www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... the audio here is genuinely jaw-dropping in the context of repeated claims from Polanski that the Sun interview was entrapment in which he was baited into saying things he didn't believe
18 yr old Bahar had offers from York and Reading, but 'thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban.'
'Britain has decided that the girl who fought the Taliban’s agenda, who learned English in secret, who turned down a forced marriage, who won her place, is an asylum risk.'
I'm surprised opera people have been so offended and taken back by all this.
It would be like if I got arsy because someone suggested County Championship cricket isn't as popular as the Premier League.
Opera is good and I go sometimes and I'm pro subsidising it up the wazoo, but come on lads
Weird thing about Travelodge comms:
‘They followed procedures correctly’ = WORST possible message.
Implies anyone staying in any Travelodge can expect staff to hand out room keys in the middle of the night to anyone who knows your name.
Somehow doubt that was the crisis comms goal.
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Does FIFA do a prize for economics
For those who have forgotten the past 40 years:
Tax cuts for the rich
...don’t trickle down
Boosting military spending
...doesn’t bring peace
Slashing regulations
...doesn’t create jobs
Folks, we’ve seen this all before.
"Grok has responded to some users on X explaining its actions."
No it hasn't, BECAUSE ITS NOT A PERSON.
Standard of reporting round AI is getting so much worse.
Hitting desalination plants is so bad. Not just evil but strategically incomprehensible. Without desalination 75% of the entire population of the Middle East will be refugees. Israel and Kuwait depend on desalination for 90% of their water and other Middle East states aren’t far behind.
I'm out of words here
Iran has a population of 90 million. All those calling for the UK to do more in attacking Iran, how many refugees facing persecution (thousands already) will they accept?
When Israel targeted Gaza’s water supply, people rightly called it out as a war crime, denying civilians the most basic supplies.
Welcome to the Garyneum, the 13 day period between the birthdays of Gary Numan and Gary Oldman.
I tell you what would make me laugh - Mossad's penetration is so successful that one of their agents ended up as Supreme Leader.
20 years occupying Afghanistan wasn’t enough to break the Taliban who are now stronger than ever, but sure the Iranian regime would surrender in a week and let DJT pick its leader. What were these people thinking.
It baffles me that anyone thinks an electorate exhausted by economic precariousness, more than the sustained memory and political mythology of Iraq, would be up for it.
There was a full-throated chant of it in August by the sky blues at Oxford station - this is nothing to do with the iran war.
what the actual….
⚡️US considering lifting sanctions on Russian oil to ease global shortage, Treasury chief says.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on March 6 that Washington is considering lifting some sanctions on Russian oil to address a global supply shortage linked to recent military operations in Iran.
Disgraceful beyond belief.
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This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
This is definitely worth a read. The electoral implications of two deprivations: "In the parts of the country where you can get a good job, you can’t get a good house; in the parts of the country where you can get a good house, you can’t get a good job."
celebrating St Totteringham’s Day on the first day of the season would be a nice conversation opener though…
The good kind of infighting. Creasy explaining very clearly why the policy sucks. More power to the backbenchers
Meanwhile the 2024 Labour govt was first govt of either party in history whose electorate was majority pro-immigration in broad terms. Reforms like this just don't make political sense. Obviously policy doesn't have to be popular, but Mahmood claims there is an electoral case for this. There isn't!
Shabana Mahmood says Labour values & 1951 that refugee convention is protection should be temporary
The practice of refugee protection in each of last 7 and a half decades has been that some have gone back & many have become British
Here are their stories
www.britishfuture.org/70-years-of-...
This is quite a chart.
- 1995-2005 - *massive* house price growth.
- Last 20 years - house prices broadly flat, in real terms. www.thetimes.com/article/9302...
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