This is entirely correct. It is *also* true of Labour's earned settlement proposals -which while not as extreme/overtly racist as Reform's, would still have precisely this effect for hundreds of thousands of people Not too late for government to change course www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

You spend a decade trying to understand the UK’s baffling relationship to class, you think you’ve finally started to get it, then you see something like this and realise you’re right back to square one.

Both Labour & the Tories centrally planning & to the destruction of the university sector. Both determined to tell universities what they may teach & where they may teach it. Both determined to have fewer universities, teaching fewer subjects, to fewer students. Utterly dissapointing.

Fwiw the Spitfires at 00:31 of Lowe's video are South African Air Force aircraft

I heard Charles was spotted at Waitrose price checking Malmsey wine

Tfw you didn't study much medieval history at school

Bezalel Smotrich: the next government must "encourage voluntary migration" of Palestinian from the West Bank - there is no other solution. "We must complete the revolution". This is what the Israeli right is working towards: not Apartheid, but mass expulsion. www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...

To put it another way: if Ryanair can refuse compensation for cancelled and delayed flights because bad weather or a disruptive person on board is outside their control (and they can!) then I think ‘deadly global pandemic’ should probably give unis a pass too.

so a lot of SV people woke up and said "why are all of these communist squirrels here" and no one had the ability to tell them "because you built a squirrel feeder, my guy"

Here’s one that I made earlier. I did not write this whilst staring off into the distance dragging on a Gitane. But I might as well have. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...

I am just going to leave it here that my enslaved ancestor, after emancipation, named his daughters Iphigenia and Hippolyta because he liked the classics so much. I have little patience with this discourse.

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

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Allowing for inflation the bill should be £539.44 but regulator and successive governments have allowed the water companies to loot consumers

Thames Water spend around 30% of your bill on interest covering the debt mountain that was accumulated when it was looted under MacQuarrie a decade ago. That's just the will of the market.

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

Should the “island of strangers” PM also apologise?

A bit long but here’s Marx from the 1844 manuscripts providing an exposition of Goethe and Shakespeare on the power of money that all happens to sum up exactly where we are right now. (Reminded of this passage by Epstein’s capture of prominent academics.)

Applying or suggesting discriminatory rules, and/or affirming rights don't apply to migrants, whatever the logic or justification, undermines the demand or expectation that migrants should affirm 'universal' [sic] principles such as rights, equality and nondiscrimination

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Every single president of the United States since Lyndon Baines Johnson has expressed public and private opposition to Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank, but every single president since LBJ has also greenlit unconditional support while Israel annexes it anyway.

Not surprising from a historical perspective, at all. "Labor saving" technology never actually reduces the amount of work that people are expected to do. It increases it. That's because A) work is fundamentally a social relationship and B) technological innovation creates new problems to be fixed

"On matters cogitational I'm mean and mode and medium Master of small talk of flavours trite and rich with tedium On Quetelet's account I'm pure garden variety An exemplary instance of neurotypicality"

Brutal numbers on Marie Curie Fellowships: over 17 000 applications, with success rate dropping to below 10%. For a scholarship of 2-3 years only, no matter how prestigious, it only shows how impossible academia has become.

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

My new article, hot off the e-press: This year the cell biology journal Protoplasma celebrates its 100th anniversary! But why did its founders name it "Protoplasma" in 1926, and what does the name say about the history of the idea of the cell? link.springer.com/article/10.1... #histsci #philsci

Through daily harassment, killing, house demolition and eviction, the Israeli government is trying to provoke a Palestinian uprising in the West Bank. Their aim is to repeat in the West Bank what was done in Gaza, and, if possible, orchestrate mass expulsion to Jordan. 1/

Mourn the species declared extinct in 2025 -- then fight like hell to prevent other plants and animals from the same fate. https://therevelator.org/extinct-2025/

Okay, you guys wanted some fun tea on Richard Dawkins? Here you go: one reason he may have gotten super duper angry about me talking about misogyny in atheism skepchick.org/2026/02/epst...

UK billionaire Len Blavatnik is selling Israeli TV channel 13 to a Natanyahu ally. In the UK, Blavatnik puts his name on the Tate, Oxford School of Government, and as producer of "Zone of interest" In Israel, he is helping Netanyahu to kill a TV channel critical of the government.

Just made Excel self aware. This is going to spawn 3,000 articles from terrified journalists about AGI

Same guy who also gave a speech saying that people like me (immigrants) are making the country into “an island of strangers”.

Dunno about 6 words only, that's a lot of songs but if we extend to 20+, probably either: Shawn Philips: She was waiting for her mother at the station in Torino and you know I love you baby but it's getting too heavy to laugh.

Oh this is good. All my colleagues in Herts history are brilliant. Big focus on social/cultural/medical history and ofc folklore (sadly no medieval). Now I want to do one!

both highlight the post cold war emergence of a transnational kleptocratic class that links western oligarchs to foreign state interests, whether russian or saudi or israeli or otherwise

Hello, I have a new book out in the spring with Picador and I would love it if you could help me spread the word. IF WE TOLERATE THIS draws on years of work, to help readers understand why British politics is hurtling rightwards and what to do about it. Pre-orders: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

The reactionary right has collectively written a trillion column inches on "whatever happened to discussing bold new ideas?" - and literally the only "ideas" they've ever had are "rich people should own everything" and "blame foreigners"

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The human #chin is a fascinating evolutionary puzzle. This study on craniomandibular form in hominoids lends support to Gould & Lewontin's spandrel hypothesis. Much still hinges on what we count as a genuine morphological character & how that maps (or doesn’t) onto the 'traits' we measure & track.

After two years of BS propaganda The IDF: about 70,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza

Does anyone know, following Shoreditch's gentrification, if the Bells of Old Bailey ever got that loan repayment?

Same Tory MPs, same austerity-led ideology, same failure.

#MedievalSky #histmed #histSTM #smallpox #measles #EpiSky Two PhD positions at @exeter.ac.uk.

this is recognizably the same genre of joke as Su Tung-Po a thousand years ago

The people who want you to believe trans people pose a conundrum to societal or legal functions are people who ALSO want to disrupt or control such things as adoptions, marriages, religious practices, inclusion and physical norms, and access to healthcare and healthcare choices for US ALL.

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