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@SirSimonClarke The problem is that it is off-putting to you but not 99% of the country. In your bubble you don’t see that.

Reform being so openly hostile to Britain’s support for Ukraine is one of the most off-putting things about them. Flying the flag of a free and sovereign Ukraine is a mark of our upholding their right to exist as a nation in the face of the murder, rape and pillage of Putin’s unprovoked invasion. Doing so does not detract from or diminish Britain’s national interest. It enhances it. We have a clear national interest in the defence of Europe, and not emboldening further Russian aggression.

@RupertMyers You are out of touch with 99% of the country, who think it is absurd that we spend our time flying Ukrainian and Palestinian flags in government buildings, let alone local government buildings.

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@Robert_E_Kelly How is his obsequiousness towards Iranian autocrats?

This was predictable. It’s exactly how he negotiated with North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un: didn’t prep; didn’t know the issues; bizarre, unreciprocated claims of ‘friendship;’ embarrassing photographs; a general obsequiousness toward autocrats It’s all bc Trump is so out of his depth

@sc0ttfb Of course this was all a Blair idea to keep people off the unemployment books.

Unpopular opinion but the uk needs less unis, so many lower tier ones have become visa mills which are an embarrassment to the faculties and universities

@21percentgroup As you say in another message, this will inevitably mean the closing of Cranfield. Calling it a merger is a ‘nice’ way to put it. KCL rep and branding will take precedence. It’s really closing and sale of assets to KCL

Student has 9am lecture at Cranfield, needs to be on the Strand campus at 11am Good job Cranfield has its own airport Student gets parachuted into WC2 New merch ideas -- KCL-branded 'chutes, harness, helmet & goggles -- can bolster University coffers bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@BenObeseJecty A few years for killing someone. How cheap life is

“Mam didn't stand a chance. You hit her with such ferocity that you catapulted her feet away from the crossing inflicting those horrific injuries on her and injuring my dog. You drove off and left her there to die." Six years and nine months in prison for killing Gloria Stephenson. Over the “cannabis limit”. On an illegal and defective e-bike. Leaving the scene of the accident without stopping to help. Billy Stokoe will likely serve just half of his sentence. Why does our justice system hold the penalty for taking a life so cheaply when the family of the victim carry the repercussions for the rest of their lives? Where is the justice for them?

@SprinterPress And good AI?

A good photographer is worth his weight in gold

@TheGriftReport Hahahahahaha to help their mental health.

Southport knife attack survivor Leanne Lucas 'devastated' after 48 NHS staff accessed her medical records for NO reason Leanne Lucas, the dance instructor who was stabbed while running a Taylor Swift-themed children’s workshop in Southport in July 2024, has been told almost two years later that 48 members of staff at University Hospitals of Liverpool Group looked at victims’ confidential records with zero clinical justification. The trust discovered the breaches in August 2024 but delayed telling survivors until this week, claiming it was to protect their mental health. Leanne said: “I am absolutely devastated and horrified that my privacy has been invaded when I was at my most vulnerable… 48 people not involved in my care abused their position of trust.” The hospital has now launched HR disciplinary action against the staff involved, notified regulators and professional bodies, and issued a formal apology. Leanne has waived her anonymity and is represented at the ongoing Southport Inquiry by law firm Broudie Jackson Canter.

@andrew_lilico @EastCoastBiasF You can change the law but we have crazy judges who will find and reinterpret another law. It’s a shame because it undermines the credibility of the judiciary.

@EastCoastBiasF I'm not intelligent enough to understand that comment.

This Asda-Next-Birmingham-Tesco thing with "Equal pay for work of equal value" - surely no-one actually believes that's how things should work? I've never seen a single attempt to defend it. So why, given everyone agrees it's unutterably stupid, doesn't someone act to stop it?

@andrew_lilico Because we ceded all control over life to unelected judges. They now essentially make the laws too.

@washingtonpost Let me guess, MIT simultaneously found infinite money for admin staff?

MIT is doing less research and enrolling fewer graduate students as a result of federal actions, the university president warned. Federally funded research on campus is down more than 20 percent compared to this time last year, she said. wapo.st/4uTeALJ

@Crs578 @DanCollins2011 Great can I see it?

@1WorldExplained @DanCollins2011 Not fake there is a video

1980 vs 2026 A lot can happen in a few decades.

@NewsfromScience That is not exactly a right wing idea. The US use of SSRIs is beyond pretty much every other country.

The Trump administration is moving to appoint two people who have pushed to reduce the use of antidepressants to the advisory board for the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health. scim.ag/4uaDJl4

@timleunig The Chinese especially! I can’t believe Xi doesn’t have diversity targets! They are all bloody Chinese!

This is genuinely shocking. In 1926 I would expect it, but 2026?

@DrMichaelBonner Well, maybe not a single moment, but as you say, there is little evidence of writing. That tells us something about the period. A movie can do what it wants, but people are interested in whether the movie is the poem or ‘inspired by’.

The Homeric poems do not take place at any identifiable historical moment. Apart from the long oral evolution, they are written in an artificial form of language that was never used by anyone in daily speech. They poems blend material culture, including iron and bronze, different kinds of armour, helmets, shields, &c. anachronistically. They have almost no recollection of writing, nor of public administration. Certain settlements that were prominent in the Bronze Age seem to have been forgotten by the time of final composition. Remember these important facts!

@RandomSprint This is the preferred aesthetic of the media classes

When I'm president, the oval office will reflect my constituency. A millennial gray color scheme. LVP flooring. Minimalistic art. I am a man of the people.

@daisychristo It is a very common hope expressed today that in the past exams had hard questions and no one really answered them. Desperate and nonsensical fiction. The past was so different that today it seems impossible.

We have a lot of historical records of exam papers like this. Frustratingly, we have far fewer records of what the students actually wrote in response! Maybe their responses were all brilliant. Maybe some of them were terrible. My colleagues wrote a paper on standards in A-level maths over time, and finding archive responses was really hard! Eventually they were able to compare responses from 1964, 1968, 1996 and 2012. Standards had declined dramatically between 1968 & 1996. The quality of work that would have got an E in 1968 got a B in 1996. substack.nomoremarking.com/p/are-exams-ge…

@P_Kallioniemi Of course none of that kind of rubbish matters even if true. Reality does not depend on such thing

China has really planned out the propaganda during Trump's visit. They even gave them different-sized chairs so that Xi would appear bigger than Trump.

@ClarkeMicah @PatrickIngram12 The favourite way to do something questionable, in all organisations, is to call it an experiment. Surely no-one can object to a brief experiment?! Then of course it becomes permanent.

2/2 .@patrickingram12 e-'scooters' are stilll technically illegal, unless hired in so-called 'experiments' which never end, in a number of cities. Local authorities generally encourge them. THe UK has made its decision, and it is to unleash e-anarchy on roads and pavements.