Yeah, may well be a factor. Which is a great reason to ensure massive reputational damage for the institutions that bow to Trumpofascism. It should become an indelible mark of shame, of moral and academic-integrity failure.

Though it might prompt one from the prize winner. Make fascism bad again

"Look, this isn’t over. There will be many more opportunities to give in and let them do whatever they want."

Great thread from RF. But I remain confused as to how pro politics watchers like Rob failed to see this coming when Starmer pivoted to brexitism in 2021. This mess is directly downstream of that decision, and this was super obvious at the time, and pointed out ad infinitum by less expert people.

This Starmer approach would prob work out better if he were any good at the serious business if govt "Keep schtum and fuck it up" seems unlikely to be a winning formula

One thing I will say is that this immigration-bashing "strategy" is now indelibly Starmer's. It is Starmerism. Cooper was inertia personified but Mahmood is Starmer's key departmental promotion, brought in to do just this And given that Starmer looks doomed, what future does this strategy have?

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Yes, the politics of blackmail. And Labour have helped to engineer this stand off vs Reform, exactly so they can blackmail voters like this. They are part of the problem, not the solution. Destroy them at the locals, force out this dangerous leadership team, force a pivot.

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I've got an idea for a regime change

Very important read.

It's so f***ing disappointing how Right-wing many formerly rebellious rock stars have become in old age, not to mention protective of their "property". Take Roger Daltrey, for example, who marched me haughtily off his land just after I snapped this photo of him.

THREAD. A collection of photographs of excellent sheep I have met on walks. You will find the captions to each photo in the alt text.

"Don't worry lads, you'll get away with murder"

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oh, right

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Important to keep on screwing Tesla

"If I did not resign that day, I was told that the DOJ would extract/block hundreds of millions of dollars from UVA before they would even negotiate." We live in a mafia state.

the official release has apparently had some image files pulled out. i grabbed this and made the torrent first couple of hours and it is complete.

Absolutely correct. So much of the discourse around restoring trust in the institutions is focused on decorum and civility theater. But why would anyone trust the institutions if, after the horror show that we are suffering through, they yet again fail to impose some measure of real accountability?

This is really cool: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11... (@nmwilkinson.bsky.social relevant to your interests?)

Bectu, the biggest union in the BBC, has written to Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy and Chair of the BBC Board Samir Shah demanding the removal of Robbie Gibb from the BBC Board. "Many BBC staff are concerned that Gibb is a direct block to the BBC maintaining its chartered objective of independence."

I listened to the Megyn Kelly clip and my takeaway is that she should change her name to Megyn R Kelly

this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out

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Here's an idea for free - fight the fascism

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The Woke should buy out the Telegraph

Cowardice is a fatal flaw in a leader, which bleeds into every decision, which poisons every aspect of their programme

This is true and I'm surprised many people would block over it or even disagree. However, this argument is often deployed to give cover to a political cowardice which says "and therefore we must tiptoe around the issue for now and not make even aspirational statements", which becomes disingenuous

"We looked into the public awareness of this story we're actively suppressing and the data suggests we're suppressing it."

See also the UK "small boats crisis", an absolutely confected nonsense which has been rammed into the collective consciousness by idiots and bullshitters

And so it came to pass that a cowardly and dishonest path to power led to a cowardly and dishonest govt, trapped in their own bullshit, and there was much surprise at getting exactly what we paid for

"What is certain, and felt instinctively by almost everybody, is that things cannot go on in their present way" – The Times, May 1975 “It is difficult to imagine a previous period when such an all-pervasive hopelessness was exhibited at all levels of British life” – Professor Stephen Haseler, 1975

Make Bullshit Work

Who could have imagined that a crew of power hungry surrender brexitists would be so stupid and cowardly and narrowly, ineffectively self interested?

Given the defining features of the Starmer project in opposition were cowardice and bullshit, what else was expected? Peeps who bullshat and gaslit the nation into accepting being bullshat by cowards so those cowards could achieve power and bullshit us some more should take a moment to reflect.

Infuriating that these doinks bullshat and bullied their way into power with no idea what to do with it. And now they have power it's just more bullshit to keep it, for no better reason than feeling big and important

Well put

Remove the stigma and speed freaks shine, see?

This is why I never cloth dry the washing up

Just imagine the Krakatoa of enraged, flailing bullshit we would get, if it looked like Ed was going to thrash Streeting in a leadership election.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

"FAKE NEWS MEDIA!"

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should the uk govt keep its main social media presence on the mechahitler site? no, obviously not well done sarah, sunder, peter

Bitter struggle on the right between people who hate 100% of Jews and people who hate 75% of Jews