Kiwi Ting
@kiwiting
Political Scientist | Formerly @lsegovernment.bsky.social @UniofReading | Parliamentary studies | Political career | 🇬🇧 & 🇭🇰 politics | Views are mine
"It's fine privatizing healthcare but I draw the line on football" is quite a take
I'm not an Arsenal fan, but I've lived in Islington for years now and how often do your local team win the league? So please excuse me for being a glory hunter for a day to share the joy of all the Gunners in my neighbourhood.
It's based on a sci-fi book about a scientist working with extraterrestrial alien to save the world with science! In the end the protagonist put all life on Earth at risk and sacrifice his life to save an alien planet! It's about as "woke" as it can get!
Somebody at GBNews has been watching the Yes Prime Minister Christmas special 😏
This is my yearly PSA that we have a lunisolar rather than a lunar calendar 🧧Happy Lunisolar New Year everyone🧧 May all of you have a prosperous year of the horse 🐎
Mr President, it's the Libdem here, could we have our bar chart back please?
What is wrong with our world, encapsulated in a single Rotten Tomatoes page
When I learned that the latest POV footage of the Minneapolis ICE shooting was not a leak, but a voluntary release, I thought of this line from The Big Short:
It just occurred to me that Back To The Future is an 80's movie that very much tapping into nostalgia for the 50's So all the BTTF references in Stranger Things are basically us in the 2010's being nostalgic of the 80's being nostalgic of the 50's
Merry Strangemas! (Spoiler: Listening to Max's blabbering rather than running up that hill ASAP is absolutely excruciating)
I'm hosting Christmas dinner this year, on the menu is Salmon en Croute and Roast Chicken #Poliscicooks
Hey Gemini, creat the cast photo of a TV series that is "The Boys" meets "The West Wing"
The pool draw for 2027 Rugby World Cup 🏉 is out! I can't believe I gotta see Hong Kong play against the All Black!
Ta Kung Pao, one of the most pro-china news outlets and usually seen as Beijing's mouthpiece in Hong Kong, has apparently censored its own investigative report into suspected rigging of the bid for the renovation project that led to the Wang Fuk Court fire, first published on Friday.
Multiple local new sources in Hong Kong are reporting that the police have begun arresting activists calling for independent inquiries and accountability for the Tai Po fire 😡
Regarding the Tai Po fire, Hong Kong Security minister Chris Tang said the mesh netting covering the buildings had met fire retardant standards 😡