Steve Woods

Semi-retired linguist and self-taught geek. Pro-EU, pro-open source. Undocumented naturalised Bristolian. Unapologetic left-winger and republican.

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2024-09-07 08:25:37

Are filthy rivers the greatest #BrexitBonus?
"When the UK was in the EU, it was subject to the water framework directive, which meant it had to carry out detailed pollution analysis of waterways and report every year. There has not been a survey done under the WFD since 2019, and the Conservative government began the process of removing the EU standards from UK legislation."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/sep/07/citizen-scientists-to-check-uk-rivers-for-sewage-and-pollution

2024-09-05 17:49:27

How long does it take to translate Trump's campaign speeches from Russian?

2024-09-02 09:19:35

"Not having children is reduced to entirely personal motivations – selfishness, beguilement with the false promise of freedom, lack of values and foresight, irresponsibility – rather than external conditions: of the need for affordable childcare, support networks, flexible working arrangements and the risk of financial oblivion that motherhood frequently brings, therefore creating bondage to partners."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/sep/02/jd-vance-childless-women-kamala-harris

2024-08-31 09:56:25

I've signed!
If pensioners are to be denied help with fuel bills, so should our pampered dishonourable members of parliament.
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/strip-mps-of-their-fuel-allowance

2024-08-31 09:48:25

"It simply cannot be right that the payment of large dividends to shareholders and huge bonuses to bosses is prioritised before protecting SSSIs. This entire culture of polluting for profit must end.”
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/31/water-companies-natural-england-sites-special-scientific-interest

2024-08-28 11:14:23

'“I didn’t want to means-test the winter fuel payment,” said Sir Keir Starmer, referring to the small amounts of cash paid to eligible pensioners to help them get through the cold'
LAIR!
Don't freeze pensioners.
Tax the rich instead.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/27/the-guardian-view-on-labours-gloomy-politics-it-is-bad-economics

2024-08-28 10:49:36

"The companies paid out £78bn in dividends in the 32 years between privatisation in 1991 to March 2023, which is almost half the £190bn spent on infrastructure in that period, during which they added £64bn in net debt."
https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/aug/28/water-bills-must-rise-if-labour-is-to-hit-housebuilding-target-industry-claims

2024-08-28 10:38:25

"Today’s filing by Smith is aimed at teaching six of the nine justices on the Supreme Court how to read, specifically, how to read the Constitution."
Ouch!
https://substack.com/@lucianktruscottiv/p-148209297

2024-08-26 09:26:44

This is worthy of a read if only for the phrase 'a village with the cultural diversity of yoghurt'.
https://nation.cymru/opinion/trump-is-toast/

2024-08-25 11:03:26

@npub1294…5kyj Well said.
England is very resistant to change and common sense.
In the 13th century, the king let parliament sit in the choir stalls of his palace in Westminster to conduct its business.
It's still there.

2024-08-25 10:10:25

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Why is the Untied Kingdom obsessed with being world-beating and/or world-leading?
Most of the time the living it provides for the majority of its inhabitants is barely adequate.

2024-08-24 09:02:21

"One delegate inside the convention was caught on camera repeatedly hitting a Muslim woman in the head with a “We Love Joe” sign. The woman’s crime was that she had peacefully unfurled a banner saying “Stop Arming Israel”. It’s not clear who the man assaulting this woman was but one imagines he will not face any consequences."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/23/harris-joy-campaign-overlooks-palestinians

2024-08-17 09:14:35

"Welcome to a Britain that wears its Islamophobia proudly, and not just on the streets of Bolton, Bristol or Birmingham, but in a London TV studio."
https://www.middleeasteye.net/big-story/uk-keir-starmer-fingerprints-tories-race-riots

2024-08-17 08:50:14

“The firm supports the right to protest lawfully and recognises the need to build a sustainable future."
Grasping hypocrites.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/16/climate-activists-court-costs-protest-bans-uk-biggest-law-firm-dla-piper

2024-08-16 10:50:04

"Mone and Barrowman adamantly denied any criminal wrongdoing."
Of course they do.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/15/uks-national-agency-says-it-is-not-scared-of-ppe-medpros-lawyers

2024-08-16 10:48:47

Fake electors giving $ to fake politicians.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/16/fake-electors-trump-donation

