This is NOT a Starmer defence, but I want to know what's happened to him - "this is who he always was" doesn't cut it. Compare his response post Stockport riot last year to now. Something has gone very wrong in his head.

I told you guys

Today’s theory. They put motion smoothing on TVs, and when most people couldn’t see anything was wrong with that, they decided to make politics spiteful and thick, and let water companies put human shit in your tap water. It was the test. We failed.

Making such a distinction is pointless when apparently most people think all immigration is illegal already. bsky.app/profile/joet...

"Oh he's only talking about ILLEGAL immigration." I'm sure he thinks he is. But since that is not how the message is being heard by actually existing immigrants, non-white Brits OR the bigots who currently feel they can yell at the aforementioned with impunity, I think we can say he's fucked this.

The Starmer loyalists - a small but noisy group which seems, against all rational expectations, to exist - told me off for this, and demanded I wait til Friday when he would obviously be doing this. "The right was correct, immigration IS bad," was not quite the line I was looking for, if I'm honest.

hegseth is into war crimes in the same way trump is into tariffs

ah yes, the paragon of wokeness

So you have a handful of "big" dating apps, but most of them are actually Match Group brands under the hood, and they're _all_ aiming to maximize revenue and DAU for their investors, which is entirely unlike "get our users happily paired off" as a goal.

RIP Danny Thompson. I don't go much for ranking lists but if you said "Best Bass Player Ever" his is absolutely one of the first names that'd spring to mind. What a fucking dude. Also: any excuse to post this clip.

Fucking love Mariah. When she's at her best, which she is on about half this album, there's nothing else like it.

At the time of the drone incursion at Copenhagen Airport, Russian Baltic Fleet ship Aleksandr Shabalin was spotted 12 km off Langeland Island, Denmark, with its transponder off, Ekstra Bladet reports.

"We will not live on our knees". Very good.

Gonna need those who embraced "Lexit" and "wholesale importation of cheap labour" narratives to wind their necks the fuck in and stop crowing unless they can take some ownership of their part in setting the tone for the current shitshow, though.

I don’t mind the idea of digital ID as such - as Zoe says, everywhere else in Europe has it - but not now, not for this reason, and not from a government that is so consistently suckered by the shambolic and exploitative worst of big tech.

I'll bet you do

2. Countries that have ID cards - like the whole of Europe - still have the same irregular migration problem (you may have heard!!!) & in fact the UK has the lowest share of its economy estimated as irregular economy in Europe so if it fixes the issue WHY DIDNT IT FIX IT THERE?

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Hilarious I’ve learned to type at a half reasonable speed with just my left hand because of platelet donating

Those in these magical left-behind-places can still only just buy a train ticket. When was the last time you looked at the visa regime, Donald?

We don't watch much American stuff except for 1940s-50s Tom & Jerry. It's the South Koreans you've got to watch out for. Pinkfong cannot be stopped. They are all powerful. They've convinced my toddler he's actually a T.rex. He's done nothing but Rarrrr at people for months now 🤷🏻‍♀️

ohooooo @discopogo.bsky.social have lowered the paywall temporarily so you can read my ***AWARD-WINNING*** article about Sade's relationship to the dancefloor and deep cultural flows.... go go go

BBC brushed off my complaint about this "explainer" so I have complained again, and so should you. I've asked again why they did not detail a single one of his stated views - and said that, in their absence, "right-wing" would be read as completely vanilla politics by the average British reader.

The head of the UK's leading anti-racism campaign group Hope not Hate wrote to Keir Starmer to complain about his "silence" in the face of a rising far-right threat. "At the time when people needed leadership there was silence. “And for the far right, that silence just emboldened them further"

Deciding that a general election that's four years away is a foregone conclusion is essentially the same as trying to hum the second Stone Roses album in 1989.

The Daily Mail, 2025. SEO is weird magic, man.

- Most other sub-categories of immigration have advantages - Migration should prioritise high earning contributing migrants vs low-paid - More visas for health and social care workers, fewer for bankers - Inflation is bad - Taxes shouldn't go up to pay public sector workers more

Any immigration policy has to contend with a large amount (plurality?) of voters believing all of the following: - Net migration is about 1/3 of what it actually is - Net migration should be lower - Illegal migration and refugees are a far higher % of that than they are

when you think about it, it's pretty funny that a subculture that was founded on being obsessed with cognitive biases and economics was easily steered by financial incentives and the halo effect into either supporting or turning a blind eye to being conquered

What's cracking me up today: the most recent official right wing attack line on Sadiq Khan is that 1) he's not very tall, and 2) he has a security detail. This from fans of the four foot seven Stephen "HIDE ME LADS!!!!" Yaxley-Lennon aka "Tommy Robinson".

the fascinating thing with this insane anti-American revisionism of course is that the Soviet cooperation and collaboration with the Nazis was so real and so devastating it shattered the left of the time! it's ignorance of both the war and the history of your own movement disguised badly as wisdom

I think there's a very good argument to be made that Luigi is what kicked this into high gear because the guy had incoherent politics but made his act of violence into a political message and people saw how that got him glamorized as a Jesse James type of figure so they're being copycats

Seriously though, have you ever met a man from when men were men? A fisherman or ploughman or sentryman? Jesus. "Lonely" fucking hell. Get a grip you fucking satsumas.

This, but with WARFIGHTERS.

i maintain that heretics & apostates are much more useful terms than "not real christians"

Congratulations to the Intelligence Directorate of Ukraine for meeting Europe's decarbonization goals several decades early

I actually like...I don't even know if we talk about it at all, in any depth, other than just observing that a lot of men are sad and lonely, and then argue about whether we should care.

people misunderstood me earlier when i said we'd have a robust base of prison labor for the 2030s Woke New Deal but this is the kind of guy i meant

you cannot "smolbeanify" the moral agency of millions of people who decided to enshitty the rest of the world, whether it be USAID, climate change, or whatever

holy fucking shitballs

Everyone hates Congress, everyone loves their rep.

By non zero you mean 100%

I actually hate The New Yorker. Its sole purpose is to teach the white American middle classes that you can use puffed-up, gassy wordiness to sound authoritative while actually just saying any old shit. Like: "Amelia Dimoldenberg is like Sasha Baron-Cohen". WHAT?? What editor lets that crap in?

Literally every such pro-flagger press piece that I've looked at has ended up with the flag-raiser being a member of the far right:

Maybe all those features about how innocent the flag-raising movement were should have given more prominence of the very clear intention to promote the far right and intimidate minorities.

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French Presidents divide into three categories: Horny Crooks Horny Crooks Change my mind

Is it deepthroat, deep-throat or deep throat? I want to get this obituary right