Dave Madden

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If you restrict university courses only to those that serve the "job market," you might as well abolish university. Especially if you’re a politician who hates people being taught to think, in case they think too hard about what you’re up to. Ignorance lubricates submission.

Greenland Prime Minister Frederik Nielsen speaking to reporters. PHOTO BY LEON NEAL /Getty Images

Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen: “President Trump's idea of ​​sending an American hospital ship here to Greenland has been noted — But we have a public healthcare system where treatment is free for citizens. It is a deliberate choice"

Activists hang photo of UK's Andrew in Paris' Louvre after arrest Activists from anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" on Sunday (February 22) went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken...

Thy literally put it in the Louvre
www.reuters.com/video/watch/...

Illegal migrant in small boat stopped from entering sovereign territory without a permit.

a bird is sitting in a hole with the words blue planet ii on the bottom ALT: a bird is sitting in a hole with the words blue planet ii on the bottom

Ok, hands up who knew a baby puffin is called a puffling! A PUFFLING! 🙌

This is a useful, proper summary of what evidence does exist re the state of play in G&D.

US ambassador's Israel comments condemned by Arab and Muslim nations Mike Huckabee suggested Israel would be justified in taking much of the Middle East on Biblical grounds.

US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee suggested Israel would be justified in taking over a vast stretch of the Middle East on Biblical grounds. - Religious idiots!!!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

When people say “race is a social construction” it can often seem abstract. The use of “Judeo-Christian” as a seemingly natural ethno-religious category—despite centuries of anti-Jewish expulsions, pogroms and mass killing—is a good example of a political project constructing identity to gain power.

Gorton and Denton: A three cornered fight in a seat of two halves - UK in a changing Europe Ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election on Thursday 26 February, Rob Ford analyses the prospects for Labour, Reform and the Green...

"This fragmented and uncertain contest will go to the wire, but one thing is already certain: defeat for Labour would be a disaster for the Starmer government"

🗳️ For everything you need to know about the Gorton and Denton by-election, check out Rob Ford's useful guide 👇

https://ow.ly/RjFm50YiSeY

😂 Sometimes you just have to laugh. A great read.

‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, i...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Closer examination of the Epstein files provokes fresh questions about Reform UK treasurer Nick Candy and his brother Christian’s development of the One Hyde Park super-prime apartment block: messages within the latest release appear to contradict their tax-avoiding account of the project.

For 88 Years, One Number Graded US Presidents. Now It’s Going Away. Gallup’s decision to drop its approval poll underscores how polarization transformed one of the most important metrics in politics.

Gallup is retiring its 88-year presidential approval question, ending the country’s longest-running political report card in an era of hardened partisanship.

Lads, don’t go to the World Cup

Matt is doing an excellent job here of convincing us that he is in absolutely no way bitter at all about his failure as an academic.. 😉

Millions of pages of Epstein files have yet to be released

Two months after deadline for release

Required weekend reading....

Starmer’s real leadership crisis. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Fatuous media coverage aside, Starmer’s challenge is to make good on his claim that Britain isn’t the country of the Brexit years in the face of rising ethno-nationalism: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2026/02/star...

Labour lost three by-elections yesterday - all to different parties mobilising disaffected voters on their liberal left flank: Greens (see below), Lib Dems and Plaid Cymru.

Starmer/McSweeney strategy of marginalizing the left flank to go after socially con Reform curious continues to backfire

“We’re the tactical vote to stop Reform!”

“No, we’re the tactical vote to stop Reform!”

If only there was an independent, unbiased, proven accurate tactical voting website to help voters in Gorton and Denton….

>> Follow @stopreform.bsky.social for advice >>

Stop the Tories and Reform Your vote is your power. Use it tactically to get the Tories and Reform out, then influence your new MP and the next government.

We will be providing tactical voting advice for the Gorton and Denton by-election.

With an accuracy of 99.67% in the 2024 GE (stopreformuk.vote/results) we know people will trust us over biased party claims and questionable bar charts to help them Stop Reform.

'By-election is defining moment in UK politics - don't let Reform poison in' Labour Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham sees the upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election as a pivotal moment in British politics, he has shared his message for voters with the Mirror

ANDY BURNHAM: 'Gorton and Denton by-election is pivotal - don't let Reform poison in'

www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The government's immigration plans: a dog’s dinner of half-conceived policy, Reform rhetoric, mean-spirited sentiment, and profound intellectual muddle iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...

The Royal Prison tour is a thing, surely. Tower of London, Fotheringhay and wherever the prince formerly known as Prince ends up. Gold.

I can't wait to see how much extra tourism is generated by having a high profile royal family.

A small piece of a stone cross with a runic inscription, it stands upright inside St Flannan’s Cathedral Killaloe

This fragment of the upper shaft of a cross can be found in St Flannan’s Cathedral in Killaloe, Clare.

Though small, the fragment bears an interesting story.

One face has the only known runic inscription on a Christian monument in Ireland:

Þorgrímr reisti kross þenna
‘Thorgrím erected this cross’

Keeping Edinburgh’s ice arena dreams alive ‘Freezing the ice can cost £30,000 a month’

My words in Edinburgh Inquirer all about Murrayfield Ice Arena

www.edinburghinquirer.co.uk/p/keeping-ed...

Cartoon by Clay Jones | Claytoonz