Self-contained

What odds it's the aliens commissioning the survey? Planning when/if and how they should reveal themselves to us.

To hold the centre-left, Labour would need to be centre-left, to start with. They left that ground behind a long time ago.

They are trading on a historic brand, but they've abandoned the core brand values. They need to consider that voting Green may not be a 'protest vote' but the new normal

a close up of a woman 's face with the words `` just say no '' written on it . ALT: a close up of a woman 's face with the words `` just say no '' written on it .

Memo to Tr*mp. Doing war is harmful. Just say 'No'

These 'poll monitors' who 'raised the alarm'. Are they in the room with you now?

Parties change. At the beginning of the 20th century Liberals went from winning a landslide victory to being wiped out by Labour. C. 80 years ago Republicans and Democrats switched ends in US politics. Now Labour are leaving a big vacuum on the left waiting to be exploited.

obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)

‘to play a blinder’: meaning—and origin? to perform outstandingly well—UK, 1902, originally in football: to play an excellent game—the image may be of a footballer whose speed and skill overpower opponents

"The colloquial British-English phrase to play a blinder means: to perform outstandingly well."
wordhistories.net/2024/03/14/p...

In the week before the election, polls had Greens, Reform and Labour neck and neck on 28-31% with a reported 5% margin. Labour were both campaigning and pulling dirty tricks to claim that Greens were splitting the anti-Reform vote. Reform played the race/religion card and Greens played a blinder.

I love that Woke and Progressive are presented as negatives by these total buffoons - it leaves no doubt they stand for the opposite - bigotry and regression.

Labour trying to copy Reform on immigration has gone down badly in Manchester.

It’s pushed Muslim voters and many progressives away, especially younger ones, and deepened the sense that Labour is losing touch with its base.

In trying to chase Reform’s voters, they’re losing their own.

SHOW ISRAEL THE RED CARD BAN ISRAEL FROM UEFA & FIFA GLOBAL AND EUROPEAN FOOTBALL/SOCCER #SHOWISRAELTHEREDCARD

SHOW ISRAEL THE RED CARD

BAN ISRAEL FROM UEFA & FIFA

GLOBAL AND EUROPEAN
FOOTBALL/SOCCER

#SHOWISRAELTHEREDCARD

<courtroom drama>Objection y'r Honor. That's a leading question.</courtroom drama>

I'm partial to gemelli or casarecce or a good stuffed pasta such as Casoncelli alla bergamasca. It's largely down to the production. A regular pasta just carries the sauce. A good pasta has a flavour of its own.

Procurement seems to have been "The answer is Palantir. Now, what's the question?"

It has a stink of corruption

A short essay on what a UK President could look like.

Ending the monarchy wouldn’t automatically mean a polarising, all-powerful president. In many republics, the role is neutral and constitutional. Here’s what that could actually looks like.

The real need is not to reduce sugar - or not *just* to reduce sugar - but to reduce levels of unnecessary sweetness in food and drinks.

State school pupils were funded between 2010-11 and 2015-16 at around £7,700 pa (adjusted for inflation), rising to £8390 for 2026-27.
Source: Official Statistics

Then again, Al Capone was arrested on charges of tax evasion.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested: King Charles says ‘law must take its course’ as ex-prince taken into custody – live The police raided Andrew’s Norfolk home on Thursday

I so hope they sent a young WPC in a short skirt with a pair of pink fluffy handcuffs to arrest him! Happy Birthday Mr Windsor.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

The Chinese are also working on neural implants, like M*sk's Neuralink.

Are they planning on turning us all into robots, or just programming us all to speak Mandarin Chinese?

Google Gemini said it lied to placate a user : Though commonly reported, Google doesn't consider it a security problem when models make things up

I doubt Grok is any better at this than Gemini
www.theregister.com/2026/02/17/g...

It would be enough just to add post-nominal letters:
Donald Tr*mp RIP

They're waiting for HoC Speaker's office to order them to remove this 'Shadow' description so they can make a big fuss about being 'cancelled' by 'The Establishment'

I have a feeling the boring answer is that it's a hangover from pre-decimal base-12 arithmetic that you get if you count on the knuckles of one hand, instead of the fingers and thumbs of two hands.

Very confused. The gold sovereign hasn't been in circulation for over a hundred years, the farthing was withdrawn in 1961 and I have no idea what a Churchill commemorative crown is doing there. They were never in circulation.

There's probably a word for a yearning for a non-existent Golden Age.

M*sk seems to forget the Spanish and French in Southern USA, the Swiss and Germans in the North (many of whom anglicized their names when it became clear that USA wouldn't ally with the Kaiser), the Swedes, the Italians and of course the Native Americans. Nazi South Africans have too much influence.

Privatisation:

Steal from us something we own.

Sell us back an inferior service at a higher price.

What’s not to like?

In addition to the Post Office, there is the railways, water, electricity, gas, the NHS, public services…

Another derivation to choose could be that c. 100 years ago, Reform Schools were what we now call Young Offenders Institutions.

Farage, Johnson and nefarious company knew very well that UK was not only sovereign and independent, but an influential leader in the EU. They lied and wove a web of deceit only to gain personal wealth and power with Russian manipulation in the background!

There are lies, damned lies & Reform Ltd statistics
"Nigel Farage says 1 million people in Britain don’t speak English
The Census says otherwise the number of people in England & Wales who said they cannot speak English at all is ~161,000
Not a million
161,000
~0.3%"
via Reform Are Not Your Friends

The stupid racists will always be here, there and everywhere. Brave governments, trade unions, journalists, general society and civil society have to reject that racist minority boldly and clearly instead of constantly trying to appease. Nothing will change until that does. 1/4