It feels as though the era of free content online has cost us an enormous amount culturally. Would it be better to go back to paying for news content so that the dying art of journalism as a career, let alone local newspapers, music journalism etc etc can survive?

Id do get heartily sick of social care bang equated to care for older people. 50% of people receiving social care have learning disabilities, physical disabilities or mental health issues, and those services are in as dire straights as those for older people.

If Britain had kept corporation tax at a rate of 40% as it was between 1965 and 1983, the exchequer would today be collecting an extra £61 million in tax.

Foreign rapists, paedophiles and murderes are escaping from British justice. They didn't come over on small boats though, they came over on US military planes www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

How the US bypasses British courts to try its military over crimes in the UK

Even sexual assault or paedophilia cases are heard by US courts martial, using an obscure 1951 agreement

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Alan Milburn is introduced as a former health secretary who's done a lot of work on social mobility Milburn was a pro outsourcing health secretary who went on to make a fortune advising private companies profiting from his health 'reforms'. I wonder why Ridge didnt mention any of that?

Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Alan Milburn is on #bbclaurak today As Solomon Hughes wrote in this article on Milburn from 2022: "Almost 2 decades ago he was the pro PFI health secretary, now he & his family trouser millions from his consultancy work for private healthcare interests" morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/al...

Replace the worked "hacked" with the word "gifted"and you're about there

Why the fuck are we allowing this to happen for an as yet very much unproven technology? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

More than 100 UK datacentres plan to burn gas to generate electricity

Requests for gas connections by operators amount to more than 15 terawatt hours per year, endangering climate targets

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I know it feels that way, but it’s only been about 5 minutes

Just watched the first episode of 'The Good Life'. Tom casually remarks to Barbara that he isn't too concerned about jacking in his job because "the house is paid for". Tom is 40, works as a draughtsman and lives in a 3 bedroom detached house in Surbiton.

Just more evidence that the UKs “first past the post” voting system does not reflect the diversity of our politics. Time for a change

The same people reliably tell me that British Muslims don't have the same values as me. Yet they've just voted for a young woman, representing an unashamedly progressive party, led by a gay Jewish man.

The brass neck of "Sir" Jim Radcliffe, banging on about people on benefits, when he just received a £120 million bung from the government to keep Grangemouth open, despite the fact that he doesn't pay a penny in tax in this country. How's that for benefit scrounging?

Keir Starmer: "I'm very disappointed in Mr Bin Laden. When we granted him a visa, he assured me that he had ended his links to Al Qaeda but unfortunately he did not give a full account of his actions"

Trump trashes EU and UK in Davos. Yet Europe holds more US debt than anyone else in the world. And Japan another $1T. Some very bad judgment to dis your creditors. #econsky

USD as percentage of foreign currency reserves. Hoo boy. #EconSky

"If I oppose Israel’s atrocities, I’m not Jewish enough. If I march against apartheid, genocide and torture, I’m a kapo. If I refuse to treat a foreign state as sacred, I’m a self-hating Jew." Judith Treanor on being "the wrong kind of Jew". #auspol michaelwest.com.au/how-jewish-a...

How Jewish are you? Enough to put you on a list? - Michael West

We hear a lot from Australia's Zionist Jews in the media, not so much from non-Zionist Jews. Hate speech laws and Australia in upheaval.

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DOJ investigating whether Denmark lied on its Greenland mortgage.

Nice trolling by @bsky.app

Maccabi Tel Aviv fans arming themselves with steel bars from a construction site before going on a rampage in Amsterdam. This is why they were banned in the UK.

RIP Mani author of many fantastic baselines, this one being my personal favourite youtu.be/4D2qcbu26gs?...

The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (Official Video)

YouTube video by StoneRosesVEVO

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The "Elon Musk is a genius" types are worse than Elon Musk because they enable Elon Musk

Otto English@ottoenglish.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The "Dominic Cummings is a genius" types were worse than Dominic Cummings because they enabled Dominic Cummings. The "Boris Johnson is a genius" types were worse than Boris Johnson because they enabled Boris Johnson. Now go away and write that out a thousand times.

Good to hear from a minister preaching the actual message of Jesus, not the pretend version that Conservatives like to believe.

The Last Mile with USAID@thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com · 9mo ago

Let’s talk about it!

So it turns out that the Nobel Peace Prize committee saw fit to give the award to a person that played an active part in an attempt to overthrow a democratically elected government. It wasn't Trump though....

The Bank of England is worried that AI stocks are entering speculative bubble territory. Not really surprising when you consider that a large amount of passes for generative AI is essentially glorified search engines. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Britain has seen an acute living standards slowdown over the past 20 years. This has affected incomes across the distribution. A typical family today would be £20,000 richer if incomes had continued growing at the same rate since 2005, when the Foundation was founded. ⤵️ buff.ly/NuhNFF9

A summary of UK tabloid media's position on the Manchester synagogue attack: If you are still opposed to Israel's genocide after yesterday, you are a racist Islamist commie who should be deported to Rwanda.

Looking forward to a 6-3 ruling against the concept of linear flow of time.