Noted. Goodwin usually makes arguments in a broadly rational manner, using facts, accumulating data, drawing conclusions from grounds and suggesting conclusions which are more or less consistent with a society which has regard for the rule of law.
(I more or less never agree with him, his forms of fact selection (which are distortion but common in mainstream politics), or his conclusions. Like other polemicists from the PM down he leaves out facts which are unsuited to him and it isn't all that hard to see thriough him. But that's true of wet centrist liberals too, of which I suppose I am one.)
He is surrounded by people who don't do anything of the sort. People who make up facts, threaten others and act as if they have no regard for the rule of law.
For all his faults, Goodwin is useful for the moment as a measure of how a political debate is developing, and how argument can alter the Overton window.
However his use of quote marks around the word "British" referring to a man born here who has now been released as innocent and uninvolved which I quote further up is just horrible.
This is the Goodwin quote again ICYMI:
10 people suffering a mass stabbing on a train at the hands of two Black "British" men for no apparent reason.
The Fukkers with their 5 MPs seem to have a permanent chair. What about the libdems with their 72 seats? I haven't watched QT in a long time because of this blatant imbalance.
Maybe the Lib Dems are just too boring for television?
You mean they don't make racist comments or stir up race hatred like the fukkers and Jenrick? The BBC deserve to lose the licence fee if that's their raison d'etre now.
Ok, maybe it's because of their cracking sense of humour then.
Oh, it's a comedy show?
I'm sure your invite is in the post.
I'll be glued to the set.
Highly unlikely, I'm not a politician or a fukker.
Noted. Goodwin usually makes arguments in a broadly rational manner, using facts, accumulating data, drawing conclusions from grounds and suggesting conclusions which are more or less consistent with a society which has regard for the rule of law.
(I more or less never agree with him, his forms of fact selection (which are distortion but common in mainstream politics), or his conclusions. Like other polemicists from the PM down he leaves out facts which are unsuited to him and it isn't all that hard to see thriough him. But that's true of wet centrist liberals too, of which I suppose I am one.)
He is surrounded by people who don't do anything of the sort. People who make up facts, threaten others and act as if they have no regard for the rule of law.
For all his faults, Goodwin is useful for the moment as a measure of how a political debate is developing, and how argument can alter the Overton window.
However his use of quote marks around the word "British" referring to a man born here who has now been released as innocent and uninvolved which I quote further up is just horrible.
This is the Goodwin quote again ICYMI:
10 people suffering a mass stabbing on a train at the hands of two Black "British" men for no apparent reason.
The Fukkers with their 5 MPs seem to have a permanent chair. What about the libdems with their 72 seats? I haven't watched QT in a long time because of this blatant imbalance.
Question Time operate a kind of proportional representation, respecting Reform UK's higher vote share (and poll rating) rather than merely going on MP numbers.
No-one normal watches Question Time, and I haven't for years.
It's a political activists jamboree, with excessive clapping for crap points and some weird style US hooping and jeering that's crept in too.
While I cannot claim to be normal, I would like to note publicly that I haven't watched it in years.
I used to watch it more than I do now, and even attended in the audience once in Norwich. But sadly it’s better days seem in the past.
An LNER rail staff member who tried to stop the attack remains in life-threatening condition, while five others have now been discharged from hospital The actions of that LNER employee "were nothing short of heroic and undoubtedly saved many people's lives", police say
And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.
Now down to one attacker on the train, looking more and more like a mental health issue. Tragic that it leads to this much suffering.
That makes a lot more sense. Presumably the other guy clobbered him? But obviously not too much or the perpetrator would have received treatment. Nice of plod to give him a night in the cells if so!
That’s bizarre to hold him for 24 hours when there’s cctv in every carriage and rather a lot of witnesses.
Possibly racially profiled and carrying a knife? But not connected? Or perhaps he looks similar to the guy and was similarly dressed? I'd be a bit pissed off if it was me held for 24 hours after an event were I was totally innocent.
I suspect that Officer Savage might have been involved...
I suspect it was dark on the station and people were confused. The unreliability of eye-witness testimony is well known (and yet our justice system continues to rely on it).
I once saw an unfortunate event, a man jumping in front of a train. 15 minutes later, or so, I was giving my statement to the police of what I'd seen. I then overheard another witness give his statement of what he'd seen. These two statements were significantly inconsistent with each other. We were both close. This was all in daylight. I knew eyewitness evidence was poor, but that drove it home.
It’s well known that witnesses often disagree on the colour of a car used in a crime (red vs blue, not slightly)
And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.
Something that isn't an Invacar? Not made of shite blue plastic, with no room for anyone or anything else? Got to be punitive, apparently (PB passim).
The government already define it, hence the "luxury car tax". Its something I don't think people have noticed was part of the last budget that it now hits a lot more cars and will add £2.5k to your tax bill over 5 years.
