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Yup. Own car Own house Had an allotment. Multiple Barbour coats and wellies Been to the tip Apologize for things that aren't my fault Can use an AGA Have an English Heritage membership My dog is an English Springer Spaniel Am a tea drinker Appreciate good crisps Put vinegar on my fish and chips

privatize the profits, socialize the losses

A customer just came into the shop and bought 12 books for her friend’s birthday. She’s going to wrap them individually and write a different month of the year on each one, so her friend has a new book to read every month until her next birthday. And I think that’s just the most thoughtful gift.

How bad do you have to be to adopt a “let’s deport all the Gurkhas” policy?

"There is absolutely no evidence that Farage or Reform want to change our gun laws, none at all" - Andrew Marr to Daisy Cooper. www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

It doesn’t take a drone in Oslo/Copenhagen to fuck up Scandinavian Air Service flights. They do that on their own. No prompt needed.

Looks like the meeting with Zelenskyy was a good one. Trump now backs Ukraine’s 1991 borders instead of offering up Crimea to Putin.

the government is too right wing for Dan Hodges now? fucking hell

"Goliath's Curse: The History And Future Of Societal Collapse" by Luke Kemp All the good things: the essentially democratic nature of humans, the consequences of inequality, planetary boundaries, monopolies and autocracy, and of course collapse. More thorough than Tainter, lots of James Scott. 💖

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

I love how rightwingers keep saying you can’t recognize a Palestinian state because it doesn’t even have any agreed-upon borders. Erm, are they aware that Israel is one of the only countries in the world that refuses to define its own borders?

Lots of people have conveniently forgotten he said this

These agents should never know a moment’s peace. I think what is uniquely sadistic about them is how much fun they are having.

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First Trump slashed funding for vaccines research now he's peddling dangerous nonsense about paracetamol. The UK should take on Trump’s anti-science agenda and open our doors to US researchers.

Woop woop !

A fair point - where is the landlord's sense of responsibility? bsky.app/profile/anth...

Defend Our Juries: "Mass arrests of peaceful protesters will be acutely embarrassing" for Labour on Day 1 of conference. Labour officials also rejected all 30 motions on Palestine - leading to anger from campaigners. DOJ: Most Labour members oppose the ban and the TUC recently backed reversing it.

Actually getting some people like Michelle Moone to see the inside of a jail cell would do wonders for people's confidence that Labour are different (yes I know independent judiciary yada yada)

You see it in the replies and QTs of James' post, too. No, the average person is not concerned about crime because of fearmongering! They are worried about fraud, which really is rising, and the fact the police solve fewer crimes, again a real problem.

Being able to take people's money via the Internet, at much lower risk, seems like a big factor here.

How can you regulate for disinformation when the media won’t even call out *utter bollocks* like this?

Because there is profit in sucking up to the Americans, and the BBC News Hierarchy need to be moved on.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

Two Singaporean men have been arrested in Oslo for illegally operating a drone over a restricted military area near Akershus Fortress. Police say the drone was recording sensitive sites.

Putin or Trump ?

Right glad I'm not the only one who thought this was ballshit.

"You had 60,000 people in hotels. At least 59,000 of them weren't going to Rwanda. You didn't have any plan at all for 99% of them did you?" was not a question he was asked on Today

Basic concept that a 5yo could understand - you can’t just announce you’re going to ‘solve’ a thing on a specific date in a few months time (do no more science) then magically have an answer. We need a new word because grift isn’t cutting it anymore.

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".

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How about saying … “It’s up to the Palestinian people to decide their own government, not some ex-colonial power. Personally though I think Hamas are guilty of war crimes, including murder of civilians, and bear responsibilities along with the IDF for the awful sufferings of the people of Gaza”

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It's not antisemitic to call out GENOCIDE and ethnic cleansing. It is racist to commit GENOCIDE and ethnic cleansing.

Ed Davey, "Nigel Farage helped cause the small boat problems, because before Brexit we had 27 return agreements with the EU" - maybe call them Brexit boats?

And presumably their thinking they might face threats from Russian Armoured Units in future.

Good to see CPS publicly retracting their nonsense numbers here. I explained their errors to them when they first published, and wrote it up here - they simply didn't understand what the OBR was saying. docs.google.com/document/d/e...

Incredibly specific question time: if you were an not-rich (ie, no private car) person traveling from Tehran to Paris in the early 1920s, what means of transportation would you take out of Iran? And would you pass by Kermanshah? Thank you for any ideas!

No immigrant has ever sacked me, or cut my wages, or offshored my job, or closed my hospital, or stopped my mum's disability benefits, or crashed the economy. Those things were all done by white English men who went to Oxford and wore a nice suit.

If anyone in the Democratic Party had a brain they’d be pulling out all the stops to spin up some offensive litigation to blow up or delay any sale. Everything Trump has done here is egregiously illegal, and TikTok has major US competitors who would surely like to see it die. What are you doing??

It's obviously true unless something unexpected happens, but a) the incumbent government needs to actually have *delivered for its coalition* to lead a republican front b) the leader needs to be a plausible leader of it and c) they do need to actually be able to say 'Vichy was bad'.

The RF approach works because there's two candidates left standing in round 2 and people have a choice to hold their noses or have the fascist. In a 1-round voting system? Only by not fielding candidates in every constituency. Is Labour going to do that? Like hell they will.

Keir Starmer’s spokesperson asked for the PM's response to Nigel Farage’s plan to deport hundreds of thousands of people living and working completely legally in the UK, replies that he thinks it is “unworkable” and “unfunded”. So his objection is that they’ve got their sums wrong

This 🧵 bsky.app/profile/jdpo...

Might be an idea to boost as many Labour MPs saying the right thing as possible to try and get the message across to leadership

I'd imagine anyone is allowed for a price. It's a fucking shake down not a policy position. Just look at the US.

The fact that Reform hates the United Kingdom really does need to be made more forcefully by its political opponents.