Just another day for our Israeli allies.

Seriously is anyone going to ask these Labour cretins on TV or in print why they're using all their political capital and energy on beasting trans people, the neurodivergent, the sick and anti-genocide protesters? We can't get full fat high speed rail, local metros, nationalised energy or water?

This will be a more extreme bathroom ban than, for example, Alabama (whose ban is for state/public facilities only)

Deeply mesmerising to me how every cycle of labour politics is: Here is New Guy who Embodies Our Values. And then as soon as they start talking policy it’s ’my god I hate that guy why don’t we know any of this before’. Extremely funny that it’s going to happen twice in a row.

You're seeing defenders of Israel and Netanyahu publicly distance themselves from Ben Gvir after this video has gone viral. They're saying this isn't Israel and he doesn't represent the country. What are they talking about? He literally represents the government and this is who he's always been.

The hostility towards neurodivergent people and those with mental health conditions by this government is a disaster waiting to happen, and the press are desperate for it

American taxpayer dollars subsidize this. Our elected officials support this.

Every time we hear about how genAI has pushed another teenager to suicide, another person into committing a mass shooting, or generated CSAM of school girls used to blackmail their schools, remember we were told that what we'd be hearing about is a cure to every cancer, and global poverty itself

[member of class which has enjoyed exponential growth in wealth at the same time the state apparatus and means to fund it were deliberately dismantled and scattered into the wind while everything got undeniably worse] that solution that's staring you in the face is too silly to even discuss actually

Yeah, you have to imagine everyone at HQ understands how bad this is, and that this is unlikely to be the worst of it, or anything like the extent of the shenanigans.

The fact that Keir Starmer has drafted Morgan McSweeney back in to save him has to be funniest part of all of this. Truly committed to never learning a single lesson you have to give it to him

I'm so fucking sick of this shit.

Lots of Arsenal fans celebrating despite the fact they *know* this same thing has given Keir Starmer a moment of happiness, disgusting behaviour

Consistent humanism means opposing the genocide in Gaza, AND antisemitism. It means opposing the US/Israeli invasion of Iran AND the Iranian regime's murder of its own people. It means opposing the US/UK invasion of Iraq AND the Russian invasion of Ukraine. It means confronting violence everywhere.

What would we say about this if the relevant country was - picking at random - Bhutan or Paraguay or Burkina Faso? It would look absolutely insane, wouldn’t it.

I don’t think it’s very good if the standard is that politicians must get immediately fired for saying they hope Israel - a country that has been committing utterly horrifying war crimes for many, many years, at this point - badly loses a war.

History will judge interventions like these from Cathy Newman in the harshest terms, just as we now condem those who self-servingly hand-wrung or rationalised slavery & the massacres & genocides of European colonialism

Even as a Streeting hater this totally baffles me lol

Extremely shocked to learn that an organisation that was once led by a guy who would scream "All Muslims hate women and gays" regularly and once did a YouTube stream with a neo Nazi and calls members of the EDL his friends would be like this.

Full exclusive interview: www.newarab.com/news/france-...

Perhaps naively, I am STUNNED by the lack of media coverage given to the anti-Muslim hate speech platformed on the central stage of Stephen YL’s event on Saturday. If it were literally any other minority (apart from trans people) we’d be calling this what it was - a genuine hate march.

Almost zero coverage of the worst anti Muslim hate we have witnessed in the UK in our lifetime. This is deeply concerning and hugely damaging. How the nation responds in these immediate days is vital. A lack of response is the worst possible response.

This is how you legitimise and manufacture consent and legitimacy for the far-right. It is also how you inevitably create space for credulity-straining pieces shortly after initiation of mass-deportation programmes in which regular voters express shock at the extent and severity of said programme.

Burnham admitting he won't scrap First past The Post for Proportional Representation before GE 2029 to ITV News. Now this proves that it's truly Greens vs Reform for that and any by-elections. Labour's slow death from 1997 until now is finally confirmed.

Wes Streeting is trying to crash the car to stop anyone else driving it - raising "rejoin EU" to hurt Burnham's chances. Its just what the Mandelson-led "People's Vote" did to Corbyn, a fake campaign to hurt the left with a side issue they didn't care about winning anyway

I think they should cast Danny Devito as Clavicular in the biopic

Don't watch Eurovision.

This is a thing that’s been hinted at since Morgan got shitcanned: the moderate dweebs are in charge and that means they have control of the big stash of highly incriminating evidence. They decide what is news. If the right wing swine get nasty about it, then it’s going to go quite badly for them.

Luke the Nuke going from “this is an outrage” to “actually we want a big tent discussion” in the course of 24 hours suggests to me that orders have been handed down the line.

Something for ‘the Greens hypothetically, depending on quite complex market dynamics and the uks ability to bid up the price of US LNG that definitely would otherwise be sold to the global south, want to kill the widows and orphans of the global south’ guys to ponder

Seen nothing but terrible takes from this bloke lol

Welcome to Rip-Off Britain. One in five children is growing up in poverty, public services are crumbling - and the 10 richest families and individuals have grown £11bn richer in just one year. Enough is enough. Tax wealth, not work.

Agree with Caroline 100% here. I’m a Green Party voter but if it’s not to help in shaping politics in this country then it’s for nothing. I don’t subscribe to sensible pragmatic commentariat politics but this would be a long term strategic mistake. Learn from UKIP IMO.

column on david attenborough, a man feted and adored by a country that also ignores pretty much everything he actually says www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

i am begging you not to quote dunk the lame ass WaPo opinion podcast into doing numbers. let it die in darkness

Mamdani has demonstrated something that Democrats have largely forgotten. You can't just do good things for voters and expect to be rewarded for it. You have to tell them about it, over and over again. You have to advertise your work in office just as much as you did on the campaign to win it.

You know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They know this opens the door to an incredible amount of grim shit. They're rolling the pitch for a Reform government, and they wont just be against people that don't like genocide.

It’s called a Cordon Sanitaire, and it is precisely how all parties committed to liberal democracy, rule of law and respect for human rights should treat far-right, fascist, anti-democratic parties. A media committed to a democratic state should do the same. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The lesson here is: if it looks, sounds and smells like abysmal fraud then it’s probably just abysmal fraud, and not whatever intergalactic brained interpretation you think is most appealing.

Bizarre. How did the Labour Party and the government wind up being led by a guy whose only allies are PR men? 🤔

Well yeah, the “what does it mean” part is a question for broadcasters. There is *no news value* in a random person saying random nonsense. And look, if the specific flavour of nonsense was “British people can’t get hotels because of ITV News”, it would certainly not be broadcast.

What’s so depressing is I expect any write-up on the antisemitism demo today to paper over its extreme right-wing, divisive politics. It turns out many British Jews can assimilate into red-faced, aggrieved Tory gammon culture, so long as it’s tied to flag-shagging and hating leftists

More top tier centrism on display

Again: these guys are just bog standard wingnuts, and so is just about everybody who goes on TV to complain about racism on the left. This is not to say there are no left wing racists, but stoking terror of the left is unfortunately a very right wing project for very right wing people.

It’s astounding how much of European history has entailed people with reactionary, right-wing politics using Jewish people as footballs, one way or another, toward selfish, cynical ends, in ways that inevitably endanger Jewish people themselves. This latest cycle of barrel-scraping is despicable.

We really are going to have to revisit the socialist calculation debate at some point quite soon.

i feel like the part that nobody wants to touch of the "protesting synagogues is antisemitic" discourse is that in a surprisingly high number of cases these synagogues are hosting *profoundly* morally objectionable events. like showing up against this isn't the same as picketting yom kippur service