One of the key differences between the current day Labour politics and Reform type politics is that while both parties dislike immigration, Labour tend to see it as a management problem while for Reform it is a corruption of the correct moral social order.

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Actor Noel Clarke arrested at family home in London

Can’t recall seeing anything like this from a tech company recently blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issue...

If Found Return to...

www.eurogamer.net/ghost-of-yot... oh no.

one of those little signs about how much British pop music has declined much more than everywhere else iyam

I wonder what percentage of the world's population today do in fact still remember exactly where they were when they heard JFK was shot? Can't be more than 20% at most.

The obsession with Manchuria became a strategic disaster for Japan for much of the 20th century.

The Japanese nearly fucked it completely in the Russo-Japanese war on numerous occasions

you: gets baited into generational warfare discourse, kids these days don't know they're born, etc etc me: gets baited into another round of "the sharing economy is incredibly powerful at training people into zero sum thinking and behaving like assholes to each other, huh?"

Quite. So many Labour people on this website visibly have no idea of just how bad things have got for ethnic minorities since they came on, and how their visible indifference lands.

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

This is of course, bait, but you will fall for it. (Of course she should)

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AUGH ERRAUGHHER??? BWERRGHGH www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Rd...

Harry Enfield and Ronnie Corbett's "My Blackberry is not working" sketch. God, it's *exquisite*. Not a line out of place, everything works beautifully and there's some free Harry *almost* corpsing thrown in as well. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAG3...

The credits to the new Mitchell and Webb sketch show (lots of references to financing and subsidised trainees) and some of the banter in it are really incredibly depressing about the state of modern British tv.

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Train reading; the one memoir of a 19th sepoy known to exist and it stands a good chance of being a pious fraud

CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called? ME: Slay the Spire. CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer? ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours. CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them? ME: Now hold on a second,

The smallest of prizes if you recognise this

Today’s Hapax Legemon - The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Richard Stilgoe mentioned on the same page of a manga

#taxnerdery One of the reasons why tax has a genuine fascination for me[1] is that you get cases like this one where an expert witness has to take a whippit to determine whether it is primarily for culinary use or not. www.bailii.org/uk/cases/UKF... [1] shut up

Nice for once to have commentary on a political speech where “dog” is not followed by “whistle”

www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se... <looks to camera>

www.ft.com/content/e3d7... crikey, £6m in legal fees just for the Guardian alone.

The rhythm section from Blur

How I performatively read: (One of the most smartarse jokes in The Sopranos)

@preachypreach.bsky.social made me laugh , have a polar bear look after you secret assets www.co-ownershiptrust.com

Scooby Doo learning trigonometry

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A 43 minute mixup of My Dinner With Andre and the Steamed Hams sketch is genuinely what the internet was made for tbh

can you imagine how mad gina carano is right now

The most important thing I’m learning tonight is that Americans are really overpaying for paracetamol

youtu.be/pk-Oq8iYtVA?... the Steamed Hams shitposting meme reaches its apotheosis. Check out the video length

In so many arms of the US response right now, even in the Republican politicians themselves, it is possible to spot a coerced fear of Trump’s wrath when turned on them; these guys are fundamentally doing it just because they really to

I did actually manage to get a real tuxedo cat to visit the Catford landmarks a while back. I met with Tony the Cat who came to the station with his owner & Cat Trainer Mohammed.

The entire existing financial system fixes this

I just want the anti-British, cruelty driven bastards shunned and shamed to the fringes again where they belong.

I’d skimmed it previously but was just reading it again to make a point in a group chat, and what a vile piece about Line*an in the latest PE (also noticeably worrying from the letter page how many of its long term readers are quite quite mad now)

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Absolutely right. It’s not a gimmick. It’s a repudiation of 75 years of integration. It’s a betrayal of the Windrush generation. It’s unfair and it’s un-British.

notable that if you tune to the right frequency, you can hear more and more "the UAE does it! (complimentary)" background music

The past decade or so has been an interesting experiment in "what if we apply the same small group dynamics to political elites that drive how terrorists are traditionally radicalised" and I think the results speak for themselves.