Holding my breath until he actually walks free. But this is huge news. #freealaa

No disrespect to Sooz, who is fucking great, but why is a weirdo comic who makes quirky videos currently the most profound ideological thinker on the British left? Someone is letting the side down. Or several someones. Someseveral?

No slowing down of arms for Israel, just for the countries "bordering Russia" (is that clear enough?)

Put the kettle on, the internet is going to demand all your attention for the next hour or so...

Suddenly it's Labour and the Tories who need PR desperately to avoid annihilation. Maybe now is the time?

One tiktok and she's already got more points than the entire UK government.

This is, apparently, "an insult to Sunday dinners" and "like being served Sunday lunch with no veg". Our crimes? Leaving the green beans with still some crunch to them, roasting the carrot instead of boiling it, and serving cabbage instead of broccoli. Old people can be so rude and entitled.

I thought Keir Starmer saying nothing about the Tommy Two-names march yesterday was an absolute low point of his time as PM. He's gone one better (well, worse) today. Echoing their language in supposedly distancing himself from them. How can he be this bad? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Leicester, stats in yellow, have had a player sent off for a second yellow card. I don't think the BBC's advanced stats are as advanced as they claim...

No-one should have to get used to this shit.

It's not just the violence they need to condemn. It's the politics. They condemned the violence last summer and then spent the entire subsequent year pandering to the politics. That's why we are where we are.

Great thread. Austerity certainly helps the ruling class build a narrative for poor whites to blame immigrants for their problems, but austerity isn't the root of racism. Racism is the root of racism.

The centrists and careerists who have taken over the labour movement will still be politely debating the bullet even as it enters their skull.

How have we slipped into the situation where anti-racists are outnumbered so heavily on the streets of London? This is a disastrously negligent display by the Labour movement, the unions, and the anti-racist campaigns. Years of failures to confront the racists coming home to roost.

Mostly I enjoyed a day out to watch beloved #lcfc get a hard-fought point away at Oxford, but hearing fellow Leicester fans chanting for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon made me feel sick. We sing that we're proud of our city, but it clearly isn't true. Our city is joyfully multi-racial, you're betraying it.

Charlie Kirk took most repugnant white Christian nationalist zealotry from places it festered in the odious margins & moved it to the Trumpian mainstream, becoming a millionaire who moved into a $4.75mn estate in the process. Speak ill of him. It is the truth. www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-spea...

Important to remain grounded in reality. Here is the man that Keir Starmer wanted us to pray for...

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Dismayed by the "I loathe Gl**ner but his arrest should scare us all" takes. The bar for arrest over a social media post *should be extremely high*, but a guy who's harassed trans people 19 hours a day for 8 years, telling his 600k fans to attack any trans women they see, clears that bar v easily?

Your weekly reminder that voter "concern" with immigration doesn't correspond to actual immigration levels. It corresponds to the amount of coverage the media gives immigration. This an entirely self-fulfilling mess, and it is entirely pointless.

The answers are simple. Anyone can understand them. You'd have to be really, really clever, like a prime minister, to not understand them, and not be able to say any of them.

I know the world is in a state, and we are desperate for something a lot, lot better, and the Labour Party should have had a historic mission to be that something, but things have reached the point where this is simply fucking hilarious. They're all so fucking incompetent.

It should be insane that something like this happens, the USA appears to be trying to start a war with a neighbouring country, and your first thought is "that's a distraction from tomorrow's Epstein survivors' press conference" but yet here we are...

Protesting against genocide by holding up signs is terrorism but begging people to commit assault in public toilets is just free speech? Objecting to genocide is anti-Semitism but daubing racist slogans on Chinese takeaways is expressing legitimate concerns? This government is fucked in the head.

I thought this was satire when I read it, but a quick scan of the news media and I realise it's basically an official government press release.

I hope he's not dead. Consider the alternatives. He might have suffered a catastrophic health event leaving him in terrible pain, requiring vastly expensive medical care and unable to communicate. He might have lost control over his bodily functions, leaving him lying in his own shit. For years.

The maddening thing is that we know EXACTLY how to prevent this. Yes, kids should get vaccinated, test, stay home when sick, mask as much as possible. But even without any of that: Better ventilation and filtration in schools can MASSIVELY reduce viral spread, for all sorts of respiratory diseases.

Has the Guardian finally got buyer's remorse? Probably not, but it's interesting that they do have a limit to their cheerleading of the centrist project. Maybe they're losing readers?

Man who has led an utterly privileged existence, unbothered by the realities of poverty, so secure in his opinions that he became a Tory minister, tells the generation who have grown up facing an existential climate crisis, austerity and a pandemic, that they're faking it. What an utter cunt.

Britain isn’t being “overrun” by migration — it’s being sustained by it. The Bear argues politicians on all sides owe voters honesty about this simple fact.

Customer who failed to turn up for a room on the busiest night of our year, despite several attempts by our staff to contact them, has now filed a "chargeback" and Barclaycard have given them their money back and are now charging us the refund plus charges. What's the point of a cancellation policy?

Memo to the UK Labour movement (including the fucking government, for chrissakes): this is how you respond to fucking Farage.

It simply isn't possible for @riotgrlerin.bsky.social to get any better than yesterday's threa... Oh. Never mind. I am in awe. Again. These are so perfect. How this woman isn't signed up to mega contracts by some major advertising and design studios I do not know.

I. Am. Broken.

While there are centrists in the UK happy to parrot Starmer's line that Trump is helping to secure peace in Ukraine, the reality is that he is deranged and mostly being played by Putin. If European leaders won't recognise it, things will end very badly.

One million meals a day in Gaza may sound ambitious, but WCK can do it. #ChefsForGaza

Yes. Yes we have.

Funny the bits that won't get celebrated when the commemorating happens...

A question for the prime minister: Why is a chef having to wear a bulletproof vest?

Time for someone in the brewing industry to produce some "Pale Stein Action" t-shirts? To raise awareness of the need to drink pale ales in tall glasses with handles, obviously, not to confuse the Met. That would be wrong.

Between a "No Other Land" crew mate filming himself being killed by a settler, to a journalist being killed by airstrikes he was covering minutes earlier, I'm not sure how much more televised Israel's genocide can be

After a year of shameful and embarrassing statements by Labour MPs this is by far the worst. Literally talking about human beings as though they're rubbish. No doubt when Farage's mobs turn these words to violent action, she'll wring her hands in faux outrage. Labour? Might as well be the NF.

I don't understand, she seemed to be doing a good job of making people homeless.

Can't we do better? Even after all the talking and the codes of conduct and the well intentioned brewery initiatives? Can't people (i.e. men) stop being dicks and creeps and bullies? This is why we can't have nice things. I'm so done with it. And even that is a luxury not everyone enjoys.

I'm having a rough go of it lately, and have been thinking: everyone is going through something, and you have no idea what it is, or how it's affecting them. Quote post this is if you're going through something, and maybe we'll all realize that we aren't as alone as we feel right now.

Above everything, this. The fuckers feeding our future into the shredder are mostly doing it for the chance to be a lickspittle to a feeble-minded Nero who won't remember their name five minutes from now. They've got no fucking ambition at all.

I suppose you have to admire the commitment. They're just beans. But they're beans all the time.

Who looks across the Atlantic at the shameful behaviour of Trump's poundshop Gestapo - kidnapping workers at Walmarts and deporting them without due process - and thinks "I wish I could do that"? Keir Starmer. The UK prime minister is literally a Trump fanboi. That's what centrism has given us.

I for one can't wait for the CMAT / kneecap collab track.