So I was ahead of this when I noticed it 20 bloody years ago then? Good to know.

Air Force One has just had a makeover.... #releasetheFiles

So proud of Elliot, who did work experience with me, for speaking in the UK Youth Parliament this week! He said the experience gave him “a real insight into politics.” Get in touch if you’d like to do work experience too!

The Great Enshittification continues: with audible simply removing loads of books from my library that I’ve paid for. Hundreds of bucks basically picked from my pocket Fuck you, Bezos, you chrome-domed motherfucker. My last reason for using your hateful company just expired. Subscription cancelled

Everything that's wrong with the world right there. 👎💩

Ethnic minority MPs: - condemned if they don't wear a poppy, condemned if they do - "they don't want to integrate"; but if they try to integrate, it's "it's impossible for them to integrate"

When I first brought this up about 7 years ago in the wake of Brexit - an elderly gentleman rang into the local radio station I was appearing on and said that "while he respected my opinion" I should be shot. That was it for me. After a lifetime of poppy wearing, I stopped.

Announcements made in just one week. Stop this nonsense about Labour not having a Plan or wanting to oust Starmer. Labour are #FixingBritain These are #LabourAchievements

I have decided to start posting on here more often as Twitter just does my head in. Who should I follow, do starter packs still exist, do people like sport and video games?

Oh no no no no no! Meine lieben deutschen Freunde. Bitte sag niemals, dass ihr gerne “Dogging” geht, wenn ihr Gassigehen meint. Ob mit echtem oder imaginärem Hund.

Mamdani is already cleaning up the NYPD!

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Laurence Fox is never again going to be able to threaten to sue anybody for calling him, an increasingly overt racist, racist

This is an outstanding post on the criminal justice system. Do read.

The UK needed and needs 10s of thousands of civil servants to manage the red tape Brexit created. Farage‘s rank incompetence might well create many more red tape jobs. And he is still unwilling to learn.

Conservatives understand virtue signalling when it's a tradwife tiktok grifter saying the best thing women can be is a silent subservient homemaker, or when the army gets to do a little parade before a football game. When they complain, it's the specific virtues they object to not the signalling.

Performing desirable behaviour and "virtue signalling" is also absolutely core to human society. It's why we tell kids that stealing is wrong, rather than just that it's illegal and punishable by law. Living in a place where people only treat each other well when forced to by rules would be AWFUL.

13 East Anglian neighbourhoods are among England’s most deprived 1%. Every one lies on the coast. The poorest voted Reform. A warning about what happens when seaside towns are left behind.

Elon Musk’s new pay package would feed all forty million Americans on SNAP for the next ten years. He wouldn’t notice the difference but the country would.

Another day ends, and Ukraine's Glory SHALL Prevail! SLAVA UKRAINII! youtu.be/1VCQDoYop64?...

If this evidence ever sees the light of day, I want prosecutors, judges, and juries to see it, but I have absolutely no interest in viewing any of it.

Stupid hateful trash like this is being fed to Rupert Lowe by far-right accounts and he's delighted and flattered to send it out into the world where he gets rewarded with more clicks (and cash) from Musky's hellsite.

The UK population in the 30s & 40s was not an homogeneous mass who were all against fascism. Get hold of a copy of ‘Black Shirts in Devon by Todd Gray’. Bit of an eye opener. Caused a stink in early 2000s as families named still lived in the area.

It is guns, but we also need bans on fear-mongering lying media and hate crimes that are strictly enforced.

2021: Iran Executes Dead 'Murderer' After She Suffers Fatal Heart Attack to Appease Victim's Family | IBTimes UK share.google/h3SVbCHJ3xcb...

Amazon here, targeting the market consisting of people who for some reason buy books but don't actually like books, or writers, or reading. (Authors, please have nothing to do with this slop-dispenser, which will mangle your prose and put translators — your allies — out of work.)

We're getting old gang. The video used for this meme is 18 years old. So I better use it while there are still some ancient folks around who may get it ;)

🎶 I just called, to say Were you in a vehicle incident? 🎶

Fernando (33), who was 12 when he came to the UK, was detained by the Home Office as part of their upgraded immigration raids. Held for 29 days. We are supporting him with an application for settled status. No way to know, but this is unlikely to be isolated. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

A Comprehensive Timeline of J.K. Rowling's Descent Into Transphobia From beloved children’s author to funding the legal battle to codify transphobia into law, we charted how Rowling became “queen TERF” Next time someone asks how JKR is transphobic - send them this!

When you desperately want to starve Americans:

china - we will invest trillions in infrastructure and future proofing our energy needs while removing our reliant on fossil fuels and creating jobs us - we will invest trillions in a machine that makes the worst memes you’ve ever seen, makes everyone who touches it stupider, and destroys jobs

Very much enjoying this as my first non Discworld since August! Chuckling along and liked the ITV chapter, and was unaware of the idea of different stations on different days. Interestingly that method was how Dutch public television used to operate!

As billionaire Venture Capitalists and tech bros try to make the case for "natural aristocracy" let's remind ourselves of the salutary lesson of Australia's 'Bunyip Aristocracy'. Me for @noosphere.app www.noosphere.app/us-tech-bill...

New Zealand introduced an EV tax. Within three months, EV sales fell from 45 to 15 per cent. In the search for revenue lost from fuel excise, Australia wants to avoid making the same mistake. satpa.pe/5zFOUzB

Contrast this with Trump's infamous mocking of a disabled journalist

Not now, carnivorous death ball

Some good news at last.

The Truth is important - bs is poison => Abbott is poison #auspol

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @mluckovichajc)

Makes more sense now

Threatening us with a good time

In light of Dominic Cummings' latest brain vomit, here's my reply to the moment when he had a dig at me (and several others) as a "charlatan campaigning lawyer" eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2021/07/i-ne...

When i was a little boy I bounced around between two homes. One full of snooker on the telly noise, sharing a bed with coats on-top to keep warm, mince & tatties every night, and the other, empty, full of echoes and me with a room on my own on the top floor. You can guess where a kid felt safer.