Harry Stopes

they also used to say to e.g. Australian or USian critics effectively 'well at least we didn't genocide the indigenous population like you did... so you can't blame us for what we're doing now'

If a Labour government just didn't spend its time using the bully pulpit to talk about what bastards foreigners are and pandering to anti-trans cranks it'd make a real difference to me. So it's relatively easy for a new leader to significantly shift my opinion. It therefore *cannot* be Wes Streeting

probably the only way they build that Liverpool - Leeds fast train line, but still a shit idea

I think you might like Hector Bellerin

just like Ahmed Timol jumped out of the window at John Vorster Square police station

wrapped up a series of bizarre mixed metaphors

@lukeish.bsky.social maybe Ronay could have found some space in the article to more clearly explain his very profound thoughts by doing away with his customary opening 8 paragraphs of irrelevant gibberish

Guardiola can be both right to speak out and a performative hypocrite | Barney Ronay Coach should not ‘stick to football’ when football strays into politics and death but his role as fluffer for his club’s autocratic owners cannot be ignored

one thing that Pep (and previous target Lineker) has over Ronay, in terms of moral clarity, is that he is actually talking about various atrocities. Instead of talking about talking about them

YouTube video by SmugglersRecords Captain Hotknives - 'I'm In An Anarchist Squat Punk Band'

Sad to hear about the passing of Chris AKA Captain Hotknives.
Quite a character.
youtu.be/B5nmESgd7-8?...

Solange Kai, Franzi, und deren Spender mit ihrem Mercedes von der Villa ins Büro gleiten können, können die kleinen Leute ausrutschen, hinfallen und zu spät kommen (und vom Chef für ihre Verspätung bestraft werden).

(as I know you know)

it would be a different type of visa presumably, but the kinds of decisions being trailed at the moment will make a massive impact on whether my wife and I can move to the UK in the next few years. ‘Can I live with my family in my home country?’ Massive consequential things hang on this bureaucracy

YouTube video by Fear Of Music - Topic The Waltz

I've just found out that Jo Rose, formerly singer of the Manchester band Fear of Music died two years ago. For some reason they never had the success they deserved. Rose especially was unbelievably talented. They made this EP when they were still at Chorlton High School. (the bassist was like 14!)

let me be clear - it's amusing to imagine Starmer trying to do this announcement

Not true in general, but somewhat true of a specific set of BLM organisers in St Louis/Ferguson, several of whom have been murdered.

This is exactly correct. Biden (out of genuine ideological extremism) and Harris (out of generic cowardice) both were extremely pro-Israel, to the displeasure of their party's voting base, and pro-Israel groups didn't credit them at all. 100% factually true.

EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK just broke electoral law in Gorton and Denton.

The party confirmed they sent out campaign materials without proper party imprint, something it insists was a mistake.

interessant zu sehen wann solche Vergleiche in Ordnung sind

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke | The Quietus In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often w...

Great article about the Black British Folk Collective, founded in our very own basement! @thequietus.com @angelcakepie2.bsky.social

thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

5 years is not "quite short". those 5 years cost us about fourteen grand, three horrendously stressful applications, and (for example) a full half decade where nobody would offer us a mortgage because my wife only had temporary residency, so we had to keep paying a fortune in rent instead

I'm quite neutral on the whole thing. My point was that if the decision is made on the basis of cost, then have to factor in the cost of whatever happens to the PoW in the event of it not being parliament anymore

my main priority is that the new parliament, if there is one, is not in Manchester

Yeh I mean if we have parliament in a new build elsewhere, the old Palace of W is not going to be knocked down. Funny though that might be

To take the fall for the May elections

Other way round! The ambition exceeds the talent

i think he is very careful about where the line is

I haven’t seen much commentary either way (sadly)

the prosecution in the Elbit / PA case must be kicking themselves over this oversight

This is tremendous. Take the time to watch it.