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This is the default configuration of Samsung TV. GB News has bought prime spot.

What this meant was that racist chat entered my front room yesterday ("foreign NHS workers can't speak English").at 6.30pm with my six year old listening.

How can Ofcom just sit back and let this happen?

14.03.2026 10:54 👍 788 🔁 296 💬 100 📌 50

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14.03.2026 10:40 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wouldn't blockchain solve this?

14.03.2026 10:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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British politics is hooked on flashy fake numbers – and the AI investment debacle proves it | Jonathan Portes A claim that the UK is attracting billions of pounds in AI investment has been debunked. That’s no surprise when our establishment runs on dubious ‘good news’, says Jonathan Portes, a professor at Kin...

"Another example was Mahmood’s claim that if her “earned settlement” proposals are not implemented 'we will see a £10bn drain on our public finances and further strain on public services..this is a mix of the deliberately misleading and the completely wrong."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

14.03.2026 09:03 👍 138 🔁 70 💬 6 📌 2

Yesterday I commented on a friend's recent haircut and he was flattered that I was one of few who'd noticed but what really happened was that I'm not very good with faces and so when I saw him and his hair was different it took me a while to work out that he wasn't a new person I'd never met before

13.03.2026 13:52 👍 1394 🔁 33 💬 59 📌 10

A procurement crisis absolutely everyone saw coming but which the Department of Health and MoD will now have to tackle, with zero good outcomes – as they've both now signed contracts and have technical reliance on Palantir.

13.03.2026 06:43 👍 573 🔁 183 💬 15 📌 7

the stink of gender resentment coming off Silicon Valley has been obvious for a while. these men hate women because they hate being told no.

12.03.2026 22:14 👍 5570 🔁 1725 💬 130 📌 30
CJEU press release:
Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the
gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to
freedom of movement is contrary to EU law
A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman.
She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected.
According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons.
Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice.
In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State.
The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...

CJEU press release: Member State legislation which does not permit the amendment of the gender data of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to freedom of movement is contrary to EU law A Bulgarian national was registered at birth as being male, with a name, personal identification number and identity documents corresponding to that sex. She currently lives in Italy, where she has begun hormone therapy, and now presents herself as a woman. She instituted proceedings before the Bulgarian courts seeking a declaration that she is a female person and to have her civil status data amended on her birth certificate. Despite the medical opinions and legal assessments confirming the gender identity claimed, her request was rejected. According to national legislation, as interpreted by the plenary assembly of civil chambers of the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation, the term ‘sex’ must be understood in its biological sense, excluding any amendment of the particulars relating to sex, name and identification number. The public interest, based on the moral and/or religious values of Bulgarian society, thus prevails over the interests of transgender persons. Hearing the dispute, the Bulgarian Supreme Court of Cassation has doubts as to the compatibility of that legislation with EU law and has referred the matter to the Court of Justice. In its judgment, the Court holds that EU law precludes legislation of a Member State which does not permit the amendment of the gender data in the civil status registers of one of its nationals who has exercised his or her right to move and reside freely in another Member State. The Court emphasises first of all that, while the issue of identity documents falls within the competence of the Member States, they must exercise that competence in compliance with EU law...

Huge trans rights ruling from the EU's top court - if someone moves to another EU country and transitions, their home country can't refuse to amend their registration details to match their lived gender identity

12.03.2026 08:46 👍 3127 🔁 1042 💬 11 📌 43

Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it

12.02.2026 13:37 👍 515 🔁 173 💬 9 📌 6
Home Office

Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules

Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan

Pippa Crerar Political editor

Tue 10 Mar 2026

The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world's most dangerous countries from changes to the UK's immigration system, the Guardian understands.

Home Office Home Office refuses to exempt exceptional students from tough immigration rules Exclusive: Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper concerned about student visa ban on female Chevening scholars from volatile countries such as Afghanistan Pippa Crerar Political editor Tue 10 Mar 2026 The Home Office rejected an appeal from the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper, that would have protected outstanding students in some of the world's most dangerous countries from changes to the UK's immigration system, the Guardian understands.

That Starmer keeps Mahmood in post shows this is not just the actions of an inhumane Home Secretary, but a deeper rooted ideology of hostility and xenophobia within this government. No-one benefits from blocking Chevening scholars. This is cruelty for sake of it.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

10.03.2026 21:29 👍 279 🔁 96 💬 10 📌 5
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Can anyone explain to me what the Blue Labour justification for this is? Who out there will vote Labour because Mahmood prevented a Sudanese Chevening Scholar? And to be honest, why won’t the PM simply overrule her?

