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On Thursday, the Covid inquiry was shown a private WhatsApp exchange between Dame Angela and Prof Edmunds, sent at the time of the meeting, which refers to Rishi Sunak as "Dr Death, the Chancellor". BBC Is there anything more to say? ...

Hamas: commits unforgivable atrocities on a large scale against Israeli citizens, killing many people in a very public and awful way. Israel: reacts the way the US did to 9/11 or even worse, causing very large numbers of deaths in the Gaza strip and committing war crimes such as attempting to starve the population and so on. And people who are already quietly antisemitic are suddenly publicly antisemitic, and people who were already publicly antisemitic start doing things other than merely spe...

Barbie was released this July and is the highest-grossing film of the year, with no sign of being surpassed. Its global box office total stands at $1.43bn (£1.17bn) – about 10 times its budget. Among the records the film has broken are the best-performing film ever made by a solo female director; the 14th highest-grossing film of all time; and the most lucrative cinema release ever for Warner Brothers Turns out the people whining about it were just what they sounded like all along: a tiny num...

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What Rishi Sunak said. I'm interested in setting out my vision for the country, and people can make their own judgement. What I would say is, you’ve got to take a stand on things. I don’t expect everyone to agree with me on everything, but people will have a clear idea of what I believe, what I stand for, and the direction in which I want to lead the country What he thought. I see a vision, yes, a vision. A barren, polluted wasteland where the people I have allowed still to live, covered ...

Here is a quote from this BBC news article: The government said its plan would: Review guidance on 20mph speed limits in England, to prevent their use in "areas where it's not appropriate" "Amend guidance" on LTNs "to focus on local consent", and weigh public support for those already introduced Stop councils implementing "15-minute cities", where essential amenities are always within a 15-minute walk Seek to reduce the hours where cars are banned from bus lanes Target "overzealous" enforcem...

From now on, whenever some new climate-change-related catastrophe happens, I'm just going to treat it as if it was Rishi Sunak's fault. It's not entirely true, but it's close enough and it makes me feel better. Greece is on fire – Wow, thanks, Rishi! Half of England is underwater – Good work there, Rishi! Thousands of people have died in the latest heatwave – That's certainly going to help NHS waiting lists, Rishi, well done! It's probably useful to take the same approach to othe...

A survey of selective universities in six states found that they enrolled roughly 20% fewer black and Hispanic Americans in the years immediately after the bans than would otherwise have been the case. The number of black and Hispanic students admitted to California’s two most coveted public campuses—University of California, Los Angeles and University of California, Berkeley—dropped by around 40% (the Hispanic share has since recovered strongly). [...] A recent study of 19 universities in st...

A few days ago, Twitter started requiring people to be logged in to view tweets: not to post tweets, simply to see them at all. This requires you to do two things: you must have an account on Twitter which means that Twitter know things about who you are; you must be logged in to that account which means that Twitter know things about exactly which tweets you are viewing; Obviously such information will be used to profile you and, in the best case, to force advertising down your throat. It...

When the English and Welsh water companies were privatised in 1989, the government took on their debt, about £5 billion in, I presume, 1989 pounds: so about £13 billion today. What that means is that the citizens of England and Wales (and probably Scotland as well) paid off this debt out of their own pockets. Since that time the water companies have paid about £72 billion in dividends to their shareholders: presumably considerably more when corrected for inflation. Today they have debts of £5...

He talked about electric cars. I don't know anything about cars, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Then he talked about rockets. I don't know anything about rockets, so when people said he was a genius I figured he must be a genius. Now he talks about software. I happen to know a lot about software & Elon Musk is saying the stupidest shit I've ever heard anyone say, so when people say he's a genius I figure I should stay the hell away from his cars and rocke...

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Because everybody else is thinking 'national conservatism, that will be like national socialism but, you know, more right wing'. Perhaps that is what they were thinking. Pretty sure it's what Suella Braverman is thinking, anyway. ...

The attempt by the UK government to effectively disallow end-to-end encryption in the online safety bill is an illiberal and deeply stupid idea. People who support it are either acting in bad faith or have an education so poor that they don't understand what they are proposing. It is alarming if not surprising that the UK's security services are acting in such bad faith, and that our politicians are both acting in bad faith and have such low educational attainment. Makers of end-to-end encryp...

Bixby (Felix) cat: mid 2020 to 3 May 2023. He deserved more life than this and I would gladly have given mine that he could have had it. Nothing is fair. ...

I have, finally, seen this. There is a lot to say about the Asian diaspora in the US, about relationships in multigenerational families, about parents and grandparents accepting their children's and grandchildren's sexuality. But this film didn't bother with any of that. After ten minutes of really obvious scene-setting – oh look, she feels like a failure / her husband wants a divorce maybe / her daughter is gay and she's using her father as an excuse not to come to terms with that herself – ...

I don't know how many human lives his fuckwitted global warming denialism, for which he was no doubt well paid, will eventually cost: however many is too many. ...

But this, somehow, is not terrorism: of course it is not, how silly of me to think it is. ...

His guitar lines sounded like a forlorn alien who's fallen in love with the rain – comment to obituary ...

it's being a god. ...

He thought he was a god, but he was just another rich, entitled, fuck who got lucky in the dot com boom. ...

How can it have died? I spent half my life there thirty years ago: I suppose 'thirty years ago' is why. Nothing that has happened in the last five years makes me think we're not in the final years of civilization. ...

It must be so hard to face the reality that are not the golden god you believed you were, but just another entitled fuck born into money, the same as all the others. And that the castle of mud which you built turns out to to be unable to bear the weight of your monstrous ego. We will all enjoy your self-pitying public whining as it dissolves under you. ...

The report is the 13th edition in an annual series that provides an overview of the difference between where greenhouse emissions are predicted to be in 2030 and where they should be to avert the worst impacts of climate change. The report shows that updated national pledges since COP26 – held in 2021 in Glasgow, UK – make a negligible difference to predicted 2030 emissions and that we are far from the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming to well below 2°C, preferably 1.5°C. Policie...

Elon Musk, a narcissistic idiot with a substance-abuse problem who thinks he can magically solve Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine, now controls Twitter. This is going to end so well. ...