Lib Dems control more English councils than the Conservative Party, the Green Party and Reform UK. Not that you'd know this from yesterday's coverage. The media's lack of curiosity and imagination and its inability to explore beyond the populist noise is as depressing as it is boringly predictable.

this really does make me despair. this is a woman who has just got elected as a Reform councillor. she works for the NHS and wants to know “where the money is going”. it’s going on social care, babe

Just let me write a Mortal Kombat movie. I promise to make it weird and uncomfortable for everyone.

Best comment I’ve got on a video: “It’s the weekly edition of “Ed Explains Why Fraud Should be Illegal.” A very controversial position to hold these days.”

"Your malicious optimism will kill us all" is my new favourite phrase.

I have inhaled all of this show in the last three days and it is OUTSTANDING. Just deeply, earnestly silly at every turn.

it's positively adorable that the extraction class thinks they can whine and agitprop their way out of this

The thing about Reform's success is this: whatever their political future, whether they have peaked or not, it is hard to express just how unpleasant the resurgence of their sentiments actually is. I grew up in Greater London in the 1990s, and a lot o that time was very grim. And it's back.

Just going to put this one up again. I know we prefer to think of a rational considered electorate choosing between well defined political parties but that isn't our reality so best get used to it.

From everything I've read leading up to this, Trump and his "negotiating" clown show had nothing to do with this.

Given that local elections tend to have higher turnout among older groups, who in turn are much more likely to vote Reform, I think this means Reform are likely at about 25% or less of the General Election electorate. So not Labour in 1983. The SDP.

Britain recruits over a thousand of its top cranks and racists to improve local schooling, bin collection and adult social care.

it's a violation of the NYT's own AI policy, and it's also not disclosed that AI was used to report the article. how many other articles at the @nytimes.com contain AI-generated misinformation that's gone unchecked? www.nytco.com/press/princi...

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

What a surprising turn of events provided that you know nothing about humans and the fact that a certain percentage of them are complete shit As a side note I was gifted a pair of these and they immediately went into a drawer and have not come back out again gizmodo.com/extortion-us...

'[Alan] Rothenberg wanted “a really high-priced ticket” due to the associated prestige [in 1994]... In some echoes to now, too, he argued that “the street value would be at least that” so touts shouldn’t get the benefit. “Fifa said no.” Why? “Overly concerned about average fans’ reaction.”'

This is essentially a copy of Project 2025. They look at the MAGA nightmare and want it here.

Lol Farage on BBC already saying "councils don't have enough money, we can't promise miracles!" coz he knows what an absolutely dogshit job Reform does running a council.

Lmfao

This is incredible

You do not hate the DOGE people enough. Boys with toys breaking things they were too arrogant and lazy to understand.

Should really call it ‘Dipshitism’ but hey ho.

Your grandma had 3.8 diseases already. Screw her. Our head of public health.

They'll feel very foolish when they realize they've fallen far behind the USA by investing in this instead of Racism

Every Jacobin article is the same article. This reads like a pathetic attempt by a middle aged professor to hit on a 22 year old at a dive bar.

“Directionally very bad” is the phrase this era deserves

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You want to see some full insanity? This post claims that saying you live in a one bedroom apartment is boasting about your living conditions.

always fun to see that these announcements drop a mere 30 minutes before US market open

Once again, the entire right would be in a state of apoplectic outrage if this was said by anyone on the left. The racism is sickening in and of itself, but it's compounded by the total hypocrisy. The industrial scale gaslighting is infuriating.

But what is the aim of European protectionism beyond hoping improbably that we can return to the global economy of the 2000s? Because there doesn't seem to be anything here recognising China's industrial strength as being here to stay.

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How I feel every time I think about Comixology

It's been over a decade of propaganda from the US far right podcast/YouTube circuit at this point. And like the rest of the far right it went from niche to mainstream.

At some point in the future you are going to get scammed, not because you are dumb, but because you literally cannot be expected to keep up with the pace of deception software.

Every day the news bulletin begins "President Trump has said..." Yet we know he'll say something different tomorrow, which is different to what he said yesterday, & that none of these statements is likely to be true. I get the problem for broadcasters, but this model is actively occluding the news

Make Hate Weird Again.

Praxis

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

Control our boarders. Amazing.

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a party which hates women almost as much as refugees

anyone who has worked in consultancy is familiar with the old three-card trick, but the other two are meant to be at least *technically possible* options. You're not meant to go "err, well, Peter Mandelson, of course, and then the only other options are Vlad the Impaler or the Witch-King of Angmar"

Today's the day folks!

Perv glasses.

So many good, decent, hardworking councillors from all parties are going to lose their seats to absolute scumbags like this. Civic life is going to get even more toxic and local services even less reliable. An incoming disaster, basically.