Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.
Hi, this is your handler from the government, to maintain your state gifted perks we’re going to need you to post this. No, it’s not optional.
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok.
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception Everyone is ok. Stay calm, everyone is safe.
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception
No drone has hit Dubai Marina. It was debris from a successful interception.
I wonder if a drone has hit Dubai Marina. Or whether it was just
debris from a successful interception.
If only loads of Dubai based accounts, including Isabel Oakeshott's, could tell me.
Get ready to be annoyed when petrol prizes go up and a) a bunch of politicos declare the government's poll ratings have gone down because Starmer didn't go in with the US on Iran and b) a bunch of politicos who support the war blame the government for increased energy costs.
SO MUCH PROPHET (2023)
Have to allow for the idea that it isn't utterly inexplicable.
Good thread here.
This is one of the most important pieces we have published in a while.
I believe that some are worried that sharing it somehow means supporting the US and Israel's war against Iran. Or at least "justifying" it.
This is not the case. One murder does not cancel another. It remains murder.
Graph: “The combined vote share of the two main parties has fallen to just 37 per cent”. Arrow pointing at the cliff face drop off since 2017. Text added by me: Something decisive must have changed here. But what?
I won’t keep you in suspense: the answer is “Politicians and their media friends realised they could just say and do whatever the fuck they wanted to - no matter how wildly irresponsible and damaging - and nobody would be able to stop them, because they were holding all the microphones”.
So just to be clear the FA rule is that Emi Martinez is strictly forbidden from promoting betting companies except for every time he puts on an Aston Villa shirt
I get the anger on the left over glib takes about similarities between Farage and Polanski, but I'd also remind them that continuing to insist a Labour Party delivering workers' rights, votes at 16, taxes on the rich and increased public spending is the same as the Tories is equally ludicrous.
This is not only incredibly weak, its false equivalence between Farage and Polanski is dangerous. One of them is a threat to liberal democracy, the other one is not. The text is a prime example of how radical centrism and the profound arrogance of self-declared liberals legitimize the far right
There is a minor political project of trying to pretend that the age factor in British politics is something to do with "young people" digital natives and smartphone generations, rather than the facts of "everybody under retirement age".
RIP Baudrillard you would've loved this episode of imperial decline
At least this clarifies matters -if the government pursue Mahmood's proposals on "earned settlement"/ILR they will be explicitly allying themselves with Lam and Jenrick's ethnonationalist agenda.
The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
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This article was amended on 5 March 2026. An earlier version said low-skilled workers would “receive immediate access to welfare and social housing” if Labour did not make them wait longer to apply for settlement. In fact, settlement status only gives people the eligibility to apply for welfare and social housing, it does not give them instant or automatic access to such benefits. This has been clarified. From breaking news to huge investigative proje
Guardian has now [after my complaint] corrected Mahmood's deliberate & incendiary false claim settlement gives immigrants "immediate access to welfare and social housing".
Good for Gdn but embarrassing/shameful that Home Secretary deliberately misled the public for political gain like this.
Powerful oped, not just about public health but the state of our democracies:
"That’s real progress. Not GDP going up 0.1% or Rachel Reeves forecasting an extra couple of billion in fiscal headroom – but whether you live or die, are well or sick"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is a READ 😭
Can you ever trust the British State? Should you ever trust the British State?
There is a grunt Noddy Holder gives on 2:16 into Cum on Feel the Noize which should be sent into space as amongst human civilisation's greatest achievements.
I think they were going to buy two forwards.
He can't train every day.
Look at Kaide Gordon, Rhian Brewster, Jayden Danns, Stefano Bajcetic. So many injuries for so long.
Highest scoring wide player this season is 9.
Gakpo is the joint 8th highest scorer of non penalty goals from wide areas this league season. 4th highest xG of those players. He isn't for me. But the idea he is nowhere starting just doesn't stand up.
Manager has regularly played every new signing he can since he has been here bar Chiesa.
Not in the first team squad. I like Endo as a 6th midfielder to do bits but he can't be considered a going concern.
Doesn't need to be big names.
Thursday AFQ AFQ AFQ
Milburn
Molyneux (c)
Hannan
Get your questions in...NOW!
Lads who didn't make 10 league/CL/EL starts last season I am simply not counting as first team squad players for Liverpool. Ngumoha should be Liverpool's sixth or seventh option at best.
We know this season we started with two fewer than the club would like (one died; tried to buy Guehi). If you add three proper first team options - net one in each of the lines - you get to 19. Perfectly reasonable and achievable.
Murder for the sheer joy of killing and the thrill of total impunity: a thing that should not really surprise us, historically speaking, nor in light of the tens of thousands of killings already killed in appalling atrocities carried out by or with the direct support of these men.
