Dominic

Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows: [scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech] 1 CHURCHILL: The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. 2 CHURCHILL: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. 3 CHURCHILL: If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun- BBC PRESENTER: Thank you prime minister 4 BBC PRESENTER: Mr hitler, your response? 5 HITLER [in the studio]: Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill 6 HITLER: What we are proposing - CHURCHILL: Hang on 7 HITLER: Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement - 8 CHURCHILL: What's he doing here BBC PRESENTER: It's important we hear both sides of the debate 9 CHURCHILL: This isn't a debate You don't debate fascists 10 HITLER: Oh here we go with ze Godwins law! 11 HITLER: Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'... CHURCHILL: Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit- 12 HITLER [standing up, saluting]: RAUSS! BBC PRESENTER: *Please* Mr Churchill let him speak [ends]

With a Labour government no lees. It seems Reform doesn’t have to win an election to be in power.

We are so far through the looking glass that the man who tried to overthrow an election becomes president, the people who attacked the Capitol are turned into martyrs, & it's the BBC that gets punished - cheered on by the worst news outlets in the UK & the two most dishonest politicians of our age.

Get her on the pod!

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

How much of that went into boomer care I wonder.

It's fascinating how there are still replies on this, and indeed on every post about the decline of the Tories, with people on the left and centre-left people going 'good'. Honestly, I don't know how big of a warning sign you need that the death of the Tory party is bad for your politics!

Labour is scared of its own shadow

The Tories are in disarray

The far left keeps politically exploding when they try to organise anything

The Lib Dem’s are appealing to their base

The Greens are confident but small

And amid that a vacuum is opening up, leading to the current situation

I would imagine, while not a terrible idea, would be unworkable in practice. The only solution to come to some elderly care funding settlement here isn’t weirdly tied to bins and street lights.

I like to think of it as, the boomers won’t pay for their own care with their massive property gains tax.

If you don’t mind me asking, why do you hate it in particular?

Just a flow chart infernally looping back to “Have we tried bribing pensioners more?”

This is stupid. Even a tiny bit of research would find the PM has always been a massive Arsenal fan. This is just lazy on your part. Try and be better. The is plenty to criticises the PM on.

They do but there is respect there. They have zero respect for Everton.

I've lived in Liverpool for 20 year. I'm a United fan. They really really hate Everton.

In classic Anglesey news, the Beaumaris Victorian Christmas Committee have had to cancel this year’s event because the Druids Society have taken over one of their venues

More than fifty private schools shut since Labour put VAT on fees Department for Education defends ending tax breaks for independent institutions, after parents lost a legal battle at the High Court this year — view map

The headline here should say:

"Number of private schools increases by 35 - showing fears of an exodus to be unfounded".

(The increase is mentioned way down the article.)

www.thetimes.com/article/19ef...

Price of everything, cost of nothing…

Searches for "VPN" have peaked at 2am every night in the UK since age-verification rules kicked in on July 25th

Seeing this in the church my family go to/run. Apologists for the likes of Anderson just because he speaks about his "faith". More and more of that church are vocally leaning towards Reform. This follows some UK churches being influenced by and involved with Right wing (Trump supporting) US churches

On the trophy of the club WC, it says:

“The golden era of club football: the era of the Club World Cup. The pinnacle of all club competition. Inspired by FIFA President Gianni Infantino, the competition, first staged in 2025, eclipses any precedent.”

I am not making this up.

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classic @elcush.bsky.social on Prime Day:

"The holiday was invented by a corporation in honor of itself, to enrich itself. It has existed for six years and is observed by tens of millions of people worldwide. I hope you are spending it with your loved ones."

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is not what "Deus ex machina" was supposed to mean

1977: why would the bartender in star wars even care if some robots with artificial intelligence came into his bar

2025: ohhh ok

I learned yesterday that my elderly parents weren't going to renew their house insurance "because it's all now online and too daunting."

Suffice it to say I said I'd help them sort it, but I wonder how many elderly are losing services because the Internet is scary/impersonal to them.

Thing is, this was an ad campaign *aimed at women* and it was iirc astonishingly successful at increasing sales to women (which is why it ran for so long).

Irony wasn’t invented recently!

It’s almost like she’s not actually a member of the IDF.

The far left never forgives Labor for winning and redoubles its effort to put it back in opposition.

Lunar module flying over the surface of the Moon. Behind the moon you can see Earth.

Photo taken by Michael Collins in 1969. Inside the lunar module are Armstrong and Aldrin. In the distance is Earth carrying the rest of all human beings.
So all of mankind is in this picture except for Michael Collins.

A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon's Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, and triggers an almost nine-hour rescue effort to return him to the coast.