Charlie

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

We are ready to discuss human rights law changes, top ECHR boss tells BBC Alain Berset, Council of Europe secretary general, said human rights laws may need to "change or adapt".

Global weakening of human rights protections, particularly driven by hostility towards marginalised groups, puts everyone at risk. When you start saying it is okay to reduce protections for one group you open the door for someone else to reduce them for yours. #r4today
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It’s still weird that you have multiple parties running on making the country so shite no one will want to live here

I didn’t equate anything, I just quoted what you said. The whole point of proactively banning clubs with violent fans is to prevent another Heysel happening in the first place. English clubs should have already been banned by the time Heysel happened. And it wasn’t just “some song”, was it?

“Collective punishment against an entire nationality, wouldn’t happen to anyone else” *procedes to cite an incident for which English clubs were collectively punished by being banned from UEFA competitions for 5 years*

You'd have to say "let our clearly violent hard right hooligans, who the last time they were allowed to come to a foreign city were caught on camera in multiple videos being violent hard right hooligans, come to your city or it's like the holocaust" is really up there as a classic UK media moment

This is literally what the Canadians and American did to indigenous kids by shipping them off to residential schools. Anyone who cannot draw the basest of parallels and see that Russia has been committing genocide against Ukrainians since 2014 shouldn't be allowed in polite society.

How Genocide Happened

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

That’s how you know he’s a real one

There'll be scenes like this (and much worse) up and down the UK if Reform get into government and start acting out their Send Them Back fantasies. A thousand acts of sadism carried out by malevolent racist thugs employed and empowered by the state.

Some of you will be safe. Many of us won't.

So many Swiss-Albanians play for the national team that it causes international incidents when they play Serbia

Grok users asked chatbot to generate sexual content: AI trainers at Elon Musk’s xAI claim - The Times of India Tech News News: Elon Musk's xAI faces accusations that its Grok chatbot is designed to be deliberately provocative, potentially leading to users requesting sexually e

again it is just bewildering living at a time of spectacular advances in energy and medicine, while the world's most deranged rich people spend trillions of dollars on CSAM bots timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

The main story on BBC 6 Music News this morning is that a ‘boat carrying migrants is on its way to France’

Delivered in the same upbeat tone as England winning the women’s Euros.

The migration ‘debate’ in this country is unmoored from reality, and the media-political complex is feeding it

ban social media, put heroin in the water supply

An actual quote, translated by me: "we paid a lot of money for the war, now we gotta split the percentages of the land. We already did the teardown, the first step in urban renewal."

This is Israel's minister of the treasury.

I feel sick. Physically sick.

Russia and Israel doing shit just like this regularly for years now. I’ve no energy left to debate people who equivocate on it. It’s just evil. Europe should be moving heaven and earth to stop them.

Super weird that the guy who was Practicing Politics The Right Way somehow magically seems to have a following so racist against Black people that him getting shot by a white person in the whitest state in USA results in 7 Black universities receiving terror threats.

What's this got to do with us?!

Sooner or later you have to come to the conclusion that mainstream journalism is printing lies and assisting the worst elements in your country, not because they are ‘scared’ of the repercussions of telling the truth, but because they believe the lies, or they embrace them because they benefit them.

This is true and also, increasingly, I am less and less understanding of a public that indulges these lies - because what is meant by illegal in too many minds is "inhuman". And that belief is encouraged by the media, yes, but at some point citizens have to take responsibility for it too.

You won’t find an article interviewing people forced to live in hotels due to our disgusting asylum rules in the vast majority of national media. The BBC refer to quotes from the police that they were peaceful protests. “Peaceful” includes shouting this outside children’s homes:

Always been my biggest issue with Corbyn and Sultana. Great on social issues but abysmal on Russian aggression.

it's real scary how many people's entire understanding of the past is based on a handful of clips and screengrabs from old movies they saw on social media

A statement by Doctors Against Genocide which reads: To all international humanitarian organizations, The situation in Gaza is spiraling beyond any medical or moral threshold. The limited stock of intravenous fluids in our hospitals is no longer sufficient to treat the waves of starving individuals arriving at emergency units — from infants to the elderly, they are collapsing from pure exhaustion and hunger. This is no longer just a humanitarian crisis. It is a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population. We urge you — Speak. Act. Intervene. Nasser Medical Complex

“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population”

A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.

#Gaza

I'll never forget the day that one of my Black friends explained that at least the right wears their racism with their chests. They advertise their bigotry. That they don't pretend to care about something only to stab you in the back the second it's mildly inconvenient.

Seems relevant

Armed police threatened to arrest Kent protester for holding Palestinian flag Officers accused Laura Murton who also had a sign saying ‘Free Gaza’ of supporting a proscribed organisation

This week, armed police threatened to arrest a woman for holding signs reading "Free Gaza" and "Israel is committing a genocide".

The widening use of anti-terror laws against protesters is having a chilling effect on free speech and people opposing Israel's war crimes.

That is a 0.06% hit rate. A rounding error. Europe will tear up the only progressive thing they have achieved (free movement) over 0.06%. Pathetic xenophobia.

I work on the roads in Warwickshire and I’m also sick of that, especially since part of my job is having to clean up after they crash

Here’s the thing about “free speech” discourse like this - it doesn’t exist in a bubble. It’s at best a distraction and at worst a direct enabling of the dehumanisation of starving Palestinians as they are being shot by the IDF as they wait for aid. The sheer narcissism of this is mind-blowing.

‘Full of rats’: Children facing almost-Dickensian levels of poverty A report from the Children’s Commissioner noted a range of concerns, including living in cramped and poor conditions

Children in England ‘living in almost Dickensian levels of poverty’.

Not enough water to wash, a bed, decent food, rats biting through walls, mouldy rooms.

Result of years of real wage/benefit cuts.

4.5m children live in poverty due to political choices.

Govt can end two child benefit cap.