“All political commentary this decade” has been about ignoring this, pretending that the system is delivering and this isn’t happening while creating a whole series of terrifying hobgoblins and bugbears for the public to fear and hate.

This prissy attitude is so strange. He is your opponent! If you’ve decided not to call him racist (which is already pretty cowardly) then say something else!

At the core of it all, though: we’ve had near two decades of politicians and media screaming at us that even having what we had in 2007 is an impossible fantasy that has to be destroyed, or creating inflammatory distractions, and that is why (points at everything on fire and sliding into the sea)

It’s hard to exaggerate how bad the situation is in the UK. There are eight people on hunger strike and David Lammy recently claimed he wasn’t even aware of it. That hunger strikers may actually die is barely even news.

For no reason I’m aware of, I’ve had ‘But who may abide the day of his coming?’ as an earworm for the past several days. After a while, singing the opening phrase absent-mindedly to yourself around the flat definitely takes on an ‘elevated horror’ vibe.

Bless this man.

“wearing a face mask can help significantly stop the flu and other respiratory viruses from spreading.” When The Mirror is suggesting people mask… things must be bad. Mask up folks! Ideally N95 or better! A good respirator will protect you and those around you from flu, covid, rsv and more

The British upper class, barely even bothering to deny the allegations any more

Good on NHS leader, Daniel Elkeles, calling for a revival of mask-wearing during the current “tidal wave of flu.” That trying to save lives is going to be highly controversial - and No. 10 are already sitting on the fence - is deeply depressing. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

"I've never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government" is an absolutely bananas thing for any Labour politician to say. Never! Neither in the last 20 years, or at any time in the 1980s or 90s (for example). It's all been fine.

'The CPS has named Jonathan Bullock, Julia Reid and Steven Woolfe, saying they followed the script provided to Nathan Gill... when giving interviews to... a pro-Russian TV channel in March 2019." How many apples have to be rotten before you discard the barrel? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Taking myself to the cinema. Blue Moon or Blue Velvet? Which way modern woman?

Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.

I suspect you have to be quite racist to stand out as "the racist guy" at a boys public school of the 1980s.

Simon Wessley is now everybody’s problem. He’s certainly an expert in calling things ‘overpathologised’. I once outlined Wessley’s role in the ME scandal to a theatre friend and they assumed I’d synthesised systemic evils into an individual character for dramatic purposes. But he did that himself.

The WI has been trans inclusive since the 70s, before I was born. Do you see who in this scenario was innocently minding their own business, coming to their own arrangements locally? Do you see who is forcefully imposing themselves and their demands upon others, via threats.

UK: "Brits told to 'wear a mask' as flu spreads across country" Flu positive rate rose to 11.6% weekending Nov 25 (from 10.7%). Health chiefs said the highest positivity was in children aged 5–14. “We haven’t seen a virus like this for a while… these dynamics are unusual,” said Prof Nicola Lewis.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions. It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

There is absolutely nothing left to the UK but bigotry and spite. A hateful place, you can almost taste it in the air, makes it hard to breathe.

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There was no state. Who does she think crucified him, an anarchist collective?

Weird how we’re told the ‘welfare bill’ is spiralling all the time. It’s an odd looking spiral.

Hope is here, and this morning we've proved it. In just 5 hours, our Crowdfunder has already hit our £100,000 target But we're not done. We're doubling our target. Let's take the fight to Reform this May. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/hopeishere

I’ve just chipped in. It’s on £83k after 3 hours because people want to be part of something hopeful.

The diplomatic "achievement" of the ceasefire was to recalibrate the tempo of the genocide sufficiently to get it off the front pages and the news bulletins, thus alleviating the political pressure on Israel's western accomplices. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

And another thing...if what you're saying made any sense you would just say 'hole' (or 'gap' even). You're only saying 'black hole' because you don't know what you're talking about and you think there are magic words.

I agree with this. It’s not just that government spending isn’t like a household budget… but that if politicians believed their own analogy, the conclusions they draw from it would be psychopathic.

The very first thing the Prime Minister does is use the household budget metaphor. A metaphor - this report into BBC coverage - said could be "easily misleading." Why is the government trying to mislead the country?

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Bit of a test case here for “is liberalism still a real thing, or is it just a political version of a collection of Labubus that you show off to your friends” IMO.

Was trying to work out in which way Shabana Mahmood, an otherwise pretty unremarkable politician, could possibly be described as a "luminous golden star" who "dazzles like a blue-white supernova" and then I realised, its simply a willingness to be a bit more cruel to immigrants

My "we're not Enron" shirt is raising a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

This is a weird poll. Who's switching to the tories currently? Is it Conservatives returning because of the Reform-Russia story?

Of course what they will do is replace him with either Streeting (more of the same, and roughly as unpopular) or with Mahmood, who nobody likes.

French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)

So neither giving nor away?

Clip - Tessa Munt MP opens the #MECFS debate, noting ~400,000 have ME in the UK, & the total could be much higher including people with with long COVID. She highlights decades of substandard, sometimes harmful care, pitiful funding, and the outdated view of ME as psychiatric.

As a 45 year old Green, I’d like to point out… I’m not young. This is not just ‘young people’! It is unhealthy for the opinions of everyone under 50 to be ignored and it should come up every time Reform’s lead is mentioned.

Writing about the government’s latest policy announcement and, as usual, torn between three angles: morally awful, politically foolish, and probably unworkable. Something for everyone there

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Proof, too, that how you are towards trans people is compelling evidence of whether you are a good quality human being.

"People who owe no tax are statistically the most likely to be fined." Nobody should face a late filing penalty when they don’t owe any tax. It really is impossible to resist this suggestion from @danneidle.bsky.social. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

At this point it is an axiomatic truth that continuing to support the Labour Party while proclaiming to be left-of-centre or progressive requires completely ignoring both their explicit words and actions. Assess those who continue to do so and their conception of politics accordingly.

Does it seem correct to you, to say that Sir Keir has saved his party by listening to what the public want and giving it to them? No it doesn’t, that appears to have been catastrophically wrong. Do see anyone apologising for having got it ludicrously wrong? I don’t.

The Labour Government reeling off the same far-right talking points on immigration. And look who is celebrating. The far-right. There is a political alternative that won’t ever scapegoat those fleeing war, persecution and torture join.greenparty.org.uk

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You can't pay the rent for long by selling your furniture ... This is a disastrous strategy caused by a decade and a half of austerity and underfunding www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Looking forward to meeting more Canterbury Greens!

In an interview about Palantir's creeping involvement in the British state and the NHS, I told @prospectmagazine.co.uk: “Its business is death and destruction. This is not an organisation you want running the democratic jewel of the postwar period.” www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/dem...

If the public fucking hate it, then how far would we say these people are good at politics. What does this say about the wisdom of the people who said this was good and smart politics? Does it suggest they know what they’re talking about.