2024-08-14 09:40:41

“It’s quite clear to me that there’s a lot of vested interest from people who I think are nefarious, and only want to abuse the farm.
“Nature and wildlife doesn’t have a voice of its own, so I need to be there for it.”
#Bristol
https://www.bristol247.com/news-and-features/news/fundraiser-launched-to-save-yew-tree-farm/

2024-08-12 10:49:12

The country's most unemployable man about to have another lucrative job thrown at him?
https://news.sky.com/story/former-pm-johnson-sounded-out-about-telegraph-role-13195936

2024-08-12 10:36:44

Zelo Street writes: "To no surprise at all, Doug Murray The K has let the world know that his infamous assertion “conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition” was not an isolated incident, and nor was it out of character. Murray is an Islamophobe, he is a racist bigot, he is intolerant, and he is ignorant".
https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2024/08/murray-doug-his-own-grave.html

2024-08-12 10:16:01

"So many other musicians have opposed Donald Trump using their music in rallies that they collectively have their own page on Wikipedia. Some of the most prominent include Adele, the Rolling Stones and Aerosmith; the estates of the late Leonard Cohen, Luciano Pavarotti and George Harrison have also voiced opposition."
https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/aug/12/family-of-isaac-hayes-threaten-donald-trump-with-lawsuit-over-use-of-song-in-rallies

2024-08-12 09:19:17

Large slow worm population in one small bit of south #Bristol.
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/new-homes-delayed-remarkable-discovery-9461897

2024-08-11 13:22:04

From our bills are for little people correspondent.
"According to a 2019 report from the Center for Public Integrity, Trump owed more than $840,000 to various city governments, and likely more, as Trump’s campaign does not acknowledge a single one of these city governments as debt in his federal campaign financial disclosures."
#MakeAmericaGrateAgain
https://dailymontanan.com/2024/08/08/when-trump-comes-to-town-he-brings-excitement-leaves-unpaid-bills/

2024-08-11 11:18:42

"On Tuesday, Elon Musk’s X – formerly Twitter – filed a lawsuit against a marketing trade body and string of major advertisers including Unilever and Mars for an “illegal boycott” on the platform."
Dear Mr Musk, compulsory advertising on your shit-stirring platform is not enshrined in US federal law...
https://www.cityam.com/more-advertisers-to-flee-x-after-recent-elon-musk-lawsuit-and-riot-comments/

2024-08-11 10:04:25

"A defining characteristic of the populist right – both politicians and their enablers at the tabloids and online – is an absolute, ironclad, unwavering refusal to take responsibility for the consequences of their own actions."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/10/there-can-be-no-excuses-the-uk-riots-were-violent-racism-fomented-by-populism

2024-08-11 09:03:55

"[Reeves] is planning to slash fraud and error from the welfare system..."
Spot the Tory.
A proper Labour chancellor would go after tax avoidance and fraud by the rich, particularly as it would be far more lucrative.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/11/chancellor-rachel-reeves-treasury-budget-tough-spending-decisions

2024-08-10 12:23:53

Cat educates thick rich man.
https://www.slwoods.co.uk/?p=14424

2024-08-10 10:19:16

"As the past two weeks have so brutally shown, fascism is not something that remains contained within the faded pages of our history books, but is a real thing taking place in the real world."
https://www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-acceptable-faces-of-fascism

2024-08-04 11:56:04

Zelo Street asks: "How was getting aled up and kicking off honouring the memory of those killed and injured in Southport? What kind of tribute was served up by trashing phone shops, travel agents, citizens’ advice centres, libraries, and looting the nearest Sainsbury’s Local? And why the constant obsession with Muslims, when they had nothing to do with the stabbings?"
https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2024/08/hello-rioters-youve-been-had.html

2024-08-04 10:12:19

Only 14 arrested in #Bristol.
That's far too few fascists.

