If our government had a strategic sense, they'd invest in the BBC and capitalise on a genuinely world class British brand, instead of faffing about like a bunch of cowards terrified by a handful of newspapers that hardly anyone even reads anymore.

Also, although Donald Trump did in fact attempt to incite an insurrection, that misdeed is tiny compared to the magnitude of what he's got up to since being re-elected, so none of what the BBC is accused of even matters anyway.

The BBC is bloody brilliant. It's central to the fact that British democracy isn't circling the drain like it is in America, it preserves a common culture, and propagates respect for facts. We should defend it as firmly as we fight corruption, because it's a crucial part of integrity in public life.

There's always the possibility, and I'm spitballing here, that he was talking crap?

My own feedback to Tory politicians proposing to forcibly deport people who've been here for decades and done more for this country than they have or ever will: fuck off, keep fucking off, and when you get to the end, fuck off some more.

I'm not sure they'd have reflections...

Tech VC looking around the table at a roomful of fascists:

Alexei Navalny said "it's the final battle between good and neutrality". Sadly, at the moment, neutrality appears to be winning.

You won't *believe* what country objected to number 2?

Tucker Carlson's interview with Putin is full of golden moments.
en.kremlin.ru/events/presi...

Counterpoint: it is boring.

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I'm not saying Yaroslav *wasn't* wise incidentally, but imo his colossal size and ability to hold a church unaided in his hand were greater claims to fame.

I wonder whether, if convicted, he could also serve the prison term in absentia? It would save a lot of trouble for him and, presumably, also save the prison money on guards, food, etc.