'The actual Prime Minister is still missing, presumed shit.' Jonn is rightly cheesed off.

With the Mad Right now dangling ‘Deportation/Re migration’ in front of the easily misled in England, I predict the demise of tanning beds and the tanning studio industry.

Fears of new PFI-style ‘disaster’ as firms handed £6m to advise on using private funds for NHS clinics

Whether it’s paracetamol or something else, Trump and co are perpetuating the idea autism is wrong and disability is an individual’s responsibility to avoid. It’s anti-science but it’s deeply ableist at its core. The goal is for non-disabled to be afraid and disabled people to be ashamed.

Fighting back against fascism doesn’t start in the pages of the Sun. It might start with knowing your history: youtu.be/XeHviTKEqSo

‘A resistance to AI’: The author inviting readers to contribute to a mass memoir

Starmer: “the real problem with the Nazis is that they didn’t provide a fully costed analysis of the final solution.”

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

Insect overlords. Can we knock them before we’ve given them a chance?

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy @eastangliabylines.co.uk eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

I understand. We understand. We understand the importance that Europe had in your lives and the sense of biting loss for many of you. We understand what Brexit has done. 2

Twordlight—(n.) That part of the day following early completion of #Wordle during which Wordlers can only nurse their wounded pride and wait for the next puzzle to come around and wipe the slate clean

… and in other news, a country that was once a dominion of ours, achieved independence and wrote itself a Constitution enshrining freedom for all citizens, has all but become a nightmarish fascist rogue state …

Wordle 1,553 3/6* ⬛⬛🟨⬛🟨 ⬛🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Ernest and AFTA did most of the work today. I glanced at the time: 08:31. Started at page 31, chose 1st candidate word. Then continued reading and chose next qualifying (hard mode) candidate word. SOP for the 3rd. A collaboration of Chance, Hemingway and Me.

I don't think I've ever been more ashamed to be British than I was over the last few days, watching the mango shitgibbon being courted by our government and monarchy like some all-powerful emperor. His crimes, his racism, his hatred of democracy, his support of our enemies... WTF were they thinking?

It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us? ✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter https://goodlaw.social/wu1u

“[The hanging of St George’s flags in public space is] … literally fascistic … Most obviously it is aimed at immigrants, but more generally at the ‘enemies within’ – the liberally-minded and tolerant.”

There is another country. New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog discussing the thuggery, sanctimony and hypocrisy of the last fortnight, and how Starmer should lead in articulating an alternative version of patriotism to that of the far-right: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/ther...

It is like a cruel but accurate joke someone made up about the left: "Two Corbynites walk into a pub and fall out over the definition of Corbynism. One of them was Corbyn." Just join the Greens, Zarah. You will be so much happier.

Doesn’t ‘buttering someone up’ (BBC News description of the lavish reception being given to Donald Trump) only work if that person doesn’t know they are being ‘buttered up’ by dint of—for instance—hearing about their ‘buttering up’ on broadcast national news?

Crossroads? Or all crammed into one of those blind alleys like in Crocodile Dundee where there’s only piles of trash, nowhere to hide or go, and some nutcase with a weapon?

Quick public info English spelling bulletin… The word you may be hearing or seeing a lot is spelled ‘fascism’ or ‘fascist’. The ‘sc’ is important. ‘Facism’ is wrong. That ‘word’ doesn’t exist. Obviously, if you are a fascist yourself you can spell it any damn way you please.

Some fine words of Hemingway’s (A Farewell To Arms) that didn’t make the Wordle cut this morning, but might tomorrow. “I will get you DRUNK and take out your LIVER and put you in a good Italian liver and make you a man again.” I wouldn’t select ‘again’ because of the duplicated ‘a’.

#Wordle I’m going to explore the relative roles of ‘Luck’ and ‘Skill’ (as the WordleBot has it) by trying to find out if there is any real effect of applying ‘Mot Trouvé’ (a controlled pseudo-random method) for 1st and/or 2nd guesses /…

According to Wikipedia, “…the New York Times removed certain words from Wordle's answer list that were deemed insensitive or offensive, including "slave" and "lynch," to make the game "accessible to more people”." And yet, in Wordle #1,550, the word LEFTY was chosen. WEIRD, huh?

