It is pretty noticeable that even as mainstream opinion on Israel and Gaza finally shifts, you don’t hear the Responsible Adults apologizing for punishing all the college kids protesting the atrocities. Quite the opposite in fact!

The Brit Card: Nobody asked for it, it wasn’t in the election manifesto, it’s unclear why anyone would want one and the malicious uses for it are obvious, and loads of people hate the idea, but you know what? *Fuck you*, that’s what. We’re in charge. Fuck. You.

Everything Farage does - claiming migrants eat pets, bigging up dangerous AntiVaxxers, the data-grabbing DOGE - is a tribute act to Trump, just as the US proves it doesn't work. It's like a bad Elvis impersonator busking on a Clacton seafront

The reason centrist pundits can only beat up on the left is because if they ever admitted that the left was correct about anything they’d have to admit they were correct about a lot of things and that ends in full on existential crisis territory for those guys

Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing. Consequence of policies of successive govts, real cut in university income, hard to recruit foreign students. Science subjects cut as they require heavy investment. Skills shortages will deepen.

Anthony Gordon's dedication to recreating all of Princess Diana's iconic looks is to be admired

Is British society in serious danger of falling apart at the seams? YES. Is that the fault of immigrants? NO. Will having people blame immigrants for it help at all? ALSO NO. Will pandering to their desire to do so just make things worse? ABSOLUTELY YES.

Writing a lecture on historical and structural inequality in psychology is pretty fucking hard going, I'm not gonna lie. Interesting, but fuck me, there are some nasty bastards who've had a pretty big hand in shaping our subject AND directly influencing the way a lot of people still think today.

UK employee median wage £30,816 (net £25,707). Millions barely survive, bosses collect up to 1,112 times average wage. 37% on Universal Credit claimants are at work. People surviving on food banks, charity. Can't revive economy without redistribution.

this from my piece on charlie kirk is probably the most important takeaway if you want to know why bad faith, right-wing voices in media are treated as just another set of peers

[me, a journalist who spends all day every day on a social media app where the discovery algorithm is personally controlled by its owner, captain birdseye] you know, a lot of people are talking about fish fingers, we should probably cover that

I feel like we're not talking enough about the fact that the richest man in the world is mobilizing his billions, his media assets, and his celebrity in an effort to overthrow the democratically elected government of a nuclear-armed G7 power and install a xenophobic far-right government in its stead

There’s nothing so stupidly authoritarian that an English “academy” won’t try it to bully their students into compliance. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trans kids commit suicide and that is not political violence. Black people are murdered by cops and that is not political violence. People die of diseases they can't afford to treat and that is not political violence.

Lots of SCS lurkers on Bluesky. You know use of X is contrary to every bit of propriety guidance and the Civil Service Code.

Some more direct incitement from Musk This man burned his sheep's clothing a long time ago and is now fully leaning into his right wing white supremacist nationalism

Today will, I fear, be a perfect example of why the far right and the far left aren't equivalent and shouldn't ever be both-sidesed by the media. The far right is *inherently* violent. Certain bits of London will not be safe for people of colour today and that is scandalous.

Cannot be stressed enough that there is a crucial and fundamental aspect of the Jeffrey Epstein story that directly corresponds with the Jimmy Savile story, to wit: Everybody knew.

Inspecting bruised arm after clumsy blood test, whispering hoarsely "look how they massacred my boy"

Elon Musk is a global purveyor of hate and disinformation and governments should treat him and his companies as such.

Mid expectations

This is an absurd misuse of laws designed to tackle terrorism and an insane waste of a resource-starved criminal justice system. There were obviously not 900 terrorists wandering through central London on Saturday and it's utterly ridiculous to act as if there were

Senior Labour figures tell Keir Starmer to stop making mistakes. Two child benefit cap, disability benefit cuts, PFI, not nationalising water, deregulating finance, further privatisation of the NHS, chasing Reform narratives aren't "mistakes". They are wrong policies. Need policy reset.

