OK, we can all go home now.

We did warn you about this, that they hate Sensible Moderate Libs almost as much as they do the left. The major difference is that they’re frightened of us but they aren’t scared of you at all, because you do what you’re told and don’t meaningfully make a fuss.

Here’s a question for people. In what way has ‘illegal working’ had a harmful effect on you. I mean you, personally, not other people anecdotally.

Come on, Wes.

I feel like billionaires have been radicalized by posting online and hearing what people think of them and the thing is I have been radicalized by their posts and hearing what they think of us

With SpaceX and Starlink, Elon Musk controls more than half the world’s rocket launches and thousands of internet satellites. That amounts to immense geopolitical power.

Gary: I'm not saying that Farage or Donald Trump are racists or fascists, right, I'm not... Zack: I am. lol. 😂

@juliandean99.bsky.social this thread prob of interest to AGC.

In time for the Labour conference... Then back to island of strangers for the Telegraph. Sir Keir Never fear He'll tell you what you want to hear

Keir Starmer says he's known for 10 years that the left has got it wrong on immigration & wasn't listening to peoples concerns Really? Because 5 years ago he said the left wasn't bold enough in talking up the benefits of migration. He really is the most duplicitous politician in my lifetime

I note here that the police raided Nicola Sturgeon’s house live on national television because they thought her husband had spent party donations on a camper van

Johnson was a massive spare cunt they had lying around, just in case he was ever needed. Sir Keir was an all-hands-to-the-pump, all-channels do-or-die unified project. “We’ve bullshat the public this far so we might as well keep lying forever and hope it works, oh no, whoops”.

George Hardy, last of the Tuskegee Airmen's World War II combat pilots, dies at 100

I lived a life which has hardly ever interacted with these people, but I have to hand it to them, their ability to talk about stuff and live in ways I've never had the bottle to. Chapeau.

Yup. Look up 'dragonnades'. #NoKing.

It's pretty wild to me that investigators have uncovered that anti-trans campaigns are largely funded by the fossil fuel industry, and that the presumed motivations are pretty directly to redirect the public conversation away from climate change... and that this isn't bigger news.

The reason that I have not changed my views is not because I haven't been exposed to the idea of difference, but because the people yelling at me have consistently shitehoused us into disaster upon calamity, from wars to crises to decades of austerity, and the world they have built sucks.

I mean, look: say what you like about Boris Johnson - he was a crooked, clueless, utterly self-interested imbecile, shitefested into the top job as a desperate last ditch effort to keep this shitshow on the road. But there were at least a few people who liked him and wanted what he was selling.

So, just more than half what they spent last year nicking 14 people (who all got off) for a peaceful protest camp next to Drax, then?

4. It still doesn't address the *root* causes of crime. Surveillance is not a theory of sustainably preventing crime or keeping people safe. Surveillance gets convictions, but do convictions lower crime rates city or state-wide? No! Put that money to things that do: housing, education, health.

Royal Bank of Scotland valuing ABN Amro...

Big 1890s energy here, alas.

“Let’s call it for what it is: bullshit. The truth is, politicians have talked about little else but immigration for decades and in the most dehumanising ways. Polanski added: “Stop the boats’ is all we hear. Well, today I'm saying ‘stop the bullshit’.” www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

3. ⁠this is not the moment for an incredibly expensive increase in state surveillance infrastructure to be run for profit by private tech firms just before Labour ushers in an (even more) authoritarian right wing government. FIX THE GODDAMN COST OF LIVING INSTEAD YOU FREAKS.

I'm afraid that our electoral system (which we are 100% in favour of and could change but won't) means you have no choice but for voting for us, that vote will then be treated by us as unequivocal support for our entire platform

So that’s 1) Tony taking a job tidying up a genocide, turning killing fields into beachfront hotels 2) Peter fired for Epstein-adjacency, then instantly squealing to the Mail about the whole Starmer project being hilariously, criminally crooked from day one. “Second time as farce” springs to mind.

