Susan Smith

b/w photo of a man in socks and sandals, jacket, short and jumper, in front of a wall with a bike leaning on it, and with a pipe in his mouth. If you wanted one image to sum up the word ‘nonchalant’, this would be it

It’s the 111th anniversary today of the birth of Harry Rée, who was a teacher and conscientious objector when the Second World War broke out, and by the time it ended, when he was 31, had invented ‘blackmail sabotage’ and got a DSO, an OBE, a Croix de Guerre, and a Medaille de la Resistance

If someone three shades browner with a bushy beard declaimed this nonsense his followers would be screaming for deportation at least.

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

They may not deserve more per se but traditionally they have been accorded more so the breakdown of this norm is another canary.

Any article beginning with Johnson as a unifying one nation Tory is not worthy of time. ONTs believe in the rule of law, multi-lateralism and helping others not just personal aggrandisement, none of which are virtues any sane observer would see in the fool who gave us Brexit.

Claim 1 is that the UK exactly replicated the EU's bilateral trade deals (except one or two negligible minor ones) and hence got the same access without paying the price of EU membership. This is untrue. Famously, Canada has played hardball and refused to roll over the deal with the UK 2/n

I may be out of step but the Speaker of the HoC SHOULD travel at least business class. He's representing us overseas and needs to be adequately rested - a 14hr middle seat in economy might be cheaper but it is not good value for money.

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No 7 ?

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IMPORTANT:

Brian Patten obituary One of the Liverpool poets, along with Roger McGough and Adrian Henri, who was a perceptive writer on love

How long does a man live?

A man lives for as long as we carry him inside us,
For as long as we carry the harvest of his dreams
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/s...

Pub lunch yesterday in London, 2 courses, 2 people, couple of the cheaper glasses of wine each plus coffee. Bill just shy of £150. Incl a service charge of 13% for friendly but pretty disorganised service. Good food but we won't go again.

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

This only happens to you once

I'm curious, why is your issue not with other men, who are after all, the reason women need separation in some areas of life in order to be full societal members. You seem upset that GCs are trying to manage the symptoms, males are the source of the VAWG disease.

Yes, part of the class. It's not ancient history. Males continue to oppress, harass and murder females at astonishing rates. You seem happy to lump all GCs in with the nutbars yet don't accept there's a serious problem in your own sex (regardless of gender).

We agree that abuse is not acceptable. As a male, however personally blameless, you are part of the sex-class of humans which for millennia has oppressed the female class. Why are females wrong for wanting to keep males out of the safe-spaces/awards/competitions set up to counter this?

YMMV, and it's wrong that you've received abuse - no ifs or buts, it's wrong. It's still true that the GCs I know are feminists who see their hard-won sex-based rights and protections eroded by the forced inclusion of males as "women" and think this is bad for females.

In amongst the political shitstorm we currently live in, there is still some good news.

Via The Independent: Donald Trump’s false claim that London ‘wants to go to Sharia law’ has been described as ‘appalling and bigoted’ by Mayor Sadiq Khan.

The Muslim Council of Britain responded: “We pray for Mr Trump's health and wellbeing as his hallucinations seem to be getting worse by the day”

This is part of a massive generative slop / plagiarism operation seemingly being run by one dude operating a bunch of similarly designed websites - "Krishna Pathak" (not sure if actual real dude)

Also being syndicated on MSN. Registered at 'paper mill' address in Wyoming

GenAI is the WORST

Paracetamol was discovered in the C19 and isn't much use for fevers. Still no link to Autism.

When you realise you don't recognise many of the bands let alone the songs...

You mean by this Wednesday they'll all be gone? Promise?

AKA
MAGA BAGA GAGA

There often is a requirement but then the developer 'forgets' and the council has little recourse. Perhaps changing the rules so infrastructure has to be built and signed off first might help.

Shame on Downing Street for going along with this. So much for being committed to a free press

There's a moral confusion in this kind of coverage.

Anyone can condemn the killing of people they like.What matters is that we condemn the killing of those we dislike & disagree with (as Maguire does).

We blur that message if we insist on making those killed into saints or try to silence criticism