Bin Bin and the Count of Dodgy Crypto

'we can always tell' update:

Axel Springer, the company that owns Politico, awards its top prize to...Antichrist lecturer Peter Thiel. No mention of the $50 million Thiel gave the son of Axel Springer's CEO to start a venture capital fund. But the CEO lauds Thiel's "courage and non-conformity." www.welt.de/wirtschaft/a...

It's amazing how everyone person who seems to pop up to defend the BBC just so happens to have been paid by them at some point

GURL.

Ariadne auf Naxos

The idea that the U.S. is launching “retaliatory strikes” for the American soldiers killed in Kuwait, when those soldiers were only killed because the U.S. launched a war of aggression in Iran is some kind of thing.

I suppose no one could accuse Badenoch of wishing to make life better for humanity, let alone of succeeding in doing so.

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He claims to be continuing as an MP. That is or should be a full-time job. Why would he have time to do anything else?

Pete Hegseth: "We need our warriors to embrace the Spartan mindset" U.S. Military: *suffers crushing defeat to the Persians*

The news about US soldiers being killed in Jordan must be fake because I have been repeatedly told that there are no US bases in Jordan

Conservatives would've hated Spartan society because Spartan women had so much wealth and power.

Visit to my father’s birthplace and first house in Upper Cwmbran, which is now also his final resting place.

Blunkett introduced the IPP sentence, a prison term without end, that led to suicides and contributed to prison chaos. His legacy is not one to follow.

Blunkett, a committed fascist and racist with a column in The S*n, who was forced to resign not once but twice for manifesting corruption and tried to prevent the repeal of Section 28, having said he felt ‘revulsion at the idea of touching another male’…

I’d like to thank the stag party louts marauding through carriage A on the 09.30 from Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads. I booked a quiet carriage, knowing that I might not feel joyful on the way to Wales to scatter my father’s ashes. Your unrelievedly selfish behaviour has helped no end. Fuck you.

This generation of politicians will burn this planet to a crisp instead of doing the cheaper and smarter thing of renewable energy.

Starmer is the most despicable and f all British Prime Ministers: more dishonest than Johnson, bloodthirsty than Blair, corrupt than Lloyd George or Walpole, sanctimonious than Gladstone, racist than Churchill, vindictive than Thatcher, authoritarian than May, empty than Truss. May he burn in hell.

Burnham will fail because when a democracy is in a state of existential crisis, it needs political leaders willing to tell uncomfortable truths (and that doesn’t mean dressing up neoliberal tropes as “tough choices”. I see no evidence that Burnham is any such leader.

Some of us will know much or all of this, but many will not. If you think there might be anything remotely decent about Starmer, please read this. It is almost entirely factual. I guarantee that, if you have a beating heart, you will not take that view after reading. novaramedia.com/2026/07/17/i...

Zack Polanski, "Nigel Farage was offered state security but turned it down" "And so far I haven't been offered anything at all"

It was socialism or barbarism in 2019 and the Guardian joined the other papers with headlines like: "Barbarism, an idea whose time has come."

In May we said Nigel Farage probably didn't owe tax on his £5m gift. The Guardian now reports the gift followed talks where Farage said he'd need £5m to return to frontline politics. *If* that's right, we think there's a high risk of a £3m tax bill - payable by Reform.

Siân Berry’s bill to amend the Freedom of Information (FoI) Act, introduced this Tuesday, would end the outright exemption for the King, the heir to the throne and the “wider royal family” from the 2000-era transparency law bylinetimes.com/2026/07/17/m...

Murder is bad, m’kay? And the Brexiteer nationalist hard-right is single-handedly responsible for introducing a real language of violent response to ”betrayal” and “treason” over the last decade. Nigel Farage literally (if preposterously) threatened armed insurrection if he didn’t get “his” Brexit.

Either Amnesty has completely fucked it or they're committing legal seppuku to show the country what Joanne is about

This deranged MP appears to be in need of urgent medical attention. youtube.com/shorts/pdRXm...

Any second now, Reform will come along and condemn the police for wasting time arresting people over "hurty words". Any ... second ... now ...

On the horrifying, fascist (and brazenly unconstitutional) bill being pushed by the state of Hesse. verfassungsblog.de/the-dialecti...

"More than 60 villages have been totally or partially destroyed.. this appears to be official policy.. Israel Katz just a few days ago said 'we promised to apply the Gaza model in southern Lebanon & we did. We destroyed everything'" Part of a report by Zeina Khodr

Congratulations to the government on saving 2700 jobs by nationalising British Steel. Now, about the 18,000 university jobs lost in the last 18 months, with more coming…

How lovely he was doing a speech about purging antisemitism when he was waving flags during a racist riot and doing a rivers of blood speech and values Palestinian life not at all.

Our political and media class bears direct responsibility for this

newrepublic.com/post/213116/... Can you imagine those woke universities thinking that gender is an important topic to study and teach about?

Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange

In case anyone needed further, direct evidence of who this person really is: why is the self-styled ‘Chief Rabbi’ discussing ‘the Britain-Israel bilateral relationship’ with the Foreign Secretary? He claims to be a British religious leader, not an Israeli agent.

I'd argue that while an objective ideological description of Labour would be fascist it's still entirely in line with calling them centre left because in the British context they're one and the same. There's no real benefit to playing along with "true centre leftism has never been tried."

Representative Ilhan Omar, a longtime advocate for respecting international legal fora, has introduced a resolution in the House of Representatives which would urge the US government to apply to join the International Criminal Court.

Bought this in Munich a couple of weeks ago. Haven’t listened yet, so shall do so now. Live from Aix in 1952: a little substitute for not being able to go this year.

The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but that’s rape. www.salon.com/2026/07/15/m...

she's pleased to announce twenty nine new migrant taxes

The idea of staff who are well paid, have substantial autonomy, high cultural capital, are effectively impossible to sack, and hard to performance manage, is a complete anathema to those who now view the future via the lens of geopolitical turbulence and balance sheets.

Jesus. 35 UK universities quietly- without debate - joined the Ministry of Defence’s “Battlefield Alliance” which seeks to “reorientate academia towards Defence and National Security” They’re destroying the social sciences and humanities while militarising the institutions