He could strangle a teenager on camera and they would say he “defied a long-held tradition of presidents not doing that”

Musk is effectively approving the murder of Jo Cox here

"I think the doctors have got it wrong on smoking." Farage (2016)

“We do a Watergate twice a day” is a crazy way to confess your own corruption…

I’d say there should be a special place in Hell for the climate-change-denying “It’s just summer!” brigade but they’d probably be like, “Stop moaning! There have been burning lakes of sulfur on a cyclical basis throughout history.”

It tells you everything you need to know about Kemi Badneoch and Nigel Farage that as London schools, hospitals and transport networks all buckle under extreme record-breaking temperatures, they gather with fossil fuel lobbyists, climate deniers and the far-right to demand an end to Net Zero

Some things make you just want to yell “HELLOOO?? McFLY??” This is reminiscent of the time Kemi Badenoch stood for Tory leader after Liz Truss and gave a speech about scrapping Net Zero at the exact time a field in her constituency burst into flames.

Reform UK councillors have introduced a motion to rescind King's Lynn and West Norfolk's climate emergency declaration and deprioritise decarbonisation efforts The council were going to vote on it on Thursday But the meeting has been postponed due to extreme heat

I feel a bit sorry for Starmer. He was excellent on the international stage - and perhaps, when less politically awkward, he’d be a superb Foreign Sec. Domestically though, we require bold leadership and he was querulous in facing threats from the far right. Hopefully Burnham will grasp the nettle.

For me, this is the precise moment Starmer's fortunes started their irrecoverable downward spiral.

A man has been running around stabbing people on the streets of a UK city and large elements of the nation’s media are strangely not interested The Mail ranks a story about Gordon Ramsey’s daughter being pregnant higher. The Telegraph is more interested in a voracious pufferfish. I wonder why?

File under: More obnoxious shit takes from left wingers… I’m not over the moon that I’m having to defend Starmer but no, he is not deliberately encouraging race riots to improve his electoral chances.

When is a riot not a riot? When is the grandson of Jewish emigres who fled Hitler someone to be “extremely wary” of? When @GBNEWS is involved. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73892/...

fascism will try to co-opt anything that has useful aesthetics and these ones are famously dumb enough to miss all subtext. this is what they do.

I think I got overexcited about Scotland’s chances because John McGinn is a legend… but I totally put it to the back of my mind that they were bobbins against Haiti and lucky to beat them.

The far right is a scourge and a very real danger to this country (& elsewhere) and they must be thwarted. But my God there’s some mindblowingly obnoxious and blinkered twunts on the left. Block, block, block…

On a side-note about Makerfield, I'd say it's a bad result for Restore Britain. Yes, they came from nowhere to third, but 6.8% is a lower proportion than the 7.4% the BNP got in 2010. For all the fuss about Restore, the ceiling for the openly racist far right still appears quite low.

I was pretty good at school; particularly the 3 Rs: reading, writing, french and maths.

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

Banning children from social media?

'We are clamping down on the harm caused by social media. 'Read all about it on the Nazi pogrom deepfake abuse website'

Christ, this. One hundred times this. Rein in Zuckerberg, rein in Musk. Rein in Google etc etc. This is not even a sticking plaster, it’s treating completely the wrong person.

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Lead story on the BBC. Our national broadcaster. Not a single mention of the fact that this guy is fomenting racial violence on our streets. This is dysfunctional. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Props to CNN’s chyron writer:

I wrote about the World Cup

It could appear somewhat "two tier" if the wealth, cultural power & political connections of Citizen Musk mean that the type of criticisms and constraints (eg ability to visit) that were applied to less famous stirrers of disorder & violence won't apply to world's richest man with nost online reach

Of course the prime minister is posting on X about how bad the riot organised on X is. Fucking of course he is. An expression of complete subservience to the men in Silicon Valley and the White House who have instigated this moment.

Condemning riots isn't enough. We need policy action, including an immediate appraisal of X as a vehicle for coordinating far-right disorder. And we need political leadership, to challenge white nationalism as an idea, not to validate it daily and then complain when it turns violent.

This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response.

Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough.

Congratulations to the USA on managing to be worse hosts that Qatar and Russia. Quite the achievement.

Let us have a rapid global campaign to have the Somalian referee Omar Abdulkadir Artan referee at least one match in Canada or Mexico. FIFA should facilitate, not impede, that. The Canadian/Mexican government should pursue it too

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

Like clockwork

As with a lot of the coverage this week, the media just have a markedly worse attitude towards race than the British public and that disconnect has only gotten worse.

What’s terrifying is the speed at which the (originally latent) white supremacy has ramped up to open demonisation of all(?) immigrants of the “last few generations”. We’re in a very ugly place and it will only get uglier. Kinda surreal, especially as his wife fits his criteria of undesirable.

I just wish someone who wasn’t Sinner or Alcaraz would win a grand slam

Been a grim, grim fucking week man iandunt.substack.com/p/an-abysmal...

You see how little this administration cares about you, my fellow Americans….

Nigel Farage. What a cunt. That’s the post. Good morning.

This is straight up just unfiltered Stormfront racism. The best time to start shunning Farage was fifteen years ago, the second best time is now.

Good lord, really at late stage maga here

The person organizing this conference that Greg Bovino is speaking at is Martin Sellner, a neo-Nazi activist. Sellner, among other things, corresponded and agreed to meet with the man who went on to murder 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, NZ in 2019 www.theguardian.com/world/2019/m...

When the waiter tells you "Are you sure, it is very spicy":

I’ve recently met someone who’s the absolute spitting image of @stephenmangan.bsky.social and even pulls similar faces/has the same mannerisms. My question is, should I mention it or do you think she might not see it as a compliment?

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

I hate AI chatbots with the heat of a thousand suns. Stop telling me to use AI! If I wanted something to tell me utterly false information with unwavering confidence, I’d ask a toddler.

Google Gemini kept insisting to my friend that Trump didn’t bomb Iran. I asked why… Who’s going to hold these tech bros to account?