There are entire books about this! And the answer is “bragging to journalists about how cleverly they had shitehoused their own party to defeat”, “sending Times journos pissy WhatsApps” and “fretting in case someone shouted ‘LOL you suckup wankers’ when they unveiled the sixty foot Union flag”.

check it out if you get a chance. song of the summer

Let's not forget what kind of man Patton Oswalt is just because he was mildly rude on the internet. This man is not an ally.

British Liberals 2015-present: "Everyone to my left is a vile antisemite and should be purged from public life." British Liberals now: "Criticising Labour for promising to steal refugee's jewellery is completely unreasonable and only helps the far right."

Jewellery is traditionally the easiest way to carry wealth. It's small, it can be worn or hidden, it can be made of solid gold. You could turn everything you had into a necklace to carry. Imagine many refugees do this, or it represents the only part of their own wealth they could save. Refugees.

The main reason I don't feel well off is because I doubt I will still have citizenship in 5 years time.

Just wilful performative cruelty that is entirely out of step with the majority of British people. How many Labour MPs got into politics in order to vote for stealing jewellery off of people seeking refuge from war and persecution?

An absolute 🤯 at every level

At this moment, every single person supporting Labour is fighting for a far-right government in the UK.

Health Secretary Wes Streeting says that the British Medical Association, which represents Britain's doctors, is a threat to the NHS. Streeting took a record £225k from private healthcare-related donors in just two years.

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I know a fella who wore a polo-neck in Tipperary around 2007 and has been called 'Westlife' ever since.

Emily Maitlis is a horrible woman

This President of the USA position seems to have a lot of clout.

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

My memory of 2016 to 2020 is almost all of the comedians/comic actors I liked and followed being anti-Corbyn, despite what was to come being pretty obvious. I don't know the effect they had but all had liberal/leftish followings and 100K+ subscribers.

Lovely to see that it's now considered cool and good to be a vehement lefty who loves socialism but if you called people like me a stupid naive cunt and dick-rode the reasonable centre between 2016 and 2024 I DO remember because I'm not above petty fuckery. Anyway. Welcome, comrade.

Proud to announce I’ve just joined the Labour party

THIS HOLE WAS MADE FOR ME IT IS MY HOLE

Completely beyond why people try to defend Labour record on treatment of asylum seekers. They are awful. They have done terrible things the Tories never even thought of, like denying any refugee who came here through irregular means from EVER becoming a citizen & ENDING FAMILY REUNIFICATION. demons.

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Unassailable logic:

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This story is getting wilder - not only is it a known solitary spider species living communally, but it's cohabiting with a second species, a type of commensalism(?) not before observed. Would be very interested to see if the species are cooperating with weaving/hunting, and how that works.

I thought to myself, "my dude, my whole point was that I don't think you can have that complex a mind without feelings, plus feelings or not it's slavery" and also "you think you are displaying your rationality but in fact you're advertising your moral bankruptcy"

The whiff of AI over this.

When politicians say they don't look at or care about who gives them money, they are lying because they think you're stupid.

Just one more austerity bro

Possibly what's going on with Your Party is daft but legal action can be administrative rather than aggressive or vindictive. The newspapers are very excited there's legal action.

A lesson for the Labour Party - even if you deported a hundred thousand migrants, or five hundred thousand, Nigel Farage would just tell people you hadn't, and they'd believe him.

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Lucille Ball is the reason why Star Trek made it onto the air at all, and the first Star Trek convention ever held was organized by Joan Winston, but sure, pop off on how only us menfolk are real Trekkies.

Don't be fooled by Lucy Powell's election as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. It's being reported as a slap in the face from the Left of the party for Keir Starmer, but there is no 'Left of the party.' Powell was a key part of the 2016 attempted coup against Jeremy Corbyn.

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Back in my day we rowed boats, gently down the stream

Sir Kid Starver never expelled the anti-semites, only the altruists.

Sky News is platforming a guy who says he's from a Jewish Aston Villa supporters group, but it turns out that the guy a) isn't Jewish, b) the group doesn't exist, and c) he works for the right wing Henry Jackson Society, whose website says he 'specialises in disinformation'. Well, quite.

Daily Express political correspondent Christian Calgie called for Zarah Sultana to lose her seat (legitimate politics) then agreed with an X interlocutor it would be "even better" if the Birmingham-born British Asian Muslim MP were to be deported (illegitimate prejudice). He has since apologised.

Oh right this one I took specifically for @rincewind.run

Mince Pie Creams are verging on Butterfield Diet food.

I'm a former hotdog eating champion and I look back at my many victories with great shame. a hotdog is a gift to be treasured, not an obstacle to be conquered

I predict this: Maccabi fans arrive in Birmingham, accompanied by Tommy Robinson, start chanting "death to Muslims" There'll be fights The Board of Deputies will call this antisemitic violence Endless coverage of the antisemitism of Muslims for not allowing themselves to be beaten to death

Ditch the phones #screenlesssaturday

Having slept on it, I think the even more shocking part of it is that Starmer is so desperate to unleash racist violence onto the British people that he's sided *against* the police for what must be the second or third time in his career (the other times were also in aid of racism)

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season. TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible. christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

real quick and dirty

"The percentage of child dead in the Ukrainian conflict is 0.3% The percentage of child dead in the Gaza conflict is 37.7% In a single statistic, there you have the difference between a war and a genocide." Craig Murray

We will also hear a lot about Washington's "diplomatic achievement", a travesty of a framing. The US could have pulled the plug on Israel's genocide at any point over the past two years, and chose not to. The basis of a ceasefire has long been there, but Israel and its allies weren't interested.