I'm just glad that The Labour Party aren't alive to see this.

It's a genius move because you get all the popularity that comes with announcing an income tax rise, all the credibility with the markets that comes with doing a screeching U-turn, and all the revenue that comes with tinkering with the cycle to work scheme instead.

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

Here in the UK, the right wing media are being perfectly reasoned and normal about events in New York...

I keep seeing journalism described as an "ecosystem" and I guess that tracks because it's undergoing an extinction crisis caused by billionaires, too.

I've just started "This way up" the debut book from YouTube's Map Men. Hilarious and informative.

Not sure "ruinous for British politics" is going to land quite the way the Times expected...

Peston cuts Zack Polanski off because Zack points out that yes Israel should be boycotted because they Torture Western citizens, including from the UK.

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

This is a perfect summary of the state of the UK government right now: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

This gets progressively funnier with every use of the term "floppy".

The scenes on our streets are shameful consequences of decades of austerity - government after government fanning the flames of anti migration instead of tackling inequality. We can & must make different choices. Solidarity to all communities under attack. We stand together.

Give him till Sunday.

A doctor I trust more than RFK, Jr....

Israel have bombed another hospital. Waited for medics to arrive - and then bombed again. Britain keeps selling arms to this genocidal regime. Starmer & Lammy say they're "horrified". They condemn. But they do nothing. All the war criminals must face justice.

My earnest advice to Labour supporters concerned about the new left party is to accept that: 1. The Labour Party leader told those people to leave 2. Those people are now gone. 3. You will not scold them into returning. 4. You have 4 years to get your party to attract them back into the fold.

Usinge AI to learne to wryte ys lyke having a robot go to the gym for you

The more I think about this the worse it gets. You now have to assume that the govt. has used this tactic repeatedly and that any minister would be legally compelled to lie if asked about it. Until super injunctions are banned, nothing the British govt. or media says about anything can be trusted.

All of the institutions that were set up after World War II, to prevent tyrants from creating the conditions which could bring about another world war, have been broken by those, who set the institutions, so they themselves can bring about the conditions for another world war.

*INDIANA JONES AND THE CLOSURE OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY DEPARTMENT*

If thousands of us stand up and say "I support #PalestineAction", what is the government going to do? Lock us all up for "terrorism" offences? This is where we show them how solidarity works. My latest with the great @doubledown.news

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Also, the Post Office's dog ate the list of claimants. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

The UN, international rules based order is pretty much done. And Australia’s govt said not a word of compliant. Might is right. Albanese has not grasped that China, North Korea, Russia and anyone else can now claim the precedent of the Iran Bombing as justification for “pre-emptive” attacks.

Much as I would not dare to predict the consequences of this war, I do think we can summarize it thusly so far: A smart and evil man manipulated a stupid and evil man into a war against a fanatical and evil regime.

If Trump was serious about destroying Iran he would install himself as their President.

How many brave, loving Palestinian grandmas like her were murdered by Israel in the last 20 months?

Stating that Israel has no legal right to massacre civilians in Tehran is not anti-Semitic no matter how desperately you want to believe it is, or how many stupid lists you put me on. Israel has a right to exist. It doesn’t have the right to murder civilians.

Wonder who will be the first to start insisting that Iranian hospitals are part of their nuclear program? Are they hiding uranium underneath the children's wards? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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Has anyone done this one yet?

Millionaires agree too! #taxwealthnotwork

Reading about the film version of Raynor Winn's phenomenal The Salt Path. Back in the day my book Outskirts was on the same Wainwright shortlist. At the last second it was revealed Michael Gove was giving out the prize. You've never seen six authors more desperate to lose.

You mean like Nigel did? (And like Trump did….. and and and) Always odd when people have problems with immigrants but are married to them. Maybe just go to couples counselling instead of taking it out on every other immigrant?

If you wouldn't accept "we are at risk of becoming an island of strangers" from Kemi Badenoch or Nigel Farage you probably shouldn't accept it from Keir Starmer. Don't pretzel yourself trying to explain why it's ok from the guy in the red tie.

andor is ds9 for star wars fans

Oh yeah nice one kid hook that hope for humanity right into my veins

I still maintain that "Montgomery Scott Turner" is a fine name that any boy would be proud of.

Why does Starmer's Labour Party seem determined to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory? Because it hates the left more than it fears the far right. As a result it won't do the "left" things so many of its potential supporters are crying out for.

radical oversimplification, but: Canada: centrist libs tack hard against Trump, reject the politics of the far right, win Australia: centrist libs tack hard against Trump, reject the politics of the far right, win Uk: centrist libs go authoritarian, copy the politics of the far right, eat shit

Fascism is being ushered in across the globe by austerity. But the ruling parties can't admit that because it means they'd have to restore taxation on the wealthy and corporations that have purchased them.

The average American has three friends.

The unspoken secret of the British political establishment is that left-wing positions axiomatically illegitimate and the raison d'être of all major parties is to prevent the left from ever gaining power again

There's a lot of this in the UK. Understand that the Labour leadership is in full command of its faculties. Pushing a racist, regressive agenda isn't an unfortunate miscalculation that's backfired. It's a deeply held principle that they're willing to expend political capital to achieve.

Labour needs several million buckets of ice-cold water poured over their head and the nation's church bells ringing in unison as a very loud wake-up call. Hopefully, this is it. People voted for hope and change and vision not Reform lite and the same old Tory shite.

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Politics is more clear when you remember that the "waste" in "government waste" is the profit that some rich asshole isn't making off labor in the public sector whose only purpose is the common good.