I would frame it as a conflation of "free speech" with "uncriticised speech".

If billionaires really don't want to die young, they should put a lot more money into cancer research. The two biggest killers in the west are heart disease & cancer. Heart disease is easier to prevent with lifestyle (at least with their resources) but cancer is harder (depending on the type)...

"Trump bad" is not the story. The story is that every Republican administration for the last 50 fucking years has been a corrupt disaster and Democrats keep having to clean up after them. This narrative is obvious in the numbers, in the history, but voters don't know it because Dems won't tell it.

This is an interesting theory as to why men get grumpier with age than women. Things like aches & pains, reduced health, stuff being harder should affect both genders equally.

Vaccines and dementia... such promising, growing evidence. 🛟😷

If only Al Gore hadn’t politicized climate science … The fossil fuel companies and their political allies would have embraced the science of climate change, abandoned oil and gas, and enthusiastically led the way to the renewable energy Promised Land?

As these things go - and it obviously won't impact on his diehard fans - this, from the Tories, is actually quite an impressive effort.

Re disability benefits the question is not "Can this person work" it's "Would you be willing to hire them?". If you wouldn't want to accommodate a disabled employee if you could avoid it, then don't complain that so many of them are on benefits.

*Retailers see opportunity to boost sales of tumble dryers by telling desperate right-wing journalists exactly what they want to hear*

It's really important for us all to realise that we don't see prejudices that don't directly affect us.

If there were a liberal equivalent of Fox News we’d all know the names of every pardoned J6er who’s been rearrested—along with their criminal histories and all the sordid details of their crimes—and every GOP elected would constantly be asked about them.

it’s worth reading every word of this brilliant, excoriating column by Fraser Nelson

If the Telegraph was a person we'd be sending them to a brain specialist to get examined.

I just took action to ask my MP to push Ofcom to do its job. Email your MP today! stopfundinghate.info/get-involved...

How did Hungary have this much money to throw around?

"every accusation is a confession" sounds like a throwaway line, but the thing is if you pay attention to what they say and what they do, you'll find out that it's actually true more often than not

I keep hearing outlandish stories from someone I know, and I always ask "Who was the person who posted this" and it's always a radom YouTuber / TikTock person. I am such a believer we need media literacy taught in schools. [I know it's adults too, but adults can learn from their kids]

Fighting corruption is both politicially popular and a very effective way to tackle Farage.

Interesting reference just now to "the left-leaning Daily Mirror" on the Today Programme. I hope this practice is going to become routine, & that we'll be reminded of the political affiliations of The Daily Telegraph, The Mail, The Sun, The Express & The Times. It would actually be quite healthy.

Great point in a great thread. I genuinely believe you can explain every pathology in British politics through “it’s considered acceptable, frankly even a sign of good taste, to be snobbish and ignorant about Milton Keynes”.

Milton Keynes is a huge success story. People from all around come for entertainment, shopping & jobs. It also has a huge voluntary & social services sector, it's had has a big success helping homeless people and in an age of NIMBYs it's one of the few places that's been building lots more homes

Park run has no changing rooms, no gender separation, no prizes for winning. You can accidentally come in as one of the first to finish because you got tired and walked back partway through, and no one cares (I speak from experience). www.independent.co.uk/sport/great-...

I often think we should stop saying "India" or "Italy" or did X and instead say "The Indian / Italian Government did X". We know in our own countries that loads of people don't agree with their Government, yet we so often assume that all citizens of other countries think the same

Two ways in fact.

Honestly I get it, I was a huge MJ fan, this looks really good, and he's dead so can't profit from it. But on the other hand I've believed he was guilty since the first kids accused him (before finding Neverland) and I don't want to participate in whitewashing his image so I'm giving it a miss.

I lean closer to Labour than the Greens but I still think it's a good idea. Getting people to start voting young is more likely to get them involved in politics as they get older. These decisions shouldn't be made for narrow political advantage

Anyone who hasn't listened to Podessy it's wonderful. A perfect antidote to doomscrolling but also relevant to our modern times.

This was the most predictable thing in the world. He was on such a clear trajectory to get here.

We have discovered, yet again, that pedestrianization *raises* traffic to stores & *boosts* sales. All the fear-mongering was baseless! I'm sure this time the lesson will stick & the *next* group of merchants around the *next* proposed pedestrian street won't raise a bunch of nonsense objections!

Labour should make St George's day a bank holiday. Also St Andrew/David/Patrick's Days & Remembrance Day. It's a great way to pass progressive legislation - more bank holidays for workers - that the right can't attack easily. Also you don't need to bash migrants to do something patriotic.

Any time you think the world can't get better remember this. youtube.com/shorts/C16rv...

Nothing has killed more soldiers in the history of humanity than disease. While worst is a more complicated question Hegseth is absolutely the dumbest secretary of defense the United States has ever had. bsky.app/profile/ones...

This is a fantastic conversation. I completely agree that the discussion of billionaires being bad (or good) is irrelevant. And often brought up to distract from the main issue. Taxes are an obligation not a punishment. youtu.be/mX5U5DNUfBc?...

thank you bell hooks

it’s wild to me how there has been such in-depth reporting into Donald Trump‘s use of his modeling agency and beauty contests as a front for him and his pedo friends to get their rocks off, and somehow it never quite sticks. The reporting on his modeling agencies is especially harrowing.

Great piece from @jessicanix.bsky.social on the parents coming around to vaccines amid the measles outbreak--and how physicians are gently guiding them:

NEWS! It's only bad when other people do it, explains Richard Tice

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Ask the average denizen of DC -- or the average pundit -- who represents the Democratic Party & they'll point to a silly Wesleyen freshman who says "latinx" ... instead of pointing to the dozens of diligent, unflashy legislators & aides involved in this bit of expert policymaking. Why is that?

Oh come on @theguardian.com, no need to over analyze this. It's about one thing: the Pope criticized him. There's nothing deeper or religious about it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tory MPs talking about Erasmus as if it’s a sleeper cell recruitment programme.

I realise this isn't the point of the article but for the love of God write a will. And if you have a blended family it's 5x more important. The man could've easily said his assets go to his wife during her lifetime but to pass to his kids after she died, and saved everyone from this mess.

She must have been quite sheltered if slightly higher taxes on secondary homes worth over $5 million is the scariest thing she's ever seen in her life.

It's well known women reproduce a-sexually.

One of the most enraging aspects of [waves hands] all this is that the assholes dismantling America's government *do not understand it*. They are stupid, incurious people who've spent their lives marinating in RW agitprop. They have no idea what they are destroying.

The New York Times Editorial Board yet again demands that Democrats run exactly the campaign they ran in 2024