"Yuval Noah Harari backs critique of leftist ‘indifference’ to Hamas atrocities"
"There is no contradiction between staunchly opposing the Israeli subjugation and occupation of Palestinians and unequivocally condemning brutal acts of violence against innocent civilians. In fact, every consistent leftist must hold both positions simultaneously."
#YuvalNoahHarari #Israel #Palestine #Hamas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/24/yuval-noah-harari-backs-critique-of-leftist-indifference-to-hamas-atrocities
Back to Green Party conference, and a fringe session "Our shared commons - from land to sea", with guest speakers naturalist Nadia Shaikh and economist Guy Standing.
An important point made my Standing is that the very idea of a 'tragedy of the commons' is an ahistorical nonsense.
#GreenParty #GPC23 #NadiaSheikh #GuyStanding #Commons #TragedyOfTheCommons
I'm now Covid and flu-jabbed for the coming winter.
This is good, but why do residents of a well-serviced town with ~15k residents have to make a 50km round trip by car to a small village pharmacy in a neighbouring county to get their vaccinations?
#Covid #flu #vaccination
Green Party deputy leader Zac Polanski speaking now at conference. He talks of identity, or rather the complex tapestry of identities that make up individuals and communities.
Well said, Zac!
#GreenParty #GPC23 #ZacPolanski #IdentityPolitics
"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Cars having to do 20mph on the Tower Bridge Road. Men who aren’t allowed to see their kids – they know why – taking 19 goes with an angle-grinder to disable a camera in Chingford … All those moments will be lost, like tears in rain..."
#MarinaHyde on twat with a podcast #LaurenceFox.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/06/ulez-camera-laurence-fox?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
Green Party conference is hybrid in-room/online, and, despite some teething issues with online voting on amendments from the floor, it's working pretty well even in the first plenary session.
The chairing of this technical session is very good.
#GreenParty #GPC23
Almost entirely absent from the coverage today of the Rutherglen by-election is the cause of said election, and reason for much constituency dissatisfaction with the SNP: the public disgrace of former MP Margaret Ferrier.
#Rutherglen #MargaretFerrier #SNP #Labour
Stonking leaders' speech at Green Party conference, following a warm-up from Caroline Lucas MP and her hopeful successor in Brighton, Sian Berry.
#GreenParty
@b55ee24c Is that a national poll, and if so how sampled? Labour's 18.6% translated to a single MP, and it's still an enormous leap to extrapolate from Rutherglen to the country as a whole. Still, congrats to Michael Shanks on his victory. He certainly worked for it!
After all the nonsense with the Tory turd-polishing fest, and the Tweedledum and Tweedledee party conferences, note that the Green Party of Englandandwales conference begins today in Brighton, and that of Plaid Cymru in Aberystwyth. The Green Party supports independence for Wales.
I shall be taking part in the Green Party conference online. Every member is entitled to attend, and all participants have a vote. How's that for party democracy?
#GreenParty #PlaidCymru #Wales
After all the nonsense with the Tory turd-polishing fest, and the Tweedledum and Tweedledee party conferences, note that the Green Party of Englandandwales conference begins today in Brighton, and that of Plaid Cymru in Aberystwyth. The Green Party supports independence for Wales.
I shall be taking part in the Green Party conference online. Every member is entitled to attend, and all participants have a vote. How's that for party democracy?
#GreenParty #PlaidCymru #Wales
@b55ee24c
Interesting piece, Sean, but extrapolating from a single by-election forced by the public disgrace of a sitting MP to a landslide victory across the country is a bit of a leap. Is there reliable polling to suggest that the entire nation will go Scottish Labour (Optional Identity Mark) at the general election?
#Rutherglen #Labour #SNP
I understand that 'Scottish Labour' (Optional Identity Mark) now have a second MP in the English parliament. For the next few months at least. Congratulations to Sir Keir.
#Scotland #Labour
In his speed to the Tory turd-polishing fest yesterday, Rishi Sunak 'joked'...
"Nicola Sturgeon wanted to go down in the history books as the woman who broke up our country. But it now looks like she may go down for very different reasons."
Isn't that Contempt of Court in Scottish law, where it applies from arrest, and not charge as in Englandandwales?
Could RishGPT be extradited to Edinburgh?
#RishiSunak #NicolaSturgeon #PoliceScotland
"RishGPT veers between dull and delusional in Tory conference speech"
"He just sounds awkward. Detached. Words tumble out in more or less the right order but they are drained of emotional intelligence. He’s bet the house on himself and he can’t even connect with himself. He merely sounds patronising. Condescending. Listening to him speak is an ordeal."
#RishiSunak #RishGPT #CPC23 #JohnCrace
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/oct/04/rishgpt-veers-between-dull-and-delusional-in-tory-conference-speech
"Rutherglen and Hamilton West: Voters go to polls in by-election"
To those thinking of voting Labour today...
It really isn't worth the effort. Find something more productive to do with your time.
#Rutherglen #Labour
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-67007555
This is now the fourth week of next door having their patio repaved, and the builders are using every conceivable power tool under the sun to carry out the infernal work. I work from home exclusively, and the OH hybrid.
The neighbours never even notified us what was going to happen. Bastards.
