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Govt scraps all electrification investment. Midland Main Line to stay forever diesel Leicester Nottingham Derby Sheffield. Hugely embarrassing and inexplicable www.ft.com/content/5ecd...

The fun part here is that the student anti-austerity protesters of 2011 were absolutely right, and the horrific MPs and crank politics pundits who screamed abuse at them were catastrophically wrong. But it’s the MPs and hacks who are holding all the microphones, so the public will never hear this.

UK centrists: "Mamdani? Amazing, erudite, smart, great comms, just social smart democracy isn't it " Also UK centrists:"Rent caps and caps on the cost of supermarket essentials? Be serious you idiots."

Very cool how uh progressive columnists are explaining that Mamdani’s policies are unremarkable by European standards and also concluding that our domestic leftwing parties are too radical observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Quite big international criminal justice news from Turkey. The Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office in Istanbul has issued arrest warrants for 37 senior Israeli officials including Benjamin Netanyahu for genocide and crimes against humanity - www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

Brilliant, essential thread from @doublepulsar.com on hype around AI cyber threats. My summary: 1. Google release a really honest paper saying some malware has used AI to morph into new capabilities but.. 2. …goes on to point out that the capabilities are crap 3. Industry hype ignores part 2

Me too. I had grandfathers who told me about scraping body parts from tank tracks and a great uncle who was gassed in the trenches in World War 1. Those men were changed by war. They hated war and would hate the spectacle the far right seek to make of remembrance today.

Brilliant. Just hit 50 after a lifetime of mortgage costs and university fees, now you're in a sprint against healthy life expectancy that the NHS can't help and wor makes worse, so why do Labour do? Make it harder to save for a pension. And all cos they refuse to tax billionaires.

Honestly, to be on the "left" and think that this is the issue you should be talking about incessantly? Is just the height liberal feminist bullshit. Sonia is a joke.

I'm in Spain atm and it really brings home just how badly Brits have been shafted since 2008. Spain was hit just as hard but did nothing like the insane right wing playbook of austerity, strangling public investment or beggar thy citizen cost of living.

Using chat to read and build url link an unclickable link in LinkedIn post) cos LinkedIn try to block scraping and hence human copy and paste). Took a minute but chat did it.

*record scratch* *freeze frame* "Yep, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got here."

Does anyone know what Reeves' weird budget statement was actually about this week?

Far right referrals for terrorism up by double those of islamic extremists.

What if understanding isn’t the priority

which is what many armchair generals, civility columnists, and stupid think tanks have urged dems to do in labour, this tribe finally got full control of a pollical party & . . . bsky.app/profile/polp...

if you start from the view that there's a policy compromise you can make that will calm people down, you can end up supporting some very authoritarian stuff very quickly uk labour was elected 18 months ago on a pledge to make trans peoples lives easier, now they're implementing a bathroom ban

i call this view 'reactionary centrism' - the problem with it is that modern fascism *cannot* be appeased; they don't want a few compromises in women's sports, they want a total social transformation and the end of liberal democracy you give them a bone, then another, then they want your arm

while there are some dems who i think could be more aggressive, certainly many more moderate than me, NONE of them has validated racism the way starmer has, NONE is pushing for an aggressive national bathroom ban the way labour is

9. We will stop the billionaire autocracy only if these revenants make way for a radical, inspiring, lively politics, that doesn't wait for the other side to “crumble”, but gives people a reason to overthrow it. May Mamdani’s victory begin a new era of life-giving and life-affirming politics.

8. The same goes for system-justifying establishment stiffs across the world. Starmer, Reeves and McSweeney come to mind, here in the UK. They are the ghost of politics past. We need a vibrant politics future.

7. When a ruling faction looks dead, is cold to the touch, is shut down and disconnected from the world in which living people exist, that probably means it is dead. Schumer, Jeffries and the whole zombie Democrat establishment need to stop haunting the living beings who want to take their place.

5. But now along comes an upstart from the land of the living, trying to pull the corpse into a standing position. Damn that Mamdani with his bright eyes and lively agenda, seizing the initiative from our cold, dead hands. Quick, pull him back into the grave!

1. The approach of mainstream Democrats is summed up in this astonishing February advice from the Democratic strategist James Carville: “Roll over and play dead. Allow the Republicans to crumble beneath their own weight and make the American people miss us.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o... 🧵

Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.

Always interesting to see commentators dispute what is legitimate scientific method, in the Joe Rogan comment section. In this case, something about it's up to science to prove that the 3i Atlas Comet isn't a UFO, as opposed to the other way around. youtu.be/0srZvrAEE00?...

I sometimes have to remind myself how bizarre is to hear the right say “equality has gone too far” when we live in the most unequal age in a century. If this is equality, it’s doing a terrible job. >>

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

I regret to inform you that Raffa is at it again. But, I'm sure he's right that nothing that's been tried in the US could work here. Those dimwit Reform councillors's eating up DOGE schadenfreude won't learn from their mistakes.

Keir Starmer's Labour: still trying to run Windows 95 in a world of Nvidia chips.

Keir's Labour Party: always two pints behind the conversation.

This is a must read ethnology / qualitative piece of research into that specific group of working class, former Labour voters, who are now voting reform. A must read. renewal.org.uk/articles/ref...

There is a lady on TikTok pretending to have a baby that has gone without formula all night — she is calling churches around the country to ask if they can help. Some of them are really embarrassing themselves. Especially the mega-churches.

A bit taken aback at people angrily accusing the public of being too upset about one specific ongoing genocide, as if its people being upset about war crimes that is remarkable and not the leaders of the white people world actively assisting in genocide and ethnic cleansing.

Has anyone looked at Tesco's accounts over the cost of living crisis to actually see if they've been protecting their margins during a cost of living crisis?

Hmmmm I wonder what could have happened shortly after 2019 that might have had an impact 🤔

"Vote Blue, No Matter Who..... but not him."

Pour one out for all the rich Republicans who threatened to leave NYC if Mamdani won. Enjoy Tennessee or Arkansas-- I'm sure it will be very fulfilling and the social life will be totally comparable!

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

Democratic party leadership has been on autopilot for ten years, they weren't losing to fascism, fascism isn't popular enough for them to lose to fascism, they were allowing it to fill the void where their leadership should have been. Tonight we're seeing that we have other options. They should too.

best encapsulation why everyone hates democrats despite trump being the spawn of satan

Hope wins, decency wins, a victory for goodness and a kick in the teeth for racism, bigotry and mysogyny. You love to see it. share.google/p2nBTudSUKro...

The views of the average pro-Palestinian student broadly match what the academic literature says, what international courts say, what the relavant UN officials & orgs say and what the relevant NGOs say. It is views of Clinton and her peers in Western capitals which are largely divorced from reality.

the british right wing lady who is favorably cited in anders brevik's manifesto traveled to nyc to yell at people about mamdani lol

Really can't be exaggerated how poisonous it is that @mattyglesias.bsky.social has taken up the "climate vs material prosperity" framing. It's empirically false. It's straightforwardly right-wing. It's going to make it harder to pass good policies. It's going to set that whole debate back.

"Vote Blue no matter who.." "Oh, not that one."

699 followers on this awful websites geddin.

The FT story (paywalled now) is basically US firm Eli Lilly saying European countries "claw back" too much money from its drug sales. But Eli Lilly's Dutch accounts show it sitting on a giant pile of money. Like Smaug the dragon from "The Hobbit", complaining that the dwarves are too greedy.

Just watched that awful John Lewis Christmas ad. It's full of bloody white people.