The threshold is now such that if your blinge out your Nissan Qashqui a bit it can tip into luxury car tax territory.....
So we are headed potentially down the "disabled people are not allowed to be like everybody else, and are required to be miserable and have poorer lifestyles" route - at least to some extent.
Having a new car every three years is not normal. I'm a nice middle class boy with nice middle class parents and neither I nor they have ever had a new car.
Disabled people who need modified cars should have one scheme, with the VAT break.
Those who don't can make their own arrangements, with their PIP, and no VAT break.
Most things you would hope to get 10 years out of. Phones don't quite make that. Computers, Washing machines, Dishwashers, Fridges, Boilers... they're all around 10 years.
Cars are too.
My parents had cars that lasted for 17 and 16 years respectively from early 2000s to late 2010s.
No doubt. It seems that about 10 years is the expectation though.
I have an Apple II computer in the loft. It certainly worked last time I switched it on (35 years ago maybe). I rather expect it to still work, but I'm aware that the capacitors (perhaps other things) might decide otherwise.
And anyway I've no idea how I'd connect it to a monitor.
I have a Sun Sparc II and a Sun whatever small workstation in front of me, used as monitor stands. I bought them from Ebay 20-odd years back in order to upskill myself after a long period of unemployment. Then I got a job a week or so later so there was no point. One day I shall pay someone to come and take them to an e-waste recycling facility.
You probably get enough on eBay to make it worth your while. Even if they’re dead; people like to retrofit the cases with something modern.
They're certainly popular with the tinkerer crowd. *BSD runs on them quite the thing, Though probably a good use as a shell for an rpi 5 now...
QEMU will happily run Solaris and building it on Raspberry Pi OS isn’t hard so you can fake the whole thing.
And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
According to Goodwin, I think probably not.
Then again, according to him, the leader of the Conservative Party isn't particularly British, either. Possibly less so than the two guys arrested after the train incident.
How his world view differentiates between them in terms of Britishness is frankly beyond me.
Noted. Goodwin usually makes arguments in a broadly rational manner, using facts, accumulating data, drawing conclusions from grounds and suggesting conclusions which are more or less consistent with a society which has regard for the rule of law.
(I more or less never agree with him, his forms of fact selection (which are distortion but common in mainstream politics), or his conclusions. Like other polemicists from the PM down he leaves out facts which are unsuited to him and it isn't all that hard to see thriough him. But that's true of wet centrist liberals too, of which I suppose I am one.)
He is surrounded by people who don't do anything of the sort. People who make up facts, threaten others and act as if they have no regard for the rule of law.
For all his faults, Goodwin is useful for the moment as a measure of how a political debate is developing, and how argument can alter the Overton window.
However his use of quote marks around the word "British" referring to a man born here who has now been released as innocent and uninvolved which I quote further up is just horrible.
This is the Goodwin quote again ICYMI:
10 people suffering a mass stabbing on a train at the hands of two Black "British" men for no apparent reason.
I do think he's gone off the side of the map a bit.
I think that's what Twitter can do to people.. see Carol Voderman, J K Rowling, AC Grayling, Andrew Adonis etc.
He appears to think that someone who is Black can't be British. That seems definitionally racist.
That's a bit of a stretch. I suspect he jumped to a conclusion that the authorities knew more than they let on. Whilst they might have held a British passport they might have been a recent immigrant, like Axel Rudakubana, who don't really have much loyalty to the country and for whom the passport is a flag of convenience.
Now, he looks rather silly. But I don't think he's a racist.
I know one when I see one, like Tommy Robinson or the EDL mob.
Axel Rudakubana was born in the UK. He was not an immigrant.
Your interpretation of Goodwin's comments is possible, but seems generous. It was reported pretty early on that both men were born in the UK. Goodwin, on other occasions, has shown a very narrow definition of British that basically equates to White British or having been born in Britain.
And it was reported early on that the police had arrested two Black Britons of very similar age and sex, both for attempted murder, and it turned out later one of whom was entirely innocent.
See how this works?
I am unclear how that excuses Goodwin?
He doesn't need to be excused. It's a silly tweet in the heat of the moment where he assumed the authorities knew more but were playing it down, like they were recent migrants who held a technical British passport but had no real loyalty to the country. That's his shtick. Now, he looks silly because he's jumped to a conclusion. And he wasn't the only one.
If he exhibits or starts to exhibit a pattern of racist behaviour suggesting he is in fact one you can be assured I'll be one of the first to say it.
This isn't it.
Bollocks. If you read his tweet he talks about non Britishness persisting for several generations.
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
The first 40 on Strictly this year was this weekend and did you know they used Radiohead's Creep as the soundtrack.
An LNER rail staff member who tried to stop the attack remains in life-threatening condition, while five others have now been discharged from hospital The actions of that LNER employee "were nothing short of heroic and undoubtedly saved many people's lives", police say
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
The first 40 on Strictly this year was this weekend and did you know they used Radiohead's Creep as the soundtrack.
