That’ll be it Jim: it’s not that they’re just bad at their jobs, it’s that Twitter dot com has eaten their homework.

I hadn’t been aware of the original meaning and now I’m annoyed I do know it.

I think the main problem with Starmer is that I can absolutely see Mark Corrigan being a ride-or-die fan, which is just about the worst insult I can imagine

- They have done a huge amount of things that their voters hate - Are still hated by right wingers - Lied through their teeth to various groups and organisations behind the scenes in the run up to the election meaning they have few allies willing to defend them now - Are charisma vacuums

This was a pretty good one

Genuinely the most nakedly partisan individual you could possibly find. No one actually wanted him to demolish the East Wing! Come on!

It's hard to think of another policy that is so fundamentally a free lunch as congestion pricing is

Here's one. Fair play to her! 👏👏👏 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

It would not be difficult, practically speaking, for someone from within the journalist/commentary clique whom Suzanne considers peers, to drop her an email and ask her what the 'killing off' of 'trans ideology' would look like, in real terms, including and especially for those immediately affected.

Hoy, el actor vasco Sambou Diaby ha sido expulsado de un bar de Bilbao acusado de ser mantero: "Aquí no puedes vender". Racismo, aporofobia y odio a los pobres.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have shown Alzheimer’s disease can be REVERSED- not just prevented. Using a potent neuroprotective compound called P7C3-A20, they found RESTORING balance to a central cellular energy molecule (NAD+) not only PREVENTED disease features but REVERSED them, EVEN at late stages.

Suzanne Moore and Melanie Philips can and should eat shit

I'm calling on Keir Starmer to keep associating himself with all of Tony Blair's wildest dreams.

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[seeing 'christopher caldwell'] Is this the Crying Nazi? [sees 'claremont'] Well, it's *a* Nazi.

My fear, when these proposals were mooted then adopted, was that the effect of making citizenship contingent for some citizens would be to make those same citizens second class: how can you confidently exercise your full range of democratic rights against a Government which can remove them?

The Begum was a dreadfully cynical piece of politicking by the last government (and Sajid Javid in particular), but it is also one of the Supreme Court's most disgraceful decisions. A pretty dangerous precedent was set on the basis of what was essentially a technicality

Two weeks ago I spent the whole day at the Museum of the Moving Image to listen to New Yorkers. This is what Liam shared with me.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

Another way AI leads to suicide is that hearing people talk about it makes you want to jump into a jet engine

“Juratic” is a trio of dinosaurs who are tourism ambassadors for Fukui Prefecture, where lots of dinosaur remains have been excavated.

post deleted but it’s abolish ICE now and always has needed to happen

Being transgender is not an ideology, or a campaign. It’s a lived, immutable characteristic recognised in medicine and law. ‘Gender Critical’ activism is a voluntary political movement. A choice. People choose to organise, campaign, litigate, hate, and message around it.

no one who forfeits their humanity by participating in the torture of others merits such consideration, and my only thought about any damage done to them, psychic or otherwise, is that it's insufficient

Tony Lerman’s book Whatever Happened to Antisemitism gives a good account of this shift. Most Jewish anti-Zionism petered out earlier than your uncle’s, but it has returned in a more radical form in the last decade or two.

So far, the only outlet that has an accurate Brigitte Bardot obit headline is @aljazeera.com:

How some of you sound this morning lol

Look I dont really like this tiny nazi but he's right that aging people must serve capitalism until they literally disintegrate. There's just no other way.

Again, do you notice how much of contemporary politics is horrible people behaving horrendously, while screaming in terror about people not wanting to hang around with them as a consequence.

I'm sure Labour announced that fox hunting ban at least partly as a trap for the Right, so it's noticeable that Farage has walked right into it. It's probably the one contested issue voters hate so much that even Starmer isn't the kiss of death for his own side

Antes pensaba que este tipo de aclaraciones no eran necesarias, que a nada que te informases sobre el tema llegarías a está explicación. Ahora las considero imprescindibles, la información ha pasado de ser algo que buscabas a algo que te llega, continuamente, y es fácil bajar la guardia.

“la dirección estatal del partido morado terminó imponiendo un “veto irresponsable desde Madrid” a cualquier alianza que, entre otros, no aceptara la subordinación del resto de fuerzas a las tesis de Podemos y no secundara la exclusión de Sumar fuera cual fuera su propuesta de integración”

RFK Jr is directly responsible for the deaths of 83 children in American Samoa from measles because he told them to stop vaccinating. Now, he's trying to kill trans kids. He's a fucking psychopath.

Quite a lot can be explained by the plain fact that our leaders and their hangers on are *enraged* that they can’t send people to prison for doing things that aren’t illegal, and they see this as a very serious problem that needs to be resolved, urgently.

A ver María Cochina, las únicas ejecuciones extrajudiciales son las que está haciendo tu amigo Trump .

El rey se sube a la ola del discurso antipolítico en una intervención plagada de lugares comunes. El nieto político de Franco se resiste a mencionar la dictadura y habla de ella como si fuera un fenómeno meteorológico. La desmemoria es el principal motor de la ultraderecha hoy.

This had to be the funniest thing you’ll read this Christmas Day!

Yeah, no thanks. Stop guilting people about being estranged from family members. It someone is they likely have personal reasons for being so.

In 2021 I dressed in full PPE and held my phone to an intubated 45 year old man's ear while his daughter said goodbye to him. I truly don't believe in hell but sometimes I wish I did.

I mean if you poll people who would still vote Labour you’re polling conservative people so

the least shocking thing in the epstein files that wont get enough attention. police regularly arrest and charge victims to coerce them into participating, often jailing them in conditions that are worse.

If you post on here more than 20 times in one day the app should display a health bar showing how close you are to snapping

i have spent time with bari weiss, who used to date my former roommate and who i am in an alumni program with, and i feel comfortable saying she is both stupid and evil

In the past month 3 transport routes have collapsed - but they aren't roads so don't make national news. All 3 have the same root causes, climate change, and Tory austerity passing responsibility for critical infrastructure on to charities and councils. This will happen more, and people will be hurt

The US government has deported a US citizen with a Maryland birth certificate they claim is fake. This goes way beyond even denaturalizing an immigrant citizen. This person was born here.

La vivienda es el epicentro de desigualdad y la puerta de entrada a la precariedad. @pellootxandiano.bsky.social: «Ante la emergencia habitacional, PNV y PSE no pueden comparecer con ese nivel de autosatisfacción. Hay que ser más humildes y asumir responsabilidades por la inacción de estos años».

Yes, this is precisely why the Labour Racism terror had to be kept as far away from courtrooms as possible, and every expulsion and other piece of backroom shenanigans had to be lawyered to fuck to ensure it wouldn’t be subject to judicial review. I recall this being explained, openly, at the time.