Well, turns out that this is not a hot take, but a scalding take that would outrage the Labour government.

There is no difference in practice between removing rights of individuals and leaving the ECHR. The end outcome is still the same, people lose rights. If human rights are an obstacle to your policy it is not the rights which are the issue, it is your policy. Labour going full Reform at this stage.

Absolutely not. Shame on every single sitting Labour MP who doesn’t come out against this today.

It's never illegal to claim asylum.

Okay, I am drunk enough to say this. Last week, I said that I had EU citizenship . The exact citizenship was Irish. I hope the Irish do not immediately behead me. I know many Irish have… a complicated relationship with the British.

DARIO ARGENTO?

I cough-laughed hard enough to scare the cat and get scratches, but it was worth it.

Open borders.

I don’t care how nasty, craven and despicable my enemy is. It’s not going to stop me from re-instilling in myself a belief in the importance of care, compassion, connectedness and community because to surrender to the other impulses would be to let them win.

The full quote is also ‘The customer is always right IN MATTERS OF TASTE.’

WE KNOW IT'S DIFFERENT ACTORS AND, ESSENTIALLY, A DIFFERENT CHARACTER EACH TIME. OTHERWISE HE'S A WEIRD GOD FIGURE WHO CHANGES HIS FACE EVERY FEW YEARS AND HAS DISCOVERED THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH YOU DON'T NEED TO EXPLAIN THIS

If I remember correctly, the Third Reich never did find the one or several Jews who had actually been responsible for making Germany lose the First World War. Curious.

Yesterday I found a funko pop of Twin Peaks’ Laura Palmer. Dead and wrapped in plastic. So yeah, they might be a bit desperate if they’re scraping the barrel like that.

A reminder: no one should have to “earn” the right to live and move freely. Human rights do not depend on how much (or little!) someone contributes to the country.

You're gonna be unpopular. Be unpopular because you're fixing things, not because you aren't.

Solaris is my favourite film. Seriously.

You can't even call Tesla shareholders a proper cargo cult though, because half the time Elon can't make the car go.

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

If you know me at all, you’ll know that I was deeply unhappy about losing freedom of movement because of Brexit. Well, um. Turns out that I was still an EU citizen all along. Dual nationality and I didn’t know. Life’s odd sometimes.

What next for our poor federal agents?? Will someone chuck a deadly salad at them?!?

But remember, FIFA is not a political organisation, so you shouldn’t complain the next time they hold the World Cup in a human rights dead zone.

I’d say this is libertarianism’s dirty little secret, except it’s hardly a secret.

Marine Le Pen in France was found guilty of misusing public funds. As a result, she is ineligible to run in the next presidential or legislative elections. Just a thought.

This needs more attention: Zohran SPLIT the straights with Cuomo. ALL of his margin was from LGBTQ+ voters. Every Dem who ever said “we should abandon the transes” needs this shoved down their fucking throat with a ramrod.

Wow, looks like Labour could really learn from Mamdani about appealing to voters and energising them. Now, let’s see what Labour are saying about his historic victory. … oh.

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Fuck this shit.

BREAKING: Dick Cheney has meeting with Henry Kissinger.

*sigh* I sympathise.

Sky News was calling Andrew’s situation the ‘ultimate’ punishment yesterday.

Watch out for Ea Nasir this Halloween!

Eye contact.

Apparently it's okay to be sick of the UK and become an immigrant elsewhere but somehow it's not okay for people to be sick of their countries and become an immigrant in the UK.

I’ve just seen a PhD psychology advert for projects working with ‘heathy’ individuals and ‘autism spectrum disorder’ individuals. … no, thank you.

Fuck these guys.

A picture is still worth a thousand words, but due to AI slop, those words are all melting, illegible gibberish.

I would rather eat glass.

I’m all in favour of civility but I also firmly believe that the only way to engage with people who argue in bad faith is to ridicule their arguments A clown argument is only worthy of a clowning

Good god. Even I can see the problem with this.

My undergrad university had better bloody not.

No no no no no no no I used to work in a legal department no no no no no

Pft. Amateurs! The French know their result the second after the polling stations close to within one percentage point!

Good luck to the Irish, who have their presidential election today. As an Englishman I have absolutely experience here, but I understand the choice is between someone inspiring and someone who… definitely isn’t, so let’s hope the opinion polls are right on this one.

Seems that Reform voters are very sure of themselves.

Ngl, seeing “you’re holding the nazi tatted racist white man to impossible standards” as a Black woman, aka the demographic ACTUALLY held to impossible standards, pisses me off deeply. The bar is so low for them and they still can’t clear it, but we’re “ideological purists” for pointing that out.

I will plug it too, because it’s good.

Nazi tat affair useful because anyone doing bizarre prevarications atm re how its totally normal to have a Nazi tattoo, good actually, not a big deal that'd matter in an election, if anything its cringe you care, etc etc, has revealed you never need to take their politics opinions seriously again.

I'm actually quite angry now. In the last year, we have moved from far right riots drawing broad condemnation from across the spectrum to mass deportations being not just a policy platform, but one the government do not feel able to condemn. This is both an absurd radicalisation, and pure cowardice.

I hate to pull the immigrant card, but as an immigrant, it feels awful when elected MPs say I ‘need to go home’ and propose stripping me and all other immigrants of all our legal rights to live here. No, anywhere immigrants move is their home. The UK is my home.

Today on the blog I wrote about AI and the golem, and the benefit of listening to cautionary tales from the past. going-medieval.com/2025/10/21/o...