Every detail is more insane than the last. No US collar insignia, seemingly random shoulder loops, MacArthur's a two-star, they're all wearing Sam Browne belts...
Roger McCarthy
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'Prince, I can hear the trumpet of Germinal, The tumbrils toiling up the terrible way; Even to-day your royal head may fall, I think I will not hang myself to-day'. (Chesterton)
Lot of talk at the moment about how AI recruitment discriminates against older people. I looked into just how opaque the software is for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social. The firms behind it won’t talk to journalists. Meanwhile, it’s destroying people’s lives. www.thenewworld.co.uk/ros-taylor-s...
Should robots decide whether or not you get a job?
Companies are using AI systems for recruitment, arguing that it’s a way of removing bias from the system. But it brings with it a whole load of other problems, some of them just as bad
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Hi, I'm being made redundant by the University of Southampton at the end of this month. I'm desperately looking for work. I'll consider all offers but have particular skills in policy, strategy and research. I also have a consultancy service I offer. Please let me know if you hear of anything
The Arctic is cooking and we are in serious trouble In what should be one of the coldest places on Earth Its 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), as hot as Orlando Florida Without Arctic natural air conditioning systems we are toast www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...
It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now
The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is
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A consistent opinion that I have held for more than thirty years now is that Sanjay Reddy is so very splendid. (We were graduate students together in the 1990s, working in different departments in the same building.) Shame on the New School!
Ingrid Robeyns@ingridrobeyns.bsky.social · 10h agoThe New School for Social Reserach in NYC is, essentially, killing itself, killing what it was, killing what it stood for. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...
every single day I am baffled by the fact that this man - this incredibly, astoundingly embarrassing man - is the one half the damn country built a cult of personality around
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoTrump: “The Winning Shot in the Bedminster Club Championship! Thank you very much to all of those who participated. I won with a 70, & am so honored in that, unlike the rest of the field, I’m given very little time to practice, bc I’m focused on many other things. It’s called TALENT, and I have it”
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
GP practices provided 35,000,000 appointments in June 50% more than 2019 Sadly too many in the media ignore this Many commentators refuse to accept the truth In the end GP practices will close, GPs leave & GPs will be blamed despite doing more for less year on year
GPonline@gponline.bsky.social · 2d agoGeneral practice in England delivered nearly 35m appointments in June this year - a new record that is 46% above the same month in 2019, GPonline analysis shows. Full story: www.gponline.com/general-prac...
Liddle once called me a "fucking halfwit" on Facebook. RIP, you bloviating boil-in-the-bag tosser.
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2d agoSunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies aged 66
I appear to be one of the few people fortunate enough to have never met Rod Liddle, so I’ve got that going for me.
Before I #cuntblock this person, am I the victim of a spoof post, or is this shit real?
My wish came true, I am still in my job, and the guy who wrote this is dead. 😎
Didn’t Rod Liddle write a column complaining he couldn’t download child pornography? And yet people somehow employed him after.
[Rebekah] Brooks added that "he challenged conventional thinking and left an indelible mark on British journalism." An indelible mark is a stain, Rebekah.
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
Canadians overwhelmingly demand wealth tax after Kevin O’Leary says it will make him move away
OTTAWA - Pollsters report a split among Canadians over the idea of higher tax on the assets of wealthy individuals, though support skyrockets after noting that Kevin O'Leary has vowed that he will res...
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"Kew Gardens has had a weather station since 1871. This July was, based on third party analysis of Met Office data collected at the site, the first calendar month on record where no rainfall was measured at Kew."
London's first month without rain
Plus: There's nowhere to bury the dead • London wants to keep its money • When will it stop being so damn hot • Who is to blame for turning off the air conditioning in the tower block?
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Rod Liddle was a stone-cold arsehole who actually said in a national newspaper that he couldn't be a teacher because he would inevitably try and shag the kids Apparently his editor has said, 'he challenged conventional thinking' If you mean 'was wrong in every conceivable way' then, yes
It’s the 566th anniversary of King James II of Scotland being hoist with his own petard—almost literally, given that he was taken out by a piece of his own artillery while besieging a castle 🧵
It's incredible what can be ground up and shoved into the moral panic sausage casing at The Telegraph. Non-Muslim police staff raising money for charity by voluntarily fasting in some parkrun-esque project is grounds for extensive quotes from Nick Timothy on scrapping the Public Sector Equality Duty
Rod Liddle, who once wrote in The Spectator that he couldn’t work as a teacher because he wouldn’t be able to stop himself from shagging the kids, has died aged 66. I won’t be shedding any tears, personally.
If we're prepared to grab the opportunity this could be a teachable moment about why MPs should be paid properly and why they shouldn't have outside earnings (or outside earnings that they can keep, anyway).
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 2d agoReform’s Richard Tice probed over failure ‘to declare an interest’ ft.trib.al/vxuTfWW
It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better
A sad loss to people who like hateful bigots who marry their girlfriend of over 10 years only to abandon her during their honeymoon to have an affair with a young receptionist and later assault her while nearly 5-months pregnant.
Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle dies
The Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died.
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Like all great writers, it's a time to pay tribute to the words they left us with
The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: Sunday Times and Sun columnist Rod Liddle has died aged 66 after a short illness
Sam I live in Germany. One of the reasons Germany has more social mobility is PRECISELY due to the schooling system. The UK has streaming - its called getting your children into private school so you delay them even meeting working class kids till university or later.