Dr Phoenix CS Andrews

The idea that if you abandon enough of your principles you can make yourself too small a target for the right wing to bludgeon assumes a fidelity to reality on the part o their messaging that's simply not in evidence.

Trump is on TV pretending Biden gave Ukraine F-35s and space lasers.

Trump wants to pick Iran's new leader - will a hostile regime under fire agree? The president's vision of Iran's future could meet fierce opposition, writes chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet.

I’d put my money on Betteridge’s Law holding.

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yeah, i think he really is going to invade cuba in the next few months

Cynthia Erivo in Dracula

Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo

Cynthia Erivo and crew

Standing ovation and 3x curtain calls for Cynthia Erivo

Not seen them in years. For me, they never really worked as anything other than intro level for a topic that was completely new to me. The commissioning and marketing seemed to be way off for anything that could either cross over or be really useful

lol at the academics mentioning short form academic imprints like Pivot or Element like they ever reach a broader audience

The fight for the right: Conservatives vs Reform Which party is the future of the right?

Spectator (fash weekly) keep outdoing themselves for awful events with horrific lineups www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-fight-...

Everyone involved should be booted out of the country tbh.

Thank God for the House of Lords, standing up for the people against the elected representatives of the people.

If NPR knew for a fact the strike was based on outdated data or AI that would absolutely be the headline.

Does Shabana Mahmood admire Noem more or less now Trump has fired her?

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

ok so that’s confirmed the UK government are rug pulling my ILR and citizenship from me at the ten year mark. so that’s another 3 years and £3-£7,000. if you voted for Labour i hope you never sleep again 👍

A still of a video of the Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood with a quote from the Moby Dick account underneath that says this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub

Good timeline match up

Hi! Immigration lawyer here! Mahmood's view of the Refugee Convention as providing temporary protection just isn’t correct & AFAIK isn’t one anyone has ever adopted.

On the contrary, the Convention is clearly predicated on a long-term need for protection.
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Both criminal imho, and not in the be gay do crimes sense

One Year On: 13 people on the ruling that changed their lives On 16 April 2025, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that the legal definition of a woman is based on their biological sex assigned at birth. Forget the rage-bait headlines and attempts to divide us through...

my first piece (cowritten with Catriona Innes) in a print magazine comes out today: we interviewed 13 people, mostly trans women, about how the Supreme Court ruling has affected them for Cosmo UK

www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a...

I'm not reporting on Home Office stuff today because of Iran but I'm confused about this messaging

There is no visa for claiming asylum in the UK and successive govts have widened definition of, and punishments for, illegal entry. So what does "abusing legal routes" mean? What is the alternative?

The man next to me on the train is making a phone call AND biting his nails. This is disgusting

Wealthy Dubai residents race back to UAE to avoid tax bills Some risk spending too few days in the emirate and too many in the UK

Tax exiles stuck in London desperately trying to get *back* to Dubai to avoid becoming tax resident in the UK? Just great stuff. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Mahmood loves Kristi Noem

A reminder that Mahmood said she was inspired by the architect of the Minneapolis migrant crackdown, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who left "a lasting and positive impression on her."

"would otherwise receive immediate access to welfare and social housing" is BS.

Correct: "after 5 years working in a care home, would be eligible to apply for welfare and social housing on the same basis as the rest of us."

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Deliberately misleading/disingenous.

well, today in floridly depressing news: the French helpline for female victims of male violence is facing "coordinated" attacks from men's rights activists, who keep calling up in the hope of making it harder for women to reach their services

I think a great deal of harm is done by the NHS pretending that CBT delivered in this way is the gold standard. We just need to say out loud and frequently: the NHS does not cover mental health treatment except for those who are in severe crisis.

Resisting Trump when Starmer’s instinct was to let him use any base for anything - good, actually

Clip from Politico Playbook from a Spectator article: Red at Ed: Shipman's sources reserve their most colorful vitriol for Miliband, who one person describes as "petulant, pacifist, legalistic and very political." His team wasn't responding last night, but watch for the next time Miliband is in front of a TV camera. The Telegraph focuses its splash on Miliband "leading the revolt."

Sounds great tbh, I’m in

a photograph of virulent transphobe Joani Reid MP and her weird looking alleged Chinese spy partner

me and my partner saw you from across the bar and wanted to ask what gametes your body was organised around the production of, all things being well

What’s particularly grim is that HL, CCP and SD are all younger than me, born in the 1980s. The trajectory makes more sense for the Gen Xers, but how did the 40-somethings become so disconnected from ordinary younger women?

Oh no, David Mencer was on Channel 4 News again. Krish must die a little inside every time he tries to get him to be honest

this is it.

“Captured”