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The organ donation ‘opt-out’ has been a fatal failure | The Observer

What's lost when we lose staff, departments, programmes and faculties in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, and what's that got to do with organ donation?

Amid the looming losses faced by Cardiff, Edinburgh, Lancaster, Leicester and Nottingham (among many others), here's a worked example. 1/8

It’s not at all clear to me how the BBC can do any kind of serious journalism if its top two bosses can be forced to quit over such an obviously confected scandal. There is no substantive error here. How can the BBC report on Trump, or Farage, or anyone else, in these circumstances?

twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.

Can’t wait to hear fuel duty get frozen again in the budget in ten days or so!!

Head in hands wondering how this could happen to me, the popular president who posted a video of myself shitting on everyone 2 weeks ago

Zohran standing amidst a crowd in winter clothing

Zohran at the rally for trans youth on february 8 ❣️ he was polling single digits.

regret to say I will probably get capital e Emotional when Mamdani and Sadiq eventually end up meeting

Newly elected mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani, says hello and gives scritches to a very relaxed-looking grey-and-white bodega cat

Everything’s ok, chief

big, multicultural cities - they're good!

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social when's bins?

A new low, even by Goodwin's increasingly awful standards. Anxiety (no scare quotes are needed) takes many forms. And using his social media bully pulpit to punch down is despicable.

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montreal’s new mayor wants to rip up bike lanes and create a more permissive regulatory structure for airbnbs. grim result.

“The researchers aim to show that the ‘inevitability’ of AI is just a marketing frame perpetrated by the industry and that pushback is a lot more possible than we often see.” Yes!

Julian Vaccari said: "I'm thrilled to be joining Question Time at such a fascinating moment in British politics. The show's appeal over the decades is a testament to the power and simplicity of the format. At its best, Question Time is a celebration of community and shared experience. I want people from every part of the UK and every walk of life to feel like they can take part and hear their views expressed."

I would love to ask the new editor of Question Time how booking Goodwin, an extreme racist who openly fosters division and civil unrest, fits into his vision of “community and shared expression”

Apart from a few angry posts on here, why will this be cost free? Where’s the stigma gone? Was it ever a genuine one? Have social norms or the rules changed? This is far from the first time he’s written or said something like this and he’ll be on the BBC again soon.

Okay, I can't hold it in anymore. It's extremely clear that Taylor mixed up The Lady of Shalott with Hamlet's Ophelia, this is why she talks about a tower and talks about "seeing it all" because they're both famous paintings of red head woman and water.

What I think this demonstrates is 3 things (1) This mass deportation policy is wildly at odds with public opinion in general, and with opinion of many sensible Tory voters, members & MPs (2) Many ppl defending the policy didn't know what was in it (3) Informing and pressuring them therefore works

It’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that large parts of Westminster remaining on X - a platform that tolerates and amplifies extremism and racism - has led a great many people to normalise what previously was unacceptable.

Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. Air pollution fell substantially as the city restricted car traffic and made way for parks and bike lanes.

“Air pollution fell substantially as Paris restricted car traffic and made way for parks, people-streets and bike-lanes.”

Better for the climate, better for health, better for livability and quality of life.

Common sense.

Such a no-brainer, it’s remarkable that more cities HAVEN’T done the same.

A cat is seen riding a bus. They are standing up and have their front paws on the back of the front seat.

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

If Labour cannot denounce mass deportation of permanent residents, Idi Amin style, what is the point of them?

Great news! Now computers won’t just flirt for you, they will also go on holiday for you. Next we’re hoping to get them to take on the arduous task of listening to the sound of a loved one laughing with joy.

Worth saying that despite asking for more than 12 hours we’ve had nothing back from Labour on this

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

Abolish the Home Office

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I’m sure they didn’t mean to eliminate the woman in this image.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.