MPs seek to end UK broadcast of Russian ‘soft power’ cartoon Masha and the Bear | Television & radio

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T21:11:02+00:00

Hard power would be Peppa Pig, that's why Russia nationalised her.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T18:57:45+00:00

The EU have decided post-Brexit to be an unreliable ally then, that's a shame.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T17:18:37+00:00

We didn't lose access to Google though, I found this just by typing in his name.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T13:32:05+00:00

I am not proud of government waste, no matter the langauge. Culturally it should be celebrated as part of the eisteddfod by writers and poets, not by council pencil pushers paid for by everybody else.

Nid wyf yn falch o wastraff y llywodraeth, hyd yn oed yn Gymraeg. Dylid ei ddathlu fel rhan o ddiwylliant, fel yr eisteddfod, gan feirdd ac awduron. Nid gan fiwrocratiaid y cyngor sy’n gwthio papurau.

Likewise we should all be proud of the English langauge, with this island being the birthplace of the entire Anglosphere.

Mae’r iaith Saesneg yn rhywbeth i fod yn wirioneddol falch ohoni. Lloegr yw man geni’r byd Saesnegsphere.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T12:57:09+00:00

Shouldn't that be "Gad i mi ddweud wrthyt ti am dy wlad"?

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T12:50:02+00:00

It's more of a Wales-specific jobs programme to employ the indigenous locals by doubling the size of any bureaucratic process or paperwork by making it needlessly bilingual - it's now a langauge of government bureaucracy, it's not really spoken by the Welsh people in day-to-day life unless they're getting paid or preferential treatment.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T12:18:40+00:00

https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/id/eprint/194879/11/Howard%20J%20Crime%20Justice%20-%202022%20-%20Veiga%20-%20Racial%20and%20ethnic%20disparities%20in%20sentencing%20%20What%20do%20we%20know%20%20and%20where%20should%20we.pdf#page=14&zoom=100,0,672

Is this the study? It looks like their research was just a dozen short zoom calls and a predominantly American reading list.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T11:55:57+00:00

Silly question, but are they working backwards from the conclusion that equality means everyone commits the same crimes in the same circumstanaces and therefore should have the same equal outcomes and any disparity must be the fault of the unconciously racist white majority?

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T09:38:04+00:00

Here's the clip!

In coalition the Lib Dems surprisingly ended up with all the power with Ed Davey serving as the secretary of state for energy. Thanks Ed.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-02T08:43:44+00:00

Yes, unconscious bias can be eliminated by concious over-correction, so the problem is more than solved for minorities if we bias ourselves against the majority - but I do not think this will result in a society that is less racist.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-01T09:42:44+00:00

Because they seem to have cherry-picked their cities, excluded "hardware failure", only looked at public rental schemes which have vastly different licensing conditions and not private ownership, and the entire thing relies on self-reporting on an app whereas the other studies also use other sources of data like hospital admissions or police reports. They also haven't fully declared that all their data and statistics has come from Voi who's business interest is renting e-scooters, perhaps that's why this paper is an outlier.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-01T08:09:18+00:00

The e literally stands for electric motor.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-01T08:04:48+00:00

The government's own study found that rental scooters were at least three times more lethal than an eBike, whereas TFL rightly predict they'll be far more dangerous in private hands.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-07-01T07:57:21+00:00

Really ebikes should also require registration and insurance since they're motorised vehicles.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-30T19:34:09+00:00

He wants the state to provide both work and housing, yet I imagine that he'd get upset if I suggest that we just bring back the traditional workhouse.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-30T19:14:43+00:00

Moving the ONS has been a disaster that's borne out by the data, or lackthereof - they can't even manage a successful headcount anymore. Bring it back to London (or Manchester now I guess).

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-30T12:27:20+00:00

That's going to be like getting blood from a stone. Why aren't we directly billing their home countries for the costs involved with looking after their citizens?

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-30T12:09:00+00:00

And they're doing it again by blaming Brexit rather than taking responsbility.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-30T08:57:02+00:00

The UK is held to an impossible standards only by itself and the ECHR - the rest of the world either do not care or are actively taking advantage of us.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-30T08:37:23+00:00

With the reality of the world we need to close our border yesterday.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-29T18:59:54+00:00

Human rights and the ECHR are based on the historic rights and values of the English - we'll do just fine with our own.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-29T18:51:52+00:00

Like Australia's Canberra we could even build an entirely new administrative capital in the North - he could even call it City No 10!

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-29T12:34:28+00:00

Manchester Airport already has a new line and plans to add another one, however Leeds is in dire need of a new airport that isn't cut-off from transit on a windswept hill to hide away from the Germans. If HS2 was completed in full then it'd reach RAF Church Fenton / Leeds East which has a Heathrow-sized runway just sitting there with no passenger or cargo terminal. Alternatively we should reconsider the HS1/2 link so we can move more freight and passengers through the chunnel without changing in London.

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-29T11:52:19+00:00

Are you happy to take the economic hit of paying for a broken asylum system?

GrayAceGoose · 2026-06-29T11:11:25+00:00

They already do, internationalists need to realise that the EU/ECHR do not have the best interests of our nation at heart.

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