This is worse than Sarajevo, worse than Halabja. And yet, here this fucker is and all the lads are fine with it. Should we draw conclusions? I think we should

I repeat, and will keep repeating, the question: why is anyone listening to this lobbyist for tech billionaires and dodgy oil regimes? He's been that far longer than PM www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

The royals aren't worth it. #NotMyKing #AbolishTheMonarchy

Getting mighty tired of the meme on here of “oh, it is just so difficult for the government to set the agenda”. The government (which literally employs thousands of press officers) is setting the agenda - it’s just that it is setting it on toxic ground it can’t win.

300 Northwestern students were blocked from enrolling in classes because they refused to complete a training that compares critics of Israel to former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke

Also, not sure anyone who thinks this has any interest being in the Labour Party.

How is this not front page news? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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What the fuck?

I do think this has been a week in which new levels of 'why don't senior Labour politicians understand we can ALL hear them' have been reached. Why would Andy Burnham do a 'I'm gonna hike taxes on London and the south, you're all rich!' Why would Steve Reed use 'regional politician' as a putdown?

@wrathofgodbot.bsky.social is absolutely on the money in that the British right is desperate for a younger voter who has a weird level of resentment towards *their own parents and grandparents* and unsurprisingly that voter doesn't exist.

It's wild to read that the Mirror will soon have just seven general news reporters working on "original news" stories across a seven day operation . pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/n...

"on a technicality" Not really. A failure to get necessary consents to a terror charge is not a slight error. They are safeguards when a person faces a serious charge. Prosecutors should take such safeguards seriously: this is terrorism law they are using. www.theguardian.com/music/2025/s...

Predictive text models do not ever "answer your question" They predict what an answer to your question would probably look like. Which is very, very, very different

The sheer parochialism of a tabloid newspaper pretending that ID cards would turn Britain into the GDR AT A TIME when a Russian dictator is trying to destroy the post-Soviet order of 1990 in Europe, and the USA is flirting with authoritarianism, is something to behold.

Hate to break it to the Daily Mail, but we are very much a papers, please culture...

Leaving the ECHR won’t “Take Back Control” – it will hand your rights to politicians The myths are seductive, the reality is very different – without the ECHR your freedoms rest on whichever Home Secretary wakes up grumpy eastangliabylines.co.uk/politics/jus...

You can really feel his influence these days, right?

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Assuming the anti ID card people have no passport or driving licence and don't access the NHS for a start. And are ignorant of how much data they're handing to the likes of Zuckerberg et al every day online.

If we don't want a "papers please" society, we need to roll back the checks brought in to satisfy the Mail and its screaming siblings. If we're going to keep those checks, we probably do need some digital system for meeting them - which means thinking hard about safeguards and security.

This is such an under explored argument. A contributing factor to the Windrush scandal was a lack of free way to establish a persons identity and legal status. Voter ID was so bad because of a lack of a universal free way to establish ID. Universal ID can be a protection.

there seems to be a thing of assuming racism is a poor area thing because we're poor and ignorant, ignoring all the racism spouted by privately educated journalists and the rich and powerful

the mistake that some people seem to be making with those who support Reform is thinking if they keep listening to them, they'll find out that racism is just code for something else bad happening in their lives

Tediously, shitloads of other countries have ID cards with no problem and it solves a whole bunch of problems relating to scams and ensuring people get benefits they are entitled to. Almost like public policy is actually super fucking complicated even when your instinct tells you to oppose something

"Some people break the rules". "OK, let's not have rules".

Reform supporters.

Nearly half of British adults believe a majority of immigrants to this country in the last year came here illegally. Just under a third (32%) believe the majority came here legally and a further one in five (20%) don't know.

I could be wrong, but I don’t remember so many polls being done about who would win a general election if it were held tomorrow at any other point when it was four years out from a GE ? Who is commissioning these polls? What is their purpose? Justification for wall to wall Farage coverage maybe?

Simon makes a really important point. It's something I keep going on about. The mid 70s were the last knockings of the golden age of the hobby. People with disposable income to spend on whatever leisure activity they fancied because the cost of living (esp housing) was so much lower.

So this is the first of the 50th Anniversary things I was going on about the other day. I was 5 when I saw this on Tomorrow's World which was one of my favourite TV shows at the time. The year 2000 seemed a very long way away then. It's a very long way away now in the other direction-

Today’s digital ID announcement yet another example of how X being the main platform for political discourse will inevitably throw the MSM’s coverage off course, because online right opinion is fevered/way off the beat with the public. Guess who need digital/reliable ID most? Those in poverty.

I hope there will come a day soon where it dawns on someone in Starmer’s team that their strategy of communicating “Nigel Farage is right about everything but please vote for us instead” is fuelling these disastrous figures rather than mitigating them, but today is not that day

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Oh, fuck all the way off.

The UK is not a papers, please society. It is a 'can you navigate a Kafkaesque thicket and/or get someone from a middle class occupation to sign your papers please society'.

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The most interesting Bluesky tribe are the 'leftwing UK pensioners who haven't noticed how their same-age friends vote'. I mean, *I* notice it among my boomer friends!

You'll never guess what this is in reply to.

Maybe the BBC should consider stopping kissing the arses of the people whipping up this racist abuse. Just a thought.

Maybe all those features about how innocent the flag-raising movement were should have given more prominence of the very clear intention to promote the far right and intimidate minorities.

Any distance is walkable as long as it's from a parked car.

Stop every campaign/effort telling people on bicycles/pedestrians and anyone outside the car how to be safe and divert ALL resources to remove every opportunity for drivers to be dangerous.

Great article from the always excellent Quietus. Two all-time great albums.

Britain could really do with an intelligent, constructive conversation about policy, but sadly that isn't allowed in Westminster-Fleet St. All we get instead is an infinitely mindless parade of cliches, McCarthyite tantrums and fatuous morality tales from a mythical version of history.

This was always going to be the most damaging legacy of the 2022 mini-budget: that any and every subsequent attempt to challenge the fiscal masochism that has laid waste to the public realm since 2010 would henceforth be derided as "Trussite".