Ian
@ianrogers.uk
Nerd and proud. Time to stop using the air as a garbage dump
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A decade on, and Humanists UK patron Stephen Fry’s “what would you say to God?” answer still hits hard, and makes us smile.
“Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him?! What kind of god would do that?”🎩 You can watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suv...
“Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him?! What kind of god would do that?”🎩 You can watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suv...
December 31, 2025 at 7:01 AM
A decade on, and Humanists UK patron Stephen Fry’s “what would you say to God?” answer still hits hard, and makes us smile.
“Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him?! What kind of god would do that?”🎩 You can watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suv...
“Totally selfish. We have to spend our life on our knees thanking him?! What kind of god would do that?”🎩 You can watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suv...
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"Trump and Malignant Narcissism" from psychologist and former John Hopkins University Professor Dr. John Gartner.
December 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
"Trump and Malignant Narcissism" from psychologist and former John Hopkins University Professor Dr. John Gartner.
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Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
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December 30, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
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Suspending Doctors Without Borders is definitely a thing healthy countries do
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian groups, including Doctors Without Borders, in 2026 for failing its new vetting rules for groups working in Gaza. Some international organizations have said that Israel’s rules are arbitrary and could endanger staff.
Israel says it will halt operations of several humanitarian organizations in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza.
bit.ly
December 30, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Suspending Doctors Without Borders is definitely a thing healthy countries do
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So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Number of people who say Britons must be born in UK is rising, study shows
Exclusive: Research finds ‘worrying’ surge in support for hard-right narratives on national identity
www.theguardian.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
So Boris Johnson, Prince Phillip, Andrew Bonar Law, Freddie Mercury, George I, George II, Richard E Grant, Douglas Carswell, Rudyard Kipling, Cliff Richard, Joanna Lumley and Spike Milligan weren't British?
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Interesting
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
December 29, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Interested in how you square the circle of “British people who post ‘burn down a migrant hotel’ during race riots shouldn’t be arrested” with “someone who posted pretty objectionable and racist things 8 years before they became a British citizen should be deported” and am sure someone will ask Nigel
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Setting aside the obvious here, the reason Russia supplies low cost energy to neighbours is to prevent the emergence of alternatives and to create dependencies they can later exploit.
It's harder to push back on the demands of a country that can switch off your factories and winter heating.
It's harder to push back on the demands of a country that can switch off your factories and winter heating.
Trump: "Russia wants to see Ukraine succeed. It sounds a little strange but President Putin was very generous in his feeling toward Ukraine succeeding, including supplying energy, electricity and other things at very low prices."
December 28, 2025 at 10:42 PM
Setting aside the obvious here, the reason Russia supplies low cost energy to neighbours is to prevent the emergence of alternatives and to create dependencies they can later exploit.
It's harder to push back on the demands of a country that can switch off your factories and winter heating.
It's harder to push back on the demands of a country that can switch off your factories and winter heating.
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No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 AM
No, this is wrong, stop reposting this absurd and miscalculated meme.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
It assumes Cratchit is working a 40 hour work week (he isn't) and that straight line inflation extrapolations over centuries are valid (they're not) and fails to understand both Victorian class and household finance.
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To smear Dale Vince the BBC deliberately omits the appalling Netanyahu comments he responded to: “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
Wes Streeting condemns Labour donor Dale Vince's Bondi attack remarks
Businessman Dale Vince has faced a backlash for saying Israel's PM
www.bbc.co.uk
December 18, 2025 at 7:37 AM
To smear Dale Vince the BBC deliberately omits the appalling Netanyahu comments he responded to: “Your call for a Palestinian state pours fuel on the antisemitic fire. It rewards Hamas terrorists. It emboldens those who menace Australian Jews and encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.”
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I didn't mention the CO₂ aspect in my complaint so BBC can't dismiss it as just another climate campaigner
December 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I didn't mention the CO₂ aspect in my complaint so BBC can't dismiss it as just another climate campaigner
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NOW OUTSIDE PAYWALL
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
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A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
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December 17, 2025 at 3:40 PM
NOW OUTSIDE PAYWALL
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
By me
A guided tour of President Trump's 33-page, $5 billion lawsuit against the British Broadcasting Corporation
How some parts are strong, some parts are weak - and why a strict legalistic analysis will not tell the whole story.
emptycity.substack.com/p/a-guided-t...
