A far-right Christian nationalist, yet here he is praying towards Mecca?

Liberal democracy update

Keir Starmer has announced, in a voice like a kazoo sneezing up a bee's arse, world-first 'digital ASBO' to combat the scourge of 'Bluesky teens'

"LOOK OUT ITS DA FREAKIN BAT"

Big macs and hennesey

go and destroy the UK Government, Chuck! Make the people happy!

Don't worry Mr Oyster Cult, I'm not afraid of the Carolina reaper

it's really funny that the government can't acknowledge the existence of bluesky because of the questions it would raise about twitter

Genuinely: what I think drives this is that the trend towards the UK becoming a silver democracy genuinely pushes this sort of illiberal infantilization of under-25s because the political class keeps targeting them

Is your child up at 9pm arguing about tram networks with the entire staff of the FT and some tedious Americans who are not familiar with the concept of a joke? This report make shock you.

As someone who works in education, breakfast clubs arent sustainable, there isnt more SEND provision and the child tax allowances were against the governments will.

I wont say there's no danger for kids being on social media but everything about this curfew and all the hysteria leading up to it has all felt so confected and blown out of any reasonable proportion and all it's going to do is isolate vulnerable kids further and surely that's the point of this?

Sure we might be condemning trans kids to death by forced detransitions, but at least their last meal was free!

I love this "but they already have your info" argument that government bootlickers use to justify anti-privacy laws, like is protecting your privacy that futile?

I think the dumbest part of this newest ban is how parents who let their kids endlessly scroll shorts etc are just going to continue to let them but under their name on their account. So essentially now you'll have just more children under what are presumed adult accounts. That'll end fine I'm sure

Mahmood could have classified a number of violent right-wing groups as 'terrorist' organisations that have, for the past three years, committed mob violence and pogroms targeting non-white people, but decided not to; instead, she chose to target PA and thousands of its nonviolent supporters

So we're really going to uphold terror offences against over 3,500 people for holding up signs, at the same time that Tommy Robinson, Nogel Farage and Rupert Lowe have been inciting pogroms? Fucking joke country.

Hundreds of thousands of disabled people with lifelong conditions are being put through “pointless” benefit reassessments, contrary to official guidance. My exclusive in today’s paper: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This is linked to Starker’s embrace of trans apartheid, too: his reign is one of utterly thoughtless, reactionary lawmaking to please a tabloid class full of thoughtless moral panics that will worsen British society for decades and gain them nothing return.

are kids banned from mumsnet cuz if not someone should tell them they're the ones responsible for taking away their tiktok and that they should go complain on there

Kids won't be selling sweets, crisps and drinks at breaktime, they'll be selling VPN subscriptions lmao. Which is honestly what I would encourage.

"He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent."

Keep giving Jo Maugham money though! I’m sure they’ll luck out on a non-captured judge eventually!

Very cool to see the government criminalising an entire generation of young people for absolutely no advantage whatsoever - not a single extra vote from the lead-poisoned Reform-brained pensioners, and all the kids will get around it with VPNs anyway. The Rakestepper General strikes yet again!

Yeah but you grew up to be a huge cunt

"building on our experience with the Online Safety Act" yeah nobody is safer and if I want to look at a subreddit on brewing I give my personal details to an unregulated third party? That experience? The experience that palpably doesn't fucking work and is trivially bypassed with Norman Reedus?

What a horrible, spiteful, cruel, authoritarian government we have

We’re encroaching on the whole nation’s privacy and selling your data to big tech to make sure kids do their homework

I started working at 16 and it was generally until 10pm and I'm old so there wasn't any YouTube then but it is really funny that by mandate of Sir Kier Starmer I would have been banned from listening to a podcast on my way home from work

🚨Keir Starmer has made it illegal for the over 40s to put the bins out 🚨

A British teenager who got caught watching YouTube after 9PM:

but do you think that will remain the case when they realise it means they, a 50 year old wanting to watch some youtubes on the telly a couple of evenings a week after work, will have to verify their age on confusing, unreliable and opaque third party sites. with countless data retention scandals?

they’re going to install those mosquito devices shopping centres used to have on each website because teens are always a problem to be hysterically suppressed

I made something stupid

🚨 KEIR STARMER TO BAN “HOW’S YOUR FATHER” MONDAY TO FRIDAY 🚨

"Sorry, kids. You can't use the Internet, we can't afford to eat, there's shit in the water, fascists just burned down the corner store, and the climate will never be better than it is today in your lifetime, but damnit, the government sure stuck it to the trannies! God save the king!" 😒

another ultimate example of total kieth triangulation failure: coupling this with votes for 16yos. electorally nonsensical to say fuck you, we won't raise/normalise your wages (despite the manifesto pledge), and you're all too dumb to be trusted with social media.

It’s populist authoritarianism. Kafkaesque toilet bans which are at the mercy of the manager, 17 year olds who can be in the armed forces and vote but can’t watch YouTube at 9, ‘terrorist’ old lady vicars holding up signs

The only conviction Keir Starmer and indeed his cabinet and senior Labour figures around him is to restrict personal liberty. It’s the one consistent through line in absolutely everything they do.

Sonic final level-ass stage name right here.

you will never convince me the actual reason children are being banned from social media is not to attach IDs to rude replies to MPs

“Chatting to strangers” is the core of online gaming so looking forward to seeing how this all pans out for Labour.

For less than the price of your TV license you can get a proper VPN with choices of location and no logs. And then you can set your location to London and watch iPlayer anyway.

NORMAL PERSON: I am struggling to make ends meet. Everyone is saying this. It's a real problem. JONATHAN PORTES: Why are you lying? Why is everybody lying?

If you haven't got a VPN yet, get one.

Portes Portes Sunday Portes Got a graph to show you and its covered in his jizz.