Dr_Aust_PhD

Birds of a feather flock together.

This is class.

More than 50 child asylum seekers still missing after disappearing from Kent care Council data obtained by the Guardian shows 345 children have gone missing in recent years, many probably taken by traffickers

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

YouTube video by BBC News Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News

A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped

www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...

I think this is one of those places where a carefully-designed wealth tax on the super-rich could help. Give them the option of having their tax, or part of it, pay for a named project in a named place. 'The RichGit Cancer Centre' 'The FatCat Children's Ward' etc. What have the govt got to lose?

Yup. Like the folk from the DNVP ('German National People's Party'). Who stood to the Nazis somewhat as the current ever farther right 'rump' Tory Party does to Reform UK.

This is about as wrong as it's possible to be. "Staunch monarchist conservatives" were key to the Nazis seizing power. Hindenburg's inner circle plotted to make Hitler chancellor, thinking they could control him, and use his mass following to, ultimately, restore the Kaiserreich.

You will never, ever satisfy the centre-right. There isn't any actual, material, clearly-defined goal they're seeking.

Their goal is to send everything onto the far-right travelator. Their dissatisfaction must by definition be permanent

The generation that experienced WW2 knew how bad things could get. The horrors that they had directly experienced in Coventry, on Omaha, at Belsen, Bastogne, Dresden, Nanjing & Tokyo meant that they understood how dangerous THIS was. This is where all that started.

This account - Britain is Broken pretends to be a patriot exposing migrant violence.

It is no patriot. It is a Putin tool working to destroy Britain.

The anti-migrant hysteria is being whipped up, not only by the British media, but by Russia and influencers and politicians working for Russia.

More Brexshit bonus.

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

Gill was described variously as Farage’s “enforcer” and “right-hand man”. One former Ukip MEP from that time told the Guardian: “Gill was in the thick of organising. He was the right-hand version of Farage. His office was right beside Farage’s.”
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Appointments an ex Sun editor and you’ll get Sun-type standards.

I’d be thinking of jumping ship if I were a highly regarded journalist

This spectacular @thetimes.com screw-up deserves much wider attention. It’s the second bullshit story that the “paper of record” has deleted in a week after Monday’s attempted hatchet job on @torstenbell.bsky.social. A sad descent for a once serious paper

White 'Christian' ethno-nationalism goes global. Turn back the clock!

Funny how Donny Dumpfo only does this for oil-rich countries.

Marco Rubio Vi @marcorublo 3 ... Your "sources" claiming to have "knowledge of the situation" tricked you into writing a fake story Miami Herald • @MiamiHerald • 9hl U.S. poised to strike military targets in Venezuela in escalation against Maduro regime miamiherald.com/news/nation-wo...

Rubio now denying it. Lots of backpedaling. They’ve clearly had some pushback.

The Miami Herald wouldn’t have published this if their source wasn’t solid.

"Everything Trump touches dies." No different than what he has done to the economic well-being of working class families, the corrupt serial lying conman has obliterated the once great Kennedy Center. Ticket sales have plummeted to levels not seen since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Never seen the film. We read the play at school, but I never warmed to it... possibly because when we read it aloud in our class of 15 yo boys the teacher kept making me read the Elizabeth Taylor (Martha) part.

Interesting paper! When you ask people about the most important issue "facing the country," they often say immigration. But when you ask them about issues facing them personally, it doesn't crack the top 10.

This indicates that voters are reacting to media narratives, not their own experience.

My late father, born in the 30s a few yrs before Watkins, was one of the (listed but unnamed) scientific consultants for 'The War Game'. Interested to see Watkins, like dad, did national service. Dad used to talk about his army training for 'coming the aid of the civil power', AKA shooting rioters.

Indeed.

Also Culloden (1964), an extraordinary historical recreation done on a shoestring budget with a tiny cast which demonstrated the possibilities of the documentary form and had enough confidence in its audience not to dumb down the material. www.reddit.com/r/Documentar...

No shit.

Or rather, '#Brexshit'

Likewise. And who wants to see Farage or listen to his crap every third week? No thanks.

New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.

During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.

Making the US less appealing to scientific and technology researchers will be the end of US preeminence‼️

It started in Trump's first term and his accelerating. The brain drain will hurt us in every field from medical research to astrophysics, but is especially notable in AI research.

Father Mark Rowles, 57, went by the name "skinheadlad1488" in a chatroom called Aryan Reich Killers to write offensive messages about Muslims….including advocating shooting them in the head.

In his defence he said he isn’t racist. Right.

I’m staggered his sentence is as light as it is.

Ah - didn't know. I was a proper Sarf Lahndahn kid, born at Denmark Hill. Remember going back there age 10 in the 70s for a dental extraction. Under... local anaesthesia (!) You had to go to a hosp specialist for that, otherwise it was gas. When I tell dental students this now they don't believe me.

Yes, only 2 yrs, 7 & 8 in modern parlance. Went to a more modest (as in smaller & a *lot* less rich) school outside London age 13-18. Academically little to choose between them, but the 'grandiosity' & wealth of DC was in another league. Massive gym, all-weather track, >20 full-size pitches etc.

Just out walking doggos & amazed by the number of children out trick or treating, often in organized platoons. V striking given the whole ritual, despite its Celtic origins, was only really imported to England from the US in the mid-80s.