or so, many of which were already a miracle that they were being maintained after all this time.

If the UK is actually under direct threat why are our ships often thumbing their nose at countries on the other side of the world? Do we really have to cut healthcare so our guys can do jollies? www.stripes.com/theaters/asi...

First thing I've heard of this mysterious Al Carns saying is that the UK could find itself in conflict with an adversary in "some shape or form". Wow, better cut the entire welfare state then!

Not that it matters, but I doubt Marx would have been in favour of cutting welfare spending in order to fund military adventures abroad.

It's pretty disgraceful that there has been absolutely no mention of this from the Prime Minister. It's increasingly clear that some attacks, correctly, warrant disgust, emergency measures and days of media coverage. Others seem to be met with silence.

We should be even more realistic and ask all those handsome ex generals on TV who make dark and dangerous noises about Russian invasions about what their current job is and why it's a giant defense contractor that wants to sell deathmachines at ludicrous prices

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"In a deeply interconnected global arms industry, where divisions between the private and public sector are structurally obscured, alliances and responsibilities become blurred." @annastavrianakis.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/arm...

Yeah you're right if we don't help Estonia they might not send 30 guys the next time we illegally invade somewhere.

One of those lines is for keeping people alive and the other line is for killing people and it is GOOD THAT THE KILLING PEOPLE LINE IS LOWER

Still, great that Healey has gone one step further in securing himself lots of juicy arms industry directorships when he leaves Parliament.

Anyone who says cutting welfare to fund the military "keeps us safe" is either a liar or an idiot.

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The BBC is giving the rioters passive voice headline treatment that they usually reserve for cops

I think this was an urgent question in summer 2024. When we’re still having to ask it two years later, then we already have our answer.

i know it's a total lost cause but i'm checking the news and i'm seeing absolutely nothing from our prime minister on what's happening in iran or belfast. zero leadership, nowhere to be found, doesn't even pretend to try to do anything to prevent conflict.

Gotta say the first thing I think when I look at this chart is not "climate action is working".

Why is The World At One reading out Rupert Lowe's posts on the Northern Ireland attack, at the start of the bulletin? He leads a party that is polling at about 3%. This is not about "censorship": it's about the choices media outlets make concerning which voices to amplify.

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Made these Home Office posters informing citizens about some new rules that are being enforced in the #Filton case. Print files can be downloaded here: www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/single-post/...

So Iranian fans are not getting world cup tickets because the US attacked Iran?

I’d add: if you have read The City & The City, then you’ll be familiar with the concept of “unseeing”: things people have trained themselves to not see, not recognise and not understand, even as they are happening right in front of them.

I want a refund on a free press then

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This is a great read. EVs have many benefits, but the goal should still be reducing overall car dependency. When I'm biking or walking, an EV poses the same risk to me as any other car -- and in many cases, a *greater* risk because of the size.

Pictured: the machine responsible for neoliberalism

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Still find it funny Syed is the author of a book arguing for more diversity in the workplace

And if Libby is not accepted by your local council - as was the case for me - use BorrowBox instead. Both are a phenomenal free resource that the vast majority of people in UK still have no idea about. Libraries are amazing. Who knew...

Mohamed texted recently that his days are filled with racing to get water and food for his family. As hunger deepens and siege tightens. Help them eat today, act so they survive tomorrow. We have to end this. Give/find their link here:

Waiting for the day this prick and his brother are finally kicked out the environmental movement

I know you said rhetorical but I wanted to post this www.declassifieduk.org/uk-media-fai...

Legal experts accuse Palestine Action judge of bias, lawyers demand recusal A complaint signed by over 3,000 people accuses Justice Johnson of 'personal animosity towards the defendants and the Palestinian cause, incompatible with the role of a judge' www.middleeasteye.net/news/legal-e...

Agreed, and the reason that 68 million generally alright people can be effectively ruled by 1 million swivel-eyed lunatics is pure 'The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are Full Of Passionate Intensity'. People are good, but not quite good enough to really stand up to bad people.

"Keeping warming below 2°C requires global emissions cuts of 8% every yr... For wealthy nations such as the UK, which repeatedly claim they will lead the transition, the rate of cuts needs to be in excess of 10% yr on yr. Contrast that with the UK gov's enthusiasm for widespread airport expansion!"

Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?

Interesting that two days after the latest instance of far right violence it is apparently "time to fight back" against the left.

Given all the shit with Cuba not a bad time to re-listen to Blowback S2 blowback.show/Season-2

The British media has been primed for this for decades. Absolutely champing at the bit, pushing every racial scare panic they can. I ask this: if the British press's aim was to create ethnic conflict and trigger fascist reactionary street violence, would they be doing anything differently?

Sounds like more of the same. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Reminds me of the false balance on "is climate change a real problem we should be worried about?" back when the press still talked about climate change.

You are creating that debate. There is no debate. There is a far right talking point and a media willing to traffic it into the mainstream.

Always either "too soon to talk about these things" or "the news cycle has moved on" Gotta post in that 10 second space between those things

Just seen the Nowak footage, police arrive finding him face down behind a car, he immediately and repeatedly tells them he's been stabbed. He's not and hasn't been threatening them in any way from the point they arrive and appears to very obviously be in medical distress.