Shatner's bassoon

Excellent thread on Barbara Castle and the introduction of the breathalyser!

It's an episode with an important moral: that having the courage to do the right thing, even if it's unpopular at the time, can save lives and bring public opinion with it over time.

Stealing refugees' jewellery won't make anyone's life better.
Deporting children won't make anyone's life better.
Making people wait 20 years to settle won't make anyone's life better.

If Government chooses hostility over helping communities, more division and racism are the only possible results.

Doctor: "Sorry, Mr Richards from The Rolling Stones, you have Lyme Disease"

Richards: "Well that's a tick in the Keith!"

[Scene is MCcDONALDS PICKUP POINT but for the most part we can only see the close up faces of tha CUSTOMER and the McDONALDS EMPLOYEE at the serving point]. 1 CUSTOMER: Hi - I’m afraid this isn’t what I ordered 2 McDONALDS EMPLOYEE: Number 187? CUSTOMER: Yes 3 CUSTOMER: Maybe I pressed the wrong thing? I just ordered one strawberry milkshake. 4 EMPLOYEE: Oh - yeah sorry 5 EMPLOYEE: The milkshake machine’s not working. 6 EMPLOYEE: The only flavours we can do are vanilla, banana, and Labour Leader Pretending to be Nigel Farage. 7 CUSTOMER: Is that a new flavour? EMPLOYEE: Yeah 8 [We now see that the employee has placed a gigantic milkshake cup on the counter] EMPLOYEE: If you look inside, there’s a Labour leader pretending to be Nigel Farage. 9 [Customer looks inside the cup] 10 [Show Keir Starmer dressed as Nigel Farage inside the cup] CUSTOMER: So there is 11 CUSTOMER: Is that something people want, then? EMPLOYEE: No! No, not at all. 12 EMPLOYEE: It just keeps happening when we press banana. [ends]

why can they not just fix it

Are you familiar with the oil industry at all?

Nine-month-old AI company you've never heard of that revealed its first product last month wants to be valued as much as Ford

Vic Reeves & @bobmort.bsky.social made a very strong case for the BBC License Fee…

Russian Oil Prices Sink as India and China Cut Purchases Ahead of U.S. Sanctions Deadline - The Moscow Times Russian oil prices have slid sharply as refiners in India and China pulled back from purchases ahead of a U.S. sanctions deadline targeting state-controlled producers Rosneft and Lukoil.

Russian oil prices have slid sharply as refiners in India and China pulled back from purchases ahead of a U.S. sanctions deadline targeting state-controlled producers Rosneft and Lukoil.

Plans to leave refugees in a state of perpetual uncertainty about where and if they can rebuild their lives are not just performative cruelty, they are counterproductive to integration and the economy. It doesn’t have to be like this - 1/2

Alright

Objective reality matters.
Experience matters.
Not everything all trans people want is reasonable.
"Trans rights" is not one thing.
Much obvious good, a bit of GTFOH lunacy too

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In other news, the BBC has found no evidence that the BBC mounted a coup against the BBC. A BBC source told a BBC journalist for BBC News that someone within the BBC might have been making up the story to damage the BBC. The BBC has approached the BBC for comment.

After condemning No10 for briefing against No10, No10 asked No10 to find out who in No10 was responsible, & has now confirmed that it was no one in No10.

Lads, I successfully managed to navigate around Terminal 5, which apparently makes me significantly more capable at life than Noah Smith.

@CorbynSuperfan lives!

Geoffrey Bindman and his pursuit of justice for all From calling for Tony Blair to be tried to defending Gaza, Geoffrey always fought for everyone to have the rights they deserved

The great Geoffrey Bindman has died. Rest in Strength. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

Nobody thinks you shouldn't, Dan. Like I said, I like it myself, I just don't often get many takers

But in the noughties, not many were so sure. China was playing nice and talking about its responsibilities seriously

GWB was absolutely game for cycling with some Chinese Olympians-to-be and then lecturing them on human rights.
Make what you will of his front, but he did it

Sounds a bit gamey. Not that I don't love that, but probably not for everyone?

Bbc management is full of marketing people, they never made anything.

Auntie's New Bloomers is disappointing

The errors really weren't serious, if they can be called that at all

To fight communism, America bombed Laos more heavily than any country ever in history. It lost. It took in the refugees who managed to make it out. Now it has changed its mind and is shipping them back. What kind of government does this

Fucking hell, scraping the barrel today

Love the quotes round "ya"
Ineffably naff, Rod