Look guys, if the gays can boycott the Eurovision, the very very very least you can do is boycott FIFA

One of the most incredible things about the Sun's "Zack Polanski I'd a hypnotherapy grifter" 'expose' is the fact that it totally skips over the fact that their original piece from 2013 comes to the conclusion that *it worked* and advertised his services at the end of the piece.

if you were to make a gender-swapped version of James Bond, and needed to come up with a bawdy euphemism name for a glamorous and sexy Bond Boy, ironically you could do a lot worse than Roger Moore.

The thing about targeting the "weird boob hypnotism" is that it seems like a minor foible from the past compared to the background of other leaders, being the school spokesperson for the National Front on the one hand and letting off Jimmy Saville on the other

Quite an apposite targeted ad on Lady Penelope's latest, I thought:

In the various analysis of the latest spewings from the US regime about Europe, I am yet to find anything being said about the fact the UK hosts the third largest deployment of US troops on the planet and, based on what America is saying, they are now basically an enemy force embedded on our soil.

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

The EU was created in by people who lived through WWII and saw political and economic integration as a means to bringing peace and stability to the continent. It is being opposed by Putin, Musk and the others who support Neo Nazis in Europe.

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Reminder that nationality may exist whether or not you’ve applied for or renewed a passport. A passport is merely evidence of nationality, it does not confer it. There are millions of dual citizens in the UK, many of whom will never have held a passport for their other nationality/ies.

He's already almost totally despised rn by everyone & will be remembered only for how he unforgivably gave cowardly quarter to the international fash & paved the way for the electoral success of the domestic fash making himself a figure of universal revulsion & opprobrium in the process

If I was restricted to only asking one question it would be "why is a guy riding a bicycle steeply uphill on a bridge over a canal in what appears to be Amsterdam?"

If I wanted to set things up so the people blame the public sector for the private sector's failings, this is exactly how I'd do it

Lots of jerks get seasoned in the House of Commons

Literally a week ago Musk said that falsely labeling people as Nazis "should be treated as incitement to murder." And here he is (falsely) labeling the EU as Nazis.

The whole point of the EU, for its many faults, is to prevent the rise of Fascism in Europe. Hence Musk is so triggered by it; especially the Human Rights legislation.

#skypaoers running with it doesn't matter how much money you give the NHS, the inefficiency means it's never going to be successful. How very convenient that is for people who don't want to spend money on the NHS.

"I've never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government" is an absolutely bananas thing for any Labour politician to say. Never! Neither in the last 20 years, or at any time in the 1980s or 90s (for example). It's all been fine.

Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government." The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.

He should have played Elanga (who did improve as the game went on, tbf, got some decent deliveries in after some poor decision making) in late on, mind. That said, I like a striker to be greedy and take shots on themselves as a priority. Looking forward to seeing more of the lad.

Is Europe about to get a taste of what the US has been dealing out to South America, the Middle East and the Global South for decades?

An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated." www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...

now one could say that it’s different because it’s on paper a civil war, but, Russia also considers Ukraine to be its territory the way Israel considers itself to have jurisdiction over Palestine! so the precedent is still applicable. it’s just brown people getting killed this time

the thing all the discourse around Eurovision and Israel seems to miss is that: Russia got kicked out!! there is not only precedent, there is immediate and *still active* precedent. it’s the hypocrisy as much as anything

"FIFA did not consult its own FIFA Council or the organization’s vice presidents before conceiving of or announcing the peace prize, and the council and vice presidents had no consultation on the selection criteria." This is ALL Gianni Infantino.

FIFA will award their first ever Peace Prize to Donald Trump. Truly a stunning development from an award created solely because Donald Trump wants a peace prize...

If you're responsible for tech strategy at a business and you're not looking at how to get away from Cloudflare right now you are failing your responsibilities

Yeah, immigration never comes up, does it Fiona? Never mentioned, is it? Need a special episode on immigration because no fucker ever brings that up on fucking QUESTION TIME.

There are two kinds of people in the uk Those who can see Farage for exactly what he is, and are appalled by it …..and those who can see Farage for exactly what he is, and rally behind it

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

A few thoughts on the new US national security strategy that was released today. 🧵 www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Paging Nigel Tufnel

I tell you what, it's great seeing smug dipshit economics professors get sniffy about MMT when this is the absolute dog shit wankery that passes for economic understanding of our political class. How about you do your jobs properly rather than sniffing the farts out of each others assholes?

A Labour MP called Toby advocating for this to appease Chesterfield's gammon. They're in for an absolute hiding, as they are locally in Newcastle, because they believe in nothing and deliver nothing progressive. Stagnation and decline because of their lack of spine.

This is the sensible moderate government you all kicked and screamed and shat your pants to get. And there will never be a reckoning, because even a small amount of contrition or accountability would open the door to questions about who knew what and when, and who stayed ignorant to keep safe.

Ever heard of working cash in hand, the black economy? People not allowed to earn money under the law do it now. And they'll still do it when we're all forced to have digital IDs.

Always amused (not amused) at how regularly the idea that there is a 'right' amount of mental ill-health in British society and that we must somehow return there. Declaring the correct amount of mental ill-health based on what you are prepared to pay to mitigate its effects isn't how reduction works

If I led a government getting monstered on the daily by a load of feral newspapers owned by a bunch of rich fascists, mostly also based overseas, I would probably set something up to sort that out too.

The appeal of Reform is two-fold, so either/or probably does: a) if the outright racism is something that you're in favour of b) if you want to give the media-political class a good kicking As an aside, Brexit had much the same appeal

As close as I've ever heard someone in the media admit they don't follow public opinion, they create it. You must engage with what we've made up because we've called it into existence.

CPBG, SWP, The Fourth International, Trots, Stalinists alike, cannot be unified, Left Unity is not possible with these people involved. They need to be isolated and the electorate need to be shown there is a left that exists without them.

Played on so many great records as studio band for Stax

One of the all-time greats - guitarist, songwriter, producer, icon. Rest easy, Steve. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Again, don’t listen to what they *say* they want. Look at what they *do*, and nine times out of ten that will be exactly what they wanted to do all along.

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the dinner party class assume they have the right to own and control reality and they're very angry that anyone would dare to ignore that

Disgraced former anti corruption minister Tulip Siddiq saying her trial in Bangladesh was unfair as it was heard by one judge lmfao

Their reaction to being unable to control the dissemination of information any more is to deny the evidence of our and their own eyes.

I don't think the Secretary of State for Health should be accepting financial contributions from private healthcare companies. Anyone who does so should be explicitly excluded from holding such a post. There is an obvious conflict between the interests of these companies, NHS staff and patients.

Removing jury trials is a very bad thing. It must be understood in the wider context of neoliberalism aiming to remove public participation in politics. The ruling class simply do not want the average person to have *any* way to push back on what they're doing.