He's behaving like a jerk. (Frank Zappa allegedly only ever said "stop behaving like a jerk" when his kids misbehaved. Works for me.)
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He's behaving like a jerk. (Frank Zappa allegedly only ever said "stop behaving like a jerk" when his kids misbehaved. Works for me.)
The issue has never particularly been the original daft Sun feature, which (as Greens like to note) was more than a decade ago. It's been the almost entirely unnecessary dishonesty around it, which is much more recent.
They should put a monkey on the £50 note and a pony on the £10 note to confuse the hell out cockneys.
Breaking: Government just confirmed will apply new laws tackling tax avoidance schemes to tax ‘finfluencers’ - protecting millions who have lost money or been fined following their advice.
Expect a knock from the taxman if you have been ripping people off with your financial clickbait. #trueLabour
For goodness sake.
Great thread from @monkemma.bsky.social . 🙏🙏🙏🙏
From what I've read Zack is an NLP practitioner. NLP involves short term therapeutic processes, sometimes linked to hypnosis , plus a range of sometimes very effective communication techniques that can be used to help understand others, or , subtly , to control them.
When I asked Zack Polanski about his brief if memorable career as a breast size-enhancing hypnotherapist, he told me that it was never about actual breast size, just body image.
This was not the case, and this new BBC article - and audio clip – makes that plainer.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
💬 "As Labour women that's what we've got to contribute, is that experience of what it's like at the other end of the spectrum"
🔴 Baroness Margaret Curran talks about some of the challenges facing women, in our most recent 'In Conversation with' International Women's Day special...
"Opposition politicians were so keen to score points over Starmer, they went all-in and demanded the UK back America in Iran".
"Now they see we should be worried about oil prices, and maybe the Americans haven't got a clear plan after all"
www.thenewsagents.co.uk/article/the-...
🙂😂🙏👍
We won’t allow firms to gouge consumers under the cover of the conflict in the Gulf. Right that the CMA are investigating the heating oil market, including reports of some suppliers cancelling previously agreed orders to try and raise prices www.gov.uk/government/n...
We know where the normalisation of political violence can lead.
We lost Jo Cox and David Amess to political violence.
Depicting politicians being attacked for entertainment feeds a culture that dehumanises people in public life.
James Blake on how a lack of community has deepened issues surrounding the manosphere.
The decimation of youth clubs has had very troubling effects on our society.
Negotiating with Starmer to keep Farage out of power: Nah.
Negotiating with Vladmir Putin: Sure thing.
Also Zack Polanski: Starmer shouldn't negotiate with Trump, he isn't to be trusted!
Thanks! @hannahfearn.bsky.social did you get this? And I find it interesting too...
HOW? HOW DO YOU "UNDERSTAND" THIS? MESSAGES FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD?
Italy’s Meloni criticises US war on Iran as part of dangerous trend reut.rs/47sCxQx
Meanwhile, some good news on this side of the pond..
Chart showing "Number of spinout and non-spinout equity investments relative to local authority’s three-year average"
Successful startups are increasingly based in Oxfordshire’s rural districts, not the city itself, according to a new analysis. Cherwell and South Oxfordshire saw a sharp rise in ‘spinout’ companies attracting investments in 2025, while Oxford dipped by over 25%.
Anyone out there know about this?
Ok folks who like this new iteration of the Greens . Do you think Zack is right on negotiating with Putin over Ukraine?
And they almost all have very weird names . I know I have too, but these feel like bot names
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We are already doing that. Repeat.
We are already doing that.
New Iran thread: How bad is the oil shock caused by Trump’s failing war? This is the largest oil reserve release in history, in a desperate attempt to keep down prices.
Dozens of victims of Jeffrey Epstein have filed a lawsuit against former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, accusing her of helping conceal key details during the early handling of the Epstein investigation
Keir Starmer: 'In this job, you don't get a second shot at making the right call on taking your country to war.
'If she (Kemi Badenoch) were Prime Minister, we would be in the war, and she would be coming back to Parliament a week later to say, "oh, sorry, I got that one wrong".'
NEW: Keir Starmer has asked new Ethics and Integrity Commission to tighten financial disclosures, lobbying and business appointment rules. There will also be a review of national security vetting process following Mandelson case.
Trevor Phillips is on Times Radio at the moment presenting its lunchtime show and talking about the imminent release of the Mandelson files. He’s not mentioned that Peter Mandelson has been his friend for many years and was best man at his first wedding.
French poster for Casablanca has an illustration of Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, their faces pressed together, the name of the film in red, and cast names and the director's name.
Been a while since a 📽 so tonight's was one of the best: Casablanca (1942, dir. Michael Curtiz) - the thrilling, romantic, funny, beautifully shot ensemble tale of cynic-with-a-lover's-heart Rick finding his passion for life again, with a cast at the top of their game.
"Welcome back to the fight."
