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In 1936 the UK for one could not have prosecuted a war - it lack the equipment, industrial supply chain etc. Chamberlain pushing defence spend from under 3% to 9% provided the essential foundation. This went up another 3-fold and only by 1943 did UK industrial production outstrip Germany's.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
Some years ago, in my town, a local politician threw in the trash the meager properties of a homeless person. He got condemned by everyone, including his own very rightwing party, and fined for using the wrong trash container. No one defended him. Trieste is very far from California.
Also on the list are RICO and securities laws.
So different to what Starmer used to be. So either he was duping people back then or he's doing it now. Either way he's either tried to con the public then or now and in that respect is no better than Farage.
No longer worth reading or buying your rag - partnered with an AI co, corrupt as hell.
You'd hardly know the Guardian had partnered with an AI company 🙄
Glad to have you back!
And the handwringing sympathy for the ‘legitimate concerns’ of those shouting at hotels from Starmer’s Labour Party plays its part too.
Starmer doing his best to promote Farage again. We’re doomed.
'editor', and likewise 'journalist' cannot apply to anyone working for the S*n. There are plenty of appropriate terms, all rooted in the Anglo-Saxon part of the english language...
2016: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Sun tells ITV News that multiple sources say the Queen backs Brexit 2025: Tony Gallagher as editor of The Times publishes an article saying the Queen was a Remainer
I'm still stunned that @yorkshirebylines.co.uk put in the huge effort to collect all press-reported downsides of Brexit (David Davis had said there would be "none"!)... ...and has the sheer patience to collect 2,000 discrete incidences via media reports before giving up.
And I am the world's foremost astrophysicist ballerina who invented the piano, aspirin, and appetizers.
Almost all previous studies on CDKL5 have used a C-terminal tagging strategy (presumably to position the tag away from the kinase domain), but here we show that such modification of the C-term is disasterous as it abolishes CDKL5 synaptic localisation and function. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
He was that incompetent to fall for the Cons con and push for Brexit and then an election.
La Maraichere: strong market-woman, equally strongly portrayed in 1789 by Jacques-Louis David. It's his day.
Old Soviet jokes are back in style. Turns out, dark humor ages better than democracy.
Given the outstanding stupidity of Starmer govt on all fronts, expected. Going it alone I (old Victorian pile) expensive and there are many hurdles e.g., planning permission - meanwhile I get copy Council's heritage doc for comment - useless piece of paper, heritage will disappear without action.
And in England, the number of heat pump installers recently went down. Two types of politics needed: political leadership and political will. Unable to offer further polite comments just now.
TACO being TACO, unfortunately not possible.
Still too high, these need to be red.
2/2 Marat still holds the letter that his murderer, Charlotte Corday, had sent him. As painted by David, whose birthday is today.
Marat. Murdered in his bathtub in July 1793 by Charlotte Corday. Immortalized by Jacques-Louis David. Go to Brussels & see this masterpiece!
anyway I have now sent her a selfie, posing with my rosemary crusted salmon, but boy, at what cost
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The statement that Shakespeare "echoes" a minor 21st century novel would be hilarious if it weren't so insultingly stupid.
I find it difficult to believe that this thing is an actual human being rather than a plastic mannequin animated by the Nestenes or some other parasitic alien species.
This is up there with the LeBron is evil because billionaire takes, look I'm sorry it upsets you that so many people are willing to pay tons of money to someone who is very good at putting a basketball through a net, but thats not actually his fault
Trofim Lysenko laughs
One thing Sensible Centrists refuse to acknowledge - and this was true during covid when people were also saying this stuff explicitly - is these people are eugnenicists who welcome a good plague to get rid of the old, botched, and bungled
Sorry but this has to be posted in response. It’s the law. youtu.be/qMCY6kldN2I?...
The assumption that investors, banks etc. are capable of critical thinking is not supported by any data since such data were collected (>200 years)
Luckily, they can't, and neither can anyone else. The notion that humans can "live forever" (or a reasonable approximation) is not even science fiction; it is pure fantasy. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. - Cymbeline IV, ii
It seems that Antonio Guterres likes summits of revisionist powers. Last year, he discredited himself by bowing to Putin at the BRICS forum. Now he's praising Xi at the SCO in Tianjin. Strange kind of multilateralism! Fact: Beijing and Moscow are torpedoing the UNSC. www.euronews.com/2025/08/30/c...
It was news to me that a few years ago there was an improvement in heat pump technology that allows it to work in very cold temperatures.
Satire / zugespitzt Darstellung Aber spiegelt derzeitige Politik von CDU CSU wieder Während Politiker Milliarden "verlieren" versucht man das soziale Netz zu beschneiden, was mehr Armut, und damit zu höheren Ausgaben führen wird
this philosophy actually makes perfect sense from a man who organized crime in the city, on the basis that it was going to happen anyway so he might as well make sure it happened in a way he had some control over release valves are important!
