A detail everyone is ignoring or forgetting.
Peter Mandelson masterminded Keir Starmer's reshuffle days before the scandal broke.
That is, while he was the US Ambassador.
This seems like quite an important detail!
In summary: all of our institutions are fully captured by the people who actively participated in all of this stuff, and they are not going to decide that our increasingly fucked state is their fault, and then fire each other and themselves. Which leaves a very, very narrow set of options.
You can actually see the moment Ed Miliband thinks, what's the point burning through whatever political credibility I've got left energetically defending a man who's going to be gone in a matter of weeks.
Interesting. When Lee Anderson said the PM was lying, the speaker gave him the chance to withdraw his comments.
Watch Anderson being thrown out.
Wild the difference.
"gender critical or religious views" oh interesting. Can I support the Taliban's extreme interpretation of Islam and call for the downfall of the decadent west, and then sue anyone who tries to stop me? Or are those not the religious views we're talking about?
"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. "it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. "it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. "you simply must visit the monster—I always just ask the monster." there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn't mean it has no price "for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
But it is tho…chatting with ai should be considered like chatting with a malevolent demon that may seem like it can help you but you can never trust it and it may well drive you into madness
These lovely Charcuterie Swords are just about to hit the website.
Fun fact- Science has definitively proven that a Charcuterie Sword is the greatest possible lesbian wedding gift.
Can’t really argue with science.
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I'm old enough to remember when kier's main selling point was meant to be "no you don't get it, he's a liar" rather than "no you don't get it, he's incompetent"
Constantly reminded of this Ted Chiang passage on capitalism, technology and progress from the New Yorker whenever I see the tech “elite” snowflaking about criticism.
crimes are something only us poors do
Beautiful that two people from very different lifestyles, one a famous actress and the other I assume a post apocalyptic anime character, could have such a lasting relationship
Belgium just seized 2 British military shipments bound for Israel. At Liège Airport. 33 crates. Military components including lasers, sights, fire control systems, aircraft parts.
The cargo arrived by truck from the UK. It was supposed to fly to Tel Aviv.
Be like Belgium
#stopthewar #Lebanon #gaza
This sort of thing has never ended badly - just look at how well Scotland did after the Darien Scheme!
It is absolutely boiling my piss that these grinning idiots are going to piss half a billion up the wall for AI whilst cutting essential services.
if you are on Housing Benefit (not element), you cannot work 16 hours or more without losing HB and thus being thrown into debt or made homeless.
If you are on LCWRA, you would now get half as much as you would previously.
UKGOV spends £60m+ each year unsuccessfully defending unlawful PIP denials
And the woman did speak unto the hound, saying, What do you mean, normal men, and the hound answered the woman, saying, We are just innocent men. And great was her emotion
Okay, we are being asked to believe that the statement from Starmer below is not actually a brazen, conscious lie, but the product of a man who, despite once being one of the UK's foremost legal officers, is as dumb as a coat stand, or a drawer full of spoons.
I work with a bunch of nowhere near that senior but still pretty senior civil servants, policy group deputy directors as suchlike, and none of them, zero, would miss an opportunity to put something like this in writing.
Please please please someone ask starmer “mister prime minister which is it, are you corrupt or are you thick?”
And for what? For whom? This incurious man, whose political insight has long since failed? Whose life is dedicated to self-enrichment and marginal parasitism on billionaires? There's nothing there worth lifting a finger for.
President so bad he reverses 600 years of Protestant-Catholic infighting
As someone just reminded me, the recently appointed Executive News Editor at BBC News — Lindsay McIntosh — comes straight from the Sunday Times. Billy Kenber, the lead reporter on the story, is also ex-Times. The whole thing has a very Murdoch press tone to it.
Why is the world in love again? Why are we marching hand in hand?
It’s a brand new record for 1990…
By 2028/29, I expect we will be fully back up to every day scary interviews with the country’s most terrified, squealing right wing crackpots, talking about how members of the public calling them fuckheads on Twitter dot com has made them fear for their very lives.
Wes Streeting looks like a marionette from a cancelled Gerry Anderson series, or a possessed Edwardian ventriloquist dummy.
See also: Lindsey Graham and Mike Johnson.
Maybe there's a cabal of evil, living puppet/dolls taking over the world? We should look into it.
the irony of having a one-on-one HR layoff meeting in the conference room with my Loki mural on it
Re-re-launch
When the crowd say
Fuck Keir Starmer
