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All this to keep a rapist out of jail.

Nearly everyone in the Middle East: "Fuuuuck!"
UK ex pats: "This is unacceptable, what is the UK government doing?!"

It’s IMO one of the most remarkable marketing achievements the way that the UAE successfully marketed itself to “economically successful enough to be an attractive proposition to UAE, intellectually incurious enough not to have noticed that his dog *is* in the middle of a warzone” people.

Oh how marvelous! Well done!! Very very pleased for you. 🥳

BREAKING: Al-Makassed Hospital, a Palestinian hospital in Jerusalem, was struck by debris from an Iranian missile and has now been closed.

More controversy over the puberty blocker trial Should articulating a belief that it's wrong to allow men to self-identify into female sport disqualify a scientist from oversight of the clinical trials of puberty blockers?

I've written about why the @mhragovuk.bsky.social decision to recuse its chief scientific officer Professor Jacob George from the puberty blocker trial is so troubling.
open.substack.com/pub/soniasod...

Shabana Mahmood to limit refugees to 30 months in UK Shorter asylum period can be renewed under hardline policy aimed at stopping rise of Reform UK

Utterly cruel, pointless and harmful. It does not minimise how bad Conservatives were to say Labour are now the most anti-asylum government in most people's living memory. This prevents people feeling any sense of safety and security after fleeing persecution.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Oof. I just read your post in the most uncharitable, pedantic way possible, and I gotta tell ya: it's not looking good for you.

Summary of the UK Government legal position: The legality of defensive action in respect of Iranian regional attacks Summary of the UK Government legal position: The legality of defensive action in respect of Iranian regional attacks

Legal advice re use of UK bases for attacks on Iranian missile bases now published www.gov.uk/government/n...

Iraq:

Fires continue to rage in Erbil as a result of Iranian attacks.

Trump’s “almost physical horror of violence” latest:

Asylum policy in Denmark Politicians in the UK have expressed interest in Denmark's approach to granting asylum and the integration of refugees.

The Commons Library November 2025 report is a good factual briefing on what Danish asylum policy actually is
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

There are reports of an explosion at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Sirens activated at the base and aircraft scrambled.

Starmer has accepted a US request to useUK airbases. His statement;

“Iran is striking British interests and putting British people at huge risk.

“The only way to stop the threat is to destroy the missiles at source in their storage depots or the launchers which are used to fire the missiles.

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Jesus wept.

So caring. So compassionate.

I thought she liked burning hotels.

One of the most annoying things about this debate is the lack of understanding throughout. Gender critical beliefs hold that sex is the most important dividing line, not gender identity, a lot of very different politics then flow from that position, there is no unifying theory.

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There’s something morally grotesque about reporting the words of a genocidal war criminal as if they were uttered from a genuine place of authority rather than from atop a pile of Ukrainian corpses.

There was a moment in The Simpsons when Marge saw a spice rack with six things in it and said "that must be all of them!" Then she looked closer and in a puzzled voice exclaimed "oregano?"

This is how I think all Americans are, of course. 👀

SYMpToMs OF OVARIAN CANCER FEELING FULL QUICKLY AND/OR LOSS OF APPETITE 1 2 PERSISTENT BLOATING (NOT BLOATING THAT COMES AND GOES) 3 NEEDING TO WEE MORE URGENTLY OR MORE OFTEN THAN USUAL 4 PAIN IN YOUR TUMMY OR PELVIS (THE AREA BETWEEN YOUR HIP BONES) Target Ovarian Cancer

It’s Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month, everyone. There’s no routine screening for ovarian cancer, and it isn’t picked up by other gynaecological screening (such as smear tests). But if you do think it might be a possibility, you can ask your GP for a blood test and/or a scan.

If Americans discovered how good the average British grocery store is versus what they get, they'd riot, I swear.

🎶"Spider-Plant, Spider-Plant,
Does whatever a spider can't.
Can grow big, any size,
Because it can photo-synthesize.
Look Out!
Here comes the Spider-Plant..."🎶

The reason the UK, France and Germany are not doing that is, still Ukraine.

In an ideal world we could denounce all breaches of international law, and deal with all acts of aggression by dictators without US assistance. That is not this world.

King Charles is taking no chances. Would you trust Trump to know the difference between the BBC and Channel 4 if your life depended on it?

Actually France is currently just 55% nuclear this afternoon. 18% is solar. In March. In NW Europe...

Black and white vintage portrait of a young boy smiling at the camera, wearing a plaid jacket.

1 March 1927 | A French Jew, Benjamin Trauger, was born in Paris.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 15 February 1943 in a transport of 1000 Jews deported from Drancy. He did not survive.
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▶ A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

was thinking yesterday that one of the sweetest things I regularly see is the awkward smile on the face of the Bangla woman in my block that means "I am scared of dogs, I recognise your right to have a dog, also that is a cute dog" all at once. the people insulting my neighbours can fuck off.