NOBEL PEACE PRICE COMMITTEE: WE GIVE THIS AWARD, FOR PEACE

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Finest minds bingo card www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

End of an era… Although I was surprised to see 1.3m people still watch MTV’s main UK music channel every month.

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'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

It's never the comms. Labour's comms is grey because in the absence of a clear strategy for what the government wants to achieve, no-one can defend or articulate what the government says in an interesting or exciting way.

You cannot communicate the project if there is no project

Labour has nothing *to* comm. It's bankrupt politically and morally.

Oh I know. Like the response to the horrible chaos since 2008 has led us to fascism now

Not wax

He’s been red-brown for years. Hangs out with Nazis

(It’s not middle class to fight with and for the most marginalised and for our very survival. An understanding of the working class that excludes trans and racialised people is not an understanding of class. Dempsey has swallowed an elite right-wing culture war stereotype of the working class.)

One of the things about this study is that a lot of baby and toddler books are written in house, by editors. So the study reveals the whiteness of editorial in kidlit even if not explicitly. But, big picture, this trend is unacceptable. I remember so many promises www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

She fucked everything up and we’re still dealing with the consequences, pal

The central claim of gender liberation is one of individual agency and freedom, that one's gender identity and expression need not be anchored to your chromosomes or your genitals, and that you can and should explore that space even if you ARE cisgender. No more, no less. But that scares libs.

Particularly because the central claim of "transgenderism" is not, and never has been, that it is an innate, immutable trait since birth. That's cishet liberal bullshit they use to convince their alcoholic aunt why they shouldn't use slurs against their enby cousin.

I am obviously here for values-driven innovation but you have to be a bit more specific about whose values. All innovation is values driven, and in this case it's apparently "the values of the King and Johnny Ive", two people who have hitherto had no opportunity to impose their worldview on others.

She’d def have looked a right hypocrite (to add to her many crimes)

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

I love her, I’m so glad

Come on @josephcox.bsky.social this is not breaking news today, getting to most of a week by now, and we've already heard the stolen id is not from the regular id-based age verification but from appeals against the face-based age estimation.

Although she quite famously is against its independence

The fit. Also spoke to her, yanno

Wear something you can sit on floor in with ease (it’s padded and comfy)

Broad age range tonight, I would say I was definitely middle. Probably a facet of it being first proper night, although I imagine press night will be worst