Absolutely zero braincells employed by people lighting fireworks after 3 heatwaves. The entire country is a literal tinderbox. Could do with a ban before any more football wins...

I feel so angry and powerless about how NOBODY in politics is taking urgent climate action. Yet again, the world is on fire, or rather, boiling us all alive quite literally, and politicians are silent, lips often sealed by oil money. What do we DO?!

Right, particularly where it involves public figures who have massive impact on millions of lives. If it's wrong to speak ill of them at the time of their death it's also wrong to eulogize them in a way that carefully avoids mention of their misdeeds

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

Bet Farage feels foolish for saying he was the most persecuted politician in the country. Again.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

#R4Today spent this morning warmly eulogising Ann Widdecombe. Almost none of what they said was wrong. Almost none of it was complete. Here's what they left out. 🧵

Twitter used to be a place that was actually helpful. I'd tweet my local council for instance. Now without it I don't know where to tell them I'm mildly irritated by something 🤣

Fair play this is funny.

Farage just called a referendum on the concept of objective reality iandunt.substack.com/p/farage-jus...

Live footage of the Farage statement

A milkshake to the face is 100% worse than death apparently. You just can't get dairy out of raspberry cords.

"waaaaaaaaah, oh wah wah waahhhhhhh" - Nigel Farage, 62

Saying you're the "most physically attacked" MP when two MPs have been killed in the last decade is just horribly self-absorbed.

God he's such a whining crybaby

The world didn't want to go the US for the world cup, but maybe the US needed to see that people from nations very different from them are good people who have fun and laugh and support their team just like they do, even if their religion or skin colour is different.

This isn't news. It would be if he were to attend his local comprehensive. BBC News - Prince George to attend Eton College from September www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

In some ways I'm supportive of the social media ban because I hate what has happened to them and the damage it is doing. But on the other hand it doesn't address the real issue of the algorithms and rather gets the billionaire controlled platforms off the hook. And it seems unfair to punish kids

When people demand cuts in net migration, governments cut the numbers that are easy to control. But work visas, care workers and international students are often the very groups that contribute most to the economy. Stephen McNair reports on research by Jonathan Portes and Lauren Gilbert.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

Much as I like Pride & Prejudice I find it impossible to deny that this is the greatest review of it of all time

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

Why are we calling them protesters?!!! Rioters and thugs. Always wearing black tracksuits and balaclavas.

The cost of living crisis affects everyone - Just look at Farage. Couldn't even manage his dry cleaning bill without additional support from a crypto billionaire, even on his £1.2m GB news salary. What chance have the rest of us got?

There's an alternative timeline where Musk vs Zuckerberg took place and they both bitch slapped each other into oblivion and no longer exist to bother us anymore.

Wigan IS in (Greater) Manchester @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Yeah if you're only counting scandals where there's personal enrichment (Ecclestone and Cash for Peerages for instance both involved payments to the parties and were significantly bigger in size)

I've been playing Pragmata for a few hours and I'd already die for Diana

I think Andy Burnham being allowed to pursue things he cares about and deliver them in Greater Manchester says something about the lack of visibility of this sort of work that politicians do. Politician has become a dirty word, and it shouldn't tarnish everyone because of scumbags like Farage.

very unpleasant to see this many people voting Reform, knew it was coming but still unpleasant to witness

siren of the chasm #mermay

Devastated two Manc councils are Reform. I want to be sick. It's not a fucking protest when they're openly racist, taking bribes, in the pockets of Russians and Crypto billionaires. It's turkeys voting for fucking Christmas.

The same people who think abortion is murder are willfully contributing to both potential and actual serious harm or even death of THEIR OWN children by refusing not just vaccines but basic medical advice.

The single most defining thing Elon Musk has ever done is killing untold numbers of people by having DOGE illegally raid and disband USAID. Not rickets, not cars, not even the CSAMbot on X. It’s this, and so many media pundits just choose to unsee it.

@sturdyalex.bsky.social SO EXCITED FOR SISYPHUS THE DODGER OF DEATH!! @alexpodyssey.bsky.social

Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.

The American regime has alienated us from the Pope. Let that sink in.

The battle against Trump is a battle against genocide iandunt.substack.com/p/the-battle...

Why are we still sending the King to meet a man who insisted just yesterday he would wage genocide on an entire civilisation?

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Israel's ethnic cleansing on south Lebanon will continue in spite of any ceasefire. They started all this with their bombing of Iran that the US hopped onto and now they've no intention of stopping. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" ― Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut.

BBC News - Kanye West blocked from travelling to UK, government tells BBC www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Good. Now block the likes of Elon Musk for encouragement of violence

It's Beatrix month! 🌹 #FinalFantasyIX

Oh.

Orwellian much

What a coincidence. This was published yesterday #PMQs @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Jesus