Glyn Bach

What a silly sausage.

AG details scope of Catholic Church child sexual abuse and cover-ups in RI over decades • Rhode Island Current A new report from Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha says the Diocese of Providence concealed decades of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy, identifying at least 315 victims and 72 credibly accu...

Religious authorities (of any faith or sect) cannot be trusted to fully investigate cases of child abuse within their ranks. All too often, religious authorities want to protect their own clerics and institutions rhodeislandcurrent.com/2026/03/04/a...

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

'Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat. The GOP has a considerable issue with racist views that it is not adequately addressing www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...

Photo shows graves of Iranian girls killed in Minab school attack Contrary to claims from Grok and others, the image does not show grave sites in Indonesia or Brazil.

There has been a lot of misinformation, and claims, regarding the US/Israeli air strike on a girls school in Minab, in the south-east of Iran. The image, below, is a verified image of a mass grave for those killed www.snopes.com/fact-check/i...

Walsall by-election winner is suspended from Reform UK just six months after shock victory in Pelsall The winner of a shock by-election in Walsall has been suspended by Reform UK just six months after his election victory.

Pelsall Reform Cllr Graham Eardley is suspended from his party after allegations of aggressive behaviour towards party volunteers www.expressandstar.com/news/local-h...

Azerbaijani media: Iranian drones strike Nakhchivan airport Azerbaijani media outlets reported on Thursday that Iranian drones have hit the country’s Nakhchivan exclave.According to the APA news agency, an Iranian drone...

Iran has now, apparently, attacked Azerbaijan (it's neighbour to the north west), which hosts no US military presence. In addition, an Iranian missile has been downed over Turkish airspace. Turkey is, of course, a NATO member.

Dangerous times ahead.

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Well, within the current context, yes

You should get him to The Ship to join you :-)

I did not have 'a 40 minute video call with a recumbent Miriam Margolyes, whilst I make dinner' on my bingo card for today, but, well, that is what happened.

No, David is not related to her, but she is connected to his family though marriage.

Mind you, Marvin Gaye moved to Ostend, and Nile Rodgers to Colwyn Bay, so stranger things have happened. I understand that a member of Earth, Wind & Fire lives in Aberystwyth.

"...the Lebanese government announced a ban on Hezbollah's military activities and demanded the group hand over its weapons to the state. ... Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said Hezbollah's attack showed disregard for the "will of the majority of Lebanese"."

That was certainly an unusual move.

May 1988

The Guardian journalist Polly Toynbee interviewed New York property mogul Donald Trump

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Dem Senate candidate shares post from anti-LGBTQ+ influencer & says it was an accident — LGBTQ Nation Graham Platner also recently raised eyebrows for doing an interview with an antisemitic broadcaster. Monday, March 02, 2026 Democratic Senate candidate from Maine Graham Platner | Screenshot Pod Save ...

“Didn’t know it was Nazi”
“It was an accident”

Yada yada yada. I look at patterns, constants, and variables.

Hard pass.

Dem Senate candidate shares post from anti-LGBTQ influencer

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Grim

Former Propel candidate who posted antisemitic rant is also a holocaust denier Martin Shipton A former election candidate for the Propel party who posted an antisemitic rant on Facebook has now outed himself as a holocaust denier. In December 2024 Kyle “Cudgie” Cullen came third...

A former election candidate for the Propel party who posted an antisemitic rant on Facebook has now outed himself as a holocaust denier ✍️Martin Shipton nation.cymru/news/former-...

YouTube video by Maz H Churchill getting booed in Walthamstowe in 1945

Churchill getting booed in Walthamstow in 1945.

History is always more complicated than the myth.
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Absolutely!

WWII vet who shielded Jews at Nazi POW camp at gunpoint gets medal of honor Highest US military distinction given posthumously to Roderick W. Edmonds, who refused to let Nazis separate Jewish prisoners of war in 1945

WWII vet who shielded Jews at Nazi POW camp at gunpoint gets medal of honor https://www.timesofisrael.com/wwii-vet-who-shielded-jews-at-nazi-pow-camp-at-gunpoint-gets-medal-of-honor/

https://www.tiktok.com/@ah_y2213/video/7610066316413734151

THREAD: Misinformation in the Iran/US/Israel war - 3 March

This viral video claims to show the aftermath of a reported drone attack on the US embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, tonight.

But the video was posted last week to TikTok, and shows an unrelated car accident in Riyadh.

Political parties that consider themselves natural parties of government and so too big to fail, would do well to remember what happened to the Liberal Party after 1916.

And that was under the FPTP electoral system too.

Gafcon leaders meet in Nigeria as splits widen in Anglican Church over Sarah Mullally Conservative clerics are meeting in Nigeria to choose a rival to the first female Archbishop of Canterbury.

They're sharpening their mitres in Abuja this week.

#Gafcon

When neo-Nazis witter on about 'losing Europe because of some shoes', this is what they refer to. I see it on X rather a lot, alas

And there was I thinking it was Birkenhead.

Interesting times ahead.

Jive Bunny was a crime against civilisation at the time, and remains so.

Evergreen headline. This particular version is from the 1973 Yom Kippur War...

Refugee families who have survived war and persecution will now face renewed uncertainty every 30 months. Refugees should be able to put down roots: settle into communities, learn English and find work.

Our analysis also shows this new workload will cost up to £725 million over the first 10 years.

I'm with your missus

The other day I saw someone on here describing Luther as “an early Lutheran preacher” and I cannot stop thinking about that.