Dr_Aust_PhD

Not beating the "unable to accept the results of a democratic election" allegations

Definitely this

Voters making a choice is kinda the whole point of elections

Love this paragraph in particular

Quite. Lib Dems never got this sort of coverage for the large periods when they were in that very position. This is an organisation *explicitly set up and funded* so that it never has to chase sensationalism, chasing sensationalism, in order to justify how it is set up and funded. Utterly bonkers.

What is the BBC's justification for maintaining this level of coverage of Reform now it has slipped into third place?

Reform plan to bring back imperial measurements to help boost US trade, not realising that US imperial measurements are different from UK ones. So dense a black hole is empty space by comparison.

Roddenberry's positive vision of a multiracial 'future earth/civilization', born amid the USA's 60s racial strife, is at least as important a legacy as the 'Yaay Space!' schtick that all the Techbro dimwits who claim to revere TOS cite. Faithfully maintained by TNG, NB, w more ex-foes now as allies.

Sad news. Voyage well, Ensign Chekov. 'Second star to the right, and straight on 'til morning'.

Grim. Uni Managers are... well, pick your own swear word.

I wish America was much further along than it is regarding acceptance of others.

Another rigorous debunking by @monkemma.bsky.social (Emma Monk). As always, balanced, thoughtful, and avoiding the sensationalism that the Mail on Sunday brings to the table. Pour yourself a coffee and prepare to be - ummm - not brainwashed ?

This went on for the rest of the full hour, at which point the BBC apologised for having to go to the weather and urged viewers to follow continuing live coverage on iPlayer. Forty-one minutes of unfiltered, unchallenged propaganda by a far right party with 8 MPs, now third in the polls. Discuss.

Just catching up with this story. Turning Point UK came to my neighbourhood to “protect our kids” from drag queen storytellers at the Honor Oak pub. I don’t think people appreciate how much the English far right is tied up with Ulster Loyalism, and how dangerous this is in a time of polarisation.

Ukraine is taking back territory, and Trump is trying to bail out Putin — the one assignment he has always taken seriously. (Note: this essay by Phillips O'Brien is from last week. See his page for this week's update as well) phillipspobrien.substack.com/p/weekend-up...

Collective punishment is a war crime.

Mark Carney on Elon Musk crippling Ukraine’s Starlink: “I search for the right adjective to describe whoever took this decision… against a country that is literally fighting for the lives of its citizens against naked aggression."

Serbia moves away from Putin “It was a seismic political shift in the Balkan country where Vucic, who had been endorsed by Russian President Vladimir Putin and who denounced the student movement as a foreign-led attempt to unseat him, led with virtually absolute power for 14 years.”

Leaky Sue strikes again.

Good grief. The point of men is... what, exactly?

A recent post by a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

When I started my Sabbatical in DC in the late 90s, the boss there & his wife took me out to the local Cheesecake Factory. Being Americans they had salads with the dressing on the side (i.e. not actually on the salad). Remember thinking this was a bit... odd.

Just imagine what things could have been like if Manchester weren't forced to have a referendum on congestion charging, stopping it in happening in the rest of the country.

Watching and doing nothing. Seize his assets, ban his travel.

As excellent as you’d expect from this source. Lots of drive-by humour. The bottom line is Trump admires Putin, wants to exploit the business opportunities in Russia, but has thrown away his leverage to end the conflict because no one now trusts him. samf.substack.com/p/ukraine-wi...

Reform and Tories have pledged to reverse ULEZ repeatedly.

'Spot the season'. British life is now divided (desperate retailers led, rest of us got dragged along) into a series of selling opportunity 'Seasons'. Holidays! Back to School! Halloween Bonfire Night 'Black Friday' (pre-Xmas) Xmas! New Year (sales) Valentine's Easter Get Ready for Summer! & Rpt

'Performative Patriotism R Us'

Gaslighting 101: The AG is literally calling us crazy for thinking Trump will use the levers of government power to overturn the results of an election, when he has a documented history of doing just that. That’s tyranny.

The Govt’s suggestion that we should be prepped for disaster may finally give me the tissue thin justification I have needed to buy something I have always secretly wanted but cannot identify an actual need for:

Well at least Ineos is doing well.

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

Including most EU national Nurses, a lot of EU national doctors, quite a lot of EU national academics, and no doubt lots of EU national care workers. Though who could blame them for writing the place off? Boris Johnson, Liz Truss (! - FFS), Rishi Sunak, rampant media-stoked xenophobia ...

including all the French friends I had in London :(

Elon bought Twitter so nobody could stop him from embarrassing himself.

According to Carbon Brief, wind and solar power has saved the UK £5.9bn in gas import costs during the Strait of Hormuz crisis. You'd think that's something our sovereignty obsessed right-wing mefia would celebrate but funnily enough, they never mention it. In fact, they actively downplay it... 🤔

Yup. Way too much of this on the BBC, esp (but but not limited to) on Question Time

This is the correct combination to persuade British voters. Euro is much more of a public opinion barrier than FoM. samf.substack.com/p/the-route-...

Doubtless to be 'talked up' by the new techbro-right-adjacent CBS, by Fox News, by the Bezos-neutered WaPo etc etc. I wonder if this was part of why Steve 'Witless' #Witkoff was hailing Putin as 'a humanitarian' the other day?

Oops. *Lovely* people, the hard right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This. Though also a fair bit of straight-out xenophobia & racism directed against former Eastern Europeans, esp Bulgarians & Romanians. Guess why...

Hitler rarely used the Eagle's Nest, but the Berghof, his house lower down the mountain, became a centrepoint of Nazi propaganda & 'curation' of Hitler's image. It was bombed & looted in 1945, w the remains demolished by the Bavarian Govt in 1952. A useful precedent. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berghof...