Oh FFS, WHY him, PLEASE can the party get a proper vetting process in place!
I’m glad we’re doing really well across the board, but we need to better than this (ditto with the antisemitic ones).
Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, I repeat Pope Leo has lost the Protestants, this is unpreced—
<wait my producer is just whispering something in my ear>
Apparently this is precedented
"On the right,treating any political position unfavorable to Israel as AS weaponizes Jewish suffering,corrupts the language we need to name& fight real hatred.On the left, treating existence of real Jew-hatred as essentially a cover story for Zionist advocacy abandons Jewish communities to violence"
Damn! How does @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social manage to write such excellent pieces every time? This is a beautiful and insightful read (from 3 months ago), as so many of hers are, grounding the growing use of AI in the true reality of being human. Treat yourself 👇
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
And then you explain and describe those in such a way that makes them all seem almost obvious :)
"On the right,treating any political position unfavorable to Israel as AS weaponizes Jewish suffering,corrupts the language we need to name& fight real hatred.On the left, treating existence of real Jew-hatred as essentially a cover story for Zionist advocacy abandons Jewish communities to violence"
Damn! How does @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social manage to write such excellent pieces every time? This is a beautiful and insightful read (from 3 months ago), as so many of hers are, grounding the growing use of AI in the true reality of being human. Treat yourself 👇
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Then there's another precious resource: water.
Polls show that people really underestimate meat's wide-ranging environmental impact. So here are some charts I've made over the years that show just had bad meat is for the planet. Let's start with efficiency:
Dance like the Telegraph is watching you!
With the result in Virginia, here's what we know about how mid-decade redistricting has shifted the landscape.
Across the 7 states with new maps:
—11 districts have shifted toward Democrats;
—9 districts have shifted toward the GOP.
PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.
By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.
On a cloudy day, in England, in April!
Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today
If you haven't done so yet, you have just over two hours to register to vote in the 2026 local elections - don't give up your chance to exercise your right!
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Next month is the centenary of the 1926 General Strike. In Oxford, railwaymen walked out alongside printing workers from Oxford University Press, while students tried to break the strike. Local trade unionists will mark the anniversary on three successive Saturdays. 🧵
The Clarion & I have both been talking about potholes in the last 24 hours. Great minds etc. See my clip for high level summary (heavier cars and climate change) and theirs for a lot more analytical detail.
Today the Prime Minister will assure Parliament that there was no window, or if there was a window it did not break, and if it broke it was not from a ball, and if there was a ball there was no kick.
He will add that he is "furious" about the window that broke from a ball that was kicked. (By him.)
This is simply not true. Labour didn’t have to go right. They *chose* to go right. The big majority was a chance to reset everything back to sanity. Starmer chose the mad, bigoted, ignorant and dishonest route instead.
An image of a person with a pushchair down a residential street near inconsiderately parked cars. The person is wearing striped clothing and walking past a black car. The setting includes brick buildings and a view of houses on a hill in the background.
It's happening! 📢
On Tuesday, MPs will consider an amendment to enable local leaders to ban pavement parking in their area. We need you to help us get this amendment on to the Bill.
Ask your MP to agree to Amendment 265 when it's considered on Tuesday: https://bitly.livingstreets.org.uk/4tMU2Uq
Oh gosh, yes. Sorry, I see I didn't word my post very well. What I meant was - I totally agree with your point, but just to remind any casual reader that this is not to say that there isn't rising antisemitism (which I know you know is the case)
So it's a 'yes, and', rather than a 'no, but' 😁
Though of course the generalised rise in antisemitism is also happening.
E.g. forward.com/opinion/8195...
Important reminder 👇
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“What this report ultimately demands, from the left and the right alike, is a discipline that both sides have conspicuously failed to practice: the discipline of treating antisemitism as a separate issue from the issues of Israel, Zionism and Palestinian rights.”
No idea of the accuracy of this but it sounds quite plausible. And if correct has nothing to do with a generalised ‘rise in antisemitism’ in society. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I expect we'll get a very different map this time. Though elections are still FPTP, so hard (for me at least :)) to predict how the massive change in voting will affect the seat allocation (in 2022 Greens got just under 1% of the seats though almost 12% of the votes 🙄)
The 2 new LTN areas in #Oxford have measurably reduced road casualties, including those on boundary roads.
By now, benefits are 100 fewer casualties and an economic benefit of over £7 million.
cohsat.org.uk/east-oxford-...
Meals in a cafeteria (CDC on unsplash.com)
Making more vegetarian choices available in cafeterias boosts take up of plant based options, saving calories and carbon emissions, according to researchers at the University of Oxford. Details👇
www.ox.ac.uk/news/2026-04...
The Israeli cabinet's jungle-rules philosophy is "only through force, territorial expansion, and intimidation we can get security".
Even where the benefits of an agreement are clear - e.g. Syria - Israel will do everything not to go down that route, in fear this sets a precedent for other fronts.
Powerful joint statement from over 100 organisations regarding the BBC's atrocious and misleading asylum reporting this week.
www.rainbowmigration.org.uk/news/we-stan...
