It’s rare for foreign policy to shift domestic elections, but I think this explains why Israel-Palestine has become so salient. Israel’s war in Gaza posed the question of whether genocide can ever be a proportionate response. That is a fundamental moral litmus. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

On March 26, 2026, during a debate on violence against women in Germany’s Bundestag, left-wing MP Kathrin Gebel was repeatedly interrupted by AfD MP Martin Reichardt. She responded: “Mr. Reichardt, the clitoris has 3,000 nerve endings, and you’re still more sensitive. That’s quite an achievement.”

Abba Voyage is fucking nuts! What a cash cow. No performers, just one person to press a button.

Americans celebrating "victories" and "wins" in "soccer" as if this were, what?, the Straits of Hormuz

I shit you not, I read this as I hear the tell-tale sounds coming from the next room

Okay, okay, I finally went for an early morning sea swim today, and, yeesss, it was amazing. Millpond, crystal clear, refreshing. Don't expect me to make a habit of it, though.

A data-driven analysis of how the New York Times's treatment of transgender subjects shifted "from rights-based framing toward more skeptical, conflict-driven coverage" since 2014, centering trans-rights opponents over trans people themselves. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Scotland on tenterhooks to discover whether they can progress to being knocked out.

Happy to have missed the football last night, was at the theatre daahling, watching the brilliant Bog Witch by @bryonykimmings.bsky.social The best— "This is supposed to be good, shall we go see it?" "Sure, why not." —in years. If it is showing near you take the plunge into the bog.

“We’re all trying to find the guy who did this” - ChatGPT

This country needs an active communist party if only to teach everyone to properly place people on the ideological spectrum

"We need moderates" buddy that's what democratic socialists *are*

[AFTER KEIR STARMER RESIGNS] ME: PAL: ME: PAL: Lot of human rights abuses for a hu- ME: A LOT of human rights abuses for a human rights lawyer!

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This is Rorty's pragmatism and the only philosophy worth anything.

My Father's Day started with discovering a big wet shit on the kitchen floor. My wife had already been down to make tea and let the dogs out, so I'm not sure who was responsible, but it somehow fell to me to clean it up.

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

France will be at the epicenter of the most significant heat anomaly on the planet over the next few days. The sheer extent of the country that could experience temperatures above 40°C is nothing short of astonishing.

Transphobia eats your soul

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

If we’re doing PM rankings I think we need a quadrant model. Something like

Shocking images emerge of teenager reading a book. For pleasure.

IF WE TOLERATE THIS is out today! These are worrying times politically but if there's one thing I want to get across, it's that the slide into far-right nationalism is not inevitable. Please help me spread the word. uk.bookshop.org/p/books/if-w...

Excitement building in the Anderson household.

Depraved not deprived.

Essential day one sacking for the next PM imo

Apologies to whoever was in the same screening of #DisclosureDay as me and my family last night, we tried to keep the giggles under wraps, but "My room!" pushed me over the edge and it took a good few minutes for me to regain my composure, and I never quite recovered from that. /...

Dandy McTate

"Al Carns is calling for national service" "Streeting is calling for new North Sea drilling" "Burnham is calling for tax cuts for pensioners" "Starmer is banning children from social media" These are all the same policy, from people who do not believe in power (soon they won't have to)

All that death, all the weapons used, all that money spent And Iran not only gets control of the Strait of Hormuz-plus sanctions lifted-but Trump gives them $324 billion And all Iran has to do is comply with a nuclear proliferation treaty that it signed back in 1968 Complete and utter humiliation

Joining the chorus of disapproval for the under-16s social media ban. There *is* unhealthy usage and ill-effects in this age group, but this is the equivalent of dealing with school shootings by banning children from schools. Fix the platforms. They are poisoning *everyone*'s minds in the same way.

WHAT?! “They’re thinking: ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon and all that, but they were wrong,” said Raab, ... “That’s what you have snipers for.” NO. That's depraved monster talking. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Probably shouldn't be surprised to find scam listings on booking.com (complete with reviews). Not sure whether to be surprised or not that when alerting booking.com to it they suggested contacting the owner.

Also, laying the blame so fully on Musk - who is absolutely a dangerous and contemptible racist creep - is very convenient for the UK's newspapers, news channels and politicians who've either spread the self-same racist myths, 24/7, for decades, or have entirely abandoned any pushback against them.

If nothing else, this confirms Starmer has to go. McSweeney is the originator of most of the often self-inflicted troubles of his govt and if he hasn’t the wit to see that he doesn’t deserve to be Prime Minister.

The bottom left point of the line starts at nearly $10 billion, far more money than any human being has ever needed. This accumulation of wealth and its concomitant power in one person’s hands is unconscionable. Civilised societies should not allow it.

Got a piece up on Polanski, MMT, economic policy and all that. Punchline: Polanski is right that the current institutional and operational framework is past its sell by date, and Greens are asking the right questions — but Richard Murphy’s MMT is not the answer. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

I heard a great disturbance in the force. As if a thousand Labour activists cried out in hope and were suddenly silenced.

oh FUCK OFF

I get the impression that some people aren't clear what this means. This is the UK state deciding to intervene directly in the healthcare of individual children, depriving them of medicine that their doctors have prescribed for their personal health & wellbeing, in defiance of global best practice.

Hi! I'm Bret Rhett Chet, here to tell you why you should buy and hodl SpaceX stonk. For a mere $135/share, you get pro forma tangible book value of $7.85/share, an immediate 94% dilution. New investors are putting up 48% of all capital ever invested in SpaceX in exchange for 4.2% of the shares. /1

It’s a pretty weird week when a guy who wants to be a trillionaire is simultaneously getting headlines for the economy-shattering IPO expected Friday and the racist pogroms he is accused of stoking — but these stories are viewed as separate and in no way connected or prescient of the future.

Tell me about it. I despair at the inaction that has become the calling card of the Prime Minister. No doubt there will be a statement about how angry he is and if the companies in question don’t do something he’ll launch a consultation. He’s become the Paddington Bear Hard Stare of PMs.

This is what a pogrom looks like: men in masks coming to drive you from your home. This is a collective failure of our political and media class because we did not have the courage to say no, and because too many were allowed to embrace this without shame

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

My statement on the EHRC Code of Practice and why I have chosen to sign the Motion of Regret.

For a bit of a laugh I thought I might suggest to our developers that they document their code.

Treating any communication platform that algorithmically selects which content to put in front of a user as a publisher, and legally responsible for that content, is the screamingly obvious solution that will deeply upset maybe seven companies and make life considerably better.