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The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?

Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

Flashing Red Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list"

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Why the criminal justice system should be top of No. 10's "shit list".

No part of the public sector is more broken or brings with it greater political risk. As we saw these past two weeks.

It desperately needs a new approach.

(£/free trial)

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The BBC are accidentally running the subtitles to Mrs Marple over the Mercury Prize, and it’s rather wonderful. A few of lines could plausibly have been written by Jarvis.

Headline reads: Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotic for adult users.

You gently run your hand through the rack. You can feel it—pure cotton, rich wool, Irish linen. The plump buttonholes are handsewn; the buttons attached with a firm shank. You flip the price tag over. It's affordable

You buy the jacket and go home, which is only 15 mins away. Your apt is $600/month

Beats are shit but I doubt £10 ones are better. Get some audio technica or sennheisers

It’s not removing opinion though, it’s removing thing that have no factual provable mechanism. He’s not even taking religious works. Just things that are demonstrably wrong. The only place these should be is in the library section “things that don’t actually work”

And nothing of value was lost

What has Yvette Cooper’s proscription of Palestine Action done to this country?

Beyond absurd. It’s extreme authoritarianism. These police should be arresting rapists & crooks, not neglecting those duties to spend time arresting citizens standing against genocide.

It undermines police and the law.

Jonathan Portes did the sums too

See the thread

Sounded good last night.

I'm absolutely not being polite to halfwits or disengenous twats who think it's contentious to suggest a march with Tommy Robinson and a bunch of people with swastika tattoos is "far right".

"Each act, each occasion is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow." 1/10

Evil twin identified.

Timeline cleanse

Jayden. Tyler. Ashton.

Farage “the only alternative [to his plan] is to do nothing”

Only a Sith deals in absolutes.

‘Operation Raise the Colours’ Organised by Well-Known Far-Right Extremists – HOPE not hate Union Jacks and the crosses of St George have begun to appear on lampposts up and down the UK in recent days. Much of the...

Multi-ethnic working class area where I live: no flags.
V.white middle class area where I grew up: flags everywhere

The latter unlike the former has not been "forgotten by Westminster" or "left behind by globalisation". These people are mostly just racists.

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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

I’m getting Heath Ledger’s Joker walking away from the hospital vibes.

Nice one bruvva.

My dad suddenly seemed so detached from reality I honestly couldn't tell if it was dementia or a psychotic break. But after sitting near a bunch of far right knobbeads in the pub a lightbulb went off in my brain and I disabled GB News on his telly. Sorted.

Imagine if BBC spent as much time on the dangers of climate collapse as they do on immigration. Imagine the public response when they realise what the real danger is to our children & who is causing it. Instead of anger at refugees there’d be anger at oil companies, media bosses, politicians & BBC.

Cod in spiced batter, picked red cabbage, chipotle mayo, pico de gallo, avocado.

Worth reminding everyone, this is the deal Farage and Badenoch have said they're ditch.

Well he was the one and only.

What a week - eldest finished primary school - played Timon in the Lion King, got to raise the house cup for his house winning sports day and he won the shield for getting the most merits in the school! Super proud of him 🧡

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