Christopher Kelly

No need, Johnson said it in 2013. Even if UK left EU "...we would also find ourselves being forced to comply, thanks to the sheer lunar pull of the EU market, if we want to continue to export to Europe". Of course, by 2016 he'd conveniently forgot
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Welcome! Well, as you asked, this is one of my favourites...
(I believe Luttrell Psalter, Add MS 42130, f. 38r)
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Screenshot of a social media post by Jake Auchincloss. The post states that Donald Trump has replaced an “86-year-old terrorist dictator” with a “56-year-old terrorist dictator,” referring to Mojtaba Khamenei. The text claims Mojtaba Khamenei is a radical Shia Islamist tied to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Basij, and accuses him of involvement in repression, torture, and killings in Iran. It concludes that he has less legitimacy than his father, Ali Khamenei, and warns he may escalate proxy attacks and pursue nuclear capability. The post ends with the line: “Mr. President, wtf is your plan?” and shows it had over 600,000 views.

And along with killing his father, they killed his mother, his wife and his child.

This is not going to end well, is it?

Ah lovely. Have added the book to my 'to get' list...

If Katie Lam is a rising star she must be a blue dwarf
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Indeed, but Christianity in the West has lost its purpose. As for Hegseth, leaving aside the infidelity, his version of being a Christian is a violent strutting tattooed crusader, the absolute antithesis of Jesus

Sara Tohme - EMERGEAST

Yes, I like it too. Artist is Sara Tohme from Lebanon..
emergeast.com/artists/sara...

Indeed, and the rest of the world looks on in amazement, sadness and despair that Congress does nothing to rein in Trump's madness

A brilliant letter from a Party leader who genuinely cares about the plight of humans struggling to make their lives even remotely palatable, to a Home Secretary who once shared the same sentiments.
@zackpolanski.bsky.social… I salute you!
Shabana Mahmood… what happened to you? 😱

Iranian Ship Was Leaving Indian Naval Exercise When Sunk, Raising Concerns in New Delhi The Iranian frigate sunk by a U.S. submarine last week had just left an Indian naval exercise. Now India's political opposition is demanding answers.

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The “Shield of the Americas” Summit and Donald Trump’s Latin America Strategy The US cannot sustain its influence in the Western Hemisphere through only multilateral bodies that the Trump administration chooses to engage with.

Something to do with this...
nationalinterest.org/feature/the-...

Seems just more cry baby, bad loser drivel

Handbook for Domestic Election Observers This handbook provides domestic observer groups with methodologies and tools they can use to develop a comprehensive and systematic approach to electi...

Methodology cited is Handbook for Domestic Election Observers (OSCE 2003). DV seem to have added their own interpretations of what constitutes family voting eg looking over shoulder, having conversation, which *might* be collusion but might be simple irregularities
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I think that's true. Labour's 2024 manifesto was clear that "Britain will stay outside of the EU" but at the same time Britain will "reset the relationship...make Brexit work...deepen ties with our European friends" etc but the aims are fundamentally incompatible

For now this is just one poll. But if this trend continues the current FPTP voting system makes no sense anymore.

If you add the SNP and Plaid Cymru to the mix we might end up with a completely random result at the next elections. Which will undermine trust in the U.K. democracy even further.

ON LANGUAGE; STRAIGHTENING 'STRAITS' (Published 1984)

William Safire has a date for you...
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Denver Lee Riggleman III on X: "Friendly fire does happen. But three F-15Es? Downstream effects of ops tempo + lack of training + faulty mission planning + panic. I mission planned F-15Es for a living in the USAF… our military is IN Kuwait on permanent station in multiple locations. This is operational" / X Friendly fire does happen. But three F-15Es? Downstream effects of ops tempo + lack of training + faulty mission planning + panic. I mission planned F-15Es for a living in the USAF… our military is IN Kuwait on permanent station in multiple locations. This is operational

Retired Air Force vet suggests operational incompetence...
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Hannah, we are so happy to welcome you to Parliament and to the team of @greenparty.org.uk MPs! 💐💚☀️

Wow. Stay safe!

Interesting that Court chose *not* to use root cause analysis and instead focus on "interacting factors" (para 9). As for difficulties of understanding...
“it’s not really doing what I want it to do”
“no, I’m trying to save the Ship”
'...I’ve got fucking full astern here and nothing is happening”

Ah

200,000 pesky Green Menaces and counting!! 💚

Welcome to the Party!! 🎉

Let's transform our country together 🕊️🙏🏽🌎

Indeed, and now Cyprus base has been hit. Starmer is weak and a fool

Screenshot of selected text from Court of Enquiry report into the grounding of New Zealand naval vessel (HMNZS Manawanui) off Upolu, Samoa, on 6 October 2024

True, but tbf 'human error' is only mentioned once in entire Court of Enquiry report and not in the Conclusions. Lots of contributory and aggravating factors were identified. Transcript of conversations between crew struggling to control the ship are tragicomic revealing...

RAF base in Cyprus hit by suspected drone strike, Ministry of Defence says There were no casualties, the Ministry of Defence said, but the base later announced it would temporarily relocate non-essential staff.

BREAKING: RAF base in Cyprus hit by suspected drone strike, Ministry of Defence says

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It feels very much like the right thing to repost this poem from @brianbilston.bsky.social

Sums up the situation up succintly

Democracy Volunteers Major Concerns over Family Voting in Gorton and Denton Poll ‘Today we have seen concerningly high levels of family voting in Gorton and Denton. Based on our assessment of today’s observations, we have seen the highest levels of family voting at any el…

I agree puzzling and suspicious. DV's "four accredited election observers" saw a few instances of two voters conferring in some way (but not defined) while voting, and Reform Party instantly assumes their party has been disadvantaged. It stinks
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And the danger is that Trump’s contempt for international law gives the greenlight to every other country thinking of bombing/invading some country it doesn’t like.

Blue Labour: Party's radical answer to the Big Society? Is Blue Labour, with communities taking more responsibility for the own lives, the party's answer to David Cameron's Big Society?

It is strange. As Hattersley said back in 2011 "seems very nostalgic to me...the idea that there was some mythical time when we all loved each other". Immigration wasn't an issue then, but now it must be radically reduced to rebuild so-called working-class communities
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