10.03.2026 19:48 👍 945 🔁 308 💬 36 📌 41
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Nigel Farage's Humiliating Iran U-Turn Should Be a Lesson for Keir Starmer By sticking to the correct and popular position on Donald Trump's Iran war, the Prime Minister has now forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal, argues Adam Bienkov

By sticking to the correct and popular position on Iran, even under relentless attacks from the right-wing press, Keir Starmer has forced his political opponents into an embarrassing reversal.

It is a lesson his Government should learn from bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/n...

10.03.2026 14:32 👍 424 🔁 101 💬 14 📌 5

Sad news for the voters of Clacton who were hoping Farage would be able to bend the POTUS’ ear about fortnightly bin collections.

09.03.2026 08:29 👍 297 🔁 72 💬 8 📌 1
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jonathan porteous (@porteous) Great post from the Bear. Oakeshott makes a living out of slagging off woke and broken Britain and has moved to Dubai to avoid paying tax. And yet if she’s in danger the British government, civil serv...

Great stuff here. Oakeshott moving to Dubai for tax and lifestyle reasons looks awfully like a migrant (sorry, expat) responding to those “pull factors” that she so derides in the U.K. substack.com/@porteous/no...

08.03.2026 18:38 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0

Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage want Britain to blindly follow Trump into this illegal war, even though the President has no plan for what comes next.

There is nothing patriotic about outsourcing Britain’s foreign policy to Donald Trump.

08.03.2026 08:18 👍 2272 🔁 535 💬 92 📌 22

Explains a lot about the failure of Brexit that its main adherents should right now be prostrating themselves before the US because they think that's what an independent UK means.

07.03.2026 12:32 👍 281 🔁 87 💬 8 📌 2
07.03.2026 11:11 👍 68 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0

Must read piece.

'The US has started a war without any legal, moral, strategic or political basis whatsoever. And yet instead of raising the alarm about it, the British press’ main question is why Britain is not more involved.' And 'Is Iraq really that long ago?'

06.03.2026 10:17 👍 149 🔁 59 💬 4 📌 1

Don't say "men's rights activists".
"Misogynist" will do fine.

05.03.2026 21:54 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

This is absolutely brilliant 👏

04.03.2026 16:05 👍 598 🔁 139 💬 61 📌 7

About to flush. But first, a word from our sponsors.

04.03.2026 16:30 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Is that something to do with @syrpis.bsky.social

04.03.2026 16:27 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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But what about international law – continued. 4th March 2026 * Hello and welcome to The Empty City blog, the new name of which is explained here. * From time-to-time this law and policy blog touches upon international law.  The last time a pos…

But what about international law – continued.

A new post at The Empty City on how Western one-sidedness in what they openly condemn as a breach of international law is neither coherent nor compelling

Personal blog: theemptycity.com/blog/2026/03...

Substack: emptycity.substack.com/p/but-what-a...

04.03.2026 13:11 👍 63 🔁 32 💬 2 📌 0

I’ve worked abroad my whole adult life and fairness, consistency, ability to bring family, straightforward path to permanent residency / citizenship are deal breakers. If the UK wants high skilled white collar workers then these all matter a lot

04.03.2026 09:06 👍 81 🔁 25 💬 3 📌 2

10/ Both Brexit and Trumpian trade wars did and will have long term consequences, but the worst case scenarios experts weren't about were avoided because the governments responsible could simply not escalate in the ways that would produce them.

That may not be their choice here.

Yikes.

/end

04.03.2026 10:08 👍 161 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 0

Which is why this isn't a useful question to ask. The public don't have a granular knowledge of where public spending goes, because they rightly leave thinking about that to politicians because they have their own lives to live. You're getting an uninformed reckon.

03.03.2026 13:12 👍 13 🔁 3 💬 2 📌 0

"I moved to one of the most unstable regions in the world, within missile range of an internationally recognized rogue state, to a city built by 'Israelites in Egypt'-esque slave labor. The place where I live depends on every faction in unstable region mutually agreeing to not let shit pop off"

02.03.2026 16:21 👍 169 🔁 30 💬 4 📌 1

Integration Commission Enforcement has quite the acronym.

02.03.2026 17:36 👍 206 🔁 44 💬 10 📌 0

The Home Office is a Behaviourist experiment. A Skinner’s Box where, rather than food pellets or electric shocks, kindness is rewarded with angry headlines and cruelty with praise.

02.03.2026 09:06 👍 17 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

Even considering I’m not a very impressive person, the people who run things and the people who talk about the people running things have absolutely decimated my imposter syndrome.

02.03.2026 03:00 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0