"We need to attack the left harder" claim dead eyed, morally vacuous careerists as they haemorrhage supporters

So exhausting..

There is a fallacious belief, endemic to mainstream liberal political commentary and thought, that 'centrism' is necessarily antithetical to 'fanaticism'. Fortunately, that fallacy is finally beginning to be identified and confronted.

Just discovered I'm on "fascists" and "people who think Ukraine should give up" lists, which comes a somewhat of a surprise, being diametrically opposed to both beliefs. I guess it just goes to show there's a lot of reactionary idiots out there.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

In a functioning, progressive democracy, this might not be an issue(see Norway) In a country made up of four nations, several of whose people do not identify as 'Brits', it is offensive And while England teeters towards a far-right with neo-fascist, racist leanings, it feels - frankly - dangerous.

It’s worth sitting for a minute with the knowledge that Morgan McSweeney received three quarters of a million pounds to subvert democracy and it’s only a scandal because he didn’t fill in the forms correctly.

Idea: anyone that uses the phrase "in real time" to describe something that is not a computing algorithm to be fired into the sun.

Point of view: It’s March 2, 1930, and you are a fairly liberal German. That being the case, you buy your go-to Sunday paper, „Vossische Zeitung“. On page 5, you find a note on the funeral of the young Nazi Horst Wessel, who had died a few weeks after being shot. [A #Vossische1933f prequel.] 1/

A suggestion for UK Parliament. Before passing any new law, consider plausible worst case scenario for how a future Reform government would use it. Then start to review existing laws. And if you don’t, don’t complain when it all goes wrong (assuming that government hasn’t locked you all up)

The Heritage Foundation is going after me this morning calling me a terrorist because I am accurately stating what they are intending to do. Michael Knowles at CPAC explicitly called for the "eradication of transgenderism." I'll continue to speak the truth of what is being done to my community.

Starmer goes full throttle Conservative and anti-ecological www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Time to start doing this again, I guess.

the UK so profoundly contradicts the narrative that 'the way to win back voters is abandoning trans rights' ok, starmer tried that & . . .

Check your parenting skills

Well well, former so called progressives revealed to have merely been engaging in transactional politics, I think my last opinion was spot on timewise. Fuck the lot of them.

Outrageous bollocks from a pathetically thin skinned Government which is willing to humiliate Britain on the international stage to brown nose one of the most dangerous men the world has ever known. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Currently, the UK is currently entertaining a fascist protodictator, literally giving them the royal treatment. This is somehow being treated as totally normal, and not the epitaph describing the abandonment of all post-war values we once held. 1/3

I lived through Thatcher, and cannot imagine a universe in which Keir Starmer, who won an election by the tactical genius of not being the Tory party, can be compared in any way to Tony Blair, except possibly the war crimes part. Meanwhile, we get a perfect embodiment of this cliche in his defence:

This might as well have been a party political broadcast by the Reform party.

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

if you go to a tommy robinson rally you don't have 'reasonable' or 'legitimate' concerns. you're just a bigot.

What part of 'tax the rich' don't they understand?..

All right, I wrote about it:

Starmer's pathetic subservience to the agenda set by the far-right is paving the way to the destruction of democracy, and with it the end of freedom and human rights. Starmer is leaving the UK all but defenceless against the kleptofascist assault that combines fascism and sociopathic greed.

I have something to say about the Charlie Kirk murder. youtu.be/LyPdCw5Hcr0?...

Your daily reminder that billionaires are parasites. By hook or by crook, they hoard wealth by extracting far more from society than they ever give back. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The hagiographies of Kirk make this fact almost impossible to talk about. He was a beneficiary of the same system of nonstop fearmongering and incitement that is being used, in the wake of his death, to incite Americans towards even greater political violence.

This is also the point that Labour have failed to grasp. They can promise as many deportations and draconian visa rules as they like but all that does is maintain the far right narrative that there's some kind of problem with migrants, the far right don't want anything less than ethnic cleansing

Finally a sensible article on this! Well said Suzanne Harrington 👏👏 “Linehan — whose extreme hatred of trans people and his inability to STFU about his extreme hatred of trans people has so far cost him his career, family, and every last shred of credibility…”

Nice to see all the grassroots Labour supporters come out of the woodwork to comment and pat each other on the back at 3-5am. Very legitimate, I'm sure.

On the same day in the Telegraph:

starmer is doing all the anti-immigrant and anti-trans "popularism" stuff the centrists are demanding US dems do and this is the predictable result:

Tuesday. Sir Keir Starmer stares like a proud English flag at his breakfast of toast, bacon, egg and beans. "Would racists like this?" he wonders, flagishly. A frown creeps across his face, making him look not like a brilliant big flag at all. He doesn't know. God help him, he just doesn't know.

Please report and then block this insane conservative anti-semite.

I didn’t realise Kier was rebranding as a flagpole

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And if you're wondering whether someone getting killed is what it will take for the media and political class to come to their senses, I would just remind you that Jo Cox was murdered in a similar moment of demagoguery and hysteria 9 years ago, and if anything things have got far worse since then.

Having read that Steam are now requiring your credit card details for access, I went and had a look. It is now gating access to *PEGI 12* games on the basis of LGBTQIA+ representation. The Online Safety Act is Section 28 on steroids.

I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)

arguing with centrists is maddening. 'oh, i dont like labour but we have to stop the tories and reform!' labour have the exact same fucking end goals as the tories and reform. voting for labour is not stopping the tories or reform. voting labour does fuck all to positively change anything.

From taxing private jets to closing offshore loopholes, and more. Here's how we could make our economy fairer and raise £60 billion to revitalise key services to deliver first class healthcare, education and more. taxjustice.uk/blog/how-to-...

One day, Bluesky may fix the bug that logs you out from Android devices and won't let you log back in with the correct password. I won't hold my breath. Absolute clownshow.

At least one Labour MP has the cajones to speak up

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

🚨 In case there's anyone out there that thinks this is a spontaneous, popular uprising... It isn't. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The U.K. Online Safety Act was (avowedly, as revealed in a recent High Court case) “not primarily aimed at protecting children” but at regulating “services that have a significant influence over public discourse.”

Google, Meta, and Amazon are among the top companies tracking you across the web. By automatically blocking their trackers, Privacy Badger makes it harder for Big Tech companies to profit from your personal information. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

As a German I will forever be grateful to all who fought for the liberation of Europe. But as a historian I am looking at front pages today and must wonder: What is the point of remembering #VEDay 80 years on, what is the point of our thanks, when we are failing to protect the sacrifices made? 🧵