Tommaso Sabbatini

Supermarket giant says it will pay customers to report shoplifters The business revealed that they take an estimated £20 million annual hit from the cost of shoplifting https://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/iceland-rewards-shoplifting-customers-food-b2808338.html

Keir Starmer to make Iceland boss Richard Walker a Labour peer Appointment marks a rapid political transformation for a former Tory donor and potential candidate for MP https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/dec/07/keir-starmer-to-make-iceland-boss-richard-walker-a-labour-peer

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Hey everyone, here's the news, if you aren't a high earner, entrepreneur or a "skilled frontline worker" (whatever the fuck that means) the "Labour" Party says you aren't contributing, you're a taker!

This is so disgusting.

I live in Wales and today received my Join Us letter from Reform UK, complete with SAE which I posted back to them, immediately, empty. If every other person in Wales did this, Reform would spend over £1.5 million on postage. Not sorry. Join me Cymru.

Yeah, let's enshittify grant decisions, that definitely won't accelerate the collapse of research infrastructure. Hope that at least, when we rebuild it in a generation to catch up with China, it will be based on secure employment instead of stultifying, exhausting, permanent competition.

This article suggests the possibility of training AI on pre-existing proposals and their review reports, scores and related decisions. I.e. training them on a system which is known to preferentially award larger amounts of money to white men. What could possibly go wrong?

Toby Perkins MP @tobyperkinsmp.bsky.social Follow I think our NHS only survives if its a National Health Service not an International Health Service, and our NHS is dear to me, and I think it is progressive. In order to preserve that, and for many other reasons, I do believe in protecting our borders. 5 Dec 2025, 00:08

Predictably the post has now been deleted, it was this.

Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.

The Leverhulme Trust offered me a survey! 🥳 No freebies promised on completing it, though.

Berlioz, too, totally a What Would Napoleon Do incel.

I'm old enough to remember (I'm over one year old) when we were all told to shut up about labour's left wing credentials because the renters rights and employment rights bills were on the way. how are those going lxds? how are my rights looking?

Les actes du colloque “Chanter sur l’air de…” sont en ligne. Édités par les Publications numériques du CÉRÉdI, sous la dir. de M. Belly, J. le Blanc, B. Porot, A. Tacaille & J. Vignes, avec la collaboration de C. Sicard, ils sont disponibles à l’adresse : publis-shs.univ-rouen.fr/ceredi/1771....

Inside the BBC’s Gaza Fiasco • EQUATOR How the world’s most trusted media organisation fell apart

.@trillingual.bsky.social on what really went wrong at the BBC: “Just as Gaza has proved to be a place where the failings of Western political institutions are exposed, the BBC has itself come unstuck.”

I wrote a book about féerie, thé highly spectacular, music-heavy, unabashedly commercial French stage genre, at the fin de siècle. Singing vegetables, space travel, and it's free to download, what's not to like?
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Obviously this government are wantonly reckless and idiotic and their treatment of universities, and see this as a disciplining of an out of touch elite.
But what all of this unwillingness to intervene means is that a critical industry will collapse and a lot of ordinary people will be unemployed.

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Shabana Mahmood is an avatar of open Britain – that’s what makes her fable about immigration so seductive | Nesrine Malik ‘She is the daughter of immigrants,’ supporters of her cruel asylum policies say. ‘How can she be wrong?’ Let me put them straight, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

Nesrine Malik, excellent as usual. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I mean, reactionaries (including those with a red rosette) already think universities are for effete rootless cosmopolitan ‘anywheres’, whether UK-born or international: the boosterist rhetoric about int'l students only flatters their prejudice.

"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.

Cute overload! 🥹

🚨 En ce moment à Paris, sous la ligne 2, des identitaires britanniques font le tour des campements de personnes exilées, afin de créer du contenu pour les réseaux sociaux. Sur fond de propos racistes, l’objectif est clair : alimenter la peur et la haine chez leurs compatriotes.

Great that you're pushing back against this far-right rubbish and wishing you luck, but I'm afraid wearing the same rosette as its proponents is going to hamper your efforts.

Black and white photograph of a Bull Gamma 3 computer with female technicians operating it. Can be found (this resolution) on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web but we haven’t found a higher res version

Help! @frenchhistory.bsky.social really wanted this for journal cover next year (we’ve got exciting things coming on quantitative and computational methods) but it’s a challenge finding higher res versions/rights holder.
Do YOU have suggestions to track these down OR alternative, similar images? 🙏🏻 🗃️

L’indignité. La vraie. Afin de continuer à recevoir des financements britanniques, la France ne sait plus quoi inventer pour tenter de faire cesser les traversées de la Manche à la frontière franco-britannique, au risque de mettre encore plus en danger les personnes.

Amazing, thanks!

C'è l'imbarazzo della scelta, ma per campanilismo sono tenuto a dire che quelle di Birmingham e dintorni non hanno eguali.

Magari non sanno di essere gongoozler, ma è incredibile come gente di ogni età e di ogni origine si fermi incantata a guardare le barche passare nelle chiuse, o addirittura le segua. (E ovviamente a quel punto glielo spieghiamo, che questo fa di loro dei gongoozler).

L'inglese britannico ha il meraviglioso termine gongoozler, che sta ai canali come l'umarell sta ai cantieri. E proprio come per l'umarellismo, da volontario su un canale vedo lo spirito del gongoozler accendersi nelle persone più insospettabili.

I suppose all Bark-shire jokes have already been made, haven't they.