James Lynas

Netanyahu’s plan to occupy Gaza is abhorrent and it's increasingly clear that his goal is ethnic cleansing.

The UK can't just sit on its hands. The Prime Minister must stop all arms exports to Israel and sanction Netanyahu and his cabinet.

profiles in courage ….

Homelessness Minister Rushanari Ali quits

Ok I’m going on leave but had to come here for this inevitability. The spox says she ‘complied with all relevant legal requirements’ - but this is exactly the kind of case that shows why political judgement is as/more important than simply following the rules

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There are few things more depressing than seeing the right wing press invent a baseless or misleading attack on the government and then watching as the left enthusiastically takes up the cudgels with zero interest in whether the story is real or justified. Our politics is badly broken.

“You’ll eat in heaven”: What Gaza’s parents tell their children Malnutrition in Gaza isn’t a line in a report. It’s a child with brittle hair and sunken eyes

As Netanyahu is expected to seek cabinet approval for a full Israeli occupation of Gaza, Palestinians continue to die of hunger.

For @prospectmagazine.co.uk, Asem Al-Jerjawi has a dispatch on what, in such circumstances, Gaza's parents tell their children www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/israel...

Eating chips regularly raises risk of type 2 diabetes by 20%, study finds Baking, boiling or mashing potatoes raises risk by 5% and replacing with whole grains lowers risk significantly Love potatoes? Well, there’s good news and there’s bad news. Eating chips has been found to raise the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but baking, boiling or mashing potatoes was much healthier. Continue reading...

Eating chips regularly raises risk of type 2 diabetes by 20%, study finds

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Once again I'm hearing (@newsagents.bsky.social podcast) that the UK took the symbolic act of recognising Palestine because "what else could it do".

Well look at the UK sanctions on Russia following the Crimea invasion, you'd be surprised what the UK can do when it wants to do something.

yes! i missed seeing your reaction to our new keeper:)

We are inclined to stratify poverty (fuel poverty, period poverty, transport poverty), possibly because this makes more palatable or less foreboding. But it takes us nowhere.

Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes I didn’t even ask it to take her clothes off.

It is no accident that the early use cases for "genAI" consumer products revolve around the sexual harassment, abuse, and exploitation of women in power. It is no accident that the technology is immediately embraced as a tool of patriarchy and gender-based violence.
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mmmm - i can think of at least one worse plane-related nightmare.

Orchid that looks like a monkey face.

Humans descend from apes,
and clearly this orchid too.

If America is now at war with science (& mRNA isn't just about vaccines, it's potentially a platform for all sorts of drugs) then I bloody hope Europe (ideally the UK! but frankly anyone) scoops up the scientists losing grants & gives the work a home
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Jess Phillips intervenes to protect families from mass shootings in domestic violence situations.

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what happens when an AI animated victim comes out in favour of the NRA?

"It's just fields and fields of gray ash."

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Though, whilst parts of it haven't aged well, the chief reason you couldn't make (good) Spitting Image today is because the right would blow a fucking gasket at the final sketch of the 1987 election special

telling that ben stokes is again talking his usual bollocks about "saving test cricket", as if the only true path to salvation is the same three countries generating endless content. what percentage of his central contract do you reckon he'd give up in return for a more equitable ICC funding model?

Farage is blaming crime on some cultures. Some may ask which ‘cultures’ are responsible for crimes (and abuse) within the church, the police, politics and the media?

Met arrested woman after Facebook posts about ex-partner – a serving officer London force sent three officers at 4.45am, who put her in the back of a van and seized her phone and computer

I'd like to live in a city where the cops took bike theft as seriously as they take "being rude to your cop ex-boyfriend". www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

I prosecute and defend the most serious sexual offences in our courts.

The overwhelming majority of offenders are British-born. Overwhelmingly the victim is someone known to them, either a partner or relative.

Anybody purporting to care about protecting women might start there.

The author appears to have confused an aggressive empire built on conquest which had an insatiable appetite for the most bloodthirsty forms of human sacrifice with the Woodcraft Folk.

98/ The shape of the legislative chamber has no meaningful influence on the character of a country's politics. America has a hemicycle, Luxembourg has opposing benches.

In Gaza, more Palestinians are killed while waiting for food aid Dozens of Palestinians were killed, many while waiting for food aid, amid a deepening starvation crisis and despite Israeli assurances of a humanitarian pause in some areas of the territory.

Dozens of Palestinians were killed, many while waiting for food aid, amid a deepening starvation crisis and despite Israeli assurances of a humanitarian pause in some areas of the territory.

The replies to this post, even on here, even moreso on X, are so depressing to me. We live in a world where cities have never been safer and a minority of people are denying themselves a lot of delightful experiences because they’ve gone mad online.

33/ The fact Labour lost one-sixth of its vote share in the two months before the 2024 election is in fact significant, particularly in being a portent in the weakness of Labour's then/current coalition.

It’s funny cause all we do is talk about men’s sexuality? There’s no national rhetoric about women’s needs. This has been true for generations.

Women want to get laid too, they’re just not forcing a political uproar about it.

We actually DON’T need to keep endlessly talking about men wanting sex.

Tech giants blocking some Ukraine and Gaza posts under new online rules Tech companies are restricting debates of public interest to comply the Online Safety Act, analysis shows.

A wide range of public interest content, including posts about the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine and parliamentary debates on grooming gangs, is now being blocked for UK online users by social media companies trying to comply with the Online Safety Act.

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“I went to Oasis at Wembley. Two days later I went to the biggest trainspotting event in a generation in Derby. Within these crowds of tens of thousands of men I found the answer to England’s masculinity crisis.”

Please anyone with a Sunday newspaper budget commission me I can make this piece work.