Again, we can work out why this happened by going back to news articles from the period 2010-2024, to see what it was that the people currently in charge spent that time doing. Were they busy drafting new plans to revolutionise the transport network? No, they were not.

I am the Home Secretary and I am very clever. I already run a system where the Home Office makes a high proportion of unlawful decisions on asylum. I am now going to set up a body of poorly qualified people to review those decisions. This will work out very well. Did I mention how clever I am?

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Just to echo Rodent, UK politics makes much more sense if you understand it as Thatcherism collapsing in 2008 but persisting as gospel among the elites, who then spent the next two decades setting up various scapegoats to slaughter and then go, "Whoops. Turns out the blood is in another neck!"

If you want kids to read:

-Reopen the closed libraries
-Give them free books
-Sponsor author visits in schools with high % pupil premium or FSM students
-Work on adult literacy

Then Y8s will have a chance of passing this test

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Labour Party is not redeemable. There is no alternative vision there, nor even its possibility. It is a pit of vipers who are now in scrambling free-fall because their entire upper echelon is controlled by a clique localised a man who was a proud (and unrepentant) friend of a pedophile. Please.

"How significant is the fact that Tony Blairs involved in discussions about a post war Gaza?"

Ash Sarkar: "Well I guess it's because Satan was unavailable"

realistic Star Trek

Letter of the day (in the Times)

I made this comparison when Palestine Action was first banned - and I've yet to hear any rationale for distinguishing between the two contexts. IMHO a telling comparator when it comes to measuring the illiberal turn in Western politics.

The only world in which Israel's name does not become synonymous with genocide, is a world which looks like Gaza everywhere, a world in which genocide is normalised everywhere. The new global fascist elites are trying hard to create that world

my finger is just a bloody nub at this point i've been tapping the sign so much

TIL Thomas Paine wrote Common Sense in a Chipotle

Starmer: I'm a hard bastard

How are you supposed to get a gender recognition certificate, which requires you to have lived in your acquired gender, now the Supreme Court has said you are not allowed to live in your acquired gender?