I wonder if Streeting and Starmer ever connect the dots to why racism is becoming rampant again. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The eighties were a bit past their best by 1988 #totp

Lena Lovitch is a bit of a scary blind date #totp

Sparks to St Winfreds choir. Thats 1978 #Totp 🤣🤣🤣

Who doesn't want a #Grok powered robot goosestepping around the house?

#Reeves is going to have to speak until Christmas to fit everything in that the Telegraph has speculated on!

The slow destruction of Britain's university sector is another mark of our national decline.

How sweet! Presumably its to help old man #Trump when he gets lost in his own house and garden.

Thats Populism for you, in both right and left forms. Joined up policy is what works.

The #DeadInternet in action, AI scraping bots to amplify and spread false reports. The purpose is to generate interest from other bots.

This is bonkers stuff. Only someone who gets all their knowledge from Twitter could be gullible enough to believe this nonsense.

Really interesting thread. What happened in 2016 in UK and USA to put off highly skilled migrants?

I know its a small crime compared to most of what #Trump gets up to, but who on earth thinks this is an improvement? The man has no soul.

Now for another one of the rare #totp where the presenter wasn't a sex offender...

@dieworkwear.bsky.social is the smartest cultural commentator out there. He sees the detail in ways that most of us overlook. He has given me fresh enthusiasm for dressing well. It matters.

In terms of environmental, economic and social damage, the sooner that the AI bust happens the better. The Broligarchy benefits while the real economy stagnates. Bring on the Tumbrils

Great writing in @theatlantic.com "When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because these systems aren’t neutral; they encode values and incentives"

Good on Badenoch for not wanting to retrospectively remove ILR. Bad on her for pretending that was always the policy.

"...it seems unsustainable for those who care about British democracy to remain on a platform whose owner is fixated on its very destruction."

The art of the deal...

In a nutshell...

What a thread, its like a roll call of right wing nutters. Smart of @zackpolanski.bsky.social to not go near it with a bargepoll.

Why don't these rich people just pay their taxes if they have so much spare cash sitting around and want the army to be paid?

This thread on the Tories plans for mass deportation is really quite extraordinary, including deporting women on ILR who take maternity leave or who work part time because of family commitments. It will include families of those earning above the threshold. My department would be a ghost town.

Dubai without sunshine or wealth. The Tory vision of the UK future. Be grateful, you serfs!

Possibly the most concise summary of Streeting's #NHS policy that I have seen: "This specious and unserious rubbish looks like nothing more than policy thinking as narcissism. ‘How would it suit me as a tech-literate, wealthy late middle-aged person to have the NHS redisorganised around my needs?’"

He's on a road to nowhere... #nokings

I highly recommend "The Crooked Cross". It's extraordinarily prescient for 1934. Some people could see at the time where it all was headed. Can we? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Interesting discussion here on the breakdown of youth cultures, as well as international homogenisation. Is youth and regional culture over?

I far prefer using the term "Old Coalfields" to "Redwall" etc. The distribution matches the Reform votes quite neatly. Quite why former miners are so keen on a leader who is explicitly a Thatcher fan needs exploring. Rarely are these areas of high immigration either.

I can't help wonder which side Starmer would have been on at the Battle of Cable St in 1936. BBC News - Government 'doing everything' to overturn Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban www.bbc.com/news/article...

What's it with the perms! #totp #countryqueens

Why can I remember no Labour politician making this point, this well? Everybody except the Greens seems to think the best way to fight Reform is to agree with Farage about everything. This, right here, is brilliant. And genuinely patriotic. And so, so true.

Genius! Why hadn't anyone thought of that before?

Working for the Yankee dollar. I am surprised that Argentinians tolerate this.

Its not just on the far right either. I know a few who have disappeared down a left wing/Gaza rabbit hole.

The man that Badenoch and Farage want to copy. A warning from the South Atlantic

What an extraordinary coincidence!

If #PeterThiel isn't the Antichrist he surely is a most remarkable facsimile of him. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Is it AI they are afraid of or us proles taking over? How can a Bond Villain Predator class recruit reliable henchmen? BBC News - Tech billionaires seem to be doom prepping. Should we be worried? - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

It's total covfefe.

And shortly to be a guest of the Israeli government. Extraordinary.

Well, don't arrest them then!

Just in case you had any doubt that Netanyahu runs a far right ethno-nationalist govt w actual fascists & racists in it (Ben-Gvir, Smotrich etc)... he's invited multiply-convicted racist thug Tommeh Ten-Names to come & visit. Guess this is payback for Starmer & co recognizing Palestinian statehood.

The kleptocrats and predator class around the world are going to have to up their game.

How the kleptocracy works... www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It takes a lot for me to have sympathy with Generals, but flying in to sit through this sort of insulting nonsense has reached that threshold. #Hegseth should be tarred and feathered.

A very important thread. How is this not insider trading?

Yes, sadly this is a conversation that I am having too with my friends on ILR.