Alex Wasyliw

It's just incredibly awful that the gov would allow this whilst also talking about gaining more security/defence independence from the USA.

Just wild they can't see the inconsistency.

They never did.

That is a fact we all need to agree on.

Looks like the "No Kings" protest may need to change its name to "Princes Please"

@thebulwark.com

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

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The anti-poverty charity @trusselluk.bsky.social, which is working to end hunger, has teamed up with Friends of the Earth to show that a greener future isn’t just a win for the environment. Delivered fairly, it could reduce the need for food banks.

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@quietriotpod.bsky.social

🎵 Wokey Dokey.. Wokey Dokeeee.... 🎵

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Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Electoral reform is the key to Social Democratic renewal With four parties tied in the polls, our first past the post electoral system is failing. How should progressives respond?

Four parties tied in the polls.

A governing majority on just 34% of the vote. This isn’t stability, it’s a warning.

If Britain is now a multi-party democracy, why are we still using a 19th-century voting system?

Electoral reform is needed writes Jenny Riddell-Carpenter MP

Normally people would say they are in politics for their kids, or for the future generation, to make the country & world better for them.

But of course Reform are focused exclusively on the ast, they don't care about the future or those who have to deal with the mess Reform would create of it.

🔥 Caroline Lucas: "Your position is utterly incoherent."

🔵 "We've got a party that pretends to be an insurgent party, an anti establishment, anti-elite party, and yet it's stuffed full of old Tory retreads."

🤔 "I mean, it just doesn't add up."

Ultimately any decision that requires a pass fail process is a bureaucratic one.

I thought the problem was that ridiculous clinical requirements were added to pass.

I don't see how this makes a difference & I'd worry about losing some ability to address qualitative considerations.

UK inflation rate had been diverging from the US and EU in 2025 - but signs in more recent months of the gap reducing...

As is this (which I expect you've seen already).

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People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

Not sure why Reform announcing they’ll scrap the Equality Act 2010 hasn’t provoked widespread alarm.
They want to torch our human rights framework AND repeal our right to protection from discrimination.
A smile and a shrug on BBC News.
What the hell?
FFS, media. Tell people what this really means.

This is kinda the UK... just with the pretty mountain view replaced by a view across just some fields.

If they bought it with Johnson, they will buy it with Farage. This is not a fruitful avenue of attack imho.
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It's falling, appealing hypocrisy, but if we learnt anything from the Boris time it's that people don't care too much about folk being obviously "posh".

Apart from anything it's so tedious & predictable.
The populist right are the most politiciany of politicians.

The same old refusal to talk straight or answer questions, just spiced up with a populist sprinkling of freeze-dried indignation, faux-victimisation & aggression.

I thought that was more of a banned names list?

Which the UK also has
www.ukdeedpolloffice.org/what-names-a...

To expand a bit on the fragmented ombudsman point here - I think this is an area where "MPs shouldn't be doing casework" and "actually this is a key part of their role" imply pretty much the same practical steps.

If people want a personal AI driven version of dead relatives to interact with in private, that's their choice (a weird & creepy choice but not my business)

Given how significantly SM shapes our societies it is incredibly irresponsible to have these operating & interacting in public digital spaces

Donald Trump and Liz Truss

I just saw this posted (elsewhere) with the heading 'The Slug and Lettuce' and I genuinely guffawed.

if only we had a media and culture secretary @roberthutton.co.uk

It is absolute and utter neglect to let this come this close to the wire just as the US has let most of its overseas broadcasting shutter.

Haven't there been a number of different wheelchairs in ST over the various series?

Huh.
Was discussing that ship with my sister the other day. She was convinced the Klingons got it from the Romans, but I didn't remember anything about it.