Al Jazeera: "The whereabouts of the flotilla activists abducted by Israeli forces remain unknown."

HS2 is a useful example of liberal hypocrisy. So many of the fans of ~tough decisions~ and austerity for everyone else, the Gove clones and New Statesman ghouls, like HS2 and insist it must get all the funding it needs.

In the grim darkness of the 41st millenium there is only newly revised HS2 plans.

Most aren't as foolish as to say it so openly but every lib who is *still* angry you didn't vote for genocide believes this to the very core of their being.

I mean, you can quibble about people saying "if this was any other minority" but with the reaction to the San Diego mosque shooting and total UK mainstream acceptance of an explicitly anti-Muslim march it's clear Muslims are very near the bottom of the hierarchy of racism.

What the fuck

Let's be clear the argument being put forward here is that if a protest against a thing makes supporters of that thing uncomfortable it should be banned. From the same government that insists students *have* to listen to things that make them uncomfortable. And in both cases this benefits fascism.

Dan Jarvis is asked about tackling antisemitism & he says "its completely unacceptable that members of our Jewish community feel they cant come into London because of protest activity" Weaponising antisemitism to crack down on people opposing genocide & his & the govts complicity in it

"People have to be 100% polite and measured in response to genocide" is just not a demand good people make.

Interesting strategy from Burnham to run as Northern Starmer. Burning any credibility he had. Love that for him

Also, saw it but didn't have time to comment yesterday: Absolutely loathsome bullshit from Comfortables that they insist everyone to their left is hopelessly naive and ignorant but switch to "alas, my only flaw is I'm too optimistic" when their entire political project utterly collapses.

Kier Starmer / Andy Burnham. Learn the difference, it could save your life.

I don’t think it’s very good if the standard is that politicians must get immediately fired for saying they hope Israel - a country that has been committing utterly horrifying war crimes for many, many years, at this point - badly loses a war.

"Wes Streeting trails on just 4% of Labour members saying they would support him as their first choice candidate in a leadership race"

While the comparison flatters Burnham, all the hype and excitement from Comfortables that Burnham will save neoliberalism has me thinking about how Jacques Necker was hyped up as the saviour of France in the run up to the revolution. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques...

"My mother loves being a massive client of yours."

Me: Long, drawn out "noooooooo" to discourage crime. My cats: "What a delightfully uneventful day. Well, no need for delay." Me: *sneezes* My cats: "Initiate last stand protocols! This could be it. THIS COULD BE IT!"

Spot the difference. labour.org.uk/change/kicks...

Whenever the USA and UK try to criticise each other:

What is this conversation? Sajid Javid is a co-chair, Tim Montgomerie (Reform) is part of the commission, and the voice messages are being analysed (scraped) by AI by a centre for demographic studies. All under the auspices of Brendan Cox. I can't see a single Black contributor involved.

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Given Burnham's ideology is very similar to Starmer's. And given Starmer's ideology has lead to Reform being extremely popular: Why would it matter if the Greens step aside in Makerfield? Either Burnham winning or losing would benefit Reform.

lmao no shit, Labour is Oops, All Starmer!

Putting aside the horror of Islamophobe and alleged sex pest Nick Cohen being the more reasonable one in a conservation about immigration: Can't help but think about all the calls for the left to get out of our bubble and be friends with "outspoken free thinkers" like Bowman.

Getting a 'U OK Hun?' off of that Nick Cohen—is that good? Sounds bad, dunnit? Yeah, probably bad.

I always thought that Sam fella was a huge prick so with the Overton window shifted so far right he’s now doing SEND EM BACK as a so-called liberal lol.

Just Sensible, reasonable moderate Jonathan Freedland giving László Nemes space and very positive framing to repeatedly equate all Jewish people with Israel and rant at length about how opposing Israeli genocide is "anti-humanism". www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ma...

You can have a decent society or you can have one in which the Guardian thrives but you can't have both.

Local independent news services in areas which are enduring flag measles epidemics have been reporting on The Men Who Raised The Flags and what utter rotters they are for a while. I would like national news to share this story to inoculate the rest of you from these hateful grifters

If Dems actually wanted to win, if they wanted to implement all the policies they tell us we have to vote for them to defend, they'd hate the Senate with a burning passion. They be railing against as loudly and as strongly as the GOP rail against "activist judges".

anytime i hear about how dems didn't actually have enough votes during obama's start bc of blue dogs, i just go "okay, let's take that as a given. what was the party's plan to, over time, get those votes or replace those guys?" and it was "nothing" or "we actually will support these guys forever"

if you use generative AI for anything you're not being forced to by your employer at this point in 2026, you are simply not a smart or serious person

Useful I think to contrast this coverage with the very sympathetic coverage the Guardian gave flag shaggers last year. (E.G. there's a segment about York but don't mention the racist attack on a Chinese restaurant linked to the flag shaggers.) www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Why are these Raise the Colours thugs allowed to behave on British streets like this with impunity, harassing and attacking locals like this? Almost a year of this! Oxfordshire banned them from spreading their flag measles. High time Birmingham followed suit. It's just monetised racist thuggery

Raise the Colours came back to force their flags on a bit of Birmingham which they know rejects them, to livestream the reaction Multiple reports of aggression towards local residents including injuring one with their cherry picker Police let them go! Hooligans & bullies wrapped in an England flag

I'm not even sure you can call it a silver lining but my goodness are LLMs showing us just how lazy and slapdash influential people are.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

To state the extremely obvious if Burnham was promising a non-manifesto policy they liked Comfortables would be smugly lecturing us on Parliamentary sovereignty. They just don't want to change to a fairer electoral system even if it would stop fascism.

Happy new Ological day* to all who celebrate. *two days ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi2W...

Starmer promised an industrial strategy. Starmer promises stronger public oversight of utilities. Starmer promised a massive house building programme. Starmer is promoting technical education. AV isn't proportional representation and he won't bring it in this parliament.

AAtrek... AAron? Mods... knew!?

Genuinely the most pathetic baby stuff I've ever seen from any mod team

A functioning civil society has fallen into a similar place as vaccines. It worked so well that people, especially the powerful, came to believe that it wasn't necessary. That they no longer needed to put up with the unpleasantness or inconvenience of letting the peasants have a say.

Burnham admitting he won't scrap First past The Post for Proportional Representation before GE 2029 to ITV News. Now this proves that it's truly Greens vs Reform for that and any by-elections. Labour's slow death from 1997 until now is finally confirmed.

"Tell us one specific thing [Burnham] will do" Simons: ".. one of the things he's really committed to.. energy, water, social housing.. have gotten so expensive.. & one of the reasons why.. is that we've privatised a lot of them" "So with Burnham, nationalise water?" "No" lol

Bundibugyo ebolavirus outbreak in the DRC and Uganda has been declared a PHEIC by the WHO. The highest alert lever it has. This requires swift a and multinational response. Estimated death count is already 80! No vaccine, no rapid diagnostic tests. www.science.org/content/arti...

The Green Party are the party that can stop Reform. They have billionaire donors. But we have people power. Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

She really is a piece of shit www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The neoliberal project, implimented by Labour along with the entire western ruling class, sought to systematically remove every pressure release valve from society. They actively removed any constructive way for the public to express discontent assuming nothing would change. This is the result.

So many people who'll mock and scorn right wingers saying there shouldn't be queer people in media because it makes them uncomfortable will flip out and make up any excuse to attack public health advice, Palestinians begging for aid or "purity politics" that makes them uncomfortable.