Keir Starmer’s Labour :

Less than zero, since all Obama & Biden's "Deporter-in-Chief" shtick accomplished was to raise the salience of nativist and anti-immigrant sentiment, and reaffirm the right-wing framing on immigration. After that, why would any nativist vote for "diet nativism" when "full calorie" was on the table?

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Apart from the idiot taxis thing it's the "fallen behind" thing I object to. The concern with relative position on a path of linear progress (where the future is Trump or Xi or Musk?) is extremely stupid but insofar as it is believed by politicians, stops us having nice things and damages the planet

It is peak UK that a transphobe being arrested for inciting violence is the Free Speech Issue Of The Moment, rather than the suppression of anti-genocide campaigners.

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

Cross-party commission urges UK govt to scrap two-child benefit limit. Poverty is the cause of so many economic and social problems. There can be no social justice when 1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined. Tackling the power of extreme wealth and redistribution are necessary.

The News Agents had all day to decide what to say about Glinner, & they’ve landed on Comedian arrested for trying to be funny…don’t the cops have anything better to do?. Love how the fiercely independent, finely nuanced new media land in exactly the same place as the Mail and the Sun all the time

The problem is that violence against trans people doesn't matter to the authorities the way that violence against other people does. The problem isn't that we're too harsh or not harsh enough on tweeting.

Gorgeous glass gaming pieces from the Late British Iron Age. This unique set of 24 coloured glass domes with a flattened base and spiral decoration may have been used for a game similar to ludo some 2,000 years ago. British Museum 📷 by me #Archaeology

I really don't think we've barely begun to come to terms with how tech companies have actively decided to destroy the basic infrastructure of human information to juice their share price

Are you young, highly educated and driven, and want to contribute to our stagnant economy with its aging population and low productivity? Well out you go

To appease bankers Reeves says Thames Water should find ‘market-based solution’. Not possible. It is a monopoly, no competition, no choice. Since 1989 TW paid £10.4bn in dividends, £13.68bn interest payments. Rocketing bills, sewage in rivers. We can't afford more of the same. Nationalise water.

Poorer pupils in England ‘bounced out of some subjects’ by costs, Families can't afford ingredients for food/nutrition subjects, instrument lessons for music, fieldwork trips, foreign visits in languages, home technology. Lives unfulfilled by inequitable distribution of income and wealth.

Immigration and border control: Why nothing is ever enough - @nesrinemalik.bsky.social on constantly shifting goalposts www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's actually astounding how Labour has managed to go further on anti-migrant, anti-trans etc policies in a year than the Conservatives did in 14. The way they so cavalierly talk about circumventing human rights for migrants, trans and non-binary individuals etc is beyond even the last government.

This is what I mean when I talk about how Google is actively deciding to bake energy-intensive text generation into the basic infrastructure of the internet. They are *choosing* to make the digital world absurdly, eye-wateringly more energy hungry whether you request it or not. And it'll get worse

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

Mass shooters since 2018 who were transgender — 4. Mass shooters since 2018 who were not transgender — 4,193. Hope that helps.

The German police brutally assault an Irish woman protesting against Israel's genocide. The German state is a disgrace. It committed genocide against the Jewish people - far from its only genocide. It forced Palestinians to pay the price, viciously silencing anyone who objects

i don't get why everyone's ragging on her. this actually worked really really really really really really really well in the uk

Honestly, I think you could write a whole book just on Lisa Nandy's political donors 🤯💰🥀 labourrightwatch.wordpress.com/2025/06/11/t...

Videogames are a waste of time. But so is your job.

The Israeli government has adopted the double-strike tactic used by Bashar al-Assad in Syria: target a hospital or heavily populated area, then hit it again when rescue workers, reporters and medics turn up, to kill or maim them too. Hideous war crimes piled one upon another.

Farage is moving seamlessly between "asylum-seekers" and Pakistanis, and those without indefinite leave to remain. He is extremely manipulative. His proposals should be seen as a giant crash to the British economy, an extreme push to normalise racism, and a vile destruction of British values.