Students were told for a decade about how incredibly important free speech on campus was. And then it wasn't. What lessons did we teach students over the last year? If you are a student today, do you feel confident that the government, media and university will support your speech rights?

I am just a smol bean government with a 156 seat majority, please help me

Maybe your guys should get some people who are better at fucking politics but unfortunately they can't because they purged anyone who even knows how to look at an opinion poll the right way up so they could take bungs from Deliveroo and water companies and give CPR to dead Atlanticism. So sorry.

Popularism!

I mean, look. Antisemitism here was at once a world-historic threat, a five-alarm fire being screamed about every day from the front pages, and also a fun punchline to a joke that smug centrists share between themselves.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel. King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

Back in the glibertarian-dominated blog era i called this "free to be just like me"

it isn't all of it, but "having to admit the hated left was right about something" is the barrier to so much

god this is so fucking embarrassing, get fucked with this shit you have got to be kidding me

I remember hearing of these requests when I was teaching in the US. Grifters like Shapiro or Kirk were often rejected not because of controversy, but because they charged 100x what an academic would get for a speaking fee. Not booking them was not censorship, but simply budget.

billions are spent hiring people to yell at politicians (lobbyists) and some of us do it for free

Whoooooooo remembers January 2026?

Never forget that chris murphy is a fucking idiot

Bethany is excited for sightseeing after we liquidate the Iranian people and turn their country into Epcot.

Sensible Liberals are of the belief that political leaders have an absolute duty to publicly criticise random people on social media but an obligation to keep completely silent when the US president threatens genocide.

Keir Starmer is 5 pints in and hunting deliveroo drivers in a range rover

This is far too serious for them to actually do anything, duh!

in persian culture, telling someone "we're going to kill you all" is considered deeply offensive

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Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

"I wanted President Trump to use the US military to force regime change in Iran, but in a nice way" - chuck schumer, basically

only the Marshal of the Supreme Court can save us now

[british politics pundit]: if trump nukes iran, this will work in Labour's favor in the May elections, as the public will appreciate the steady hand of Starmer's leadership

The British government is allowing the US to use bases in the UK for this. The British government will share responsibility.

Hi @electerika.bsky.social I hope you are seeing this! Age verification does not work for its intended purpose, is intrusive surveillance which can, will, and has been misused, and is a disastrously bad idea

These people simply can’t be real

my unamerican opinion is consumer gas price increases at the level we have seen so far are silly to get upset about (though people will, of course, for reasons I understand). they are something, of course, but still small compared to other ways people get whacked.

Mirror universe spock goatees christina too

Duckies

Guardian editors should not have let this through but of course it is the guardian

I get abused for existing because you guys fuel transphobic hate and remove my protections, while setting police to sexually molest me. Fuck your dancing.

why are you telling lies about zack polanski in this? why don't you mention how hannah spencer was hounding by a bunch of transphobic men when she was walking down a street? why don't you mention any of the racist abuse your colleagues receive? why is it about you dancing?

I've complained about this, so in about three months I'll be able to report that the BBC tell me: "It's perfectly routine and good journalism to remove the most newsworthy part of quotes without an editor's note, the BBC's journalism is the best and most beloved in the world."

defeated by the Greens, Thangam Debbonaire was rewarded with 3 lobbying jobs , working for firms representing South West Water, Serco and AI firms - Labour MP's will ignore voters who want them to go left if corporations give them jobs for staying right morningstaronline.co.uk/article/debb...

in britain, everyone has just agreed to pretend that Sunak was never PM, so they can tell a glorious story of Keir Starmer saving the country from Boris Johnson (sometimes Liz Truss makes an appearance)

quite the insane (since removed without explanation) quote was in this BBC piece. www.bbc.com/news/article... "Radin, also in his 20s and living in Tehran, said: "About them hitting energy infrastructure, using an atomic bomb, or levelling Iran. My honest reaction is that I'm OK with all of these."

whatever other criticisms I have or Are Wes, you do gotta hand it to him, he really knows how to fuck everyone off for no gain whatsoever

I am sure every important journalist he been briefed "off the record" making it impossible for them to cover it. One quick trick to flatter their egos and stop a story

Also just taking dictation

Erick knows his audience (Yglesias)

Are cis people aware that a large number of UK journalists don't even call us 'trans' any more, they call us 'trans-identifed'?

funny yougov even polls the out of touch question

how come it’s only ok to describe MPs as out-of-touch when they’re not being racist enough?

small thing but which labour failson has told them all to say that they are "putting more money in people's pockets"

You can't "temper" so fundamentally toxic proposals, both for asylum and immigration in general. Labour's "reform's" are utterly inhumane, as well as unworkable, costly and counterproductive. They need scrapping entirely, Mahmood fired, and a complete rethink. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Did it happen

We’ve been here before: All the same people who were very happy to agree that Politics Is More Of A Vibe Actually and what matters is public sexual intercourse with flags, suddenly hooting, swooning and rolling their eyes at ideas like “let’s plant some trees” or “should we make our own drugs”.

Labour's entire economic plan was "the economy would be so impressed with reeves that it would grow"

Took me a bit but it is Israeli couscous (the big kind) with.. uh.. shrimp