Explains a lot about the British Right tbh. "As an individual, Nandy is free to decide what sites she is on. But as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport she should not be shunning the only such social media site that actually matters."

I cannot fucking stand hydration breaks

Conggooo!!!!

Disc media is load bearing in ways that Sony/Microsoft don't seem to understand. If I didn't borrow a copy of final fantasy 7 as a kid, I don't think I would have bought the remakes. If I didn't trade in games as a teenager, I think I would have dropped the hobby www.eurogamer.net/sony-ending-...

It's not like we can do much to solve this? We are under 1% of emissions. Life is going to get hotter here no matter what we do

Every once in a while I get a link to a Drew tweet and I'm sorry he is just so effortlessly entertaining. I love him. The best thing is that this is never, ever a bit. He is 100 percent serious. 100 percent of the time.

Collapsing into cliche.

Incredible

Welp

How has support for leave/staying out shifted among our segments. Most segments have moved in a pro-EU direction, with the exception of Traditional Conservatives. Rooted Patriots, the more red-wall and electorally important group have flipped from net leave to rejoin.

The speech genuinely made me a bit sad because he *still* has not got that the job of the prime minister is not to spend five years talking about the next election. He never realised he was not leader of the opposition and now he never will.

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

I love the SNP, such serial bullshitters, incredible lack of effort made with their “will this do” level excuses, an inspiration to blaggers across the land

lol and indeed lmao

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Are you not embarrazzed

Do these people see themselves?

It is extremely annoying the way that Hunt, like Osborne before him, personally undermined the foundations of the British state and now gets to opine as if this mess was absolutely nothing to do with him.

This guy's a cliche machine

Scottish citizenship, flushed.

Someone, please stop delivering narcotics to downing street.

Burnham is visibly not across the detail of what the Starmer government has actually done in office which is going to make his first months in office absolutely crackers.

I have no idea why they are obsessed with putting defence against welfare. Not a fight that can be won.

The saga over this plan and this sorry conclusion is going to be *the* case study of why Starmer failed as PM.

Should have raised broad-based taxes in 2024 whatever the manifesto said. It’s irresponsible not to fund the core commitments of the state - both internationally and to the poorest in society.

Jesus Christ man

"Ok, now that he's ticked the 'Keep me logged in' box, I want you to immediately log him out."

My cover story - something I've been working on since last summer - on the shadow state, a country trapped in an outsourced asylum (and everything else) system it created for itself:

Somewhat easier to do this when your position on the east of Europe and Ukraine is "that's someone else's problem"

As in most of the world - the gender split means that if you want to save yourself from the authoritarian right it means you have to accept that the women are going to be the ones that save us. Another reason why labours strategy over the past two years has been so boneheaded.

My fathers retirement plan is the 128gb of DDR5 ram he bought for his flight simulator PC 3 years ago.

My primary concern is that this is praised as "doing something" meanwhile the radicalisation of middle aged men and the LotO into increasingly abstract far right thought is ignored because something has been done.

There is not a single political party that is coming remotely close to telling the public the truth on tax. Instead, right across the political spectrum, in different ways, every party is repeating the a variant of the opposite: YOUR taxes are too high, but someone else can afford to pay more.

And so we end up with political failure. The Left says we can have European spending without European taxes because “the rich” will pay - and so, when it finds itself in power, presides over deteriorating public services.

The money in football is obscene. I agree. I'd also like you to consider it is an area where genuinely poor, working class kids can make themselves rich and the rich rich hate that and want you to hate them too. There's a reason they cry about footballers' money and not F1 drivers or Musk.

So depressing watching this NIMBY-off on Question Time.

After seeing the reaction to Laufey I am convinced that most of the people posting online would not have survived MGS2.

Organisations that usually say 'build on brownfield sites' are now explicitly opposing building on brownfield sites. It's hard to think of anywhere they are willing to support building.

"don't build on greenfield, and don't build on brownfield either" George Monbiot

Never thought I'd mourn for the Tory party of my youth

good thread on where the centre right has gone - would also add that the '10-'24 centre-right people have mostly left politics now, as many were always going to do as politics is quite generational, but there just isn't a new generation of post-Cameroons willing to pick up those fights

we are absolutely fucked unless this process is somehow pushed into reverse, because otherwise the only hope is 'the left (as very broadly defined) wins elections forever', which is a bit of an ask

It's quite impressive to find new and novel ways to exploit the murder of a teen for your weird political grievances, but this feels particularly poor taste.

The British right’s new consensus is that when policing produces a poor outcome for black Britons, well, them’s the breaks, but when it produces one for white Britons it is “two-tierism”.

Just a complete collapse of any safeguards against gutter racism.

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Farage's racist incitement is where "legitimate concerns" gets you. Of all the government's failures it is the appeasement of the far-right that has been the most egregious - politically, morally and economically. Starmer cannot undo the damage done on his watch. It's another reason why he must go.

It seems pretty damming of society in general that even Farage is crossing the hygiene lines he once thought he couldn't.