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Experience the last days of Pompeii, through silent cinema, with @silentsweeney.bsky.social silentlondon.co.uk/2026/03/09/e...
You’d think in this era of “MPs face increasing danger” there would be more outrage at newly elected Green MP Hannah Spencer being assaulted by transphobes but it’s nowhere to be seen on BBC News app even if you search her name
I think it’s a long-term experience for the people being bombed
On the rebound from just missing out on the Ayatollah-ship I see…
really curious about the 4% Green voters in favour of Trump - are they just hoping for armageddon as a way to Net Zero?
I joke about TBI standing for the Tony Blair Institute and Traumatic Brain Injury, but they are probably the only two groups who'd think "Blair, man with a good record on military intervention in the Middle East".
Can we now talk about building HS2 in full, releasing capacity on the existing rail network, getting more freight and passengers on it, and electrifying it to reducing it to reduce our dependency on fossil fuels?
The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.
This is a social democrat.
When?? I've been waiting for ages
It's a wild ride - I thought it was great and Jessie Buckley, Christian Bale and Penelope Cruz were sensational
Pretty difficult to refute a single thing in this perfect assessment of where the f**k we are, from @iandunt.bsky.social:
12 months and two days ago
Absolutely, for a *Labour* govt to say that people who are not well-off aren't contributing to the country tells you all you need to know.
I fear it might trigger a visit from the social services..
No Blood Relation (1932), Kennington Bioscope with John Sweeney plus a celebration of the 130th Anniversary of both the Lumières and RW Paul projecting film in Britain for the first time with an audience and on the same day! #SilentFilm
ithankyouarthur.blogspot.com/2026/02/nutu...
Radio 3 has stopped including artist information on the playlists it puts online. They do link to a random performance on Apple music, which it turns out may or may not be of the same piece.
This is the sort of thing the station used to be exemplary at and it is so. bloody. basic.
I get the strong sense that the bulk of media are calling Starmer's position on Iran entirely wrongly right now. I simply don't believe that most people out there are either as hawkish as the Tories or as anti-everything as the Greens. Being conflicted in the middle seems about right to me.
Ask the public what services they want to cut, or what services they're happy to be rubbish, and you get a very different set of answers.
They'll say cut foreign aid, ofc, but that's all but gone already. What next?
I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed.
Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.
Its genuinely mad that we are, arguably, the most successful multicultural state on earth and instead of celebrating that we...
...keep trying to copy nations who have very evidently done worse at it than us
This is more than the death toll at Aberfan, and the world has already moved on from it.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
There’s something deeply odd about how “the Greens are just the same as Reform” is treated as obviously true by so many within Labour when no one else believes this - and evidence no one believes this is not hard to find
Also to note - Mahmood is essentially saying that immigration policy should be made entirely for political reasons and those reasons should be what they think their ideal type working class voter believes. Quite literally a policy of pandering.
Breaking:
*Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON
*Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord
*Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation
*Questions over legality of paperwork
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right
Really not sure if telling Green voters they we're stupid enough to be hoodwinked by extremist anti-NATO crack dealers is the most productive way for Labour to behave. Makes them sound like they're joining Reform in a kind of Mary Whitehouse prig chorus
Spectator headline "The Green party is playing with fire in Gorton" by Ed West.
Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.
The biggest problem with the UK's political system is that colossal pieces of shit can write abhorent nonsense like this in a journal famous for publishing vile poison... and still have everyone come to their garden party because it's all a bit of a lark and all in good fun eh chaps wot wot.
