I know this is me still mourning a long dead world but it does feel remarkable that, not that long ago, British papers on the right would have run editorials and columns arguing that Hungary showed that only a solid, reliable centre-right party could defeat dangerous populists, but now? [crickets]
Even I know that consumers need to use less fuel, because the (inelastic) supply has reduced. Removing taxes is going to increase intermediaries' profits or lead to empty pumps. Even issuing petrol ration coupons would make more sense.
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I was gobs-macked, too.
The thrill of being promoted to team leader may not come with a pay rise.
It's the same when roads are straightened, headlights are improved, etc; what is intended to improve safety is consumed by drivers as a speed gain.
Their buyer’s remorse is pathetic & meaningless. The continuing promotion & prominence of inexplicably self-confident idiots, aka ‘Brexiters’, will undermine our national interest for generations.
Looks like everyone in opposition is a populist now, peddling simple answers that won't work.
US entering its mad emperor phase.
If the Telegraph was more patriotic than it was anti-Starmer, it would have said "Putin mocks Britain..."
I’ve been in hospital for two days looking after a friend and all I can say is we CAN NEVER let the NHS go. To a person, every nurse, specialist, support worker has been incredible.
RIP, Mr. Koo.
That's what's Putin wants you to think.
Look, this is a grey squirrel of a solecism and I hate it. The correct expression is ALL MOUTH AND TROUSERS, implying front, bravado, brashness with nothing of substance within. The needful idiom here is ALL GONG AND NO DINNER. Something that promises much but delivers nothing.
"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."
Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.
...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.
Netflix is good for Mandarin too, but the danger of inadvertently including any political criticism of the contemporary PRC means directors mostly limit themselves to costume dramas. It would be unwise for a drama to suggest anyone might have an ant problem in the PRC.
Screenshot with the question "Did this house have an ant issue previously?" In Chinese and English.
Duolingo, getting down to some nitty-gritty real-estate issues.
Neither, but it's OK now and again in small doses.
I was thinking my parents first refrigerator probably cost something like a month's wages. Perhaps a slight exaggeration, but it was definitely a substantial outlay. And it didn't have any of those fancy features.
The Iranian embassy in Iran quote tweets Trump's insane 'Fuckin Strait tweet with the comment: "This low level of civility and intelligence shown by a leader of a country is regrettable; the shameful fervor with which intentions to commit war crimes are repeated is staggering; and the fact that the Divine is invoked regardless of ill intentions clearly exposes deep fanaticism. Apologies for sharing this language." Trump's tweet reads: "Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"
my entire timeline on x is now just iranian embassies demonstrating a facility with the english language that puts everything i've ever read from the trump administration to shame
I think I'd need a dangerously large dose to warm to SM (or MG).
Chinese Limehouse exhibition board: "A racist trope that equated Asian peoples with invasion, disease, economic ruin and moral corruption. Used in the Western world to justify exclusion laws, imperialist policies and cultural panic for political purposes. The trauma of WW1, the gradual erosion of the once mighty British Empire, together with Government legislation (Alien Act 1914 controlling "foreigners"), all helped to ferment a national chauvinism that for many tipped over into xenophobic racism. The Chinese in Limehouse with their insular habits, strange food and clothes, and their opium smoking, became an obvious target for this anti-foreigner sentiment. A THREAT TO WOMEN AND CHILDREN Single Chinese men arrived in London but Chinese women did not accompany them. So when the men settled into family life they married local or immigrant white women. The attraction or 'lure' of these Chinese men was seen as an unconscionable threat to white man-hood and the purity of the British race. Thus much of Yellow Peril invective directed at the Limehouse Chinese community was heavily sexualised."
Chinese Limehouse exhibition board featuring press clippings about the "yellow peril".
Chinese Limehouse exhibition board about exaggerated fabricated issues of criminality within the community driven by xenophobia and racism.
Chinese Limehouse exhibition board about the censorship of an interracial romance by the British film censors with the newspaper title: When It's "Wong" To Kiss: Censors Ban On New Film.
Here are some of the boards from the exhibition. Unfortunately, they are testimony to the fact that the deranged media-led demonisation of minorities groups is a far from modern phenomena. The likely 2000 to 3000 Chinese who made up Chinatown were subject to a psychotic level of mischaracterisation.
Anyone who's familiar with the history of the British in Guangdong will find British complaints about Chinese people using opium a bit rich.🙄
My IT brain can't help wondering if Gove is somehow doing search-engine optimisation at grand master level with that quote.
At least the international relations theorists now have to stop talking about "spheres of influence" or "China first" or whatever, because all we have is one angry old man threatening to bomb whatever he likes for no particular reason.
I imagine you were thinking of parsnip wine.🥃
Putin and Orban coordinating on a desperate false flag operation that everyone knew was coming.
Mr Starmer, your government has broad powers to exclude foreign nationals on the grounds that their presence would not be "conducive to the public good". www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
I'm not letting this go Keir. Where are the drones!?
