The cyberattack on The British Library in October 2023 knocked out ebooks and almost ever other computer thing there for years.
Ebooks just came back. They were knocked out everywhere using the BL’s license (legal deposit libraries I think? More libraries?)
Distributed physical copies matter.
Frog faced fascist reveals he is a frog faced fascist.
You're an intergalactic treasure @georgetakei.bsky.social 💜💜
Thank you....it's good to be reminded that good things still happen.
My Sunday Times piece: The big story of the IMF’s latest assessment was not its minor downgrade of UK growth but its fear of what could happen to the global economy if the Iran war persists:
A UK growth downgrade is the least of our worries
www.thetimes.com/article/389a...
Twice.....twice Trump was elected President. The system is so rigged and corrupt, how are the present politicians going to disinfect it? How is the USA going to get it's credibility back. Where is the next decent human being who can win the Presidency?
🔥SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “Ivanka’s husband Jared Kushner’s on the Saudi payroll for $2 BILLION— as he leads 🇺🇸 diplomacy + asks sheikhs for billions more… Never have we seen so little effort to hide so much corruption. The Mar-a-Lago mafia taking corruption to spectacular new heights.”
When Angela Rayner underpaid £40,000 in stamp duty, Richard Tice said it was "morally completely indefensible” and she should resign if she had “any moral decency”.
Now we learn he set up four shell companies that let him avoid paying £100,000 he owed in tax and to then transfer the cash to Reform
Trump Effect Prompts Warmer EU-UK Relations. Britons increasingly see the UK’s interests aligned with the EU’s. Bloomberg 16 April.
Trump brings uncertainty. Europe offers stability. We cannot build our future on unpredictability, but we can build it with Europe.
Just returning from Amsterdam and saw this. That's definitely good news. More people recognising the lack of Emperors clothes.
Nothing changes...decades of collective punishment.
The fact that Donald Trump today still has a 40% approval rating in the USA is absolutely terrifying and says so much about the moral and educational degradation of a huge portion of its population. Maybe the Zombie apocalypse already happened and no one realised?🤔
I was in Lille last week fab beer in that bit of old French/Flemish Europe. However Ghent in Belgium was the best. I went into a pub and asked the barman what beers they had. He threw a encyclopaedia sized beer menu in front of me. Have fun 😁
Hasn't he grown a small moustache yet?
Love this 👏👏
Perfect....🤣
Books about the history of the Middle East
Here's a reading list Joe...
Extraordinary transformation of a radical into a corrupt right wing oligarch supported by other corrupt venal leaders. What a legacy to posterity.
I hope that Americans turn out like the Hungarians to teach Trump and his corrupt acolytes a lesson.
Let us hope that it is a vote for change, followed up by investigation and prosecution.
Porto is so excellent....thanks for the reminder.
Really important post from Sunder. We need legislation to stop this cancer from spreading into our polity. Reform is not a political party, it's disease that will destroy the social fabric of the UK.
Among Reform UK’s biggest donors is the Crypto billionaire Ben Delo, who was handed a fawning spread in the Telegraph this week to explain why he is giving £4m to the party.
What is buried in the piece that Delo is a convicted criminal who pled guilty to violating money laundering law in the US
Time for new legislation on political financing. We cannot go the way of the USA.
The real headline: crypto crook (who pleaded guilty to breaking US money laundering rules) plans to try and buy UK politics www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
Surreal....
I wonder how the historians will view what just happened? Iran wins?
This is beyond belief...however I am glad that the bombing of civilians has stopped. Netanyahu is going to go ballistic.
Yes....so what happens next?
