Well I’ve spent the whole of #NorEng drawing the three English lions on a tote bag, time well spent even if we don’t win
Sheffield-born Helen Sharman became the first Briton to go into space on this day 1991. She was a research chemist working for a confectionery company when she was chosen to participate in a mission to the Soviet space station Mir.
Robert Jenrick helpfully lists all the things he didn't do during his 10 years in government.
Starmer had some festive advice for Reform MPs at PMQs: "If mysterious men from the east appear bearing gifts, this time report it to the police." Cheeky fucker.
Prices since Trump took office: -Groceries: ⬆️ 2.7% -Utilities: ⬆️ 11% -ACA premiums: ⬆️ 26% -Overall consumer prices: ⬆️ 3% Trump: “I don't want to hear about the affordability.”
I can't be the only person who's noticed that these "Top 100" lists of people in "tech" are actually lists of people who work in management and marketing, surely?
Only 29 asylum appeals have been made to the ECHR in the last 45 years you dimwit. For that non-existent benefit you would sacrifice the right to life, liberty, fair trial, freedom of expression, thought, religion, protection from torture, slavery, etc. Fucking idiot.
Feels like, I dunno, maybe it might be a good plan if we associated this obviously bad and increasingly unpopular idea with the politician whose entire career has been telling us it would be a good idea
Pierre Briançon@pierrebri.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis in FT this morning 👇
This is how Farage and Tice reacted at PMQs when someone raised the issue of one of their politicians accepting bribes to spread Russian propaganda. Apparently it’s funny to be a traitor.
I've known @SadiqKhan for over 30 yrs. He's a feminist, a socialist & an LGBTQ+ ally. I'm so proud he's our London mayor. For the record, he's as interested in introducing Sharia Law to London as I am - and that's 0%. Those who suggest otherwise are deluded, or have a v sinister agenda.
Donald Trump just blamed the left for hate speech, while delivering a hate speech at the memorial for a man who said there was no such thing as hate speech.
Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:
"There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough. But we do not permit ourselves to be ridiculed." www.abramsbooks.com/product/outr...
![from Kliph Nesteroff's OUTRAGEOUS:
A comedian named Werner Fink was performing in a Berlin nightclub in 1935 when it was raided by police. Reuters reported, "Werner Finck, one of the best-known vaudeville stars in Germany, has been put in a concentration camp for "pulling the leg' of Nazi leaders ... He has been detained since in a secret police prison in Berlin. His 70-year-old mother has been unable to obtain any information regarding his whereabouts.
Actress Käthe Dorsch learned Fink was incarcerated at the Esterwegen concentration camp. She met directly with Nazi minister Hermann Göring to secure his release, and the comedian was freed in 1936.
"You know, it's funny," said Finck. "I walked around the camp and saw the walls, guards with their guns, and the heavy gates. Everybody told me how hard it was to get in-but all I did was speak one sentence."
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called Berlin comedians "society rabble and intellectual snobs." Goebbels said, "There is plenty of humor in Germany, more than enough. But we do not permit ourselves to be ridiculed ... Such jokes make us wretch."
Five more comedians were banned "for publicly ridiculing Nazi party and state functionaries [and making] Nazi leaders the butts of their jokes."
"Comedians have no right to be jocular about such things as the Nazi four-year economic plan or Adolf Hitler's demand for colonies because they are too important and require too much careful thinking on the part of big minds," said Goebbels. The Nazis banned nearly all comedy-with the exception of anti-Semitic jokes and racist humor.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rt4rsqs66fyuw477an7i4dkr/bafkreiagx6gc47hwjfi67b4zv22ojbo5qpoycgoel5ttkq6xfub2suvkd4)
'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
'Hypocrite' Nigel Farage didn't pay £44k stamp duty then blasted Angela Rayner
Last year Nigel Farage announced he had bought a house in Clacton, Essex, but in fact it was his partner Laure Ferrari, 46, who shelled out almost £900,000 for the property
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Not a great sign when the NRA is doing more to speak up against trans people having constitutional rights stripped away than a lot of our actual supposed allies are.
Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 11mo agoOh my god, Trump actually got the NRA to come out to defend trans people owning a gun.
The tradition is to draw the arrival in front of St Peter. How will cartoonists manage this one when it happens?
Thousands of Israelis stayed home from work, flooded city streets and blocked roads and highways across the country on Sunday, staging some of the largest anti-war protests in months as the military prepares for a major assault on Gaza City. wapo.st/4mvMVfK
Fontaines played to an estimated 65,000 people on the mainstage and showed this on their video screens. Not even "The IDF" but "Israel". Not seen any politicians calling them antisemtic.
There is a heart on the wall for every person who died of covid in this country, whether or not it has writing on it. We will never forget them. ❤️ #Monday
