This is your reminder that the climate killing, electricity draining, data centres that are required to support job destroying AI, are this Labour govt's big (and only) idea for saving the UK economy.

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

The sort of barely literate clown that Starmer’s Labour are running the country for. You can follow whatever economic policy you like as long as you kick down on someone else.

As someone with a Motability car, higher spec cars mean your have to make an advanced payment, because the car will then cost more than the monthly payment to lease. Why shouldn't a wealthy Motability driver have a more expensive car? They are paying for it, not you, DWP or anyone else.

Reeves removes certain brands from the Motability scheme for severely disabled people, to signal that even though disabled folk pay for it, they dont deserve nice things. As she speeds away in her free chauffeur driven luxury car as perks, that she contributes zero in MOT road tax fuel etc for.

We are moving inexorably to the end point of electoral chaos - five parties all tied on 19% in the polls, election to be decided by blindfolded chimps chucking coloured darts at a constituency map

Don’t want to be too moralistic about this, but it is an active disgrace what people are doing to a profoundly liberational scheme that costs relatively piddling amounts on the basis of a couple of right wing shitposters misrepresenting it on Twitter.

Labour party today: - Disabled people can’t drive Audis, BMWs and Mercedes on Motability. No to £25k Audis but £36k Nissans are fine - Discredited PFI to return for funding NHS projects - Trial by jury to be axed except for most serious cases That’s just today

A pretendy progressive speaks. Sick and tired of these sheep who’d follow the Overton window to the Nuremberg rally yet still believe themselves to be moral and decent humans. There is something very damaged in English society.

do you have any idea how much you have to piss somebody off to make them change their gauge

Aye

I said this in February and I’ll say it again. I’ve spent almost my entire life arguing for nuclear disarmament. But after February that changed. A Europe without nukes independent of US geopolitical wishes makes them almost irrelevant. The EU needs a French derived delivery solution, pronto…

We have raised concerns about how Waterstones have chosen to open a sixth Edinburgh branch rather than a location in one of the many underserved communities across the country. ✍️: c.org/tRvvQM7Jrt (2/3)

Real David and Goliath battle going on here in Leith between the wonderful Argonaut Books and Waterstones. Please sign the petition. c.org/5GXgkW4Mvh

I know that some blue Labour advisors will be saying — “Great, the remainers are remoaning. The Metrosexual metropolitan elites are squirming. We‘re owning the libs”. But guys. You ARE the libs. You won’t ever replace Farage. You’ve just sabotaging yourselves by blowing up your base

What’s happened here is that, by sticking to their guns and refusing to be intimidated and shitehoused, the club and police have thankfully prevented Parliament and the press inciting rioting and running battles in the streets of a major city.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p... One of the best things about the Vince Gilligan run shows have been their sublime podcasts thanks to Kelley Dixon and latterly Chris McCaleb. I am glad to report that the official #Pluribus podcast is no exception, truly a film school in your ears.

... plus Jews everywhere by making football hooliganism sound like a Jewish tradition by calling criticism of it 'antisemitic'.

Great lesson here!!

Do you mean in money - or do you mean to humanity? Because I’m interested in the latter.

British Labour MPs trying to associate themselves with Mamdani's win all "how do you do, fellow lefties" style, as if they aren't the same sort of right-enabling establishment he was a reaction against, embarrassing, the cheek, the nerve, the gall, the audacity and the gumption required

Many in politics and media are trapped on X/Twitter, a latter-day Plato's cave, mistaking projected shadows for reality. No social media platform can be perfect - the 'social' bit ensures that - as people are also not perfect. But some platforms are better than others.

"That thing is going to rot your brain..."

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

A response to Jimmy Carr’s comments about Graham Linehan.

Cnut. He's forgotten about Cnut, who went on pilgrimage to Rome in 1027. Oh, and Edward I, who spent 2 months at the court of Gregory X in 1273. Otherwise, all over the detail, as per.

The gap between the government, opposition and national press unifying over some ludicrous, wildly irresponsible, insultingly idiotic bullshit and that then exploding in their faces now appears to be down to about two days. I reckon they could manage same-day meltdowns, if they tried.

Do parents still tell their children not to lie or has politics of the last 10 years put an end to that as it clearly doesn't matter/will hold them back in life?

This.

Football match involving Maccabi Tel Aviv called off due to violence. Is it anti semitic to call it off in Jerusalem or only in Birmingham? Message to those who hurled the antisemitism libel around last week. Beware of Karma. She’s a real bitch! www.theguardian.com/football/202...

UK PM Keir Starmer who wants to reverse the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban at Villa Park Europa game next week said: "The role of the police is to ensure all football fans can enjoy the game, without fear of violence or intimidation." Exactly sir Keir, that’s why there has been a ban in the first place.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

“I Swear” is just a properly lovely film about some properly lovely people that I can easily see becoming a “Full Monty” style word of mouth hit. I had wondered how such a story could sustain a 2 hour run time but it definitely needed it to do John’s story justice.

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

I would like to hear similar sentiments expressed with as much conviction by leading UK politicians.

If Labour put 10% as much effort into calling out Brexit as they do punching down at immigrants we'd already be negotiating to rejoin the EU. Brexit only lacks importance for most voters because of the conspiracy of silence across politics and the media to not connect Brexit-related problems to it.

“The president should be removed from office because he is plainly insane.” I mean, there is no war in Portland. There just isn’t. You can’t & won’t avoid reporting this story. But you’ll still find a way to try to report it in a way that gives him the benefit of the doubt. And that’s wrong.

Always something magical realising you’ve seen a future classic within a day of its release. Can add “One Battle After Another” to what’s now a rather long list from thirty plus years of movie going.

I’m not It isn’t. It should be, but you’re working very hard to ensure it isn’t.

I don’t know about you, but I’m still sort of processing that the US president stood up in the UN and declared that London is about to be under Sharia law, and the response has been “actually, that won’t happen” rather than “Jesus, that is insane.”

Have uncovered incontrovertable proof of immigrants repeatedly eating spit roasted swans: The offenders are called Edward Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, son of a German immigrant and his Danish wife Alexandra. More on this breaking news story as I get it www.royal-menus.com/kings-britai...

So no, Starmer supporters, don’t tell us bad things about Burnham. Get your boy to get his act together.

The last Labour Government tried to introduce them as part of their weird assault on civil liberties under Blair. We opposed them then. We will oppose them now. Funny what you reach to when your situation becomes desperate...

I am dreading the shit show of anti-immigration/asylum, anti-trans/non-binary, anti-disabled, anti-human rights, anti-international law etc bs going to come out of Labour's Conference. It's just depressing after 14 years of the same to have a government which is only ever "anti". instead of pro.

Well, looks like Burnham’s got the pretendy progressives in Starmer and McSweeneys orbit rattled. Running off to their courtesan journalists at the Beeb and the other right wing outlets saying they don’t want anyone else in charge. Burnham, of course, isn’t complicit in a multitude of crimes.

If you’re onboard with what a few days boycott of their products did to Disney, why aren’t you onboard with a boycott of all goods from Israel?

So the only two G7 European states that haven’t recognised Palestine are the ones with a history of fascism. Figures.

Can I just say that for Welsh amd Scottish people of all persuasions this is all incredibly off-putting and alienating and you all look mental.

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...