Same but with "I also choose this guys dead wife"

For the record the person who challenged him was Dianne Abbott MP.

I attended the committee hearing.

Taking asylum seekers jewellery is a hardy Labour trope.

In 1999 Mike O’Brien MP immigration minister proposed legislation to take asylum seekers valuables worth over £2,000.

Asked if that meant taking asylum seekers jewellery in committee he said, ‘that is exactly what we will do’

When did the latest budget speculation begin?
I'm not sure I remember a time before daily headlines discussing Rachel Reeve's plan for income tax.

I had my political differences with Dick Cheney, but in person I found him warm, funny, a gracious host and surprisingly knowledgeable about music. Seeing The Jesus Lizard with him in 2009 was a blast, and he didn't hesitate to wade into the pit despite a few sidelong glances.

Interviewer: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, as a doctor and the creator of the supremely rational detective Sherlock Holmes, do you believe—

Doyle: Yes!

interviewer: I hadn't finished the question, Sir Arthur.

Doyle lunging across an occasional table: I BELIEVE IN IT

The Butlerian Jihad must have sucked for guys who just bought a new computer

Massive recommend. A stranger on a busy train asked me if I needed a doctor because I was shaking trying to suppress my laughter

The Devils: 2025’s epic fantasy sensation – prepare for a wickedly dark and twisted adventure The Devils: 2025’s epic fantasy sensation – prepare for a wickedly dark and twisted adventure eBook : Abercrombie, Joe: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

The Devils is ONE POUND on kindle right now. I'm cutting my own throat over here. www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-bigge...

The Laurieston just south of city centre looks like a terrifying bunker but is one of the friendliest and best pubs in the world. Has been a CAMRA pub of the year. Really noce

If you're southside that's a whole other pub crawl but the Bell, The Rose Manley, the Alison Arms. All cracking real boozers

City centre go for the Pot Still. Top Whisky shelf and always lively

If you're in the west end go to the Lismore (nice atmosphere wee cave of a bar) or the three judges (best ale selection and Glasgow's best ale pub back in the days when you could only get Tennant's most places)
Charing Cross, the Bon Accord is my favourite pub (ale and whisky and some fun regulars)

Can't wait for the book. You need any local pub recommendations for Glasgow?

Terrorism case against Kneecap rapper Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh thrown out Chief magistrate at Woolwich crown court rules that ‘proceedings were instituted unlawfully and are null’

"on a technicality"

Not really.

A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge.

Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using.

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Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ JERUSALEM—In response to an independent United Nations inquiry concluding that Israel is committing an ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu issued a defiant...

Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’

Yet transgender people are so dehumanized in society, casual abuse of us so normalized, that if the victim is trans? Then cisgender people don't even seem to recognize what would plainly be sexual harassment and attempts at sexual humiliation if the same abuse had been directed at them.

If that middle aged divorcee had spoken that way to some random cisgender teenage girl on a bus, made sexually charged comments to her about what kind of pornography she liked or asked about how sexually active she was, society would have no compunction calling that sexual harassment.

I want you to ask yourselves honestly, if a 50-something year old man started speaking to a minor who is cisgender, speculating what kind of pornography they watch, asking them if they've "groomed" (read: sexually abused) other minors, would that not be quite plainly sexual harassment?

I would be happy if I never heard the name Graham Linehan again, but I do feel the need to comment, because the nature of a lot of the abuse trans people receive is straight up sexual harassment, but is not recognized as such because the victim is trans.

What Glinner is doing is sexual harassment.

Eight year olds dude

When you want someone to write you a check

MAN: What's that, girl? Trouble at the old mine?
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [The miners are striking for better pay and conditions]
MAN: B-but Billy's down there!
LEFT-WING LASSIE: Woof! [BILLY'S A SCAB]

It's the hope that kills you

Shameful. A Secretary of State should not be dictating to any employer or the BBC who they should sack which would be regarded as highly prejudicial by an Employment Tribunal . Nandy has also prejudiced the police investigation of Bob Vylan over Glastonbury . She’s an irresponsible loose cannon.

Glastonbury 2025: All that Kneecap and Bob Vylan outrage drowned out the air strike on the cafe birthday party The BBC’s coverage of the festival is a wonder. But this time around it became a morass of missed points and moral cowardice

A look back on my TV viewing this week. On the patter and clatter of The Bear's fourth season, and the masterful, maddening Glastonbury coverage that showed the BBC at its best and its worst.

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And then came the fallout. The BBC was roundly criticised for airing Bob Vylan’s set (and, in fairness, for censoring Kneecap’s appearance). There was swift condemnation from politicians and pundits alike that either had been booked at all, and Avon and Somerset Police announced it was launching a criminal investigation into comments made from the stage during both performances. By Monday the BBC itself had released a statement describing remarks made as “incitement to violence”. Many were quick to point out that inciting violence against a literal army, not least one almost 4,000km away, perhaps stretches the definition of that term, and that the BBC explicitly rejected calls for a similar apology in 2020, when a panellist on Have I Got News for You suggested dropping a bomb on Glastonbury to kill Jeremy Corbyn supporters.

No matter. Between then and Wednesday morning, my TV viewing included half a dozen BBC News bulletins, every one of which gave the outrage over the chants higher billing than the 200 Palestinian civilians killed in those intervening 48 hours, half of them while seeking food at designated aid sites, across several attacks that also targeted a school, as well as a cafe crowded with women and children and hosting a birthday party at the time. If moved to discuss distractions, we should really start and end there.

It would have been nice to use the BBC’s mostly excellent coverage to reminisce about my one trip to Glastonbury, in 2015, during which I watched Christy Moore watch Kanye West, and managed to avoid passing a solid bowel movement for four straight days; to wax lyrical about music festivals, or the joy I now feel watching them – for free, excellently rendered and produced in full high definition – from my couch rather than while covered with mud, sunburn or both in a series of increasingly large fields I’ve paid £400 to sweat in. But the main story of the BBC’s Glastonbury 2025 coverage will now, and forever, be this self-made morass of missed points and moral cowardice. To focus solely on the music, and the BBC’s superlative presentation of it, would overshoot complacency and enter the realm of complicity. “Apart from all that unpleasantness,” we might ask, “how did you enjoy the play, Mrs Lincoln?”

🎪🎪🎪

UK MPs vote to proscribe Palestine Action as terrorist group Minister argues move will not impinge on people’s right to protest but critics call it ‘grave abuse of state power’

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Absolutely from the bottom of my heart this labour government can go and get to fuck. I am incredibly lazy but I will do anything I can to get them out of power.

interesting to see how much more coverage here we're getting of a chant at a music festival than the IDF being ordered to shoot and murder people in Gaza who are seeking aid!