When the populist right stoke up hatred towards minorities for political gain, it always ends like this. metro.co.uk/2023/05/25/i...

Heath Ledger's Joker grown old:

Leader of Restore, the swivel-eyed racists party, Rupert Lowe says that Britain is a Christian country and under a Restore Govt wld remain so. Great! Then they will love foreigners as themselves, forgive those who wrong them 'seventy-seven times' and know that nobody can serve both God and money

When the Temu Tories, Reform, said that their candidate Robert Kenyon was a plumber, they didn't clarify that what he plumbed was the depths of hatred of women. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Swivel-eyed racist loon party Restore's Makerfield candidate Rebecca Shepherd's positions on 'reviving the high street': a) abolish business rates b) full investigation into 'vape shops and Turkish barbers' So will 'vape shops and Turkish barbers' benefit from the abolition of business rates?

Reform-run Kent Council starting as they mean to go on, dealing with the gritty issues that affect the lives of their citizens: bylinetimes.com/2026/05/26/r...

Blair's attack on Starmer is like the last one in line to stick the knife in on the Orient Express: entirely pointless and just done for show. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Without lies and hypocrisy— there could be no Republican Party. ☹️🚩

I'd go further than Jess Phillips and say that a good deal of Labour's sexism can be put down to the historical reactionary attitudes of the Unions www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

We may have to thank multimillionaire Rupert 'Man of the Blackshirts' Lowe for splitting the Reform vote just enough to let Burnham through. Like the extreme left, the extreme right hate each other far more bitterly than they hate parties with radically different politics.

Occasionally you get a shocking insight into the bovine stupidity of Donald Trump. A recent example that got me was his explanation, with all the gravitas of Rushdie discussing his use of magic realism in Midnight's Children, of how he came up with the word 'Dumocrats'. youtube.com/shorts/usBid...

The tech bros gave us crypto currency that isn’t currency, artificial intelligence that isn’t intelligence, and prediction markets that are inside-trader scams. On the other hand, they have given us gigantic data centers that employ no one and destroy communities. So there’s that.

Political assassination is as wrong as any other premeditated form of murder. But it's also looking increasingly likely. As the number of attempts on Trump's life rack up, the probability increases that one nutter will succeed. 1/2

The 'Republican Hawks' in the headline is a Hegseth-level macho euphemism meaning 'Israel-funded shills'. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I'm guessing that when the US announces that the Strait of Hormuz is open, they won't add 'again'.

Lolapuss sitting weirdly #cat #cats #CatsSittingWeirdly

The MAGA shakedown that is Trump Mobile continues to spit in the faces of tbe poor idiots who signed up to buy the non-existent phone. Now, their personal details have been breached. Trump business failure-cum-scam as usual. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Israel is the most barbaric state in tbe Middle East, fully deaerving of its pariah status. Successive governments' ministers, Labour's not least, accept huge bungs to turn a blind eye to the nation's abuses. BOYCOTT ISRAEL NOW! www.cnn.com/2026/05/22/m...

Gosh, Standard Chartered boss Bill Winters is a vile piece of work, isn't he? Assuming he has any family (which seems unlikely, given his character), I wonder what value he ascribes them as 'human assets'? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I'm starting to wonder whether Farage might be a wrong 'un. www.channel4.com/news/exclusi...

This type of protest is so important and so valuable. The agents of oppression must be kept permanently aware that their abuses are rejected at all levels of decent society. They must must not be allowed to forget for a moment that they are doing wrong. gothamist.com/news/finding...

If aliens have abducted Nigel Farage, I have to make it clear that we have implemented a strict no-returns policy. But please, don't hold back on the anal probing. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I am bewildered by the Meta AI button on Whassup. I use it solely to talk to various groups of friends and acquaintances, and I assume others do too. Under what conceivable circumstance would one reach for the AI?

