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International students avoiding the US, so this is a golden moment for the UK to swoop in and attract the best. Time to ditch nonsense 'net migration' targets. We need to give British universities the energy and dynamism they've been starved of under the Tories.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

Nigel Farage will make the UK a Trump tribute act. For a strong local champion who will stand up for our community, vote Liberal Democrat.

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...

submitted 14 days ago • 219 comments

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

submitted 15 days ago • 126 comments

It's a nice idea, unfortunately conspiracy theories are like prophecies about the end of the world - refutation is only an invitation to *believe harder* and *invent new ones just beyond whatever evidence has come to light*.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Keir Starmer arrives in the Antarctic to discuss tariffs – with penguins: the Stephen Collins cartoon

submitted 18 days ago • 11 comments

I'd've thought that simply detaching the hair before washing it would save time. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 24 days ago • 10 comments

This is (really) what I want from a Head of State.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Farage wants you to eat chlorinated chicken just so he can keep licking the boots of his idol Donald Trump. It's so pathetic and unpatriotic.

submitted 32 days ago • 52 comments

what if liz truss but absolutely no way to get rid of her

submitted 26 days ago • 27 comments

"In many cases the friend is worse than the foe" Trump says. If my friends were Elon Musk, JD Vance, Vladimir Putin and Nigel Farage, I’d probably feel the same way.

submitted 26 days ago • 15 comments

If co-op's "free from Easter" hot cross buns aren't worth a Daily Mail headline, I don't know what is.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

The BBC seem to have written "liberal dominance" when then meant "slim liberal majority" www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

I'm rereading the transcripts of our interviews with people talking about their life satisfaction. I am again struck by how pathetic our little 0-10 scales are at capturing what they're saying. Here's a retired lady telling my assistant what it's like having a son with paranoid schizophrenia.

submitted 36 days ago • 6 comments

I hate the clocks changing because it makes me feel stupid

submitted 29 days ago • 27 comments

"Don't Be a Sucker" by the US War Department (1947) The film follows a young American, drawn in by a speaker promising an end to jobs for minorities and removing foreigners. He encounters a Hungarian professor who explains this is how Nazis grab power for themselves. archive.org/details/Dont...

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

The Digital Services Tax currently brings in over £830M a year - enough to completely cover the cost of free school meals. Politics is about choices. Cutting this Tax while diluting free schools meals would be choosing Donald Trump and Elon Musk over hungry school children.

submitted 34 days ago • 10 comments

She may have meant it as an insult, but Kemi Badenoch is right: Liberal Democrats fix things.

submitted 37 days ago • 5 comments

Who would go to the US right now, if they didn't have to? It's not as though this is an isolated incident...

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

The dismissal of net zero as 'impossible' by Kemi Badenoch MP undermines the urgency of the climate & nature crisis unfolding around us. ❗ Net zero is essential if we're serious about protecting the wildlife we cherish, the places we love, and the future we leave our children. (1/2)

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

www.goodreads.com/quotes/75155...

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments