Steve Peers

As well as could be expected, given *gestures at the world*. Hope you are well.

I think the idea was an ordinary Act of Parliament?

Hereditary Peers Bill passes in House of Lords, paving the way for further reform The Hereditary Peers Bill has passed in the House of Lords in one of the biggest reforms to Parliament and UK democracy in a generation.

Bill removing hereditary peers from the House of Lords finally passes www.gov.uk/government/n...

So fascinating because during Trump I, she made a point of voting against every nominee. That’s because she was angling for the 2020 Pres race. Now she’s just D-Crypto.

Even granted that the Home Office makes ministers at least 50% more evil, there’s something unnerving about Mahmood’s performative cruelty

Also...the 5p duty cut has not been reversed yet, so cutting the *current* price makes no sense...

WATCH: Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick change fuel prices in Buxton at a Reform UK petrol station They have pledged to reinstate the 5p fuel duty cut in their first Budget

Farage and Jenrick pull a stunt in Buxton in protest at the fuel prices which are going up - on account of a war they both back - started by a man Farage flew thousands of miles to "have dinner with" only for said man to decide he was busy.

So much dignity going on.

It is true that there is a lot of popular sentiment about this, but it is insane and made up.

"While Nige has been brown-nosing Trump with his warmongering, he has missed that most of the country doesn’t want to follow the orange narcissist into an illegal war with no fixed objectives other than continue till The Donald gets bored"

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

"I've never called for war with Eastasia" www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Badenoch denies calling for UK to join US-Israeli war on Iran Conservative leader accused of taking confusing position after she said Starmer should ‘do more than catch arrows’

At the most basic level of 'have some self-respect', Conservative MPs should not put forward someone who visibly is not intellectually equipped to be prime minister as their candidate to be prime minister.

More than 2 million American women get married each year- most change their names. Not to mention the number who move is even more. This is not some “small fraction” of people.

Instead of Bringing Accountability to ICE, Trump Chooses To Have Travelers Wait For Hours In TSA Lines The administration is also detaining teen mariachi musicians instead of ending its shutdown and agreeing to common-sense reforms reining in ICE.

The admin has every ability to begin to end its shutdown today and agree to bring some accountability to ICE. Instead, its choosing to detain teen mariachi performers (who have thankfully been released this week) while travelers wait for as long as three hours in TSA lines:

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Hungary’s government just said the quiet part out loud
Minister János Lázár linked the seizure of more than $80M in Ukrainian cash and gold to oil flows through the Druzhba pipeline

Kyiv says the mask has slipped
Assets seized. Oil demanded
kyivindependent.com/orban-orders...

Fuck off, coloniser

Are his lawyers *also* in prison cells?

The article makes it sound like this was a settlement.

Barton could not attend court, as he is currently in police custody on Merseyside where he has been charged with a serious assault, the victim of which remains in hospital. Barton has three previous assault convictions, one relating to domestic abuse.

A graphic with a quote that says: “Treating people from certain countries as less deserving than others only emboldens anti-refugee fearmongering and leads us into a multi-tiered system which harms our communities.” Under that there’s the text: "Read our response to the government’s new asylum and immigration policies."

Last week the Home Secretary announced a series of sweeping changes to the immigration system and asylum process which we expect to seriously impact those seeking sanctuary in the UK.

Read our guide to the announcements, and what they could mean for our guests 👇
refugeesathome.org/news-story/t...

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

The decision to cancel most previously approved grants by the National Endowment for the Humanities was based on whether or not ChatGPT deemed it DEI-related.

Gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

More movement amongst the EP political groups, this time from the EPP towards the ECR. This would bring the ECR up to 81 MEPs, just below the 84 'Patriots for Europe'.

Overall, it is a further symbol of the shift within the European right away from the centre:

Slovakia has said it would block the rollover of the existing visa-bans and asset-freezes on Russia due on 15 March, unless the EU first delists two Russian oligarchs.

which unnamed countries have done these things, guess we'll never know

Turns out adhering to corporate principles has its benefits:

“.. a surge of public goodwill ..

“.. no. 1 in downloads ..

“.. Even pop star Katy Perry posted a screenshot of her subscribing to a paid Claude plan with a heart around the page.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

Funniest thing about this is that he wasn't able to be in court as he was in the cells on yet another charge

NBC News poll Voters hold negative views of Al. In fact, the only topics less popular in the survey were the Democratic Party and Iran.

Truly a perfect news alert

"the Russians said they have not been sharing....we can take them at their word"

Eni Aluko wins Joey Barton libel case over posts on X Barton is told to pay the former England footballer more than £300k over two posts he made in 2024.

Former England footballer Eni Aluko wins case against Joey Barton for his social media posts www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...