Can’t believe they released the Epstein files to cover up for the Melania movie.

Wild that there was an open lane called "what if we just explain things clearly to people?" and he's the first one to ever fill it

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Look, full offence Gav, but look at a list of the worst Tory MPs from the last 15 years has been a very accurate guide to defections so far.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

These guys from American Psycho haven't aged well....

Reform is basically a suburban petrol station's DVD bin of Tory politicians.

After Suella Braverman's defection, 12.5% of Reform UK MPs have been photographed stepping on a guide dog

It's the Ship of Theseus but all the original parts are being used to build a second, crappier ship.

Did you love the Conservative Party 2019-2022? Good news! They’re back!

Rumours circulating around Westminster that the next Reform defections could be Davros, Skeletor, Saruman the White, and Mark Francois.

If that's what they're willing to do in public, while being filmed, what do they do behind closed doors? www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

If Gwynne does stand down, and one of either:- 1) Burnham doesn't get selected or 2) Burnham loses the by-election It will be one of the funniest things ever

It looks like Trump has finally convinced the British Right that he’s every bit the maniac his critics said he was.* This'll be painful for them, because the whole post-Brexit order relied on the US being a stable global anchor (and kindred spirit). * Farage may be a mealy-mouthed exception.

Hard to see how more wrong the geopolitical case for Brexit could have turned out

🚨🚨"Surprise, surprise": X has continued to allow users to post highly sexualised videos of women in bikinis generated by its AI tool Grok, despite the company’s claim to have cracked down on misuse. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Hats off to whoever did this (and the beautiful model).

‘Defecting to the reform party’ is a polite euphemism for telling guests at a dinner party that you need to go for a poo. “I’d love to hear all about your holiday in Sardinia but first I just need to defect to the reform party”

When your new friend who wants your job is hogging the limelight.

Robert Jenrick's speech, now entering its 53rd hour

The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Not the main point I know but malcontent factions in British politics used to have names like ‘Adullamites’ and now we’ve degenerated to ‘grid of shit plotters’. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

If I know anything about Nigel Farage, it's that he always plays nice with ambitious internal rivals, and it never ends badly at all.

Sums up how rubbish Badenoch is that she has been forced into a “You’re dumping me? I’m dumping you!” rather than just sacking and disbarring Jenrick over the many, many things that would have kept him out of any Tory Cabinet since 1968.

Obligatory Kemi Stalin disappearance pic (h/t @snufkinlib.bsky.social)

You can be as racist as you like but my god you'd better be a loyal racist

Please be Akehurst, please be Akehurst, please be Akehurst 🤞🤞🤞

Badenoch driving the most troublesome rat off her sinking ship, ideally to go and plague Farage with competing ambition, is not the worst move.

The interview with Legend in the Radio Times is absolutely brilliant

Yes, ICE is a Gestapo-like police force compromised largely of white supremacists who were unable to obtain jobs in traditional law enforcement. But so many of the anti-ICE people I talk to are like the worst wine moms . I have never felt more politically homeless.

Zahawi can lead Reform's crackdown on tax avoidance. Plenty of experience.

I have never been a supporter of Donald Trump, but if Democratic politicians are unable to stop themselves from using curse words, I will have no choice but to hold my nose and vote for him for the fourth time in 2028.

Why is Mandy still getting prime time slots? I mean surely after your third resignation in disgrace; that ought to be it for any career in front line politics.... Like the 3 knockdown rule in boxing

Mmmm, just loving all that delicious sovereignty we are enjoying post-Brexit.

It's completely unacceptable in every sense, except the very literal one, in which we are going to accept it.

What does it mean when your doctors keep insisting you redo the cognitive exam

Were 90s kids clamoring for a Batman cartoon with 1930s Art Deco aesthetics? Is that what the market demanded? Or did some really smart creative people have a vision and make a genre-defining hit that sustained 20 years of TV shows? If you want success look for vision, not just metrics.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

Is today Boxing Boxing Boxing Boxing Day, or New Year's Eve Eve Eve? And when is bins?

Reminder that Henry Hoovers are made in Britain by a unionised workforce

The Right used to contain the staunchest monarchists, but their more recent burn-it-all-down creed pauses for nothing. These people have a very corrupted view of Britishness and should not be allowed to 'own' patriotism.

Love the science of Xmas drinking obviously one doesn't want to sober up after breakfast bucks fizz & sherry But you've also got to manage it as you don't want to be battered before Xmas dinner, else one might miss out on cheese & port & brandy later It's a question of balance, pacing and timing.

brb, heading to a nice restaurant (as I usually do) to order dessert so I can ruin pathetically insecure weirdos' dining experiences.

In the last two weeks he's put his name on the Kennedy Centre, pushed "Trump accounts" for every kid and just announced a new Golden Fleet of Trump Battleships. And we're still in the first year of his term! This time next year, will the date be Trumpday the 23rd of Trump, twenty-twenty-trump?

Galaxy Quest - a perfect movie, just a wonderful love letter to actors, sci-fi, Star Trek in particular, and to fandom - really deserves a proper physical release with decent extras. Think Weaver's right that releasing a R-rated cut would be fun, too.

Wanna hear about why your never going to get to retire.... Well it's here

The snow penis wishes you a good Christmas week.