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You've got to love that the British establishment looked at the guy who was openly booed by tens of thousands at the Olympic Games and said, 'get his man another job'

They could start with the 330,000 deaths Osborne is responsible for. It's always a bit surreal to me how most of the British media is just so 🤷. My cynical view is they're well aware they cheerled deficit hysteria, with austerity as the solution, so the amount of dead people + damage is a bit awks.

Yes absolutely there would be. I remember reading Sam Knight's New Yorker piece about austerity a couple of years ago and being so infuriated that Osborne is just like "we won the argument! everyone's doign austerity now! we got everything right!" Made me want to punch a wall.

Where’s the TV drama/documentary about Austerity and how it destroyed the country?

I still don't understand why Osborne is not universally reviled for the damage he inflicted on the country. Based on nothing but ideological hatred of the "lower" classes.

Osborne seems totally untouchable, Teflon, within the UK elite classes, where accountability is concerned he'll be appointed part-time Duke of York next

shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

Labour policy on Brexit now pro-cake and eating it.

Today is the day. Hope vs hate. Green vs Reform. Vote Green in Gorton & Denton.

Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.

In 1938, the German Reich invalidated all German Jewish passports. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as a Jew. In 2026, the state of Kansas invalidated all correct trans drivers licenses. They must surrender them, after which their ID will mark them as trans.

Andy Murray >

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

Via LabourList: "At PMQs yesterday, Nigel Farage refused to condemn a Reform councillor who shared a post saying Bolsover MP Natalie Fleet "should be shot". After Keir Starmer expressed outrage at the remarks, Farage instead responded by asking a question about the Chagos Islands."

Shocking. When I was an undergrad around 20 years ago, a decent summer job & the maintenance loan saw me (carefully) thru a whole year in a provincial city. The cost of living is now so insane that hundreds, maybe thousands, of students in Belfast are using food banks. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Johnny Cash (born #OTD in 1932) just before going on stage for his live concert at Folsom Prison (1968) 📷 Dan Poush

Reluctantly not forgetting his powerstance partner in Teflon, Greensill Cameron. Because he didn't have that classic Bullingdon puppy fat sort of build, Gideon (initials GOO) never physically projected his privilege quite as much as Cameron, despite being the spawn of a 400 year baronetcy.

just quite maddening that Osborne's legacy is currently "hey that guy who helped the Tories get back into power then was chancellor for a while until Brexit, and now he has 300 jobs lol" and not "look, everything the light touches was fucked up by George Osborne in some way between 2010 and 2016"

Asylum grant rate down to 42% in 2025. Given what we know about HO decision making (bad), lots of meritorious cases are being pushed into the tribunal system (probably without a lawyer given the legal aid crisis)

Even if you think (as I do) that some of the angst over the principle of this policy is overblown, the complete lack of any wider effort by the British state to inform UK citizens whether at home or in the diaspora of basic changes to UK or EU border rules keeps generating avoidable fiascos

2/2 where they consider which guest can most politely make the case for an ethno-nationalist points-based benefit system & mass deportations.”

Imagine a Labour Councillor reposted a call for a Reform MP to be shot.. OMG the furore that’d follow BBC’s Mason & Kuensberg would run headline “Starmer sanctions political assassinations” MSM would call for Starmer to quit & the Councillor fired No such furore when Reform do it & he’s not fired😡

If Reform win the Gorton & Denton by-election, the BBC will interview Farage about their win. If Greens win the Gorton & Denton by-election, no doubt the BBC will interview Farage about why it was really a win for Reform. If Labour win the Gorton & Denton by-election, Behold! Porcine aviation!

A Green victory would be a good wake-up call to Labour, but a Reform victory would feed the BBC/Sky News narrative that they're an unstoppable election machine, despite being a bunch of chancers with four MPs and four far-right Tory defectors.

No comment #BBCPM

Gorton and Denton byelection campaign hits final day with new poll saying it is too close to call who will win – UK politics live

it's funny bcos this is actually labour splitting the vote on the right.

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "The president talked about protecting Americans, and I just had to remind him that his administration was responsible for killing two of my constituents."

If Labour followed its own logic, it would now step aside and let the Greens walk home in this crucial by-election. It is hard to imagine how Starmer and co could have made a bigger fist of this - and of everything. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

❌ Nigel Farage has missed EVERY meeting about regenerating his constituency of Clacton since becoming an MP. But he did find time to go and perform a publicity stunt in the Indian Ocean last week... ⚠️ A warning to those in Gorton & Denton over the kind of representation Reform UK provide.

A reminder, one day ahead of a by-election in which the Greens are favourites to defeat Reform, that the Daily Mail owner's wife recently donated £50,000 to Nigel Farage's party

When you think it’s home time but there’s still 40 minutes to go.

En Allemagne, le ministère de la culture convoque les dirigeants de la Berlinale, après un discours accusant Berlin d’être « complice du génocide commis à Gaza »

I heard about, but never saw, a paperback copy of Moby-Dick where the owner wrote, "GET ON WITH IT, MAN!" about halfway through.

Clever PMQs scheduling by No 10 at PMQs: Labour MP Fleur Anderson asks a Reform-facing question, allowing Starmer to call on Farage to condemn this. Farage has the very next question - and he does not. Starmer says Farage has no "decency or... backbone". www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

This seems bad...

25 February 1932 | A French Jew, Henri Dresner, was born. He arrived at #Auschwitz on 9 August 1942 in a transport of 1,069 Jews deported from Pithiviers and Beaune-la-Rolande. He was among 794 people murdered in a gas chamber after selection.

Brock Nelson, Jackson LaCombe, Jake Oettinger, Kyle Connor, & Jake Guentzel chose not to attend the U.S. men’s hockey team White House event today Hard to remember a championship moment that lost its shine faster than this U.S. men’s hockey team win

Facial recognition error prompts police to arrest Asian man for burglary 100 miles away

"Beware the Green Menace" is so funny, especially coming from a paper that already thinks Labour is Stalinist

The grab-bag policies of the modern fascists - that includes the Reform Party - a mix of state intervention, removal of workers right, burning the planet, and investment in local companies - to go alongside the deportations and pro-aggressor foreign policy. www.ft.com/content/4541...

GOOD FOR AOC ❤️💙❤️ 👇

I'm a recent convert to the TLS but I adore it and learn a massive amount each issue. This is from a review on a couple of books about time and it has just scrambled my mind.

Tonight’s state of the union.

Farage : "Nobody voted for the Boriswave" List of Tory defects who voted for the Boriswave : Robert Jenrick Danny Kruger Andrew Rosindell Lee Anderson Suella Braverman (Lords Amendment) Nadine Dorries Nadhim Zahawi David Jones Lia Nici Jonathan Gullis Andrea Jenkyns 1/5

Because there’s more incentive for Labour voters to vote Green than Green voters to vote Labour.

Things have truly come to a pretty pass when the government of the cannot facilitate the destruction of a city of two million civilians to curry favour with the world’s most powerful and abysmal fascist authoritarians, without facing a lot of impertinent political campaigning