Simon Belcher

And a surprise by Christopher Wren branching out from 17th Century baroque architecture. I'd always heard he was a polymath.

Labour can't even do its Brexit shift competently. Say it was wrong and you can make Farage carry the can. Say it was badly executed, as Labour is doing, and you support his narrative that Leave voters were betrayed.

It would be funny - except we'll all have to carry the can for their incompetence.

"Eye-catching..." is kinda how much of the West has ended up in this clown car hurtling towards authoritarianism. I think it's time to acknowledge that.

Sky News and the BBC repeatedly mention the "migrant crisis" in doing so they are normalising and legitimising far right talking points. There is no "migrant crisis", there is only migrant hysteria, which the British media is feeding into instead of countering.

Dutch late night TV has its take

I do miss @thenewsbydesree
Ooh I get the shivers
#totp

We're like 8 years from SUVs that need an inflatable slide for emergency exits

Haggis Pakora

Reminder: The existence of these in most Scottish supermarkets and corner shops is proof that anyone shilling for the notion that multiculturalism can't work on this island is a charlatan

This suddenly seems more topical.

Is anyone going to explain to Trump while he's being shown the Churchill archives that Churchill was AntiFa

A small hill I'm willing to die on.
Prime Minister is not a title which should be used as a prefix like King, President or Doctor.
It isn't "Prime Minister Starmer"

Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.

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Red Arrows spelling a rude word in the sky

It's incredible how close the Red Arrows fly together, must take nerves of steel

Foom! A nuclear explosion on the dark side of the Moon.

I'm two days late (should have been September 13th) but I'm re-watcing Space 1999: Breakaway. I love that this show, and this episode in particular, can be both amazing and shit-mazing in equal measure.

I know a lot of people have expressed similar sentiments but I’ve lived in London for 20+ years and never felt threatened or a even a bit scared to be here until today. This needs to end.

Charlie Kirk on mass shooting victims: 'We cannot allow them to emotionally hijack the narrative'

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EXCLUSIVE: Reform UK’s deputy leader Richard Tice co-owns a second home purchased for £4 million in 2013, Byline Times can reveal – despite attacking Angela Rayner for supposedly owning a “property mountain”
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If your thing is “free speech” but you only worry about right-wing extremist access to universities while cheering Republicans as they ban research & discussion about anything they deem “woke” (1) your thing is not “free speech” it’s right-wing extemism (2) congrats on your new job running CBS News.

As a kid I refused to let my mum use Savlon antiseptic cream on a cut because it sounded to much like Servalan the bad lady from Blake's 7 and I didn't trust it.

Excavating a Television Classic: Pyramids of Mars (1975) The Doctor (Tom Baker) and his companion, Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) are travelling through the space-time vortex when an entity appears to enter the TARDIS, drawing the ship off course, to land in the locked storage room in a Victorian priory during the year 1911. The room is filled with ancient Egyptian coffins and other funerary paraphernalia from a series of archaeological excavations. The priory is home to Professor Marcus Scarman who has vanished during his recent excavation at Sa

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Listening to the BBC interview with the PM and shocked at the question "would you let your daughter walk past an asylum hotel"

How many rotten assumptions are wrapped up in that question? And how is this considered a neutral position?

BBC Breakfast just said "And now a story of hope" for a nice story about suicide prevention.

I'm reflecting on how different the mood music would be if that box in the corner of the room normalised "stories of hope" about immigrants & trans people rather than "small boats small boats small boats."

Crossings of small boats to UK in August fall to lowest since 2019 Home secretary to hail decline as evidence that Labour’s plan to ‘smash the gangs’ is having effect

on.ft.com/46eXCO6 Crossings of small boats to UK in August fall to lowest since 2019. Poor Nigel.

Walter from Big Lebowski: “You have no frame of reference here, Donny; you’re like a child who wanders into the middle of a movie.”

How lawyers feel watching some politician or other who hasn’t read a judgment and doesn’t even understand the basic legal principles underpinning it having an opportunistic go at ‘political’ judges:

I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.

"entirely groundless"

This is how public discourse is being is being debased.

The GFA expressly requires access to court in Northern Ireland for ECHR.

But what Straw says is not tested, just repeated, and so a "both sides" "debate" is created.

The actualité drowns.

Sad to watch in real time.

Claims NI peace deal stops UK leaving ECHR ‘entirely groundless’ – think tank The Policy Exchange claims public debate on human rights law reform had been ‘distorted’.

In 30 pages, the Good Friday Agreement cites the ECHR seven times as an essential safeguard

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