If I was Labour I'd be tempted now to go hard after the Green voters who actually care about the environment, because it doesn't really look like something the Green party really cares about anymore.
Oliver
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A shadowy network of hedgehogs and owls, operating at the highest levels of the British establishment.
Digger really wanted to be Dr Strangelove. Trouble is it forgot that, crucially, Dr Strangelove is funny.
I think the people who designed Google Classroom actively don't want children to be able to learn anything.
re "Zionism is racism" - it's a cornerstone of British equality law that discrimination need not be intentional for it to be discriminatory I'm not making *legal* claims about the Green Party motion - but a policy that would render the vast majority of Jews as personae non gratae is flatly racist
The UN said so in 1975” is a spectacularly bad argument when the UN repealed that resolution in 1991. “Zionism is racism” was a Soviet-bloc political campaign. Quoting a rescinded Cold War resolution as settled fact is propaganda laundering, not history.
A recurring controversy in left-wing spaces is "Was Person X being antisemitic or does he just call everyone he's arguing with a 'filthy lapdog of the globo-capitalist elites who should be liquidated along with his spawn'?" and I'm kind of tired of it, to be entirely honest.
It's almost as if all the people who left labour post corbs went somewhere else.
Ian Dunt@iandunt.bsky.social · last wk.Just so dispiriting to watch the Greens be corrupted by the same poison that took over Labour. All the same shit: the excuses, the mealy-mouthed justifications, the tortured position statements, the deafening silences. Like a historical reenactment.
I’m afraid if this kind of motion falls, intention is pretty clear
We don’t do the Daily Mail, but as a public service, here is someone with far too much money being attacked by an owl.
Isn't this the deal the US has had over Greenland since WW2? It sounds *awfully* similar to the existing security arrangement.
Yashar Ali 🐘@yasharali.bsky.social · 3w ago1. BREAKING Trump claims the United States has reached an agreement with Denmark and Greenland giving the USA permanent control over Greenland’s security, including the power to block foreign military activity and sensitive investments and to build a major US military presence there.
Well, today I got a work email telling me to do my cybersecurity, then IT email telling us to ignore it because it was spam/phishing, then later an email to say it wasn't spam and we should click on the link and do the training. Is this part of the test, I wonder.
Interest piqued by a notification for the Marlow Murder Club. What is this, I thought, some postmodern twist on noir fiction? But no. God, how Chandler would have hated cosy crime.
So they seem to have cancelled an event at Castle Rising - which is made almost entirely of stone - due to fire risk.
Kid at the park called Kendall, presumably after Jenner. Struck me that in my day there's no way they wouldn't have universally been known as 'mint cake'.
Tbh I did think the first national emergency alert might be a bit more nuclear wary. So that's nice.
Sorry but "residents, landowners and visitors" is such a weird framing. Why not just say "people"?
Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 2mo agoI got two in two minutes
The gods aren't angry, they are just 90 to 96% disappointed.
Some thoughts on high streets based, entirely parochially, on where I live (Bristol). 1. Income really matters Ultimately, the nice shops - coffee, gelato, hardware, little restaurants, boutiques etc. - are in places where people can afford them. You need to Baumol money into people’s pockets
I'm sorry but Outlook automatically suggesting replies like this is not going to help with creating a culture of more careful review of documents other people send you (which recent news suggests might be wise).
I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
