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What did we think Trump was going to do, if Europe showed him we would fully collaborate on the total destruction of the Gaza Strip and ferociously repeat even the most absurd lies about it to our citizens? Did we think he would decide: best to not push the law breaking and war crimes, be sensible.

Massive hats off to everyone who dedicated their energy in the months after October 7th to attacking the UNRWA, discrediting the UN, and dismissing, sanctioning, intimidating the ICJ and ICC. Amazing work.

I see we’ve moved from “Only hateful extremist lunatics say Britain is cravenly obedient to the White House” to “Of course we have been cravenly obedient to the White House, now we must focus on the future and not ask questions about whose fault this was”, somehow without anyone having been wrong.

Sending this one to European leaders today I guess

And massive thanks to all the people who borrow from libraries. Every time you borrow, we authors get 12.5,p or similar, which is infinitely better than a reader buying from a supermarket or some bloke in the market.

This is utterly deranged.

If the struggle of the Iranian people is getting lost in the bad-faith social media debate, why not just ... write about the struggle of the Iranian people instead of engaging in the bad faith debate?

It is not "pedantic" to acknowledge that a college protest against Iran makes zero sense. Protests are typically against things, not in favor of rights movements in other countries!

Just here to say WEEEEEEEE!

And for a classy night on the town, be sure to wear your Ragu Rich & Meaty half-zip windbreaker!

2032. Every movie is Dogville.

Acting against X and Musk looks like the biggest open goal for Keir Starmer it's possible to imagine

Amazingly, Zahawi only got round to deleting the below after the press conference announcing his defection to Reform.

this is all it’s really about for them. Not domestic policy, not “economic anxiety”, just an endless desire to punish stand-ins for the Mommy who forced them take a bath, even if it tanks their own quality of life.

How has it been 10 years since I took this photograph? Fond memories of standing outside the Ritzy that night with a few tinnies – along with Pat & @tomhuddleston.bsky.social – singing Bowie songs along with so many others

Israel is murdering Palestinian children again, as they do every single day. There is no ceasefire, just brutal apartheid and genocide. Take Action. Free Palestine.

No I said don’t tread on *me*. You can get treaded on.

If a new app was produced which had, as its core features, the generation of sexual deep fake images of children and calls for a violent global far-right revolution, then not only would it be swiftly banned, but you wouldn't have a single mainstream politician willing to associate themselves with it

im sorry i know it sucks but journalists are going to have to be willing to get fired for simply describing what they see happening with their own eyes, you look like fucking morons

NATIONALISE PRIVATE SCHOOLS NOW! I can think of few other policies that, overnight, would change this country for the better for generations to come. This should not be seen as a far-out, radical idea; it’s fair and common sense. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Got a round of applause for saying 'fuck Quentin Tarantino' on stage at the BFI this evening, so that was nice.

If anyone else has realised their kid's school or youth organisation still has a X-twitter account and is asking them to drop it, the magic word to trigger them to take it seriously is "safeguarding".

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope...realists of a larger reality." Ursula K. Le Guin

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

RIP.

I tripped while running for a bus, skidded off the pavement and underneath the bus, dragged myself out just as it started to drive away and sat up to discover that the crotch of my jeans had ripped completely open. Luckily I was outside a Burton's so I hobbled inside and bought some new trousers.

"did you try to bribe the president of the united states by giving him your nobel peace prize so he will declare that you are in charge of venezuela after abducting its leader by military force" is just a thing that someone can be asked in an interview now and we all have to deal with that

If you follow this argument through to its logical conclusion there should be a UK Government channel on pornhub.

Elon Musk chatbot repeatedly making CSAM on demand should be one of the single biggest stories right now and it's effectively a collective shrug instead

It's Hayao Miyazaki's birthday! Celebrate by running very fast in the countryside after learning something weird has happened to your parents.

How is this literally the saddest song ever recorded youtu.be/F2prtmPEjOc?...

Generally speaking when British politicians start bringing God into it, we're in for a bad time.

I'm writing about the Palestine Action hunger strikers at the moment, any of whom could die at any moment, and the astonishing media and government silence surrounding them. The Establishment seems to have become even crueller than when Thatcher was PM.

Well Fluuk U too, London transport museum.

Not one word of condemnation by our government of Trump's illegal act of war in Venezuela. Not one word.

ICYMI Have you ever wanted to watch a film from 1930 but couldn’t find it? They’re now in the public domain, so I put together a database of every feature film released that year and where to find them. Enjoy! pre-code.com/how-to-find-...

Reading an article interviewing various publishing bigwigs and one bit stuck out as the way many CEOs in the industry misunderstand what's happening in politics. It identifies "polarisation" as a major problem. But the problem isn't so much polarisation as normalisation of previously extreme views.

'The last vestiges of the Old Republic just swept themselves away, we hardly even had to do anything.'

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

I think this is one of the more important observations of the era: people who are 100% fine with genocide are absolutely prepared to do anything at all, if it’s expedient.

I expect evil people to do evil things I also expect people selling themselves as a bulwark against those evil people to fight tooth and nail against the evil things evil people do only one of these groups is currently performing according to expectations

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

The New York Times has just confirmed that 40 civilians died in President Trump's invasion. This is the aftermath in one area

Has anyone in the press asked how many people were killed?

Specifically, a protest song about how the sons of the rich were able to avoid fighting, like fighting-age Donald Trump who got four deferments for being in college and another for bone spurs.