There's two nuns driving down the road when suddenly a vampire jumps on the car. One goes "Quick, show him your cross!" so the other one nods, rolls down her window, sticks out her head, and yells "GET OFF MY FUCKING BONNET!"

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(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

#SideOnSatuday An unidentified Mainline 58 crosses the River Idle at Retford 6.3.97 .

The PM literally ran someone over on a Sunday morning and then lied about speaking to the police and didn't report to a police station for *reasons* until a certain amount of time had elapsed, but yeah let's go after the woman who finds the excessive drinking culture in Westminster odd.

If you don’t see what’s happening here, if you still think there is zero media bias against the Left, and no smear campaign going on against the Greens, you are completely deluded. The man arrested was a Reform voter.😡

Käthe Kollwitz, Working Woman (with Earring), 1910 etching #WomensArt #MayDay, also known as Labour Day is a celebration of the working classes #InternationalWorkersDay

I am quite certain @zackpolanski.bsky.social is a better guardian of my Jewish values than Keir Starmer who said it was appropriate to cut off water from a people subject to genocide.

All it takes for the British press to get *anyone* they want to fuck up is malicious persistence, a trait they have in spades. They managed to get *Gary Lineker* as a sinister, Hitlerian racist maniac. They won’t struggle to make a very online Green leader and his party into hate figures.

Genuinely gobsmacked at this headline about someone accused of attempting to murder three (3) people, the third of whom has a Muslim-sounding name

Yesterday in Hastings, in the wake of antisemitic attacks in Golders Green, I faced Nazi salutes. Today the Prime Minister uses his office to attack the only Jewish party leader to score political points.

If you're following the @politicsuk.com account here you should be aware it's run by a Reform politician

This claim was never, ever corroborated. The Eygi family said it was a lie. Biden apparently never even called the family of Eygi. Why? I still think about this all the time. He just made it up.

The Hasan stuff aside, I sometimes think about how Turkish-American Aysenur Eygi was killed by a IDF soldier shooting her in the head and Biden inexplicably claimed that the soldier actually fired a bullet at the ground which then 'bounced" into her skull. He never clarified or apologized.

I don't know how this stuff still surprises me but deliberately obscuring the fact that the guy has been responsible for at least four other stabbings not involving any Jewish people including one *that morning* is very bad indeed

"Nobody tells us what to write" UK journalists and columnists scream as they all repeat the same obvious falsehoods in unison

Counter extremism latest: Being against day drinking at work is a sign of Islamist subversion.

It’s very difficult for the police to claim this isn’t politically motivated, when they’re putting out this kind of statement to defend their officers after Zack Polanski does a retweet, yet they’ve never spoken out against the years of Nigel Farage and his ilk rambling on about “two tier policing”.

And just like that, Mandelson and government corruption was swept off the front pages and memory holed forever

do you know what’s really funny, and interesting, about this? at *no point* in the interview did hannah spencer mention labour in connection with the drinking culture at parliament, and yet the people leaping to correct her all seem to be defending *keir starmer’s labour*

Chaka Khan, drumming with Rufus.

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Call me alarmist if you want, but between raising the terror alert level and specifically calling out Polanski on the same day, it does kind of feel like the state is painting a massive target on anyone remotely progressive.

My advice to Gaby Hinsliff? Think about how defending boozing on the parliamentary estate looks to people outside of Westminster.

i do think most people think "leveson" was about "the press behaving badly" and have forgotten the "...in cahoots with the police and politicians" part

I wrote this in this month's The Tablet magazine

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Read @zackpolanski.bsky.social who, inconveniently for those who instrumentalise anti-semitism, is a Jew: "When people create false allegations of antisemitism, or blur the lines between challenging the Israeli government and antisemitism, as a Jewish person, that makes me feel a lot less safe."

It's good to see that my advice of "keep this in the news cycle forever, you'll all look great" is being followed to the letter

Are protests against our government’s collaboration with an ongoing genocide inspiring violence? We asked fourteen rabid Israel partisans - who have absolutely horrifying opinions on e.g, the use of massive violence against entire civilian populations - and they said: yes

There are elections next week, and you should notice that the pretence of impartiality just goes straight out of the fucking window, any time the dirty hippies get too big for their boots and need a good stomping back down.

It's the first of May and snake pass is on fire because of the Heat. This is very normal.

Aha! The press weren’t able to take down Mamdani, or Sadiq Khan or Caroline Lucas Mamdani, Khan and Lucas weren’t credibly threatening to take five hundred council seats off the Labour Party, and fuck up the faction everyone agreed needed to be in control.

Watch Question Time's Fiona Bruce immediately shut down the Green party deputy leader as soon as she challenges the other panellists for linking the marches against genocide with antisemitic attacks.

The EXACT same playbook used to tar Corbyn is now being used to tar Polanski, point-for-point, beat-for-beat. Literally no changes to the combined media and parliamentary strategy despite the fact that Zack himself is Jewish. It isn't even acknowledged.

This country is a mafia with table manners. FFS.

12 days to go! For each of them I'll be posting some highlights-- today's is about Zambia and neoliberalism. In 1970 there were two major copper-producing nations governed by new left-wing majorities. The first of them you might know well-- Chile. The other was Zambia.

all this in just a few days is insane to me, I don’t know what the solution is but it feels like we’re doing fucking nothing

Imagine building a railway on your own nose

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