Quest for Fire. Slightly less that i was too young (10ish) more that we brought gran

Needs some microgreens

I have flown a lot since of course but my peak/formative flying years were post-9/11 when you just did not do any of this shit

Regular reminder that the play My Name Is Rachel Corrie was orignally edited (written) by now guardian editor Kath Viner and Alan Rickman. The latter would, i assume, vomit at the mention of the former now

Love a good fried snickers bar

"I didn't shit my pants, i just didn't notice for several months when somebody else shoved their shit in my pants" - keir starmer

Chauncey Gardiner

Keir likes to watch

You sort of imagine that there’s some red lights that go off if “the uk ambassador is a security risk” comes up on the dashboard, but apparently not.

LOL what the fuck do you mean, “failed security vetting”

One small joy in getting older is understanding that almost all of these people will experience serious disability eventually

Can't explain to the kids that when he was primaried, official washington declared joe lieberman history's greatest human. Especially funny as when he died no one cared

Ministers need to steer through a special educational needs and disabilities bill to put in place curbs on legal entitlements to education, health and care plans. These entitlements to extra support will be limited to the most severe cases.

A planned welfare bill that will restrict some benefits — for example, banning under-22s from claiming incapacity benefits — looks set to be delayed until the new year. Reforms to disability benefits will also come later.

From the FT's preview of the King's speech. The government has clearly decided that disabled people's participation in society is a luxury we can't afford. Notice how they've stopped pretending it's about "fraud" and started pretending it's about people not being disabled enough.

'focus on what's popular unless it pisses off donors, especially the ones who fund my fake thinktank' isn't quite as compelling

This simple stuff is instead being presented to the public as complex and mysterious because nobody wants to admit they knew all along that Peter and Morgan were up to some extremely shady, possibly illegal shit. Because that would prompt questions about how they knew that, and when they knew it.

i suppose there aren't enough water-and-gambling-lobbyist jobs so defence it is

or, you know, borrowing

Protecting the British people* is my number one priority

*myself & mine & my mates interests

Revealed: Mandelson failed vetting but Foreign Office overruled decision Guardian investigation uncovers decision by UK security officials to deny clearance before Mandelson took up role as US ambassador

lol
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

a bit complicated for many of our journos, but the scale of 'possible welfare cuts' compared to scale of 'spending on war with vlad' is tiny unless they are planning on turning the british state into alabama

HOWEVER

I generally start out less than sympathetic to regional independence movements until I see how the core view them (spoiled, annoying, younger brothers who should learn how to behave properly)

various reasons academic doesn't lean conservative (it is hardly the lefty bastion people imagine), and one is conservatives expect special treatment and higher salaries

very few people have those jobs, almost all of them, strangely, are conservatives

people in these 'centers' get the special celebrity academic jobs (high salaries, show up to 2 lectures per year) that people imagine all academics at fancy places have

sometimes half is half a loaf, sometimes half is half a baby

This could apply to alot of things, but when people say "we want x" and politicians say "how about 50% of x, which won't really achieve anything, but it is half of what you asked!!!" it is not actually on those voters to clap

Do we think people are not going to get upset when their government makes it crystal clear everything the political class has ever said about justice and human right was horseshit, and that all of that goes out the window when America declares the world’s first good and admirable genocide.

BBC to cut up to 2,000 jobs in biggest downsize for 15 years The BBC had also recently revealed it planned to reduce the team behind the coverage of national occasions, such as royal and state events.

Let it burn, they are basically the same as the daily mail now, or trying to be

news.sky.com/story/bbc-to...

i know they just believe in it but who do they think this will impress

The culture of Alistair Campbell working with tabloids to whip up outrage about 'bogus asylum seekers' has now very much embedded itself in the 'impartial' national broadcaster.

This is being done hand in hand with government as far as I can tell. Didn't think it was explicit consent manufacturing until I watched news at 10 last night and Chris Mason let slip that government is planning to announce more crackdowns next week.