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
The first 40 on Strictly this year was this weekend and did you know they used Radiohead's Creep as the soundtrack.
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
The first 40 on Strictly this year was this weekend and did you know they used Radiohead's Creep as the soundtrack.
An LNER rail staff member who tried to stop the attack remains in life-threatening condition, while five others have now been discharged from hospital The actions of that LNER employee "were nothing short of heroic and undoubtedly saved many people's lives", police say
An LNER rail staff member who tried to stop the attack remains in life-threatening condition, while five others have now been discharged from hospital The actions of that LNER employee "were nothing short of heroic and undoubtedly saved many people's lives", police say
I know J Edgar was weird, but this FBI director is something else.
Facing criticism for taking an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, then firing an FBI official over it, Kash Patel says his girlfriend is a "country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in ten lifetimes." https://x.com/willsommer/status/1985063754464112927
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
The first 40 on Strictly this year was this weekend and did you know they used Radiohead's Creep as the soundtrack.
I know J Edgar was weird, but this FBI director is something else.
Facing criticism for taking an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, then firing an FBI official over it, Kash Patel says his girlfriend is a "country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in ten lifetimes." https://x.com/willsommer/status/1985063754464112927
He sacked the guy he thought leaked the flight records
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
The first 40 on Strictly this year was this weekend and did you know they used Radiohead's Creep as the soundtrack.
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
The first 40 on Strictly this year was this weekend and did you know they used Radiohead's Creep as the soundtrack.
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
I'm sorry TSE, but Britishness is a function of certain behaviours and manners; certain choices of music and pizza toppings; even one's choice of footwear.
The first 40 on Strictly this year was this weekend and did you know they used Radiohead's Creep as the soundtrack.
And the mass exodus of the rich and highest earners from NYC to Houston, Miami, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Milan, Singapore, Abu Dhabi...begins in 5, 4, 3 2, 1
Asking for a friend, did I become 'British' the moment I picked up my first speeding ticket?
According to Goodwin, I think probably not.
Then again, according to him, the leader of the Conservative Party isn't particularly British, either. Possibly less so than the two guys arrested after the train incident.
How his world view differentiates between them in terms of Britishness is frankly beyond me.
I like Kemi, and wouldn’t be upset if she were PM, but it’s not much of a stretch to say she isn’t particularly British. It’s an attack Labour can’t use though obviously.
And the mass exodus of the rich and highest earners from NYC to Houston, Miami, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Milan, Singapore, Abu Dhabi...begins in 5, 4, 3 2, 1
I don't understand this, why would he cause rich people to leave? It's not like he has control of income tax. He wants rent control on apartments which would cause shortages of low-cost apartments and free buses which would have a mixture of effects but I don't think any of that would affect rich people?
Looking at reports of what the suspect in the train attack said about the devil it’s looking increasingly likely that he was suffering from a mental illness , possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
Looking at reports of what the suspect in the train attack said about the devil it’s looking increasingly likely that he was suffering from a mental illness , possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
That can't be right surely??
80% of twitter has spent the last 24 hours declaring the end of England as we know it and calling for the death penalty, banning dark skinned people from trains and mass deportations as this was clearly terrorism.
Titanic survivor recalls harrowing moment ship sank
In the BBC documentary The Great Liners from 1979, he vividly depicted the harrowing events of that historic night, one that continued to haunt him in his dreams for decades afterward.
Looking at reports of what the suspect in the train attack said about the devil it’s looking increasingly likely that he was suffering from a mental illness , possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
That can't be right surely??
80% of twitter has spent the last 24 hours declaring the end of England as we know it and calling for the death penalty, banning dark skinned people from trains and mass deportations as this was clearly terrorism.
They can't all be wrong can they?
Proof it were needed that Katie Lam is a Goddess and Jenrick a pint sized Soothsayer.
As for X, Elon often seems to be demanding civil war here in Blighty, which is probably a very nice idea from the safety of a mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
Looking at reports of what the suspect in the train attack said about the devil it’s looking increasingly likely that he was suffering from a mental illness , possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
That can't be right surely??
80% of twitter has spent the last 24 hours declaring the end of England as we know it and calling for the death penalty, banning dark skinned people from trains and mass deportations as this was clearly terrorism.
They can't all be wrong can they?
I’d say it will be more than likely, as in a greater than a 50% chance, that this man was a cannabis smoker
And the mass exodus of the rich and highest earners from NYC to Houston, Miami, Dallas, Buenos Aires, Geneva, Milan, Singapore, Abu Dhabi...begins in 5, 4, 3 2, 1
I don't understand this, why would he cause rich people to leave? It's not like he has control of income tax. He wants rent control on apartments which would cause shortages of low-cost apartments and free buses which would have a mixture of effects but I don't think any of that would affect rich people?
