SNP ministers attempted to prevent the harrowing testimony from the woman, originally sent to a young offender institution as a 17-year-old and returned to prison again in 2022, from being allowed in the case.

— of course they did!

Of course he did!

This is outrageous but I struggle to accept the equation of a nose job with a double mastectomy.

This about sums up the contemporary BBC. I laughed long and loud so congratulations to the BBC:

🏆🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

I wonder how much the rise of the DSA might affect Mr Burns’ opinion.

Minus: No one wants France to win — as a trueborn Englishman I can only agree.

I vote for Zagreb.

I'm curious as to what the long-term effects of this policy might be.

They absolutely should be in trouble. This lack of respect for the Parliament of the United Kingdom is shocking.

“Brandishing European weakness to secure the U.S. guarantee is an outdated approach and sends the wrong message to Russia”
— hard to disagree, but whether Europe really can take charge of its own security is an open question.

Interesting pair of headlines.

#StarfleetAcademy

Don't you know that that is an unfair trick question?

Bodies line the streets outside morgue in Tehran as deadly protests continue – video Mourners gathered outside the Kahrizak Forensic Medical Centre in Tehran to identify bodies amid a wave of deadly anti-government demonstrations sweeping across Iran

www.theguardian.com/world/video/...

I've seen quite a few posts on the other place suggesting it says Zionist plot and supporting the regime.

This guy is such a crackpot that he probably doesn't count.

At the time there were many reports in the Guardian of the oppression of the Bahá'ís. This led me to the perhaps surprising conclusion that Jeremy Corbyn is not a Guardian reader.

He appeared on Iran's propaganda channel Press TV, for which he took money. And he sang for his supper at the theocratic régime’s birthday party. Apparently he praised them for their religious and ethnic tolerance.

Jewish MP barred from visiting primary school 'in case his presence inflames teachers', minister reveals - The Jewish Chronicle Communities secretary Steve Reed warns some incidents in UK now echo 1930s Germany

An outrageous surrender to antisemitism.

www.thejc.com/news/politic...

YouTube video by Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) Kazakhstan: Russian colonialism

Many people foolishly think that Russia has no history of imperialist expansion and abuse of indigenous peoples.

youtu.be/eIUMDdpCnE4

YouTube video by Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW) Kazakhstan: Russian colonialism

Many people foolishly think that Russia has no history of imperialist expansion and abuse of indigenous peoples.

youtube.com/watch?v=eIUM...

Well d’oh!

But Trump being Trump, the хуйло probably just needs to pick up the phone.

I do. And I'm not impressed.

“The big task of the Western Left is to leave behind the politically correct process of endless self-blame which is the inverted form of clinging to one’s superiority: the idea that natural disasters and terrorist violence are merely reactions to our crimes.”

— Slavoj Žižek

One of the vilest habits of Western soi disant progressives is their denial of the agency of others.

It strikes me as essentially narcissistic: “Only we are important. The others are merely our pawns.”

You might be horrified by what is being done to your country, but decent people do not chortle at speculation over somebody's possible imminent death. The remark about Melania was particularly vile.

Do you think JD will be an improvement?

I'm not sure that telling residents Kamchatka that they are at risk from Ukrainian drones is going to have a very positive effect on civilian morale.

What a master strategist you remain!

… By contrast, only two Conservative councils and one Liberal Democrat council favour a delay, and seven Tory areas and eight Lib Dem districts have ruled them out.

Twenty-two Labour councils set to delay local elections Councils in favour of postponing election until next year are all in areas where Reform is expected to do well, investigation finds

An investigation by The Telegraph has revealed that the party has decided to delay this May’s elections in five areas and is considering doing so in a further 17. Only four Labour authorities have ruled out delays.

…

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

I do but I don't have the time.

Interesting. Have you got a link?