Oopsie

I'm curious why the owner of GB News might keep trying to take relentless pops at me. Join.greenparty.org.uk

Richard Dawkins, friend of Jeffrey Epstein, has contributed to a new book compiled by Lawrence Krauss, friend of Jeffrey Epstein who publicly supported him after his conviction for soliciting child prostitution, in which he argues that recognition of trans people are a threat to women’s rights

Starmer: "I'm sorry, but Mr Blair has not been able to cum in 30 years, and I think its only fair that we as a society give him the chance"

Have you noticed how many immediate do-or-die emergencies Britain has had in the 21st century? Dire crises where we had to immediately do some extremely wacky shit *right now*, while every media outlet was screaming demands at the public. Over and over, again and again.

The parliamentary inquiry that investigated Britain’s participation in the Libyan War was basically a leg-breaking tackle from behind but as with almost everything else that suggests culpable state malfeasance by Ones Of The Lads, it was instantly filed in the bin www.theguardian.com/world/2016/s...

Like maybe it's the lesbianism or maybe I just don't know enough about what a matador does but if we're talking dude with red cape who tries to avoid getting speared by a bull, why... Why would this be a good thing. Why would you *want* this. Are we sure they've *had* sex? What is happening.

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

it's 2007. you're scrolling your favorite rss feeds in google reader. the internet ad market has led to a boom in mid-sized blogs that can employ tens of writers and editors in a relatively niche subject. you don't know it, but this is the last time journalism will be any good.

I have 3 axioms that help me decide when to talk to people I disagree with: 1. To debate a subject is to concede that the subject is debatable. 2. To reason with a person is to concede that the person is reasonable. 3. To ask for evidence of a claim is to concede that the claim might be true.

Palestinians bury young man killed by Israeli settler - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinians-bury-young-man-killed-israeli-settler

I'd forgotten that one. In a previous life, before I was a road, I was forced to sign off on a much lower-budget version of one of these things, which taught me a bit about how sausage is made and significantly altered my orientation towards my then CEO.

A point made to me at the time - are you saying that everyone, all of these MPs and journos, all know this is bullshit and shenanigans, and that they’re all lying about it? And it appears that Yes, this was in fact the case. They all knew, and they were all lying, together.

Sorry, because I know I've been both meticulously capping and sharing reported articles with you all, and then speaking in an infuriatingly elliptical manner about what I think is going on, so [Obama voice] let me be clear: This is *all* coming directly from Mandelson. All of it.

<That clip from _Police Squad_ where Drebbin stands in front of a massive conflagration shouting "Move along! There's nothing to see here!">

Very big 'in retrospect, this email should probably have been a Signal message' energy here.

Remember when Dr Johnson wrote [of Wilkes, who deserved it] 'Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel'? In early C21st England it's looking like the last refuge of goy scoundrels has been 'baseless and contrived accusations of antisemitism'.

Tom Barrack’s admission that Israel attacked Tunisia this month by targeting the Global Sumud Flotilla (with drone) is especially relevant, given the group’s claims that 15+ drones have been harassing it over the past night:

This matters because "orthodox" price setting policy of the type supported by centrists in the UK, particularly during an inflationary spoke, is geared to punish wage demands. At the height of the inflationary spike, Bank of England officials were urging "harsh medicine" on wages.

French Member of the European Parliament Emma Fourreau says her assistant’s sailboat was struck by an explosion during ongoing drone attacks on the flotilla, destroying the jib. Drones continue their assault on the mission.

I wonder whether there’s any notable overlap between very rich men being enraged at being publicly and truthfully accused of committing sex offences, and TV and newspapers suddenly filling up with terrifying, screaming horseshit about The Left destroying freedom? Somebody should look into that IMO

In absolutely horrible news I learned this morning that Hany was killed in an air strike- he was driving people from the North to the South when it happened. This is one of the last messages he sent me 💔 He leaves behind 8 kids, he was only 48 and he was very kind.

Reform are trying to sell the myth that deporting people and removing the rights of migrants will solve all the country's problems. It won't. Know what would help solve the country's problems? Taxing the super-rich properly and closing the inequality gap.