I really like the Oxford Clarion which doesn’t get enough mentions when people write about local news startups.

The gall of American elites, who look like they take and undertake every drug and procedure under the fucking Sun, to talk about “healthy & natural” diets and lifestyles, is utter batshit shamelessness.

If a single penny leaves the BBC’s coffers and goes either to Trump, or some “investment” in one of his grifter mates’ scams/holdings, then the corporation will have signed it’s own death warrant.

A remarkable choice of booking...

I suspect there's also a strong element here of far too many journalists and BBC managers spending too much time on X and getting a wholly misleading impression of how big a story the Trump edits were. They're excessively influenced by right-wing activist opinion, and particularly US opinion.

I generally like them but yes, they’re not great. Also, they just make the still somewhat silly redemption at the end of ROTJ even more preposterous when you now know Vader committed TWO genocides, as well as mass murder.

A Conservative motion to cancel Oxford’s new Congestion Charge has been rejected by a meeting of Oxfordshire County Council. The Conservative and Labour groups voted to withdraw the charge but were outvoted by the LibDem administration and the Greens. (Our live posts are in the thread below!)

I have to say @oxfordclarion.bsky.social is a breath of fresh air when it comes to thorough local journalism. Not like the ‘other’ one where you have to navigate stories on the Beckhams, Clarkson, Emma Watson, the Tory councillor’s PR and “this one thing you need to know”.

I’m sure this sounded like a gotcha, but the park and ride with free bus travel is still a better deal for those coming from outside Oxford than those who live within the city and take the bus.

I get the noble sentiment but most people offline without big followings don’t put themselves in situations where they encounter differing opinions or hateful conduct. They cultivate their environments (whether that’s good or bad); why should online be different?

Share Labour’s achievements if you must but if you can’t at least see that it’s somewhat tainted by the govt’s abhorrent stance on trans people’s healthcare & existence in public life, as well as constantly having their immigration policy being led by the right and their messengers then 🤷🏼

I get this but I also see many people from Ireland on social media cast the UK/US/Canada etc, and their citizens, as just irredeemable, which I’m sure is understandable, but doesn’t necessarily help.

The inflatable costume thing with the protesters is really good because it renders the body armor/CoD weaponry aesthetic of the ICE Nazis even more ridiculous than it already was. Suiting up like Rambo to face down a dancing frog. No coming back from that

This is obviously batshit but it does bring me joy that the right constantly broadcast that they’re friendless, boring dickheads.

It's apparently perfectly fine for senior political journalists to call for the deportation of British Muslim politicians now, with zero consequences

Spoiler: Trump has. The media hasn’t.

"We're saving God." Roll that phrase around your head. Consider the theological and cosmological implications.

He's "saving God" y'all. This was once called blasphemy in the church I was raised in.

I’m sure using a v60 shouldn’t be trial & error; it’s simple really but here I am, struggling to get it to the right strength for my taste.

Any Trekkies that aren’t subscribed to Paramount+, the first season of Strange New Worlds will start to air on ITV1 at 10:20pm this Sunday. It’ll also be available on ITVX 🖖🏻

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This is such a good article btw - I really buy this as a theory of contemporary US politics

Not Helene, but some of the replies to her post from accounts that rightly call out the state of UK politics, particularly the rise of reform & the far right, really do feed into it. An almost visceral disdain not just for the politics but for the country itself.

lol. Trump, his family, his administration & his party are going to burn in the deepest depths of hell

Christ, Starmerites are almost as unbearable as Corbynites. To use their parlance; anyone who doesn’t have a degree of skepticism for everyone in politics is a wholly unserious person.

Hugged a self-described racist jailed for inciting racial hatred at his party conference. Threatened to ‘don khaki’ in the event of Brexit being frustrated. Disseminated the racist lies of an alleged rapist & stayed silent as racists responded by setting fire to buildings full of foreigners.

Nigel Farage, 3rd September to U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee ● "Free speech is under assault in Britain." ● Free speech laws are "a sledgehammer that misses the nut" because they censor opinion. ●"At what point did we become North Korea?" He asked. 27 days later:

“In a wide-ranging speech” It’s really rather impartial to describe it as ‘rambling’ you know.

Genuinely, how do Fox News viewers see this stream of unhinged, childish, rambling bollocks as “making America great again”? Is the centuries’ old Republic & its alliances really worth less than this legitimately stupid Buffon whose body will give up the ghost in less than a decade?

I know the UK has its MASSIVE problems, and that it’s very serious across the pond, but my god, how in the ever living fuck did they elect that man TWICE?!

This would be about Donald Trump's right not to be upset or offended by the truth. That is not the intent or purpose of the malicious communications act. I am struggling to get the police to bother with actually unlawful racist harassment though.

1/38 Yesterday, I highlighted how Kash Patel's poor handling of the case could put it in jeopardy. But today the FBI's lead-podcaster, doubled-down on *STUPID*, in a public interview that is a defense attorneys dream! Let's breakdown the incompetence: x.com/adamscochra...

Don't attack them for being hypocritical, attack them for being homophobes. It is, again, something that sets them out from the British public, even on the right.

Can anyone explain why the Government is still doing most of its communications through a website whose owner is now openly rallying the far right to trigger a violent insurrection on our streets?

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Oh that? That's the gay alarm, only goes off if you're gay. Congrats btw

Not a minister Not an MP Not in the Lords As far as I know, she’s not even a councillor. Is she joining purely so that the Trump wannabe has his own MTG?

Just over a year in, and I’m sadly no longer shocked by the new depths this “Labour” government plumb to daily. Writing to my MP is now basically a weekly occurrence. At least the Tories gave us a sense of polishing a turd with their general elections & rotating leadership.

The real problem with Nigel Farage's plan for mass deportations is that he hasn't planned it out properly, suggests Labour

Absolutely agree with Marie and OP. It constantly bewilders me that many folk won’t accept that some people are just arseholes. Always some sort of pathologising, benefit of the doubt giving, good faith rationale given to just a simple arse.

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

The state of affairs in this country just goes to show that far too few people are called cunts to their faces. Every parliamentarian & national news employee needs to be greeted every morning by someone reminding them that they are a cunt.

Arresting 400+ people for the "terrorist" offence of protesting against mass murder while large segments of the right are openly encouraging riots against immigrants is a tale of a very unhappy country and government.

As someone who doesn’t drive, any recommendations for things to do in Gran Canaria in late November?

I think for most of that minority, it’s more to do with traditional energy infrastructure being in more industrial, “working class” areas where they believe that’s where they ought to be. I don’t think it’s aesthetics, it’s “industry” violating their class order.

Compare and contrast. The institutionally transphobic Herald, versus The National

Sandie Peggie asked NHS Fife colleagues for Beth Upton pictures and called trans doctor ‘weirdo’ www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...

The Courier reports on Sandie Peggie's racist posts, where she used the term "p*kis" and said that, following devistating floods, Pakistan looked like a "giant bowl of coco pops". Sandie Peggie is supported in her case by Sex Matters. www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/politics/...