Emily Collins

Meanwhile in Russia's other wars on Europe 👇

"We now have an excellent reason to burn down Britain. The king is the head but formally, the highest position within their church is now occupied by a woman. Down with the Satanic island!"

So it's a big problem - southeast England in general has a big problem with its aquifer, which can't be wished away however convenient it would be if there was enough water for the economic growth we wanted. There are solutions that people are working on but they need more Investment...

"Your great-great-grandmother once declared she is king as a matter of political expediency..."
"But she *was* a woman, though?"
Dios looked shocked. "Oh no, sire. She is a man. She herself declared this."

There's the bit in Pyramids too which is a joke at the expense of someone who thinks that a vaguely Hatshepsut figure, by identifying as male for political reasons, thus became male

Rachel Reeves clears planning blockage amid ‘good relationship’ with developer Exclusive: Chancellor says 20,000 homes were being held up due to ‘some snails that are a protected species or something’

I don't want to get all Chesterton's Fence here, but if you don't understand that a "microscopic snail" is an indicator species that's protected for the health of the entire ecosystem, you probably shouldn't be forming "good relationships" with developers
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Mid century Autumn logos. Designers listed in comments.
instagram.com/p/CjDQgg9q5AB/

Fascinating piece on reporting meaningfully from pre-WW2 Germany without upsetting either the Nazis or your management enough to lose your job.

This happened to the Tories in Tunbridge Wells - planned to eat into beloved park so they could sell off council offices to turn into flats - got burnt. Plans to kill borough councils to create Kent unitary authorities probably reflect intention to make this sort of thing more achievable

Natureza e seus ilustres moradores.

And we have even less protection here. Trump can't fire judges who have constitutional protection. A government here could pass a law allowing them to do so with a majority of one in the Commons.

Of course we know exactly what Jenrick means, not least because he just told us. 'Integration' to him means dispersal (of small numbers of black faces) among the majority white population 'so they can't congregate, talk foreign languages, drag an area down and generally threaten us'.

It's grim.

Bloody hell

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Very good summary 😂

Strong man and strongman are different, almost contradictory things... but I agree with Red that using "strongman" can still be unhelpful because so many people hear or read it as "strong man"

Me: I've just finished a long and tricky piece of work. I suppose I could (a) appreciate the achievement before I get stuck in again or (b) start fixating pointlessly on little things that I might have to deal with at some point

My Brain: Option (b), please

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

Much of the Anglosphere assumes that their party systems are effectively permanent, yet it‘s taken less than a decade for the one of the main parties in the UK’s 2+others system to become a (bad) joke party, and for one of the US’s two parties to become an all-in fascist Christian nationalist party.

It’s not that misogyny has ever been unacceptable in public. But ten years ago there was discursive room for feminists to discuss the injustice of all the ways women’s dignity and safety are eroded by men’s sexual entitlement. Not we have to be like, “No, women’s minds are not ruled by the moon.”

Reform UK Nathan Gill CONVICTED of taking Russian bribes to spread Putin propaganda in the European Parliament.

A literal traitor.

Nigel Farage repeated that same propaganda, in the same place, on the same day.

In unrelated news, nobody knows who really paid ~£1m, in cash, for Farage's 2nd home

‘Thick as Thieves’: Nathan Gill and Nigel Farage’s Putin Problem Far from being distant from the Reform UK Leader, insiders told Byline Times that the former MEP convicted of bribery was one of Farage’s closest aides, while we reveal how Gill worked on the Kremlin’...

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@bylinetimes.bsky.social can now reveal that, during the crucial period when convicted Reform leader Nathan Gill was most active, working directly with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most senior ally in Ukraine, he was also one of Nigel Farage’s closest confidantes 1/12

Came across a cool paper on how false beliefs are sustained in equilibrium. In Murcia, prayers for rain appear to work - because they are timed to occur when rain is increasingly likely. Praying for rain globally is only found where rainfall is predictable with time: www.nber.org/papers/w31411

This is very widespread

Considering he was chased away from a protest by British Jews after October 7th this is really spitting in their faces

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

The end justifies the means. But what if there never is an end? All we have is means.

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Finally detailed mixed media illustration of a view looking down into the Severn Valley and up towards Ludlow Castle, surrounded by autumn trees

Other work by the Ladybird artists.
‘Ludlow Castle’ (Readers Digest magazine)
Artist: SR Badmin