Yes which would hit landlords and he wants a 2% extra tax on incomes over $1 million and he wants to significantly increase corporate taxes as well to 11.5%.
The Jewish vote in NYC also are largely voting for Cuomo as they see Mamdani as anti Zionist
Looking at reports of what the suspect in the train attack said about the devil it’s looking increasingly likely that he was suffering from a mental illness , possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
That can't be right surely??
80% of twitter has spent the last 24 hours declaring the end of England as we know it and calling for the death penalty, banning dark skinned people from trains and mass deportations as this was clearly terrorism.
They can't all be wrong can they?
I’d say it will be more than likely, as in a greater than a 50% chance, that this man was a cannabis smoker
But is the cannabis smoking causation or correlation regarding the guy's anxiety?
Looking at reports of what the suspect in the train attack said about the devil it’s looking increasingly likely that he was suffering from a mental illness , possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
That can't be right surely??
80% of twitter has spent the last 24 hours declaring the end of England as we know it and calling for the death penalty, banning dark skinned people from trains and mass deportations as this was clearly terrorism.
They can't all be wrong can they?
Proof it were needed that Katie Lam is a Goddess and Jenrick a pint sized Soothsayer.
As for X, Elon often seems to be demanding civil war here in Blighty, which is probably a very nice idea from the safety of a mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
The US all peace and love for The Don at the moment of course, certainly no big protests in their big cities a few weeks ago
Looking at reports of what the suspect in the train attack said about the devil it’s looking increasingly likely that he was suffering from a mental illness , possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
That can't be right surely??
80% of twitter has spent the last 24 hours declaring the end of England as we know it and calling for the death penalty, banning dark skinned people from trains and mass deportations as this was clearly terrorism.
They can't all be wrong can they?
They can but you should be absolutely sure that there will not be the tiniest admission that they were wrong. In fact an identical wrongness will be deployed when the next unfortunate I can’t believe it’s not terrorism incident occurs.
Looking at reports of what the suspect in the train attack said about the devil it’s looking increasingly likely that he was suffering from a mental illness , possibly paranoid schizophrenia.
That can't be right surely??
80% of twitter has spent the last 24 hours declaring the end of England as we know it and calling for the death penalty, banning dark skinned people from trains and mass deportations as this was clearly terrorism.
They can't all be wrong can they?
I’d say it will be more than likely, as in a greater than a 50% chance, that this man was a cannabis smoker
But is the cannabis smoking causation or correlation regarding the guy's anxiety?
He'll never see the light of day again. Another incident to be mentioned in the forthcoming obituary for social care in the UK.
Drug use certainly complicates these conditions massively but a good proportion - about 33% - of individuals with this condition are resistant to treatment no matter what. But I get your point Isam, weed doesn't help.
My own feeling is that schizophrenia, being a disorder revolving around salience, can easily be pinned to a disrupted endocannabinoid system - a system that governs motivational salience, and that ultimately it will turn out that it is disrupted from birth and that cannabis use can be both a catalyst to make said disrupted system worse, but also a means to deal with said disrupted system. But some people will be testable in advance so as to be able to warn them. I have zero empirical evidence to back this up though.
My own feeling is also that because the endocannabinoid system governs salience, if you trigger it with weed, the system tells you whatever you are doing right now (smoking weed) is incredibly important, which results in a feedback loop where people become incredibly evangelical about the benefits of weed, which then becomes cultural to the point that, if you've got two drugs for cancer, one endocannabinoid and the other not, people will ask for the endocannabinoid one even if it's less effective (there IS empirical evidence for this last part.) So arguing against weed is an uphill struggle.
2nd quarter, Seahawks leading the Commanders 7-0. (The Washington Commanders used to be the "Redskins", which made for fun when they played the Dallas "Cowboys".
2nd quarter, Seahawks leading the Commanders 7-0. (The Washington Commanders used to be the "Redskins", which made for fun when they played the Dallas "Cowboys".
Tomorrow the Sounders play Minnesota at Lumen Field, which is the much more interesting game.
You don't see it as problematical that Trump appointed corrupt or incompetent leaders to the FDA?
The FDA is a mess. That's probably the nicest way to describe the current, dysfunctional state of a vital regulatory agency.
Exhibit 1: Our exclusive reporting tonight on the fall of CDER Director George Tidmarsh
Exhibit 2: @LizzyLaw_exclusive reporting from Friday on a simmering feud between CBER Director Vinay Prasad and his staff, causing many of them to be fired or flee.
The interconnecting thread: a petty, vindictive power struggle amongst the FDA's leadership. It's like a bad high school melodrama.
For example, this shows that over the period Jan 2024 to June 2025, all respiratory viruses were seasonal (coronavirus and influenza peaking Jan-Mar; parainfluenza Apr-Jun etc) except SARS-CoV-2, which is still year round.
