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It's time to get rid of this, isn't it?

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

BBC News just interrupted its coverage to go, live, to Nigel Farage - a man with no contitutional standing in our setup - responding to the budget - a document which nobody has seen yet. WHY

Full House. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

The presenter of #r4today opines.

This is how we used to deal with Fascists. The right-wing don't have a monopoly on nostalgia. This is my history.

Ramp up the pressure on Andy Burnham: weownit.org.uk/StopTheBailout

Small dick energy.

We reward the wrong people. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

Still ageing like milk

Love this fake court sketch of tiny tears Tommy Robinson doing the rounds. Top work whoever did it.

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🚨BREAKING PMQs🚨 PM: "I think before the budget next week, we will have a new book published about the mini-budget of a few of a few years ago" "The authors of that mini-budget are sitting across these benches, including the Shadow Chancellor."

Also found it a bit odd, when listening to the 6PM news on BBC Radio 4, that they repeatedly referred to 'the government' rather than, say, 'the Johnson government'. #Accountability

Coverage of the troubled relationship between the King and his youngest son dominates front pages at the expense of 43,000, mostly needless, deaths. Hancock and Johnson should be in prison.

"This hatred, it’s like a cancer. It spreads because people will always say, ‘Oh, it’s just the illegals.’ It’s not. “From what I experienced, it was anyone who was remotely different, different creed, different colour, different sexuality.” www.theargus.co.uk/news/2665180...

Was this even more disturbing than the blantant racism/sexism or desire for violence? #ReformScandal

Jeremy Hunt on who spent 6 years as Health Secretary underfunding the NHS and social care Says that a lack of resources in the NHS and social care is why we had so many covid deaths in social care

On this day from the Telegraph 4 years ago (with thanks to Francis Wheen) Truss resigned three hours later. I love the way the Telegraph blames "moderate Tories" rather than her clinically insane economic policy which - lest we forget - the Conservative press backed to the hilt

2020: Matt Hancock, "We've tried to throw a protective ring around our care homes" 2026: Baroness Hallett, "The claim that a so called protective ring has be thrown around care homes right from the start was unfounded. The adult social care sector appeared to be something of an after thought"

Another failure in the Conservative government’s Covid response.

cool cool sanitisation of the far-right on the national broadcaster cool cool very cool

I posted this famous 1940 Lowe cartoon about British defiance after the fall of France (and the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact) two years ago when Trump came to power. And now with the USA and Russia lining up against Ukraine and Europe, it’s time we stood up again: “Very well, alone”.

Another Russian data center has migrated to the cloud.

Musk is an enemy of Europe. There is no justification for continuing to use his products

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I've just signed the Palantir Pledge, joining politicians across the world in committing not to support any public contracts with this US tech giant. The next big battle here is to use the upcoming break clause to kick Palantir out of our NHS!

The Robber Barons 2026 Edition

This is all utterly mad and the responsibility lies squarely with the British government www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

FTR shattering letter about how the Conservative Government ignored the entirely credible threat from Putin in favour of feeding The City (& Tory Party) roubles👇 March 23 2022 Carl Scott, Air Commodore (Retired), UK defence attaché in Moscow for five years, 2011-2016 www.ft.com/content/857d...

I lost my career after refusing to keep quiet about the risks that Palantir poses to our NHS https://goodlawproject.org/forced-out-of-a-job-in-the-nhs-for-speaking-out-on-palantir/

This is so moving to read, in light of where we are now.

Was that the same security services you dumped to visit ‘ex’ KGB colonel Alexander Lebedev and party in Umbria just after the Novichok Salisbury attack? Or the same security services whose advice you defied to put his son Evgeny in the House of Lords? Those security services?

MAGA twitter now that the bots are dead.

I'm sure former UN ambassador Abdallah Al-Mouallimi will be delighted to have been introduced, very crisply, as "Abdullah al Mussolini" by Justin Webb. Seriously, how does this man still have a six-figure job at the BBC? When he is not busy being biased, he is busy being useless.

Eight years ago

Surprise, surprise. All those cross-wielding Christian Nationalists at the UK’s fascist rallies don’t actually go to church.

This is rather cool. Shared with me by Gil Cividanes who writes "The photo taken in front of a [Francoist] Spanish grocery on West 14th Street, NYC in about 1937. The girl on left is my aunt Zazi aged 18-19, the woman to her right is my grandmother's friend Doña Francisca." Don't buy fascist goods.

'Watson told the podcast he would work with a Reform UK government on immigration crackdowns if the situation arose, saying: “[Palantir] don’t actually work in that sector, but yes, of course we would"' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Nice little nugget of horror buried in there

Man, 44, shot dead by 'Israeli' fire during olive harvest in West Bank Ali Hassan Yasser al-Bazari was killed while harvesting olives when a group of 'Israeli' settlers tried to force farmers off of their land

Dave sounds like an absolute cunt.

Neoliberalism is failing, but what is it? This is a new version of our infographic on neoliberalism. AI drew the image. I wrote the text.