2024-08-02 12:49:02

Age UK writes: "Cutting the Winter Fuel Payment for people not on pension credit this winter, with virtually no notice and no compensatory measures to protect poor and vulnerable pensioners, is wrong.
Age UK estimates around 2 million pensioners who really need the money will now lose it. I've signed the petition to stop the cut for struggling pensioners."
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/our-impact/campaigning/save-the-winter-fuel-payment/

2024-07-31 13:20:25

Is #Bristol North West MP Darren Jones morphing into Keith's Mini-Me?
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/112/881/299/804/694/809/original/ff924ee6094763ae.jpg

2024-07-31 09:27:04

Zelo Street writes: "Inevitably, speculation about the identity of the suspect began. Any consideration for the families of the dead and injured soon went out the window, as a number of malicious and wholly untrue claims were made, mostly to satisfy the warped agendas of a deeply unappealing convocation of intolerant racist bigots. The reality was that the suspect was British"
https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2024/07/southport-stabbings-enter-bigots.html.

2024-07-28 09:05:04

"Labour’s electoral strategy was hyper-cautious, shaped by the need to convince the public it could be trusted with the public finances."
That's nonsense.
The hyper-cautious strategy was devised to convince the Untied Kingdom's over-powerful and overwhelmingly right-wing media.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/28/the-observer-view-sticking-to-fiscal-rule-will-imperil-labours-future

2024-07-28 08:21:40

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Setting up a taskforce is just kicking the can into the long grass.
These people need help now, not in 6-12 months' time.

2024-07-24 10:48:32

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@npub1hur…w2sm I was a secondary school child when Thatcher abolished free school milk in secondary schools.

2024-07-24 10:05:43

"It is hard to imagine Starmer is unaware of the fact that Osborne devised the policy to stoke public hostility towards and create a Victorian caricature of the undeserving, overbreeding poor."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/24/disciplining-mps-voting-children-poverty-keir-starmer

2024-07-24 10:02:47

Starmer likes to mention that his father was a toolmaker.
That makes him a tool.

2024-07-23 10:03:05

First signs of #corruption in new government.
#Leveson
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/23/labour-reports-secret-rupert-murdoch-keir-starmer-deal-endorsement-sun-leveson-inquiry/

2024-07-22 16:49:22

‘Economic violence’: #Birmingham residents decry plan to raze 1,900 homes.
It seems to be a prime function of councils to antagonise their residents.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/jul/22/economic-violence-ladywood-birmingham-redevelopment-residents-clash-council

2024-07-22 11:09:48

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@npub1xg3…nyjk Trump isn't fit to clean a public restroom, let alone public office.

2024-07-22 10:10:56

'Many of the country’s musicians and artists have fled, while those who remain live in terror. “Afghanistan is a totally silent nation,” Sarmast said. “Today, learning music is a crime. Playing music is again a crime. Listening to music is again a crime.”'
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/22/the-taliban-tried-to-silence-us-the-afghan-musicians-who-escaped-to-portugal

2024-07-22 09:35:02

#Bristol's largest criminal organisation in trouble.
Again.
"Ofsted is considering a 'full criminal investigation' after Bristol City Council admitted illegally putting children in care into unregistered homes. Eight vulnerable youngsters looked after by the local authority are currently living in placements that are not regulated by Ofsted, which is against the law."
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/criminal-probe-threat-after-bristol-9424754

2024-07-21 09:22:41

"Home Secretary Yvette Cooper is set to face off against human rights group Liberty in the Court of Appeal on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Liberty will argue that the former Government’s use of so-called Henry VIII powers – secondary legislation – to clamp down on protests that are deemed to cause “more than minor” disruption was unconstitutional, and in breach of people’s right to peacefully protest."
https://bylinetimes.com/2024/07/19/labour-government-may-fight-human-rights-group-and-defend-suella-bravermans-anti-protest-law-in-court/

2024-07-21 07:48:45

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Setting up a taskforce on child poverty looks to me like kicking the problem into the long grass, even more so when the cap could be abolished with a stroke of a ministerial pen.

2024-07-20 10:19:29

“The judge’s characterisation of climate breakdown as a ‘matter of opinion and belief’ is completely nonsensical and demonstrates extraordinary ignorance. Similarly, to suggest that the climate emergency is ‘irrelevant’ in relation to whether defendants had a reasonable case for action is crass stupidity.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/just-stop-oil-tactics-prison-chris-packham

2024-07-20 10:14:19

"We need to be listening to them, not locking them up."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jul/19/just-stop-oil-tactics-prison-chris-packham

2024-07-20 09:47:49

To begin with, "a House of Lords that is fit for the 21st century" wouldn't be called the House of Lords.
This is such a backward little country.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jul/20/hereditary-peers-house-of-lords-end

2024-07-15 15:15:30

Delusional Mary Elizabeth to join the dishonourable member for Clacton in Milwaukee.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/15/nigel-farage-liz-truss-republican-national-convention

2024-07-08 11:10:52

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@npub1afz…wdvg It's that old tactic of divide and rule/conquer.
Again.

