I don’t follow 2 - do you mean Putin has never said “I will do a genocide”? Because he has written & spoken about how he doesn’t think Ukraine or Ukrainians deserve to exist & I’d say that crosses that line. Even before you get to his actions

Also just do a potted bio with the last two lines in & they’ll actually make the point they think they’re making

Every year they proudly post this *absolutely ahistorical* nonsense and every year I wonder “ok, but what precisely does St George’s antecedents have to do with Huddersfield TUC? (Also, what have you done to his head?)”

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

We often talk of western liberals shaping their Israel policy around a version of Israel that only exists in their heads. Well, here's the millionth western leftist doing the same with Russia.

One of the things about Putin’s long rambling historical diatribes in Russian is they aren’t really digestible like Trump’s threats. But they amount to the same thing. He absolutely has said this.

There’s a slowly growing possibility they just outright collapse their own agricultural sector for no reason

Little known fact: if nobody will pay £850,000 for your house, it's not worth £850,000.

I liked It Takes A Muscle mind so she just makes it

Like I say to my kids when we go to the match - get ready for disappointment

If she’d released anything worthwhile listening to since 2010 she might not be in this mess

Polanski: Whether danger perceived or actual, Jews feeling unsafe 'unacceptable' Speaking to Haaretz, Green Party Leader Zack Polanksi, Who Is Jewish, Said That the Labour Party Is Using Claims of Antisemitism in His Party as a 'Cynical Political Attack,' and Said Jewish Identity ...

Fair bit down the piece

The people of Chechnya and Ukraine would like a word...

The most incurious guy ever

This was genuinely the high watermark of Starmer's entire time in office

What did we do?

reaction to the michael jackson film are interesting. out of touch metrolib film critics hate it, but it makes money because Real People love pedophiles.

I keep forgetting this is happening & honestly I’m not sure how

There's a decent chance Trump is so far gone into the dementia that he thinks he's back hosting Celebrity Apprentice and has to fire at least one of the D-list celebrities in his orbit at the end of each day.

When they received the call to respond to an Israeli airstrike in the city of Mayfadoun, in southern Lebanon, most of the paramedics held back, having previously seen colleagues killed by double-tap attacks targeting rescuers. But the medics from the Islamic Health Association (IHA) rushed to the scene. By the time the other emergency workers arrived at the site, they found the IHA medics had indeed been caught in a second strike. They started evacuating their wounded colleagues, only for their ambulances to be hit in two further attacks. One of the paramedics covered his ears and screamed, convulsing in pain as shrapnel shattered the back window of the ambulance. The rescue mission on Wednesday afternoon had turned into a nightmare as Israel carried out three consecutive strikes on three sets of ambulances and medical workers.

Israel performed a literal quadruple tap attack in Lebanon to massacre three separate sets of medics.

Truly pushing the bounds of human depravity.

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Exactly - it’s not like he’s been subtle! He wrote a huge & shit essay about how they don’t deserve to exist so he can do what he wants to them

Strange way of describing a man who habitually makes nuclear threats this, as well

I don’t know if it was always like this, but for a certain section of the middle classes words just don’t mean anything. You are a second home owner if you own two homes. It’s really as simple as that. Just as you are no longer a law abiding citizen if you start committing crimes

Putin has been very clear he wants to wipe Ukraine off the map so he can annex their land & would kill anyone who stood up to him if he could. He does not believe Ukrainians have a right to exist. This is pathetic & spineless. What else would you call that if not genocide?

Turns out I was giving Polanski too much credit on Ukraine. What the fuck is he talking about here? Putin has an ICC warrant for the industrial kidnapping of tens of thousands of Ukrainian kids & rewarded the soldiers who massacred civillians Bucha with medals for their ‘bravery’

Try reading something about Ukraine while you wait. You’ll have time.

Tbf I have no further concerns about his health