Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc
Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
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Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc
Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)
"Leaving the ECHR would be a high-risk policy, damaging to our international standing and, at best, irrelevant in tackling illegal immigration. That such a policy is justified by misleading and spurious claims only makes matters worse."
- David Gauke
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#r4today
😂 A sense of humour at least
What a flithy age we live in.
Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment
Also true forAdam and Eve's children...
Grrr....
Just heard Chris Philp on BBC’s Today programme explaining why the Tories want to leave the ECHR. He claimed ECHR isn’t mentioned in Belfast Agreement - which is simply untrue. The UK govt agreed to incorporate it into NI law & give direct access to the courts (Strand 3). Why no BBC fact-check?
Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf
“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall
💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero
Hot wings
Differing political definitions of patriotism 3 of the 6 letters (4th quoted in the post) criticising Phillips 😊 Sir, Melanie Phillips expresses a very specific and slightly odd definition of patriotism as "love for the Crown, the armed forces and the common law, and attachment to faith, family and flag" ("Sorry Keir, you don't understand patriotism", , comment, Sep 30). Perhaps that is why she concludes that Nigel Farage offers “the only patriotic force on the horizon". Personally, I regard someone who had a very direct hand in diminishing the United Kingdom's GDP by 4 per cent — as a direct result of our leaving the European Union — as confirming Samuel Johnson's much-quoted remark that "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel". Acts rather than words still count for some of us. Shaun Leavey Sherborne, Dorset Sir, Over thousands of years these islands have been invaded and occupied by various tribes, who, at any given moment, represented some kind of "Englishness". "In 300 years' time there might well be another kind of "Englishness", doubtless defending itself from the incursion of escapees from another foreign disaster, and claiming a threat to its purity". We were never pure, and attempts such as the present one to somehow freeze a manufactured notion of "Englishness" are doomed to failure. Jerry Stuart London SEI Sir, There is a fundamental flaw in Melanie Phillips's article. She talks of British patriotism as "attachment to faith, family and flag". °. She doesn't indicate which faith she is referring to, but presumably means the Christian faith as the traditional faith in Britain. However, the faith of Jesus of Nazareth shares much more common ground with the values she seems to dismiss - decency, reasonableness and compassion - than it does with the militarism and flag-waving she seems to endorse. I surely cannot be the only person getting worried when the Christian faith is conscripted into the support of strident nationalism. The Rev Paul Dowling
“That Brexit has made control of immigration more difficult, damaged our economy and weakened opportunities for future generations should make people think twice before putting Brexit's chief proponent in charge of running the country”
Times letters: a lonely oasis of sanity in the far right storm.
“Hard to abate” is the climate wonk’s term for an industry with no immediate route to zero carbon emissions. But I think there’s “hard to abate” & “expensive to abate” & then there’s “it’s just a bit difficult & we can’t really be bothered to abate”. None of this is impossible. We need to *choose*.
🚨If you are not yet familiar with the shocking IPP scandal hold onto your seats and watch this jaw dropping update
This is behind a paywall but the sentiment quoted below is competely correct. SMEs and microSMEs are the heart of the UK economy.
Monochrome photograph of a small island in Morecambe Bay. The tide is out and there is more sand than sea in the foreground.
Morecambe Bay through the windowpane of the Lancaster to Barrow in Furness train, United Kingdom.
NOTHING will prepare you for this 45-second story arc. From "I'm just doing this because I love the flag, it's totally grassroots, and I'm not part of anything political"... to who actually gave him the flags the night before.
Anyone who believes it is an innocent movement needs to see this.
The real story is that despite a relentless bombardment of misinformation from the right wing press, Reform and others over several years, over 60% of Brits still understand the reality of climate change, and that number's only shifted by a few percent.
BBC Accused of Pro-Reform Bias as Lib Dems Launch Campaign to End ‘Wall to Wall’ Farage Coverage
They accuse the BBC of “following Farage around like a lost puppy” and have complained to Ofcom to demand fair coverage
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Not to mention all the rural areas in England with appaling public transport.....
So my mum decided to try using Uber. Long story short, she downloaded the wrong app and has accidentally signed up as a driver
🚨🌱 The Chancellor is reviewing all public spending from scratch. Please join me in signing the @campaignforthearts.org petition to remind the UK Govt: the arts make our lives happier & our communities stronger. Now is the moment to invest in them. www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/sp...
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
FACT OF THE DAY. 27 May 1679. English Parliament passed the landmark Habeas Corpus Act. It made it illegal to hold anyone in prison without trial and required a court of law to examine the lawfulness of a prisoner’s detention and thus prevent unlawful or arbitrary imprisonment.
Two men pontificating on why birth rates have plummeted. Why on earth didn't the BBC ask some women???
Covering what Trump says is important but it shouldn't be the lead story all the time...
This is an astoundingly good interview. The LA Port Director explains very clearly how profoundly trade is coming to a screeching halt. This summer will be tough.
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Given that most, if not all MAGA merch is made in China, I'll be really curious to see what happens to their pricing and availability 😁