For example, this shows that over the period Jan 2024 to June 2025, all respiratory viruses were seasonal (coronavirus and influenza peaking Jan-Mar; parainfluenza Apr-Jun etc) except SARS-CoV-2, which is still year round.
The vast majority of viruses are plant viruses.
If I remember correctly an example Big Dom gave of something that was good that came out of COVID but quickly got kicked into the long grass once it was over was setting up a testing regime for monitoring sewage.
For example, this shows that over the period Jan 2024 to June 2025, all respiratory viruses were seasonal (coronavirus and influenza peaking Jan-Mar; parainfluenza Apr-Jun etc) except SARS-CoV-2, which is still year round.
The vast majority of viruses are plant viruses.
If I remember correctly an example Big Dom gave of something that was good that came out of COVID but quickly got kicked into the long grass once it was over was setting up a testing regime for monitoring sewage.
Not exactly. This came out of the development of nanopore sequencing (a UK invention), which originated long before Covid, but only became mass market during the pandemic.
And it's still quite expensive to do on a national scale, though costs continue to fall. Budget constraints...priorities...
Fairly soon it will be cheap enough even for our impoverished stars.
For example, this shows that over the period Jan 2024 to June 2025, all respiratory viruses were seasonal (coronavirus and influenza peaking Jan-Mar; parainfluenza Apr-Jun etc) except SARS-CoV-2, which is still year round.
The vast majority of viruses are plant viruses.
What a coincidence. The vast majority of people controlling the sewage are plant life.
When does Trump realise that Putin cannot win this war?
In a sense, Putin has already lost, in the sense it will be nearly impossible to achieve his aims and he's spent a fortune plus caused massive damage and destruction to his own country while failing to get what he wants.
In another sense, Ukraine is in difficulty, and it is not out of the question Russia could still force a victory of sorts. Particularly given they have Trump's backing, whether tacit or overt (and that depends on what day of the week it is).
I know J Edgar was weird, but this FBI director is something else.
Facing criticism for taking an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, then firing an FBI official over it, Kash Patel says his girlfriend is a "country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in ten lifetimes." https://x.com/willsommer/status/1985063754464112927
I think this is pretty standard for those at the top of the Trump Kleptocracy. Treating national public assets as personal is the new normal.
It puts a few Taylor Swift tickets into perspective.
And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.
Which is why Trump will try and stop the midterms from happening
He doesn’t have to stop them. The Republicans will use gerrymandering, helped by SCOTUS abolishing the Voting Rights Act. He can have ICE agents at polling stations to intimidates Democrat voters. Maybe arrest a few Democrat politicians, raid some campaigning offices on terrorism charges. Seize voting machines and ballots after “discoveries” of fraud. Maybe shut down some media who don’t tow the line.
It will be interesting to find out if the suspect in the train incident bought a ticket. I think Peterborough has ticket barriers and I don’t think it was so late that they’d have been open. If he did, that will count against any mental health claims.
It will be interesting to find out if the suspect in the train incident bought a ticket. I think Peterborough has ticket barriers and I don’t think it was so late that they’d have been open. If he did, that will count against any mental health claims.
There's a whole can of worms... Supposing he didn't buy a ticket and pushed through. Jenrick would be all over it.
It will be interesting to find out if the suspect in the train incident bought a ticket. I think Peterborough has ticket barriers and I don’t think it was so late that they’d have been open. If he did, that will count against any mental health claims.
Not a mental health expert but pretty sure that randomly stabbing a train full of people is a bigger indication of being a bit loopy than buying a ticket is an indicator of not being a bit loopy.
And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.
Which is why Trump will try and stop the midterms from happening
He doesn’t have to stop them. The Republicans will use gerrymandering, helped by SCOTUS abolishing the Voting Rights Act. He can have ICE agents at polling stations to intimidates Democrat voters. Maybe arrest a few Democrat politicians, raid some campaigning offices on terrorism charges. Seize voting machines and ballots after “discoveries” of fraud. Maybe shut down some media who don’t tow the line.
Actually cancelling elections is something that even tyrants don't like to do- it is too much of a visible crossing of an "are we the baddies?" line.
Managing the electoral process, so that the outcome truly reflects the will of the people, on the other hand...
It will be interesting to find out if the suspect in the train incident bought a ticket. I think Peterborough has ticket barriers and I don’t think it was so late that they’d have been open. If he did, that will count against any mental health claims.
They would have been open that time of night (as staff numbers reduce they need to be left open) but we are all making the flaw of trying to work out what happened without the details.
And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.
Which is why Trump will try and stop the midterms from happening
He doesn’t have to stop them. The Republicans will use gerrymandering, helped by SCOTUS abolishing the Voting Rights Act. He can have ICE agents at polling stations to intimidates Democrat voters. Maybe arrest a few Democrat politicians, raid some campaigning offices on terrorism charges. Seize voting machines and ballots after “discoveries” of fraud. Maybe shut down some media who don’t tow the line.
