At some point, the Cookie Monster is going to have to decide to stop eating cookies

Well, this sure as hell needs to be more widely known. "The Labour Party leadership has caused uproar by banning its councillors from doing local deals with the Green Party." This is forcing Labour councillors to do deals with Tories. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Anyway here’s the passage of Judith Butler that the Guardian censored years ago

Great to remember that what Burnham’s doing now is designed to prove a concept of how he’d behave in government. Not my words, Lynne, words briefed to and written up by the Guardian’s deputy political editor.

People don't really grasp how bad it is Since the outbreak of the Iran war UK housing developers have UNDERPERFORMED housing developers in the UAE -36.8% vs -28.6% (both local currency) So far as I can tell only of these places was bombed but hard to say from the price action..

Fourth paragraph here is a powerful example of the implications of this guidance. We’re so lucky to have Arthur.

Can't stress enough how utterly nonsensical this line of "we need to cut immigration further" is when cuts to immigration are already having negative short and long term impacts. It also makes those saying it look particularly foolish when levels inevitably go up again www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Takes like this aging very poorly. I notice a lot of these sensible socialist intellectual types being very very quiet the past few days. Strange when they always have something to say about the Greens

First, Israel bombed a father and his daughter. Then, when the medical team arrived, they bombed again. A double tap. A war crime. Designed to maximize civilian casualties. That is, terrorism.

Keir Starmer and Yvette Cooper tacitly support this

The final straw for Suella Braverman's sacking was this - something the current Home Secretary would just be able to crack on and do with no worries.

this Labour Government has largely presided over the sharpest uptick in racial, religious, and LGBT+ violence in my lifetime and it's hard to really stress just how much Labour actively chose this

A friend did the maths on this and noted that in the last 5 years there has been one hostile news article for every ten trans people in the population total.

It’s a long road ahead

LeithMotive is convinced they’re not a transphobe so they’ll have no problem with me sharing this

Not at all disingenuous, considering the EHRC are of course primarily concerned with inclusion criteria for clinical trials after all

Really feels like this, along with the ILR policy, is the moral event horizon for Labour. Whatever happens now these policies will permanently scar the party, it really starting to feel like there’s no way back to a more liberal country where minority rights are protected

I hate the Labour Party and anyone who votes for it

I don't think it's a good idea to legally privilege someone else's discomfort over another person's rights.

It’s time for the people who haven’t said much about trans rights because it’s a bit inconvenient and might cause tension with gender critical colleagues to actually say something btw

Thinking of my trans brothers and sisters today, many of whom are some of the soundest and most compassionate people on this entire website

this is unworkably insane as well as morally repellent, and still isn't going to win the government any points at all from the people who are now going to tour the country waging lawfare against any organisations that look like they might be treating trans people with dignity

I think all of them were awful because they all have terrible beliefs on what constitutes a good society

“And then when they’ve been here 9 years we’ll retroactively change the rules they followed to the letter to force them to leave their ‘better life’ behind”

"We will always welcome those who contribute to this country and wish to build a better life here" at no point in my decade+ time of dealing with the home office have i ever felt this to be the case though? like i know the home office and massive lies go hand in hand, but my god

Labour lost almost four times as many voters to the Greens as they did to Reform UK in the local elections, according to new YouGov polling

This looks as inept as the Conservative government that Starmer replaced

God they hate us so much

Interesting new data from British Future showing most Labour inclined voters don’t back a 10 year route to settlement. With net migration at new lows, this makes clearer than ever that the earned settlement proposals don’t belong on Labour’s policy platform. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Looking increasingly like a coronation in which there will be no opportunity to change the direction of the country or to force a climbdown on Labour’s crueller policies. Will people still be asking the Greens to pave the way to this?

Wes Streeting isn't likely to stand in a leadership election if Burnham wins in Makerfield, his allies tell the Times, but will instead angle for a job in his Cabinet

Democratic norms being shattered everywhere in front of our eyes

Always jarring when you encounter someone you took for a run-of-the-mill leftish centrist dad on here launch immediately into full-throated transphobia

1. Expel the ambassador 2. Sanctions on Israel NOW 3. Immediate embargo on all arms, parts etc; no third party loopholes 4. Immediate revokation of charitable status to ANY AND ALL organizations sending aid to Israel 5. Uphold ICC arrest warrants

I hate the Labour Party and anyone who votes for it

Israel's Ambassador lies that a government minister is not representative of the government he represents.

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no like honestly though i don't really understand how the apologists for say the UK government's stance on palestine want us to act like they are Doing Their Best if they won't sanction a country that does this

There's no "study," this is based on a crank manifesto with only four footnotes written by a bunch of health grifters. Why is the Guardian covering this like it has any academic credibility?

On a more domestic UK politics level, it shreds Starmer and Labour's credibility when it comes to their claim of being serious about European defence and foreign policy. Whenever Starmtroopers accuse Greens of being soft on Russia they'll get waivers for Russian fossil fuels thrown back at them.

✅ The Labour party have it in their constitution that they will always stand in every single seat without question ✅ Labour has never seriously endorsed electoral reform of any time, despite formal recommendations and promises from party leaders ✅ Labour doesn't do electoral pacts or alliances

✅ The Labour party very recently fought a by-election where they called the Green party 'rape enablers' and suggested they would turn playgrounds into crackdens, and then responded to their win of said election by saying it was Galloway endorsed sectarianism behind it

✅ The GPEW have had internal disagreements both ideological and strategic that long predate the Polanski surge that have less nothing to do with the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn or anything else ✅ The reason that the Greens are surging is in part because of Labour's own poisonous toxicity

The Greens should obviously run a candidate in Makerfield (they want to be seen as a serious party) but they also obviously shouldn’t campaign hard to win (this by-election is a sliding doors moment of unprecedented significance)but I can understand why talk of a progressive alliance pisses them off

Why won’t you disgusting swine join our Progressive Alliance? Sad, so unnecessary

This is a silly point that makes no sense. Burnham has made clear he is not going to *give* any assurances. Burnham isn't going to introduce PR before the next election, he's not going to negotiate with the Greens and there's no questions of him 'compromising'. We know all this already!

Why don’t people in the Green Party - not even that, literally just some Twitter accounts - want to cooperate with the Labour Party, and help it to pull itself out of the deep-ass hole it has dug itself into? The only answer possible is that they are hateful extremists.

Seeing this happen in a school that looks a lot like my old school on the same day as I see the UK Government permitting purchase of oil and gas byproducts from Russia as long as the purchase trail is sufficiently disguised really does make me feel quite murderous.

Amnesty International reports that the Islamic Republic carried out a record 2,159 executions in 2025, a figure that pushed global executions to their highest level since 1981. www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

The historic Ameri House Hotel in Kashan, one of the city's largest traditional hospitality complexes and Iran's largest historic mansion, was forced to close for failing to comply with the mandatory hijab laws. iranwire.com/en/news/1526...