More excellent work by agent Kemi, here shaving a couple more points off the Tories’ vote by declaring <checks notes> wildlife to be woke.
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More excellent work by agent Kemi, here shaving a couple more points off the Tories’ vote by declaring <checks notes> wildlife to be woke.
Yes, of course he did. Why wouldn’t he? What next - King Herod appointed as a trustee of the NSPCC?
Narrator: He's not playing chess.
FYI
Trump has the literary style of a six-year old boy whose teachers have resolved to inform social services about some emerging ‘issues’.
Read the whole thread about a completely bogus claim being put into circulation by the Home Secretary, but chapeau for this brilliant inversion: ‘policy-based evidence-making’. 👌🏼
That’s some incredibly elaborate 4-D chess, right there.
A tweet from the Daily Mail with a headline saying "Four biblical signs the world has entered the end of days as US bombs Iran
This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals.
British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.
Top use of a ‘Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’ analogy here 🎯
Not to mention how toxic the policies strike British partners of migrants, Brits who work with migrants, Brits who daily rub shoulders with migrants in the community…
Bear in mind that the ‘left-wing economic establishment’ run the economy as well.
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There is a view, sometimes expressed philosophically, that foreign and security policy should be non-majoritarian in character; that some issues are too important for democratic deliberation. Here it’s expressed in the most non-philosophical way imaginable.
Shall we also use this as an opportunity to address the use of the word ‘sports’ as opposed to ‘sport’?
Among the many, many reasons this is nuts: the bulk of British Muslims are Sunni, while Iran is a Shia theocracy. Sunni-Shia rivalry and mutual hostility goes back roughly a thousand years and has played as large a role (if not larger) as Protestant-Catholic rivalry/conflict in Europe
This helps to explain why, say, BBC News so obviously panders to Reform. I’d add that it also reflects the ever-lazy assumption within the industry that media has no part in shaping or cuing public opinion (‘we simply reflect what our viewers think; what they think has nothing to do with us’).
As journalists working today many of us are taught to recognise disinformation when we see it and fight back against it.
Unfortunately there are some who willingly seek it out and put it on their front pages. A disgrace to the profession.
How is it that the Labour leadership has come to understand ‘the working class’ in such an impoverished and patronising way? It’s as if they imagine them all (every single one of them) to be Lee Anderson types.
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This (from Starmer to the PLP) is extraordinarily cloth-eared and will seem so to anyone (Labour MPs included) who heard Hannah Spencer speak last night. The idea that she is functionally equivalent to a Farage or a Galloway is just risible.
'For example, in Edinburgh, the university sector's contribution is reckoned to be equivalent to ten Commonwealth Games as the University generates £7.52 billion per year to the UK economy compared with £740 million over seven years by the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth games'.
Inventor of AI tool designed to render formal education obsolete unwittingly demonstrates why having a formal education might actually be quite useful.
Another immense thread from @monkemma.bsky.social
www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...
I cannot speak as to the accuracy of the piece yet I found it a fascinating exercise @adamroberts.bsky.social @drlauravarnam.bsky.social
It was a terrific little shop, not at all textbook-dominated. It had an excellent political economy section for example. I’d often go in there to browse at lunchtime.
Correct.
What might ‘DRGN WITH CHANGES’ mean do you suppose?
Perhaps there’s a missing paragraph where he talks about paying his taxes?
The unremitting bleakness of Threads - not least its devastating final scene - is the whole point. To even think about remaking it is misconceived. To turn it into a story of human resilience is unforgivable.
