Have the JC and BoD demanded an explanation from Reform? This would be the lowest of low-hanging fruit to do, if they want any of their (often justified) condemnation of AS from the left to be taken seriously by the left.

Reform candidate Chris Parry can kiss my sweet Jewish tuches for a month. (That was the re-written less obscene version. The original included the word "circumcised")

This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.

I like to imagine that there is a rivalry between two top ham-sniffers: one, a meticulous keeper of precise traditions, the other a brash bad-boy with a colossal nose.

Showing my ass here but I feel there's a big difference between "in the sink" and "on the dish drying rack".

Experimental evidence that students are more likely to contest grades when they are delivered by an evaluator with a female-sounding name. "These findings suggest that women in evaluative positions face disproportionate resistance when delivering negative assessments."

Or the noncommercial option: OpenAlex? openalex.org

This is such an odd argument (that I can't respond to directly because they've turned off replies and quote posts). I haven't known any researchers whose first thought on setting out to find new research was "I'll go to a library" for 25 years.

Has anyone done Hannukah songs involving replacing "Dre" as in "Dr Dre" with "dreidel"? If not yet - a shiny pound coin / credits in my undergrad courses for the best tiktok.

Hype. No form of CO₂ removal is a climate solution as long as we’re still releasing >40 billion tonnes of CO₂ every year from fossil fuel burning.

Yet again, HEPA air cleaners shown to reduce infection risk by about the effect size we'd expect. Their model more complex but roughly: risk goes inversely with clean air. Double the clean air rate, halve the risk. 1/

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Did Iraq plant the seeds for Trump / Brexit? I'm deeply unconvinced. I feel like there's a certain group of commentators for which seeds can only ever be planted by / lines drawn back to actions of the USA or UK governments

I heard there was a secret meat With paprika, and spicy heat But you don't really care for sausage Nduja ...sorry, I can delete this. I've just seen a few posts in this format and I wanted in.

Current flu wave: failing to apply the lessons from COVID. Both are spread by airborne droplets, we know what works to reduce spread, and the govt isn't doing it. Two good posts on this today. First: Doctors Association UK 1/

Apropos to a post I'm not going to quote: no, you are not fucking obliged to battle the fucking right on fucking social media, or go to where they are. Why make yourself miserable shouting at bots (who don't care) or trolls (who get off on your misery). Make your fucking social media enjoyable, FFS.

Two good articles in Jewish News on the shameful silence on Farage's unrepentant antisemitism from establishment Jewish orgs who are vocal in other contexts. Surgical comparison on the issues with Corbyn defenders applying here, from Freedland 1/ www.jewishnews.co.uk/jonathan-fre...

Conversely "the Dead Sea kindle" sounds shit.

Coughs or sneezes? Wear mask please-s!

Should you wear a mask if you've got symptomatic flu? YES. If you wear it at home *from the onset of your symptoms*, your family members are much less likely to catch flu from you (but you must avoid unmasked co-sleeping and eating around same table - have your meals alone). 1/

So we've gone from "he never said anything Nazi" to "well he might have said something Nazi but not in a hurtful way" to "well okay he probably did say something Nazi in a hurtful way, but didn't we all?"

Am I legally entitled to refer to Farage as an unrepentant antisemite? Because it's pretty clear that (1) he has said some unambiguously antisemitic things, and (2) he is unrepentant about them.

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Posted this seven months ago. Now that trans women are being excluded from girl guides, WI, labour party women's meetings: I'd be interested in what people (with different views) were posting / expecting / wanting before EHRC and before SC ruling. My feeling is that this is quite far beyond that.

Pleased to discover that slightly misnaming the national chess championship you won as a school child is a much more serious offence than repeatedly racially abusing your fellow pupils and telling them they should go to the gas chamber

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Still can't believe journalists and political commentators were genuinely thinking they were getting a sense of the public mood in [UK / USA] *from X*, and are surprised that some accounts weren't actually from where they pretended to be...

Meanwhile... we could have seen this coming: Medical bodies warn that hostility towards migrants is behind a 26% rise in departures that imperils NHS > Overseas-trained doctors leaving the UK in record numbers www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Just finished Blue Lights season 1. It is ridiculously good. Why is noone going on about it?

The basic problem with the temporary refugee status policy - especially one lasting up to 20 years - is it leads to very few removals (based on Denmark's experience) but does significantly worsen integration.

It's a revealing moment... J.D. Vance welcomes a two-legged robot helping on the job site. But if that helper is a person named Jose, he calls it a threat. Same tasks, same productivity boost. The inconsistency reveals this isn’t about economics.

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Hey Labour Remember the majority of voters who believe in treating people decently and not stealing from those who've endured months and years of hardship fleeing war and persecution to seek a place of safety? We're still over here 👋

Kelston Round Hill looking lovely on today's walk

Chirality is such a useful word for how rarely it is used in normal conversation.

“if we remember the refugees we protect are people” Here, exactly, many Brits have simply forgotten themselves. Refugees are reified (‘illegals’) or de-individualised (‘hordes’, ‘armies’, ‘an invasion’) or pre-judged (‘criminals’). *Refugees are people*

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This is hilarious.

I didn't know he was a pal of RFK Junior, but just from the sentence "Rabbi pal of RFK Junior" I assumed it was him.

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Very excited that Blueprint Biosecurity is funding studies that will evaluate the real-world effectiveness of far-UVC light as a pandemic countermeasure! We're looking at infectious flu virus in respiratory particles with and without far-UVC. blueprintbiosecurity.org/building-the...

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The fact that the BBC has made serious culpable errors does not negate the point that there is a real and concerted right-wing media campaign to destroy it. Both points can be true at the same time and the campaign would not end even if the errors did.

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it happened very insidiously, slowly and from multiple different fronts. *for all its problems, which I do not dispute*, the conversation about ending the BBC is absolutely being pushed by the rightwing, because (of their ideological goals and) they simply disagree with public-service anything.

yes. being a leftwing ex-Orthodox Jew, I maybe straddle a wider range of views among my friends and family than some (than many?) it may be shocking to learn that: every bias I have ever seen the BBC accused of, I have also heard someone else say they have the precise opposite one

In response to some of the comments: If you agree with *all* the reporting of a news organisation that is both independent *and* non-partisan, then it's very unlikely to be independent and non-partisan. This is true regardless of your politics. Agreeing with all its reporting is the wrong test

Information underpins democracy and the BBC is a key part of that. We need to protect our institutions open.substack.com/pub/christin...

that was BRILLIANT telly and I am wrung out now #CelebrityTraitors