Memento (2000)

Gavazzeni claimed “many, many, many Italians” were alleged to have been involved, without providing a figure. “There were Germans, French, English … people from all western countries who paid large sums of money to be taken there to shoot civilians.”

Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down

Wow: Per Hamdi's legal team, his only charge was a visa overstay — after Trump revoked his visa. Despite DHS tweeting that Hamdi supported terrorism, they never charged him with any criminality. In other words: Trump revoked a journalist's visa, so agents could arrest him for overstaying his visa.

Based on personal experience, our network, and my wife's experience in her job, I query the "almost"

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I mean, I wouldn’t call it doxxing. The gentleman identified himself and explained his own actions. What she did was arguably worse; she set the dogs on him.

This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.

Just a regular pipeline now of dubiously funded cranks targeting the NHS to enforce their horrific, hateful politics on the public, by seeking out, targeting and harassing the fuck out people who have quietly been going about their business for years without anyone bothering

He's not doing much with this post to refute my theory about the reasons for his quite extraordinary lifelong commitment to Israel

Starmer is now complicit in two genocides. The unluckiest human rights lawyer in history

Even supposing this wretched and highly dubious strategy works - then what? Serving up more of the same slop of racism and austerity to a country that hates them? What's the actual plan, apart from winning elections by any means necessary?

Saying it could be "legally justifiable" to bomb a refugee camp didn't seem to do his career any harm

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

today's Labour party posting versus yesterday's Labour party posting:

Trying to win the approval of the Daily Mail by being massively racist seems to be going well

londoners rn

Chris "cannot conceive of industrial-scale tree planting" Mason here

Surprised that BBC R4 is using the tag radical left to describe Mamdani. Sarah Smith used it yesterday in a voicer at 8am, the newsreader did today in the same bulletin. Surely echoes Trump’s language.

Times of Israel front page

City of Sickos

Great news - one of the best mini-series ever with a dazzling & eccentric screenplay by Troy Kennedy Martin & superb direction by Martin Campbell is back on iplayer. If you haven’t seen it then you’re in for a real treat. Come for Bob Peck, stay for Joe Don Baker. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story. Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done. You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story! 🧵 1/9

It's very weird how confused centrist political commentators are about Starmer's unpopularity. The risks in being a Labour politician whose primary orientation is towards winning over conservative votes should be obvious, shouldn't they?

“The Green Party is becoming a dustbin, a repository not only for climate activists, but for disgruntled hard leftists leaving the Labour Party. They will rue the day when they threw open their doors to all these people”. Peter Mandelson, 7 May 2024

Fascinated by the use by all The Sensibles of "populism" purely as a pejorative, broadly meaning "anti-elite". So you're... (narrows eyes) pro-elite?

"The single worst possible prisoner that could go missing has gone missing" is the sort of clown car circus music that should only play as a 15-year-old dying regime enters its final stages, and it is objectively hilarious

The Hind Rajab Foundation have identified the IDF soldiers who murdered 6 year old Hind and her family, & their names have been submitted to the ICC. Professor William Schabas discusses the possibility that they'll face prosecution.

Absolute legend

On the left, Marr today saying that the dog ate his homework and Britain can’t be governed. On the right, Marr on the NS podcast in late 2023, saying that the lobby hacks were bullshitting the public because they assumed Labour were lying, and they might be smarter and more capable than they looked.

Starmer & Mahmood will continue to try to look tough on immigration and thereby enable Reform and the Tories to do stuff like this. This is how appeasement plays out every time The Sensibles try it

It's absolutely incredible that Starmer and the entire cabinet think it's a good idea to make themselves hostages to the behaviour of a bunch of football hooligans

Article refusing to be explicit here, but presumably Villa's assessment here was that it was likely their stewards would be racially abused or worse by the visitors

New blogpost: Caste Away - "The irony is that the reasonable fear of away fans running riot has transmogrified into a belief that Jews aren't safe on our streets precisely because the politico-media caste have been allowed to run riot." More ... fromarsetoelbow.blogspot.com/2025/10/cast...

Ronay has decided to wade in with (checks notes) a piece which is mostly a political attack on Zack Polanski

Ronay has decided to wade in with (checks notes) a piece which is mostly a political attack on Zack Polanski

The story begins in 2015. A guy called Morgan has got a plan

Skys sports correspondent @robharrisreports.bsky.social telling us locals were convicted of attacking Maccabi fans in Amsterdam & that evidence emerged of a premediated plan to attack the Israeli fans... ...while Sky plays footage of gangs of Maccabi fans attacking locals. Its incredible really

Starmer has a genuine talent for making decisions that are both morally wrong and politically inept, and he’s smashed it out of the park again

Heres Damian Grammaticas being vague about what Maccabi fans did in Amsterdam (disgusting racist abuse is "slogans", apparently). He also doesn't mention them attacking locals in the street. But when it comes to what was done to Maccabi fans in retaliation, he's very specific. Funny, that

"Violence, demonstrations & racist chanting. It was scenes like this from Maccabis game in Amsterdam last year.. that led West Midlands police to advise that the Israeli fans be banned" Notice how it isn't made clear it was the Israeli fans doing the racist chanting & violence

It's like where's the wally

Imagine being this lame

Get his ass ms Rachel

Hillel Fuld presents himself as a man of religion btw

Awaiting the first "Don't call it a genocide, you'll endanger the fragile peace process". Maybe it's already happened

AFAICT, out of the mainstream media, only The Independent has covered this story