2024-07-07 10:27:26

Paraphrasing what Nadhim Zahawi said on Sky New earlier, I think his 'circular firing squad' is an excellent method for choosing the next #CONservative party leader.

2024-07-06 16:39:09

""For the first time in 20-plus years we have a majority in England, in Scotland and in Wales and that is a clear mandate to govern for all four corners of the United Kingdom..."
No wonder my postie mate Pat refers to to NI as the 'occupied six counties'.
https://news.sky.com/story/pm-to-visit-all-four-nations-of-uk-and-announces-mission-delivery-boards-to-drive-change-13174119

2024-07-05 13:52:18

"Goodbye to seven different Chancellors of the Exchequer since 2010, who all prioritized the cutting of taxes for their millionaire and billionaire donors over lifting the UK’s most vulnerable and marginalized communities out of poverty and squalor."
#ToryDeathParty #GeneralElection
https://zeteo.com/p/uk-elections-labour-conservative-mehdi-hasan?publication_id=2325511&post_id=146297139

2024-07-05 12:13:28

Ask your shareholders to fund improvements instead, you bunch of profiteering parasites!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce55vp78n40o

2024-07-05 00:19:11

"I've been told the Green's "are storming it" in this seat - and there are some tears in the Labour camp."
#BristolCentral
#GeneralElection #ToryDeathParty #GreenParty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn09xn9je7lt?post=asset%3A04cb0095-5dd0-4054-8a1b-b83ebd3b208c#post

2024-07-04 22:54:47

According to Auntie, 30-40 reporters and other media types have applied to attend the count to witness the demise of the Mogg.
#ToryDeathParty #GeneralElection
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg3m90280g9t?post=asset%3Aab2101de-5afd-4eac-9d9a-4fa31ac47d06#post

2024-07-04 17:41:33

"President Joe Biden’s debate performance was a disaster. His disjointed responses and dazed look sparked calls for him to drop out of the presidential race.
But lost in the hand wringing was Donald Trump’s usual bombastic litany of lies, hyperbole, bigotry, ignorance, and fear mongering. His performance demonstrated once again that he is a danger to democracy and unfit for office."
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/editorials/first-presidential-debate-joe-biden-donald-trump-withdraw-20240629.html

2024-07-02 11:24:36

"In defiance of the single statement carved onto the front of the majestic building where they work (“Equal justice under law”), the justices ruled Monday that the president does not have to abide by the laws of the land."
#SCOTUS
https://newrepublic.com/article/183357/supreme-court-turns-president-king

2024-06-27 15:18:38

Carol Vorderman writes: "Michelle Mone has been the face of the PPE scandal for her brazen assault on the public purse and her elaborate attempts to cover it all up, but Mone is merely the tip of the iceberg."
https://goodlawproject.org/carol-vorderman-the-ppe-scandal-must-be-at-the-heart-of-the-general-election/

2024-06-27 12:41:25

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@npub1v5a…5yax Good enough to tempt the terminally greedy and stupid. :)

2024-06-27 12:00:55

Tory business minister bet on Conservatives winning election.
Proof positive that gambling is a tax on the stupid.
#GeneralElection
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/27/tory-business-minister-kevin-hollinrake-bet-conservatives-winning-election

2024-06-25 14:45:24

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 Both the USA and the UK seem in thrall to right-wing cultists.

2024-06-25 14:41:23

Why the religious right is rooting for a convicted conman.
Because they're gullible.
#MakeAmericaGrateAgain
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/25/jesus-is-saviour-trump-my-president-religious-right-convicted-conman

2024-06-25 13:39:32

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@npub1lzz…jhl3 #MakeAmericaGrateAgain

2024-06-24 08:14:13

The cult of personality.
Although cult could be a mis-spelling...
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/112/670/591/539/882/678/original/ae18269162da41c0.jpg

2024-06-17 12:19:36

So far Farage's 'manifesto' launch is following all the familiar fascist tropes: the country is broken; most crime goes unreported; cultural decline, etc.
I'm just waiting for him to blame immigrants for all the country's woes.
#GeneralElection

