BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
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BREAKING: Yvette Cooper says she is suspending all applications to bring family members to the UK under the asylum system.
"Yo, they’ve got the latest computerized catalog system—just roll right up to a terminal, type in your search terms, and it gives you a list of titles and call numbers, plus a little map to show you where they all are. Dewey Decimal, man. It’s tight."
1 September is International Primate Day
What now?
I mean it might be, one review is perhaps not definitive, but I'll refrain from judgment until I've seen it myself
Yeah, I saw it...
We at Twentieth Century Communism journal are sad to hear of the passing of Quintin Hoare, the managing editor of New Left Review in the 1960s-70s and translator of Antonio Gramsci's works into English, which helped popularise Gramsci in Britain in the 1970s. lwbooks.co.uk/person/quint...
It's marginally better than the Listserves I was on in 1995, but not by much, and then the rest is Mircosoftee
We'll find out once it starts working...
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=szs4...
Errr...
Training morning for new software
observer.co.uk/culture/book...
Seems legit.
Hard eye roll. Policy Exchange puts out a report which conveniently erases the UK Govt's GFA commitments on the ECHR and The Telegraph rush out stories that the experts have spoken, even as the plain wording of the GFA gives a lie to this. Patrick Minford syndrome lives on.
As 'grasping the nettle' is in the lede I presume this is the reference, although making soup is a stretch
'at stake is the status of higher education as a “public realm” sector. It’s not currently politically or economically advantageous for government to be seen to take seriously the sector’s financial concerns even where there are signs of systemic weakness in the funding model.'
The youngest is already home...
Prison hulks... God, how did the UK get in this mess over migrants? It's absurd.
Just published (in open access): onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/DRBY9F...
Callum Barker, far right activist for Homeland + Patriotic Alternative who co-organised some Epping protests arrested today, on grounds of inciting racial hatred So was Sarah White, Reform candidate in Chigwell Reform candidate Orla Minihane spoke up for Barker + White as coleaders of the protest
Really? variety.com/2025/film/ne...
It's offensive and vulgar, never mind that it's a stake in the heart of what's left of the rules based international order -- or the suffering of the human beings effected
In the early hours of 1 September 1939, Germany's Luftwaffe started bombarding the Polish town of Wieluń. The attack is considered to be the first war crime committed by Nazi Germany in World War II. Bombs destroyed ca. 70 percent of the town's buildings. Video: https://www.wielun.pl
This is all very well except that fact that B. Johnson is the source
UNRWA schools continue to shelter displaced families in #Gaza. They need everything. UNRWA teams are working tirelessly to help them. Lift the siege, allow UNRWA to bring basic supplies. #UNRWAworks
#GlobalSumudFlotilla
What's next for Czech #foreignpolicy if Andrej Babiš wins the elections and will govern. My interview (in Slovak) with Vit Dostal from AMO – Association for International Affairs about their study. spravy.pravda.sk/svet/clanok/... AMO study www.amo.cz/en/agenda-fo... #Czechia
observer.co.uk/style/featur...
The Pripet Marshes enters the chat
Fascinating that this story has gotten any traction at all www.france24.com/en/europe/20...
Banging...
"Gaza residents who own land would be given a digital token by the trust in exchange for the right to develop their property." www.france24.com/en/live-news...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Grifting suffering
www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...
news.err.ee/1609785081/n...
Small humans return to full time education
'This Month In Bond' newsletter for August is hitting mailboxes right now. If you haven't subscribed, you can read it here: open.substack.com/pub/mi6hq/p/...
www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
www.haaretz.com/world-news/e...
mondoweiss.net/2025/08/the-...
BREAKING: At least 250 people are dead and 500 injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake hits Afghanistan near the Pakistan border.
Jason Garcia @jasongarcia.bsky.social The state of #Florida wasted more than $200 million on 'Alligator Alcatraz' stunt [and who got the money] jasongarcia.substack.com/p/the-state-...
Just a bit
Douglas Carswell has skirted the line and now he's crossed it. This is disgusting racism from a former MP who now demonstrates who and what he is.
"The 38-page prospectus seen by The Washington Post envisions at least a temporary relocation of all of Gaza’s more than 2 million population, either through what it calls “voluntary” departures ... or into restricted, secured zones inside the enclave during reconstruction." Illegal. Insane.
www.bbc.com/culture/arti...
Torygasp hot take...
OOh, OK...I get it now...well then, bread seems to be the least of her 'issues'
Errr....
OK, so there is a comma between Truth & Cider, but truth cider sounds fun. I honestly do not know who this person is, but the bread and pasty obsession is strange
£200 Pork Pie fantasies. I liked a Pork Pie more than I like wedding cake as snack, but a Pork Pie wedding cake seems off...
Had to look her up...grey sourdough? Is this new? I would recommend good, solid, thin-sliced Rye bread, nice and black.
So, according to this religious faith equals dictatorship, or is that just for Muslims?
Errr...300 yrs of inter-Christian religious violence has entered the chat
Sounds like someone has decided to copy Huntington
More drivel
The Peruvian Prat opines
Rolls eyes...
Generation GDR — the last 48 hours of an East German ‘misfit’ www.ft.com/content/3e62...
Met Batali once in NYC, around 2008/9?
Here maybe, I think... David Owen, In Sickness and in Power: Illness in Heads of Government During the Last 100 Years (Methuen, 2008; revised edition 2011) (Methuen, 2016)
There's another book about leaders taking drugs, , Eden on speed during Suez for example
On my to read list www.theguardian.com/books/2023/m...
"In shocking footage, recorded by the nurse and her daughter, he can be seen telling his small white dog to 'kill' her as it manically barks at her" i have accepted that at some point this is going to happen to us, and then i am going to put a bunch of people through a wall
Tories pledge to get all oil and gas out of North Sea. Madness but corporate donors will be pleased. Silence on environmental destruction, health impacts and associated social costs.
“The ECHR isn’t Brussels meddling. It’s the foundation that protects you from your own government.” – The Bear on why leaving the ECHR would be a really Bad Idea.
20 yrs later -- grim listening but crucial pulitzercenter.org/blog/relentl...
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
The Knights Who Say Ni****
Where to go for a late-night cocktail? This month, Soho institution Rita’s is serving up a special offer: £10 martinis (wet, dry, dirty, with olives or a twist) and margaritas for diners after 10pm. www.ft.com/content/716c...
Peak HTSI www.ft.com/content/acb4...
The newly discovered tombs are believed to date back to the Hellenistic or Hellenistic-Seleucid period.
www.rte.ie/culture/2019...
www.ft.com/content/2971...
Of course... he did it with some style en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact...
I'd be more convinced if she didn't just happen to be promoting a film about aliens
Actors are good at acting, otherwise don't ask them stuff as you're likely to get less than useful replies
MotherJones reporting: “Where America goes from here is a story yet to be written. It will surely get worse — Trump’s push now is clearly focused on locking in an illegitimate claim to power.” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Less exciting than advertised
Humm...they seem nice
£9.95 a week, that’s how much people in hotels are paid in lieu of working rights. Pathetic posturing. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
le Sigh
