Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins comes out against the Garrick club's men-only policy while revealing that he himself is a member of it. For those keeping score, the Guardian is the magazine that broke the story about the club's membership list leaking, but declined to mention that one of their most published opinion authors is also on the list.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/27/garrick-club-member-women-ban

What's wild to me is that he's one of their better political opinion guys lately. Certainly head and shoulders above Tisdall.

Gove says three Muslim-led groups and two far-right to be assessed for extremism

Three Muslim-led organisations and two far-right groups will be assessed under the government’s controversial new extremism definition, Michael Gove has told MPs.

The communities secretary named the Muslim Association of Britain, Mend and Cage as groups with “Islamist orientation and beliefs” that would be held to account following the launch of a new definition of extremism.

Gove named the British National Socialist Movement and Patriotic Alternative as groups that promoted neo-Nazi ideology which would also be examined.

And from their live thread:

In response, Mend CEO Azhar Qayum said:

We challenge Michael Gove to repeat his claims outside of parliament and without the protection of parliamentary privilege if he believes he can provide the evidence to back up his view that Mend has called for the establishment of an ‘Islamic state governed by sharia law’.

Extremely base rhetorical maneuver to equivocate these groups with literal nazis

taken to calling people "gamer" or "gamers"

all my favourite fighting game characters have oppressive movesets that make the opponent block and are unreasonably safe and high damage

unrelated, i'm a top

how the hell did you get elected

look jack, the guy who writes my speeches, he knows when my son died

:would:

The dilapitated chaos of the simulation makes it work on looney tunes logic.

I remember I had a hunter shoot a deer, which began vomiting. The hunter shot repeatedly again but never hit — the deer continuted to vomit. Dozens of combat report pages of the deer vomits. A mountainside covered in deer vomit. The suspension on your disbelief can't endure it.

In a simulation where, by a miracle dice roll, a baby can punch the head off an iron colossus, it's not a normal baby. The baby is Bugs Bunny.

ministers should go dig some entrenchments in the north sea if they're so worried

is this what it was like to talk to david foster wallace

I've been settled with my weird futch identity for a while now but it might be fun to try voice training. I wasn't interested before, but moving to a new city seems to have put me into a mood to get more femme

What is that thing on the right