Then: KOTOR NOW: Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis (not pictured)

See also Humza Yousaf, Sadiq Khan and David Lammy.

I am genuinely concerned that one of the summer pogroms in the UK will get someone killed and most of the media will shrug their shoulders and do nothing to reevaluate how they've acted towards this.

What I want to know is whether the historians of the CIS who research Dooku's role as a secret Sith are demonised by some folk in the Republic like anti-colonialist historians of the British Empire are in the UK today.

also people don't really understand how munitions or fighter jets work when they say that israel could just replace this stuff overnight. not true and that's why israel was very worried about the UK cutting off just the replacement parts for their fighter jets.

Part of the problem is that so many people are allergic to making a non-technocratic argument. If this citizen, whose claim to citizenship is 'because my mother is', why not anyone else? The question that broadcasters need to ask and the argument the government needs to make.

This is your brain on campism. You eventually endorse your country terrorising its neighbours.

The Celtic banter years really are something else

Mel - quoted in the manifesto of a fascist mass shooter who murdered seventy seven people, including a large number of teenagers he specifically targeted as children of socialists - says incitement to murder is disqualifying. Every day, these papers are rubbing everyone’s faces in their impunity.

This is exactly why I strongly opposed the move to strip Shamima Begum of her citizenship. Plenty of Brits have dual citizenship, often through a parent, or have access to another citizenship whether they intend to take it up or not, including all Jewish people & most people born in Northern Ireland

This is a key point. Dual citizenship isn't 'half British, half something else'. It's *full* British citizenship, and *full* the other citizenship. As a dual citizen, you're every bit as much of a British citizen as someone who only has British citizenship.

We're probably going to have a trans MP elected in 2028/29 and my god are they going to lose their minds

The GC movement has had a lot of what you might call institutional success in recent years - shifting Labour’s politics towards them (if not all the way), the Cass report, the Supreme Court ruling - and you can see that some of them were expecting trans people to just quietly go away as a result.

The UAE's business model of projecting an image of being a safe haven and financial market Switzerland in the Middle East is not compatible with MBZ's delusions of imperial grandeur

One simply can't be Switzerland and commit the largest genocide of the year (in Sudan). You have to pick.

Not the point of OP (though it is an excellent observation) but am struck at how low the Royal Family is in comparison to the "woke" institutions of the NHS, National Trust, Universities, Schools, Courts and Charities.

It’s incredibly dangerous, obviously malicious stuff. It’s only a hop, skip and a jump from this, to: “extremist” ethnic populations protesting is intimidating and threatening Britons; “extremists” voting is threatening democracy; “extremists” being here at all is a threat to all white people.

What I do not think the Washington understands is that it’s not Trump in himself that’s discrediting us to the allies. Every now and then in a democracy, the people elect a turd. It’s that the Constitution gives them a Mad King Removal button and they are too cowardly and cynical to press it.

I am a poster of no particularly energy or skill and yet I have somehow accumulated nearly 300 followers from my ramblings when previously I did not have close to that on Twitter. Growing an audience for you thoughts here is just so much easier.

I’m sure he thinks this is a joke and the broader culture has nothing to do with him, but this normalisation of the language of deportation from prominent figures in British life is corrosive.

The crossparty refusal to actually govern, just in case anybody who represents some particular favoured subset of the electorate says mean things about you, is deeply infuriating.

it seems bad to me that the Labour Party intelligentsia thinks that the problem with the Blair years was its social liberalism and not, you know, the Iraq War

Whatever you think about the principle of depriving a person of their British citizenship (I'm strongly against it), we are talking here about revoking citizenship for something that he has not been prosecuted for and that is not a threat to national security

An excellent example given the absolute howls of fury that the British right has raised about the Northern Ireland Troubles Bill, especially given that is a relatively minor Bill that arguably doesn't go far enough!

Useful to contrast Tory policy here with their preferences for unrepentant Brits who’d committed war crimes in colonial wars and wished to acquire retain citizenship of newly independent places.

I need any Labour partisans to remember that I simply will never forgive a man who stood up as Prime Minister and said Nigel Farage was right and that immigration had caused incalculable damage to British society.

The UK is a state that now experiences far-right pogroms every summer, mainstream parties call for the revocation of citizenship over social media posts and non-white MPs are accused daily of having dual loyalty. Absolutely rancid state of affairs.

Attempting to strip someone of citizenship is always a transparent and hopeless effort to avoid responsibility for the underlying problem you claim to object to. Their citizenship is *why* they can be held accountable for the actions you object to.

Followers will be unsurprised to learn that Halo 2, then and now, is my answer

There should be literally no circumstances, ever, where citizenship is can be revoked. If you literally sign up to fight for an opposing army in a war, then we should prosecute you for treason not revoke citizenship

I think the answer is "they're not white".

i love it when americans comment on the euro because you know who else has a single currency for 400 million people in regions and states with wildly varying economies and drastically unequal levels of wealth and development...

We may be a few weeks away from a South Yemeni independence declaration, and Israel would definitely recognize that eventually Y'all see a pattern?

It's important not to transpose a strategic plan onto a bunch of contingent events and separate contexts, but looking at a map it's really hard not to see the UAE setting up a very strong strategic position the last decade

What I've been taught is that GTA radio was actually too subtle

My wife once told me one of the most common pieces of health advice given to middle-aged folks in the hospital is to take the stairs at work every day instead of the lift.

Then: Lego Star Wars Now: Battlefront II, without a doubt.

Despite winning nearly double their seat share from 2021, it's incredible how geographically limited the Lib Dems remain here.

Not enough liberals or leftists understand the UAE and Israel to be part of the same Metternichian regional order

European leaders, especially Britain, seem to struggle with the idea that defence against Russia needs to be a collective effort and not a top-down "Defend the country or you're a traitor" approach. Publicly advocating for European independence from the US is an essential part in this.

I'd encourage anyone who doesn't believe this to look at the Foriegn Office overseas posting vacancy website. The staff are paid local rates and the American postings would put you in the top 10% of earners in the UK and this is for *entry level* roles

4-2 in the first half of Celtic v Livi, I love the SPFL

Stalin, 1929:

The chief innovation of European colonialism was being ship bastards instead of horse bastards.

When William refuses to deliver a Reform Government's Kings Speech and says he'll withhold assent from a number of Bills.

this being the top division schedule today is an absolute disgrace. shouldn’t be allowed to happen!

Hasn't changed since 2007.

I love these little regional spikes that Bluesky gets courtesy of Elon Musk being specifically shit to their country