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Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut

So, the plan is to cut English, the arts, and sociology - the degrees that actually study culture - while on another part of your platform claiming to “defend” British culture.

It’s performance nationalism with a reading age of seven.

Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds

Some good news among all the horrible shite

“The world’s wind and solar farms have generated more electricity than coal plants for the first time this year, marking a turning point for the global power system, according to research”
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finally people are speaking out as -don’t-want-to-watch-videos-Americans

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

Fires and Fascism @ Bedminster Watch the trailer here.This new documentary shows extreme wildfires are more than just a consequence of climate change, but also involving big business, organised crime, and the rise of the far right....

Bristol!
Come see the Fires & Fascism doc, Fri 10/10 in BS3, +Q&A w/ director, who says it's not just another climate film but "about how wildfires in Europe link with fascist attitudes of past & present & how we can be inspired to craft a safer & more united future."

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Goody-bag merch from Tory Conference branded "When Labour negotiates Britian loses" and signed "Kemi Badenoch".

It helps to be able to spell the country you say only you are competent enough to run.

Late capitalism, with no effective regulation of the most powerful and monied interests (and boy are they monied) is gonna break all hell loose.

Interesting isn't it that the neoliberals are now openly redefining the meaning of democracy to be: you vote and we ignore you.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Being passionate about Taylor Swift is like being passionate about Bed, Bath & Beyond. There's nothing there. Just marketing and brand identity and hollow, acquisitive greed.

Different strategies and wording, but same outcome, people denied rights. You cannot in reality condemn the Tories, or Reform, plans for leaving the ECHR and support Labour's plan of restricting it for certain groups. All that shows is you don't care about human rights, you only care about yours.

Not a single Greta hater could do what she has done, face what she's faced, bear abuse and humiliation at the hands of the most psychotic and genocidal army. They haven't an ounce of her bravery and that's what drives them crazy. Free Greta, free Palestine🇵🇸

Article reads: Woman named as Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first The 63-year-old archbishop-designate is married to Eamonn Mullally, with whom she has two children. Originally from Woking in Surrey, she was the UK's chief nursing officer from 1999 to 2004.

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Any time a politician says we should leave the ECHR, the very next questions any interviewer should ask are
🚨Which human rights are you willing to lose personally
🚨Which methods of torture are you going to allow people to be sent to face
🚨Which family members would you be willing to lose

#r4today

Tech wythout heart ys hollow.

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye.

We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART:

H umanityes
E thiques
A rtes
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Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski Labour has lost its nerve. At our party conference this weekend, we’re gathering to set things right, says Green party leader Zack Polanski

Migration is Britain’s superpower. Our future depends on embracing that truth, not denying it | Zack Polanski

Kemi Badenoch vows to repeal Climate Change Act Tory leader says she would replace it with ‘cheap energy’ strategy, ending decades-long consensus on climate

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to repeal the UK’s Climate Change Act, a move so reckless it demands more scrutiny than polite debate. This matters not just for polar bears or coral reefs, but for our people, our economy, our very future.

#ClimateChange #ClimateEmergency
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There are two Indigenous women from (so called) Canada on the Sumud Flotilla. It was just illegally intercepted by the IDF and they are kidnapping humanitarians from the boats.

This comment nails it. Frankly it’s none of anyone’s business who else is in a public lavatory, even if they consider someone is in the “wrong” one. If you’re upset by the mere presence of somebody else for reasons of your own beliefs, that’s your problem.

Big up the perinatal mental health teams!! Exemplary mental health care, a literal life-saving service 🛟 Having babies is crazy-making, but then so is so much of life these days... Wholeheartedly agree it should work like this for everyone.

Perinatal Mental Health Services are so good. I really wish everyone struggling had access to high quality help as quickly and compassionately. A real model of how incredible the NHS can be when the resource level matches the number of patents using the service.

BREAKING: Israel Begins Intercepting 44-Ship Global Sumud Flotilla The massive flotilla, which Italian and Spanish ships shadowed until it approached Gaza, is the fourth one attacked in the last year.

BREAKING: Israel Begins Intercepting 44-Ship Global Sumud Flotilla: zeteo.com/p/global-sum...

Screengrab from The Free Press Niall Ferguson: Milei’s Man-made Miracle Javier Milei announces reforms to the Argentine Federal Police on June 17, 2025, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Tomas Cuesta via Getty Images) Can a broken economy be fixed? Argentina’s president proves it can. Politics is another story. By Niall Ferguson 07.22.25 — International Sir Niall Ferguson, MA, DPhil, FRSE, is the Milbank Family Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and a senior faculty fellow of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard. He is the author of 16 books, including The Pity of War, The House of Rothschild, and Kissinger, 1923–1968: The Idealist, which won the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award. He is a columnist for The Free Press. In addition, he is the founder and managing director of Greenmantle, a New York-based advisory firm, a co-founder of the Latin American fintech company Ualá, and a co-founding trustee of the new University of Austin. FOLLOW COLUMN

Screengrab from the Telegraph Business How Milei’s chainsaw economics proved his Left-wing critics wrong The libertarian’s brand of ‘shock therapy’ has Argentina finally living within its means 670 Gift this article free milei argentina chainsaw Szu Ping Chan Economics Editor 01 January 2025 3:02pm GMT Szu Ping Chan Maga has taken on a new meaning at the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires...

Screengrab from Evening Standard Business Milei has transformed the Argentinian economy — if only Labour would take note A long-term economic basket case, the country has been revived by the radical policies of its controversial president. So what can we learn from them? Javier Milei ES Chris Blackhurst 15 September 2025 11 COMMENTS

Screengrab from The Telegraph Milei’s Argentina rocked by fresh sell-off as investors fret over US bailout Buenos Aires sees peso drop 6pc against the dollar, despite Trump’s $20bn rescue package 3 Gift this article free Donald Trump and Javier Milei Javier Milei says he will not give up his $5bn swap line with China as part of a deal with Donald Trump Credit: Alexander Drago/Reuters Hans van Leeuwen International Economics Editor 01 October 2025 5:23pm BST Hans van Leeuwen Javier Milei is battling to calm markets in Argentina as investors grow increasingly wary over his ability to secure a bailout from Donald Trump. A fresh bout of market volatility has led to the peso dropping almost 6pc against the dollar over the past two

How it started, etc.

The Evening Standard piece is from TWO WEEKS ago. 😂

Israel surrounded the Global Sumud Flotilla, turned on jamming devices and is now 'probably' taking them as prisoners

Of course no one knows what's happening if Italy/Spain had stayed they could have monitored the situation

But the West don't care, Israel does whatever it wants

as an author of a book on reparations I am intimately familiar with the move people make from "the thing you want isn't politically viable right now" to "you shouldn't want it, talk about wanting it, or even think about it" but it never stops being weird to me

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

Every good programmer I know has been saying this to me for months; meanwhile every not-great programmer I know has been trying to outsource their work to ai, causing more issues/delays than they if did it themselves.

A lot of these tools only seem good to people who are not great at their jobs.

If AI's primary expected contributions to the economy as it is implemented are to decimate the work force and cause electrical power bills to rise exponentially, I fail to understand how it will contribute to GDP growth.

I dunno man, autistic people are great. I say we all take the tylenol and then we can just communicate in more straightforward ways.

ARE

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