Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Find some spine, UK and Europe. Where’s that fabled spirit of resistance? Tell Trump to sod off. Close his golf courses. Take the gloves off. Badenoch kicked out Jenrick before he quit; what are we waiting for with Trump? Do we have to suffer abject humiliation? Enough. Enough already.

What fun* to hear Americast both-sidesing Jan 6th. “There was the Democrat message, the Republican message, maybe in future another way of understanding it”. Yeah, like ergot poisoning? Alien invasion? What third thing, @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social ?

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Dinner with “I don’t have dementia” is not going well so far and any hint of help is clearly unwelcome

Bill Browder on #wato is my King’s message

One drill bit stuck in the jig, another stuck in the wall, my DIY day has gone excellently thank you.

I actually think it's bad that the law thinks that calling a 17 year old a "sissy porn-watching scumbag", a "groomer" and a "disgusting incel" in public is not a crime, and indeed I do not think criticising this would constitute "[picking] sides in the debate about sex and gender identity".

NEW: Jeffrey Epstein said in emails that he had been advising the Russian government on how to deal with Donald Trump, one of several cases in which he wielded his connections to try to influence the course of foreign affairs. w @nahaltoosi www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

And it comes back to my point from the other day. If Labour want to benefit from bloc-based voting, they do actually have to signal they are in one of the blocs.

I will go to my grave saying this.

The Gender Critical have already inundated this survey with their disgusting views on banning trans people from using the ponds. Would be a shame if we inundated with trans positive views on not banning trans people. hampstead-heath-bathing-ponds.commonplace.is/en-GB/propos...

@heathrow.com My disabled friend was wrongly stopped by Border Force tonight and your assistance staff’s attitude to her suddenly changed. She was not suddenly able to walk fast or regain her hearing! Shameful and you need to treat disabled people decently regardless of what Border Force does.

The kinds of circs where you can get benefits (with difficulty) when on a visa with no recourse to public funds are eg. fleeing your home because of domestic abuse or your spouse dying. So this means brutalising and trying to deport people who have already had the worst things happen to them.

How about we make all the flag-shaggers meet those requirements first

They aren't bringing ID cards in to make people's lives easier, they are specifically bringing them in to make certain people's lives harder.

I was kinda in favour of digital ID before Lisa Nandy came on air to insist that it’s not going to make my life any easier and it’s solely targeted at immigrants/ Reform voters #R4Today

This is my fear.

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

What are we becoming?

In London, hate will never win.

I'm sick and tired of the whole, we have to "understand" them "we have to appeal to them". No, we need to confront and challenge them. This isn't about class or economic circumstances now. It's about racists controlling the narrative and everyone else pretending they aren't what they are, racists 3/

What would Orwell think about a huge face on a gigantic screen telling a crowd of people they should wage war on foreigners and dissidents? No way of knowing, I guess.

Not just Americans

I'll have more on this in the newsletter tonight, but it's a truly dark sign of the times that this isn't a front page story: the Trump administration has officially said it believes birth control is abortion!

Oh fuck off, Valhalla my arse

Unfettered freedom to offend plus unlimited access to guns, in a society which glorifies both, what could possibly go wrong?

it’s so hard to keep up with mainstream news commentary; earlier this week it was an absolute travesty of justice that anyone should be held accountable for the things they posted on social media as if they meant them but, yesterday, we realised that social media posts reveal how evil you are

One of those "it's hard to be shocked in 2025, but...." stories. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Onion fucking headline

I heard Alex Hall Hall leaving Disorder and Dorian Lynskey leaving OGWN at *exactly* the same point of a walk which I’ve only ever done twice, and I feel like that spot has a podcast curse on it.

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

I'm ded 💀 😂 😂 😂

A Labour leader with a spine would take the photos of middle aged men outside refugee centres with banners saying "protect our wives and kids" and read out every conviction for violent abuse of partners and children shared among the participants. Full press conference. As long as it takes.

Every day in America is January 6

The government's criteria for who will be able to apply for asylum under its "one in one out policy" would be farcical if it wasn't so cruel. Stage 2 is negated in many cases by stage 1. This is a system designed to prevent people getting to somewhere feel safe and are able to rebuild their lives 1/

Gordon Brown compelling, persuasive and principled on R4 Today this morning and gosh I miss that.

honestly thinking hard about the rational philanthropists out there who could easily step up and provide $500 million in funding to keep mRNA vaccine research on track

Genocide is the destruction of a people, right?

The Thames Path Shepperton alternative route was a terrible mistake tonight

I really don’t understand how something as anodyne as Ian Dunt saying “Young heterosexual men want to get laid” can instigate a pile on. Americans I guess.

Islington Greens are mobilising with anti-fascist groups to defend migrants. ⛔ Hundreds of fascists are expected to gather outside the Thistle Hotel Barbican, where refugees are being housed on August 2. ✊ Stand with us to show racists are not welcome in Islington. 🚫 Don't let them divide us.

Speak for your fucking selves. I've never been reluctant to recognize it. I know hundreds of people online who've never been reluctant to recognize it. Fuck this 'we' shit. There's no 'we'. This is a stepping stone on the road to the post-Iraq style amnesia, to nobody ever having been for it.

Nonsense, clearly this is a lesbian band from the 80s.

NEW FROM ME - Britain is abandoning international medical consensus on disability. Every other developed nation recognizes cumulative impairment as genuine severity. We're about to become an anomaly—and the logic of 4+ suggests it was deliberate. tinyurl.com/mwwb5xv4

Yes, yours

Got called transphobic by Chat GPT earlier lads

I've been saying we need something like this for ages. 'Gender critical' transphobes hijacked the name of feminism and twisted it to their bigoted ends. Trans people are fighting back, but ultimately only cis women can reclaim the mantle of feminism. Sign this to make it happen.

Every day, a new absolutely shocking policy idea. Abusive men do not rape because of their "libido". It's simply an execution of power. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...