Just got back from watching "One Battle After Another" to find a feed full of videos of ICE raids in the US and Badenoch promising to introduce it here. Whatever horror you put on film can't beat reality.

This is why they want all human rights restraints removed. #ECHR

This is a character you would expect in an ancient mythology representing the origin of all creatures. It would also feature in several esoteric texts and possibly a JMS Spider-man run.

Hamas figured out that the US priority is putting on a show that casts Trump positively. Say something he wants to hear, he’ll promote it. You don’t have to do anything. In this case, say yes to an already changed proposal and leave details to be worked out, as if those details aren’t the hard part.

every time one of those "look how evil ages you" posts goes viral you get a reminder that much of us have heuristics for navigating the world that aren't much different from that of a middle ages peasant

Nigel Farage accuses Keir Starmer of "emboldening" anti-semites. This Nigel Farage

we now have a female archbishop of canterbury, because of woke

I think the biggest difference between The Internet Then and The Internet Now is how Being Mad Online used to be the one thing you could never admit to, under pain of death, and now, Being Mad Online is a whole career path with a skill tree and an ever-expanding variety of debuffs.

i said earlier that the police shooting someone by accident was the only thing that could make it more of a tragicomedy. i retract that. this entire incident feels like right out of some right-wing islamophobe's lurid fantasies about london.

"A forward looking government would rename Indefinite-Leave-to-Remain/ILR to Permanent Residency (like other countries) to make it more obvious how abusive and cruel any attempt to mess with that status would be"

If the sole responsibility for yesterday’s attack lies with the attacker, why is the Chief Rabbi allowed to claim a direct link between the terrorist attack and Pro-Palestine rallies? Casting the movement as menacing is really a refusal to try to understand what is going on. #r4today

this is mostly because what was discredited was the Tories as a vehicle for the right, and not the right in general.

Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue: 1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims 2- see above

This feels like a story where a poll was commissioned in hopes of getting a certain result and then when it didn't back up that result the story was written anyway

WHAT YOU FAIL TO SEE MR. POPE

like, this is what i was talking about yesterday who's the target audience for this.

Yeah but then we'd have to actually publicly acknowledge who's doing it and for some reason that's not allowed

Remember Trump told the news that he didn’t know what Project 2025 was and that alot of it seemed crazy to him and the media was like ok sounds good

fuuuucking hell.

“Nigel Farage is wrong in principle, his approach is racist, and we oppose it” “Nigel Farage is right on immigration, but he doesn’t have the skill or experience to deliver his plans” At some point, the government has to pick *one* of these narratives, instead of veering wildly between the two.

Glasman would never defect. Essentially all of “Blue Labour” is about avoiding responsibility or even actually having to do anything other than be an Interesting Dissident.

Politics is not like selling biscuits, where the task is to find out what people like & flog it to them. It's a moral activity. It's about arguing for the things you believe in. It's about *shaping* the "median voter". Farage has moved the centre-ground of politics. His opponents can move it back.

The reason larger number of male refugees cross the channel instead of women and children is because of this resettlement scheme (which itself is long, laborious, shambolic). This will not stop crossings, but it does have a potential consequence of more women & children make the crossing instead.

Look, these people are Protestants.

Papers getting angry at Starmer for calling Farage a racist? Can't call a spade a spade in this country, it's political correctness gone mad!

you can't get just how lunatic and hateful UK media has been on this without knowing this. it is *astonishing* in both volume and spite.

need yanks to stop talking about british politics when they don't understand it lol. the weird anti-environmentalism turn the Tories have taken recently is distinctly out of touch with a substantial portion of their own traditional voter base

you can't help but laugh at this point, huh

Of course they just hate brown people, but still “Poles for the German far-right“ is incredible stuff.

The most successful politician in England is Sadiq Khan and there is functionally only one reason we don't acknowledge that

Can someone ask Farage or Zia Yusuf why, if they're so concerned about incitement to violence, they had Lucy Connolly as a guest star at their conference?

in stunning news, the pope is catholic and has views to match. who knew!

Aw diddums. Did the nasty man call you racist just because you make racist comments, push racist policies and support racists being racist?

Ways populist brain leads to self-defeating policy: - make it harder to integrate - reinforce "dole-scrounger" views, when employment rates of recent migrants are high - penalise would-be parents when birth rates are low, and many immigrants are in their 20s and 30s - discourage skilled people

You cannot decry Reform's policy as racist because it is retrospective on those already here, then do exactly the same and claim it isn't. Also, the initially far-right term of "Boriswave" entering the normal political lexicon to the point of Labour using it, is deeply depressing and grim.

If you at the same time are changing the rules retrospectively and pulling the rug out from under people, you can't argue cogently against doing the same thing in the exact same policy area, you just end up going 'it's bad because [bad word]', which is not an argument.

Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.

really dislike that "Boriswave" used to be something you'd exclusively see being used by racist Twitter accounts but it's now made its way to the political mainstream, including today's Playbook headline

"ILR period will be extended to 10 years, people on ILR will lose it and be forced to reapply their visas if they don't contribute to their community, contribution means doing unpaid volunteer work" has a *very* foul smell of just reinventing serfdom

The radicalisation happening of UK elites is bad, bodes ill for the future, but is also, to be clear, really really funny quite a lot of the time.

Coming to the conclusion that the actual obstacle to ID card in the UK isn't elite opposition but elite /support/, in that every time it comes up the political class starts floating weird daydreams about how it should work that are much less defensible than 'a card with your name and photo on it'

It's IMO striking that the actual case that the UK should join its European peers and have a proper, free and universal ID card all involves things that improve the lives of the people who actually voted Labour in 2024, who are of course inferior to people who voted Labour in 1979.

The wounded knee thing is really Trumpism distilled to its essence. It’s not enough to be able crush people who can’t fully defend themselves, it’s not enough to actually crush them, you also have to love and admire those who do the crushing otherwise the Trumpists’ delicate feelings are injured

Incidentally this is precisely how you square the circle with Reform balking at mandatory ID whilst also wanting to turn the hostile environment up to 11 They want a papers-please society for "other people". The notion of their own ethnonationalist base having to play by the same rules doesn't suit

It's kind of insane how you can split opinion on the British immigration system into "people who know *anyone* who has to interact with it" and "everyone else"

Anyone who doesn't think Britain is already a "papers please" society hasn't tried to get a job in the last 20 years so this totally tracks for Mail readers, who are all retired.

Maybe all those features about how innocent the flag-raising movement were should have given more prominence of the very clear intention to promote the far right and intimidate minorities.

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.