Mark Almond

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I think you may have the dates of Agincourt and Poitiers wrong in the opening paragraph.

British by descent: when the child of a British citizen is not themselves British - Free Movement A child born abroad to British citizen parents who were themselves born abroad is not automatically British at birth. While this might be no shock to

In case you missed it: British by descent: when the child of a British citizen is not themselves British | Colin Yeo

The radical right in Britain increasingly claims to represent "Christian values" & "Christian civilisation" - though its leaders rarely go to church or pretend to believe anything.

It's especially important that Christian leaders speak out against this, as it's their tradition that's being claimed.

Crystal Palace win the Community Shield and the Championship is back – Football Weekly Max Rushden is joined by Barry Glendenning, Ali Maxwell and George Elek as Crystal Palace get the better of Liverpool at Wembley and the Championship gets under way

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Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

oh absolutely fuck these moral fucking cowards

Former Metropolitan Police commissioner Ian Blair dies Lord Ian Blair served as the Metropolitan Police commissioner from 2005 to 2008.

Clearly remember Ian Blair giving a statement to the media that Jean Charles de Menezes was acting suspiciously, wearing a bulky coat, jumped over the tube barrier, and received a warning before the armed police opened fire. It led the News At Ten. All lies www.bbc.com/news/article...

Not. A. Clue.
(But that also goes for Canadians who get all of their news from American sources, because our civics education sucks in this country).

On the 30th anniversary of Srebrenica, let me just say: Death to Spiked/Living Marxism

At our foodbank we have some users who have been regulars since we started in 2012. Their lives are chaotic. Routinely in prison, mental institutions, hospital or homeless.
I do not know the answer to the problem but the article by @joshhalliday.bsky.social is an important contribution.

I hate it! It's politics as sports punditry, in which all that matters on the welfare bill is what it means for the manager's authority or whether Morgan Mcwhatsisname gets the sack.

It's such a nihilistic view, in which you govern to win elections, rather than winning elections in order to govern.

Every guy with a tragic backstory (in a movie):

We've heard this story before. Some of the same people who led us into Iraq are now enthusiastically trying to pull us into another war with Iran. This government must not blindly walk into another disaster.

my current favorite TikTok account is this guy who tries to replicate women fitness influencers

Why I Decided To Sell (A Really Huge Chunk Of) My Record Collection I took a formidable wedge of my record collection to a vinyl dealer friend in Gloucestershire this week.

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It is very very funny that one of the few genuine ways we have diverged from EU law since Brexit is VAT on private schools.

Karmic punishment for Telegraph readers.

Screenshot of filing reproducing ICE post on X/Twitter that includes photo of people in military fatigues guarding what look like ICE officers detaining people.

CA: Want to direct you to ICE's own photo, docket 39-1, and if this is not domestic law enforcement by military, I don't know what is.

Judge: I will have an order out *very* soon. Hopeful that I can get it out today.

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Chart showing “Electricity Supplied”, “Electricity Available” and Productivity in Britain / UK since 1920. The three measures rise in similar patterns (albeit on different scales until a point in the early 2000s, when electricity supplied drops and productivity growth slowed down. The authors draw a line at this point, and write “decommissioning of facilities including coal, oil and nuclear”. The chart is nonsense

I’ve seen it again today, so here goes: this chart, and the research note it comes from, is extremely silly and misleading.

It purports to show a drop in electricity availability in Britain coinciding with the productivity slowdown. It shows nothing of the sort…

Ukrainian security service sources tell @financialtimes.com the agency is conducting "a large-scale special operation to destroy enemy bomber aircraft" deep inside Russia.

"SBU drones are targeting aircraft that bomb Ukrainian cities every night." Claims 40 aircraft have been hit.

A must read

Yvette Cooper repeatedly refused to give a straight answer just now on Today to straight Q “Will councils get more money to pay care workers more?” She repeatedly committed to higher carer pay but wouldn’t commit to money so councils can fund it. Think that speaks volumes about the mess we are in.

This is exactly right on what the government is getting badly wrong on the politics and policy of immigration:

Their fundamental strategic error from which so much else flows was their 2024 tax pledge. They've trapped themselves for no good reason.

There's a line connecting Hunt's NI cuts and the electoral system for mayoral races and the BBC management and the EHRC. The Starmer/McSweeney theory of politics just isn't interested in naming, let alone undoing, Tory institutional capture

I just about qualify for this weekly get together, and yet would not have been old enough to be conscripted into the first gulf war.

An apartment block burns

Kherson, as Putin’s “Easter ceasefire” gets underway.

Don’t let your media outlets lie to you.

Russians used DOGE passwords to try to crack US cyber systems almost as soon as they were registered.

Read the thread ⬇️

A new life awaits you in the below-ground colonies!

A chance to begin again in a golden land of opportunities and Black Lung

There was a discussion on here some months ago about sci fi writers who go "I hate people but I love humanity." I thought then, and still think now, that the best writers are the opposite: they hate humanity and love people.