One commonality I've found among right-wing & left-wing voters is frustration with ppl not treating others as though they are human. That includes feeling that they themselves are not being treated with consideration, "as humans"; a phrase used repeatedly by both sides. Understanding goes a long way
Coverage of AI in media is full of wafflers who are unable to cut through the crap to the core principles and actions needed. It's exhausting.
"We will continue to warn of the risk the Greens pose: the risk of extreme policies like legalising all drugs and pulling out of NATO that most voters strongly reject, and the risk of splitting the progressive vote so that Reform come through the middle.
(15/16)
"Look at the good economic news we’ve had in the past week: inflation and borrowing coming down, retail sales and business confidence rising, energy bills falling.
(8/16)
The BBC just remade Lord of the Flies — the story that taught generations humans are fundamentally savage.
But when it ACTUALLY happened in real life? Six boys shipwrecked for over a year built a functioning society.
Recommended watching: loved both #TheTonyBlairStory and #TheNightAgent (season 3) this week
Al Sharpton: Barack Obama was able to become President because of Jesse Jackson.
"Wherever the BBC has been forced to withdraw – for financial or political pressures – propaganda has been quick to fill the gap.
[The #BBCWorldService is] an instrument of soft power. But...also part of our national security. Accurate journalism is the strongest weapon in the war of information."
Russia stepping up gray zone attacks against NATO countries in the Arctic
www.reuters.com/world/norway...
And yet Russia continues to push NATO's boundaries with their internet cable-destroying trawlers, drones and such. Clearly you're using the false premise that a woman can't have an informed opinion. If she disagrees she must not understand the situation.
No, Russia's ability and propensity to attack the UK beats people's ability to protest in that particular way.
IMO the strongest argument for proscribing a group which broke into RAF bases & caused hundreds of thousands of pounds-worth of damage to fighter jets was always, in a time when Russia thinks they're at war with us, 'what would Russia think?' The ban discouraged that, so no it wasn't 'vicious folly'
What on earth are you talking about George? I admired your nature and social equality work. These statements make you sound batshit crazy.
I love it when stats and poll watchers are confounded by real life. Reminds me why I was named after Zeno of Elea. #StSebastiansparadox #hareandtortoiseparadox
I have no idea what pundits saying they 'don't know what #Starmer stands for' are on about. He's principled and competent. He'll get our NHS, economy and defence back on form. And he'll combat corruption. It's clear from space! #Labour
"Hardly been a triumph"; NHS waiting lists massively down, interest rates down, massive majority, not upsetting the applecart at a time of incredible international upheaval... Not small feats!
Tom Allan is a big loss. The operation became noticeably more effective when he came in.
bsky.app/profile/theg...
This is the perfect opportunity for #Starmer to demonstrate that he did indeed inspire the character of Mark Darcy - defending vulnerable people from the Wickhams of the political/financial world. I despise corrupt people, who so predictably try to take down principled people holding them to account
Not *all* Labour MPs wanted McSweeney out.
“Gutted about Morgan”, one texts.
“So many of us know he’s brilliant to work with, so exceptional at the bigger picture strategic thinking, relentlessly focused on the moving pieces… and credit him with winning the majority”.
Actually changing people's lives, making sure hundreds of thousands of lives are saved by pulling the NHS around... and hundreds more positives. Come off it George - are you doing an intentional parody here?! 😆
One (rare) advantage of X over BlueSky - you can bookmark posts from your phone app, rather than only 'like' them. @bsky.app please can you advise/sort?
#Starmer staying in power is in the interests of UK national security. This is particularly on the basis of national and international stability and yes, I would strongly argue, principled competence.
To state the blooming obvious, in today's global climate, national security and politics need to be in lockstep.
I personally am much more interested in the relationship between #Epstein and #Trump.
The UK needs to know more about this for its own national security.
🚨🚨Poland to examine “increasingly likely possibility that pedophilia scandal was co-organized by intelligence services” in Moscow.
Read the full story below. 🖇️
www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
Would the security services not set someone to ingratiate themselves with a guy with criminal connections and unclear finances, who had inveigled prominent individuals, to find out what, why, and who for? Ideally someone prominent, with cover, and able to seem a bit 'grey area'?
Would the security services really allow someone who wasn't a member of the security services to be ambassador to the U.S. in the second Trump era? #PeterMandelson
Slow Horses' London rules ('cover your arse') matter more to many than getting the job done. Short-termist and self-defeating.
It seems to me that, today, society rewards looking as though you're doing something more than actually doing it. Performativeness. (I wonder whether the advent of 'liking' things, rather than actually liking them, has anything to do with it.)
