Using the phrase “without reasonable doubt” is a bit of a tell.

The Room Next Door - Donald Trump and the New Guy YouTube video by Michael Spicer

My goodness, I missed this by @michaelspicer.bsky.social. It is as near to perfect as a thing can get. I actually did an honest-to-Betsie spit-take at the Poundland joke. And the meta coda is out of this world.

youtu.be/gDH0Tz8Yb9I?...

Oh.

JUST A REMINDER ...

... of how close we are today ...

I did wonder if that was Venus. Thanks for confirming!

I was absolutely convinced they would do so. The obvious choice.

Yay

Try Penguin. Superb.

She wipes the floor with all of them.

Elf and the Equality Act: reasonable adjustments in the workplace.

Redemptive Justice: a Muppet Christmas Carol

Die Hard and the policing of reasonable force

Also - the claim that the ECHR makes it 'impossible' to deport foreign criminals and terrorists is false - the issue is whether it would breach human rights in individual cases. For instance, over 3500 foreign national offenders were deported in 2022-3: commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...

Reform party MPs at a protest by Conservative MPs, who were demonstrating against something that featured in their own 2017 manifesto.

Brie Willy

The president’s crimes The oldest constitution in the world was not made for the political culture of modern America. The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v United States is a symptom of its crisis

An excoriating analysis of the dire state of the US Supreme Court, by Lord Sumption, former UK Supreme Court Justice and Honorary Fellow of Magdalen.

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/north-...

The Edamed United

Historical figure plus animal hyphen Star Trek actor first name. Cicero Badger-William.

I watch politics closely and I couldn't give you one sentence on what ANY Tory contender thinks about the economy, or housing, or industrial policy.

They only speak of, compete on, and will be defined by one issue. Whoever wins, Farage's takeover is complete. They allowed him to define the contest.

Watched the final 2 episodes of Douglas Is Cancelled. Superb. Reviewers appear to have been provided with the first 2 episodes only, an amusing skewering of modern manners and generational differences. Stick with it. 3 (agonising, brilliant) and 4 fire it in an entirely different direction. Wow.

Hi Sean, please could you add me?

Well hello Bluesky!