Peter Berry

this is explicitly genocidal

Isn't this unauthorised diplomacy, which is a crime?

(Priti Patel also did this, and was never punished)

Read? Books?

"I really didn't say everything I said." — Yogi Berra

Brits: If you need to borrow the lawnmower while I'm away, the key to the shed is under the plant pot by the front door

Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …

Dear Shabana,

Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.

I think you can only conclude this isn't for electoral gain, they are just genuinely awful

Hello yes, I would like one (1) perverse incentive please

kermit the frog is dancing in front of a red curtain on a stage . Alt: Kermit the Frog, panicking

Wikipedia is in read only mode and I don't know why

This is telling

Miller uses the language of human rights, but obviously doesn't understand or accept the concept

Human rights are for everyone

Even "savages that torture and rape and murder" have human rights, because they're human

Meanwhile in England, local authorities are banned from doing BDS 😞

"Bond markets were never elected to run this country, and government should not be allowing them to run this country."

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This could easily be changed. Apparently the reason is ICAO standards didn't accept them at one point. UTF-8 everywhere makes this a miserable excuse in 2026 and indeed the standards now accept them (though not in the machine readable zone). questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-ques...

Abolishing leasehold is one of the few things left and right agree on (the bill was originally tabled by Michael Gove and set all ground rents at a peppercorn). It feels as if Starmer is in a Brewster's Millions type scenario where he must make Labour as unpopular as possible.

"On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." – Charles Babbage, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Emphasis that (if the quoted Claude response is correct) it is not Claude's fault that children were killed. It is a tool, it cannot be held responsible and it cannot be expected to be correct when its data is bad.

Command asked Claude "where are the legitimate targets in this military complex?" and got an answer based on stale intel, leading to precision killing of children. Classic case of "garbage in, garbage out", in this case amounting to a war crime. This will be a future case study for software ethics.

"Winning elections is bad, actually"

I know every accusation is a confession but this is ridiculous

This party is nominally left wing!!!

(it isn't and hasn't been since 1995 or so)

I don't mean it as an insult. Sometimes boring is good 🙂

Lib Dems are the Boring Party. Not particularly socialist or capitalist, neither working class nor toffs, not backed by billionaires, no radical ideas. The kind of party almost anyone might vote for under the right circumstances but few people's first choice. The scampi of parties.

oh this is gold

Er, approach to my driveway I mean. Lost that part in a bunch of edits

Which of course is bad, not because Greens will be in charge (good!) but because it leaves Labour voters with no representation. We desperately need PR

In the Golf I had no trouble just using the clutch.

I recently switched from a VW Golf manual to a Suzuki Vitara auto (my dad's choice, he's getting old) and I really dislike how it behaves in reverse. Without using the gas it just doesn't move (approach is very tight and uphill). But any gas at all and it lurches alarmingly.

Also, pedantically, the answer is no. It's slanderous.

This is a defamatory lie @AlecShelbrooke. I am proudly anti-war and anti-racist. I make no apologies for attending a Stop the War protest. That does not mean I support the Iranian regime. I dare you to repeat your libellous statement outside of parliament.

Not actionable unless he repeats it outside Parliament.

I note this bill is deficient in that it doesn't give any consequences to a post-facto approval resolution being defeated.