What an awful man. Great local journalism by the Tribune.

Any ideas, @delaneyking.bsky.social ?

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

CMAT is a legit legend

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

Why not just link to the blog post? officialdavidcross.com/blogs/press/...

David Cross folks.

Indeed you may have encountered some of Hammerstein's (he dropped the aristocratic 'von' at this point) leadership principles in management studies. They're characteristically blunt and on point. They formed the basis for his wholesale overhaul proposals for the Weimar Republic's army. /7

This withered little bellend will say anything in order to ingratiate himself with Trump. He hasn't had an original thought since the cries he let out on the ill-fated day he was born.

And this is why Ed Davey has to make announcements on log flumes - how can he compete when Farage lobs a hand grenade into the political debate and everyone seems to try to discuss it like it’s reasonable, not just bigoted hatred dressed up as an immoral and impractical policy.

coates is genuinely a generational writer

The most heartbreakingly powerful piece I’ve ever read on Substack. Please, please read and share. And look after your family, friends, neighbours and colleagues for whom England is becoming frightening. @sturdyalex.bsky.social 👇 open.substack.com/pub/bestforb...

I wrote my own Charlie Kirk obituary, and about valuing truth over manners: www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

Most people in Britain don't know who Kirk was. This is who he was

On the money.

this is called "doing a streeting" which is to position yourself firmly on the wrong side of an issue for no reason and to no one's benefit

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels. It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration. This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

Timeline cleanse

I see people bleating yet again that "elections are won from the centre". Let's examine this claim. 1. Not long ago, the current Labour government, with its grovelling to corporations and oligarchs, extreme deregulation, island of strangers rhetoric etc, would have been classed as radical right. 🧵

What's the best way to get to a major car-event? By train! Thanks to great efforts of the Dutch Railways (NS), which ran a train every 5 minutes, last weekend thousands of Formula 1 fans were able to travel to Zandvoort for the Dutch Grand Prix in a sustainable way. 📽 by Tijmen Voet on LinkedIn.

As a former human rights lawyer (the kind who bailed protesters out of police stations under tear gas and fought against injunctions, let me be clear, Keir Starmer is not a human rights lawyer, and he has never done the kind of work we do.

Not even much of an anime guy, but very entertaining thread of people dunking on Crunchyroll over here.

There is of course another solution to the ‘asylum seeker problem’. Start thinking of them as human. When you do that, the ‘problem’ kind of melts away.

This little parable is a nice illustration of why it is important for mainstream parties to set and uphold clear, bright line anti-prejudice norms, and of why the failure of senior Conservatives to do so risks doing great harm to their party

Calling historians and researchers. The BBC Written Archives Centre has changed its access rules without consultation. This means an end to proper independent research into the BBC's rich history. 178 have already signed the open letter. Please join the campaign here: tinyurl.com/bbcwaccampaign

A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent. Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA

We can breathe a sigh of relief, for now. But this was a humiliation for Europe. This entire arrangement is a humiliation for Europe. Because in every instance it involves decisions about Europe’s future being taken over Europe’s head inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

I am becoming increasingly anxious about: 1) The Government’s lack of meaningful response to this, and indeed the pandering to it. 2) The way it’s being covered by broadcasters.

Case in point: A Labour MP uses the phrase "cleaning up our high streets" to describe an immigration raid, implying that these migrants are akin to dirt or litter. It's possible to hold someone to account for breaking the law without dehumanising them. This was a choice bsky.app/profile/mela...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

There are a lot of idiots enraged by this misleading Times headline. The article itself - yes, the exact same one - points out that: A) In any typical year, about 50 independent schools close B) More independent schools opened than shut, so the overall number went up. But that's far too nuanced.

Something absolutely bizarre happened to me yesterday that I simply have to share. It involves a Republican politician in the US called Cheryl Bean and a character from Midsomer Murders. Let me explain ...

The Daily Mail lead with a photo of triumphant Irish and Ghanaian heritage Lioness players + another anti-immigration story. What hypocritical graceless fuckwits.

Truly. The distinction between the treatment of elderly Gaza demonstrators and far-right protestors suggests a complete breakdown in our moral compass.

Paramount+ sub = $60 a year Shift that $ to your @pbs.org station instead and you’ll do two good things at the same time. Do it.

This is the ‘Scottish Lesbians’ group. All of them They got to intervene in the Supreme Court case that negatively affects every trans person Not one trans person was allowed to be heard by the Supreme Court- which issued a pre-cooked decision that will shame the UK Judiciary for generations

The Eternaut (Oesterheld/Breccia) is one of the greatest comics ever created. It was created in a time of rising political dictatorship and its author was “disappeared” a few years later. I beg you to go and read it. It is the last story on earth that should have gotten the AI slop treatment.

So, do I have this right? The Reform UK parliamentary setup currently comprises a leader, a deputy leader, and a chief whip, whose only job is to ensure the only woman in the group does as the three of them say.

OK, so here’s my JJ Abrams story… Before I started working in digital restoration one of my primary jobs in post-production support was running the in-house theater and screening rooms at work. Every now and again it would get booked for casting sessions, because it was perfectly suited for that…

Finished a mini diorama for an equally mini painting challenge. Adventurer and doggo are Reaper minis, which were a gift from @cocorohan.bsky.social I added a fireplace from @badsquiddogames.bsky.social to give the duo some atmosphere.

Ice cream truck funerals apparently produce the most horror movie ass sound you can hear in real life

14 years ago, while working at CENTCOM, I was asked to do a comparative analysis of the British failure at the Dardanelles to a potential Iranian closure of the Strait of Hormuz. While my discussion of Iran’s capabilities is now outdated, the lessons I identified are still quite relevant (🧵) 1/n

TW: harm to children. My research into the effects of the UK government puberty-blocker ban has finally been published after peer-review. It details the severe harm being caused to young trans people & children by the Starmer government's puberty-blocker ban. Unlike Cass it is peer reviewed...

Love Jack Harvey being on the Indycar commentary team. Peak murica, then it's over to Jack in the pitlane, in Detroit, Lincolnshire!

The Daily Mail complaining that immigrants have not the English too well. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...