That's broken Britain for you.
What's Rishi Sunak going to do about it?
Eh? EH?
FFS!
#BrokenBritain #NeighboursFromHell
Judicial review incoming...
"If Rishi Sunak does not reverse the changes he announced last month, Mr Packham said he will apply to the High Court to challenge this in a judicial review, arguing that such a delay is unlawful given the Government is required to follow a series of carbon budget plans on the way to becoming net zero by 2050."
#NetZero #ChrisPackham #RishiSunak
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/rishi-sunak-chris-packham-tv-presenter-government-parliament-b2423630.html
We are, apparently, in "World Space Week", but I have no idea what that actually means in practice.
For our planet, Terra, every week is World Space Week. It hangs there, in space, for billions of years.
#WorldSpaceWeek
Vitaly Milonov, Russian politician...
"Human evolution involves good mutations and bad ones. The good ones improve their vitality, and the bad ones - such stupid Neanderthals - slowly die... I'm talking about Ukrainian statehood and the national idea. I deny them the right to exist. Ukraine is beautiful as cultural variations of the Russian people. But she couldn’t do it on her own."
#VitalyMilonov #Russia #Ukraine #RussianImperialism #fascism
https://www.kp.ru/daily/27562.5/4831177/
"Climate scientist faces sack for refusing to fly to Germany from Solomon Islands archipelago | Greenhouse gas emissions"
The issue with #GianlucaGrimalda is bigger than his refusal to fly. It appears to be linked to membership of #ScientistRebellion. If Kiel IfW wishes to forbid climate activism among its employees, it should say so, and write this into HR conditions, even if this draws unwelcome public attention to the institute.
#climate #KielIfW
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/04/climate-scientist-faces-sack-for-refusing-to-fly-to-germany-from-solomon-islands-archipelago
Woke this morning feeling rather discombobulated.
Got up twice in the night for a pee (pity my ageing bladder!). The first time it seemed like dawn was approaching; the second felt more like the wee hours.
There must be a wormhole in my bedroom.
#wormhole #InterdimensionalPortal #TimeSlippage #sleep
I have to admit that junior minister Gareth Davies made a reasonable stab at polishing the turd that is the Conservative's record in government. His frequent nervous swallowing was entirely incidental.
Well done that chap!
#GarethDavies #Conservatives #CPC23 #Newsnight
Liz Truss...
"I want everyone in this room to unleash their inner conservative!"
'Cry 'Havoc!' And Let Slip The Dogs Of War'
#LizTrus #CPC23 #Conservatives #wato
"Water firms want bill rises to cut leaks and spills"
Alternatively, we could renationalise the water companies without compensating shareholders who have made a killing over the past 30 years.
Just saying.
#WaterCompanies #sewage #leaks #Ofwat
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66979271
"[M]y impression is that our former partners would welcome us back, provided – after all the rubbish they have had to put up with – that we were serious.
"However, with a Brexiter prime minister and a leader of the opposition who rules out re-entry to the EU, or even the single market, we do not look serious. That is to say, our politicians do not look serious, although polling suggests that the people are way ahead of the politicians."
Add the LibDems.
#Brexit
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/oct/01/we-really-could-still-rejoin-the-eu-but-tory-britain-isnt-up-to-it?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
General Mark Milley...
"We don’t take an oath to a country. We don’t take an oath to a tribe. We don’t take an oath to a religion.
"We don’t take an oath to a king, or queen, or tyrant or a dictator, and we don’t take an oath to a wannabe dictator.
"We don’t take an oath to an individual. We take an oath to the constitution, and we take an oath to the idea that is America, and we’re willing to die to protect it.”
#MarkMilley #Trump
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/sep/29/mark-milley-retiring-trump-dictator
"Green Party plans to double membership fees amid legal woes"
Aside from the innumerate headline, this gives the impression that the #GreenParty is in danger of going bust. It's actually growing rapidly and achieving huge electoral successes. Money is tight, not least as we don't accept corporate donations for ethical reasons. The legal case brought by a vexatious former deputy leader over our support for transgender people is serious, but ultimately a distraction.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66935750
"Why finding alien life in Universe is now 'only a matter of time'"
Indeed, and like one of the scientists referenced in this piece, I'd be surprised if there was no life on one of Jupiter's icy moons. Europa is the most likely candidate.
#AlienLife #exobiology #Jupiter #Europa
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66950930
"Crooked House pub: police investigating fire arrest man and woman"
"Staffordshire police said a 34-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man, both from Leicestershire, had been arrested on Wednesday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson with intent or being reckless as to whether life was endangered."
Crooked House pub owners Carly and Adam Taylor are 34 and 44, respectively. They hail from Leicestershire.
#CrookedHouse
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/sep/28/crooked-house-pub-police-investigating-fire-arrest-man-and-woman
"Now Sunak blames Covid for failing railways as he repeatedly dodges HS2 questions in excruciating interviews"
Human beings are stupid creatures who fail to learn from history. Even very, very recent history.
(That includes me, as I've momentarily forgotten the name of Sunak's immediate predecessor.)
#RishiSunak #LizTruss #BBCLocalRadio #HS2 #potholes #CarCrashInterviews
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-hs2-trains-covid-b2420128.html
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