Get one of these beauties

I also think that a stop le Pen type campaign is possible and indeed likely. But Labour's apparent incapacity to call a racist bigot a racist bigot substantially weakens any front against Farridge.

I agree that many things could happen: the Tories could find a leader who's not an imbecile down the back of the sofa; Starmer could be forced to sack McSweeney for some scandal& accidentally appoint someone with principles and political nous. Farridge could get done by one of his grifting schemes.

Which is why the overall narrative of business as usual just a bit less incompetent/corrupt is tanking in the polls. If you promise to govern as centrist technocrats then punch down like the last lot... Plus ça change

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

This is such a clever idea on taking kids to museums/galleries
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The hideously expensive plastic bags though... But not just that but they'll send you out if you have the wrong shape bag, or it breaks. FFS.

Brum now let you take two litres through. But if you have a vacuum flask then they might ping you for that and have to chuck the contents. So I'd be wary about taking any valuable liquids.

In Madrid the other day the assistant thought I'd forgotten a plastic bag & gave me one to speed up the queue

Isn't this partly because Blue Labour are essentially quite shit at politics though? They won by default on a platform for change then moved right and keep ignoring polling that says they're losing more votes on the left than they gain on the right. So Reform's rise seems inevitable.

Funny how those of us who do the actual work never seem to think that there are too many staff hanging about, um, actually teaching and doing research.

For more on Nadia Sass/Borodi's role at the heart of a pan-European Russian influence machine, read more here

desk-russie.eu/2024/09/08/n...

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

There is a genuine mental block amongst the elites in capitalist societies. Everything is collapsing and the hegemon is autocannibalising, but if that were true then they'd have to do something about it, and so they are doubling down on "everything is fine and normal."

in this house we stand for chappell roan

I am declaring war on 82% of bluesky with this

For anyone in academia in Spain: ANECA have new criteria

"The chancellor approved it"

The Trump administration has promoted the anti-vax, anti-science movement which has now produced an epidemic www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

For any Catholic, the sight of a Eucharistic Procession being turned away at the gates of the destination is the embodiment of Jesus being denied entrance. You don't have to be Catholic to get the symbolism in that!

It's a good article. I think the current Labour leadership see it, and rather than choose to speak for human rights and decency of what immigrants contribute, they think they can harness it for political capital.

Sadly, they are amoral fools who do nothing other than fan the flames of hatred.

Share widely, especially with US Federal employees.

Yup, need to be carefully supervised even for tasks that they shouldn't make a mess of (like reformatting references) as will make shit up at the slightest snag and not tell you.