This is amazing.
When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.
That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
Yes, i saw them beat West Ham at Upton Park. They were a very good team.
Donald Trump is the reason your bills are going to rise.
If you'd told me maybe three years ago that a UK news channel would be platforming someone to set out openly racist, far right, violent conspiracy theories, I'm not sure I'd have believed you. And yet here we are.
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Well if it spooks Trump, it might have useful consequences. (only might)
I am only surprised it didn't happen last week. But yes ugh.
Her picking by social media output is the equivalent of trump choosing via Fox News.
Just fascinating to see Blair, a man whose reputation was ruined by the Iraq war, advocate joining a war that is exponentially stupider and more chaotic. How is it possible to learn nothing from the worst mistake of your life?
Chris thanks for this, glad someone in labour understands this (i am a member). Hopefully No 10 is listening and understanding.
The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East. That's OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don't need them any longer -- But we will remember. We don't need people that join Wars after we've already won! President DONALD J. TRUMP
History lesson.
Our once great ally didn't come to our aid until 1917.
Our once great ally didn't come to our aid again until 1941.
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"The same article claims that the Enniskillen bomb killed six children. It didn’t; the youngest victim was 20. It claims that Bobby Sands was elected MP in 1981 with 30.4% of the vote. Given that there were only two candidates, this would have been mathematically impossible. In fact, Sands got 51.2% of the vote. In Grokipedia’s main article on Northern Ireland, it says that “on Bloody Sunday, paratroopers killed 14 civilians… initially depicted by some media as unprovoked, though evidence revealed IRA gunfire and nail bombs”. This is the opposite of the truth. Initially, there were claims by the Army that the victims were violent, but evidence disproved this. Other articles contain dangerous open-mindedness about murder. In an entry on loyalist assassin Michael Stone, it posits that “from a loyalist perspective, Stone’s Milltown raid was hailed as a bold tit-for-tat response to IRA aggression, enhancing his status as an icon of defiance and boosting morale among Protestant extremists” while “republican assessments, however, framed the attack as indiscriminate terrorism against civilians”. It claims that “mainstream reporting, while factually recounting events, occasionally reflects institutional biases favoring narratives of loyalist aggression”."
"At the heart of this technology is a black box into which questions go & out of which answers are given —but we’re not allowed to see what precisely goes on inside".
Sobering piece by @sjamcbride.bsky.social on how Musk's Grokopedia is rewriting knowledge
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Obama: "We are living in a time where it can be hard to hope. Each day we wake up to some new assault on our democratic institutions. Another setback to the idea of the rule of law ... but this man - Rev. Jesse Jackson - inspires us to take a harder path ... bc if we don't step up, nobody else will"
Words, what do they mean
Why is he in the labour party at all when seems to be the exact opposite for what it should stand for. Totally baffling to me.
The main point is well made, but i do take issue with his assertion that generally her plain speaking is born of clear thinking, really?!
"There is an alternative way forward: being True – not Blue – Labour. True Labour doesn’t fear those who are different. Instead, it demands everyone contribute their abilities to society – and works to unlock such skills."
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Shabana Mahmood has kicked off quite the internal Labour row with her proposals this morning to change the immigration system.
Here are a selection of quotes from Labour MPs:
Deluded. Labour lost about ten points during the course of the 2024 campaign. A strategic triumph it was not.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Football is the best, as West Ham fan I'm still buzzing from our result!
Interesting, it points to the 'failure' of both political parties and the media, and how they are incentivised. Labour could have had loads worked out policies in the background. These would then probably been leaked, thus leading to questions. The whole ecosystem is not working for the best outcome
As west ham fan, i didn't know we were going to win. It was nervous watch. Long way to go as yet.....
See Libya....
Your regular reminder that the UK's North Sea gas production is down by two-thirds since 2000 and is set to drop by another 97% by 2050 – even with new licensing rounds it would fall by 95%
THE DEATH OF US SCIENCE ☠️
FFS
wow, really what a line.
I do struggle to understand Shabana Mahmood: if this was what she came into politics to do, why was it the Labour Party that attracted her? Throughout most of the last 20 years, the Conservatives would've been a much more obvious fit.
If it's not, why's she doing it so zealously?
