The idea that Putin cares enough about Keir Starmer to send a 22 year-old Ukrainian to set fire to his house and car is absolutely hilarious.

Dear Lush (cc Chelmsford City Council), As a woman who had half a breast removed last year due to cancer, I am writing to raise my concerns about your “Proud of My Stripes” window display. I am also, on behalf of other women who have experienced breast cancer, respectfully requesting its removal. Because mastectomies are not a fashion statement, an identity marker or something to be celebrated. They are something women undergo because they are ill, because they are frightened, because they are trying to stay alive. Around 59,000 women are diagnosed with breast cancer in the UK every year. Many will undergo surgery - a mastectomy, lumpectomy or other procedure. Others choose preventive mastectomies because they carry a high-risk BRCA gene mutation. If a woman chooses to have her breasts removed to affirm a gender identity, that is her personal choice. I honestly don’t know the number of women who have elective mastectomies for this reason. What I do know is that it is a tiny number compared with those for whom breast surgery is medically necessary and not something to be celebrated. I think I speak for many women who have experienced breast cancer - and for their families - when I say this: Breast removal surgery is not something I regard as cute, playful or empowering. Nor is it something I believe retailers should be celebrating. For that reason, I am requesting that the display be removed and that @ChelmsCouncil apologise for promoting it on social media. Yours sincerely, Janet Murray

So it’s being reported that @AmazonMGMStudio is considering a hard reboot to the Stargate franchise! Absolutely NO ONE wants this! I will actively boycott this! I want a Stargate that feels like Stargate, not something directed at Gen Z women. I am radicalized on this! It’s either Martin Gero or bust! I don’t want to see Stargate from someone who wasn’t involved in the original show. End of story.

This morning Britain woke up without a Defence Secretary. By this evening it had lost two more ministers. John Healey resigned because the Treasury refused to fund the defence of this country adequately. Pamela Nash, Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Defence Secretary, resigned in his wake. And Al Carns DSO OBE MC, the Minister for Veterans, resigned because he could not in good conscience ask fellow veterans to trust a process he no longer trusts himself. Read that again. A man decorated for combat service with a Distinguished Service Order, an OBE and a Military Cross resigned as Veterans Minister today because he knows the Defence Investment Plan is inadequate and cannot stand at a despatch box and pretend otherwise. His letter says we ask soldiers to fight for this country. In return we owe them the kit to do the job and the loyalty to stand by them when it's done. We are failing on both. Healey's letter says the country could be made less safe. Carns says the deal this country makes with the people who serve it in uniform is broken. Nash says the country is more divided now than at any point in her lifetime. Three resignation letters. Three verdicts. Written by people who were inside the room. The Chief of the Defence Staff wrote directly to the Prime Minister warning the money was not enough. The head of the British armed forces writing directly to Downing Street is not a routine communication. It is a signal of desperation. Starmer ignored it. Ed Miliband's net zero budget remains untouched. The welfare budget remains untouched. The DEI infrastructure embedded across British institutions continues to be funded. The £10 billion in asylum accommodation contracts continues. Every commitment that flows from the 2030 Agenda adopted without a single British vote at a UN summit in 2015 has been protected. The defence of the realm has not.

In Japan, a stabbing scene works differently. Let me describe it without pride. A koban officer reaching a knife incident has one trained reflex: secure the blade, secure the bleeding. Who insulted whom is a question for detectives, tomorrow, at the station. The wounded man is not yet a suspect or a victim. He is a casualty. We have our own police failures — plenty of them. But I cannot imagine a Japanese officer telling a dying man "don't think you've been stabbed, mate" because the other party raised a social accusation first. Not because our officers are better people. Because nobody trained them to rank grievances at a crime scene. Training is a choice. Who made Britain's?

another did not age well article from @Variety "For every transphobic, racist, bigoted “Doctor Who” fan that we lose this season, there are going be three to five new fans who are coming in for the representation. So to those fans — who are not fans — I say, “Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.”" variety.com/2024/tv/news/jin…

Full disclosure I’m not a huge fan of Doctor Who. I’m more of a Star Trek, Star Wars and Stargate kind of guy. That said… I have enormous respect for the franchise and I remember how brutally the fan base was mocked by the progressive cast and people in charge. Seeing it fail so spectacularly is very satisfying. The fans revolted and won! The mockery that was done to your franchise and of you personally should not be forgotten. Demand higher quality entertainment! Demand they strip the preaching and mockery out of your show!

"For the record: there was no script, I never wrote it, and no actor was ever approached to play the next Doctor. You may disagree; fine, sit in that chair and wait to be proved right. You'll wait a lonnng time!" #DoctorWho

How to fix Doctor Who. Wipe out everything post Peter Capaldi. Most importantly the horrific Timeless Children. The Dream Lord and The Valeyard are behind the non-events of the 13th, 14th, 15th, and stupid Fugitive Doctor. Better yet, just never mention them. Cast Hugh Laurie as the Doctor with a smoking hot actual female companion. You're welcome.