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. A country remade by privatisation. Our latest project — Who Owns Britain? — explores how a radical experiment transformed our society and shapes your life. 🧵

This is a stunningly important post. While our socio-political systems are obsessed with culture wars & political personality, China is remaking the world. And we’re not even *allowed* to make these industries! Oligarchs direct all surplus to the attention economy & AI. A disaster for the West👇

Just a reminder that Labour told us we couldn't revisit the Brexit question because it would "strengthen and embolden" the far-right. Well, I don't know about you, but they look pretty strengthened and emboldened to me right now anyway, so what do we have to lose? #RejoinEU 🇬🇧🇪🇺

Long championed a max 10:1 pay ratio in companies and organisations so thrilled to see ⁦‪the High Pay Centre‬⁩ and ⁦‪Equality Trust fighting the good fight. highpaycentre.org/high-pay-cen...

CEOs are earning hundreds of times more than their staff. Tesco’s boss made 431x the average worker last year! 😳 Sign the petition for a maximum wage and help make pay fair you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/it...

Elon Musk openly called for violence on our streets yesterday. I hope politicians from all parties come together to condemn his deeply dangerous and irresponsible rhetoric. Britain must stand united against this clear attempt to undermine our democracy.

Why did Starmer and Badenoch express their condolences at the death of a foreign fascist agitator who served Putin by opposing aid to Ukraine? There is something deeply and terrifyingly wrong with our political elite.

A great deal of our problems result from not holding those who tried to destroy our democracy accountable for their actions.

People who think they are being controlled sometimes try to exert control over other people around them in order to ‘take back control’. Thus the IngNat who asserted that I was ‘triggered’ by the flag thing. “It’s just a flag” he laughed. He wanted me to know *his* was the finger on the trigger.

NEWS: There is a weekend hearing going on right now before Judge Chutkan, due to imminent risks of these people being re-deported from Ghana to their home countries.

Rats in a sack... a glimmer of hope... and the revolving political door of who is in and who's out... Another week where I, Mr Pecksniff, lay before you, my dear readers, for your approval certain observations and speculations reflecting on the political life

Miller was truly blessed to have heard such portentous ‘last words’ from the now deceased truth teller. Controversy yet surrounds the ‘last words’ of [William] Pitt The Younger, erstwhile Prime Minister of the UK. “I love my country!” say some. Others: “I could eat one of Bellamy’s meat pies!”

See how beautiful this piece is, and how it can make you yearn for knowledge this simple, this deep, and this directly provided by Nature?

I’m not the first person to make this observation, but this being the biggest story in the world at present really speaks to how much Twitter still serves as a universal assignments editor for English-language journalists.

Hmm. I’d been wondering why it feels as though very little has changed.

For anyone who wonders why Zelenskyy won’t give up territory in return for peace, aside from territorial integrity, not rewarding aggression, and creating a worse a future threat, this is the future he’d be leaving Ukrainian citizens to under those sick fucks. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Shutting the hotels is not what flag-waving anti-immigrant protesters want. They just want people deported. Excluded. Ignored. No ‘solution’ will quell that. Not HMOs. Not disused bases. Not tent camps. Some Brits are losing their minds over this. They’d better not claim to be Christians.

Just the UK Home Secretary posing with the woman who posed outside the Guatemalan prison wearing a Rolex. Blue Labour next to hard labor.

Bravo Banksy. 👏 “A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy has appeared on the side of the Royal Courts of Justice building in central London.”

The reaction to the mural is as telling about things as the original artwork.

"With a record 60% of the public in favour of changing how we elect Parliament, Labour must take action. Our APPG – the largest all-party group – urges the Government to establish a National Commission on Electoral Reform without delay." 📢 APPG for Fair Elections Chair, @alexsobel.co.uk

This is an absurd misuse of laws designed to tackle terrorism and an insane waste of a resource-starved criminal justice system. There were obviously not 900 terrorists wandering through central London on Saturday and it's utterly ridiculous to act as if there were

English nationalists are bogus in a fundamental way, all the more for waving flags. Being English isn’t enough for them. They want to be Americans. It’s laughable.

I think I’ve seen this film before - and I didn’t like the ending

Lucy Connolly was convicted of inciting racial hatred, and her tweet was part of the tinder that lit violence, intimidation, looting, and thuggery across England last year. The fact Reform conference gave her a standing ovation says everything about that movement. bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...