Five minutes after losing a by-election when voters defected en masse because of their pandering to the right: what if we were *more* racist

An illegal war in the Middle East without the UK? Not on my watch! - Starmer, probably

No question on the BBC of what exactly is being preempted, or what the legal basis for a preemptive strike is. But at least one mention of maybe this time military action can bring about positive regime change!

Good thing governments spent the last decade telling young people they all had to learn how to code and universities that they were useless unless they were churning out IT grads.

What formal mechanisms are available to academia to collectively reprimand, disown, and shame Goodwin?

Maybe munching a few pages of his book could cheer him up.

Another 200 job losses have been announced at the University of Dundee. Read our response here news.stv.tv/north/dundee...

Ooooooooooft

Shocker of a half from Scotland.

Ever wondered how your grant got cancelled? No we know. Some college dropout asked ChatGPT "is it DEI/woke"? www.techdirt.com/202...

Since it’s his birthday, they should order him something from Pizza Express. But only give him the empty box. Obviously.

This list is coming from WH, so take it with a grain of salt. But if true, holy shit what an embarrassment for Europe. Apparently half of EU countries have suddenly decided to send representatives to Trump's inaugural #BoardofPeace meeting today, mostly as observers. As predicted, Meloni's(🧵1/5)

🎵 Let’s go round again Maybe we’ll turn back the hands of time Let’s go round again, One more time🎵 That’s right! Dundee Uni’s executive group are re-releasing the same tired, old record ‘Voluntary Severance (2026 remix feat. DJ Outtaideas)’ - despite being a miserable flop the past 2/3 times.

Ah, surprise, surprise. Our VC's second job at a UoE spin-off *is* paid after all. We'd like to know since when, and why his SFC declaration of interests has only recently been updated. www.theferret.scot/edinburgh-jo...

Wow.

I cannot overstress how fucking constantly we were working

The stresses that staff have been under at the University of Dundee for 16 months are explained here by Dundee UCU Co-President, Melissa D’Ascenzio. She outlines some measures that could help relieve this stress.

The University of Dundee has still not ruled out compulsory redundancies until the summer. This is despite the conditions of £40m funding explicitly stating that redundancies cannot go ahead until they have submitted a new strategy and workforce plan. This is causing huge stress to all staff.

The best band on the planet, and it’s not even close.

Oops! What she actually meant to say was “the far-right people voting, electing the far-right leaders”.

Visited the Austrian Parliament today (how else to spend Valentine’s Day in Vienna with my wife?). Here’s a quiz for you from the library: guess the book contained in each box.

Given what Rubio is outlining, it’s not so much that the western-led international order is over - rather, Europeans should want no part in what the US is seeking to replace it with.

Rubio blaming others for US offshoring manufacturing? That’s certainly a take. And criticising Europeans for indulging in *checks notes* the welfare state.

Oh, wow.

RT if you would sooner dig your brain out with a fork than open a ChatGPT tab.

Best band on the planet, and it’s not even close.

"Hello, Mark" Rutte, probably: "Hello, daddy"

Trump playing all his 'greatest' hits: lies about his record, racism, climate scam, etc. Sounds tired and low energy. Sad!

Yesterday it was cows using tools, today its penguins using satellite imagery.

Tenner says they call the kid Charlie (Charles or Charlotte)

Good news - I'm hiring at Durham University! 1-year full time postdoc in Space Security - looking for someone to join me at the Space Research Centre and a Northeast England based space tracking/analytics company to work on geopolitical analysis in Space Domain Awareness. Details 👇👇👇

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

I think we can solve Greenland fairly easily. Sample 100 Trump voters. If 50 of them can identify Greenland on a map, the US can have it.

Trump will hear that as “I double-dare ya!”

awww Nigel got scared

I’m pleasantly surprised that the BBC has (so far) refrained from calling him ‘Nobel peace prize laureate President Trump’.

This is from YouGov’s ‘daily chat’ poll, on the Iran protests and Western intervention. There are two options in favour of intervention and a ‘not sure’. There are no further options (I have tried scrolling down).

PLA Daily, but make it about liberating oil reserves and threatening allies.

Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

Kemi Badenoch calling Greenland a "second order issue" while Labour leaders hide from it is another datapoint for how UK political elites are intellectually and psychologically able to cope with an imploding global order that no longer matches the world they grew up in during the 90s and 00s

*posting on twitter* oh ho, I’ve made a wry observation. Better make sure a bunch of pedophiles see it

Just saw someone on Instagram refer to Tommy Robinson as ‘Ewok Powell’. Absolute perfection 👌

Tonight, Tehran, around 22:00. One of the few videos coming out of Iran by people who use satellite internet.

@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”

Starmer is so transparently not the man for this moment.

The BBC needs to stop inviting Trump sycophants on to its shows justify the attempt to grab territory from a NATO ally.

Wes Streeting refuses to give any hint of criticism of the US while being questioned on Radio 4. Total cowardice.

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