Actually cancelling elections is something that even tyrants don't like to do- it is too much of a visible crossing of an "are we the baddies?" line.
Managing the electoral process, so that the outcome truly reflects the will of the people, on the other hand...
Yet we cancelled plenty of local elections this year because we’d get the wrong result we’re reorganising local govt
It will be interesting to find out if the suspect in the train incident bought a ticket. I think Peterborough has ticket barriers and I don’t think it was so late that they’d have been open. If he did, that will count against any mental health claims.
They would have been open that time of night (as staff numbers reduce they need to be left open) but we are all making the flaw of trying to work out what happened without the details.
They wouldn’t be open at Woking at that time of night. But Peterborough might be different.
And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.
Which is why Trump will try and stop the midterms from happening
He doesn’t have to stop them. The Republicans will use gerrymandering, helped by SCOTUS abolishing the Voting Rights Act. He can have ICE agents at polling stations to intimidates Democrat voters. Maybe arrest a few Democrat politicians, raid some campaigning offices on terrorism charges. Seize voting machines and ballots after “discoveries” of fraud. Maybe shut down some media who don’t tow the line.
Actually cancelling elections is something that even tyrants don't like to do- it is too much of a visible crossing of an "are we the baddies?" line.
Managing the electoral process, so that the outcome truly reflects the will of the people, on the other hand...
Yet we cancelled plenty of local elections this year because we’d get the wrong result we’re reorganising local govt
It’s different when we do it 😉
Stuart pointed out that tyrants don’t like to cancel elections. Starmer cancelled elections. This proves Starmer is not a tyrant.
It will be interesting to find out if the suspect in the train incident bought a ticket. I think Peterborough has ticket barriers and I don’t think it was so late that they’d have been open. If he did, that will count against any mental health claims.
Its been suggested elsewhere that the ticket check after the Peterborough stop is what triggered this guy.
It will be interesting to find out if the suspect in the train incident bought a ticket. I think Peterborough has ticket barriers and I don’t think it was so late that they’d have been open. If he did, that will count against any mental health claims.
They would have been open that time of night (as staff numbers reduce they need to be left open) but we are all making the flaw of trying to work out what happened without the details.
They wouldn’t be open at Woking at that time of night. But Peterborough might be different.
What did I say about making assumptions without facts.
If this was WCML Peterborough would have been on minimal staff with everyone else working at Doncaster to manage the buses (I expect ECML would be the same but I don’t know the EVML rules for bus replacement staffing).
I said at the time it would have been the ticket inspection that triggered him but we don’t know that for a fact until we hear the story
Noted. Goodwin usually makes arguments in a broadly rational manner, using facts, accumulating data, drawing conclusions from grounds and suggesting conclusions which are more or less consistent with a society which has regard for the rule of law.
(I more or less never agree with him, his forms of fact selection (which are distortion but common in mainstream politics), or his conclusions. Like other polemicists from the PM down he leaves out facts which are unsuited to him and it isn't all that hard to see thriough him. But that's true of wet centrist liberals too, of which I suppose I am one.)
He is surrounded by people who don't do anything of the sort. People who make up facts, threaten others and act as if they have no regard for the rule of law.
For all his faults, Goodwin is useful for the moment as a measure of how a political debate is developing, and how argument can alter the Overton window.
However his use of quote marks around the word "British" referring to a man born here who has now been released as innocent and uninvolved which I quote further up is just horrible.
This is the Goodwin quote again ICYMI:
10 people suffering a mass stabbing on a train at the hands of two Black "British" men for no apparent reason.
I do think he's gone off the side of the map a bit.
I think that's what Twitter can do to people.. see Carol Voderman, J K Rowling, AC Grayling, Andrew Adonis etc.
He appears to think that someone who is Black can't be British. That seems definitionally racist.
That's a bit of a stretch. I suspect he jumped to a conclusion that the authorities knew more than they let on. Whilst they might have held a British passport they might have been a recent immigrant, like Axel Rudakubana, who don't really have much loyalty to the country and for whom the passport is a flag of convenience.
Now, he looks rather silly. But I don't think he's a racist.
I know one when I see one, like Tommy Robinson or the EDL mob.
Axel Rudakubana was born in the UK. He was not an immigrant.
Your interpretation of Goodwin's comments is possible, but seems generous. It was reported pretty early on that both men were born in the UK. Goodwin, on other occasions, has shown a very narrow definition of British that basically equates to White British or having been born in Britain.
And it was reported early on that the police had arrested two Black Britons of very similar age and sex, both for attempted murder, and it turned out later one of whom was entirely innocent.
See how this works?
I am unclear how that excuses Goodwin?
He doesn't need to be excused. It's a silly tweet in the heat of the moment where he assumed the authorities knew more but were playing it down, like they were recent migrants who held a technical British passport but had no real loyalty to the country. That's his shtick. Now, he looks silly because he's jumped to a conclusion. And he wasn't the only one.
