As the Lords environment and climate change committee made clear last month organised waste crime is out of control in this country but instead of a serious effort to tackle this crisis all we get are stupid gimmicks.

As the Lords environment and climate change committee made clear last month organised waste crime is out of control in this country but instead of a serious effort to tackle this crisis all we get are stupid gimmicks.

Sorry I didn't get back to you, I was leaving a two star google review for that combined grave at Arlington they put all the unidentifiable bits of the Challenger crew into.

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.

Happened to have the news on last night when Tim Davies resigned & I couldn't help but notice how, within the space of ~20 minutes, the story morphed from one about a dodgy edit aired over a year ago to the BBC's alleged "anti-Israel bias". Real stink of shit coming off all of this.

It was insulting enough back in the 2000s but it's just plain ridiculous to see these Atlanticist throwbacks dust off their "save the world from authoritarian kleptocrats" act while they simultaneously glaze the second Trump administration.

The phrases "if you don't like my changes, leave" and "shaking off the fleas" come to mind.

Hey, I couldn't help notice you flapping about aimlessly from that bristly oxtongue over there and thought I'd say hi.

I’ve been around enough comfortably well-off people to get the awful suspicion that it’s not Twitter so much as holidays and expat friends in Dubai that have radicalised them into the idea of small privileged native class and a helot class of guest workers dependent on you

Of course all the young(ish) Tories are pivoting to outright Powellism, it's not as if they have a rich record of success to draw on.

A much needed corrective by @chrisgiles.ft.com to the "welfare is out of control" narrative, drawing on research by my colleague @benbgeiger.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/ee67...

Constantly struck by how far removed the American right's online conception of itself as a crusading force of chiselled neo-spartans is from its real world manifestation of pea-headed slobs in ill-fiting body armour brutalizing random members of the public.

Things you won't need a BritCard for: - Making substantial cash donations to Labour Together

The British press: All trans people must barred from public life to protect women also, here's our softball interview with those indomitable cheeky chappies - the Tate brothers.

Find yourself someone who loves you as much as the BBC loves political movements that explicitly want to destroy it.

The political motivations aside there's just something a bit sad about seeing bits of this country's tatty, austerity-scarred infrastructure bedecked with temu England flags; feels like we're literally papering over the cracks here.

On account of being a bloody bloke I fear I have no recourse but to crack open a can.

As far as I'm concerned what is happening in Gaza right now is akin to what happened in Eastern Europe in the late stages of Nazi occupation. Any bastard still making excuses can go to hell.

10 years of non-stop, all channels pissing and shitting about free speech and this is where we've ended up.

I obviously can't speak for other jews, but to me the world's richest man tweaking his AI so that it now describes things it doesn't like on a scale of "bagel to full Shabbat" and "Peak Jewish" is a somewhat higher priority than people being mean about the IDF at Glasto.

Elon Musk, welcome to The Independent Group for Change

Every ten years someone suggests cutting social benefits and everyone nods that it's 'the tough choice but the right one' Five years later, people shake their heads at poverty and grow angry people are not being looked after. Same people diamond hard for the cuts, boohoo at their inevitable result

Find it very hard to engage with any kind of post-apocalyptic/dystopian fiction these days knowing I can go online and read about infinitely worse things happening right now, in real life and with the license of democracies, such as my own, that supposedly value human rights.

‪ I get that to an extent NYC is its own thing but it is funny to think that these bastions of liberal thought spent six months crying out for a progressive politician who could reconnect with young people in the new media landscape only to instantly curl their noses up the second one came along.

It was always thought-terminating bullshit but it is particularly galling to see all the usual suspects dust off their War on Terror spin about a uniquely barbarous and bloodthirsty Iran while every day brings news of yet another food line massacre in Gaza.

🚨 England’s rivers are under threat. Water extraction is at record levels & the system meant to track it is broken. Licensing's outdated, loopholes huge, no one truly knows how much water we’re taking. Part 1 of investigation (part 2 coming soon): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Southern Marsh Orchids coming out at a nearby reserve. #wildflowerhour @ukorchids.bsky.social

I am generally of the opinion that the 2015-19 period is best left dead and buried but now that he's the PR man for daily warcrimes I can't help cast my mind back to the days when people like David Mencer were presented as principled anti-racists we all had to take very seriously.

Watched the first couple of episodes of Andor when it came out and was a bit nonplussed but now that I've finished the first the season I can see why people were raving about it so much. That said, whenever they mention Chandrila I imagine that it canonically looks the way it did in Rogue Squadron.

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

Do we really have to endure another four years of "well actually I'm more of a postliberal neo-communitarian national conservative" from these guys when once again their legislative agenda boils down to turbo austerity and executive tax cuts?

One thing I never, ever want to hear again is "why are you singling Israel out for special treatment?" when after 19 months of saturation bombing Israel openly states that its goal is to starve Gaza's remaining population into concentration camps and the best the West can do is pull a long face.

I really cannot stress how important it is to rinse the gunk off before it dries.

Great thread from Max on new @neweconomics.bsky.social analysis showing that rising PIP claims are being driven by higher rates of disability combined with increasing financial hardship, with no indication that it's getting easier to claim People in real need of support will lose out from cuts

"Britains political landscape has changed!" - Right-wing loudmouths blame everything on immigrants and woke to the delight of the press. A hamstrung centre stumbles about looking for ways to mimic them. Oh yeah, unrecognisable this.

Why not head over to twitch.tv/geddstation and watch one of the world's leading geoguessrs use subtle clues to figure out where he is!

‪Obviously there are multiple factors driving the current hate campaign against trans people (not least the gob fulls of American dark money) but that said, the UK press has clearly relished the opportunity to dust off the queer-bashing headlines of yesteryear & once again lay into 'the fruits'.

My heart goes out to all the gamers & gooners of the Iberian peninsula, you will get through this 🙏

Say what you want about The States but its scientific institutions are a prodigious source of invaluable, publicly available research and watching them get eviscerated by a bunch of crooks and beef tallow obsessed idiots is genuinely tragic.

Labour's problem is that it has fully internalised the media's mantra that anyone who might be inclined to vote Labour is the wrong type of voter who must be sidelined in favour of the right type of voter - someone who would never vote Labour.

NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

<Opens one of Britain's leading publications to check in on year 8 of their "trans sickos want to rape you and steal your children" campaign> Damn those trans rights people really shot themselves in the foot when they refused to engage in respectful debate!

The UK press outraged at thought of British assets belonging to anyone but their natural owners - US hedgefunds.

From 2016 onwards I've lost count of how many "but why Trump?" articles I've read & nearly all of them neatly sidestep the fact that you can draw a straight line between Trumpism and the bugbears oh-so respectable publications like The Times have been pushing for as long as I can remember.

From 2016 onwards I've lost count of how many "but why Trump?" articles I've read & nearly all of them neatly sidestep the fact that you can draw a straight line between Trumpism and the bugbears oh-so respectable publications like The Times have been pushing for as long as I can remember.

The DWP equality impact assessment of its disability benefit cuts is out It predicts that in 29/30 there will be 3.2 million families – including current and future recipients - who will lose £1,720 a year on average from the cuts compared to inflation 3.8m families will gain on average £420 a yer

It's remarkable really, there is no dearly held democratic principle that doesn't immediately vanish in a puff of smoke the second it pertains to Israel. Freedom of speech, human rights, due process - you name it, out the window it goes.

Made the effort to go see a display of bona fide Wild Daffodils at a well known woodland site. Traffic meant I got there much later than planned but it was still worth it. #wildflowerhour

Frogs doing frog stuff.