Unless he is *very* deluded (yes, I know...), he must know that this is the portrayal which will define him. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The creeping human cost of climate change, even in a temperate country like the UK www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

MAGA Mike Johnson abandons even the faintest pretense of democratic process to protect Saddam Trump from embarrassment. Johnson, to borrow Paul Keating's description of John Howard, is a shiver in search of a spine. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

If men were better toilet-trained, we wouldn't need gendered loos in the first place. We could have a long row of individual cubicles. But as things stand, an hour into any event, the whole lot would look like the bloody Somme.

Many people don't understand the difference between criticism of Israeli state abuses, and antisemitism. Indeed, the Israeli govt seeks to blur the distinction. That's why it's vital that Green candidates are honest, and that party admin GETS ITS BLOODY VETTING RIGHT. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Aqqalukkuluk Fontain, who organised the protest." Now *that's* a name. Aqqy to his mates. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The guy in bus shelter in the ICC women's T20 World Cup telly advert *really* doesn't know how to knit.

The violent racism of the Ex-IDF soldier who was a Labour Together board member, is deeply, deeply shocking and surely completely incompatible with any Labour values. And no, a rebrand as ThinkLabour doesn't make the organisation any less poisoned - or poisonous www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

I can't take my eyes off the outie belly button of the man to his right.

Well, that's a cheery bloody read. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

There is someone in my timeline (nobody I've engaged with!) who is suffering from paranoid delusions. It's wild stuff. But there's something shamefully fascinating about the complexity and scope of their delusions. I had to mute the account to make sure I didn't become a latter day Bedlam tourist.

Pre-election posturing leads to weird shit going off. Arch blue Labour Streeting is portraying himself as the Pro-EU return, pro wealth tax candidate; whilst pastel pink Burnham is not saying a thing to upset the failed Starmer apple cart.

Net migration dropped from a peak of 944,000 in the year to March 2023 to 204,000 in the year to June 2025, according to government figures. (& due to drop further today) That's a statistic that Reform and its bastard son Restore don't tell their cult followers www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I don't think that the senior figures in Reform are any more than casually racist. Their primary and overarching aim, like the Trump & Putin administrations, is to make money for themselves. The policy and rhetorical focus on racism and nationalism is simply the stuff they need to feed their voters.

"Boris and Michael Gove had finally turned up 30 minutes late looking like death warmed up. It was as though they had spent the night tripping on acid and had come down to find they had murdered a friend." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Oh, sod off you tedious shit. Nobody: not your brown-nosing acolytes, not your family, believes a single word you say www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Tactically, it makes sense for Reform to throw everything they've got at Makerfield. Not because it's likely that they'll win, but because of the catastrophic damage it would do to Labour *if* they did. The key will be finding a personable candidate. And that will be hard for arsehole-heavy Reform.

Unemployment rising, and wage growth falling. Two years of Labour in power. www.theguardian.com/business/liv...

If Burnham wants to commit to the treasury's self-imposed fiscal rules to calm market jitters, fine: it's a legitimate position. But if he also wants to claim that he's the change candidate, he now has to explain what he's going to do that *is* different. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Political violence is abhorrent. But when politicians are openly corrupt, and acting illegally to block democratic accountability for that corruption, it becomes inevitable. If they don't see that, they are blind to history.

Netanyahu's stormtroopers murder community kitchen workers in Gaza. Then Israeli media clutch their handbags when the world calls Israel the pariah of the Middle East. Hypocrites. www.thecanary.co/trending/202...

"Creditors, who provided the company with £3bn emergency funding, have demanded a write-off of tens of millions of pounds in fines issued to Thames for dumping sewage in waterways. They have also asked for a reduction in environmental investment until 2030 " www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

C'mon, Daily Star: you have created some of the greatest front pages in recent UK press history. An invasive photo of Jeremy Clarkson in hospital tells us nothing edifying about him, and says plenty about your lack of moral compunction.

Of course it was, dear: the 'very big' attack that got away.

It's TACO time! Trump finds another excuse not to do what he was never going to do. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

It's both delicious and toe-curling to watch members of the House Armed Services Committee eviscerate Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao over the navy's 2027 budget request. www.dvidshub.net/video/100689...

I assume that this is what the DoJ is currently doing with all incriminating Epstein documents