Small boy, big landscape. A final Austria photo - the walk to Wiesbadener Hutte - Galtun. @visitaustria.bsky.social #Austria #Alps #Walking #Hiking #Ischgl #Galtun
I’ve heard from a couple of messaging strategists now that people shouldn’t post so much about COVID19 vaccines because it’s “divisive”. I am here to say that I do not give a damn what is popular. I will never ignore scientific evidence for the sake of expediency, and neither should anyone else.
There is a difference. Totally destroying a city and deliberately shooting obvious civilians is a war crime. Past heads of Mossad and Shin Bet agree with me. I think that says rather more than your poor attempt at an ad hominem.
Machine learning is useful. LLMs are useless
Got to love to read papers where "No one has ever discussed X" when I've published at least 12 papers on X in the past eight years.
All journalists who venture to Gaza are obviously Senior Hamas. All children ditto. ad nauseam.
this is a huge relief x normalislandnews.substack.com/p/israel-has...
I am in a park in Birmingham and there are people of so many nationalities enjoying themselves in the sun and some blues band man singing in a strong Brummie accent and it is so lovely and hard to reconcile with what you read in the media
It appears that the data oppose the claims of the son... ...who has not data.
research from BMJ measuring the pressure created during various versions of the abdominal thrust maneuver protip: doing it yourself on a chair is just as effective! don’t forget, if you ever choke when you’re alone! a person can be entirely disreputable & still invent something that saves lives
another choice for data, from emergency service records
i checked out your site— and can’t find data to support the claim that the abdominal thrust maneuver doesn’t work. a few quotes from magazines, but not data. not touching on the other sketchy stuff but there is plenty of published research showing the heimlich maneuver works
So... what about smoke stacks and highrise buildings? And outdoor cats? Office towers kill more birds than windmills do.
Here is Weizenbaum in 1976 clearly expressing my own view: using AI as a psychiatric tool to treat human beings is not just wrong, it is obscene. I believe we should be using the term “obscene” far more often to describe these perverted uses of AI technology.
Joseph Weizenbaum was the creator of ELIZA, one of the first natural-language-processing computer programs. He wrote “Computer Power” because watching people interact with it deeply disturbed him. He absolutely cannot be dismissed as some sort of AI ignoramus. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
It may well be but the marking rubric is such that AI can only get 25% . Obviously a mark of 90% or more required.
New rule. A parent may only propose removing a book from the school library only after reading it in its entirety and delivering a book report to the librarian. Until then no discussion shall be entered into.
Indeed, and 100,000 H sapiens genome sequences to prove (a rare thing in science) that the concept of ‘race’ has zero biological basis.
Farage owns four homes: Family home (£1M, retained after his divorce) Two beachside homes in Kent (via his comp. Thorn In The Side Ltd) One investment property in Surrey (rented out) Radio silence from media about this but uproar about Angela Rayner’s two homes & ministerial home #NigelFarage
Of course
Oh dear, how sad. Equivalent to a 'Ratner moment' perhaps
This is a brilliant paper (thank you Bob!). I have submitted it to the UK Govt several times - most recently in this letter directly to Ed Miliband our energy secretary asking him to remove gas (LNG) based CCS from UK Climate plan scrapcc.org/CBGDP-MILIBA... (with calculations based on paper).
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Excited to share our new preprint in @biorxiv-neursci.bsky.social "Cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5 (CDKL5) binds to talin and is anchored at the postsynaptic density via direct interaction with PDZ domains" Instead of a 🧵 the paper is summarised in this video. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Butlerian jihad now :)
He isn’t ever properly called out. Ever. Just like Boris Johnson.
Starmer’s next speech should be: “Sorry if I haven’t been clear, but Nigel Farage is a vicious, dog-whistling racist who in any sane country would not be anywhere near the reins of power. We utterly reject his racism, his fascism, his plans to turn this country into a far-right fantasy.”
ADHERE 2 conference is next week! Great line up of speakers and fun acitivities planned, this is going to be amazing! Hope to see you all in Zadar, Croatia. ☀️ event.fourwaves.com/adhere2/pages
For those who don't know, Spatzle is a kind of Germanic pasta - a thick dough is rubbed through a colander into boiling water to produce little pieces of cooked 'pasta'. Mix it with cheese, and it's like Mac 'n' Cheese. Top with crispy onions and it's heaven.
"Future historians will surely debate at great length whether it was economics or media culture or simple incompetence that led the Starmer government’s moral compass to break. But they surely won’t debate who, out of the Taliban or the people who fled from their regime, were actually the baddies."
