If property rights are a tool to achieve human rights, then property rights can be set aside when they impede other rights. 22/

> "Left" and "right" have had the same meaning since the French Revolution. If you want to know if someone is on the left or the right, ask them, "What is more important: human rights or property rights?" If they say "Property rights are a human right," then they are on the right. 18/

Buckethead was a publicity stunt, which, to be clear, I respect. Binface is also a publicity stunt but the publicity is stuff like House of Lords reform and Thames Water re-nationalisation and stopping arms sales to oppressive regimesand also fixing that one fucking hand dryer in that one pub

In 1987, because the UK has a multiparty electoral system and a fundamental incapacity to take ourselves seriously, the U.K. distributor of the film stood as a candidate against Margaret Thatcher. As Lord Buckethead, representing the Gremloids party.

Increasingly of the view that the need for No.10 North has nothing to do with devolution but more in the same way that the British developed Shimla as a hill station to run the Raj from during the summer months when Delhi was simply too hot to govern in.

Has anyone seen any good theological reflections on the building of data centers? I know there is plenty of talk about AI more broadly, but I’m curious about the physical infrastructure AI requires.

The other precedent it’s likely to set is that citizens who commit crimes should be deported. I see no reason why it would be limited to this vile individual

Clarification : free movement was between the UK and the Commonwealth/Empire. Brits went there (whether the colonised wanted it) and the colonised had the legal right (when they weren’t slaves/indentured) to come to the UK. Not between different parts of Empire / C’wealth.

It is NOT a “loophole” that Commonwealth citizens who have been permanent UK residents since before 1973 cannot be deported. It was Parliament’s deliberate decision in the 1971 Immigration Act. It is based on hundreds of years of free movement between the Commonwealth/Empire, abolished in 1973.

Let’s see the precise text of Mahmood’s claim that Parliament can let her deport one man without giving her the power to deport (any?) others. Though that sounds like Parliament making individual decisions - a Bill of Attainder - not law.

GUYS - I’ve just realised what Farage is going to do… The thing is he now has NO WAY to proceed which doesn’t humiliate him. If he wins, he is, as Rachel Reeves put it, The Man Who Spent His Summer Arguing With A Bin. If he bails, he’s The Man Who Fled From A Bin. And if he LOSES…

I kind of feel like we are way past trans sports in the UK & pretending anyone cares about “fairness”. But it’s not just that trans women haven’t *so far* regularly outperformed cis women, it’s that the science says that they don’t have an advantage in much & have a disadvantage in some things.

We're not even halfway through July yet.

Ffs 😡 They repeatedly talk about how a child who may be stealth could be a "safeguarding issue", and not the weird adults who have an unhealthy need know what genitals a child has

It's so complicated to deal with the delivery riders because of the exploitative conditions, like you say, and because these days you worry that if you report someone for reckless cycling they could end up being deported, ugh

incentivised to ride dangerously as they are so underpaid for each delivery. They have to do them in less time than it would take to cycle safely and legally. So once they start breaking the rules, cars start breaking them, other cyclists follow suit and we end up here. We have perfectly good

Why is it legal for this Labour government to force schools to abide by 'gender critical' ideology? What happened to the protected characteristic of non belief?

More state sanctioned abuse of trans kids. Social transition for kids is a name change. A haircut. A different uniform. And making space for it literally saves lives. None of these children pose a safeguarding risk to their peers, which is supposedly why they are doing this. Utterly sickening.

Look. I’m a white guy with half my genes ancestrally from Britain, and everything I’ve done isn’t enough for the assclowns, so what hope does someone who isn’t Christian and has skin darker than me have?

This point needs to be made over and again: The main purpose of wealth taxes should not be to raise revenue. That's a small and secondary benefit. The main purpose should be to *reduce the fortunes of the ultrarich*. Why? Because those fortunes present a massive threat to democracy and public life.

About 2 weeks after the tragedy, I went up to Stirling to visit the university there; the campus is just outside the city and even though we weren't in Dunblane itself (it's a few miles north) the sense of shock and sorrow there was all too palpable. To just write it off as "one murder" is evil.

I am not sure it works to talk about excuses because whilst there are obviously cyclists doing things wrong, my experience is that I can be doing everything exactly as I'm supposed to and still give a pedestrian a nasty surprise because they're not expecting/ looking out for me.

I do genuinely believe all this comes down to infrastructure. The roads are designed to keep cars and pedestrians separate and to maintain cars’ movement according to what makes sense from the perspective of a driver. Spaces for bikes is added as an after thought, and not designed with flow in mind.

If men think they don't know any women who've been sexually assaulted, then they don't know any women who trust them enough to tell them.

