this becomes relevant again every couple weeks or so

Nothing says patriotic man of the people quite like taking up to £10k a month from overseas fascists

whole list of good games here www.theguardian.com/games/2026/f...

John kettley is a weatherman; his wife drew flipping THIS

Only Labour can fund Reform.

Remember when English media attacked Polanski as 'crazy' for daring to suggest a European defence force (essentially NATO without USA) ? Well look who also likes the idea: " #Macron 's case for Europeans leading discussion on new European security archicture "

I have a very simple and straightforward two-step plan to Save The Video Game Industry: Step 1: Globally eliminate the concept of a classed society and redistribute all surplus resources among the populace, permanently enshrining social ownership of the means of production. Step 2: Ridge Racer 8.

Close of nominations for these elections is 9 April 👍👌

Found myself reading this 2008 article about the moral panic that sprung up in 18th century England around people reading novels. Was spoilt for choice when looking for a bit to clip that has echoes today. Went with this but I could have clipped almost any of it. hrcak.srce.hr/file/49661

Stopping autistic kids from fixating on a special interest, pressuring trans kids to try not being trans, pressuring gay kids to try being straight instead, pressuring dyslexics to just try to read better or to see themselves as stupid otherwise, whatever. All of these need to stop.

I don't want to name a law for myself or something that self indulgent, but I think the Razor of Normalisation is: If a protocol for raising children random minority developmental difference is mirrored by attempts to turn left handed kids into right handed kids, you probably shouldn't do it.

In britain they want to convert them all into mega-clubs, when that inevitably fails, they'll no doubt turn them into nightingale prisons...

The Labour Together revelations should absolutely tank the career of the journos who colluded *cough* <Crerar> *cough* but also shine a light on how toothless/compromised you have to have been to be on the 'approved' list. Remember how much access Stephen Bush got?

the democrats deliberately boosted the candidacy of donald trump and ran status-quo empty suits against him and those brilliant strategies got the US two trump terms. a few oddly still have the audacity to blame the left for their lack of enthusiasm in cheering on these obviously awful plans

"I left the NHS as it's not fit for purpose, too much medication is being given out, what you should all be doing is downloading MY app and subscribing to MY private health care service instead" - Me, an ex GP with no skin in the game when it comes to criticising the NHS (I also have a podcast)

Labelling teens using social media as the worst public health crisis the UK faces monstrously minimises actual public health crises. But it's eerily similar to the push for sanitation in the UK in the 1830s and 40s. In which a crisis of malnutrition was shifted to being a crisis of sanitation. 1/

i keep banging this drum but the shift away from forums and chat rooms (heavily moderated for bullshit but leeway to actually call people out) to social media (policing tone not rhetoric) has been one of the biggest factors in unleashing a machine on the public that overloads them with shit.

We’re so back

8th in the Pulse Power list of influential GPs

There is on average an £800 discrepancy between maximum LHA and market rate rents. The Renter's Reform Bill does nothing to address this, or the guarantor clause below.

I collapsed your mums lovers arch on valentines too 😎

For a group of people who are obsessed with saying “if you don’t unquestionably support us, reform will win” it’s quite telling how they’re putting in place a lot of legislation that will make life for everyone a lot worse if Reform did get in.

Oh yeah, I’m sure she’ll be very interested in getting to the bottom of what went on there lol

Its actually so infuriating and patronising and degrading to be told a conversion therapy ban is coming all the while Labour is actually actively implementing conversion onto trans youth across healthcare and education

I’m not normally that person but…. It’s really annoying that Democracy for Sale a has hardly been credited anywhere in last 24 hours for breaking story of Labour Together paying to spy on journalists *almost two weeks* ago Hadn’t expected Tory press office to be the exception!

Palantir is named after an evil crystal ball from Lord of the Rings. One of its founders claimed on Twitter that its goal is to kill all communists. That sort of person routinely believes that the NHS is communist. You're going to go down in history.

In the New Statesman this morning, I tackle an odd subgenre of Epstein coverage that's become more and more prevalent: breathless warnings that we're on a slippery slope to mob rule when we ask awkward questions of the world's most powerful people. www.newstatesman.com/comment/2026...

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Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

So much for Labour’s promise of ‘dignity and respect’ for trans people. Dr Beth Upton did no wrong. In fact, she was dragged into the ET because the bigots wanted to openly harass her in a court of law, and the judge let them. And every Labour MP is complicit if they do not now say “Enough!”

Every day in Britain over one billion children are killed by screen time.

We had, like, an hour of sunshine over the weekend. Just enough for me to think "maybe spring is coming?" This morning, it's minus six and everything's covered in snow again

Bluesky was literally meant to be a cryptobro social network for grifters, LinkedIn sludge, and libertarians who know way too much about age of consent laws. Jack Dorsey *left* when instead of weird and off-putting cryptonerds, trans people started hanging out here.

glasses with little cameras in them are not wearable tech they're pervert glasses

Cost of Privatisation Royal Mail letters sit undelivered 'for weeks', parcels prioritised RM doesn't meet letter delivery targets. Urgent letters missed. Fines passed to customers Profiteering: Price Now: Ist class stamp £1.70; 2nd class 87p. When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.

My god do we need UBI “Researchers have found that when a new plasma center opens in a neighborhood, foot traffic at local grocery stores increases, interest in payday loans declines and crime goes down, an indication of the way money from plasma props up households’ finances for necessities.“

A year later Weev would play a key role in professionalizing the trolls who played a key role in getting Trump elected.

in China Musk would've been executed at least 5 years ago

British journalists are always like "I only had 4 annual european holidays growing up, because my father, the Baron, was a bit of a cheapskate, so really I am working class" then 5 minutes later decree an actual working class person a faker because they drink coffee

Since Bridget Phillipson announced her transphobic “guidance” for schools, how many trans people have been interviewed or even quoted in mainstream media about it?

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four transatlantic voyages for Spain, beginning in 1492. Seeking a westward route to Asia, he instead reached the Caribbean, initiating sustained European contact with the Americas and shaping the course of global exploration

if this has to be a news story it should be that a qualified and competent doctor has been run out of a struggling NHS simply because she is transgender

This "it's actually a Russian spy plot" stuff was not only used as an attack line against Corbyn, we watched the hacks workshop it in real time when the NHS privatisation documents dropped, because they already knew they were never going to report a single positive thing about Labour in 2019.

Out on the town having the time of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, laughing too.