Please do! I'll buy it!

Various people have noted that this makes it sound like the Greens have another candidate in mind, but the bigger issue is that the Church of England is not “Britain’s” established church, and actually never has been.

So glad to hear this!

Further evidence, as if any were needed, that Labour must stop chasing after Reform voters, who hate Labour.

Listen to @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social discuss the latest evidence on the use of Physician Associates in the NHS on BBC Radio 4 Today Programme - she's very clear!

youtu.be/IWNw6nfnN3o

What in the world is going through Starmer's head?

Labour keep trotting out the "world has changed" line to excuse other unpalatable decisions, but magically Brexit - and only Brexit - is sacrosanct?

Absolutely asinine heel-dragging.
www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Too much!

It really is just destruction for destruction's sake

This is why @kityates.bsky.social post is so relevant today

kityates.substack.com/p/science-is...

and why my dystopian piece is perfectly plausible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-dystopia...

this is yet another way to crack down universities in the US. and a classic authoritarian play

UK asset manager Abrdn renames itself Aberdeen [FREE TO READ] Company says move will end ‘distractions’ after widely ridiculed rebranding in 2021

my considered view here is: hahaha hahaaaaaaaahahah haha

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A reminder: life expectancy in the EU is 81.5 years, in the US 77.4. Apart from Lithuania (2.21) the homicide rate in the EU is below 2, for 16 countries including Italy, Spain and Germany below 1. It is above 6 in the US.

Casablanca is a wonderful movie. I used to wonder why it didn’t feel hokey, despite the somewhat implausible plot and the very blunt symbolism of the Marseilles scene, but I know think it’s because this stuff really matters *and those making the picture knew, many of them first hand*.

Incoming temper tantrum from Mango Mussolini when he realises that Zelenskyy is meeting the King first

A good day for Putin.

Great!

I keep thinking of Margaret Atwood saying that everything in the Handmaid's Tale had already happened somewhere in the world

'Spare a thought for the poor old King,' is not a feeling I ever expected to have...

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

I do - reluctantly- support the defence increase but cutting the aid budget is both cruel and unwise. Yes, I’m aware the alternative would be a tax rise and I am ok with that.

Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings Unions said the plans would result in "devastating cuts" and called for Edinburgh University to use some of its assets instead.

Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...

If there’s a nation that needs to be expelled from the Five Eyes it isn’t Canada.

I hope you’ll be back soon.

The evening is perfect, my sisters.
The loch lies silent, the air is still.
The sun’s last rays linger over the water
and there is a faint smirr, almost a smudge
of summer rain. Sisters, I smell supper…

—Edwin Morgan, “Midge”
published in THE MAP & THE CLOCK, @faberbooks.bsky.social 2016

All water should be nationalised.

“Competency cosplayer”

That is brilliant.

I love it!