Labour: solving problems that don't exist by doing the most possible harm to a minority, while signal-boosting their main political opponents.

people have been saying “europe will be unrecognisable in twenty years!” for over fifty years and by people i mean cunts

I despise transphobes with my entire heart. Absolutely foul people

Someone on here said a while ago that the only way Labour can win the next election is to put rejoin in their manifesto, redivide the country along brexit lines, and get all the votes from the 60% or so who want to reverse the 2016 vote.

Everyone involved in these organisations who isn't a TER needs to stop participating in them immediately. The WI and Girl Guides are done now. They are hate groups. That's it. Set up an alternative one. Leave the transphobes to hang out with each other.

Because of Brexit, the exchequer “will lose the thick end of £100bn in tax revenues this year” Far from having to raise £26bn in extra taxes, Rachel Reeves could have raised spending on health, defence, infrastructure, etc and still had money to spare… yorkshirebylines.co.uk/opinion/brex...

'We have historically high welfare spending.' No we don't. 'We have a historically high proportion of working-age people not actually working.' No we don't. 'The number of Britons emigrating is skyrocketing.' No it isn't.

The Doctor is right and correct

It's also an example of the underlying problem being the same cruelty that they now think will solve it! The reason for expensive taxis is that they restricted bus travel to appease the same people!

My carefully considered, nuanced and balanced policy view is that we should tax gambling profits, including sports betting, at like 98% and one executive's kidney per quarter. I'm not sure having every UK mainstreet be three quarters Ladbrokes is good, actually.

Love this accepted mantra of "you can't tax your way to growth"... Yes you can, and it's what happened in every developed nation during the high point of the mid 20th century when growth was consistently higher than the last 45 years of low tax low spend neoliberalism.

This isn’t even about “bias” at this stage. This is about whether the national broadcaster should be able to use bigoted slurs to describe a victim of crime.

Rachel Reeves has removed Audi, BMW, Mercedes from the motability scheme because disabled people aren’t allowed nice things ignoring the better resale values and the fact cars like the Audi A1 and BMW 1-series are hardly limos www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/con...

At least it's honest, right? Intrusive questioning of women who don't conform to norms about how they should look, and women then being banned if they tell their inquisitor to mind his own sodding business, has always been the logical end point for the patriarchal project that is TERFdom.

Baroness Jones, "The problem is that labour have not created enough safe managed routes" "If we had safe managed routes people could come here, justify their arrival, start to work, start to pay tax, start to create business" "And actually be a huge benefit to our society"

Can we go back to the days when politicians said that they really wanted to help people but it’s very hard and takes time, rather than saying that they want to hurt people and can do it quickly?

Bigotry is always fed by lies.

Truss is now the very epitome of treason. More than Joyce, more than Burgess, Philby, Maclean or Blunt, more than Guy Fawkes. Maybe not more than Farage 🤔

Welcome to Greens for Nuclear! We are a group of Green Party members who want to see the party adopt a pro-nuclear energy stance. Nuclear energy is safe, clean, green, and completely necessary to prevent climate collapse: (🧵)

BBC Bias is often in the eye of the beholder So let’s stick to measurable facts During 10 yrs of debate about Brexit, BBC QuestionTime had Britain’s Members of the European Parliament on the show 50 times Every single one was from the pro Brexit minority 47 were from UKIP/BP 23 times Farage

Ronaldo getting sent off for mocking tears feels like the direct opposite of Cantona doing the kung fu kick. Actions that completely summarise a character: > Cantona is an anti-racist legend > Ronaldo is an egotistical tax-dodging bellend

Can I say something?

"You can't un-invent AI!" We can't un-invent asbestos either. That doesn't mean we have to use it.

The "appropriate response" is to broadcast everything that Trump did and said on that appalling day for American democracy and then to tell this moron to sling his hook.

The fools! They'd be so much happier now if they had just talked endlessly about battery trains and hydrogen.

If I see one more stupid Rosalind Franklin take I'm going to lose my mind. Thank god for @matthewcobb.bsky.social and @nccomfort.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Robbie Gibb should quite simply not be in that role. He makes no pretence of his own bias. While he has power the BBC will continue to rot.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Should Gibb be sacked? yes, obviously. He's an abomination of basic journalistic standards. His GB News channel spreads conspiracy theory & disinformation. His Jewish Chronicle newspaper spreads invented stories. He is plainly trying to undermine the BBC so it's as bad as everything else he touches.

The BBC should serve as an example to all that there is nothing you can give the far rabid right that will satisfy it. It has simpered, pandered, soft-balled and fluff-jobbed, both-sidesed and debased itself into being a platform for liars to look down the camera and lie on, & it still gets fucked.

I for one will welcome our Chinese overlords #Beerjacket #China #Tsingtao

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

I think we need to stop calling it empathy and go back to calling it decency. It isn't a favour you're doing someone else, it's you proving that you aren't a fucking ghoul

sex workers definitely contribute far more to society than any billionaire ever has

Gotta love Private Eye. Always cuts through the crap.

No matter the platform you should have your default feed be reverse chron of who/what you follow and curate and diversify that feed. You’ll be better informed and less prone to disinfo and group think. This is a hill I will die on.

As a single woman without kids, I am always caught out when trick or treaters knock on my door. “No, I don’t have any sweets to give you. Can I interest you in some Brie?”

It should be entirely possible and affordable to deliver this. It could create loads of jobs, free up large swathes of existing network for local/regional rail and freight and end most internal flights. One can dream.

i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Only 29 asylum appeals have been made to the ECHR in the last 45 years you dimwit. For that non-existent benefit you would sacrifice the right to life, liberty, fair trial, freedom of expression, thought, religion, protection from torture, slavery, etc. Fucking idiot.

Turn it into test cricket

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Microsoft introduced the Office 'Ribbon Bar' in 2007. Which is 18 years ago now, and in EIGHTEEN years I *still* find myself having to Google things like "Where is the Find function in Word?", because 18 years later, I still can't find it, I still want to use the 'Edit' menu where it used to be ...

"That's a robot, a Nazi, and a poorly-disguised Russian. Give us your phone, love." Brilliant. ~AA

The thing about the Overton window is that it just shifts by default if you let people propose insane policies like removing people with indefinite leave to remain without robust challenge. It doesn't just go away, it slowly leaks into the mainstream water supply unless you properly hose it down.

The post-Winamp era of computing is straight up dogshit.

I adored the 442s, this was the peak of Network South East EMUs for me. Yes, they had recycled motors, but to all intents and purposes, it was a Mk3 coach EMU, it didn’t get much better! Gone before their time. #Class442 #NetworkSouthEast

God it's so gross hearing reporters talk about Israeli "hostages" but then refer to Palestinian "prisoners held without charge" like what's the material difference between these two categories?