Lance Parkin

I wonder where Trump thinks he is, and who he thinks these people are.

There we go.

The Right Is Now ‘Transvestigating’ Erika Kirk And Sydney Sweeney The trend has been going on for a while, but wildly, now the right seems to be eating its own.

The party of strictly defined genders and knowing a woman when they see one has studied pictures of Sydney Sweeney and declared she's a man.

www.huffpost.com/entry/erika-...

Please can we shift the Overton Window on religion in politics from "God hates queers" to "Taxing the churches: 30% or 40%?".

Does God have a gender? It matters what metaphors, analogies, and symbols we use for God and God’s gender.

Yes.

uscatholic.org/articles/202...

It is Catholic dogma, not just teaching, that God 'transcends gender'.

BlackRock Fund Limits Withdrawals As Redemptions Rattle Private Credit Shares of the world's largest asset manager fell 6.7% on the New York Stock Exchange.

Buckle up. Investors have realised the economy's collapsed, AI is a bubble, and Iran has a war plan but America doesn't, and they're cashing out.

www.huffpost.com/entry/blackr...

It's more than died in the Boston Massacre.

There's no inflation, just 'measurement issues'.

Obama has the crowd at Jesse Jackson's eulogy hanging on his every word

Yeah, for avoidance of doubt: 1978 and the radio series.

I am watching Sandbaggers right now, and my post was inspired in part by that.

I've said this before: he's *so* good as Slartibartfast. Can you imagine just walking into a BBC recording studio, being handed a script Douglas Adams had finished typing nine seconds ago, all your lines being nonsense exposition about mice, with two (2) jokes in total, and just landing it?

Also ... he belongs on the Peter Bowles List Of People Who MUST Have Been In Doctor Who, Right?

John Higgs has suggested it's Colonel Smithers, on his way to brief Bond.

The three ages of British nerd are 'that Top of the Pops set dressing has been in Doctor Who', 'on a rewatch, The Tomorrow People is shite', and 'oh God, I'm older than Richard Vernon was when he played Slartibartfast, which tbf is younger than you'd think'.

'Minister, a gut punch to the backbone wouldn't be a - '
'Oh, do go away, Bernard.'

Employment Situation Summary - 2026 M02 Results

Covid gets way too much credit for the economic crash of 2020.

www.bls.gov/news.release...

Book of the Year - Graphic Novel Shortlist | The British Book Awards Check out the 2026 shortlist for the Graphic Novel Book of the Year category at The British Book Awards (aka ’The Nibbies)

Actually, here's that announcement, and it's huge! Who Killed Nessie by me and @rachaelsmith.bsky.social has been nominated in the British Book Awards! www.thebookseller.com/british-book...

“Asked if Americans should worry about Iran retaliating against Americans on U.S. soil, President Donald Trump responded, ‘I guess.’”

Google pledges roughly three hours of its annual profit to fight climate change Google and others are committing $100 million to combat climate change.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

Dredd reacts to [spoiler]. Or possibly not.

There's a panel in A Better World where he *seems* to register an emotion beyond 'he snarls', there seems to be something going on under the helmet, or it could be the lighting, or perhaps it's just another snarl, or it's *the readers* reacting and projecting, and it's just truly shocking.

I think it comes back to what Duncan said in the original post, which is that Dredd himself is quite dead and blank. It's the stuff that's going on around him that's important.

"I respect Bernie Sanders because he's an open socialist, and you know that he's a communist so you know what you're getting. Rand Paul's a freaking snake. And I understand completely why his neighbor did what he did. And I told him that to his face."

This is what Markwayne Mullin said about Rand Paul a couple weeks ago.

Anyway, guess who chairs the Senate Homeland Security Committee

….huh??

I think it's quite important that he's not just one thing. He's incredibly consistent, but he's also capricious. There's that (Wagner, I think) line about a moral dilemma for Dredd being 'headshot or chest shot?'. He's the perfect policeman, but ACAB, so that's not actually a good thing.

So, yeah, Dredd shifts around those, to fit the genre. He's a cog in the machine, he's the loose cannon, he's one week away from retirement, he's stronger than ever, he's in the thick of it, or just a guy in a helmet at the back.

I think the great innovation with Dredd, and it takes them a while, is that it can be *any* police story. Procedural detective, car chase, hunting outlaws in the badlands, Hill Street Blues, eager cadet, bureaucratic, internal affairs, gangsters, Kafkaesque system, escaped turkeys, shooting looters.

this move will simultaneously increase the average intelligence of the Trump cabinet and the U.S. senate