A crypto investor just donated £9 million to the Reform Party. Right now, billionaires can pour unlimited money into our elections, effectively buying our democracy. Think that's wrong? Add your name to call for a cap on donations today: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

“This research is not creating an invoice for anybody to pay,” said Bazelon. “It is an accounting of the harm that was done … a recognition of the harm that was done that is the starting point for reconciliation.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

When Terry Hall sang “all I’ve got left is this life full of gloom, in a room filled with nothing but me” the horror of it was the room filled with nothing but us

We're at over a week of the entire UK political and media establishment aggressively defending "being drunk at work is good, actually"

This story is fucking wild and damning, and yet the most insane part is that they were trying to go after her for documenting racist abuse THAT WAS DIRECTED AT HER PERSONALLY

The fetishisation of alcohol in western culture is somewhat bizarre if you stop and think about it for more than about 3 seconds. A drug that slows down brain activity, sure why wouldn't anybody want politicians imbibing? Maybe that explains why so many of them also do cocaine on the job.

This is a scandal - and only adds to stress of having an impairment, or running a pharmacy. BBC News - The struggle to get hold of medication in England is set to get worse - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We now live in a two tier political ecosystem: Can you imagine the outcry if Keir Starmer had been “gifted” £5 million by a businessman whose particular interests then happened to shape his policies? Elections watchdog considers looking into £5m gift to Farage www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

We are back for Series 6 with the excellent Nightmares On Wax swinging by to talk about his 30 years in the business, being signed to Warp Records and still buying vinyl. PLUS we talk to DJ Diggs about his DJ collective & club night, Common Ground. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...

1/2 Independent research warns the US-UK drug pricing deal could cost the NHS up to £64bn by 2036, resulting in more avoidable patient deaths than COVID. That’s why I have signed a parliamentary motion opposing a statutory instrument (SI) that gives ministers the power to change ‘NICE’ thresholds.

A few weeks ago, a woman wearing a hijab was deliberately hit by a car just around the corner from where I used to live in south london. There's cctv footage, and a car that is pretty old, and therefore not difficult to identify. It did not make even the local news

If you follow @politicsuk.com you may want to change your mind. It’s certainly not impartial. Just like most other media, it’s a Reform UK platform

Every fucking time the excuse is that there aren't the resources to monitor these people. Maybe stop deploying the fucking TSG to arrest octogenarians and raid Quaker Meeting Houses and paying Special Branch to shag their way around every antifascist and animal rights group in the country.

*Cyprus hill voice* In Seine from the bus lane

Remember when we had mobs outside of hotels threatening to burn the people inside them and the collective response was "don't take matters into your own hands, let the state deport these scum subhumans you hate"?

There needs to be a very clear legislative differentiation between those 'calling for the murder of Jews' and people attending protests to demand the end of a genocide. Can't quite believe that needs stating, but here we are.

And that requires all of us confronting the known, demonstrable causes of radicalisation in the UK: politicians and media elites that engage in stochastic terrorism by demonising Muslims, that conflate diaspora Jews and the state of Israel. They make life dangerous for all of us

Just came back from lunch at a local cafe, where I bumped into a Jewish friend I hadn't seen since December, who said that last week there were Nazis singing racist songs next to his basketball court: and under this post someone told me "all you have to do is reach out to the far-right". Blocked.

Real “let’s make a tactical alliance with right wing crackpots with horrifying politics, what could go wrong” stuff, in this situation where anything but 100% support for another country’s horrifying death rampage is now totally unacceptable and you are held as responsible for domestic terrorism.

Same in the UK. Exactly how Brexit happened. They are not afraid enough of the right AT ALL. It's the only reason Reform have any relevancy. Self harm over equality always for these people

For years, one of the central conceits of mainstream UK political discourse has been that people trying to burn down hotels and commit pogroms against a vulnerable group coded as black/brown & muslim deserve a fair hearing to the extent that 'reasonable concerns' is now a shorthand for their cohort.

Interesting. Continues to be insane (hugely irresponsible/poor governance) how little regulation and oversight there is globally of this potentially hugely disruptive tech that’s largely owned by a handful sociopathic ultra rich Americans

How the fuck DARE the nasty little creep UGH I do not trust him to keep a potted plant safe for five minutes. Ugh ugh urgh ick

He must have galloped there like an escaped racehorse... There is no event, however awful, that #Farage will not attempt to exploit for his own benefit. He takes self-centred cynicism to a level only equalled by his orange chum across the Atlantic. No minority is safe with Farage. Except Fascists.

This is not an exaggeration. Alex Jones is allegedly bankrupt but has an infinite well of dark money to pay lawyers, sell pills, and harangue judges and the parents of dead kids. This stay must be lifted so we can take over, and I hope journalists look into where he's getting and stowing his money.

Reform is effectively the Big Oil lobby masquerading as a political party

“We found two of the worst men in politics to replace one woman who was competently doing her job”

Practically everyone who reads this post will be descended from a monarch and/or someone who fought in the crusades. The self-appointed upper classes think they're an elite. The truth is that they simply don't understand the nature of family trees and numbers.

Escapism is not seeing yourself represented in some grotesque AI pantomime.

Today in Brexit Britain you are being asked to believe that a Thailand-based cryptocurrency tycoon secretly gave Nigel Farage - the person, not his party - five million pounds without any hope or expectation of getting anything in return.

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When a crypto tycoon gives a politician £5million it’s not a gift. The politician is being bought lock, stock & barrel. If Farage ever became Prime Minister it won’t be him running Britain it’ll be his paymaster. We’re being played like fiddles by scoundrels unfit to run a bath let alone the country

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

It's part of the same set of dictats as "Speak to people outside your bubble," when what is meant by that is that one should entertain the ideas of people who actually want one dead, and thereby permanently silenced, or whose significant difference is that they have nothing meaningful to say at all.

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Long shot but we have received a very sweet birthday card, including some cash but no return address, to a "Jordan Bedding" who presumably lives/lived in Stroud, though not at our house. Please feel free to repost and let's cheer up a stranger.

You don't create a neutral body and put Toby Young in charge (or later Boris Johnson's campaign manager).

Regulating airbnb being turned into another "attack on rural Ireland" shows how ridiculous and meaningless that phrase is. Increasing the available houses so people can actually live where they're from as opposed to being priced out by landlords and holiday homes is an attack on rural Ireland 🤷‍♀️

The original Neighbours painting of Mrs Mangel by Helen Daniels is up for grabs. Proceeds going to the Dementia Australia charity. Currently at over 5k. Genuinely iconic. www.ebay.co.uk/itm/40687689...

No, we're too busy 'fixing immigration' to actually make life better for anyone in this country

Can we actually do something about the fascists yet now, or do we have to wait until they start another war?

Truly an absolutely fucking thrilling time to be a minority in the UK right now. These are all from just the past few weeks.

this is an absolutely extraordinary scoop by Guardian: Nigel Farage was given £5m by the crypto billionaire Christopher Harborne shortly before announcing he would stand in the 2024 British general election, the Guardian can reveal www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Statements from some of the juror questionnaires: “Elon Musk is a world-class jerk.” “I very much dislike Tesla. As a woman of color, I am very aware of the damaging statements and actions Elon Musk has enacted and been a part of.” “Elon Musk is a greedy, racist, homophobic piece of garbage.”

You don’t build a whole nation on slavery without believing “god” made some people better than others.

The tools exist to fix this. They just need to be used.

Tony Hart was born 28th April 1925. He would have been 101 today. He was an inspirational artist/sculptor/crafter. I loved his programmes. #70srule #TonyHart

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters