And in many cases their historical choice.

Q: Have you given any more thought to possibly suspending habeas corpus?

TRUMP: Suspending who?

Q: Habeas corpus

TRUMP: I don't know. I'd rather leave that to Kristi.

Absurdity defined.

Sincerely hope you're right.

Happy 86th birthday Lily Tomlin.

My first memory of Lily was watching her singing and signing "Sing” on Sesame Street.

Till this day, I still associate this song with Lily more than The Carpenters.

The BBC keep slipping up with this, time and time again.

this is why i don't care about the "Can AI make art?" arguments -- that's not what it's built to do. this is

can i use a tank to mow my lawn? maybe, but i'm not sure why i'd try

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?

If your humanity doesn't extend to immigrants then it probably doesn't go much further than yourself. And my Englishness sure isn't defined by such individuals.

And let's face it, we know that those who would deport any group en masse will not be too picky about whether that includes those long resident here if they have the wrong skin colour or religion.

A day of shame for the UK. A political party proposes mass deportations and the response from other political parties is not to condemn this as going further than even Mosley or the National Front.

Pretty, isn't it?

Sorry about the sting, C, partic. nasty if allergic. Hope you feel better soon. Sadly will be a much reduced Verbier for me this year. Day trips for the Academy voice m'classes/concerts and see old friends - thank god I'm close! Here, it's choir all this w/e, more Mendelssohn+Schumann duets ❤️ soon.

Ouch!

Happy "piano" 🎹 birthday (88 😉) to the great pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, born 6th July 1937.

Bienvenue en Suisse!

Remember seeing a few Borgwards in East Africa in 1957-61 period. Had never heard of them before (my Pa had) and haven't since, until now!

"Peace"

Searing poem from @michaelrosenyes.bsky.social

Two Verbier Academy alumni friends in the cast (Luis Gomes and Kitty Whately). Would really have liked to see this, so looking forward to your review.

A close relative of the famous yellow and pink Peace is its yellow and what would you call that, crimson? Meilland stablemate with the unlikely moniker Pullman Orient Express. Just a *little* bit vulgar, n'est-ce pas? But special.

More beauty of Kyiv for you.

I keep showing you these ordinary moments,
my favorite places.
I keep showing you that life is going on here.

Quite right too!

Well it's not really a case of either/or, is it?

To some extent they are both, which also means that to some extent they are neither.

Not.

BREAKING: The IDF has explained it fired at Irish diplomats in the West Bank because it thought they were Palestinian civilians. How the fuck am I supposed to parody this shit? I quit 😭😭😭

Meat industry welcomes deal, saying Labour has achieved 'what previous government promised originally but didn't deliver' The British Meat Processors Association has issued a statement strongly welcoming the deal with the EU. It says that, making access to the EU market easier for meat exporters, Keir Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. The association has also dismissed claims that the deal will mean the UK being a “rule taker” because it will aligned with the EU on sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) rules. It says: A common misunderstanding is that an SPS agreement will mean Britain becomes a ‘rule taker’. In reality, we must comply with the rules of any of our trading partners if we want to export to them – just like America must comply with British rules if they want to send us their products. This means we have been aligned with EU rules and standards all along. The difference this new deal will make is that Britain, unlike their other third country trading partners, will benefit from true, un-fettered access to their market and massively reduced trade friction. It will boost trade and make us more competitive. Under the existing arrangement we have had to produce a mountain of paperwork to prove we comply, costing business a fortune but with no added value. This extra cost had to be absorbed somewhere in the supply chain, either through lower margins or higher prices, driving food price inflation and rendering UK businesses less competitive.

British Meat Processors Association: Starmer has “managed to achieve what the previous government promised us originally but didn’t deliver”. ~AA