NOW — The Cabinet Office has confirmed it holds records of meetings between UK ministers and Larry Ellison, the billionaire founder of Oracle Corporation, one of the world’s largest cloud and data infrastructure firms. But the government has delayed releasing the details, citing Section 35 of the FOI Act “formulation of government policy” and launched a public-interest test. The request covers all meetings, calls, and correspondence between Oracle’s founder and senior UK officials since 2020. In short, there were meetings, the details are being held back, and they concern government policy.

Vidal had your number you swine

Shot in the Dark, (1943) — by Tom Lovell.

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winona ryder on the set of dracula, 1992

This is the neoliberal equivalent of bequeathing a sword.

Sean Young in Blade Runner, 1982

Today we learned that the Prime Minister of Israel repeatedly raped, choked and beat Virginia Guiffre and the media today won't even say his name or the country he was the Prime Minister of. It's impossible to hate the media enough.

Sleeping Beauty sculpture in the Berlin National Gallery

One reason “the right” struggles to find coherence is because it is a graveyard of former sectional ruling interests, of court ideologies no longer favoured. Only a handful of writers have ever tried to define it in the abstract.

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tim burton beauty

Winona Ryder in Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

This has to be an Op to make Reform look sensible. I know nothing about the leadership, or what they’ve been up to these last few years. I just sense it in my gut.

Cigarette Secondi.

You think the Vietnamese were the bad guys? They took back their country from the French, defended themselves from both the USA and then China, then found the time to invade and put a stop to the mass murder in Cambodia. All in a couple of decades. Total Nationalist Victory.

Here's my deep insight for today: Politics is determined by eye color Sexual energy is determined by hand gesture Personal ethics are revealed by the smile Emotions are shown by back posture I will not explain further.