I like a Smint as much as the next man (maybe even more), but it's really upsetting to me that you can get them as the snack in a Tesco meal deal as it implies there are sociopaths out there eating a whole pack of Smints one by one after lunch.

OH MY FUCKING GOD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

The thing to understand is that there is a particular contingent within Labour who assess their own performance not based on the support they get from the right (which will always be, basically, none) but on how much they repulse the left. So they turn into Reform, without actually getting votes.

My niece gave me a tung tung tung sahur toy

This reproduction of far-right policies and discourses, while at the same time claiming to embody 'openness, tolerance and generosity' is Labour's current approach in microcosm: legitimate the far right, make them your main opponent, then posture as the only barrier keeping them out of power.

Spending my research time filling in the document that explains how I've been spending my research time 👍👍👍

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made it to reading week lads

A socialist Muslim elected as mayor of New York - if only Dick Cheney had been there to see it 💔

I know I'm not the first or the most insightful to say this, but it's endlessly fascinating to me how reactionary centrists are incapable of seeing that the problem isn't the style or the delivery method but the (lack of) content.

I would easily win at a spelling bee, it's only three letters long ffs

Jesus Christ. We go mad about one bloke we wrongly released, yet hear next to nothing about this horror? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Workshopping a new bit where I ask people if they've heard of a Netflix show called "Tiger King"

A top tip if you don't want to look like a sadact who sends emails on Friday night is not only to schedule them, but to do it for times like 10:27 am on Monday morning so it isn't obvious. This is how I maintain my air of effortless cool.

6 years (!!!) today since this poster dropped. Remember looking at it and thinking the guy looked kind of skinny. What wasn't apparent is that he's about 9 feet tall and I ended up looking like Scrappy Doo on the night. What a world. Can confirm this is still how I look, no I won't prove it

Enough slop on my for you feed

The UK studiously ignores the war in Sudan because its strategic allies have vested interests in the conflict and continue to profit from it. Then the UK refuses safe routes to Sudanese refugees, forcing them to make potentially lethal channel crossings, and attempts to deny them asylum on arrival.

never apologise for cross-posting. always double down

8 POINTS CLEAR

Me when i'm saying 'spring forward, fall back'

When, despite somehow working as a political journalist, you got your understanding of all the terms involved from op-eds written 2016-2019.

Impossible to concentrate on anything when you know Spongebob is bob l'éponge but squidward is called carlo

I actually love to teach language because, even as a Woke academic, it's one of the few opportunities you get to be like 'hello everyone, today we're learning about pronouns'

You'd have to say "let our clearly violent hard right hooligans, who the last time they were allowed to come to a foreign city were caught on camera in multiple videos being violent hard right hooligans, come to your city or it's like the holocaust" is really up there as a classic UK media moment

Recycling some old first-year grammar slides for this year and I regret to say they're from the year when I thought it'd be funny to reference Nicolas Cage at least once in every class.

I think there is a joke to be made about Russell Martin as Prime Minister of France/Lecornu as manager of Rangers, but it's so hyper-niche that the target audience might literally just be me.

Thursday 9am seminar gang let's gooooo

Many thousands of people will have both fought in World War Two and known about Shrek

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'You think you're right about everything,' has always been one of the strangest criticisms. Definitionally, we all think our own opinions are correct. (Sarah Vine is potentially one of the most insufferably entitled people on earth)

Walking into the gym like hello it's me again, the most injured man in town

It is an incredibly good bit to build your entire university campus on a big hill then connect the different buildings together in such a way that the floor you are nominally on bears no obvious relation to the amount of flights of stairs you climbed to get there

6 years ago today. Look at that happy wee face ❤️

Sometimes wish I'd studied maths so I would know all the numbers. 4. 17. 108. And so many more.

Going pretty well so far I think

Preparing to be more furious than I have ever been before

Coincidentally?!?!?!?!

The issue is not whether 'Britain is far right' but why far-right politics have become so normalised Rather than accepting this is a bottom-up, people-driven push, I argue that we must look at those who have the power to shape the agenda and public discourse www.bigissue.com/news/politic...

Lads, I've decided to migrate from the other place, and lads, here is a good example of why.

Willy Wonka when the children are on their way to the chocolate factory

The Oxford Union president story has all the ingredients you need to do mad numbers among the UK commentariat, by which I mean it lets them defend a far-right grifter and, crucially, is happening in Oxbridge.

Think it's really nice how ikea include differently shaped screws to make it more fun :)

Seeing commentators claiming not everyone on the Tommy Robinson march was racist. I'm not even convinced of that, but let's allow it - they are *all* choosing to value their idea of what the UK should be over the safety/wellbeing of the racialised people Robinson targets.

Various flight delays making me increasingly furious as the day goes on. Feel like it's probably visible from my facial expression but also must be impossible to take seriously when for some reason I chose to travel in my 'i eat cement' t-shirt

🚨🚨🚨 NEW IDEA OF WATER JUST DROPPED 🚨🚨🚨

Adjusting to a new reality in which Doncaster is a place I need to think about sometimes

Once again a barista gets my name wrong!

Haven't made any effort at all to follow the Angela Rayner story, but still some really nice schadenfreude when you see someone who sold out any principles they may once have had to cozy up to people who were always going to hate them regardless get ratfucked.

I'd been wondering which of the UK commentariat would be first to go down the ecofascist route. Should, of course, have realised it'd be Goodwin.

It remains to be seen how or if this will be implemented in any meaningful way or if it'll just be a symbolic gesture, but still amazing to see this 💙