If he exhibits or starts to exhibit a pattern of racist behaviour suggesting he is in fact one you can be assured I'll be one of the first to say it.
This isn't it.
His tweet was posted at 3.48pm some five hours after police press conference when they said both the suspects were British born.
I respect your political views and am not seeking to personalise this but I do feel you are falling into the trap that you sometimes call others out on.
You see yourself on the same side (broadly) as Goodwin and so seek the most generous interpretation of his views.
Yet you are tying yourself in knots seeking to deny the obvious; Goodwin is racist and his use of quotation marks around British was both inflammatory and racist.
It is possible he jumped to conclusions, it is possible he saw this as a conspiracy theory, it is possible he has some weird loyalty test before accepting someone is British in the way you describe.
These things are all the hallmarks of a racist and unless you, I and other sane people regularly call it out, things are going to get worse in this country. Just as if I on the left stay quiet about Polanski's 'optimistic' take on the field of economics because I like what he is saying politically I am doing this country a disservice.
I know we said most Russian oil exports are crude rather than refined oil but if all their refineries end up being taken out where will the Russians themselves get refined oil from? Or do those T72s run on crude oil?
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum’s opening.
I know we said most Russian oil exports are crude rather than refined oil but if all their refineries end up being taken out where will the Russians themselves get refined oil from? Or do those T72s run on crude oil?
According to Steve Rosenberg's (BBC Russia) latest paper review, pump prices have actually fallen slightly last week, and also Russia has begun calling up reservists to guard oil refineries (although there was no mention of how they are to do this).
Also, food prices are rising and sales falling, and Russian firms are taking on freelancers to avoid payroll taxes and other employment costs (resonance here?). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HncXBqcedCg
Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum’s opening.
When does Trump realise that Putin cannot win this war?
When does Trump realise that allowing Russian aggression in Ukraine to continue unchallenged and as a result this increases a further threat for the Eastern block countries that border Russia which will eventually impact on US Foreign Affairs, but also more importantly the vital future reliance of the allies of the US in the Western NATO alliance if he as President fails and lets them down? If he wants that Nobel peace prize so much, then he has to make sure that Ukraine wins enough ground that Putin has to give up and back down enough that he will not be back in a position to come back and take another slice out of Ukraine any not only anytime soon, but in his lifetime!
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And one year before the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats lead Republicans in the fight for Congress by 8 points, 50%-42%, the largest lead for either party on the congressional ballot in the NBC News poll since the 2018 midterms.
https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1984988752389812698
Only against Australia do I sing the national anthem, 'God save YOUR Queen*.'
*King now.
Perhaps combined with some electonic voting machine trickery.
Then again, according to him, the leader of the Conservative Party isn't particularly British, either. Possibly less so than the two guys arrested after the train incident.
How his world view differentiates between them in terms of Britishness is frankly beyond me.
If you read his tweet he talks about non Britishness persisting for several generations.
Don't sane wash him.
Coincidence? I think not.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcKn15Vz_H8&list=RDhcKn15Vz_H8&start_radio=1
Facing criticism for taking an FBI jet to see his girlfriend sing at a wrestling match, then firing an FBI official over it, Kash Patel says his girlfriend is a "country music sensation who has done more for this nation than most will in ten lifetimes."
https://x.com/willsommer/status/1985063754464112927
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You’re reading my last post on this hate-addled pipe of septicaemia. Goodbye all!
https://x.com/Aiannucci/status/1985110500259373348#m
80% of twitter has spent the last 24 hours declaring the end of England as we know it and calling for the death penalty, banning dark skinned people from trains and mass deportations as this was clearly terrorism.
They can't all be wrong can they?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdvdi0rQ6SU
Titanic survivor recalls harrowing moment ship sank
In the BBC documentary The Great Liners from 1979, he vividly depicted the harrowing events of that historic night, one that continued to haunt him in his dreams for decades afterward.
As for X, Elon often seems to be demanding civil war here in Blighty, which is probably a very nice idea from the safety of a mansion in the Hollywood Hills.
The Jewish vote in NYC also are largely voting for Cuomo as they see Mamdani as anti Zionist
Not entirely sure who Charity Today are, or whether they are trustworthy. It seems a bit out of line with their other articles
https://www.charitytoday.co.uk/exclusive-huntingdon-train-attacker-was-known-to-police-the-day-before-mass-stabbing/
FDA’s top drug regulator placed on leave amid investigation
CDER Director George Tidmarsh is accused of seeking to use authority to inflict financial harm on former associate
https://x.com/matthewherper/status/1985102464815681584
Drug use certainly complicates these conditions massively but a good proportion - about 33% - of individuals with this condition are resistant to treatment no matter what. But I get your point Isam, weed doesn't help.