The lack of short term memory in British politics at the moment is quite something. Was everyone in Number 10 in a coma for the last five years or have they genuinely forgotten how this exact same strategy worked out for the last Government?
OTD in 2008, soon after I invaded Georgia, I was interviewed by Germany's biggest TV channel ARD in which I said I recognize all of Ukraine’s borders, including Crimea. 3 days later we claimed a “sphere of influence” that includes Ukraine.
24 papermill products, a-hanging on the wall And if one papermill product, should accidentally fall There'll be 23 papermill products, a-hanging on the wall. www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1... pubpeer.com/publications...
It is the same thing with all immigrants - they have a large positive effect on the economy. Why European govt got dismantle the Russian propaganda machine that supports far right/nazi parties is a mystery...
🇺🇦🇵🇱 Ukrainians have replenished the Polish budget by almost $28 billion in 3 years. Officially, Ukrainians have paid taxes in Poland worth over $12.8 billion, while the Polish government's spending on refugee aid amounted to $4.1 billion.
🇦🇿🇺🇦 Azerbaijani President Aliyev called "SVO" an invasion, and stressed support for the territorial integrity of Ukraine, - Azerbaijani media.
#nationallottery is this how you use public funds? To promote hate speech and division in communities? Stop funding hate!
Genuinely baffled as to what Bertie Jenrick would have to do for any of the one in ten Tory MPs from an ethnic minority to go “steady on”. Turn up at their house in a Klan robe?
It will work. 110 %. there are no checks and balances. Our parliamentarians are as supine as those in the US Congress. There will be no S Korean defence of democracy. Any demos will not be covered by the media. All protestors will be locked up as terrorists. All the tools are in place.
Not broken, happily pushing an agenda over decades.
He will never be asked that question, the media will keep pushing this agenda, because their owners want to. Where owners are not oligarchs, such as BBC, they too will push the agenda, because govt wants them. Starmer is a first class idiot.
Meanwhile the bulk of the press gives him uninterrupted airtime...
Did you know Facebook secretly ran an experiment on 693,000 people? In 2012, they altered users’ feeds: some more negative, some more positive. The roots of digital manipulation run deeper than most realize! Watch the full interview with Dr. Rebecca Lemov here: youtu.be/MudTcmYH5lk
See also: the UK.
Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?
Reform councillor works on asylum claims for Home Office, investigation reveals
The Massachusetts “Fair Share Amendment,” popularly known as the Millionaires Tax, continued to deliver a financial windfall this year, as more and more states look to replicate this tremendous success 👇 Read more here: bit.ly/4lDqvIj #TaxJustice
Bianca degli Utili Maselli surrounded by her five sons, one daughter, slightly dazed dog, & bird. Fantastic study in family resemblance & textile complementarity by Lavinia Fontana of Bologna. It’s her birthday.
I really enjoyed this @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social pod about Covid & MAHA, but one thing it repeatedly revealed is a habit of liberals that drives me crazy. A short 🧵.
A trio of exclusives in today's @theobserveruk.bsky.social, inc. a deep dive into one of the companies bankrolling Nigel Farage. Direct Bullion has falsely claimed to be supporting an oceans charity for years. The charity has no record of their involvement observer.co.uk/news/politic...
to provide some evidence: 900 CE – Ishaq bin Ali al-Rahwi describes a system of oversight for doctors using peer review.
And then Macchiarini's international (non-Swedish) collaborators have risen in the ranks as a consequence of their participation...
True- I was comparing with Macchiarini, didn't know about the material scientist tjough 🤬
Quite simple. Birchall is white and works in the UK. Recall that the material scientist who provided the plastic tracheas was sanctioned by UCL. Important distinction, that scientist was not white. HoL doubtless awaits Birchall and UCL governance will be given a medal.
“Birchall could get away with this behaviour because there are greater safeguards for animals having experimental surgery than for children and young adults subjected to identical experimental surgery” 🤬I have never understood how there were such different outcomes for Macchiarini and Birchall.
It's utter nonsense to focus on something like 'Operation Raise the Flag.' If people were genuinely patriotic, they would be putting that same energy into cleaning up the streets and contributing to their communities instead of just flying a flag.
While relatively small gatherings of far-right protesters are reported as the start of some kind of national civil revolt, much larger protests on other issues are routinely ignored at best, and openly demonised at worst www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/anywhere-b...
I wonder if part of it is also that (some of) those attending the asylum seeker protests explicitly or implicitly threaten violence and disorder. They are frightening, and politicians both stoke and fear them, in a way that polite peaceful protesters simply aren’t.
Why do so many people pretend not to know what VPNs are?