Overtaking the Tories by Christmas? Let's go. 💚

The truth: we need migration. The problem: too many politicians are terrified to say it. Why? They're led by a) toxicity of the charlatans & b) wealthy media organisations who demand these useful distractions rather than us talking about inequality. Reject it. Draw the line.

Any theory of long-term increase in well-being (whether classical "growth" or not) which doesn't treat climate as a limiting factor is flat-earthism at this point.

Technologically advance a band: DABhead.

This is in line with the govt's commitment to climate action, in much the same way me eating a massive fucking cake every day is in line with my commitment to lose weight. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The more I think about it.. HOW? It's 100ft up on the side of a derelict skyscraper, well sited over a busy main road. Not exactly the Raid on Entebbe, maybe, but a non-zero amount of planning and, yes, courage were involved. And nobody went "We're shite at spelling though, maybe ought to check?"

This was pointed out multiple times back then, and nobody cared. Because the anti-immigration crowd don't care about management, they care about power and hierarchy.

Even by the standards of the Are Country lot, this is.. well, look at it.

Lib Dems: We have 12x Reform's MPs, can we have the same coverage? BBC: But Reform has 2x your poll rating. If there were an election tomorrow, they'd be running the country. Lib Dems: So you're putting their people and policies under scrutiny, right? BBC: Lib Dems: Right?

For every 1°C increase in global temperature, the atmosphere can hold approximately 7% more moisture. We’ve known this for 175 years. Many more football games are going to be abandoned in the coming years. #itfc #brfc

New code review response just dropped:

"Democracies risk falling into a doom loop, in which restrictions on immigration mean ever greater demands on the purse of the native-born population and ever worse services, which in turn deepens opposition towards immigration" @stephenkb.bsky.social calls for honesty. www.ft.com/content/43da...

This is doubly stupid as, even if you accept the (only singularly stupid) idea that education is somehow effete, and only manufacturing is red-blooded enough for the UK, the type of manufacturing we're *actually good at* is high-margin, small-volume, R&D-intensive and university-adjacent.

Search for 'Bold Politics' on Apple, Spotify and YouTube to get the full episode between Zack Polanski and Jimmy The Giant

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An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

This is just the plot from Don't Create The Torment Nexus, second season, fourth episode. Happy nightmares, everyone.

Council lied about risk assessments for axed lollipop patrols insidecroydon.com/2025/09/18/c... #Croydon #CroydonInCrisis #LollipopCuts #Woodside #UpperNorwood

Here's a better idea: every data centre you build, you build enough renewable energy to power it, and you supply the waste heat from your cooling system to power homes and businesses nearby. Simple. Common sense. And fair.

Man in street: "Nigel Farage will make all this go away and bring back the CFCs that were banned by woke." Actual Nigel Farage: Quietly receives £800k in smart-fridge related bungs from a consortium of Amazon, Nestle, Samsung and OpenAI. While also unbanning CFCs because not getting cancer is woke.

reading a book about china. apparently the government there has sent federal forces into cities, taken shares of major private enterprises, slapped tariffs on industries, and pressured media outlets to fire people they politically disagreed with. didn’t know this.

Regardless of your position on the finer details of trans rights or gender ideology, can we please agree that this is batshit fucking insane?

All political tribes can be hypocritical but the right's current level of hypocrisy on free speech is deliberate. It's an assertion of power not a blindspot.

You know who else highlights this? The OBR in their report on fiscal risks and sustainability. Aging population, climate change and geopolitical risks. Those are the headline problems *not* what we see talked about almost every day by our media and politicians. The report has great charts too

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The cost of climate change: Extreme summer weather cost the EU €43bn in 2024 or 0.26% of GDP Based on observed climate-economy links, losses could hit €126bn by 2029 Climate impacts are now measurable economic shocks www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Nine hundred fewer people injured is "a disaster". Your arse is showing there, Mr. or Ms. Driving Instructor.

How do you say "but muh freedumb" in Welsh?

What is a scroad? A scroad is a member of a far-right online hate group. They split off from the groinks in 2017 after the Glunt War, which took place on fapchan. One of their members is a U.S. senator

As with crime, miasma theory does not apply here. This looks like the work of one single and probably deeply pathetic individual. He has a face, a name, a wife, a job (ok, maybe not all those). They just do flags now as they're sick of people taking the mick about how they can't spell Our Country.

I got to thinking about which previous Prime Ministers would have been plenty capable of speaking out against these utter dregs - and I reckon that list would include all the Conservatives prior to Johnson. It really isn't a high bar.

Still absolutely nothing to say about far right thugs rioting and attacking the police while a US tech billionaire calls for a violent insurrection on our streets

It should be remarkably simple for the Prime Minister to send ministers on to television and radio this morning to unambiguously condemn hard right nationalist and racist rioters. That it isn't shows that Starmer is not fit for the job he's in.

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

This is criminal damage in service of a political message. ISTR a group did that a few weeks back, and now if your gran wears their T-shirt in public, it's a night in the cells with no tea and biscuits. Time for the same for this lot. Given their strong views about two-tier policing, only fair.

If I were the UK Government I would simply not route all my communications through the platform whose owner just called for regime change in Britain and said "fight back or die"

The media narrative was that Just Stop Oil's blocking of the M25 was completely unjustifiable So it's interesting that a jury of ordinary peeople has considered the action, in light of the climate crisis, and found it justified

"Whichever button I push, it keeps coming back with 'Sainsburys Basics Gammon', Sarge."

So today, the USA government is going full ‘cancel culture’ & London is being turned into a ‘no-go zone’ for millions of its residents. And it’s all being done by people who profess to loathe both phenomena…

The family are out on a shopping trip and, despite being at least a three minute walk from the nearest 'Spoons, have encountered some Fine and Legitimately Concernèd Patriots of the Master Race. Current mood:

While the new leader has been making waves upsetting the establishment, here's the practical side of Green politics, pressuring the Mayor to bring an end to road violence in London. Thank you for all you do @carolinerussell.bsky.social 🙏🏻

This is not reality, this is the plot of a heavy-handed William Gibson knock-off you found in the bargain bin.

Another little nostalgia moment. I was riding home on CS6 late last night - and while the present is certainly better than the past, I miss the optimism of how early flash-mobs catalysed by the likes of @mrdannyw.bsky.social and @strategic-cities.com could be the trigger for this kind of change 1/2

Godwin's Law came up in another chat, and, IDK, am I the only one to be a little nostalgic for the days when the idea that your debating opponent was a Nazi - or even just Nazi-adjacent enough for it to stick - was such patent absurd hyperbole that you'd be deemed to automatically lose the argument?

The Nigel Farage who wrote this about Charlie Kirk's murder will be furious at the Nigel Farage who made Lucy Connolly a star of the Reform conference

I wonder - how long before one of the more virulently red-brown of London's transport commentators complains that cycle lanes and hire bikes are anti-union and Thatcherite in nature?

Zack, this isn't Game of Thrones. You can't just murder the Prime Minister live on air, and expect to get the job. ❄️😂🔥

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