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Outrageously corrupt, prejudiced "science" from the NHS:

- Enforce one particular treatment pathway for years
- Rig your literature survey to exclude that pathway
- Declare that, amazingly, there is "no evidence" for any treatment pathway
- Ban the treatment
- Shrug as people suffer untreated

10.03.2026 13:06 πŸ‘ 161 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Ezra klein endorsed!

10.03.2026 20:15 πŸ‘ 73 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 0

oh hey we have proof of the thing we all knew was happening when it was happening

10.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 108 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Mr. Trump, sir, it was that bad BiBi and bad Lindsey that convinced you to do this dumb thing, time for some revenge

10.03.2026 19:52 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

guarantee there are MPs making Jokes right nowj

10.03.2026 18:12 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"would you support building a data center in your community if it would save civilization from nuclear annhiliation?" 70% yes!

10.03.2026 17:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

The automated car guys were pitching building pedestrian bridges over every crosswalk in the country so maybe that kind of thing for farms

10.03.2026 17:00 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

starting to think that the popularists i mean abundnace democrats i mean data center democrats just lie on behalf of whoever is directly or indirectly funding them

10.03.2026 15:40 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œThese are phantom investments,” said Cecilia Rikap, a professor of economics at University College London, who said similar things were happening around the world.

β€œBig tech companies artificially inflate datacentres’ job creation and economic impact to please governments like the British one, which are desperate to claim they are making the economy grow.”

β€œThese are phantom investments,” said Cecilia Rikap, a professor of economics at University College London, who said similar things were happening around the world. β€œBig tech companies artificially inflate datacentres’ job creation and economic impact to please governments like the British one, which are desperate to claim they are making the economy grow.”

Uh oh.

10.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 100 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 5

right, not even the 'come to the attention of the president stuff' but it is one thing I am sure he would've done "nasty biden gave away all the oil, should we fill it back up sir???"

10.03.2026 14:13 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
β€œZohran Mamdani is the most prominent observant Muslim in American life. He has made his religious identity a central part of his political identity, and he has vowed to stop β€˜biting his tongue’ in the face of Islamophobic attacks,” Reihan Salam, a Muslim who is the president of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, wrote in an email.

β€œThat gives him unique credibility and authority to speak out against the chauvinism, extremism, misogyny and racism that exists within Muslim communities and that has spilled over into violence again and again.”

β€œZohran Mamdani is the most prominent observant Muslim in American life. He has made his religious identity a central part of his political identity, and he has vowed to stop β€˜biting his tongue’ in the face of Islamophobic attacks,” Reihan Salam, a Muslim who is the president of the conservative Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, wrote in an email. β€œThat gives him unique credibility and authority to speak out against the chauvinism, extremism, misogyny and racism that exists within Muslim communities and that has spilled over into violence again and again.”

why isn't the Muslim mayor taking this opportunity to talk about how all Muslims are bad?

10.03.2026 13:35 πŸ‘ 893 πŸ” 54 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 26

i'm sure it is the kind of thing he would've done if someone had mentioned it, but he isn't exactly surrounded by the best

10.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 68 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 0
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Missing money, shipped chips and a 350,000% profit: key takeaways on AI β€˜phantom investments’ A Guardian investigation has put the UK government’s AI plans under the microscope. Here are the key details

this is good journalism by the guardian, which will be ignored by their politics people - the ones who go on tv and the radio.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

10.03.2026 13:00 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

and all the print journalists have an amazing ability to have no idea what is in newspapers

10.03.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Since Fox started, for various legal and cultural reasons, the US/UK have been inverted with the former having (some) trash TV news and responsible newspapers, the latter the reverse. and then GB News came along and said 'no one's gonna stop us'

10.03.2026 12:53 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Cclegraph
'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'

Cclegraph 'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'

Again, the business of British newspapers is in large part just recruiting and exploiting the most bizarre cranks you can find for your horrible, unrelenting reactionary projects. IIRC the one on the right here is the daughter of a Times arts columnist, who is also a committed Gender War wacko.

10.03.2026 12:36 πŸ‘ 434 πŸ” 81 πŸ’¬ 32 πŸ“Œ 29
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Tour The official website of Divorce. The debut album β€˜Drive to Goldenhammer’ will be released March 7th 2025. Learn more about new music, merch, music videos and tour dates.

Though i do find those "little" bands too. Go see Divorce on their US tour! www.divorcehq.co.uk/tour

10.03.2026 11:58 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Nimbyism in the british context has little consistent meaning, and "all we need to do is unshackle the developers" is more naive than anything zack has said even - or especially - if your goal is only "build tons of additional units"

10.03.2026 11:55 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Forest cat

10.03.2026 11:46 πŸ‘ 81 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Being old is regularly: ah i have stumbled across this quirky new song from what must be a niche little band waiting to be discovered which [checks] came out 8 years ago and has been streamed 47 million times

10.03.2026 11:42 πŸ‘ 437 πŸ” 49 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 6

The worst you can say about the specific thing being criticised is that it could come out of the mouth of any politician, but the dumb shit labour people say every day is somehow not an indictment of their abilities and entire project

10.03.2026 10:42 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

This is the Sensibles version of american sports talk radio "oh the coach is good at rallying his players but doesn’t have a good grasp of the fundamentals" what the fuck does this mean

10.03.2026 10:22 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

The kids today still rediscover the beatles but not to the degree the boomers wish. And even the beatles faded quite a bit for a decade late 70s-80s before resurging

10.03.2026 10:11 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Yah i am 54 and while i knew who he was growing up he was fast fading as a cultural icon even then

10.03.2026 10:03 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

β€œIt’s tragic our allies had to kill all those children, but it was sadly necessary to prevent our enemies from doing the same thing, which they do and were about to do,” is just pure, unadulterated Nazi rhetoric. β€œI’m only occupying the Sudetenland because I so desperately want peace” shit. Foul.

10.03.2026 08:39 πŸ‘ 148 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

part of the Mandelson Class

10.03.2026 08:38 πŸ‘ 50 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

not that it was okay with gaza (or lebanon or syria) either, but the broadening of the way western media and politicians just treat israel's every action as presumptively justified is quite incredible

10.03.2026 08:37 πŸ‘ 309 πŸ” 59 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

Labour mps?

09.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Not that most have been vocal about it, or acting apropriately, but i do think we speedran "oh shit the hippies are right again" over this attack on iran with various world leaders

09.03.2026 20:06 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

"Does Tony Blair want to be part of this absolutely batshit illegal war of unbridled slaughter & geopolitical destruction no one really understands the point or purpose of?" is only a question you can ask if you are entirely unfamiliar with Tony Blair & the entirety of his back catalogue

09.03.2026 19:37 πŸ‘ 58 πŸ” 13 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2