Re last reskeet - 4 bed maisonettes in Crouch End now go for about £800k-£1m+. Who on earth can get a mortgage for that AND raise kids without an inheritance? bsky.app/profile/miss...

“Why aren’t people having kids?” Because they’re paying wages that have barely gone up since the 2000s and a flat is £300k, petrol is £1.60 a litre and Heinz ketchup is £3.00, before you start on the childcare costs

The dog that isn’t barking: the Sensible Moderates have been going all in for decades - win or go bust - on their ability to co-opt and channel reactionary racism, and they’ve hobbled and destroyed any attempt to do things differently. And now, it’s conclusively proven this was insane and disastrous

Have been very diligent from the start of the year in writing down which books I read on the back of a postcard that I use as a bookmark. I forgot to write down two books, one of which I can remember, but the other one I can't and it's REALLY annoying me.

Black and white TV is dying. Color TV struggles to be born. This is a time of Munsters.

Interesting that the rise of smartphones happened concurrently with a historical economic depression that we’ve never recovered from, leaving a generation worse off than the previous for the first time in a century. But yeah it’s probably tinder or something that’s making us not want to fuck

You could tie this utter dogshit from the Coinshagger Times to the release of the Marvel Cinematic Universe too. Much to think about 🤔

similar things have been said about the civil service, and I won't say any more so as not to compromise privacy, but those pointed at as being responsible for capturing the state apparatus were mostly the pay grade of a Jobcentre work coach.

During the 2019 election, so much vitriol was poured on Labour party activists that two were assaulted in separate incidents, one victim was in their 80s. No one working in politics or media outside the left gave a shit.

Can’t really underline hard enough that all of these these toilet-quality far right cranks were happily invited into our house by our horrible media outlets and our spectacularly dumb and nasty politicians

people considering it an 'each to their own' issue and saying it's fine to watch just says they don't take it seriously. would they be liveblogging a russell brand show? watching i'm a celeb if ghislaine maxwell got out & went on? there's obv a line, but normalising genocide isn't over it for them

Pick a Bond from photos you already have on your phone.

Their Finest is on BBC2 and it has some beautiful scenes filmed in Pembrokeshire.

In May 2019, a reporter from the far-right Canadian sewer Rebel News / The Rebel tried to interview people on the streets of Manchester about Stephen Yaxley-Lennon / Tommy Robinson who was standing as an MEP, and encountered the (NSFW but very honest) Queen of the North.

Automatic repost whenever it crosses my feed. The People's Queen.

We're going in on Rivals, both the show and the cocktails from Waitrose

Train driver here, you want us to toot the horn when we drive towards the bridge you're peering over then give us a wave. No wavey, no tooty.

I sometimes feel insane that we don't constantly talk about the time Labour gave a black guy who was poised to unseat Nigel Farage the sack because he was a better poster than Keir Starmer

Big gamble for Burnham to try to shoehorn himself into no 10. Does he have any idea how contaminating the right wing of the Labour Party can be? Yes, he's a popular politician *now* but it will only take possibly even weeks of palling around with the most rancid people in Westminster to change that.

We've interfered with nature and are experiencing some mild regrets. After I came back from having some voting beers last week, there were three rats running around the garden, so we got some rat boxes, but they seem to have been left untouched so we got some rat traps, but...

This Labour Party have been far more focused and targeted in attacking the Green Party than Reform or the Tories. Yet when their own internal shenanigans leave them in a tricky situation, who do they feel entitled to help from?

Me doing 'how many of these 100 novels have you read' things in the papers

Good luck to everyone facing down the far right's cocaine crusaders today and stay safe xx

Oh ok now it makes sense £40 a ticket too

I can accept the Muppets being in commercials because they’re showbiz people. I cannot accept the Sesame Street Muppets being in commercials because they’re educators.

Lots of Labour Party councillors who lost their seats have gotten really fucking weird down the rabbit holes of ‘monitoring Zack polanski’s bluesky account’ and ‘blaming the electorate for not voting for them’

The fact that a neo-Nazi teenager who attempted to behead a Kurdish barber in Bristol last year has just been sentenced to almost 20 years in prison isn’t *national* news is enormously telling. It’s really not just a South West story, is it?

No COBRA meeting?

It will never be considered acceptable to attempt to improve the world, and if you wish to do so you will be shut down immediately and called foolish, and then everyone blames you for not voting for people who are actively being evil because someone else is more evil. IDK man make better policy!

It's interesting how it is always the left wing's fault that fascists rise to power, as opposed to the centre's. This is, of course, despite the fact that the centre are the ones in power who have declared that racism is 'reasonable', transphobia is acceptable, and the disabled don't need money.

It's strange how so many sensible pundits will say, "a reform win would be bad, the Greens should step down," and not "a reform win would be bad, our colleagues should stop relentlessly advocating for their policies."

Too right. I want to see the Greens have faith in their own politics and their ability to win. What's the point of being a progressive party if you stand aside for a less progressive one?

Bert and Ernie should have their own show. I don't want to have to watch Sesame Street to see what they're up to. I'm not 5

I wish i had the resources to explore this more fully as a report but as someone who has worked in menta health care for nearly 20 years now, i can tell you - conversion therapy is an INDUSTRY in the UK.

Trying to gamify the election does nothing to actually neutralise Reform support or move the needle on racist discourse, quite the opposite in fact

The planted documents ultimately deceived the Germans by identifying all the right boats, but not necessarily on the right border.

I think this maybe the most niché bit of trivia I’ve ever heard.

Found this in my archives

Josh Simons giving up his seat for Andy Burnham just typifies how little respect a lot of politicians have for the electorate. I don’t think voters like these games and Burnham could end up shit out of luck while Simons doesn’t get that lovely peerage he’s obviously been promised.

the UK now has the least transphobic Health Secretary in years (nobody)

Well that’s… intriguing. The guy who set spooks on Times journalists for Labour Together.

The fact that it's the Director of Labour Together who was trying to set GCHQ on journalists stepping down to make space for Andy Burnham, four days after The Times gave him a guest column to bravely turn on the man he was previously attack dog for, tells you all you need to know about this farce.

So very many stories like this, just so that Wes Streeting could launch his bid to be Prime Minister with “the results are in” bsky.app/profile/nath...

One thing that leaped out at me from the 2019 election campaign was the absolute *joy* with which reporters on doorsteps were saying that voters were parroting the very wackiest stuff straight out of newspaper headlines back at them. The system works, they’re listening after all!

Advertising isn’t a jillion-pound industry because it sucks and it doesn’t work. You don’t do PR stunts for a laugh.

Post an actor or actress that starts with the letter G (First or Last ) Gloria Grahame

Wes Streeting has resigned to take the job he was born to do…regional sales manager for Moss Bros

Incredible work from the forensic human rights lawyer. How badly can you misread a room? A man introduced to the Labour party by the paedophile whisperer Mandelson to oversee its strategy being brought back into the fold as if paedophilia is something that public opinion might shift on?