My mum lives right at the end of the march route. She saw men in balaclavas milling around. Radiating economic anxiety and legitimate concerns, they were.

🚨Elon Musk has boosted the public profile of Restore Britain leader Rupert Lowe on X, pulling Britain’s political discourse towards extreme content and amplifying his influence ahead of a knife-edge election in Makerfield More @FT: as.ft.com/r/80f4639f-0...

We really need to fully bed in the idea that the default position of someone wearing the Meta camera glasses is that they are a pervert

I'll further add that sharing this news led @mattlaschneider.bsky.social to listen to the Cramps for the first time; to encourage him further I shared this artifact and he has now literally seen and believed. This is why it's important to share good things even amid the world's mires and follies.

It seems to me like the English-language internet has not yet been turned on to the fact that the screenplay for the Bolsonaro biopic (starring Jim Caviezel) has been leaked to the press. It is... a fascinating document, let's say.

Madam I guarantee you will be within 20ft of a nonce throughout the entire march

Just wondering, Simon, is ‘the Birmingham speech’ better known by any other description? I just feel like people may be more familiar if… oh… I’m sure it’s nothing.

"It's so important to not call Reform voters idiots or morons for how theyve voted", okay sure but just remember that their side are calling *you* a pedophile

Keir Starmer has resigned, that's right, resigned himself to the fact there's a long three years ahead of being prime minister

At this point he could give the Gettysburg Address and it wouldn’t move the dial. In fact I think it would only further alienate voters, because it speaks more to the issues of mid 1860s America and also he’d be accused of plagiarism.

The Onion ass headline

someone just demanded to know who should replace Starmer, in a "aha can't answer that, can you!" kind of way, but at this point the honest answer is: literally anyone. he is so bad at this that literally anyone would be better.

Just a reminder that @jewishnews.bsky.social are determined to report on those sharing antisemitic conspiracy theories *from any party*. And sadly it is present in every party. www.jewishnews.co.uk/reform-uk-fa...

Is there anything to be said for bringing back Peter Mandelson?

I’ve had an email response from the Telegraph cartoonist in which he insists that he has “nailed Mr Polanski’s likeness. This is what he looks like.” He then asks me if I think that he’s “suggesting that Jews are taking over the world, one snooker match at a time “.

The government can't stop posting on Twitter, the LOTO doesn't think Tommy Robinson intimidates Jews, the leading party is campaigning for where they'll put detention camps, and it's likely the only response to the attempted murder of two Jews will be restrictions on pro-palestinian protests.

People who are critical of Zack Polanski (and I’m increasingly one of them) need to be able to recognise that, even if you think he’s handling antisemitism within his party really badly, he is himself a victim of antisemitism.

Chief of the Midwits he may be, but the recent Times and Telegraph cartoons of Polanski are pretty damn sinister...

Fwiw I don't think protests should be banned. If people are doing illegal things on them they should be arrested under existed laws. Otherwise it's important to protect free speech.

Lord Robert Skidelsky (rip)'s biography of Oswald Mosley was often criticised for being overly-sympathetic, and even a bit in love with its subject. But I ask you, does this line seem anything other than studiously neutral?

Keeping seeing posts that the "Corbyn playbook" is being used on Polanski. But attacks - whatever the motivation - only work if there is some evidence of a problem. Telegraph et al tried it on Sadiq Khan + it never stuck because there's zero evidence of Khan or those around him being antisemitic.

I wrote about Golders Green. And Kenton. And Finchley. And Hendon. Are you getting the picture yet? Because if not, I can draw you a map. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...

Zack Polanski spends hours every day and night liking and reposting praise on this site but somehow doesn’t notice stuff like this.

Reminder that there is no scientific definition for "ultra-processed food", and no theory for the mechanism by which it is supposedly uniquely harmful.

It's like if you trained an LLM on a big corpus left-wing social media posts from the 2010s, and then gave it acting lessons. Much of what he says is right! But it's like he's right without understanding why, just performing a simulacra of lowest-common-denominator left-wing talking points.

Something I find striking about Zach Polanski is how - unlike the vast majority of those who played a key role in Corbynism - his politics are so clearly not rooted in any kind of deeper analysis or intellectual tradition. It's all just a surface-level synthesis of 2010s left-wing slogans and memes.

it’s actually very easy to give people earworms, or at least that’s what someBODY once told me

Putin’s aims for Ukraine are textbook genocidal. He says Ukraine doesn’t get to exist, that Ukrainian language & culture doesn’t exist. His actions - civilian massacres, occupation, executing people who have Ukrainian symbols, the child abductions - all genocidal

Your annual reminder that William Shakespeare was born in what is now Turkey, never visited England and almost certainly could not read or write in English.

This is an extraordinary, searing interview. In the context of the repulsive new Jackson biopic, it raises questions about why so many people just don’t want to know what he did. FWIW I saw Leaving Neverland before HBO pulled it, and I absolutely believe those kids.

Jonathan Keir Harker Starmer 🤝 Not having enough questions about their good friend, the Prince of Darkness

Walking around Seville’s old town only to get my path blocked by a marching band appearing out of a side street.

🔴EXCLUSIVE: Kemi Badenoch forced to suspend the Conservative party’s candidate for North Harrow, after I uncovered vile messages he posted telling British MPs to "go back to Pakistan". William Jackson repeatedly targeted British MPs of Asian origin demanding their deportation

So here is the video of the question I asked Goodwin, and his response The key question - how much he will lose financially if MCC is wound up - is not answered www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7OP...

JD Vance, are you free in October

Mechanic [sliding out from under Optimus Prime]: I think I see what the issue is. This truck is also a big guy somehow

was that Melania speech one of Iran’s demands

ANYONE ELSE GOT WORLD CUP FEVER

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was consequences for rich men who sexually abuse women and children.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

Zarah Sultana another brick in the most infallible wall in British politics - that no ex-NUS hacks should ever be allowed into British politics

Real name, not kidding: William December Williams

Indentured labourers typically had shorter periods of indenture than this in the 19-th century British empire.

The boss baby tweet because as well as being funny it also makes me pause and think “am I boss babying this” whenever I make a comparison.

It's my own fault for using ChatGPT as a search tool, but this really made me laugh. "...with an important nuance..." is sublime 🤌

Just remembering how good Bowie was at losing his marker.