Public executions were not abolished out of tenderness towards the criminal. They were abolished because of the effect on the people watching, and the dangers of making human death a source of commercial entertainment. Here's Charles Dickens in The Times, after witnessing an execution in 1849.

‘For years the Observer tried to get to the truth of Russian interference until we sacked the reporter involved for participating in union activities’

NEW: Prime Minister Andy Burnham finally breaks a decade of UK govt silence…& reveals there was ‘clear’ Russian interference in the Brexit vote. 1/

The side Trump has chosen to support

Considering double whammy but would bring cushions

How’s the back/bum after such a long stretch though? Are the seats there plush enough?

Deport the Home Office

EXCLUSIVE: A Syrian family in Scotland has raised concerns about Home Office decision-making after they were offered £3000 'to return to Albania' – a country none of them have ever even visited

So America is on the side of Russia. And Russia is at war with us. No one is saying it but it means America is at war with us.

Check it, nerds. Recent find of late stage Maglemosian (8400 BP) antler axe with preserved wooden handle from Egholm, Northern Jutland. Fantastic to see that we still have conditions in Denmark for such fantastic organic preservation. Because it probably won’t be long before we don’t.

Great thread on the popular movement against modi’s authoritarian regime.

The United States is the world's biggest exporter of diesel oil. Trump and the Republicans want to blame Zelensky and give money to Putin. They want to import Russian diesel while we export diesel to others. If you want to decrease diesel exports, put a windfall profits tax on the oil companies.

It would seem the Home Office has now acquired the ability to impose, without visibility or accountability, shadow bans on students coming to British universities from particular countries. How? Because of the interaction between indiv visa decisions (made by HO alone) and visa rules for unis 1/?

Anecdotally what seems to be happening is that the Home Office is refusing all student visa applications from certain countries. The Treasury should have told them to knock if off years ago but at this point the FCO needs to tell them to stop trying to cause an international incident.

Glad she’s free!

Without a profound shift in narrative, the debate remains on the brexiter’s terms with endless squabbles around nostalgic myths, sovereignty (but not around meaningful rights but shapes of bananas etc), and nothing is contextualised for the 21st C geopolitical & economic realities and polycrisis