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Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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When I suggested that Shamima Begum had been radicalised in articles for @bylinetimes.bsky.social and that she was our responsibility back in 2019/20 I was called a traitor and invited to go and live in Syria.
How has Nigel Farage suddenly changed his mind?
Integrity or the Trump mind virus?
A guy who made a website to rate the attractiveness of girls who would never even consider fucking him in a million years has an enormous, almost singular influence on everything your parents believe and how they vote
Letters BNGA are the first 4 drawn on the Countdown letters game
Well, that's just bang out of order.
“I worry that it’s going to be all too easy — or maybe we’re already starting — to fall back into the neglect cycle and move on without absorbing the lessons of what we all experienced.” < there is no maybe about it, sadly bigthink.com/health/the-d...
Told my mum I need to go over to hers at some point in the next few days to use her stand mixer, she said I’m not allowed after I posted this video to facebook
In 1977, Vincent Price starred in a one-man-show where he played openly gay Oscar Wilde; it was condemned by Anita Bryant. When asked about her condemnation, Price replied that Wilde had already written a play about Anita: “A Woman of No Importance”
A thrilling cocktail of martial arts 🥋 and ⚰️ vampirism from #HammerFilms
🧛 THE LEGEND OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN VAMPIRES (1974) 11:25pm #PeterCushing #RobinStewart #JulieEge #DavidChiang horror #TPTVsubtiles
I saw a BBC B&W print of an episode of The Mind of Evil at Riverside a couple of months ago and I was *delighted* to see it in the form in which I first saw it on TV.
Excuse me everyone, there's no use fighting it, just hand everything over to us, it's been foretold!
Happy new year ladies! ;)
The Miami News, 1935:
www.newspapers.com/article/the-...
Great to see our Health trends in England tool being used for screenshots like this. Exactly as we hoped it would be.
Just seen that Eric Morecambe's carpet cleaner has gone for £200. I wouldn't have it for free. What's the fucking point? Are you going to use it or is it going to be on a pedestal in the living room? Telling guests "I own Eric Morecambe's Bex Bissell. It's my pension."
Where presumably they had been packaged up as a new range called 'Böm', requiring three people, four allen keys, and a special screwdriver to assemble.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. FFS.
Staggeringly misleading & irresponsible article by Express online. Neither I nor my site've ever said that. It's a perversion of our "earn under £35k & it's worth checking a benefits calc to see if you're missing out on owt" into dangerous, trite clickbait.
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore doing the "Greta Garbo" sketch.
"Crash, crash, crash at the economy. I looked out, you know who it was? Bloody Liz Truss!"
The price of re-sale tickets will be capped says the gov
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Saw Ken Russell's The Devils for the first time last night, on the big screen. Derek Jarman's sets are fantastic - all the white tiling, based on the "rape in a public toilet" aesthetic. Very similar to the current trend for clinical kitchens that resemble post mortem rooms. I loved it.
More highlights from the archives with Samira Ahmed and Steve Berry on Looks Unfamiliar plus a look at a swinging sixties BBC soap opera, a book about the evolution of psychedelia and the strange story of fifties throwback pop star Jimmy Ray...
timworthington.org/2024/07/26/t...
This is the man Kemi Badenoch's spokesman again insisted this week that she remains a huge "fan" of
The biggest question raised here must be: who on earth is choosing to drive in London, the city with by far the best public transport system in Britain?
me in the Guardian on the most congested city in Europe, apparently
How Dutch am I?
This much:
Image of paper documents in archive with header text: "Ministry of Justice abandons plans to digitise and destroy print copies of post-1858 wills The Royal Historical Society is very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has abandoned a proposal, made by the previous government, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation."
We are very pleased to learn that the UK Ministry of Justice has dropped a proposal, made by the previous govt, to destroy print copies of post-1858 wills following their digitisation: bit.ly/3WaXud8
This follows submissions from 100s of historians, and others, opposing the proposal. #Skystorians