i am a neutral and i want arsenal to win the league because human rights abusing petrostates are worse than annoying fans, and i don't understand how this isn't a consensus opinion.

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

Looord Palmerston!

She laughs and says, “It’s a good party, sir!” I vote for the party. It’s NIMBY.

Trump's team explicitly asked them not to replace Pierce. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

I am planning on appointing someone who has publicly resigned twice in scandal. They resign a third time in even bigger scandal. The fallout should, however, not include me, the person who made the big call in the first place. Totally untenable.

Must have been difficult for Cody to walk around with that dumb American flag tattoo on him while they were filming.

I know that previous BBC investigations have been initially pitched as a way to illustrate the scale of the difficulties in the asylum system before the higher ups have seized on the small aspect that allows them to demonise and fearmonger. It wouldn’t surprise me if this was another such case.

Revealing that the Guardian apparently couldn't actually find any examples of the ruling having "changed lives" positively. Those quoted in support simply express political agreement with it rather than being able to point to any tangible life benefit, in contrast to those quoted in opposition.

Had/got to listen to a conversation on the bus in which a man tried to convince his friend to take a steroid by saying, “It’s not a steroid, it just messes with your hormones. Do you know how long it’ll take to get where you want to be otherwise?” Godspeed, lads.

It’s the cuts to disability benefits all over again. A lot of MPs only require a justification. Not even necessarily a good one - just *a* justification, and the government can’t even provide that.

The last few days feels like a sea change in starting to have to say the obvious.

Originally it was a miniature replica but then they realised… They required a larger vessel.

Basically everyone I know who has dealt with them has at least one story about the Home Office being malicious/incompetent, normally several.

me when someone cites the deep magic to me even though I was there when it was written: holy shit, for real? I don't remember that part at all

Another one who thinks the response to a global shortage of something which makes it more expensive is to subsidise people to buy more of it. Truly British politics is blessed with genius.

I made a great gag about that solar farm and the sun being treated as an unwanted development but I dropped a ‘million’ from the distance measurements and accidentally incinerated the Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

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Speed Racer 4K blu-ray UK release latest.

Donald the dove latest.

Watched all of 27 Dresses from a yoga mat because the armchair was occupied.

Got so annoyed by an idiotic IGN that I started writing an article in my head only I had written most of the takes last year itcouldbesaid.substack.com/p/it-could-b...

Just out brightening up the neighbourhood.

New food discourse: the best cuisine is British stuff exported to Japan (e.g. milk tea, katsu curry).

The reason I'm so angry at the Green price cap guff (and indeed more so at the inadequate action of the government) is that if you're deeply worried about what's going to be happening shortly, you're still not worried enough:

Spencer says ordinary people shouldn’t pay for the impact of war and that she wants to subsidise energy in the same paragraph. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Just scrap the lot

This was already in the consultation

The problem with "do the popular thing" is that people still hate the downside consequences, and don't give you any credit for it being the thing they voted for.

this is what actual literature discourse is like now

Trump & the rest of his fanboys will never forgive Zelenskyy for standing & fighting because they know they would fold before the first shot was fired and it eats at them every day

The whole world will be your enemy, prince with a thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will smash you with a hammer. But first they must catch you.

Could really use this messaging in the UK rather than blindly thinking we can get through a supply crisis by pretending the issue is just prices and not the supply.

Tonight I double billed Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Shallows. I’m pretty sure I know what happened to those girls. I am not going to sleep well.

I don’t know about this - all his films have seemed like a laugh riot after Incendies.

Years ago, my mother-in-law started reading The Exorcist. She said it was the most evil book she’d ever read, so she threw it into the sea. I bought another copy, soaked it, and left it by her bed.

shitposter: it's fucking over. panic sell everything right the fuck now me: haha what a funny joke. anyway now let's check on the actual situation by seeing what the econ journalists are saying econ journos: it's fucking over. panic sell everything right the fuck now

this is actually just the way chris mason talks about politics

It’s so funny to me that Goodwin turned into a white supremacist because his peers considered him an unlikeable little twerp only for his new peers to also consider him an unlikeable little twerp. Man is losing while playing on Story Mode.

Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

Anyway, the sectarian stuff is mostly tosh, ignores the reality of the situation and is designed, ultimately to discredit the very presence of minorities in public life: www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...

I don’t want fuel prices to go up! I dont want food inflation! I also, y’know, don’t absolutely avoidable deaths in idk Zambia or Bangladesh or wherever because you guys thought it would be fun to try and reinstall the Shah, y’know?

This is absolutely true - its shocking that there isn't more outrage about Starmer/Reeves basically ending international aid to get a day's good headlines from a visit to the White House. There is also just the issue that today's environmentalism is just leftism or conservationism in disguise

Not even a podcast with someone who [Scooby Doo double take] has a different political ideology?!

As disgusting and homophobic as it is, I'm glad The National decided to publish this. When the media shy away from publishing the actual words of politicians accused of making bigoted statements, it's far too easy for those politicians to brush it off as a minor faux pas.