Not sure you've thought that particular line through. "I'll move that hair-dryer!" "Oh really, with what money?" "Why with the millions of pounds I have from... OH NO!"

Yeah, this is where I think a lot of science-minded historians fall down tbh. It’s like “we can’t say this person who lived their whole life and wrote letters to and was buried in a marital tradition with someone of the same gender was gay because they never wrote “I’m gay’ in a letter”

This article is total bull****. At full output Jackdaw could meet 1.6% of the UK’s winter gas demand. What is true is that Shell and Equinor have put over £1 billion into building Jackdaw and are now desperate for the government to license the 24 million tonnes of CO₂ it would release

Your regular reminder that Ireland has had gender self-ID for 11 years and civilization here seems to have carried on just fine. The only place this is "an issue" is the opinion columns. Unlike in the UK where they are obsessed with this, while their economy sadly craters around them... 👇

Good news, but the fact that this is only happening now, nearly three years after the cyber attack shows 1) what a huge job BL staff have had rebuilding services, 2) that the BL is underfunded, and 3) the impact this has had on academic research, especially in the humanities.

putting british citizens first by deporting their spouses

MSFT laid off the Elder Scrolls artist who designed the Khajit and the Argonians. She has been with the franchise for 27 years. When she started work there the guy who would eventually helm X-Box and lay her off was 9 years old.

What also gets to me in the press is that women are always asked ‘How did you get here?’ ie Prove yourself! And men are always asked ‘What do you think the future holds for your sector/industry/technology?’ ie Please share your wisdom with is! It’s so obviously biased in reporting that I turn-off.

Seeing Discourse along the lines of "at least cars don't go on the pavement, unlike EVIL PSYCHOPATH CYCLISTS" and wow where do you live and can I move there?!

"believe all women" not that one or this one or the one over there "Why do women wait so long to come forward"? rinse and repeat

And of course, the problem is, society can recognize that victims exist, but refuse to recognize that perpetrators exist.

And for a split second, it seemed like the male world had an epiphany in that me too moment- a recognition that only a fraction of that violence ever gets reported. And then you all sort of forgot about it.

the key missing detail, of course, is not so much “are women allowed to be part of Theology Club,” it’s “did a man wash a single dish to make Martha’s life easier,” and men did not seem to find that a detail worth including in the book

Is it me of is it exceedingly worrying that the government want to change the law so they can deport a specific person? How does that protect girls from him?

Being afraid to go for enthusiastic consent is the absolute weakest bullshit imaginable. The fact that they all glorify violating consent as ~masculine~ and strong and tough, and that we've let them pigeonhole consent as weak is the most aggravating bullshit imaginable. Be someone folks wanna fuck.

This is something I should probably talk more about, because we have all seen people who try to write their parody of what consensual sex would look like and it's awkward people saying "do you consent to me putting my hand here" and that is what you get if you haven't thought deeply about consent.

Consent is not a checklist, consent is not the right words. You can get all the right words and not have consent because someone is not in a position to freely say no. You can get all the right words and not have consent because the power differential is so staggering, consent is meaningless.

also i feel like if youre a man doubling down on platner or trying to defend your previous support of him after all this nonsense started coming out.... your psychosexual insecurities are showing

I’m really upset by the possibility that we now are going to get fascism every 80 years or so as living memory of how much it sucks dies out.

Count Binface just tore @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social a new one. In response to a request by Paddy O'Connell to take his bin off: "Here we go. You want to get serious? I would say, what are we doing on a programme that used to do proper investigative journalism and now is a souped-up podcast." Ouch! 😂

Yeah - precisely. These lunatics want opponents to live in constant fear and be convinced that the fascists are an unstoppable juggernaught... so they give up in advance. It's a psychological con-trick. But ridicule changes the dynamic. bsky.app/profile/ianf...

There is a lot of "too clever by half" discourse decrying Binface as absurd and I'm like ....that is literally the point The point of the clown is to reveal that the emperor has no clothes, to puncture the air of infallibility and "strong man vibes"

Read and resist if this is coming to a country near you 😔

In this wild news cycle, it feels like one of Farage’s claims has got lost. If a mob of 50 people attacked him in a pub then wrote off his car, surely there’s photo or video evidence, or a police report or something? Why did this not make the news? Investigative journalists please do your thing!

Not just PIP, Universal Credit & pensions too. 🤷 At the moment we spend £Bs on running the various benefits systems, when using a "negative income tax" UBI, would shift it all to the Existing HMRC infrastructure, & cost no more to administer, than if everyone was employed. 👍

Replacing PIP with UBI is worth considering. Cut out the pointless, expensive + dehumanising assessment process. Give people the security they need first, then they can look for work (if they are well enough).