Actually running ahead of schedule now. Well done, everyone. Joke fucking country, honestly.

The reporting is a little sparse here, but it suggests the lecturer was removed because a student complained to one of her US Senators, who then leaned on IU.

"Should something that doesn't ever happen be allowed?" Christ there are people defending this kind of stuff because it's "journalism" and it's their right to comment on anything and everything, but this isn't any kind of journalism, this is complete fantasy pushed as a narrative to harm trans kids

A fascist’s ultimate victory is making others apologise for repeating their own words.

the BBC should apologise with a montage of all the times Trump showed support for 6 Jan and they should get the person who does the end of World Cup montage to do it

What happens when we ask the far right to judge what is and isn’t racist, and hand them the microphone to scream abuse at the left? Does society get more pleasant, do the lives of citizens improve, do the streets get safer? And if the answer is “obviously fucking not”, then what will we do about it?

I’d chip in: what happens when you launch a years-long media campaign to convince the public that the anti-austerity/anti-racist movement is dangerously hateful and unacceptable, hand in hand with extremely right wing crackpots, actual fascists and genocide enthusiasts? Does society get less racist.

Nothing illustrates the arseholery of the IOC and the British Press more than the use of the image of a not-Trans woman to illustrate a story about trans women being banned (because there are no current trans women competing at this level)

Pretty remarkable that it falls to *William fucking Hague* to explain the most basic reality of a decade of escalating wingnuttery right across the board, but here we are

Jesus, if we were to lose the BBC and ITV’s Media & Entertainment division is bought by Comcast we’ll see the complete Americanisation of UK television. The US obviously makes loads of wonderful television. But I like to think the weird Britishness of stuff we make over here has value too.

Tim Davie telling BBC staff ‘we have to fight for our journalism’.

Whenever a certain TERF columnist pops up I recall hearing of a Christmas she spent with her daughters *begging* her to stop discussing trans people and speculating about a trans journalist’s medical history. A complete loser with no life!!!

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Worth reading as a brief summary but it’s also impossible to see how such a thing could ever happen unless all the refs are bent, and more or everyone paid to explain politics to the public was actively and deliberately lying about what was going on www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

The main reason this is even an option for right wing wackos is that we mutilated and deformed the fuck out of the BBC, specifically to protect Alastair and Tony from the consequences of their choices and actions. We’re still doing that now, 20+ years later.

Incredible shit here: the man who provided the template for stomping on the BBC when it displeases malicious actors in politics, complaining that malicious actors in politics are using his template for stomping on the BBC for displeasing them.

Seems the bbc will do absolutely anything for celebrity traitors.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Weird who gets an apology and retraction for Panorama episodes and who doesn't, isn't it?

"Don't look at me, I'm irrelevant." 'The Young Ones' made their BBC2 debut on this day in 1982.

Orbital used loads of samples from this episode a few years ago for this absolute banger. Paul Hartnoll even pops up towards the end describing police violence, vive le change eh? youtu.be/S6Gq50dDKMs?...

ITV have put up the Acid House World in Action episode which features this perfect moment. youtu.be/YANS3DhnZy0?...

Pure distilled essence of 1979-2025, here. I’m loaded and loving it but somehow I can never shake this mortal terror that somewhere, some poor wanker might be eating a free cheese sandwich.

we talk too much about the male loneliness crisis and not enough about the male suckerfication crisis maxread.substack.com/p/prediction...

All the hand wringing over needing to understand those who vote for Reform/the tories always overlooks the simple fact most of them are angry bitter individuals who just want to hurt people.

This is demented across all parties. Absolutely absurd. Real degradation in our brain capacities in the UK.

There’s no longer a question whether Britain can afford to keep this system of very online cranks/vicious reactionary newspapers/opportunist politicians. They’ve fucked our economy and wrecked our public realm, and turned out politics into a hateful nightmare. The question is: who will say, Enough.

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

It's not complicated though, is it? He's a bloodless institutional climber who hitched his wagon firmly to the Labour Right Blairism Redux project under Starmer, acting as one of its most proud and outspoken enforcers. Now, Starmer's a dead PM walking, he's knows he's fucked too, so he's pivoting.

People need to understand that Labour would prefer Reform to win the next election rather than the Green party.

Both the dog’s cool confidence and the cat’s bitchiness are hilarious.

When your politics are awesomely popular with an enthused and passionately supportive public, and you personally are beloved by all

uhhhh, lotta people on bsky mocking the headline to my piece "do poor people deserve food?" without realising that this is just a provocative question to hook the readers in, and my answer isn't "no" - it's a little bit more nuanced than that! (it's "sometimes")

MrBeast hates Zohran because if people have access to basic necessities, it will demolish the Giving People Those Necessities As Part Of A Saw-Inspired Game Show industry

(watching Bridget Jones, a movie about a lady who has her own apartment in London zone 1) lol fucking loser

Seeing British centrists celebrate what happened in the USA last night and pretending they wouldn't have all been cheering for Cuomo is pretty funny stuff.

Wonder why a member of Labour Friends of Israel is downplaying Mamdani’s win…

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Every cartoonist and comics enthusiast should have a copy of A DRIFTING LIFE on their shelves and in their lives. End of message.

Captain Torture

David Lynch altar for the Día de Muertos celebration at Hollywood Forever.

Sharp, subtle and effortlessly Lynchian: Diane Ladd had a potent star power

Sure, although this surely suggests two of the most serious threats to the government and security of the country are reactionary right wing politics, and the existence of billionaires.

Shipping 11M+ faulty consoles before Christmas and continuing to be lionised by the games media taught 360-era Microsoft they could get away with anything.

God, what have I done? I'm such a shit fash but I'm eating woke buns Oh Twitter, their food was so yum With "fuck ICE" on the walls They're all nice as they come down at the Trans Coffee Shop I'm gonna keep my silence at the Trans coffee shop Yet I imagine violence If my fash views they cop

This Robbie Coltrane anecdote from Ben Elton’s autobiography has done me in. You can just picture it so perfectly.

"I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain." This James Baldwin quote is hitting harder than ever.

This is true but it's also what the Guardian has insisted on euphemising as "populism" for over a decade The mainstreaming of far-right politics would not have happened without mainstream actors enabling it (see BBCQT etc). It's not too late to seriously reflect and change course.

Goodwin is a rancid piece of excrement but I’ll always remember him for this.