they mean ‘performatively angry Starmer’ and we’ve seen it before, it’s piss weak and embarrassing. This is ‘wait until your dad gets home’ territory and it scarcely believable that this is their briefing line, that these are real people whose job this is

the most perfect summation of a mind completely stewed in the liberal worldview that power is exercised by tone, communicating by brooches and vibes generated by (completely unacknowledged) class positioning

One of the key tenants of Epsteinism is a kind of social Calvinism in which there are people who automatically matter and will always matter and people who don't and never will. Mandelson was simply one of those people and, to Epsteinists, it will never be more complex than that.

the politest interpretation of this: Dugdale radically misunderstands her enemies. The terves will not meet her, or Stonewall, on a mushy middle ground of liberal platitudes. The Rowling she praises doesn’t exist, there is only a cruel bigot funnelling cash into orgs that seek to destroy lives

Even in 1843 terms I think Marx was on a sticky wicket here

every time

just checking the dateline on this piece; somehow it’s not from 1834

I dabble with Insta once in a while, mostly because of individuals and orgs who are not on here, but today the Reels were c.90% various celebs shilling for the same brand of vitamin supplements and it was just so overpowering awful, like the worst cultural experience of advertising I've ever had

strikes me that AI is so beloved by this class of people because they’ve crossed over the uncanny valley with it, it’s so familiar to them because speaks their language. They simply love their Potemkin village made from a kind of horseshit adobe.

entering my long weekend with a stance much like Robin S

i think I know this one, is it that 90% of the British media ecosystem has the singular mission of hosing horseshit over every available surface on a daily basis?

whether they paid someone for this or not, several people at Nike deserve jail for this www.londoncentric.media/p/parkun-lon...

whether they paid someone for this or not, several people at Nike deserve jail for this www.londoncentric.media/p/parkun-lon...

For the second day, the BBC are running a story that presents itself as providing evidence of endemic abuse of the asylum system based on seemingly a single encounter with someone who is neither a lawyer nor a registered immigration adviser. Words fail. This is reprehensibly irresponsible.

I don't know, are you running a left-of-centre newspaper properly? www.theguardian.com/global/2026/...

Londoners

This better include an origin story for why it tastes of vomit, though of course it would be commercially smart to hold that back for HERSHEY’S 2

Leading BBC bulletins all day. What % of asylum seekers does this represent, how many in raw figures who can afford to defraud in this way? The piece is silent on this. Absolutely fascinating what the BBC will and won’t do investigative work on, isn’t it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

every part of this story is an indictment of the Republican Party and more broadly the insanity that characterises right wing ‘thought’ in the US and the West in general

tfw you’ve experienced a home invasion from your nemesis cat, and eaten half a rat, all in one morning

BBC News leading all its bulletins on demands by former Government advisor Lord Robertson for more defence spending, without at any point mentioning his current paid senior role for US defence lobbyists

“Capitalist realism as I understand it…is more like a pervasive atmosphere, conditioning not only the production of culture but also the regulation of work and education, and acting as a kind of invisible barrier constraining thought and action” (Mark Fisher, 2009)

Reaching for the most reliable tool in any Liberal’s workshop: the tone shift

this is true and why Prime and the marketing of it is their evilest invention (don’t @ me, I’m sure they’ve created more evil things)

this party is beyond redemption, in Scotland and everywhere else. I’ll be celebrating every one of their defeats in May.

imagine coming for the Pet Shop Boys

what will become of Matt Goodwin’s monthly 10 grand from Budapest??

funnier now, entertaining even

my favourite part so far is the obligatory 2 hour webinar to explain it all. So much simpler than a system that literally works right now

It is absolutely incredible that HMRC thought (and still thinks) that it is acceptable to tell every sole trader in the country that they have to file digitally, but that HMRC isn't providing any means to do, that you probably need to get some software from somewhere, and that it sucks to be you.

Turin, baby

On a Ryanair flight. Without the apostrophe on this back-of-seat ad it reads like the start of a short story about someone released from prison, for the passenger to complete in their head

‘What I want you to know is that I’m a haircut and a suit and barely constitute what most people would think of as sentient’

2014: why did we fire all Slavists? Russian empire’s back 2026: why did we fire all medievalists? Crusades and church schisms are back

in all of my recent experience of travel, the biggest scourge of people who don’t/won’t use headphones and have unimaginable bilge coming fro their phones is MEN OVER 60. They must be stopped.

oh boy I bet those little fellas are hungry!

it must be made a scheduled monument so that archeologists may forever ponder the meaning of the 'dog' that was believed to be 'coming'

thank god the world survived long enough to witness this milquetoast waste of everyone's time

The European Convention on Human Rights would be safe forever in the UK if article one was amended to become the right to drive

I too have abandoned by last critical faculty at the fucking door

good to know that one of the highest profile parliamentarians thinking about nuclear proliferation sees a nuclear-free future as literally impossible, because Corbyn. Lib Dems gonna Lib Dem. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

lowkey one of the most apocalyptic things about it

"What can Democrats do?" When the South Korean president attempted to declare martial law, South Korean lawmakers literally fought through tanks and military forces and climbed fences to get into their Parliament building to stop him. So, you know, that.

Capitalism is a dehumanizing ideology. It removes your soul and turns you into a machine whose only interest is accumulating tokens.

Earth Set! What a photo!!!

This is real Mad King shit. It is an open declaration of sheer evil.

why has nobody ever done a pub or shop conversion to residential that looks good? Why is it so difficult?

dude has the haircut of an amoral chancer in a c.1987 movie about a battle to save the surf club from a beachfront condo development, what did he expect

the myth of parking charges/traffic restrictions affecting ‘local businesses’ will not die for as long as some people genuinely believe that cars have more rights than human beings