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It would be easier if it was just the homegrown bigots to deal with, wouldn't it? Unfortunately there seems to be quite a few of those about at the present time.

The Chinese are having the role of world science research leader handed to them pretty much by default. They must be absolutely pissing themselves laughing.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/01/us-veterans-affairs-agency-doctors-scientists-research Senior officials at the US Department of Veterans Affairs have ordered that VA physicians and scientists not publish in medical journals or speak with the public without first seeking clearance from political appointees of Donald Trump, the Guardian has learned. ...the fresh Germany c.1936 hell is this?

Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja. (If what happened here is what looks like what happened here.)

Also, Sarwar really should be taking legal action against Farage for slander.

Latest on this: Lee Jae-myung set to win more or less decisively, if exit polls are accurate. Good news.

That's a fair point. Hopefully it won't be the case.

If you're referring to the US, then Jon has it (mostly) right above. (The "mostly" being that the Trump administration wouldn't kill her, but rather do a lot to make her wish she were dead, if they were so inclined.) If you're referring to the Chinese (or specifically their leadership), there's no reason whatsoever to suggest what Jiang-Xiǎojiě said here would not fit with their current goals and so annoy them

In other news, the Korean elections are today after the last nationalist got rightfully thrown out on his ear for doing nationalist things. (Something other places in the world could learn from there.) Foreign policy obviously high on the agenda, but that the country came very close to veering back into a dictatorship last December and a possible age demographic crisis are also big issues.

On the above: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c787xv2xy1zo A Chinese Harvard graduate's speech calling for unity in a divided world, delivered days after the US vowed to "aggressively" revoke Chinese students' visas, has sparked mixed reactions in the US and her home country. "We don't rise by proving each other wrong. We rise by refusing to let one another go," Jiang Yurong said on Thursday, the same day a US federal judge blocked the Trump administration's ban on foreign students at Harvard. ...."If we still believe in a shared future, let us not forget: those we label as enemies - they, too, are human. In seeing their humanity, we find our own," said Ms Jiang, who spent her final two years of school at Cardiff Sixth Form College in Wales before going to Duke University in the US for her undergraduate degree. That's the kind of sentiment required for our species going forward.

And, once again, the above isn't just for the sake of "being nicer" or for its own moral sake. It's a matter of necessity.

Absolutely. That being said, the very best players have had pretty good streaks at Slams when even though the other guy was having the game of his life, they still found a way. TBH I think that's why Murray deserved to be mentioned in the same breath as Fed, Nadal and Djoko despite not winning nearly so many major tournaments - it most often, if not almost always, took one of them to eliminate him rather than a lower ranked player.

Deecent enough. But if he's to aspire to Murray level or higher (as opposed to Henman level which, to the credit of Draper, he's more or less already reached(, more learning and more consistency is clearly called for.

Missed opportunity for Draper, sadly. Hopefully he gets more adept at dealing with unorthodox lower ranked opposition, because if he wants that Slam he'll need that as a matter of necessity.

Wouldn't really be surprising. How exactly do you deal with that in Whitehall when you're almost certain the US President is a compromised Russian asset, I wonder?

Seven hells, my dog just went berserk. Goodness only knows why.

A fair bit more empathy would certainly be a good thing, necessary even, because the lack of it results in the exact outcome you say here. Sadly, I fear that fleeing such ideology would at best only buy someone a little time, as it will have consequences felt worldwide and by everyone and everything.

More detail on this: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cev47ze8vp3o Multiple people have been injured after a man shouting "free Palestine" tossed Molotov cocktails at a gathering in support of Israeli hostages in Colorado, authorities say. Police said eight people - aged 52 to 88 - were injured in the attack at the Pearl Street Mall, a popular outdoor space in Boulder, about 30 miles (48km) from Denver. The FBI called it a suspected terror attack and said the suspect used a makeshift flamethrower, Molotov cocktails and other incendiary devices. Footage of the attack shows the suspect, who was shirtless, screaming at the group and had what appears to be Molotov cocktails in each hand when he was arrested. The attack unfolded during a weekly scheduled demonstration put on by Run for Their Lives, a pro-Israeli group that holds walks in the outdoor pedestrian mall in solidarity with Israeli hostages in Gaza. It always seems that the number of ideologues on both sides that are caught in the cycle of violence is far outmatched by the number of those who are innocent in the matter and in all likelihood have no big grievance with the other side, doesn't it?

It's entirely possible, but I don't think it's a good idea to write off hundreds of millions of lives (minimum) as essentially doomed just yet. NB. I've seen the "do-nothing because it might make my life a little less comfortable" crowd move their justification from "there is no climate change so why bother?" to "oh dear, too late, why bother?" in a heartbeat before.

Yep, that's about right. Unfortunately addressing these are long term projects which, without consensus, tend to struggle within shorter term democratic systems. Another thing I like to emphasise is that it's not "will", not yet, it's "may". The window is shrinking, but there is still time to stop that outcome from occurring. But yes, if we can't, won't or don't, any other measure will be kicking the can down the road, exactly as you say.

Any argument about immigration control that doesn't include a workable plan to address the root causes of why it occurs now (and why there may well be much, much more in the future) is either well-meaning but ultimately massively ineffective, or flat-out accepting the death and suffering of a very large amount of human beings so long as the arguers "tribe" can go on living life in the comfort they now inhabit.

Remarkable stuff! The Chinese must think the current scientific policy situation in the US is manna from heaven for them.

It is a ridiculous temperature scale for almost everything apart from elemental science, it's true.

It's entirely possible. We'll only really get to know in due course. Edit: however, sadly other examples of the above do exist. Dylann Roof and Brenton Tarrant, to name but two.

Tbh I think the UK should take a leaf out of a soon-to-be-announced Trump policy and authorise the use of tactical nuclear weapons to secure the border. A 100 Million Kelvin welcome should serve as a good deterrent.