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Exactly.

What a prick. I travelled into London recently too, to see Kim Deal at the Roundhouse. It was amazing. London is amazing.

“It was the average of times.”

This really isn’t a hard message. Obama neutralized the Iran nuclear program through the hard work of diplomacy, but Trump tore up the deal in his first term out of spite and chose war instead.

It’s potentially a pretty big incentive for nuclear proliferation.

Lovely. One of many highlights of unforgettable performance.

Kim Deal at Roundhouse tonight was really special!!!

So many genuine problems facing the UK - neither the government nor individuals have enough money, poor public services, threats from hostile foreign powers. That parts of the right obssess about "too many brown people in London" speaks volumes about their lack of solutions to the real problems.

50 years ago today ‼️ Talking Heads supporting The Ramones make their stage debut at CBGB, New York City, June 20, 1975 #punk #punks #punkrock #talkingheads #cbgb #newyorkcity #history #punkrockhistory #otd

Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

I do not want AI on a train I do not want it in the rain I do not want AI on a boat I do not want an AI goat I do not like the AI spam I do not like it, Sam [Altman] I am

Now reading. it's great!

it's kind of wild that tottenham hotspur threw a bigger parade than the us military

I know it is a humble brag but I don't care. Charles Dickens Earnest Hemmingway John Irving Ursula Le Guin Hilary Mantel Olivia Manning Cormac McCarthy Mervyn Peake George Orwell Anthony Trollope

Reform and the Conservatives have a joint campaign that London is a crime-ridden hellhole. (Yes, it’s code for their typical racism.) So here’s the truth.

“Brexit has shattered confidence in Britain’s economy” And yet the politicians who championed Brexit still strut around like they’re owed power, rather than a heavy dose of proper scrutiny and public disgust for the damage they’ve collectively done.

Surely the point of marking is just as much as for the teacher - to understand the level the student is at - as to give feedback to the student? It is communication between student and teacher, not just way of giving a rating.

Shambolic. If teachers can use AI to mark, why can’t students use AI to write? And here we go: students not doing the work and teachers not doing the marking. Why don’t students not bother to go to school and teachers can stay at home? How about we all don’t get out of bed in the morning?????

I've just watched Attenborough's Oceans film. It's excellent. But my overwhelming feeling is "at last!" I've been waiting, and fruitlessly lobbying, for a film like this for 40 years. But the institutional cowardice of the broadcasters has stymied such projects, until now.

This is excellent news.

This is worth watching www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

For JD Vance, "immigrant" and "servant" are synonyms.

Obviously this is bolllocks, but is this just a cunning clickbait trap for gullible 'Flying' afficianados? faroutmagazine.co.uk/flying-least...

Andrew Tate has been charged with rape, human trafficking, controlling prostitution and actual bodily harm. Nigel Farage described him as "an important voice for young men". That tells you all you need to know about Farage's moral compass.

Shame. I have only read A Grain of Wheat, but it is a great, eye-opening, novel.

Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has died aged 87. The Nobel Prize for Literature was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile or illness. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Anyone who believes that “political correctness has gone too far” should be forced to watch 24 hours of television from thirty years ago.

The lesson Nigel Farage took from Brexit is that if you make unrealistic, clearly impossible promises, offer simplistic solutions to complex problems and blame immigrants for everything, people will vote for you, then not blame you when it turns out to be horse shit.

All the people complaining that the police have said the Liverpool driver was white British are the same people who made it necessary for the police to say he was white British.