I've said for some time: if the gov't was serious about "online safety" they'd ban: algorithmic content in the default UI of all social media (excl clearly marked ads) recommendations of "groups to join" the use of "autoplay next vid" outside of user-curated playlists

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

Re-upping this for the Monday crowd... I think my favourite, most revealing detail is that the guy seems to not realise he's in trouble because London Centric's reporting didn't hit anything like his view counts, so therefore it can't really matter.

#usdemocracy www.youtube.com/shorts/-Lu-F...

Mandelson revelations show need for tougher UK constraints to resist rule of the rich www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Starmer nominated [Doyle] for a peerage in December - despite knowing Matthew Doyle campaigned for a councillor... charged with child sex offences... No 10 investigated Mr Doyle's continued support of [a] councillor... charged with possessing and distributing indecent images of children #R4Today

It's the world cup in June. I think in these circumstances you'd have to be pretty brave to venture there - whoever you are

This is absolutely insane. The sort of Kafka-esque nightmare you would find in a Philip K Dick book set far in the dystopian future. A window on America tumbling into autocracy. www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...

My posts don't seem to get that many likes, or shares. That this one did, speaks volumes: bsky.app/profile/brow...

I know three things about that guy: Rescinded his ARB registration for seemingly no benefit aside from self-publicity. This article. That he worked on The Line I’ve no idea at all how he could have won the presidency of RIBA.

Yet more. They can't pretend they didn't know.

Crazy idea I know, but maybe people should actually listen to the left and indie left media? #MandelsonEpstein

There are hundreds and hundreds of examples. I've just screengrabbed a few. One of these is from 2022.

Indie media and left Twitter were yelling into the void about Mandelson's relationship with Epstein in 2023-25 while MPs and those with big platforms (FT aside) said sweet FA and pretended not to know.

Embarrassment For Reform UK As Councillor Quits Party On Live TV

Pod Save America | 1118: Is Trump Afraid of Bad Bunny? (feat. Pablo Torre) on Podbean www.podbean.com/ea/dir-rzc9p...

Bad Bunny “together we are America”

The most creative well produced and executed Super Bowl half time show of all time. I’m laughing at the “patriots” who missed it.

MAGA’S WORST NIGHTMARE THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE

Bad Bunny: God bless America, *all* the Americas. Damn that is going to make MAGA maaaaaaaddddddd.

Labour's gender critical stance cost them young women voters and they know it. When your "feminism" requires throwing trans people under the bus, turns out actual feminists notice.

i can't believe young women have abandoned labour what with all that feminism @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and wes streeting are doing. almost like they know full well 'gender critical' is just a foul mixture of sexism and misogyny.

You know Stephen Miller is losing his fucking mind right now. 🤣

That was terrific.

This is considerably more entertaining than the sport.

“[Trump’s] underlying project of mass deportations in service of ethnonationalist renewal faces widespread public condemnation. The old tried-and-true cultural barbs have lost their potency. Much of the energy is on the other side. Whether Trump knows it or not, he’s losing this war very badly.”

Trump is badly losing the war over ICE, not just on the streets, but also in the culture. As Bad Bunny shows, this has become a culture war unto itself. Trump-MAGA's initial hubris has been utterly deflated. I've got fresh data illustrating the point. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2062...

Decided to wait up to see Bad Bunny. TV is on but sound off & am not really paying attention. But every time I glance at screen, these blokes seem to be standing around. How do they ever finish a game?

like maybe the key here isn't to just keep alienating people until you find the group whose alienation somehow wins you elections, maybe they should actually try to appeal to *more* voters instead. I dunno, just a thought

I'm no political strategist but has anyone in Labour considered *not* alienating any huge chunk of their base? I just feel like they tried alienating the left and the centre left and the public sector workers and the academics, and none of those things worked great, so maybe give my idea a whirl?

Have written about a week where the hypocrisy of much of the media was laid bare (and address mine). I also write about the truth Starmer cannot say: he appointed Mandelson to the court of Trump not in spite of the Epstein connection but in a sense, because of it. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

McSweeney is gone. Time for Starmer to try to salvage his government by launching long overdue proper action to address all the flaws in our political system - peerages, patronage, cronyism, party finances, MPs revolving door, appointments, ministerial code, business interests, Leveson, etc etc.

Damn right. There's still time to transform a wasted govt into a transformational one. It's not as though nobody knows what needs doing, or we're lacking ideas about how. Labour built the NHS in 3 years, and transformed the nation. They can this too. It just takes will.

'McSweeney’s core job is electoral strategy, and I suppose I can see the rationale in mopping up as many voters as possible regardless of how racist or bigoted they are. But Harold Wilson was onto something important when he said the Labour Party was a “moral crusade or it is nothing”.'

'Long before anyone else, Oborne traced how a backroom strategist had succeeded in seizing the levers of power, while pursuing a factional war against the left and playing into the hands of the nationalist right.' @bylinetimes.bsky.social is there any hope that it could be turned around?

"If current trends persist, the McSweeney/ Starmer legacy will be twofold: the final destruction of Clem Attlee’s Labour Party – and a Nigel Farage premiership."

Another must read from @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Absolutely spot on. A brilliant description of the malign and destructive influence of Morgan McSweeney and his Labour Together right-wing cabal. Sadly, a number of their members are still occupying high office along with their puppet, Starmer and their odious heir-apparent, Wes Streeting.

Starmer👎 "McSweeney’s core job is electoral strategy, and I suppose I can see the rationale in mopping up as many voters as possible regardless of how racist or bigoted they are. But Harold Wilson was onto something important when he said the Labour Party was a “moral crusade or it is nothing”."

Good grief. Is there a single politician, not being manipulated by others, out there? Is there any media, other than Byline Times, out there that is honest and truthful?

So my Governor was singled out and disinvited by Trump to the National Governors Association Bipartisan dinner at the White House. Trump’s racism is a mega phone. Moore is the Vice Chair of the NGA & the only Black Governor in the US. In solidarity w/him, all governors/esp Ds must refuse to attend!

Controversial Trump official tied to president's racist Obama video as outrage mounts www.rawstory.com/stephen-mill...

This is the ur-grift: it’s not the get-rich-quick scheme that makes you rich, it’s teaching other people how to sell it to someone else.

If anyone is selling you the opportunity to make money, *you* are how *they* make money and the 'secret' they have is convincing people like you to pay them. There will be a lot of smoke & mirrors to make it look like you have agency, but the product is your gullibility.

To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books. She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it. It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.

Well worth a listen The Rest Is Politics | 498. Alastair Reacts to Starmer-Mandelson Turmoil on Podbean www.podbean.com/ea/dir-jrerx...

I wrote this yesterday - Starmer could still turn his premiership around, if he finally, FINALLY, finds the courage to address the grubby circs which allow people like Mandelson to rise so far. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/07/t...