This is the Gov looking for your input on the BBC. It takes a while to complete (15/20 mins) but it’s pretty comprehensive and covers most aspects. Please share. I’m surprised many people haven’t seen it yet. www.gov.uk/government/c...

<<taps sign>> Harming someone and demanding gratitude for it is what abusers do.

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This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

I'm concerned about that demographic whose basic tenet is "I will keep sacking whoever is in charge until my personal situation improves" People voted for Brexit to give Cameron a kicking, and I fear there will be those who will do the same for Starmer/Labour in voting for Reform.

I am deeply worried there many out there who treat AI as 'gospel' because they haven't time to do any real research. AI's tendency to 'garble' what it has been taught/scraped is truly unnerving.

Did the UK just send the EU a Valentine Card? Is the Right having its 'Ratner' moment? Or has Farage finally stirred up the one 'grumpy vote' that's grumpy about him? Your quieter take on the week's events (and laundry tips too), with @sturdyalex.bsky.social and @pimlicat.bsky.social

AGREE.

I knew I saw this somewhere before. Funny that it’s almost exactly what’s actually happening now.

Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Western reporting suggests that the United States has accepted Russia's demanded sequence of having Ukraine cede territory to Russia before receiving formal US or European security guarantee commitments. Read more from here: www.criticalthreats.org/analysis/rus...

Orwell was a profit.

If we have entered the age of 'power politics', then we will have war. There is no alternative outcome, as great powers will test each other for dominancy. Have we really unwound the clock to the 19th Century?

All of it can be laid at Thatcher's door. The lie about 'investment'. It never happened. Privatisation / outsourcing was only ever just a cash cow, to be milked to death. And now we are all paying, but still the money just goes in fat cat pockets.

🇺🇸 Senator Graham: Putin’s invaded, what, three times? Nothing Europe has done in the past has deterred Putin, and quite frankly, nothing we did in the past deterred Putin. How many people believe he wants to take all of Ukraine? He wants it all. He’s not going to stop until somebody stops him. Є

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the war in Ukraine will end only when Russia is exhausted at least economically, and preferably militarily. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference, he said Berlin is ready to talk, but Russia is not yet willing to engage seriously. #Ukraine

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If Russian propagandists are fantasising about joining forces with America to fight Europe there is something fundamentally wrong with America.

A Reuters photographer captured this image of a page from Pam Bondi's "burn book," which she used to counter any questions from Democratic lawmakers during an unhinged hearing today. It looks like the DOJ monitored members of Congress’s searches of the unredacted Epstein files. Just wow.

They really just don't care about being discovered. They obviously have no fear of future repercussions. That's the bit that really seems worrying.

I’ve watched a lot of congressional hearings over the last 40 years. This performance by Bondi is the single most unprofessional, non-responsive, reprehensible and obnoxious I have ever seen from any witness who has testified before any committee of either chamber.

In short, while pointing out that breaking news with conflicting perspectives involves publication of competing accounts, pending clarification, BBC accepts it was slow to adjust once it became clear that only one side was engaged in to truth. Key paras in long email here …

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NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise. BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?

Start taking assets from this criminal….

Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years thehill.com/homenews/med...

Macron: “End of Russia as a permanent provider of local energy. “End of China as a main export market. “The US imposing tariffs on our economy and a coercion mechanism. 1/2

🚨ALARM: Republicans are closer to ramming the SAVE ACT through, the Project 2025 voter-ID bill that requires voter’s current names to MATCH their birth certificates. 79% of married women take a spouse’s name. This could disenfranchise MILLIONS of women. #HandsOffHerVote

holy shit -- Bondi's new tactic is refusing to answer Democratic questions, then using time during the next Republican questioner to smear the previous Democratic member and accuse them of being complicit in violence crimes

This is a sick world we live in.

What a miserable excuse for a civilisation we are living in.

Epstein survivors raise their hands to signal they've been ignored by Trump's DOJ as AG Pam Bondi refuses to look at them (Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty)

BREAKING: Pam Bondi appears to have just committed a federal crime by lying under oath. Ted lieu just caught her in a lie and called for her resignation live on TV.

The Epstein files show that Brexit was never a “plucky British revolt”. In reality, Brexit was fed, and empowered, by an entire class of oligarchs and autocrats, who thrive on chaos, weak regulation and brittle institutions.

Arthur's on fire this week. We touched on the UK's leaky political funding system in Quiet Riot – if you want to know just how concerned we all really should be, stick this on your listening list

Goldman to Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as 'the Gestapo' or 'secret police' encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is you have it backwards. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."

The conditions in detention centres are beyond horrific. No human should be treated like this. Seamus Culleton, who is held in a Texas detention centre, said: "It's like a modern day concentration camp."

As the Olympic Games bans the helmet of Ukrainian athlete Vladyslav Heraskevych with portraits of Ukrainian athletes killed by russia, let us be his voice and spread his message🫶🏻

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Things are still surfacing. Plus six men whose names have been kept secret, for reasons not disclosed.

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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

“Lying in feces, throw up, urine… like animals in a cage at the zoo.” A whistleblower recounts the horrific ICE detention center conditions in Baltimore — a similar story everywhere.

"It does not matter who votes, but who counts the votes." ---Stalin

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

My own take on the Sweeney departure 1. The blockage of 'tory continuity party' goes and we get a sea change in Labour that embraces closer EU ties amongst many other things 2. This is the domino that causes the exit of Starmer, and in 6-9 months we have a General Election, that Reform wins.

It is my view (just my own view), that the period of climate stability humanity has enjoyed and enabled Agriculture is ending.