There is a *very* obvious solution to this, but I guess with McSweeney gone, there isn't anyone to tell him what to do anymore 🙃

A country that criminalised lawful protest against genocide while supporting genocide. Pure degeneracy. In a functional accountable democracy, both the authoritarian ghoul Cooper and Mahmood should resign.

It’s Leslie Nielsen’s birthday & this is still the greatest gag in the history of comedy.

Wanted to do a presentation on Poker (don't ask) and had the idea of creating the presentation solely in AI, I knew my subject well, knew what I wanted to show people, and thought it would be fun. It created me the worst, wrong, absurd poker hands rankings you could imagine.

If civilisation wants to see the next century intact, there needs to be a real conversation about how to limit the unwarranted, unsought influence of these soulless, inhumam STEM plutogarchs on world affairs.

"I'm sorry if you're too woke or dark-skinned for my white supremacy chat, but aggrieved patriot with legitimate concerns etc, and also fuck you I have 17 billion quid and live in Monaco 🤣🖕."

I keep saying that "Everything Is America Now" when it comes to UK rightism, because it's true. This Dickensian card sharp-looking prick's colonisation line is the same Great Replacement Theory & Kalergi Plan trash that you can read on any US far rightist social media feed, any day of the week.

The most powerful man in the world is a fascist, pædo-adjacent billionaire. The richest person in the world—who owns the most important global news-aggregation source—is a fascist, pædo-adjacent billionaire. So, if you're a fascist billionaire, why not just say what you like? You're safe as houses.

To paraphrase Upton Sinclair: there are 17 billion reasons that Jim Ratcliffe became a fascist.

🗣️MORE. 🗣️WOMEN. 🗣️PEDOPHILES.

Absolutely incredible. The wheel spins as it should.

Former Director of Public Prosecutions for England and Wales, here.

Everything is America Now latest

Officials are examining records from Tony Blair's government for links between Lord Mandelson & Jeffrey Epstein. Could this get embarrassing for, say, a govt dependent on Tony Blair Institute alumni for policy? Or a popular set of podcasters who have commercial & personal links to said august body?

Tory or Labour defection? That's the only question.

My God, he's actually fixing to shake down A BRIDGE.

Don't forget landlords and well-to-do rogue tradesmen (who often get wrongly called working class because they have regional accents). Some of the most ruthless right wing, sharp elbowed cunts in Britain.

A political project designed for & by the forces of organised money, targeting the affluent middle classes, History Channel nativists, I'm-alright-jackal OAPs, & the rest of that hardcore 20% of the UK population who believe everyone is a sponger who deserves nothing good in life.

For those telling me I'm wrong about Starmer being one of the UK's worst PMs, & that Johnson, Sunak, Truss etc were worse—essentially, none of those people were elected with a 174-seat landslide for change, & immediately opted for continuity, authoritarianism & wooing actual fascists. That's why.

Yet another article constructing Reform as *the* alternative The media is either resigned or voyeuristically giddy about the far right being close to power Who cares about those at the sharp end? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

A man whose pained smile and plaintive headline suggest that he may have had his deepest desire taken from him at the 11th hour, by the very guy who shaped his career. Hilarious.

Somehow he managed to do both. What an utter bastard 🏆

Maybe Anas Sarwar should now call on Anas Sarwar to resign.

The Epstein emails have forced resignations and consequences for dirtbags across the world—apart from the in the US, the heart of all the darkness. You want to know which country and which political establishment runs the world? There's your answer.

This is beyond insulting, beyond gaslighting, beyond outrageous. I can think of no single person more responsible for confirming Monoparty politics exists—that "they're all the same" is an absolutely legit call. This is one reason he will go down as one of the worst prime ministers in UK history.

Hold on, this Anas Sarwar? Surely not.

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Something is going on here, I just can't put my finger on it

That's four communication directors and two chiefs of staff gone inside of 19 months. Sir Keir doing Trump numbers on the old headcount. Everything seems fine and not insane.

Baudelaire coined the word modernity, and if there is anything I know for sure, it's how much he would have fucking despised people like Thiel and his other tech plutogarch buddies.

He and Cummings now have the chance to create the most god-awful podcast together.

Sam Coates here on Sky News suggesting that Starmer just listens to the last person he's talked to. But hold on—this is an allegation also levelled at the senile, septuagenarian president of the USA. I was told Sir Keir was the grown-up Britannia needed—the most forensic man to have ever forensed

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Everybody knows that offering up the carcass of the Cork Richelieu in sacrifice is only going to delay the inevitable Old Yeller moment for Sir Keir Starmer, the most unpopular PM in the history of leader-satisfaction polling.

Falling on your sword now to collect your ermine bathrobe and job for life later. Classic manœuvre 🏆

A little too on the nose that a party full of Gaza genocide supporters and deniers is thinking of using the Samson Option.

Former PM James Gordon Brown is livid about the treachery of Peter Mandelson. He'll be apoplectic when he finds out the man who appointed him as Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform, & later elevated him to The Lord Mandelson of Foy & Hartlepool was....James Gordon Brown.

A reminder that galaxy brain Dominic Cummings told Gove in a recent interview that his choice for next Labour leader would be Al Carns, because he can "get stuff done." This should immediately disqualify him for office.

Honesty, the chickenshit way out is Starmer & the centrist press's best option now. They're already pinning the blame on McSweeney, which allows Sir Keir to exit from his disastrous time in charge as "the decent man who did the right thing", & they won't be bum dupes for having fiercely backed him

He won a 174-seat majority just 19 months ago. Bar's closing, time to go.

"Form a square around the Prittster"

He’s a lawyer. He knows how to weigh evidence. He is lying. “I was fooled”. That’s a good reason to quit. Unfit for office if he can be fooled so easy.

When talking about righteous anger, worth remembering that the Labour Party has been supporting a genocide in the Middle East for more than two years.

The gulls, dupes and stans of the Adults Back In Charge caucus have to spin the flushing of Starmer as a Lost Cause myth, otherwise they'll reveal exactly who they really are—basic liars and simpletons.

Wrote this for @newsocialist.bsky.social six years ago and think it stands up pretty well, particularly this bit on what the Labour right actually believes. newsocialist.org.uk/plea-wavering-…

Genuine question: wtf is going on with Your Party now? Doesn't feature in poll projections that I've seen and the chyron yesterday on BBC Parliament showed Sultana's affiliation as "Your Party" whereas Corbyn was "Independent".

How did this go? Was it another big win for the adults in charge?

I'm not sure "I was fooled by lies" is a great defence or advert for Sir Keir because a) Mandelson's been known as "The Prince of Darkness" since I was a child b) Sir Keir was the Director of Public Prosecutions, the body responsible for *dealing with criminals*, many of whom are fucking liars

If you want to understand the mainstreaming of far right politics and why defeating the far right at the ballot box doesn't mean actually defeating far-right politics, this is it