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I was pondering this. I reckon it's because she doesn't pretend to be contrite against fucking people over.

Rees-Mogg is the same but he's a posh bloke so it's OK.

@gorgonzolach very interesting and informative, thanks!

Be good to chat about this stuff over a beer at a compass drinks one day, if you are in London's famous London?

This new Mo Farah origin story is fucking weird and none of it makes sense and contradicts his own autobiography, interviews he's previously done and the people who went to school with him.

If Farah isn't his name why does his entire family , brothers/sisters/cousins have that surname?

By extension, we see everything in the "past", there is no such thing as "now".

Stop making excuses and catch up with that tortoise.

Priti Patel will now deport him.

I admit that I didn't realise our policy for people whom we discover to be the victim of trafficking is to put them in a detention centre and then deport them.

As of this week Mo is saying his dad died in 1987 and he was trafficked which would be news to his siblings born after that date and that he previously said he and his brothers came to UK to "see more of him".

Home of "hero" MP attacked with croquet mallets after hit-and-run killing of Bengal cat is surely a story to be read aloud at the golf club bar. Most jaw-dropping detail is that he has "a cat called Boris, named after the prime minister, and a dog called Stanley, after Johnson’s father".

The shire voters are absolute batshit mad. Same guy was hailed a hero for doing CPR when the parliament was attacked. And cats are fucking useless.

contradicts his own autobiography, interviews he's previously done

I’ve not been following this story that closely but isn’t this exactly the point? That he’s now revealed the truth. Wouldn’t be much of a reveal if he’d already written it in his autobiography a decade ago.

We look at the light emitted by the galaxy and we say, oh - cool, it's not the colour we were expecting it to be

How do you decide what colour you expect a galaxy to be?

The problem is it seems very not to be the truth and the surname thing is the biggest problem.

If he wasn't born Farah why does his whole biological family in Somalia have that surname? And his twin brother?

Glad to hear I'm not the only one with questions. I listened to the interview this morning on R4 in mild disbelief

https://twitter.com/TheDroyver/status/1547163692810248192

I don't know about Farah, but my wife's entire family all changed their surname for immigration related reasons so nothing Farah has said seems suspicious to me.

Boris and Stanley belong to the neighbour opposite the victim, not the MP.

You're right. Reinforces @amey 's point.

So this story is man runs over a cat without realising?

From a quick google it seems like both Mo and his brother were sent away to another location in Africa by his birth mother - where they were given new names. Mo was then sent to the UK.

I’d be surprised if the people who made the BBC documentary didn’t also ask that question.

If you have some way to determine how far away each thing is you can observe that stuff that is further away is redder than stuff that is close.

Is it possible this sort of scepticism is why it can take so long for victims of trafficking to speak out?

don't know about Farah, but my wife's entire family all changed their surname for immigration related reasons so nothing Farah has said seems suspicious to me.

Come to think about it, Boris Johnson's family did the same too

I have been getting the feeling I'm watching a birther conspiracy theory at its inception.

@mashton unfortunately I'm not in London anymore, I left the UK a couple of years ago because I was particularly upset/terrified with the 2019 General Election outcome.

@moocher there are a number of ways, one of which @frankenbike has pointed out, but it is generally more common to look at absorption lines in the spectrum. Elements absorb certain frequencies of light - if you look at the spectra of stars, you can determine the elemental composition of a star by looking at the gaps in the spectra. Absorption lines appear as black lines, or gaps, in a stars spectrum. Hydrogen is one of the most common ones for stars (and galaxies), and these will always be in the same place. When you look at a red, or blue, shifted star, you will see that these absorption lines are not where you expect them to be as they have been moved with the doppler effect. If you move the whole spectrum back to align with where these gaps should be, you will find the true colour of the star / galaxy.

The plot thickens - now they've called one on themselves
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/13/uk-government-to-table-no-confidence-motion-in-itself