Ken Livingstone vibes?

I've found myself using the f-word a lot lately. Fascism. There's a lot of it about. People don't like to say it because it makes them uncomfortable. It seems extreme. Well, fascism is extreme and you can't ignore it. Get used to it. Start using the f-word.

Presumably there is a perfectly rational explanation for this compromise with the doors (?) but it is quite funny in isolation

Hi @steverichards.bsky.social, I enjoyed the podcast on tariffs. The only thing I thought missing was impeachment. I know Republicans have been craven in failing to stand up to Trump, but if the economic damage is as bad as we all think, surely they can't go into the midterms with him as president?

Hope the Trump era makes more people realise that whether people respect institutions and the rule of law is so much more important than standard ideological differences between left and right.

OK, gonna throw this spicy bomb out there. If you're fortunate enough to have disposable income, then right now it is your duty to use that income wisely. You have agency over how you spend it and you should own how you spend it. Your decisions do, in fact, affect stock prices of big corporations.

And here’s the crucial part: Trump and Musk aren’t outside this system, strategically exploiting it. They’re inside it, just like everyone else. They aren’t masterminds - they are products of the same information disorder that is warping public perception.

Yes the Lambrini Girls album is that good

There's plenty of concern about the state of the world today but not enough about whether we're on a march to the next world war and what we can do to prevent it

Hearing Kool Keith back on form like this is rather joyous open.spotify.com/track/4RgI6v...

I have closed both my X accounts

1/4 Against the wishes of the community it serves, Islington Council is pushing to demolish thriving local football pitches. The plans would see 4 ground level playing fields reduced to a roof top playing field 3-4 levels high! www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/lawy...

Kids are loosing access to green spaces including Football Pitches at an alarming rate. Here’s another example ⤵️

1. When prices go up, incumbents go down; 2. A small but electorally significant number of Americans won't vote for a female president; 3. A lot of voters pay little attention to politics and thus weren't really aware of/don't believe the bad stuff.

Is there a major anti-incumbent wave since the post-COVID inflation surge? Decided to go through this systematically. Incumbent government performance in wealthy democracies since March 2022, when Ukraine invasion really spiked things upwards: 🧵

If Labour can somehow pull this off then it will absolutely change the paradigm for tax and spend over coming decades

Is it just me who thinks newspapers shouldn't actually endorse candidates? The problem here is that this election wasn't the one to try to make a point and Bezos isn't doing it for the right reasons anyway

Consensus is that the Tories have lost their best leadership option but perhaps this vote-lending debacle merely proves why he wasn't a good candidate

Oxfam Scotland repeat calls for a private jet tax. “Fairer taxes on the most polluting forms of travel would not only raise more money to invest in climate action that benefits us all, but they could also help ground the demand for these high-polluting luxuries.” uk.news.yahoo.com/private-jet-...

UK tabloid.

A reminder that Labours bus reforms (regulation especially) are genuinely transformative. Together, if done right, they can make a very real, very visible difference by the next election

Had #Grenfell Tower been a luxury apartment block housing wealthy people, I'm pretty sure that the prosecution and conviction of those who enabled the disaster would have happened by now.

In a shameless attempt to grow my following on here, I'm going to be giving away a GE2024 poster to one lucky winner who retweets this post (and is following) in 24 hours time. Best of luck!

As Robert Jenrick emerges as the frontrunner in the contest to become the next leader of the Conservative party, here's a quick reminder of some of his greatest hits

The bizarre thing is it was obvious a decade ago that this needed to happen. Government's have been dragged kicking and screaming to their responsibilities

For this reason I'd speculate that only the Tories can take us back into Europe. If Labour does it then there's always the risk the Tories come back and nuke it again

Might have taken this too far, but here is a chart showing the price of a pint of beer relative to incomes in Britain from 1259 to 2023. Pints were cheapest in 1462 when pints were the modern day equivalent of £1.39. If you think beer is expensive now, be grateful you aren't drinking in 1315.

A story of Conservative fiscal policy in three charts*… 1. Since 2016, almost every fiscal event has been a giveaway. Before 2016, it was mostly fiscal tightening.

Dagenham fire at block of flats with ‘known safety issues’. (I think in the middle of cladding removal). Injuries, but hopefully no fatalities. Seven years after Grenfell and these blocks remain unsafe. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/arti...

They should have football during the day on bank holidays

It’s telling that Walz is “redefining” American masculinity. The guy’s a stereotypical macho man—veteran, hunter and football coach—but the fact that he’s also a nice dude makes it a paradigm shift. He isn’t known for his knitting skills. We’ve just come to associate masculinity with being a dick.

Boris Johnson, who: - Imposed big new restrictions on protests - Restricted the right to strike - Banned anyone critical of the government from speaking at official events Says locking up people who incited racist riots is like living in "Orwell's 1984" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-boris-...

On Boris Johnson's claim that the prosecution of those who incited the riots means "Starmer's Britain is now twinned with Orwell's 1984" www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-boris-...

Any loss of life can be saddening, but it isn't disrespectful to the dead to point out the startling inequality of reaction between the coverage and resources used when a billionaire's yacht goes down compared to when a dinghy with people fleeing war and persecution.

This is all very good advice. Nice. “Turn off the radio” is eternal.

On reports of friction inside Starmer's Downing Street and what they indicate about a deeper, structural flaw in the way we are governed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

And saving a fortune on policing, criminal justice, and not ruining people's lives for no good reason.

Nobody will remember: - your salary - how “busy you were” - how many hours you worked People will remember: -If you didn’t put your publication date in a clearly visible place on your report

So bored of these kinds of hot takes on mental health. As someone who lives with PTSD, it's not "just words" but a condition that has a profound impact on every part of my life, and my ability to get through any given day. I'm lucky to have support in that, too many don't and therein lies the issue.

based on how often the naughty teens of major cities throw the rentable scooters directly into the river i've formed a theory that the many iron age swords and cauldrons found in lakes around europe that we've previously assumed were ceremonial and sacrificial in nature were in fact thrown by teens

Guy Fawkes's signature before trying to cancel his Times online digital subscription and after.

Remember, if you didn’t get the A-level grades you wanted, don’t panic. I got six As yet I’m posting advice to imaginary teenagers on a social media retirement home for geriatric millennials

Are Trump's policies not cutting through or is he just not making as much of them? Is it that the surprise/outrage factor gone? Remember 2016 when he seemed to make a real connection with blue collar Americans

Notable that for a social network to break the incumbency advantage of an established (similar) one, the owner of the latter has to do everything they can to sabotage it