“Rosie and Jim can fuck off.”
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“Rosie and Jim can fuck off.”
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“We must not allow our compassion to imperil our safety,” the UKIP leader warned.
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He said there was a "sinister and dangerous" element to the growing crisis engulfing Europe. "When ISIS say they will use the migrant tide to flood Europe with 500,000 of their own jihadists, I think we better listen," he declared.
"Five hundred thousand may not be realistic but what if it's 5,000, what if it's 500? And already one of the ISIS terrorist suspects who committed the first atrocity against holidaymakers in Tunisia has been seen getting off a boat onto Italian soil.
"At the moment the EU's common asylum policy has absolutely no means whatsoever of checking anybody's background and I would say we must not allow our compassion to imperil our safety."
Farage was speaking at the London launch of his party's Say No campaign for the referendum on Britain's EU membership. He claimed that the vast majority of those making dangerous journeys into Europe were young males from Somalia, Mali and Mauritania.
While "conditions may not be very nice" in those north African countries, he argued, "it's very difficult to see how more than a few of those people qualify as refugees".
He added: "The EU has got this wrong. Anybody that comes, from whatever background and virtually for whatever reason, can claim to be a refugee. If the European Union wants to help genuine refugees, they need to establish offshore centres and process people correctly, rather than inviting what has now turned into a headlong rush."
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He praised Corbyn for openly criticising the alliance and said he was glad there would "be a proper debate about the EU within the centre left".
BuzzFeed News asked Farage whether he believed Corbyn would attract some former UKIP voters and whether he had contacted him about the No campaign.
"No I haven't, I think he's rather busy at the moment," he replied. "He's having the time of his life, I would have thought. What do I think the effect of Jeremy Corbyn would be on the UKIP vote? I think that once Corbyn's won there's almost no point in voting Green in Britain. Almost no point at all.
"They've got their man haven't they - north London, bicycles, non drinker, all that kind of stuff. Doesn't sound very much like me does it but there we are."
Farage predicted that Corbyn would "funnily enough as UKIP has done, start to pick up a different kind of voter who otherwise wouldn't vote for anybody".
He added: "So the idea that the Labour vote will just collapse because Corbyn is there is not necessarily right. However I do think there's a chunk of the old Labour vote who will now find UKIP even more attractive than it did on May 7th as a result of Jeremy Corbyn being the leader and particularly given some of his associations in the past who you wouldn't want to take home to have tea with your mum."
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And no, it’s not surgery.
People can’t stop thinking about the Labour MP.
Over this summer Jeremy Corbyn has risen from relative obscurity to become the clear favourite to be elected the next Labour leader. As Corbynmania has swept through the party he's been having a strange effect on the British public, dominating their thoughts and seeping into every aspect of their lives – even their dreams.
And because this is 2015, people have been turning to Twitter to share their lurid dreams of Corbyn, many of them collated by university lecturer Chris Brooke. We at BuzzFeed decided to select some of these Corbyn dreams and bring them to life. This is the result:
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Welcome to Easy Sarah’s Bakery.
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I got my first Easy-Bake when I was 10 years old. Like any new toy, I played with it obsessively for three months before moving on to something cooler, like American Girl Dolls. That doesn't make it any less special to me. Every time I see that oven, a nostalgia wave washes over me and I wish I could just lie back and drown in the memories.
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Fifteen years later, I still ascribe to the “just add water” cooking philosophy. Easy Mac? Check. Rice? Yes. Cooking real food? No. I don’t have the patience or the time.
Then one day, whilst perusing Amazon, the stars aligned in my “recommended for you” section. I learned that in the year 2015, the Easy-Bake Oven makes an actual meal: pizza. Pretzels, too! Things have really changed. Kids today can be the chefs of their own meal destiny. They are apparently making themselves meals more complicated than ones I make for myself.
I clicked away and returned to searching for doggy dental floss (doesn't exist). But even after I closed my laptop and went on with my day, I couldn't stop thinking about that Easy-Bake Pizza. If kids can bake their own pizzas using Easy-Bake, why couldn’t I? I’m like, double a kid. I’m an adult. Surely a device created for kids would be simple and easy enough for me to use.
Given the proper (children’s) tools, couldn't I also make my own meals?
Yes. YES I CAN.
Plus, the light bulbs of our youth have now been replaced by fluorescent lamps, which means the oven *should* be able to cook to a temperature of 375 degrees! REAL FOOD, HERE I COME!
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Surviving small talk is way more noteworthy than any engagement announcement.
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Super-sized or terrified?
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It’s just his vibe.
So let's celebrate Father's Day, with Australia's Greatest Dad.
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Village Roadshow
“I look like I was stranded on Hoth.”
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It’s the little things. That drive you nuts.
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Facebook. Knows. Everything.
Named "Apply Magic Sauce", the app guesses your gender, intelligence, politics, religion, life satisfaction, and sexual preference. It also reveals what your personality traits are likely to be based off your Facebook page.
