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We the shitposters of the UK were saying at the time that lockdown was too late, some of us were already working from home. But no he insisted the Cheltenham Festival (March 10-13) and Liverpool v Madrid (March 11) went ahead. Meanwhile on March 12 the subservient press were briefed thus:

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I'm sure that, as the old saying goes, the rest of the barrel is full of very fresh apples!

If you like cute cats with stupidly brilliant names, photographed amongst very pretty Oxford architecture, this article from @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is for you: oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

The guy in the green sweater is hanging on for dear life.

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

I dunno, buddy, maybe if it didn't encourage young folks to kill themselves, or drink all the potable water, or pollute the Infoverse with fallacies, or add glue to recipes, or be that guy who lies rather than admits a mistake, or, and this is important, buddy, or IF WE WERE GIVEN A FUCKING CHOICE!

UK Covid inquiry: Chairwoman of the inquiry, former judge Baroness Hallett, said the UK's response could be summarised as "too little, too late" Lockdown could have been avoided - but action came too late 'Chaotic' government with key figures criticised including Dominic Cummings & Boris Johnson

This evening, I’ll be in conversation with George Monbiot about political dysfunction and ecological collapse, and I want to tell you all briefly about a ritual involving an ancient Hittite king, a throne, and a tree from 3,000 years ago @georgemonbiot.bsky.social

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.

It’s because most of the government and media people (because they are mostly toffs) and all the people who are in a position to lobby government live in £1.5 million+ houses in London

I think the time has come to ask ourselves what Labour strategists think “winning” actually would be because whatever it is they’re trying to do here, it pretty clearly has little to do with public opinion.

This is explosive stuff. Evidence that Jeffrey Epstein not only ran a child sex trafficking operation for powerful men, he also seems to have advised & supported Farage’s far right political projects in Europe and the UK, including Brexit, via Steve Bannon. bylinetimes.com/2025/11/19/d...

Users of r/tallgirls share their experiences of measures intended to target trans people: www.reddit.com/r/TallGirls/...

‘He used to say things like “Hitler was right”’: Farage faces more allegations of racist behaviour at school www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

48 courses have already been suspended. University council is expected to sign their death certificate. No music, no languages, no mental health nursing. Stand with UCU and all workers and students at UoN against academic vandalism. #StopTheCuts #SaveHE

Share a TV series you've watched from beginning to end more than once. Reservation Dogs

The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

“They went for pensioners, they went for the disabled, and now they’re going for people fleeing war and conflict. I am furious — this government should hang their heads in shame.” Zack Polanski on Labour’s new immigration reforms on Newsnight.

This mural has gone up in Kingston, ostensibly for Christmas but AI has ensured it's actually to celebrate the return of our dark lord Cthulhu

Okay, let's heal the rift with some gentle humour: How many Labour MPs does it take to change a light bulb? Two. One to change the lightbulb, the other to ask Nigel Farage if he needs anything else doing around Number 10 before he moves in.

This is a new low from a govt plumbing the depths of performative cruelty in hopes that the public won’t notice they have no answers to the real issues facing this country A sensible, humane govt would focus on safe routes to prevent people making dangerous small boat crossings

If someone has travelled thousands of miles, paying everything they own to an exploitative people smuggling gang, risking their life in a deadly channel crossing, I do not want to be the person who takes their last valuables – a mother’s necklace? A gift? – from them. And nor should the rest of us.

People need to realise the"Labour Party" as it was or as yer da remembers it through rose tinted glasses is functionally dead. It's been coopted by these hateful neolib company suits. It's Tory Lite now and all the holding your nose and crossing your fingers and wishing real hard won't change that.

You cant parachute asylum seekers into deprived areas, in completely inappropriate housing, then say those migrants are 'dividing our country'. You divided the country because you can't organise a basic service and process claims in a timely way

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

I'm glad the Green Party exists, because imagine if this was the UK left's best attempt at trying to capitalize on the mass disillusionment with conservative governance. A political class more fixated on trans women's genitals than trans women are has brought the UK to the brink of collapse.

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Result for Nottingham! That was quick. Please, though it's exhausting, keep up the fight. All of us need to protect not only our workplaces and work conditions but also the social values our work (teaching and researching in the humanities) uphold and strengthen.

yes none of you will ever be as good at making the jokes as she is, so just hang it up and go home

I am genuinely pleased that the first time my private correspondence was entered into the public record without my knowledge, it was both grammatically correct and morally unimpeachable

Gone down a weird rabbithole with far-right Facebook slopaganda* about celebrities cancelling things as a result of the New York election result. *I just invented this word: AI-generated disinformation content pumped onto social media by right-wing think tanks, and "slopaganda" was right there.

It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal

Never forget the same people defending pedophilia have spent years trying to convince the public that drag queens and trans people are a threat to children. It’s all smoke and mirrors to allow the real predators to roam free.

Anyone who admires Emily Maitlis needs to read this. Closing the Tavistock clinic & subsequent removal of accessible trans healthcare support for kids is one of the biggest scandals in modern Britain. Emily Maitlis claims her investigation led to shutdown of England’s only under-16 gender clinic

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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

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Alan Milburn is once again ensconced at the Dept of Health & ripping up organisations thru which we can hold the NHS accountable. One of his first moves as Blair’s Health Sec was replacing Community Health Councils with more toothless orgs, several iterations later & he wants to scrap all together.

Once again, the Labour Party shows just how out of touch it is with ordinary people by launching a campaign website in Latin! We didn't all study at Orxford you know

The casualness Wes Streeting deploys when talking about making 18,000 people redundant should chill anyone to the bone. The man is an absolute sociopath.

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

The fact that this person remains Health Secretary is objectively one of the most significant British political scandals of the post-Covid era. But because he's doing something the media barons like, everyone has decided it's fine.

And one of the first survivors to step forward to try to stop Epstein? A trans woman, who was promptly mocked and villified by the New York Post, New York Magazine, the courts and law enforcement.

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

The symbolism here shouldn't be overlooked. In Mexico, "Adelita" was a common name for warrior women in the Revolution.