Patrick Andrews

Goodwin is clever enough to know what buttons he's pushing. Strangely, no outrage over the list of convinced paedoes attached to Tommy Robinson? You are Far Right, Matthew. You know you are. So, quite frankly, you can do one. Its clear the #bbcqt audience think so too.

Goodwin is so rude as well as bigoted. #bbcqt

Around Bristol you may spot these peculiar lighthouse-like structures from time to time (this one is on Park Street).
Despite a common assumption that they are bollards, they’re actually vents to prevent heat and gas building up in underground electrical substations.
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Yes, because Badenoch’s was a criminal offence carrying a custodial sentence, whereas Reeves’ was not.

Amid all the fuss, remember that for much of the 1960s and 1970s, "the Spare" Andrew Windsor was just one unfortunate incident away from being the next king.

Hopefully, this appalling saga will lead to a proper national debate on our hereditary monarchy.

Long, long overdue.

A brush-written Chinese character composed of 㐅 and 也, a gender-neutral way of writing tā.

A brush-written Chinese character composed of 男 and 也, a way of writing tā with male reference.

Here's the unlikely century-long story of how a non-gendered pronoun became gendered, and then got itself re-de-gendered.

This one's got everything! Poetry! Grammar! Love songs! Queer communities! Unicode! and ... Y.R. Chao!

What more could you want?

#langsky 🀄️📚
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Shaheen has held academic posts more recently and is more engaged with actual academic work right now yet is not described as an academic? Come on. Bad enough to elevate Goodwin, who ceased to be credible years ago. But to apply such an obvious double standard is very poor judgement.

This is really poor by BBC researchers and producers. Goodwin hasn't been an active academic for a number of years, yet is described as one (thus legitimating his relentless Reform activism and constant bad faith misrepresentation of evidence). 1/?

No more blatant example of Question Time’s bias than this.

Goodwin is a Reform activist and GB News presenter - you’d have to be intentionally blind to think he’s an academic

It's like people who pay financial advisers to find any way to game any scheme going, who then think all benefit claimants are milking one of the most byzantine bureaucratic systems in the country.

Accusation, admission.

When Christian Calgie uses "mental health" as a two-word deflection to get himself out of a hole and then sweeps back in days later to resume being a cunt, you can see why the Right just thinks all mental health disability claims are fake until proven otherwise.

The accusation is the admission.

Waiting for someone to explain why the announcement of a trade relationship that is worse than the one we had a year ago is received as a big success

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

Is this how Musk’s Civil War begins? Lots of posh chaps with their shotguns?

I think no MP should be benefitting from ownership of property or land while they are MPs.

Paul Marshall’s Spectator under the editorship of Michael Gove seems to have become a Musk like platform to boost bigotry

Nobody had even heard of Katie Lam outside of Westminster until about two weeks ago.

Literally all it takes to be considered "brilliant" and a "rising star" on the right of British politics now is just a willingness to say something slightly more racist than all of your competitors

'Farage accused of disrupting the grooming inquiry', 'but what's this story, Nick, about the Chancellor...?' #Newsnight

The journalists are even worse, still living in the past. Very few people other than journalists care whether Labour break manifesto promises over tax. That’s my theory.

It feels to me as though Labour is playing the wrong game now. It’s no longer ‘the economy, stupid’. People don’t want fiscal prudence or economic competence anymore: if they did, the architects of Brexit wouldn’t be top of the polls.

No, people want ideas and principles. Often bad ones.

Imagine the impact it would have if - as a bare minimum - Government departments, ministers and No 10 posted stuff *first* on other platforms than X. Westminster as a whole would move over.

It is pure masochism or idiocy not to do so.

THE GUARDIAN: Grooming victims accuse Farage of 'degrading' remarks over abuse #TomorrowsPapersToday

quotes by Musk and Hannah Arendt

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”

- Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

Helping the poor might help Labour

Language is a crucial part of identity — that’s why empires always destroy it first. Being able not only to use it but also to see it in the media is vital for small nations. Read the thread about what’s happening now with the only independent Crimean Tatar newspaper in Crimea 👇

#UkrainianView

I would have much more trust in Chat GPT if it don't start every response with "that's a great question". I only asked how long to boil an egg

Nigel Farage is introducing his (entirely symbolic) ten-minute rule bill on the UK leaving the ECHR. Lots of MPs from other parties are regularly interrupting, making audible comments and laughing at some points. It does seem to put Farage off his stride.

here's a mad idea, then, let's try not being shitty about immigrants, just give it a go see what happens yeah

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’ Five women have asked for an apology from Nigel Farage after he suggested they were not victims of grooming gangs. Last week, they wrote to Keir Starmer saying they would only remain on a panel advising the government’s inquiry into the issue only if the safeguarding minister Jess Phillips stayed in post and “anyone who believes their evidence should be included” could contribute. Continue reading...

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage

Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’

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