Simon

I'm guessing the Guardian's definition of "decent" includes allowing the supply of weapons to a genocidal regime.

Me too! (Also oysters are filter feeders and grow where humans pollute their river estuaries with fecal waste and industrial chemicals). 🤢

Never had tripe. Always wondered if it was as bad as people say. Also never had burnt flour soup, a speciality in Basel at this time of year.

Science is not left wing. But studies have shown, right-wing politics attracts the poorly educated and those who can't engage in critical thinking. This tends to make it seem as if scientists are left-wing.

How to change the world from your little place in it?
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Speak about your passions a little.

Do what you’re scared of a little.

Challenge your tribe a little.

Pause before you react a little.

Believe that everyone is struggling a little.

Spread hope a little.

Love yourself at least a little.

This could have been avoided with Surestart

I read that as you had left stools, and I thought it a bit rude. Have fun, and stir clear of Davos where an idiot said that, if it wasn't for the US, they would all be speaking German there.

It takes an evil regime to weaponise scabies in prisons.

Shouldn't the Russian flag be on the USA side?

I'm not sure the "great" British public sees what we in the bubble see.

My follow up question would be, "Which side would UK troops be supporting?"

I would opt for dismantle capitalism and nationalise energy companies.

👌 perfect

Not really, power has already shifted away from the Lords to the political donors. A far more important revision would be to remove money from politics.

Same here! Sad, because I used to enjoy Christmas concerts and church services

Right. The direction of travel is the most insidious.

bsky.app/profile/shay...

There is a growing loathing of all neoliberal parties in Europe and for good reason.

These people are the nation's real terrorists, not those who carry placards.

New word for me, "feting". Had to look it up, fearing the worst.

I winder if he meant quarrel as in "arguement" or "square". I think I would plump for a "deviation" of statisticians.

Is the collective noun for statisticians, "an inconvenience"?
Likely they will be replaced by AI soon enough as AI will be more pliable.

The idea of the Home Office selling off the confiscated jewellery of those who have fled war and persecution should, in an ideal world, be the death knell for this government.

Who gives a £%#* about GDP. Big deal that the wealthy got incrementally richer.

Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all Cop30 delegations except Brazil, report says One in every 25 participants at 2025 UN climate summit is a fossil fuel lobbyist, according to Kick Big Polluters Out

This is simply outrageous.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Who knows? But ag least they won't support a genocide.

He's also wrong. The lesser if 2 evils is still evil. We won't vote for any party whose government supports a genocide.

UK woman who booked Oslo flight but did not fly loses child benefit ‘because she emigrated’ Exclusive: HMRC told Lisa Morris-Almond there was no record of her return to UK, but she did not take the trip

Somebody at HMRC needs to be canned for this idiotic ‘fraud-detection’ idea. And I fear future use of AI in welfare cases might well produce this kind of story regularly (as they have in Nevada for example).

Research should inform policy but that’s tricky if it is almost entirely driven by policy. The independence of research is key to change because if you fund only research that responds to policy (even good policy) you’re less innovative, creative & responsive to the open options of the future.

Nobody who has a cabinet position or who was parachuted into constituencies by Starmer should be allowed anywhere near a leadership position IMHO.