Both real and surreal at the same time.
06.03.2026 18:23
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Both real and surreal at the same time.
"We are freeing Iran from religious fanatics".
A prayer for Trump in the White House.
Even a casual snap shows there was something truly special about John Thaw.
Yes Rosendale. Glad you had a happy time. Us too.
Ratepayers? Showin' yer age there, David!
Nigel Farage has cried fraud every single time he has lost an election. Oldham. Peterborough. Rochdale. Gorton and Denton.
Every time, no evidence. Every time, the result stood. The man calling postal voting a threat to democracy voted by post himself in 2024. Reform Watch launches Friday.
New cycle route in West Dulwich is so 'popular' that the line painter needs security - and scary dog. Fo' real.
JOB
Assistant Professor of Political Theory
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social
www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/univers...
Get yourself a cuppa, sit down, and spend 5 minutes on this (yet another excellent Emma Monk) thread.
You will learn how certain parts of the press and media, and some political talking heads, work.
And hopefully you will then call them out for ever more.
To say nothing of course of the morality of a war waged by people who mock 'pearl clutchers' for wanting such trivialities as a legal basis and clarity of objective.
After the cost of living disasters of Covid, Brexit, Ukraine and Liz Truss, the UK could do without Trump and Netanyahu delivering another hit to the prices of oil, gas and everything else.
It will go down well, and even better over time (as long as Starmer maintains his 'legal basis/feasible plan' stance).
Starmer is also not dealing with FDR, of course.
"Not Winston Churchill we're dealing with" - insofar as it reveals a Starmer standing up to Trump - will do Starmer more good domestically than harm.
The Green vote was 11% higher than constituency polls, and Labour's 4% below polls. Reform result was in line with polls. This suggests tactical voters went Green to ensure Reform were stopped. Tactical voting was the real story of the last general election, and will be the story of the next one.
"Nations that groveled to Trump, like the UK, have just learned that they humiliated themselves for nothing."
Attack of the Zombie Tariffs
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Now that's just rubbing salt into the wound isn't it?
I’d say he’s sweating now
But now that he has appointed the very finest examples of the former Tories (who delivered 14 long years of chaos, austerity and decline) to his top table, my fears are allayed.
I used to worry that the Putin and Trump admiring champion of Brexit (which tore families and communities apart, only to leave the UK poorer and internationally isolated) MIGHT not be a good candidate for high office....
How very Trumpian. The next journos should have repeated the question until they answered.
Says something when even the press and commentators are using, Farage's language of "shadow" roles in his "cabinet".
Guy Barker, Pizza Express Jazz Club, January 2026 (Photo by Dominic Minghella)
The incomparable, inimitable and lovely Guy Barker, guesting with Ian Shaw the other week.
Probably the greatest living trumpeter in the world, but maybe 'alchemist' is a better description; he extracts pure soul from a piece of twisted metal.
It *literally* does.
Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.
People (of colour) in tears on LBC today because of the resurgence, even normalisation, of racism in the UK broke my heart.
Stop the boats
Or you could say that the Principality of Monaco has been colonised by tax-avoiding, racist football club owners.
XhatGPT idiotic layout of 13amp plug wiring. Just random wires really.
CoPilot AI diagram of plug wiring. Two live wires, one forked off the earthm and a screw head is also labelled Live.
And finally, Gemini AI diagram of 13 amp plug wiring. Hard to know where to even begin with this. Just a mess really.
One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
It's Ghost on the telly. An iconic blast from the past. (But, for all its proper budget and phallic clay glory, it's always going to be a poor man's Truly Madly, right?😉)
I guess it's that kind of selective thinking that leads a sporting body to think it should be doling out international peace prizes (and with a similarly dubious calculation of recipient merit).
