There's nothing more suspicious than an atheist that advocates for 'Christianism' in the most earnest of terms

Proposing a bold new scheme replacing foster parents with wolves

There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

Welfare spending is currently 1.2% of GDP *lower* than in 2012-13. Abolition of two-child cap is best viewed as a correction than an increase.

One of the main driving factors behind my decision to stay in the US is that while both the US and UK have become increasingly far-right and hostile to immigrants, the US has much further to fall. The UK is basically only a sneeze away from bankrupting what's left of its economy.

The "don't have an extra kid if you can't afford it" brigade get awfully upset when you suggest they don't stay in their £2m house if they can't afford it, don't they?

there is almost no feedback I will reflexively ignore as a game developer but “you shouldn’t name something X because people don’t know that word” is one of them. oh no! You might learn a new word! God forbid you take away a piece of knowledge from a game that’s not a brand of gun or some shit lol

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

In 2012, a Conservative government awarded April Ashley, a trans woman, an MBE for "services to trans equality". How far are we from a Labour government revoking that award, because trans people don't deserve equality?

"average french person arrested 3 times a year for corruption" factoid actualy just statistical error. average french person arrested 0 times per year. Corruptions Sarko, who lives in le XVIe arrondissement & has over 10k convictions a day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

the next couple of days are going to see a hell of a lot of "the rich declare themselves poor"

Huge news from the UK today: after UN climate talks in which there was a massive fight over language on fossil fuels, the UK government today announced that it will in fact be keeping many millions of barrels of oil & gas in the ground. Deeds rather than just words for a change! 🧵

Scrapping the two-child limit in full is a monumental decision. Well done to all involved in the Child Poverty Strategy, and everyone who has made the case against the policy. OBR says scrapping costs £3 billion in 2029-30 and will lift 450,000 out of poverty

We are moving inexorably to the end point of electoral chaos - five parties all tied on 19% in the polls, election to be decided by blindfolded chimps chucking coloured darts at a constituency map

Note to online publications: many of you are good enough to put money towards but not good enough to hold a recurring subscription for. Let me make a small one-time payment to read a long-form piece!

Ah, here comes the 'let's piss everybody off with a million tiny tweaks to things people actually notice' wave that exists only because we were too unserious to brave increasing a single and much more progressive tax by a margin that almost nobody would notice.

I don’t like subtweeting people I consider online friends, but there is a subset of people who are very worried about the ongoing radicalisation of our political elite but won’t ever acknowledge the echoes with the radicalisation of their colleagues on trans rights

me: i don’t feel safe with other people. like, any praise in general my brain dismisses it Therapist Who is a Caveman: me see. you am deserve love. we all am. yes. need love survive me: i guess. it’s just hard trying to function when you still got your training wheels on Caveman Therapist: wheel?

It's 1:40 am, witching hour. The mundane madness of British politics recedes into yesterday's dusk, and the ungodly horrors of US politics come out to screech in the moonlight.

A perpetual quirk of voter psychology (and one I'm not really sure you can 'solve') is people automatically assuming that all punitive measures will apply to them. See ULEZ in London for another example It does make pushing through policies harder than it probably should be

I suspect they're delaying it because its mental and unworkable - and is clearly aimed at the exclusion of trans, and gender conforming people, from society.

LLMs give people with delusional belief systems a way to organise those beliefs. The model fills in gaps, supplies connective tissue, and wraps the madness in formal language. It doesn't make the claims more credible to us, it just tidies them up.

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

Center-left parties have persuaded themselves that cruelty is a virtue, rather than the grossly uncivilized vice it is Then they're shocked to pieces when they lose elections because their constituents don't merely abandon, but actively loathe them

We have forcibly installed the Stupid Machine in all of your homes but, of course, under no circumstances should you trust the Stupid Machine.

When the next stupid techbro hysteria rolls around, can we please recognise it for what it is before it takes half our GDPs with it?

Somewhere out there, the dumbest human being you’ve ever seen is saying “buy the dip” into a podcast mic.

Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".

I live in a vain hope that a local election result of cataclysmically awful propositions might have the same effect on the corpse of Labour as a defibrillator and somehow somebody with either a brain or a heart (either will do at this point) rises from the backbenches but I know I'm lying to myself.

matt yglesias' primary claim about politics is that to win elections, democrats should adopt the strategy which has given starmer a 13% approval rating in the UK

Labour in opposition: the Home Office's Rwanda scheme is an affront to human decency Labour in government: if anything my ideas are getting *better* the more times this horse kicks me in the head

It's bad enough that this isn't even a novel idea, but I also have to wonder how much actual reckoning as a society we've done with the legacies of antisemitism and racism if "we'll seize your jewellery", for whatever reason, doesn't raise big fucking alarm bells

This is the deeper thing. Through the government's own ineptitude it has made the actual business of governing impossible *with a three digit majority*

There's the constituency of 'I just don't like visible and audible difference' which Labour can't appeal to. And there's the 'I don't like that this has measurably made my area worse by introducing an insecure, economically detached class of people', which this policy makes worse.

Tommy Robinson is claiming credit for the language/policy being used by the Labour government (about deporting people found to be refugees once their home country is deemed safe)

What you have to understand is that Labour had to make the tax pledge so they would win a majority of 500 instead of 80, which was essential so they could…????

Labour government with 400 seats can’t raise income tax to invest in public services. Someone hook up Attlee to a generator

pretty funny in retrospect that QAnon hinged on the idea that powerful elites at the highest levels of government were smart enough to talk in code when sending emails to each other about their despicable crimes

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

IMO the worst thing about this government is its failure to see Trump, Farage, anti-immigration rhetoric, rising racism, and the 'gender critical' lobby as connected elements of a global war against liberalism and social democracy – and instead treating them as discrete issues to be 'managed'.

Reform are a fifth column.

It is curious how the Labour Party came to set its face so firmly against the principle of broad-based taxes. The idea that "working people" collectively shoulder the costs of the welfare state (or defence of the realm) seems like a good idea for progressives to defend

Depressing that the BBC has so little inherent institutional strength, it is kicked about so easily. This is not good sign for our polity.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...

For as many years as anyone been counting two or more inmates been mistakenly released from British prisons most weeks. Record does not make it acceptable. System needs to be fixed. It does leave me asking why BBC now gripped by end-of-civilisation hysteria heard on Radio 4 Today programme.

If you asked me to come up with the names of politicians who are publicly and unapologetically pro-LGBT and pro-trans rights in particular, two of the most obvious would now both be Muslim mayors of major cities. And both are routinely smeared as regards to 'Sharia Law'.

the entire twitter and group chat poisoned elite of American society who decided Trump winning an election by 1.5% heralded a thousand year reich may have miscalculated a bit