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Musk thinks he’s an idiot-savant. He’s only half right. Your tax dollars up in smoke. Nationalize Space-X. Stop the insanity.

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If you missed any or all of this year's Constitution Unit summer conference, recordings of all sessions are now available. We had some lively debates and lots of great insights. All very much worth your attention!

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The truth is that "Gender Affirming Care" consists of chemically castrating mostly autistic and LGB minors who can't really consent at that age. It's not evidence based. This makes it medical experiments on vulnerable teens. More and more countries finally get this. #skrmetti #scotus

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

The online course 'International Investment Law and Dispute Resolution' offered by @BIICL.bsky.social uses innovative learning to provide flexible and practical learning for law professionals everywhere. Find out more and book now buff.ly/izmoIVa #ISDS #Arbitration

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This was a great conversation on rule of law - stand out for me was how much we can take for granted. For those following the ECHR debates, also point of interesting discussion.

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Barrister Professor Jo Delahunty KC says legal aid lawyers are like the 'legal emergency rescue team'. But at what cost? Read her thoughts about how the underfunded system has impacted the wellbeing of those who work within it and what needs to change. www.barcouncil.org.uk/resource/the...

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Don Quixote and Sancho Pansa https://www.wikiart.org/en/honore-daumier/don-quixote-and-sancho-pansa-0

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Factoid: A Leyland T45 Cruiser (the 2nd of the T45 family of trucks to be launched), a transporter full of Metros & a BL dealer showing its early ‘80s signage - what more could you ask from a truck brochure pic?

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres: An Introduction to the Bolwoningen in the Netherlands

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Have written up some of my thoughts about the increasingly sinister use of 'non-UK born' and 'white British' in the British press. The obsession with 'white British' citizens over other British citizens harms all of us and needs to be called out. benansell.substack.com/p/who-counts

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

My wife and I and Jane over the water to the Halfway-house, a pretty, pleasant walk, but the wind high.

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Women’s Super League (WSL) revenues have jumped from £48m to £65m this season - a 34% increase🤯 In case anyone is still questioning whether women's sport pays for itself - here are the stats... ⚽ Matchday revenue increased by 73% 💸 WSL total wage costs grew by 44% 📺 Broadcast revenue jumped by 40%

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Been having some pretty bleak discussions with all my designy/creative pals of late and have concluded thusly: All AI has to do to win is reach the point of ‘not absolutely terrible’ and the bottom line will take care of everything else. We’re inches away from that if not there already.

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By day and night he wrongs me, every hour He flashes into one gross crime or other That sets us all at odds. I’ll not endure it. His knights grow riotous, and himself upbraids us On every trifle.

submitted 14 days ago • 11 comments

🚨 David’s 20-part series on the 1945 election and beyond starts today on BBC Radio 4! And you can find the first 10 episodes on BBC Sounds right now ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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[A short alarum: then enter the town with soldiers.]

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What happened in LA was entirely the product of ICE incitement, reports Harold Meyerson: prospect.org/justice/2025...

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Senator Ted Cruz posted a dramatic video of LAPD cars on fire with the caption “this… is… not… peaceful.” What he didn’t mention? The footage was from 2020, not 2025. His post on X falsely implied it was current, part of a broader effort to spread lies and manufacture a crisis.

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Sky News Australia claims that reporter Lauren Tomasi was "caught in the crossfire", and hit by a "stray" rubber bullet. FFS, Murdoch, we can see the video. It appears to me that the cop may have been aiming at the TV camera, and missed, but he was definitely aiming at the media group.

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Reform came third, but yet again the BBC bigs up Farage's grift. When will the media stop pandering to this pound shop Poujade? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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🌍 | Bees are vital indicators of ecological health. 🐝 Discover Oxford's research on bees and other species at Wytham Woods, the most studied woodland in the world. ⬇️ www.ox.ac.uk/climate-and-... #OxfordClimate | #WorldBeeDay | #RHSChelsea

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“The prospect of having an artificial intelligence bot deciding on your court case … This is one of the potential next steps for AI in the legal field and society more generally, that experts speaking at this weekend's Kilkenny Law Festival will explore.” www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/what-s-...

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Have there ever been two more lugubrious men?

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My grandmas were immigrants, my mum & sisters in law are immigrants; my sister & nephews are migrants. My kids study maths, Shakespeare, dance, act & score tries alongside the kids of immigrants. My dad’s life was saved by immigrants. Immigrants have made us richer, wiser, stronger Win the fight

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The House of Lords have voted for the sex data accuracy amendment! 🎉 #DataBill Contents 200/ Not Contents 183 H/T Sex Matters @forstater.bsky.social @pascallaura.bsky.social sex-matters.org/posts/update...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Immigration is a beautiful thing and don’t let anyone tell you otherwise ❤️

submitted 42 days ago • 135 comments

Good morning, may I present to you this quite remarkably preserved house for sale, papered, painted and carpeted in a thousand different shades of postwar brown and beige. espc.com/property/193...

submitted 42 days ago • 17 comments

The text of the letter shows that there is a fine line between clever and stupid.

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T.S. Eliot, as Faber & Faber Editor, Rejects George Orwell’s “Trotskyite” Novel Animal Farm (1944)

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Kilkenny Law Festival, this weekend. For more information: www.kilkennylawfestival.com

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James Joyce’s Crayon Covered Manuscript Pages for Ulysses and Finnegans Wake

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“In ceding the intellectual ground so absolutely to his opponents and setting himself and the government up for likely failure, the risk for the PM is that he may well empower Farage even further. We’ve seen this story before” @lewisgoodall.com

submitted 42 days ago • 14 comments

I wrote this about Irish history some months ago but the same sentiment remains true in the British case. Immigrants were an integral part of the story in any moment or movement from the British past that I have researched. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Labour has a whopping great majority and four years left to turn this country around. They should be setting the agenda, not chasing about trying to placate voters of a party with five MPs who will never vote for them anyway. It's not only disappointing... it's embarrassing

submitted 42 days ago • 310 comments

She would not take a bullet for him.

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The critics said that I was tired at the end of Traviata but I took it as a compliment because I struggled to find this tired quality for her and it's dangerous. #MariaCallas

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1/ Hemel Hempstead Water Gardens, 1957-9, designed by Geoffrey Jellicoe as part of the new town development he master-planned. Grade II-listed as 'an increasingly rare and largely intact example of a town centre water garden, created during the era of post-war renewal and new town developments'

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