Daniel Harkin

Controversial opinion for those who’ve been saying Dr Who is not Star Wars: Dr Who is! At its most fun it has space opera, diversely weird and wonderful aliens, scary monsters and the main adversaries are fascists. Sixties era Who especially so!

“More in common with economics” [shrug emoji].

(Who on Earth was arguing that religious belief was going to lose out to science and rationality by the *end of 20c* ??)

Up there with the people who answer questions posted on Amazon product pages with “dunno haven’t bought it”.

Isn’t this an expected outcome of higher NI employer rates?

I fear we’ve reached that point in a scandal where every take on Epstein is batshit or stupid. (Including this one.)

I’ve been so radicalised as a YIMBY that I now treat the Nooks and Corners section of Private Eye as a hate/sneaky victory read.

I am not, strictly speaking, aware of any Oxford professor (or, indeed, tutorial fellow) who sold the UK down the river. Not like, just as an example, taking payments from a hostile country.

News, Bad and Good, from the Dean of Arts and Sciences We have no money for copies. But our Live, Love, Learn program now includes two Undergraduate Scribe Fellows. We have no money for raises, but we’v...

"Most of our high-level administrators have no experience or interest in higher education. But they do have experience and interest in management science, which is universal. (Management science is not a science or a form of management. But we have new early retirement incentives)"

It’s basically a dadaist interpretation of this press release:

www.shu.ac.uk/news/all-art...

One in seven food businesses on major delivery platforms, including Deliveroo and Just Eat, is now a "dark kitchen", a university study shows. The findings, which shine a light on the scale of the hidden takeaway industry, found that 15% of all online food retailers in England were dark kitchens. Also known as "cloud", "ghost" or "virtual" kitchens, they are delivery-only with no customer-facing storefront. Despite rapid growth, they have - until now - lacked a clear and consistent definition, creating challenges for regulators, local authorities, food safety officers, industry stakeholders and consumers. Dr Lucie Nield, co-lead investigator from the University of

This isn’t the most egregious case but a helpful example with what’s gone wrong with the Guardian reporting. These paragraphs are essentially randomly ordered.

Rents. Are. So. High. You. Would. Not. Have. The. Leftover. Income. To. Invest. In. An. Alternative.

I have some reservations about the avocado…

unlike all the strident leftists who were correct too early, i am correct at exactly the right time

I find it baffling, maddening that the Americas section does not follow the USA section on the Economist audio edition despite it doing so in the magazine. Yes I’m alone in the flat, what of it?

1000% agree. If Labour are going to lose in 2028 then might as well have two years of actual being governed before then.

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Ffs

I don’t know how anyone (even on the mainstream right) can watch ICE and think this is how a well-ordered state should behave.

The real problem is not that we are losing this battle, it is that we already lost it. With racist and fascist adjacent men in the very highest and most powerful offices in the world, they distribute the lies of fake science by these cosplayers with abandon, because it fits their ideologies.

Not letting Andy run would be a self-defeating act of cowardice. It’s not like the Blair-Livingstone fight which was about direction of the party (Blair was later pragmatic enough to welcome Ken back). Would just be a straightforward statement of weakness and fear to both party and electorate.

If you can't objectively report what happened, you are not a news service. The story is what happened, not about the spin that the White House has put on it. Not everything is a matter of punditry or debate.

My suspicion is ministerial attention will always be consumed by hospitals and switching to a social insurance model for dentistry, MSK and primary care is the way to give it the resources it needs.

My unpopular view is that Reform is both right and wrong on the NHS. Wrong because obviously acute hospital care should be directly funded by the state. Right because we need to have a serious conversation about how crappy primary care and dentistry is.

I have vague memories of some research done on this… with some of the increase being attributable to immigration?

Don’t capitulate!! Milibae 4eva. (Or Burnham-Milibae axis…)

Perversely, the second amendment was designed precisely so the population could resist this sort of action by the state.

This is the obvious consequence of Stephen Miller’s declaration of war on the “enemy within” at Kirk’s funeral. This is exactly what he meant.

I think the US has been in a constant state of violence since its creation. This seems the closest it’s got to returning to a state of civil war, however.

I agree with the shock at the actions of the US state but I think people of colour might object to claims along the lines of *now* the govt is engaged in extrajudicial killings.

Wales just switched to a not for profit model decades ago. You don’t even have to nationalise - there’s the Glas Cymru/National Rail model of escaping the hell of privatised water.