Mind-boggling that everyone is doing "but of course they couldn't do that, murder is illegal!" given what's been happening in the US

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This is why, despite Labour’s fumbling attempts in the last couple of days to persuade people that they can be relied upon as allies in the fight against fascism, they very obviously can’t

I’m not sure it reflects all that well on Mason that the most aggressive interview he’s managed with a politician in quite some time is in defence of his own journalism. It’s also a fairly extraordinary attack to make in response to a fairly mild critique. Not sure his judgment on the money here.

So many ways in which that’s a terrible policy but one of them would certainly be “a Reform government suddenly discovering how many British people also have an Irish passport”

I like the way Starmer says ‘We recognised the State of Israel more than 75 years ago as a homeland for the Jewish people’ as if the UK had no role in those events and no responsibility for how they played out.

Maybe I should reread McEwan's early stuff that I loved in my twenties, now that I *am* a middle aged, middle class man and understand the extent to which our rich and complex inner lives are in fact "why doesn't stuff stay where I put it?" and "thwarted erection".

Barthes discovering subjectivity in real time

Lot of people dunking on this, but it's good to see Mark Zuckerberg getting back to the thing that first made him passionate about coding: rating girls online.

The need to explain complex ideas in simple language isn’t something academics can often lecture journalists about. But it’s obvious when researching media history that it’s a skill that has really declined across all British outlets over the last few decades.

Real "I saw Lord Hermes dancing with the devil at the crossroads" energy. The whole report is that a lawyer, then in private practice, gave free advice to a charity regarding the law. And if anyone avoided deportation as a result? That would be because they were legally entitled not to be deported.

He's already on the first- and third-year undergraduate Politics syllabus here at Cambridge, so perhaps we should add him to the second-year syllabus, too? #zombieuniversity #brains

Lib Dems also falling into the bullshit of "if we resolve the asylum backlog efficiently, we defeat Reform". Reform don't care about the 'asylum backlog' outside of it being a tool. It could be 0 people and it wouldn't matter as long as there are people of colour in the UK. That is the end goal.

The financial realities of university life for some students; how do we imagine this funding system is fair, or conducive to a positive university experience for many?

Classic boy's club response! 🙄 'Sultana responded to Corbyn’s message within minutes, saying she had been “frozen out” and subjected to “a sexist boys’ club”. Corbyn allies rejected this claim, saying there were “many women” involved. “The sexism charge is identity politics nonsense,” one said.'

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

God bless whoever put up this pro-upzoning poster in Edgewater, please put up more

Just saw someone referring to Labour being “in the second year of a ten-year project” and I honestly think it’s the first time I’ve thought that Starmer supporters should be *more* election-focused

My fear is that people are internalizing ChatGPT's voice as "good writing" and real humans will start writing/talking like that in real life, and then I will have no choice but to return to the sea.

This fact-check says he was accusing Ms. Rachel of selectively quoting the Bible, which is true. But he's not saying "Look, the Bible says all kinds of wacky stuff, you can ignore some passages." He's saying "It's all true and if you believe some of it, you should believe all of it."

Honestly kind of hilarious that after 50,000 different galaxy brain ideas they tried running in one of the two major parties in a two party system and it worked,

In 1938, it didn't do you much good as a liberal to show at a coffee house in Vienna and start a debate about the merits of democratic pluralism with the Nazis either...

Burnham taking the same attitude to Starmer that I had to my absent Assistant Manager

I’m as much of an autumn-lover as any tragic academic with a lust for knitwear, but I was just skipping ahead through the weather forecast this week and Thursday is the first day with less than 12 hours between sunrise and sunset

Again I get this but if you come to areas like mine that’s exactly what it is being used for, that’s what it means right now, and no amount of waving it with good vibes is going to change that

are you refusing to debate me? you’re just going to listen to other people and declare me to be “guilty” of some supposed crime? for shame, your honor

I have rarely seen such unadulterated bollocks. I loved Twitter, it was so important for my job. Then a mad megalomaniac took it over and made it so no one would see my posts unless I paid him money - and even if I did that I would be submerged in nazi hate. But yeah this is our fault.

The killing of Charlie Kirk was wrong. But Kirk expressed and held appalling views, and frequently wished harm on minorities and vulnerable people. He arranged buses for the Jan 6th insurrectionist rioters. He also advocated against gun control. These are facts. Don't pretend he wasn't extreme.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

Basically me now

Lib Dem Tim Farron MP tells party conference Reform UK "spent a lot of their time [at conference] giving a platform to people who think that the Covid vaccines gave the royal family cancer, to self confessed convicted racists, and worst of all, Lembit Opik"

What a deranged country. Are we gonna have this as the number one headline for each *person* we remove? A cruelty spectacle.

Starmer should be asked about this repeatedly till he confirms or denies the claim

Please consider reaching out to one of my wonderful PGR students, Buse, if you have ever been labelled 'gifted', and are happy to discuss. . .

Man, I dunno, all the evangelicals I met outside the abortion clinic I was escorting at were screaming at me for hours and our training involved ensuring no protestor knew where we parked our cars because they might identify us and put us on a kill list, and all I did was hold up an umbrella

If I had a nickel for every time the hosts of mega-hit podcast "The Rest Is History" said rape allegations weren't credible because everyone else said he was such a nice guy, then I'd have almost as many nickels as the hosts of mega-hit podcast "The Rest Is History"

Fabulous conversation at nursery pickup. Other Parent, looking tired: Is Ivor singing “I’m Still Standing” at home? Me: Er, no? OP: Mine is. Constantly. Me: Could be worse? [Child in question emerges from nursery, runs to parent] Child: “I’M STILL STANDING YEAH YEAH YEAH” OP: *rolls eyes*

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

do you work in a university/faculty/school in the UK that abolished “departments”? willing to share experiences (by DM if preferred)? RTs also appreciated

cf. my half of this book, passim

In addition to this, my university and some others don’t employ new staff any more. They’re hired via a subsidiary company so new staff don’t get the USS or TPS pension - a massive pay cut imposed on already badly-paid, precarious people. I hate it.

Remember when the hot debate was about what a slippery slope we’d create if Simon & Schuster cancelled one Nazi’s book deal?

When this onesie was created — maybe for the Euros this year — I bet it felt super cute. But Sainsbury’s probably need to have a word with the media agency that pushed it on their socials this week…

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coates is genuinely a generational writer

Detained people without lawyers are only given a few days' notice of the intention to send them to France. In this time they need to find a lawyer, who will then need to gather evidence and consider whether there is a claim. Of course court applications are being made only shortly before removal.

ANY SURPLUS IS IMMORAL

some of these people have often seemed inordinately interested. What, they want to know, about all that stuff off in the wings with Arthur and Trillian, did that ever get anywhere? To which the answer is, of course, mind your own business.

My voice? My LIKENESS? But… why

Sorry I was late to your wedding, my flight was canceled because my pilot posted a Charlie Kirk quote verbatim in the comments of an Instagram Reel.