2024-06-16 17:40:48

"To cast actors from outside of Wales, and dare I say specifically a Poundland Bowie wannabe, would do a complete disservice to perhaps the most important surviving body of Welsh literature ever (eventually) put to paper."
Ouch!
https://nation.cymru/opinion/wales-and-the-mabinogion-deserve-better-an-open-letter-to-stevie-nicks/

2024-06-15 16:27:56

Homophobia alive and well in #Porthmadog
#Cymru
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/abhorrent-abuse-gwynedd-bookshops-pride-29349278

2024-05-30 09:07:34

“Keir Starmer is not Labour. I’m not voting for whoever he puts in there. He’s just lost a vote.”
#GeneralElection
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/29/fury-in-diane-abbott-constituency-at-treatment-of-their-mp

2024-05-29 10:55:24

The private sector are parasites on the body of the NHS.
This idiot aims to breed them.
#GE2024
https://www.thenational.scot/news/24352126.wes-streeting-vows-go-further-tony-blair-use-private-sec/

2024-05-28 08:00:34

"Nuclear power is dangerous, dirty, outdated, a huge threat to environmental and human health as the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters have shown, and extortionately expensive."
#YnysMôn
https://nation.cymru/opinion/the-announcement-of-wylfa-as-the-favoured-site-for-a-new-nuclear-plant-is-nothing-more-than-blatant-electioneering/

2024-05-22 19:28:28

"Return to your constituencies and prepare for oblivion".
#GE2024 #GTTO #UKpolitics
https://files.mastodonapp.uk/media_attachments/files/112/486/387/629/887/834/original/41001f26cb2e4e1b.jpeg

2024-05-22 17:08:54

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Note the election falls during Scottish school summer holidays.

2024-05-22 07:57:34

Nuclear power?
How very 1950s!
https://nation.cymru/news/wylfa-chosen-as-uk-governments-top-site-for-major-nuclear-plant/

2024-05-22 07:54:55

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 The government takes gaslighting very seriously and has robust measures in place...

2024-05-22 07:53:10

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Resilience is another on my list of official weasel words.

2024-05-20 07:36:34

Latest #Brexit bonus, a £470m p.a. bill for business.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/20/britain-brexit-border-checks-eu-cost-uk-firms-470m-a-year-says-watchdog

2024-05-19 09:51:41

"It was clear during the wave of interviews that the education secretary completed following the announcement that she both doesn’t understand what is currently being taught and has a warped view of what being transgender is that borders on incompetence."
#GTTO
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/19/tories-sex-education-opinion/

2024-05-15 09:01:05

This septic isle...
"United Utilities documents, obtained by the BBC, show how a telecoms fault on the night of 28 February caused the main pumps to stop.
A separate set of emergency pumps then discharged untreated sewage into the middle of Windermere, which is part of a Unesco World Heritage site."
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv266nqq48xo

2024-05-11 10:20:59

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@npub1t3d…qnlg A classic proof-reading failure.
The newsroom dictionary has no entry for ambiguity.

2024-05-05 09:04:26

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 By southern, are you intimating Memphis soul?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VAD62T0Xio

2024-04-27 11:57:49

"The Tories – rather like the royal family and bad weather – essentially feel as old as Britain itself, a confounding force that has shaped political and cultural life in their image. The result is that no matter how drastic their defeat in an election, the Conservatives can usually count on access to various gilded bunkers – from Fleet Street to the City – from which to regroup, plot their return and influence government from afar."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/27/tories-politics-general-election-conservative-party

2024-04-25 05:55:32

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Blair also promised to (re)nationalise the railways, then reneged once in government.
I sincerely hope Starmer doesn't do likewise.

