Israel’s defence ministry just announced a contract to buy drones from Xtend. Its SKYLORD drone system was developed with €50,000 in EU Horizon money, which is not supposed to fund military applications. The EU grant page links to the current Xtend website, advertising its “military grade” drones

To be clear, the decision to leave was not orchestrated, it was organic. Nobody contacted me to tell me to leave. Each of the 14 writers chose to leave, because of their own sense of integrity as to what the Polari Prize claimed to stand for. 3/

Recently, Boyne wrote that those women who supported transgender women were akin to people willing to ‘pin a handmaiden down as her husband rapes her’. /5

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That was a bit cringe. Turned it off.

I remember that and it really felt like “Ricky produces something so he can rub shoulders with actually funny comedians and Jerry Seinfeld”