By me
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New from FM: Home Secretary ordered to allow man to return to UK after telling airline not to fly him and cancelling his eVisa | Sonia Lenegan
Home Secretary ordered to allow man to return to UK after telling airline not to fly him and cancelling his eVisa - Free Movement
This is one of those real train wrecks from the Home Office, where you may want to make yourself a large cup of coffee and read through the whole judgment. It
freemovement.org.uk
December 18, 2025 at 9:31 AM
New from FM: Home Secretary ordered to allow man to return to UK after telling airline not to fly him and cancelling his eVisa | Sonia Lenegan
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A review of foreign interference in British democracy might close down some of the loopholes which make laundering foreign donations pretty straightforward.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
Urgent review into foreign financial interference in UK politics
An independent review, led by Philip Rycroft, into foreign financial interference in UK politics has been commissioned by the government.
www.gov.uk
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
A review of foreign interference in British democracy might close down some of the loopholes which make laundering foreign donations pretty straightforward.
www.gov.uk/government/n...
www.gov.uk/government/n...
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Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
Bless The Muslim Man Who Disarmed a Terrorist Shooter in Australia
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
www.thegodpodcast.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Bless the Muslim man who disarmed a terrorist shooter in Australia!
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I always say that the old axiom "Never mistake for malice that which can be attributed to incompetence" is wholly inverted when it comes to the wealthy and powerful.
December 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I always say that the old axiom "Never mistake for malice that which can be attributed to incompetence" is wholly inverted when it comes to the wealthy and powerful.
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Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄
December 9, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Christmas CANCELLED in London 💔🎄
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COVID Shots Tied to a Lower Risk of Death From Any Cause medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
"After standardizing characteristics between the two groups, all-cause mortality incidence was 25% lower in those who had received a COVID shot."
"After standardizing characteristics between the two groups, all-cause mortality incidence was 25% lower in those who had received a COVID shot."
COVID Shots Tied to a Lower Risk of Death From Any Cause
Advantage held even after removing coronavirus-related deaths from the mix
medpagetoday.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:31 PM
COVID Shots Tied to a Lower Risk of Death From Any Cause medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...
"After standardizing characteristics between the two groups, all-cause mortality incidence was 25% lower in those who had received a COVID shot."
"After standardizing characteristics between the two groups, all-cause mortality incidence was 25% lower in those who had received a COVID shot."
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And how preceisely is the UK going to wrest control of critical mineral supplies from China? We can't in fact. Moving beyond superficialities would be a good idea.
Britain vows to ‘wrest control’ of critical mineral supplies from China
www.politico.eu/article/chin...
www.politico.eu/article/chin...
Britain vows to ‘wrest control’ of critical mineral supplies from China
The government wants to end China’s role as a “monopoly provider” of supplies central to the net zero drive.
www.politico.eu
December 4, 2025 at 9:55 AM
And how preceisely is the UK going to wrest control of critical mineral supplies from China? We can't in fact. Moving beyond superficialities would be a good idea.
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Developing and maintaining a long-term romantic relationship that's joyful and fulfilling is one of the most complex endeavours human beings can undertake.
Genuine wisdom about it is utterly incompatible with our "one quick hack five minute abs" grifter-guru culture of instant solutions.
Genuine wisdom about it is utterly incompatible with our "one quick hack five minute abs" grifter-guru culture of instant solutions.
December 4, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Developing and maintaining a long-term romantic relationship that's joyful and fulfilling is one of the most complex endeavours human beings can undertake.
Genuine wisdom about it is utterly incompatible with our "one quick hack five minute abs" grifter-guru culture of instant solutions.
Genuine wisdom about it is utterly incompatible with our "one quick hack five minute abs" grifter-guru culture of instant solutions.
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A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
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Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Here's UKIP's former Scottish leader David Coburn, who has denied taking Russian bribes after being named in Whatsapp messages between Nathan Gill and a pawn of the Putin administration, being applauded by Gill for arguing against Ukraine's entry to the EU
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Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
November 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Here is a list of reasons why some of my hearings and trials this year have been delayed and kicked off into the long grass, stuck in our record court backlog. Serious allegations which will now be tried *years* after the event. 🧵👇
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So we get into some weird definitional doom loop where two versions of inauthenticity duke it out over which has the greater claim to authenticity
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
So we get into some weird definitional doom loop where two versions of inauthenticity duke it out over which has the greater claim to authenticity
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Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
UK net migration fell to 204,000 in year to June - live updates
Net migration, the difference between those entering and leaving the country, was 345,000 in 2024 according to revised figures.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Net migration fell sharply agaim to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, having been 344k in 2024 and 848k in 2023. But falling immigration has been the biggest secret - and it is time for the media and political debate to catch up with this change
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...