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Good headline for the NYRB's latest article about UK politics.

All the UVF want is to be Irish, apparently

What with everything else going on, I'm not sure that enough people are aware that a TRILLION dollar heist is about to play out over the next six and a bit months.

Speak bigly, and carry a soft stick.

Say what you like about genocidal theocratic totalitarianism but

It's like they're playing the game at the Bada Bing.

FIFA has prohibited Haitian World Cup jerseys with a depiction of the Nov. 18, 1803, Bataille de Vertières aka the triumph of the Haitian Revolution against slavery. Depraved. amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Spend a plane ride reading that big New Yorker piece on Andrew Tate. Excellent reporting. Just the most comprehensively sickening person and phenomenon imaginable. Barron Trump wrapped up in that whole thing, too, in case you’re wondering what that kid is up to.

Superb (and very long) New Yorker article about Andrew and Tristan Tate, including how 99% of it could have been avoided if Hertfordshire Police were in the slightest way competent a decade ago. archive.ph/uKbJ4

If you're gonna pick a group to compensate for their treatment by government why not pick one that did acrually face financial disadvantage without notice, like Plan 2 graduates? As opposed to "some people who had many years' notice but didn't open some letters"

oh FUCK OFF

The "WASPI women" "scandal" is literally the least deserving possible use for billions of pounds.

This is such "what even is the point of a Labour government" bullshit. www.theguardian.com/money/2026/j...

No consequences for an attack on our society.

That’s called a bribe.

We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.

Now imagine the leaders of those other countries doing nothing to condemn this and actually sending Hitler money to continue using his network themselves.

Imagine it's the 1930's and Adolf Hitler is the world's richest man with a communications network that allowed him to speak directly to 100s of millions of people worldwide inciting racial and sectarian violence and insurrection across the planet.

i mean yes this is disgusting and infuriating but can we also have a minute for the description of the World Cup as "one of the world's most international sporting events"

I will point out that the Prime Minister felt that the assassination of an American YouTuber required him to release a formal within 30 minutes of it happening at 11pm on a Friday night. But race riots in the UK itself aren’t worth his time

This is just describing a pogrom.

Awful. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

My eyes and brain may not recover from this.

Yes it's bad because it's public school and Bozzer larks not because it's American.

this is amazing

I've watched great Norma Percy documentaries about Yugoslavia/Milosevic, Russia/Putin, Israel/Palestine, Iran, Iraq... but not sure can bear to watch this one.

Possibly the world's least suitable city for this, except Venice.

It’s social media’s fault. Everyone’s sad all the time because we weren’t meant to know how many of our fellow humans are fucking morons.

The managerial class is being scammed in real time by their own egos. If this was a project introduced by an employee it would’ve been killed in a month but because the executive sect has AI psychosis they’ll tolerate the fact that Anthropic doesn’t appear to provide realtime token spend info!

Historian Simon Schama on US defense secretary Pete Hegseth’s D-Day remarks. Schama described the remarks as a “special kind of loathsomeness: a blend of historical deafness, grotesque stupidity and comically ludicrous self-importance.”

Trump has gone to great lengths to surround himself and elevate only people who will refuse to challenge him on this obvious nonsense. Part of his anger here is probably that he hears this so infrequently.

Impromptu 30 Rock rewatch and not a new observation but effing hell it's *full of jokes*. I miss sitcoms that are full of jokes.

What is this absolute racket. #totp

This, thanks to supine NASDAQ and blatant finessing of lockouts, is going to be the biggest transfer of wealth in history, in which Musk & cronies make themselves at least $500bn richer on the back of illusions and at the expense of index funds, and it's past time everybody started covering it.

Scammers use AI to impersonate well-known, knowledgeable people. Platforms that allow these ads should be held responsible. This poor person 😔

Vance is worse than Trump. At least Trump is pure id who has no idea what he's doing.

THEY ARE BASTARDS

Excellent and tragic on Brexit ten years on. There are a lot of people who should never be forgiven. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why do I have to go to the local news section to find this story? Where are the protests demanding an end to the epidemic of white Brits murdering minorities? Will there be a national debate on the ills of cocaine abuse amongst white men?

"Say something like..."

Alt text nails it

The greatest songs about football are Jorge Ben's Ponte de Lança Africana and Christy Moore's Joxer Goes To Stuttgart, THERE IS NO DEBATE ABOUT THIS

are you just going to do this for every generation

The way the entire British media is suddenly discussing 'two tier policing' as if it is a real thing worth seriously debating, rather than the obvious far-right white supremacist fantasy it has always been, is very alarming

If the government wants to honour Henry Nowak's memory and the wishes of his family it should stop posting on X and heavily regulate AI.

The best thing on the BBC by a distance.

I'm reposting this for no particular reason

Darren Jones firing off his preferred cabinet jobs to Peter Mandelson like a 12-year-old with a list of transfer targets is not a good look. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...