Badenoch's snide remark about Lib Dems being the kinds of people who fix the local church roof was very revealing about her party, which used to consist of people who fixed church roofs
I am 99% sure that Cummings did not understand the motivation behind project Cybersyn despite being obsessed with it.
SIR - I'm touched that Nigel Biggar remembers my late brother Bahram Dehqani-Tafti (Comment, March 3), who made such a great impact during his short life. But my brother would not have wanted his assassination to be appropriated for moral justification of the attack on Iran. This is a war of choice rather than necessity. The Iranian regime is odious and repugnant, but it did not pose an imminent threat that justified pre-emptive self-defence. Diplomacy might have been working frustratingly slowly, but it was working. It certainly hadn't been exhausted. The lack of clarity as to the war's aims, and the absence of any forethought about what comes next belie the notion that this is either a moral war or a just one. International law exists precisely to prevent the use of force in such circumstances. Without it, force prevails, the strong prey on the weak, and states routinely act with impunity to resolve their disputes with might. It is a world that invites fear rather than hope. This is not a world my brother would have advocated. He would be horrified at the terror that has been unleashed by this war. He would weep for the plight of the powerless caught up in the political machinations of the powerful. He would be saddened by the prospect of another Iraq or Libya. He would want to see the West supporting the Iranian people to find their own solution to their country's future, not leaving them as pawns in the games of others. If Lord Biggar wants to make the ethical case for an unjust and illegal war, he should do so without invoking the memory of my brother. The Rt Rev Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani Bishop of Chelmsford
the (excellent) bishop of Chelmsford bodying Nigel Biggar's attempt to use the murder of her brother to justify the war on Iran (originally a letter to the Telegraph)
If your response to Antisemitism in the diaspora amounts to "Israel commits genocide so non- Israeli Jews deserve to be attacked and live in fear," you should probably stop posting and start asking if you're the baddy.
Or develop an interest in Alestair Crowley or something.
Manchester responded to becoming collateral damage in the war against slavery by offering wholehearted support to the Union and eventually erecting this statue, which sits in Lincoln Square near the town hall.
had to go to hospital mtoday and ran across this in one of the corridors. It's a stained glass memorial to the Cotton Famine during the US civil war, when the Union blockade of Confederate ports stopped the export of cotton to Manchester, collapsing the city's most important industry.
There's a bleak joke in here about a Second Generation Ethnic Policy with British characteristics ond 'sgen i lawer o awydd dros gwneud hi.
Possibly the most fucking mental, evil thing Badenoch has said yet, which is setting a high bar.
Reading this as a very oblique Evangelion joke.
The BBC World Service is one of the ways the people in Iran can still get news.
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IN PRAISE OF JEREMY BOWEN
His Today programme monologue on Trump, war in Iran, and the history of the Middle East was exactly how the BBC should be reporting on the world.
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My condolences.
We're listing our most fear-inducing functions. While I could flex and say something obscure like "Legendre functions of the second kind" - whatever they are - it's actually hypergeometric functions. They've got subscripts on both sides, lots of arguments, and there are entire books about them.
The original sin here, IMV, is that a lot of writers and editors hear 'reading age of ten years old' and go 'ah, I'm writing for a moron!'
Keir of Arrakeen
The Science, Innovation & Tech committee have written the most amazing letter to DSIT/UKRI/STFC:
"What is clear is that, despite your assertions to the contrary... widespread cuts have been proposed before adequate consultation with those affected was undertaken. This is wholly unacceptable" 💪🔭⚛️🧪
Martyrs, he said doomily.
Arguably one of the most misleading terms used by governments when talking about immigration/asylum is the word "voluntary". Voluntary removals rarely are. They are just a choice between leaving under your own steam or being dragged into detention and thrown on a deportation flight.
A week! One week to make a decision of whether to rip your family from the life they have started to build.
This highlights to nonsense which is the principle of "voluntary returns" in many cases. It isn't voluntary when the alternative is being deported anyway.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Part of the "decline of reading" may have something to do with the forms of these readings we are (or are not) making available to possible readers
Bleak House serial numbers
hard cover volume of Bleak House
These are the same "book"
Mix it with blood, then get the Very Chatty Eldritch Entity from Laird Barron's The Syphon to, well, syphon it. A plan with no drawbacks, I'm sure.
I ask my university's state appointed political commisar if I have to code each individual victory in the data set or if I can just count it as one war. He says nothing but menacingly slides his hand towards his pistol. I sigh and get to work. It's going to be a long week.
i mean these days it's pretty clear that everyone accepts Beijing's basic proposition that the internet is dangerous to their political systems, and that all are interested in its potential for surveillance and control. It's the greatest gift to state power ever invented.
Socrates was fake, the daimon was real
Meanwhile, if you are cis...
”Readers only want first person POV”
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