A motor of 59 kW/kg! 750 horsepowers with a weight of just 12.7 kg! That's the type of motor that can drive all but the fastest sportscars in a ludicrously small package. electriccarsreport.com/2025/11/yasa...

If you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it. Or don’t. I just wanted to post the cover of Pentastar.

Everyone appears to have assumed Labour would be smart, politically astute, popular and successful and so they did and said a lot of things they absolutely would not have done, if they had known Labour would instead be clueless, spiteful, clownish and despised.

It is 8th Nov in a European city widely thought to have terrible weather at about 51 degrees North. Xmas markets open in 3 weeks. It is nearly 16C outside & nearly 22C inside. I have multiple windows open to create a through-draft. I am wearing shorts & a t-shirt. This is not fucking normal.

This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.

This culture within Labour was being pointed out before Starmer was even elected, because it's the Labour right, it's what they do. Wreckers when they're not in charge, the worst type of aggressive, arrogant and clueless middle manager when they are.

Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

It's not complicated though, is it? He's a bloodless institutional climber who hitched his wagon firmly to the Labour Right Blairism Redux project under Starmer, acting as one of its most proud and outspoken enforcers. Now, Starmer's a dead PM walking, he's knows he's fucked too, so he's pivoting.

the motivation for austerity in the UK is the belief you need to make regular, extensive sacrifices to assuage the great bond god's anger, and nothing makes him angrier than a library or a disabled person with central heating. This doesn't really apply if you are America.

Reminds me of the time HMRC sold 600 of its own offices to a company in a tax haven (Bermuda) for £220m, which it now leases back for £269m per year

The UK rail electrification story is really the perfect example of the mind bending multi decadal stupidity of treasury aversion to capital spending today on publicly owned infrastructure to achieve better outcomes at a cheaper cost tomorrow

If the Labour Party was led by anybody else it would be 20 points ahead in the polls

Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering

Aside from anything else: individual members of the public who have done nothing wrong should be able to live their lives in peace, without being turned into national hate figures by the world’s most poisonous and destructive media outlets.

how’s this shit looking now, @labourlist.bsky.social?

You telling me all those lefty shit posters who pointed out that Labour didn't really win the election but rather the Tories lost, and that their "huge mandate" was built on sand, were right?

The truly maddening thing is that, unlike when I was a young man in science and the materials and engineering just weren’t there yet, the future is *right there.* The problem is *solved*. What’s holding us back is not just greed, but this bizarre nostalgia, an obsession with petro- masculinity.

On a recent visit to Poland I was told that lynx translocations struggle to make the news, such is the low impact of lynx www.bbc.com/news/article...

The Labour right have basically one electoral strategy which has already been torpedoed by the Greens and no one has absolutely deserved it more.

You don’t raze entire towns and cities street by street with controlled demolitions and bulldozers for any military objective. You do it because the aim is to wipe those places out of existence forever, and it’s not like they’ve been hiding this.

These abominations have nothing to do with farming They are simply industrial-scale torture and death chambers Every single facility should be scrapped and no new ones built www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If it turned out that things could’ve been better and different all along and many of the horrors were needless and avoidable, then that is going to raise some awkward questions for anyone who said otherwise.

This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.

Absolutely insane. Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani. Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo. The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

Genuinely very interesting clip.

Catastrophic nature loss is at least as serious a problem as climate breakdown, but only gets a fraction of the (woefully inadequate) attention. THE most critical tasks of our time are: • Protect what remains of wild ecosystems • Mass rewilding where damaged or lost www.earth.com/news/africas...

I look at this and I ask: when he says “democracy as we know it”, does he in fact mean “permanent non-negotiable Thatcherism, imposed by the type of person the Times of London would approve of”? Because it makes a lot more sense if he does mean that, doesn’t it.

The 20th-century economist Robert Solow created the theory of infinite economic growth by substituting "technological innovation" for the productivity of land in his model, thereby decoupling the economy from any limits imposed by land or ecosystems. The world took his theory as gospel. 1/n

The "consensus" in 2010 was that our economy was on the verge of collapse, we were at the mercy of "bond vigilantes", & it would be crazy to borrow money at 0 interest rates. Instead the "consensus" was that we needed austerity. That "consensus" was wrong & no-one has been held accountable.

I’m coining the phrase “the centrist two-step.” Step 1 is declaring that the left needs to focus on kitchen table issues instead of social issues to win back voters and step 2 is insisting that all left-wing approaches to kitchen table issues are impossible to deliver on.

It's a really strange coincidence that the British news media continually seize upon the exact propaganda campaigns that might serve to lock the UK into a far right path and reverse any of the post-WWII Labour achievements.

Sure, but the problem here isn’t a failure of understanding: it’s that the people in charge are very cranky right wing reactionaries who despise those people, and would rather crash the bus again and again than ever seriously court their approval.

This is all correct but the argument will persist because as far as the Labour Right are concerned it’s both teleological and tautological: The function of ‘moderation’ (moving right) is to win elections, and the way you win elections is through ‘moderation’ (moving right).

Sure, but it’s not like still having a king in the 21st century isn’t quite silly itself

This is desperate stuff.

Bad news for the liberticidal appetites of government.

They're poking, prodding for an attack angle, but the reality is 'green' issues are inseparable from issues of social and economic justice (and foreign policy) and the public investment in health, transport, energy etc. needed to tackle them.

Bears repeating.

Labour the 'stop Reform' party.

I think if you answer the question (which is asked often) 'why won't the government talk about that policy?' with 'Because they think it's too left wing/woke and will upset Reform voters (and the party leadership don't actually like the policy themselves)' then you'll be right 99% of the time.

Dear Rachel Reeves, You're so right wing we'd like you to stagger on for a while. Jim Gavin and Angela Rayner narf narf Toodle pip, Keir

It's not confused and it's not hapless. They got what they wanted and got the center-right to establish it as the new common m normal. Then, consistent with the behaviour of all right wing racists for the last century, they refused to take yes for an answer and upped their demands.

@yougov.co.uk latest has @greenparty.org.uk and @zackpolanski.bsky.social polling in FIRST for all voters under 50

Farage's motion on leaving the European Convention on Human Rights failed: 154 votes to 96 All 4 @greenparty.org.uk MPs voted against it, because we believe international agreements on human rights are a good thing. But only 63 out of 401 Labour MPs did: votes.parliament.uk/votes/common...

I wonder if the Green's policies would be considered 'fringe' or 'mainstream' in other European countries.

There's a number of trends in UK political pundits have all agreed need addressed - leader popularity, attracting non - voters and energising young people and there's one party in particular that's bucking those trends. I wonder what the pundits will have to say about it.

Paul Givan, Northern Ireland's DUP Education Minister, who unilaterally decided to order discrimination against trans kids recently, went on a trip to Israel to visit a school there for some reason. He was joined by others from the DUP, TUV and UUP.

This is it - here as in the US, you absolutely cannot win by letting your opponent set the narrative at every turn. Thanks fuck Polanski understands this here in the UK at least and is making headway as a result.