Cllr Brian Wernham 🔶 C.Eng. MA History

Starmer out within 11 months is 1/3 on. (75% chance)

He's been sacked three times now I wouldn't be surprised if the labour party let him back in again 🙃

As a Liberal Democrat I agree with you…

…Starmer is helping my doorstep canvassing 😉

20% of MPs can trigger an election and then it is a membership vote

Anti-carpetbagging (stopping joining just to vote): NEC sets a cut off date after which any new members cannot vote - Liberal Democrats the same - Conservatives have a 3-month rule

Seems like the Epstein files are full of billionaires and not immigrants.

Rayner?
Streeting?

Foreign Office to review Peter Mandelson’s US ambassador payoff – UK politics live Mandelson under increasing pressure to return payout after he was sacked over as US ambassador over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein

Poor people:
when sacked for dismissible conduct behaviour:
£0

Privileged people:
£55,000
three months’ salary

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

Burning is the "preferred" and traditional method for disposal of a worn-out U.S. flag

U.S. Flag Code (Title 4, U.S. Code, Section 8)

Prisoner Death Oversight United Kingdom (prison / police custody) United States (county jail level) System structure Nationally standardised prison and custody framework with central oversight Highly fragmented system with ~3,000 counties and thousands of separate jail authorities Default investigator after death Prison and Probation Ombudsman (mandatory, independent) Usually the same sheriff’s department or correctional authority that ran the jail Medical examiner / coroner Professionally trained coroner system; medical cause scrutinised publicly Coroner or medical examiner varies by county; some elected, variable forensic expertise Public inquiry Mandatory public coroner’s inquest No automatic public inquiry; hearings occur only if litigation or prosecution follows Independence of investigation Structurally external to the custodial authority Often internal; external review discretionary and delayed Family involvement Automatic notification; family has legal standing and funded representation Family involvement typically adversarial and dependent on civil action Evidence disclosure Presumption of disclosure in open court Selective disclosure shaped by liability and litigation risk CCTV and records Failures explicitly examined and criticised in published findings Missing or failed systems common; rarely examined in public unless sued Treatment of procedural failure Procedural failure itself can be a formal finding contributing to death Procedural failure usually treated as negligence, not part of cause of death Accountability outcomes Individual and systemic failures named; recommendations issued and tracked Individual accountability rare; systemic recommendations inconsistent Transparency Reports and inquest findings published as public documents Reports often unpublished; information released piecemeal National learning Formal prevention-of-future-deaths reports inform policy No unified national learning mechanism at county level Cultural framing Dea…

USA 🇺🇸 county jails are unaccountable death traps compared to English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 jails

(Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 the same. Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Northern Ireland systems similar)

On ITVx streaming the 35mm film is in HD and all sorts of details revealed by the skimpy costumes (male and female) are now clearly observable!

Do press-ups really mean you're 'fit as a butcher's dog'? One of the most striking pictures of the weekend was the sight of the Prime Minister prone on the floor of his Downing Street office doing press-ups. But are they really the key to fitness?

Callipygian

having well-shaped buttocks

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/artic...

Tofu munching remoaners 🙃

Are Ant and Dec still proud of sane washing Farage for ratings now?

We've it time and time again. The sane-washing is incredible. The same happened in the UK with Farage, but they just keep giving him credibility.

Nigel Farage here basically pointing to the conspiracy theory "The Kalergi Plan" in which combatants are secreted into target nations to foment race war.

Instead of calling his bullshit out, the Labour rep assures him the govt is turbocharging deportations, thus sane-washing far-right rhetoric.

Knowing a schizophrenic person very well has indelibly colored my view of people.

It takes years to stop sane-washing the insane. When you finally accept that there was never hidden meaning behind the insanity, you start recognizing the insanity of others everywhere.

Excellent article. The Republican coalition is held together by racist bigotry, social conservatism, and Trump worship.

Most establishment media works to ignore that reality. Cable news is filled with Republicans sane-washing Trump and his bigotry. It's "uncivil" to tell the truth.

I hear Europeans complain that Americans are in denial of the extremity of the 🇺🇸situation. But I think it's the opposite.

Most Europeans are if anything downplaying what’s happening in 🇺🇸 - thanks in part to the sane-washing of Trump by European media.
davekeating.substack.com/p/europeans-...

The writing is clear, he is not leaving. This is unconstitutional—Republicans need to stop enabling this and sane washing this as normal.

www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

I'm not understanding why the news media keeps saying this is not what people voted for regarding immigration?

Of course this is what they voted for.

He said on the campaign trail time after time that he was going to deport tens of millions of people.

The sane-washing by commentators is gross.

The New York Times is just carrying on their tradition of sane-washing rancid Republicans like Katie Britt.

Stichwort Sane-Washing

I have heard that this is called ‘sane washing’.

It means making unethical, or authoritarian behavior sound reasonable, normal, or “just politics.”

Instead of calling it what it is, coverage reframes it in more respectable language.

In plain terms, it launders extremism into respectability.

‘sane washing’

Word of the day (decade?)

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No

One is professional journalists who ARE NOT scared to talk truth to power

The other is professional journalists who ARE scared to talk truth to power

Anne Applebaum on Trump's betrayal of Europe "They’re bewildered we’ve allowed this to happen."

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in the US | Bryan Armen Graham The real risk for American broadcasters is not that dissent will be visible. It is that audiences will start assuming anything they do not show is being hidden

Every time a broadcaster makes that trade – credibility for insulation – it is a trade audiences eventually notice.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

BlueSky is so sexist

Women in mini skirts censored

Men in (revealing) string vests not !