My own feeling is that schizophrenia, being a disorder revolving around salience, can easily be pinned to a disrupted endocannabinoid system - a system that governs motivational salience, and that ultimately it will turn out that it is disrupted from birth and that cannabis use can be both a catalyst to make said disrupted system worse, but also a means to deal with said disrupted system. But some people will be testable in advance so as to be able to warn them. I have zero empirical evidence to back this up though.
My own feeling is also that because the endocannabinoid system governs salience, if you trigger it with weed, the system tells you whatever you are doing right now (smoking weed) is incredibly important, which results in a feedback loop where people become incredibly evangelical about the benefits of weed, which then becomes cultural to the point that, if you've got two drugs for cancer, one endocannabinoid and the other not, people will ask for the endocannabinoid one even if it's less effective (there IS empirical evidence for this last part.) So arguing against weed is an uphill struggle.
The FDA is a mess. That's probably the nicest way to describe the current, dysfunctional state of a vital regulatory agency.
Exhibit 1: Our exclusive reporting tonight on the fall of CDER Director George Tidmarsh
Exhibit 2: @LizzyLaw_exclusive reporting from Friday on a simmering feud between CBER Director Vinay Prasad and his staff, causing many of them to be fired or flee.
The interconnecting thread: a petty, vindictive power struggle amongst the FDA's leadership. It's like a bad high school melodrama.
Sadly, it also puts Americans at risk.
https://x.com/adamfeuerstein/status/1985152216676626509
I get that in the rolling shitshow of this administration, it's a relatively minor point.
By monitoring sewage nationwide, you can get a comprehensive series of the occurrence of viruses over time.
Untargeted longitudinal ultra deep metagenomic sequencing of wastewater provides a comprehensive readout of expected and unexpected viral pathogens
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.27.25338874v1
For example, this shows that over the period Jan 2024 to June 2025, all respiratory viruses were seasonal (coronavirus and influenza peaking Jan-Mar; parainfluenza Apr-Jun etc) except SARS-CoV-2, which is still year round.
The vast majority of viruses are plant viruses.
https://x.com/bayraktar_1love/status/1985128167191773207
This came out of the development of nanopore sequencing (a UK invention), which originated long before Covid, but only became mass market during the pandemic.
And it's still quite expensive to do on a national scale, though costs continue to fall.
Budget constraints...priorities...
Fairly soon it will be cheap enough even for our impoverished stars.
In another sense, Ukraine is in difficulty, and it is not out of the question Russia could still force a victory of sorts. Particularly given they have Trump's backing, whether tacit or overt (and that depends on what day of the week it is).
https://www.politico.eu/article/imf-ukraine-russia-loan-eu-financial-support-war-economy/
It puts a few Taylor Swift tickets into perspective.
Be ironic if Trump gets 25th'd due to Epstein, and then Vance gets the Nobel. Heh...
Wrong sort of peacemaker. They'd probably cite the Canada and Greenland annexation moves as a reason.
I have just discovered that there used to be a department store in Bradford called Brown, Muff & Co.
Fnarr, fnarr.
Managing the electoral process, so that the outcome truly reflects the will of the people, on the other hand...
Knew it when I was a kid.
we’d get the wrong resultwe’re reorganising local govtIt’s different when we do it 😉
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn7ek63e5xyo
You can understand him losing track.
He's pardoned several convicted crypto fraudsters.
What with that and the dementia..
If this was WCML Peterborough would have been on minimal staff with everyone else working at Doncaster to manage the buses (I expect ECML would be the same but I don’t know the EVML rules for bus replacement staffing).
I said at the time it would have been the ticket inspection that triggered him but we don’t know that for a fact until we hear the story
I respect your political views and am not seeking to personalise this but I do feel you are falling into the trap that you sometimes call others out on.
You see yourself on the same side (broadly) as Goodwin and so seek the most generous interpretation of his views.
Yet you are tying yourself in knots seeking to deny the obvious; Goodwin is racist and his use of quotation marks around British was both inflammatory and racist.
It is possible he jumped to conclusions, it is possible he saw this as a conspiracy theory, it is possible he has some weird loyalty test before accepting someone is British in the way you describe.
These things are all the hallmarks of a racist and unless you, I and other sane people regularly call it out, things are going to get worse in this country. Just as if I on the left stay quiet about Polanski's 'optimistic' take on the field of economics because I like what he is saying politically I am doing this country a disservice.
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Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelaty was gifted a LEGO set of the Great Pyramid of Giza by the Danish Foreign Minister during his visit for the Grand Egyptian Museum’s opening.
Look how happy he is.
https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/1984691337627910495
https://www.railforums.co.uk/threads/awc-derailment-at-shap-summit-03-11-25.294230/
Train hit a landslip.
Also, food prices are rising and sales falling, and Russian firms are taking on freelancers to avoid payroll taxes and other employment costs (resonance here?).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HncXBqcedCg