This place is full of people with PhDs having insightful debates about some report or other, but the other place is currently watching a dog who is also a train and you guys are missing out.

Not bad. britmonkey.com/2020s-politi...

This is a far right argument which blames racial hatred on immigrants instead of racists.

In Polish, when someone writes a lot of words of vague, boring, meaningless ramble, we call it "lanie wody" - "pouring water". Seems particularly on the nose these days.

My first time in @renewaljournal.bsky.social 👇

Might as well post here too: I'm urgently looking for a London sublet for June. Open to anything between 1-5 weeks. Can also look after plants, pets etc. Please let me know if anyone has a room going.

It's lettuce season.

Trainline be like: Here's a new tool to help you with things you never needed help with! By the way, bear in mind that it might talk absolute nonsense and also scam you.

Who Remembers the Armenians? I remember them and I ride the nightmare bus with them each night and my coffee, this morning I'm drinking it with them You, murderer - Who remembers you? ― Najwan Darwish, Nothing More to Lose

I just saw a blue tick (you can guess from which party) refer to the local elections as "Britain's midterms". I'm generally very against depriving people of their citizenship but maybe there are some exceptions...

What an upside down world when one of the reasons that Orban is rejected is because of foreign interference not just from Russia, but also from US of A. Europe says "thanks, absolutely not" to both. 🍾🏆

Bye bye Viktor, hope the door hits you on the way out and that you step in shit on your way home.

Although I don't have high hopes for Péter Magyar, it's still pretty beautiful to see the fall of the Orbán regime. I can think of a few friends of his who now need to follow him to the bin 🚮 No kings/tyrants - not in Europe, not in the US, not anywhere.

BIG day today in Hungary, but at least in the short run, the choice is between authoritarianism and democracy, with liberal democracy at the backburner.

Being active in a political party is so undignified. Why was I telling my Chilean friend in a bar in Berlin at 3am about the council by-election in Cliftonville?

If I see it spelled "Zack Polanksi" one more time...

Immigration salience - by local area Most affluent: 43% 2nd most affluent: 44% Middle fifth: 41% Second most deprived: 41% Most deprived: 38% Ipsos issues index, Feb 2026

The creepiest man on the left will slide into your DMs today to wish you a happy International Women's Day.

As Mark Steel said, "Yes, gay Jews and female plumbers are well known to be supported by sectarian groups like al Qaeda and the Taliban. Just go to Afghanistan and you can't move for female plumbers."

People are still going on about the Urdu videos... In 2016, I was getting anti-Muslim ads from Britain First in Polish.

But fundamentally, this shows why first past the post isn’t fit for purpose. If the government doesn’t introduce proportional voting, a far right party could win the next general election outright on a minority of the vote.

I'm hearing that the Greens won because of woke Islamists. Jihadists for legalising MDMA. ISIS non-binary caucus.

Call a plumber, we have some racist shit to flush 🪠🚽

Hell yeah Hannah Spencer

A party making videos in the languages of migrant communities is good and makes me like them more. It doesn't mean they don't understand English. It's just nice to be thought about and addressed in the language you speak at home.

There is a fascinating difference in how Labour treats voters lost to the Greens versus those lost to Reform. Those voting for Reform are to be catered to and apologised for, whereas those who’ve gone Green (a party whose platform is much closer to Labour’s!) are belittled and mocked.

Whenever I'm having a bad day, I remember that I could be having the exact same day but also be involved in Your Party.

isn’t this the more morally defensible position than doing lots and lots of coke but criminalising anyone else doing it

Reform are making memes attacking Zack Polanski for not doing drugs. Amazing work.

Maybe the man couldn't sleep because he saw some random ex-MPs walking around his neighbourhood and thought they might be violent

I like that being into reggaeton is woke now. I hope it remembers that I was there even at its least woke.

The Greens need their own LabourList. Who's setting one up?

People on TikTok are obsessed with saying that looking forward to having a pint on a Friday makes you an alcoholic, and meanwhile they don't leave the house and have no friends.

How about we ban Israel from Eurovision but include Puerto Rico

I can't focus on Labour chaos because I'm still thinking about Ricky Martin singing about the annexation of Hawaii

I still remember Law and Justice saying that young Polish women are not having kids because they prefer to drink pints instead... Now their British friends are making that a policy.

Looking forward (not really) to seeing Matt Goodwin respond over and over again about whether Angeliki Stogia is British

I'm seeing more and more takes on here that are like "men shouldn't be allowed to look after children because they're predators." Gen Z are woke-ing themselves into "it's a woman's job to stay at home with the kids, feministly."

After a long campaign including a citizens' initiative with 600,000+ signatures, Spain has regularised half a million undocumented people. That's what's possible with a strong pro-migrant movement and a government that's not disgusted at the thought of basic progressive values.

They would happily let the far right win the next election if it means annoying people from a slightly different faction. Pure NUS mentality, at their big age.

I hate headlines that are like "Starmer is less popular with the British public than Maduro." Most of the British public didn't know who Maduro was before 2026, come on now.

Sigh... Trump is an imperialist criminal doing an imperialist coup and it's extremely evil. But not all of the Venezuelans who are celebrating are Sabine Mengele-Eichman. They're also people who experienced poverty, food shortages and political persecution.

what is actually true is that the US has absolutely no right to try to "solve" this issue for Venezuelans

I dont really like how westerners who have never had to live without them speak of, ahem, "running suspect elections" as if it is a little joke, a tiny little administrative indiscretion

I remember having conversations with people who said they wanted Trump to win because he was the anti-war president.

You're not special or oppressed for not liking NYE, going out, dancing or being up past midnight. Enjoy your 6am run tomorrow and updating your LinkedIn profile or whatever it is you guys do for fun.

It's so funny when Polish rightwingers desperately try to make the war on Christmas a thing in Poland, given that the traditional "merry Christmas" in Polish literally translates as "happy holidays".

Zack's unapologetic defence of migrants is so refreshing.

Immigration salience has less to do with aggregate Immigration numbers than - visibility of boats & asylum > visas - general vibes about integration - elite cues from media & political discourse in shaping public perceptions This is more true when immigration is falling then when it is rising

Chilean friends, don't forget to vote for Jara today! (I know maybe 5 Chileans and they're all on the far left)