the centre tacking right to take votes from the far right is a small chess nerd challenging a professional heavyweight boxer to a chessboxing match

FDR won 42 states in 1932, it wasn't by pandering to Hoover voters. Then Republicans called him a socialist for 4 years. Then he ran for reelection and won 46 states

AND THEN THEY LOST. THEY ALL FUCKING LOST TO REPUBLICANS. IT WAS FIFTEEN YEARS AGO AND THEY NEVER GOT ELECTED AGAIN BECAUSE PEOPLE JUST VOTED FOR THE REPUBLICAN. DO ACTUALLY NOT FUCKING COMPREHEND WHY THAT HAPPENED

please, think about the damage you might cause before sending an invoice

Wow we should base our entire economy on this technology

Michael Gove, if you remember, had bookcases full of the most obscure, in-the-weeds fascist and New Right literature imaginable. Real insiders-only stuff.

boy oh boy i hate how relevant this one is becoming

Remember the international response when there was a fire at Notre Dame Cathedral

You know how I hate to harp on about this, but nothing is ever going to change until we address it: How can this have happened when all our loudest political commentators stridently agreed *for years* that the public were crying out for these Serious people and these Sensible policies?

Do you see how yesterday’s deranged conspiracy theories - conclusive proof that you were a dangerous lunatic - are today’s boring, obvious truths, barely even news: there was an organised internal wrecking campaign closely coordinated with the press, Sir Keir’s campaign was a fraud etc etc

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today. https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

The media making out like the Robinson Rally was huge. 150,000 is tiny! Compare it to the 'Free Palestine' march (up to 800,000), the anti-Brexit march (650,000) or the Iraq war demo (1.5 Million) Disproportionate attention given to the gammon, as always.

This is hugely problematic. The overwhelming majority in the UK reject the far right yet our views aren‘t being properly articulated in the public sphere: the papers largely support it, the BBC is a mix of supportive & supine, the government simply absent

At some point there should be some chat about the fact that pro-Palestine protests have regularly had hundreds of thousands of participants and rallies with names like Protect the West (dying of cringe) as far as I'm aware NEVER crack more than a few thousand.

And round and round it goes.

Something tells me the paper - and indeed most of the lobby hacks - would not like it one bit, if Sir Keir announced a press conference then spoke candidly about what exactly it is that’s been happening in his party for the last seven or eight years, naming names and implicating accomplices.

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

The problem with anti-woke comedy is that it has one (1) good critique: *some* lib comedians aren't funny, they just repeat their audience's values back to them. This is true! It's just that it's also true of *all* anti-woke comedy, which is intrinsically values-led and thus comedically stillborn.

Given it’s been repeatedly reported that the leaders’ office staff despised the deputy PM and were trying to find any excuse to get rid of her, however feeble - and the hacks know this because these people have been telling them it’s so - could we maybe put two and two together about what this is?

Joanne Rowling has never "stood up for women". She has ONLY spoken against trans people. She never mentions the women of Gaza. She never mentions women's reproductive rights. She regularly mocks cis women to her 14million followers. She HATES women.

Graham Linehan once took issue with a sketch I did and tweeted about me referring to me not by name but only as to who my boyfriend was and called me an NPC ( non player character.) It was misogynistic and his “standing up for women” schtick is baloney.

this is just so the search results for 'starmer delivery driver' change

“I was treated like a terrorist” I say, whilst I encourage others to commit acts of violence against people at random in order to push a political agenda.

The wild thing is that McSweeney spent months and years explaining the plan was to fuck off the left, ignore the libs and build a crushing electoral bloc of Sensible Moderates and Reasonable Tories. And it was *instantly* clear the day after the election that this had not worked, nor would it ever.

Dear God! Linehan was NOT arrested for “gender critical” tweets, or tweets about “trans issues”! He was arrested for tweets calling on people to violently attack trans people in public bathrooms, or (cos he’s a feminist 🙄) if the police won’t help to find the nearest “big strapping bloke” to do it

They should be out there arresting proper criminals, like pensioners who oppose genocide

Yvette Cooper looked at current British asylum policies and thought, what we need is for *more* children to die in the English Channel

The bbc: going to ask you a racist question Starmer: ok, will answer like the racist I am

I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.

You do wonder how long this search for The Guy Who Can Make This Palatable will go on before they realise that actually no one can sell "we're going to make things worse, freeze or arrest your nan and do massive racism" from the Labour Party because that's simply not what people want from it?

If these MPs would like to make small amends for this abysmal behaviour, then a good start would be a professionally suicidal parliamentary speech denouncing their current boss’s Enoch Powell chat and his crackdown tweets about how he’s crushing the Black Immigrant Menace.

Didn’t you call them chavs and yobs for 20 years until you realised you could ventriloquise your posh-boy racism through them?

Trust me, if you're going to dress up in England flags with your mates, at night, so you can climb street lamps, don't take photographic evidence. It will be used against you in divorce proceedings.

All three parties want the votes of the same 35% of the electorate because those are the people who will vote for crackdowns, flag-fucking, means-testing, xenophobia, war, bungs from donors and stomping hard upon the sick, the poor and the left, and that is exactly what all three parties want to do.

This They Might Be Giants TONIGHT SHOW performance of "Birdhouse In Your Soul" from 1990 remains firmly lodged in my noggin thanks to the Tonight Show Band's full commitment and Doc Severinsen's incredible trumpeting... It took an already great song and made it transcendent.

It is weird that you still get people demanding “Source!?!” about these shenanigans, and you can truthfully tell them you heard it from *the Prime Minister’s Chief of Staff*, because he’s bragging about it for years to everyone who will listen, and then people still say it’s a conspiracy theory.

In this clip, Rory says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has now become an obvious fact, somehow without anyone having been wrong about anything at any point.

Remember when that Bosnian Serb general told the press that actually his army was blameless, because the people in Sarajevo were shelling themselves? Well, what if we did that every day for two years at about one thousand times the volume and intensity

This is a good and correct choice

Perhaps the real ‘two tier justice’ is that the foot soldiers who do the racist tweets get jail time, whilst the lieutenants in journalism who write the racist articles and the colonels as editors who spew out the incendiary headlines, and generals who own the papers, just get lots of money.

Abolish golf as well

The decade started with a public inquiry into horrifying behaviour and prosecutions of actual criminality by our globally remarkable and appalling media outlets. It ended with them monstering individual members of the public who inconvenienced Boris Johnson, their chosen Prime Minister.

Consider also, for a moment, that one of these propositions is pushed as a rock hard political consensus, widely believed common sense and the other derided everywhere as naive idealism or envy/class hatred. And *still* the latter is a more common belief.

Instead of Lucy Connolly's wretched words, maybe we should focus on those of Bebe's grandfather. She was one of the little girls murdered in Southport.

Our fiscal framework guarantees the UK economy is in a never-ending doom loop of rising debt and austerity proposed to fix it. As long as the OBR remains the arbiter of govt fiscal policy decisions, this will continue. Our research in @thetimes.com today: thetimes.com/business-mon...

Still working at the old comedy, eh lads? Going well, is it?

If the left and right are more alike than people like to admit (horseshoe bollocks) then why do the left and right never unite? Why is it always 100% of the time the centre and right that keep coming together?

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