Often feels like Zack Polanski’s leftism doesn’t adjust for being in Britain rather than America, where defence spending is astronomical and there are hundreds of billionaires

Don't threaten me with a good time

I’ll take this

I’m not saying the debate in the U.K. has moved to the right, but Ed Miliband is basically seen as Pol Pot for aiming for a climate target first agreed to by…I think Theresa May’s government? Definitely Johnson’s. And this chat is going on during the middle of a record-breaking heatwave

All of France is scorching hot today. Except for one village in the northwest...

Go Ape have been trying to put up an outdoor excursion site in Danson Park, Bexley. Objections to doing so have included: 1. Attracting more kids to the park means children will be kidnapped 2. Bexley's kids are bad kids and don't deserve it 3. Building Go Ape will result in decapitated cats

Mandatory smashing of phones played on public transport with no headphones

The most “metal” photo you’ll see all day. (Pic credit: Nick Bull)

Starmer punches him on the way out - Labour + 10

We do that in the UK as well. Its called the Central line.

I don't want to be one of those people who complain about the BBC's news choices but this does seem like an odd prioritisation decision (even given the busy news day with the train crash and Starmer stuff.)

Shout out to the Scots showing the lovely Americans what alcohol, travel insurance, and socialised health care waiting at home can achieve. "Big historical horsecunt was pure beggin' for a conin'", noted one onlooker.

Nobody was a bigger Blairite than me, but the second it was clear he was an electoral net-negative for Labour I was in the "he needs to go" camp. Because it's about the lives government can change, not tribally supporting your favourite. Starmer had a go. He's failed.

lol. SureJan.gif

it's remarkable how like, you can visibly notice how people who still use X regularly are either getting dragged to the right (if on the centre-left or centre) or just getting more toxic in general

See also weirdly how anti solar farm protests draw on early 00s anti-GM protests

Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them (NEWLY FREE TO READ!) takes.jamesomalley.co.uk/p/reels-are-...

The Good Law Project has a annual budget of roughly £4.7m. The Resolution Foundation has one of about £4m. Which has had the bigger positive impact on British politics over the past decade?

YouTube???

"True public spaces are owned by the public and maintained solely for our enjoyment and benefit. Quasi-public spaces look and feel the same, but they’re run with a different motive in mind – they’re made nice for us so as to generate profit for their owners."

POV: You're the Policewoman the Hunger Strikers Attacked.

Personally, I don’t think you should be able to call yourself a trillionaire unless you could, today, go and buy one trillion Arizona Iced Teas. If you have to “liquidate stock” or whatever, then, imho, you’re not a trillionaire. *pls i am trying to bait elon musk into buying a trillion ice teas.

Hot take, learn to read

🎼 He’s got a big square head, and he’s killed people dead, Al Carns Al Carns 🎼

A final nail on the Starmer coffin? Or merely another with more to come? Meanwhile, the likely successor is flip-flopping ridiculously on WASPI cash. All I wanted as a decent Labour government improving people's lives, like it usually does when in government.

Quietly utterly damning - but also entirely exposing how absurd the govts red lines are on tax. There is no way you can nickle and dime your way to the spending increase needed here. You need a broad based tax rise. And no one in politics can confront that.

Now THAT I could get behind

The pledge not to raise general taxation is basically this government’s original sin and a synecdoche of everything that’s wrong with it - timid, and forced into a series of unpalatable, harmful and unpleasant manoeuvres that please literally nobody because of its timidity.

Some news: 🇺🇦 Next month I'm driving to Ukraine. 🇺🇦 I'll be delivering an evacuation vehicle, specially modified for saving lives in areas of the highest danger. But that's only possible if I can fundraise enough - £3,500. I'd be so grateful for any support you can give. donorbox.org/johnoxleydu

Based Sadiq 👍

If we get a leadership campaign every person under 40 should be asking why they should pay some feckless pensioners compensation for ignoring 15 years of notice, while its fine to change student loan terms at the drop of a hat.

Streeting for PM it is then

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

@scurry.bsky.social Is Elon Musk still an FRS? Is inciting racist riots still within the bounds of acceptable conduct to retain membership?

The BBC need to change how they write headlines. This is ridiculous: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... He leaned on her, pulled her hair and then asked for a kiss. The trivialisation in the headline is atrocious and plays into the worst of the knuckle draggers' "you can't even ask for a kiss" bullshit

Decentralised platforms work great, with their network of untrained, partisan moderators. "If one person says it's raining, and another says it's not, then the moderator's job isn't to give them both equal weight, it's to ban the one they're not friends with, for being disruptive."

Guildford area Bass player wanted for August gigs - battle of the bands coming up on 14th August (first prize £10k) and a warm up gig at the Fiery Bird in Woking on either 31st July or 7th August - TBC. Would ideally love someone whose bass style is inspired by the Pixies, New Dad, Wet Leg.

Bluesky users be like

I see Andrew Tate has a new chief recruiter

We need to think deeper: why is this unacceptable for a 17 year old but acceptable for an 18 year old - or a 57 year old? Age controls are not the real problem.

Oh no

Anthropic warns that Charlie Brown could have hoes by Q3 of this year

Le Grand Bleu’s Brothers

Does not disappoint.

I feel like I'm going mad: Henry Nowak's killer has been sentenced to life in prison with a 21-year minimum. The whole process took less than six months. There were grave errors on the night. But how does this possibly evidence two-tier justice? www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-o...

If the government doesn't act, there's a serious chance that Twitter rubbish leads to somebody being killed. We regulate broadcast media but Labour seems terrified to regulate broadcast social media. Why?

You have to understand, literary audiences in the UK *love* this sort of thing. They get a special little thrill hearing from a token Jew about how British Jews (what a coincidence Golders Green is in there!) should be held somehow accountable for Israel. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is very funny. (via @charlesarthur.bsky.social's Overspill newsletter this morning.) petapixel.com/2026/05/14/s...

Every young musician dreams about this don’t they? What an incredible story!