A consultation on the future of the BBC closes at midnight tonight. If you're in the UK and have a bit of time this evening, Campaign For The Arts has guidance on completing it www.campaignforthearts.org/reports/a-st...
The Green leader, who listens to political podcasts at three times the normal speed, is a fast talker. Although his favourite content comes from Twitch and YouTube streamers, he refers to “the cesspit
badenoch attacking podcasters
i know who stands up for my values
🚨 WATCH: Labour MP Charlotte Nichols reveals she was raped as an MP as she opposes the jury trial reforms
"I waited 1,088 days to go to court. We've been told [by the Government] that if we have concerns about this Bill, it's because we've not been raped"
Got to respect the way he still does everything, including admitting war crimes, with the cadences and timing of an old-school stand up
The irony of the "Get Men Out Of Women's Spaces" sandwich board on one of these pricks
But, rather than receiving a formal invite to meet Trump, Farage was in fact invited to Mar-a-Lago by a member of the club, according to multiple people briefed on the matter They said Farage had hoped he would be able to catch Trump for a conversation as the US president was scheduled to travel to Mar-a-Lago that evening. However, Trump had a change in his itinerary and decided to stay instead in Doral, about an hour`s drive away The Reform leader's failure to secure an audience with the US president underscores a weakening of ties between the two populist leaders who famously formed a close friendship in the vears before and after the 2016
Massive humiliation for Farage, who tipped off the UK press that he was flying to Florida to have dinner with Trump... only for Trump to decide he had more interesting things to do when Nigel arrived.
he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something
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This is an attack Gillick Competence, and without a doubt the beginnings of an assault on the supply of birth control to young people.
I was 17 when I started taking HRT. If you’re over 16, then by English law you can legally consent to your own healthcare.
Have been a bit frustrated by some of the conversation about Labour's voter coalition.
I've written about who the "Hero Voters" actually were, how we won them, and what we need to do to earn their support next time.
chriscurtismk.substack.com/p/who-actual...
Prompt: please draw the best mouse Output: an adorably naff mouse
Prompt: ai please draw a sneaky whale Output: a small whale and the words "you can barely see him"
Prompt: show me the best cat Output: dog in a cat mask. The words "not dog"
I want to be friends with every single person on youraislopbores.me
My dad made the biggest jewelled egg in the world. The obsession would destroy his marriage, family and fortune
Not interested anyway
The BBC must have access to more comedy writers than just about any other UK organisation… Did every single one of them say 'no' to writing the radio ads for TV Licensing?
I think this is a great argument, beautifully constructed
Oh! I lived here 1993-2004 and it was never going to match my politics but even so it looks like it's been on a wild ride since then
this post deserves to be presented to you by having an index card moved down word by word with photos taken of your face after every new reveal
The sad thing is, without having any qualms about any of our councillors back then, if I had had to guess which would happen last, I would still have guessed the station entrance
I did wonder about the discrepancy with the BBC's figure, but I could see the other figure on the official report so decided it wasn't misleading enough to call out while still wondering who was throwing their money away – but thanks for clearing up the difference, makes sense!
Travelling back in time to 2015 when I tweeted this, to ask myself to guess which would happen last: Lewisham station getting another entrance; one of these councillors hitting national headlines over being 'banned' from a school; or another's spouse being arrested for allegedly spying for China
"you can't spend years insulting liberals and pandering to right-wing idiocy then expect progressive voters to support you - please subscribe to the new statesman!"
That Tory money has to be mostly bequests, right? Surely no-one who's actually alive is thinking "You know where I should put my money? On the Keminaissance!"
The BBC today advocating that other PSBs could use iPlayer for their programmes in the future.
How 20 years ago a similar idea was blocked by the regulator, before the streamers came along.
What I will never understand is....Twitter was *never* a good gauge of public opinion! I genuinely cannot understand the people who have clearly been using it as a measure of something other than 'internal leadership contests' (where it was genuinely useful' or 'ways to discover cool links'.
Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Wow. Well, that's dystopian as hell.
The headline reads "Meta workers say they're seeing disturbing things through users' smart glasses."
In a moment of uncharacteristic incredulity I assumed it was badly written. Why would Meta *workers* being seeing things through Meta *users'* glasses?
SILLY ME.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...
I really care about men's rights, and having given it much thought, I have decided the best way to advance them is to deny women help in the face of violence
