We 🇺🇸 should be the ones saying thank you to Ukrainians for laying down their lives to fight for freedom and democracy. Courage is in short supply these days, but Zelenskyy has it in spades.
Straight up climate change denialism here from Tice, which, as far as I can see, represents a pivot from Reform who, having bemoaned the cost of net zero for a while, are now saying the quiet (anti scientific and utterly incorrect) bit out loud
What a spectacle. An Anglican bishop using their automatic seat in the House of Lords to defend another unjustifiable privilege: laws mandating daily worship in all state-funded schools. It's time to end mandatory worship - and the bishops' bench should go with it.
Can we please have a moratorium on the phrase 'breaks silence', which is increasingly being used as an alternative to 'comments on'?
In this case, Tony Iommi was the one to announce the reunion in the first place!
Contrary view: Religious offence is never a justification for violence & countries that criminalise blasphemy tend to see more religious violence than others because they legitimise the premise of it
Human lives are worth infinitely more than ‘sacred’ texts
End blasphemy laws
In case you missed it:
Harriet Harman, former BBC Director-General Lord Birt, and Lord Scriven have introduced an amendment to reform Parliament so that bishops can no longer claim 26 automatic reserved seats in the House of Lords.
Long overdue reform! https://t.co/oFxevD4GBv
He fucking blew it out of the park with this answer, and the vast, vast majority of the country agrees with him regarding this, even if they may not like him or support him.
🚨NEW: Prince William is due to receive £millions of taxpayers’ money from a vacant prison that may never reopen
While HMP Dartmoor sits empty, the taxpayer is liable to pay the lease to the Prince - inc. a £68 million dilapidations clause
w/@HarryYorke1
https://t.co/FsODA4yGxG
The idea of '15 minute cities' is so benevolent and inoffensive that there's really no hope for any progressive idea if the alt right can successfully turn it into some sort of weird conspiracy.
Kurt Vonnegut said “We’ll go down in history as the first society that wouldn't save itself because it wasn't cost effective” and damn if that isn't exactly how this is all playing out