Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

Linus Pauling was one of the greatest chemists of the 20th century. I would still suggest not following his recommendation of mega doses of vitamin C to cure cancer.

Status Quo Troopers (1997)

This, basically:

Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."

This is now literally the lead story on BBC News Scotland. The employment situation of a private individual harassed via lawfare is deemed the main headline for national news. This is genuinely sickening. The media is a cancer upon this country.

Politicians should only triangulate as well as possible and nothing else, might be the most cynical view of politics I've heard in a while.

The American right does not defend slavery because progressives say it was bad. They defend slavery because racial hierarchy has been an important and increasingly explicit component of their ideology for 70 years. Read a fucking book.

Really helpful about what the Epstein class is, here: it’s corrupt officials from captured political parties turning their connections into money, by acting in concert with donors and various billionaires including straight up criminals, to buy up whatever is left of the postwar settlement.

The kids are alright

people roll their eyes but it’s absolutely true

The High Court today confirms that the EHRC's draft code of practice got the law wrong and must be changed. Women's and men's toilets can be provided on a trans- inclusive basis for customers and service users.

🚨🚨 "Surprise, surprise": The U.S. is reorienting its foreign funding program to export #MAGA ideology to Europe — and a growing set of far-right and conservative think tanks and political groups are lining up to take Washington’s money. 🧵 www.politico.eu/article/maga...

Also I’m sorry but I don’t think this is Claude developing a personality or ethical values. It is *simulating* those things because that is what humans value and reward. The programmers are falling for their own Clever Hans trick!

Yes, what if we moved the goalposts again so that this abysmal piece of shit, this walking affront to the democratic process, could just jail anyone he wants rid of? Much to think about

The Met is keeping receipts for "enforcement at a later date" in case the Home Office's appeal succeeds.

The proscription order remains in place pending an appeal. Until further legal proceedings are complete, it remains a criminal offence to support or promote Palestine Action.

Breaking: on two counts, the High Court has ruled that the Labour government's proscription of the campaign group Palestine Action was unlawful – a win for its co-founder Huda Ammori, who sought a judicial review of the ban

Do political journalists ever reflect on whether their own stories including the spiciest available anonymous bitching from MPs and advisors affect the public’s attitude towards politicians? Would be good to know. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

So, it looks like the new DfE guidance on trans students in schools incorporates recommendations from the Cass report. Suffice to say that is an *incredibly awful* decision. Here's a thread with my analysis of Cass on social transition from back in 2024.

I'm running a Larry Fessenden series for my horror column this month, and first up is HABIT. I'm quite excited to dive into more of his movies. I liked this one a lot. It's available on Shudder www.patreon.com/posts/monste...

NEW: Substack founders finally respond to Substackers Against Nazis. They say Nazis publishing and earning money on their platform is fine with them. Their full statement here: substack.com/@hamish/note...

This website has the juice.

Pat McFadden complained to Laura Kuenssberg on the BBC that none of the media had raised the issue of Mandelson's relationship with Epstein after he was appointed. So why was it being so harsh on Sir Keir? So, is that true? Well, for the most part, yes.

"compromised .txt file" should not be a thing

"Fight against being ass" is a message that more people need to receive, tbh

they cry about not being invited to debate and they cry about being invited to debate. can't fucking win with these pathetic, gutless crybullies can you?

OpenAI fired a VP who opposed their erotica rollout (and had started a company-wide peer mentorship program for women), allegedly telling her it was because she discriminated against a man 🤔 www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

Implied investment in NHS and renewables is positive, good noises about closing regional gaps (though no plan for how). Stuff like aligning tax policy with growth plus a new department for growth feels like it risks giving decisions that should be political to civil servants.

Anas Sarwar calls for Keir Starmer to resign (2026, colourised)

You know, the Labour peer who was key to Starmer's operation and was mates with a paedophile even after they found out about. No, not him, the other one.

The only route to accepting Mandelson or Andrew's "silly me!" version of events, is to believe that they only ever exhanged sensitive information or access in exhange for cash or favours or sex to one man, and by sheer dint of bad luck it was the one man on Earth whose emails everyone gets to read.

Fake and AI generated 'experts' are being quoted in articles in the UK press. "Out of a sample of 250 expert-quoting articles published in The Sun, Daily Express, Mirror, Daily Mail and Daily Star in 2025 and late 2024, 28 experts do not exist". pressgazette.co.uk/news/faces-o...

“The admission of lying to the public in order to justify banning Palestine Action shows how baseless the proscription truly is”. Claims about links between the protest group and Iran appear to have originated from pro-Israel lobbyists novaramedia.com/2026/02/09/g...

An incredible turn of events here. 10/10, no notes. 😂

i love that for the average american, activism is just watching TV the correct way

Al Carns is so well known that he does not turn up at all in the YouGov Most Famous/Popular Labour Politicians data. This makes him less well known/popular than the previous "former military man and future of the Labour Party", Dan Jarvis.

The Times calls Keir Starmer's decision to hire Peter Mandelson an "egregious error" which deserves an "inquiry into the appointment process." Not included is any demand for an inquiry into their own appointment of him, long after his post-conviction relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was exposed

Back in Jan last year there was an article where an unnamed Labour source said that none of them knew how to run a department except Ed with his energy brief, and they wanted him to fail if they were to win the next election.

The Home Office tweet here - referring to asylum seekers legally here and legally supported by the government as “illegal migrants” - is a deliberate attempt to stir up resentment and racial hatred. I can’t see how else you describe it.

IF THIS WORKED, SHE WOULDN'T NEED TO SELL THE TECHNIQUES TO YOU

Ah yes, Starmer’s problem is that he’s politically inept due to being over attentive to things like human rights, maintenance of the liberal international order and opposition to apartheid; things which, as we all know, have been indelible signatures of this style of governance.

That’s what the emails reveal, unfortunately: a clique of fascist billionaires are working to destroy democracy to maximise their personal freedom and power, and your governments are ideologically subservient to them, if not actively on the take.

“the average person is so fucking stupid” (average person)

🗣️MORE. 🗣️WOMEN. 🗣️PEDOPHILES.

I hate everything about this "Lady Victoria Hervey, ex girlfriend of Andrew Windsor who previously claimed that the picture of him and Virginia Guiffre was fake and she could prove it. Is now calling people who are not in the Epstein files "losers." " www.reddit.com/r/AbolishThe...

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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it