I've had just about enough of this.

It's not up to me to prosecute the US 'fascism debate', but now that ICE has answered the "but there is no armed militia loyal to the leader" objection, Hegseth is now answering the "but there's no glorification of war for its own sake" objection.

Soundtrack to Trump's apocalypse: no surprise the bass work absolutely sucks

TFW you're coming up hard in the Fabric queue

Hegseth: "We are only four days into this and the results have been incredible." - Middle East engulfed in regional war - 11 countries attacked by Iran - Oil & gas prices skyrocketing - Strait of Hormuz now a conflict zone - Terrorism threat raised across the world - No sign of Iran regime collapse

Rhetoric so evil I almost feel like I'm hallucinating.

Can we just boycott the World Cup now please? www.theguardian.com/football/202...

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

My Insta algorithm is now exclusively showing me property mogul influencer ex pats in Dubai telling us (themselves) to keep calm and carry on as missiles are intercepted above their heads. We have reached a very strange stage of content

This reminds me of that Frankie Boyle joke about how Americans not only come to your country and kill your people, they also come back twenty years later to make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers sad.

this is what they said it would be like under socialism

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Great thread this, particularly this point. Gwynne's behaviour not mentioned at all in most of the post mortem coverage

A thousand times this

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

We drove out our core activists, presided over a factional war in which the largest, youngest, most progressive group was effectively purged, abandoned our principles to chase far right votes and enact authoritarian policies, and told people who don't like it to fuck off. What are we doing wrong?

Most ridiculous thing about Lab seemingly following Tories into total collapse is that it is entirely self-inflicted and born of needless longstanding contempt for the base Like Mandelson telling Blair not to worry about the working class because "they've got nowhere else to go" Well, now they do.

Struck by how Hannah Spencer's brilliant victory speech is a broadside against neoliberal meritocracy – like so many other (esp. female working-class) voices right now. This is exactly what Bev Skeggs & I discuss in our new article, 'Social Mobility is a Joke': journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

That's the way to do it. So good to see progressive politicians pushing back hard on Reform's messaging. Highly effective and so refreshing and Labour could learn a lot from Polanski in this regard. Take the attack to the Faragists - don't let them get away with it.

The Starmer project is just the worst political vehicle of my lifetime. Inspiring campaign but Greens were given an open goal and ran with the plain speaking leftism that Starmer eradicated (and replaced with nothing). Greens now have the energy of early Corbynism without the PLP trying to kill them

it's good they're pointing at it or I would never have noticed

ah, the timeless legacy of a clueless detached aristocracy, proudly lording over us, brazenly sanitising history itself and the Bayeux Tapestry

Proof the presence of George Osborne can ruin anything, even the Bayeux fucking Tapestry

Such excellent work by Jim and co here

Every single person in the UK will think this is something else for a split second

In a better timeline, Sadie Plant and Kodwo Eshun would be intellectual stars, Mark Fisher would still be alive, and Nick Land would be a mostly forgotten fringe author from the 1990s. Also, «artificial intelligence» would be a funny cold war idea that nobody takes seriously

Absolutely wild. WSJ reporting that some OpenAI staffers thought the Tumbler Ridge shooter's use of ChatGPT raised the potential of real world violence but leadership decided not to alert RCMP. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

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Computer says go

Love this so much, especially the juxtaposition of English folklore paths with an Amazon spokesperson going out of their way to deny a person driving their branded vehicle is an employee.

I followed the biggest story of the week: how an Amazon delivery van became marooned on the Broomway www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The support of Farage from broadcasters during the past decade betrays a kind of second-hand inverted snobbery. To some, with his beer and fags, he represents 'the public', rather than a man who, aside from a rump (and largely ageing) demographic, makes people's skin crawl

Farage's stinking personal ratings are massively overlooked

'He said he has been locked in the same large, cold and damp room for 4½ months with more than 70 men...detainees are constantly hungry because meals served at tables in the centre of the room offer only child-sized portions. Fights break out over food. Toilet areas are “filthy”.'

Just as we did with the fall of Cummings and then Johnson, we're going to get too much analysis on McSweeney and Starmer focused on personalities rather than the possibility that the crisis is one generated by deeper structural problems in the Labour Party.

Sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night and have to check whether David Cameron really did launch the Tory austerity programme in 2010 – where the poorest 10th of the population saw a 38% decrease in net income over 5 years – with the slogan 'We're all in this together'.

Kyiv residents share photos and videos on social media showing their freezing apartments and how they are trying to keep warm.

Daniel has been writing brilliantly on the British far right and immigration for more than 15 years, and I can't think of a book I need to read right now as much as this one

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The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

genuinely stunning image

When my family and 120,000 other Japanese American were sent to prison camps in WWII, the government only allowed propaganda photos of things like schools and baseball games to be published. A school in a prison is evidence of evil, none of these people, especially children, should be imprisoned

Now that the White House is using AI to edit photos of their political opponents to create fascist propaganda I’m wondering if anyone could have seen this use of AI coming. Okay I’m hearing lots of people did and they were forced to watch corporations smother the masses with the technology anyways

The Brexit latest seems to have moved from strong independent sovereign nation to country entirely dependant on US funding and defence for its survival. Thanks.

'When the Lykovs were discovered by the geologists, they were still furious with Patriarch Nikon and Peter the Great... Agafia, the youngest Lykov, had never seen a wheel.' Fascinating extract from Sophie Pinkham's new book in @theguardian.com's long read today www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

This closing line gets to the heart of the Trump project – a magnified, everyday evil that is only unique due to its scale.

The Columbia Heights school district says ICE detained four of its students, including a 5-year-old boy, as "bait" to draw out family members.

It was not a great idea to elect an anthropomorphized sundowning boomer's racist Facebook feed as president.

World-historical batshitness: "We probably won't get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength & force where we would be frankly, unstoppable. But I won't do that. Now everyone's saying 'oh good.' …I won't use force. All the United States is asking for is a place called Greenland."