Yesterday vs. just now. First time Sir Keir has been odds on to go in 2026. Yours etc.

Actually running ahead of schedule now. Well done, everyone. Joke fucking country, honestly.

The chicken korma of battles

We all know what happens to Old Yeller, just get to the post-rabies bit with the shotgun already.

It takes an obscene amount of hubris to lecture the BBC when you have The Telegraph’s record on truth-telling. Some of the paper’s errors this year are so bad they’re almost laughable 👇🏻

I wonder why that might be? DICK.

One of the nastiest policies of recent times, over which Labour sacked a bunch of their own MPs, marginalised a massive chunk of their base, and contributed to their popularity nosediving into the abyss. All for what? Slapping the vulnerable with one hand and committing harakiri with the other.

The News Legends are opining again. What's to be understood here is that you should be courageous, forthright & loud about your beliefs *as long as I think they are sound*. That Mamdani commie bollocks is fine *cos I don't live in NYC* but bring that kind of Bolshevism to these shores, & well...

Everyone on Earth knows this is an Augean stables-level of vexatious bullshit, and the fact nobody is saying so should tell you everything you need to know about the anglophonic press.

Reactionary Capture Exhibit B

The wheel spins as it should.

Farage at his small business event says that he believes that the British public should be able to call referenda on subjects of national importance. He means the death penalty.

I've listened to Farage a lot. A fundamental premise that undergirds his plan for govt is massive public spending cuts. He says it constantly and is absolutely upfront about telling the hard truths. This is just turbocharged, continuity austerity but not wearing a Monoparty rosette, nothing more

I have absolutely zero doubt that Reform UK's plan for small business will basically consist of "supply-side reforms" that end up deregulating employees into having lower pay and fewer rights. That's a guarantee.

Happened to have the news on last night when Tim Davies resigned & I couldn't help but notice how, within the space of ~20 minutes, the story morphed from one about a dodgy edit aired over a year ago to the BBC's alleged "anti-Israel bias". Real stink of shit coming off all of this.

LOL, of course the thing that topples the most right-wing leadership of the BBC in my lifetime is lèse majesté to the Orange King. This tells you everything you need to know about the extent of far right capture of both the UK's public-service broadcaster & the incumbent govt of toadying lackies.

Since it's the only time of year when all these legends gather in one spot, here’s your friendly reminder of the years served in office by the past eight prime ministers of the United Kingdom.

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 Confirmed: the poppy cake had *no poppy seeds in it*

In other Lest We Forget news, at my friend's kid's U12 match today: - Poppy decals for the kits - Poppy cake post-match - The planned pre-match *drone fly-over with trailing poppy garlands* was cancelled last minute due to weather conditions. As you were, you normal, perfectly sane country 🫡.

FWIW, "Remembrance" has changed in my lifetime for a few reasons: 1) Illegal wars in Iraq & Afghanistan politically shifted its meaning from honouring past sacrifices to endorsing ongoing conflicts. 2) It became branded & commercialised—genuine sentiment was never going to survive that process.

One of the core tenets of techno-feudalism to me is that those with means are capable of living free of the tools they use to capture the labour of, and monopolise the time of those who have to use such tools to survive.

you don't realise how much slop is actually out there until you watch kids look on youtube for videos to watch about their interests. tech companies want to make it impossible to avoid. of course the rich have the 'help' who can keep their kids occupied all the time.

Didn't see this at the time, but it definitely speaks to the social engineering bit of re-feudalisation. The monied classes will have functional, literate offspring with access to the High Arts, while the serfs will be socially & intellectually zombified via relentless, force-fed audiovisual slop.

Every preceding generation telling the next that they've "never had it so good" and they can't remember the last time the rain didn't burn

Gaby here—aged 54—talking about how people like her have been radicalised by people like her 🙃

They are 100% expecting the bubble to go boom, and are counting on their fat asses getting a government bailout.

It's 2034 and Robert Bowman (32), a former fireman from Stafford, is publicly executed by hanging for not wearing a poppy. At his trial, upon hearing that Bowman didn't even have his state issued flag of St. George on display at his home, the judge dismissed the jury and declared him guilty.

How is this not incredibly bent?

This guy is honestly just the personification of gout.

I increasingly believe that the effort to quell dissent isn't solely driven by venal protofascists backing genocide abroad to crack down at home. It's also a preemptive measure against the massive grassroots outrage they expect when the AI bubble goes KABOOM and devastates the global economy.

Centre-left party latest

never forget

Men from Britain & across the supporting Empire did not die like cattle, in hundreds of thousands - in trenches, on barbed wire, under machine gunning - in order that over a century later, sham patriots could bully & blackmail others into wearing a symbol of that mass slaughter. Some material: 1/2

Borne out of absolutely nothing but their own magical thinking and circle-jerk hallucinations.

Britain - where pompous superficial displays and hollow phrases are used to mask actions that do everything but uphold the dignity, respect and moral virtues they claim to champion. We live in a country where cheap imported flags are held in higher regard than the lives of minorities. Shame.

Q. Do I believe that the prison service could mistakenly release two criminals in a fortnight? A. Yes. Q. Do I think it's a coincidence this has happened since the govt called the police Hamas over wanting to ban hooligans from an Aston Villa match? A. No. Q. When's that match? A. Tomorrow.

Performative respect. Making it an obligation to wear a poppy rather than a choice

This is the fearless journalism Britannia deserves.

Make no mistake, Mamdani's win is a disaster for the US Monoparty Establishment. The most reliable weapon they've had against left-wing progressives—bogus, media-amplified claims of AS—has been rendered inoperative by the conduct of the past two years. They spiked their own guns.

Prediction: the Democrats will learn nothing from this.

I love it when charismatic figures from the pre-social-media era—the days of five national TV channels—tell totally uncharismatic people in the Information Age to "get out there and TikTok it up." They definitely know exactly what they're talking about and should be followed to the letter.

Standing outside hotels and haranguing some of the most marginalised people in our country is "genuine concerns," but holding some of the most privileged genocide enablers to account is grounds for imprisonment?

This is an easy one: if people in the loop start admitting the nominally left-wing party isn't left wing at all, then the serfs and villeins will start asking: "What the fuck has gone on here?" And that's a pretty bad place to be as a Monoparty hack, apparatchik or stenographer.

Rachel Reeves, who runs the UK economy, opens her mouth and wipes £22bn off the stock market. Birds of a feather, eh?

A neo-con, a protofascist, a corporate banshee, the architect of an illegal war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of innocents and changed the Middle East for the worse, forever. A hellbound ghoul worthy of no fine words or commiseration.

The wheel spins as it should.

Watching Farage in the City of London now, and even I am shocked at how "Everything Is America Now" his plan for the economy is. It's just lift and shift MAGA horseshit but with a British accent and the accompanying condescension.

The wheel spins as it should.