A reminder: Matt Goodwin lost heavily in spite of an almost total lack of tactical voting, not because of it.
The combined Green/Labour vote was 66%, versus 28.7% for Reform.
If Labour and the Greens split the vote 50/50 – a total coordination fail – he'd have finished third, not second.
Board of Peace - Season 1
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I have opinions on three key 2025 films. One of them features a cat. #OneBattleAfterAnother #SorryBaby #Palestine36
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I particularly remember the reference to technical difficulties interrupting telephone links to Paris (when the Germans had reached the coast and cut the cables).
02.03.2026 11:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0It's not quite the same but the chapters in Alastair Horne's To Lost A Battle (about the fall of France in 1940) begin with upbeat quotes from the British press of the time downplaying German offensive efforts.
02.03.2026 11:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today's top thoughts for me are:
-your business is not ready for AI
-all demos are too fast and leave no thinking time to really let the info sink in (I include myself in this, and I aim to improve)
-security jobs are not going away any time soon
I've seen similar references to Soviet media in 1941 reporting "heavy fighting" in particular towns and cities, which people soon took to mean that the Germans had captured the town a week or two previously.
02.03.2026 10:03 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
24.3.26
It's coming around again...
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This itself should be grounds for impeachment, of Noem at least.
26.02.2026 00:02 — 👍 125 🔁 34 💬 5 📌 0
Hey @nytpitchbot.bsky.social:
How Norway’s Nobel Peace Prize Committee could have prevented this, but pushed Trump to embrace war instead.
I am not the first person to say this.
28.02.2026 19:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We're going to need a bigger Hague.
28.02.2026 19:26 — 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
UK, Germany and France condemn Iranian attacks The UK, Germany and France have condemned Iranian attacks on countries in the region, saying Iran must refrain from indiscriminate military strikes. They did not comment on US and Israeli attacks on Iran.
Classic stuff
28.02.2026 14:11 — 👍 223 🔁 91 💬 9 📌 15Operation Epstein Fury
28.02.2026 10:51 — 👍 2465 🔁 634 💬 36 📌 15
An update to my idiosyncratic Dublin listings spreadsheet. Lots and lots of new things, especially but not solely films. Check out the individual tabs for details.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
#DublinListings #Speirgorm
if the media had any integrity — and it doesn’t anymore — they’d be pointing out on a loop that Obama made a deal with Iran, Trump cancelled it because Obama is Black, and then Trump started a war on the pretense there is no deal
28.02.2026 12:54 — 👍 4897 🔁 1608 💬 15 📌 47
It mayn't be his most well-known or beloved story, but "A Neighbour's Landmark" contains one of the *very best* bits in all of M R James's work.
Hear for yourself when it's livestreamed on Sat 8pm (UK) Register and make a pwyc donation here onlinelandmark.eventbrite.co.uk
you can catch up anytime
PAN'S PEOPLE, Top of the Pops' 'something for the dads' dancing troupe, were infamous for their literal interpretations of pop hits. Their routine for Spirit in the Sky, however, is something else entirely...
27.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 143 🔁 32 💬 7 📌 1To Sir W. Batten’s to speak upon some business, where I found Sir J. Minnes pretty well fuddled I thought.
27.02.2026 18:21 — 👍 23 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
apropos mention of Buster Keaton films, there's another one on this sunday in a film festival programme of silent shorts.
www.diff.ie/programme/si...
I don't know what your problem is Mr New Scottman, but it's blocking time.
26.02.2026 17:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I saw a guy who looked the spit of Morgan McSweeney heading up Grafton Street this morning.
26.02.2026 17:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1saw Return to Oz for the first time a couple of years ago and it's great. I do wonder if the whole thing about it traumatising kids is a bit overstated - there are lots of scary bits in the original too.
24.02.2026 22:56 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0
A cartoon of a rather menacing Dublin seagull. #SpéirGorm #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Art
There seems to be some sort of psychological warfare going on between Dubs and their seagull neighbours. Was waiting for a Luas over the weekend where a huge gull was pacing up and down the tracks and a woman beside me hissed at her young daughter "Whatever you do, do NOT make eye contact with him."
24.02.2026 22:29 — 👍 199 🔁 32 💬 16 📌 1
This is cool as hell: An app designed to ping people about nearby smartglasses.
Also cool: The creator was inspired by @404media.co coverage, a great illustration of why their journalism is so essential. This kind of work is funded by paid subscribers so become one of those if you can.
This is a mental war that we have to win. It's not about being a luddite, it's about destroying or retaining the ability to think. It's about how insidious this becomes in a situation where generative AI is adopted and then subverted intentionally.
www.thealgorithmicbridge.com/p/a-new-whar...
Likewise... and it was one of the few fruits I actually liked. Although I only really liked the grapefruit from the country I was boycotting for political reasons.
23.02.2026 14:27 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
On the eve of the 4th anniversary of the full-scale invasion, the Trades Union Congress and nine unions representing a majority of organised workers in the UK have issued a statement in solidarity with Ukraine and its workers. Please read + share! ukrainesolidaritycampaign.org/2026/02/23/u...
23.02.2026 09:35 — 👍 47 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 4If you’re in Ireland or Northern Ireland and there’s no indie comic shop nearby, please consider Little Deer! Free postage for orders over €100 and my next post office run is Wednesday! You could have fresh comics for the weekend!
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