One of Apple TV’s most-desired features finally makes its way to the diminutive set-top box.
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On Wednesday, Sept. 9, Apple will unveil its next-generation Apple TV, as we've already told you. And, as we've also already told you, the device is a significant overhaul of its hoary predecessor, with more powerful innards and a new remote that sources say has been "drastically improved" by a touchpad input and, as first reported by TechCrunch and independently confirmed by BuzzFeed, motion sensors that will allow it to function as game controller.
That's the hardware. As for software, the forthcoming Apple TV will debut with a number of big features we reported back in March — an App Store of its own and Siri integration that will support what sources in position to know describe as "some pretty hardcore voice control." Recall that Siri figures prominently in Apple's invitation to its upcoming event.
But there's another tentpole feature coming to the new Apple TV as well — and it's one for which anyone with the old Apple TV has been pining for years.
Universal search.
Essentially, you'll be able to search for a show or movie once, and see results from all sorts of different sources.
Sources familiar with Apple's plans say that a cornerstone of the the company's new set-top box is a universal search feature that will enable searches across multiple streaming video services as well as Apple's iTunes Store. Instead of searching the catalogs of multiple video services one at a time for a particular movie, you'll now be able to search all — or most of them — at once and then choose the service on which you'd like to watch it. You'll also be able to search for actors and directors, and run other more targeted searches as well — all with Siri. While Apple's intelligent personal assistant is core to this feature, sources say there's another engine driving it as well — Matcha, the video discovery startup Apple acquired back in 2013. iOS 9's "Proactive" search is also likely part of the mix here, as 9to5Mac reported.
Universal search will dramatically improve the Apple TV experience, which has suffered for years from a largely text-based, frustrating, and not nearly as intuitive as it once was user interface. It's a big deal, and it will very clearly position the Apple TV as an entryway for video consumption from all kinds of different sources and services.
In many ways, this makes the forthcoming Apple TV the first "true" Apple TV in that it's the first to really begin delivering on Apple's vision of what the TV viewing experience should be.
One last thing: The new Apple TV will start at $149, the lower of the two price points 9to5Mac first reported. Apple will soon have a subscription internet TV service to sell and the faster it ramps up its installed base of new Apple TV households, the better.
Apple declined comment.
An Alabama prosecutor’s video to alert parents to some teen shadiness went viral.
Have you seen this icon on your kid's device? Because it's not a calculator — it's a little vault of deception.
From the womb to wherever.
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That search bar has seen a lot.
The fact is, all of us were once confused and curious and totally uncomfortable talking to other people about sex. Sure, a search engine obviously shouldn't be your main resource when it comes to this stuff, but hey, we've all done it. And there's definitely no shame in wanting to learn more about sex and sexual health. So let's check out some of the funniest things people have wondered into their browsers. And remember, clear your history.
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—Fanny Christi, Facebook
"I was sheltered as a child. And yes, I did think it was called a bagina." —jackiec413ffa597
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Edward Snowden’s exposés of the NSA’s global surveillance sparked calls to roll them back around the world. But in Russia, where he claimed asylum, Vladimir Putin’s censors seized on his revelations to justify unprecedented control over the internet.
What follows is an edited excerpt from Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan's new book, The Red Web, which hits bookstores Sept. 8.
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In the 1990s the global nature of the Internet meant wires. When a user got connected, he could send his e-mail or visit a website anywhere in the world. In the 2000s the Internet meant the rise of global platforms that allowed users to share the same social networks, email services, search engines, and clouds. The Internet became more of a common ground for people from Argentina to Russia — they used the same Facebook, the same Twitter. That also meant that the information users exchanged was stored inside systems located far from the users — systems that could not be readily controlled by nations, their leaders, or their secret services. Most of the servers were located in the United States.
For Russian President Vladimir Putin, this was intolerable. In his mind the solution was simple: force the platforms — Facebook, Google, Twitter, and Apple among them — to locate their servers on Russian soil so Russian authorities could control them.
The challenge was how to do it.
The Kremlin obviously needed a pretext to put pressure on the global platforms to relocate their servers, and Edward Snowden's revelations provided the perfect excuse to start the offensive. The members of the Russian parliament chosen by the Kremlin to define Internet legislation rushed to comment on his revelations. Legislation forcing global platforms to store Russians' personal data in Russia was soon adopted, and came into force on Tuesday, sending Western tech giants scrambling to comply. Russian censors announced plans to blacklist websites including Wikipedia, Github, the Wayback Machine, and BuzzFeed. Snowden had no say in the matter.
A childhood photo of Taylor Swift on her family farm kicks off this week’s #ThrowbackThursday.
Awareness and healing are much more than skin deep.
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She told me that she was at a nightclub, and when she turned down a man who approached her, he stabbed her with an switchblade.
When she saw the finished tattoo, she was extremely moved, and that deeply touched me.
I was suddenly struck by the idea of providing free tattoos to women who were left with scars following domestic violence or mastectomies.
Each tattoo would act as an instrument for empowerment and a self-esteem booster.
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