Leon Alleyne-McLaughlin

The natural home, just from an 'what is the audience' for Doctor Who outside of the UK is 'what streaming service has Star Trek' and IMO Doctor Who also consciously benefits from the awareness it should be more 'domestic' than Star Trek.

This is absolutely right. It’s about creating a permission structure for violence, whether that violence is conducted by the state directly or simply permitted by the state.

None of these people believe that Richard Ayoade, Cole Palmer, Zadie Smith and David Olusoga are going to form a squadron of “The Fighting Miscegenates” and start a war against their own parents.

LMAO. If you think this is true of Star Trek (or any sci fi), it is because you affirmatively pushed non-male Trekkies out of your group with sexism and you should work on that.

How does this timid quote tally with what Keir Starmer said in his speech - and in his interviews - just a fortnight ago?

A putatively nationalist movement is being built upon rejecting everything that made Britain actually distinctive and turning it into a particularly shitty toxic version of online America.

In fairness, Ed Miliband has been doing this for years, often far more passionately and convincingly. It's just been buried by the Party leadership for reasons

Please tell me there's a 22nd century Sir Humphrey?! 🙏🏽

To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: You are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

As Yom Kippur ends, sending my support to all those grieving and/or frightened after today's horrific attack in Manchester

yet again the only person in the Labour Party who understands comms is Ed Miliband

I think this media habit has become such a problem it needs an embarrassing nickname - 'bookie journalism' or 'Mystic Meg' or something - which should be thrown back at journalists every single time they do this.

"it's your own time your wasting"

Sometimes you just need to know about the development process for the HMS Warrior

YouTube videos analysing old steamships 🚢

I don’t talk about this publicly, but hegseth drives me out of my silence.

I attended West Point from 1998-2000. I left, along with about 5 other young women, as a direct result of the military’s then-shameful (non) policies addressing sex harassment and assault.

The level of drug abuse in this White House must be off the charts compared to previous administrations.

The image shows a social media exchange on X.com. @elonmusk (Elon Musk) posted 4 hours ago, criticizing Sky News for a "misleading headline" and a "false narrative," stating that Epstein tried to get him to visit his island but he refused, yet his name was mentioned before Prince Andrew, who did visit. The post includes a reply from @SkyNews (Sky News) from 1 day ago, stating "Elon Musk and Prince Andrew named in latest Epstein files release" with a link. The Musk post has 14.9K comments, 23.8K retweets, 173K likes, and 15.8M impressions.

Wait. So he knew about the island and refused to go, but didn’t say anything to anyone about what he knew was going on there?

nobody expects the Fabians

8. If you select Tuvix lives in that new Voyager game you should have your Steam/Xbox/PlayStation/Nintendo account banned

The radicalisation happening of UK elites is bad, bodes ill for the future, but is also, to be clear, really really funny quite a lot of the time.

It's sad, because this is a really great setup for a new Trek series, but we're almost certainly not going to get it

Civil Service staff networks to only meet outside working hours and have all events signed off by senior managers New rules have been issued to all Civil Service staff networks to ensure their activities remain within the Civil Service Code.

What is the point of this government?

I cannot imagine many Labour members, supporters or voters thought “what this country needs is a de facto ban on civil service staff networks”.

I’m so damn tired.

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Yes! This! I want Labour politicians to be honest obsessed with carpet bombing reform. I want true, deep, passionate hatred for that party and all it stands for. I want “if Reform declares war on hell, I will have good things to say in the commons for the devil.”

Repost for Irish Film Classifications by Damien Owens, because it's just come up in FB memories and it's still *brilliant*.

my kingdom for a moral argument

The annual festival of “stop hitting yourself!“ aka the BBC’s commentary on Lib Dem conference.

This person is called Pissshitter because their takes are both piss and shit. Asking the average American to engage with “revolutionary leftists lit” is like trying to draw blood from a rock, just ain’t gonna happen. You meet people where they are, not where you want them to be in your imagination.