2024-04-22 23:31:30

This makes me ashamed to be British.
I want to revoke my citizenship and acquire that of a more enlightened country.
#rwandabill
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-bill-vote-lords-flights-sunak-scheme-b2530395.html

2024-04-11 18:55:28

South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem Banned From Another Tribe's Reservation.
#MakeAmericaGrateAgain
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kristi-noem-banished-tribal-lands_n_6617c525e4b00c2fbcbd6923

2024-04-09 08:15:06

Correction: the biggest pests found in English hospitals are private healthcare parasites.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/09/rats-cockroaches-pests-english-hospitals-nhs

2024-04-01 08:22:04

Tory plans could usually be identified by the way they stink.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/mar/31/tory-plans-to-abolish-non-dom-status-riddled-with-loopholes-labour-says

2024-03-27 13:09:03

Today is Document Freedom Day. #dfd #opensource #openstandards #odf
https://www.slwoods.co.uk/?p=13905

2024-03-22 12:12:05

Hard drive absconded in computer used by Murdoch acolyte Rebekah Brooks.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_law/news-group-newspapers-prince-harry-rebekah-brooks/

2024-03-18 11:18:53

"I admire the optimism of people who think [Reeves] is secretly preparing some kind of national rescue package, but I cannot quite shake off that eternally insightful Maya Angelou quotation: “When people show you who they are, believe them the first time.”"
#RedTories
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/17/birmingham-britain-state-cuts-austerity-local-services

2024-03-14 15:19:06

"The Presidential Records Act “does not exempt Trump from the criminal law, entitle him to unilaterally declare highly classified presidential records to be personal records, or shield him from criminal investigations — let alone allow him to obstruct a federal investigation with impunity,” prosecutors wrote in a court filing last week."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-classified-documents-maralago-presidential-records-200d4c73d7c7dd75d9c9d878b77d05ce

2024-03-06 13:05:03

Following the Grauniad's text feed of #Budget2024, it would appear that Hunt's speech is full of the usual delusional 'word-leading/beating' bullshit in which the English political class excels.

2024-03-06 10:29:50

Publicity-loving motorists' friend who gets them off fines for traffic offences is feeling neglected, so has a traditional anti-cyclist tirade as a remedy, courtesy of the Daily Brexit.
https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/cars/1873420/cycling-identification-number-plates-road-safety

2024-03-05 08:58:14

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@npub1g0t…tvm4 Birmingham CC has form with disastrous IT.
I remember well over 20 years ago, a group of local techies put together a clone of the council website made solely out of #opensource components; and it worked better than the actual one.

2024-02-26 09:08:10

Zelo Street writes: "One, that it has been strongly inferred that Anderson would not have had the whip removed had he apologised, and, Two, that the worst of the lot remains unpunished. Mary Elisabeth Truss, formerly, and fortunately briefly, comedy Prime Minister, has been to the USA, where she has been keeping some seriously dodgy company."
https://zelo-street.blogspot.com/2024/02/liz-truss-remove-whip-now.html

2024-02-13 14:42:05

"Evangelicals claim to believe in the "truth and the light," and yet here they are, using duplicitous techniques borrowed from the world of con artists."
https://www.salon.com/2024/02/13/hobby-lobby-funded-jesus-super-bowl-ads-cant-hide-the-hate-that-fuels-the-christian-right/

2024-02-08 12:45:37

First the Nazis burned books.
Then they burned people.
You have been warned by history, America.
https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/missouri-republican-candidate-torches-lgbtq-inclusive-books-viral-vide-rcna137715

2024-02-03 13:55:29

A crook like Trump should have been jailed years ago.
He and his lawyers are taking the piss, America.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/02/trump-2020-election-trial-postponed

2024-01-26 10:06:55

"The war foretold in the Book of Shapps involves the UK – a country that has recently given up on its dream of building a railway line – taking on Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea at the same time."
https://nation.cymru/opinion/a-poundland-sun-tzu/

2024-01-22 22:31:45

"In the latest register of MPs’ interests, Pritchard described the firm as an “industrial manufacturing and technology business”. But the firm’s website reveals it is a weapons maker, producing ballistics, ammunition and plant equipment for the production of ammunition."
#ToryCorruption https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/mark-pritchard-mp-north-macedonia-ats-group-arms-weapons-serbia-bribery-arrest-shefshet-demirovski/

2024-01-16 10:54:34

"On a walk around the Science Museum in London, Mr Griffith pointed to an exhibit showing the surfaces of different planets, the House magazine reported. “Now we have got Mars,” he said, before being told by a member of museum staff that it was actually the Sun...
Insisting he is learning on the job as space minister, he said: “I’m not an encyclopaedia.”"
Most of us learnt to distinguish bodies in the solar system while we were still at school, you thick muppet! https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-space-minister-andrew-griffith-b2478911.html