Both parties actively endorsed Andrew Cuomo and he STILL couldn't beat a vocally pro-Palestine, pro-trans, socialist, Muslim immigrant. The vindication I feel IS a part of that obvs coz I'm a petty little cunt. But I mostly feel intense joy and relief that another way has been shown to be possible.

say it with me, everyone

If you watch these two for smart political analysis you're a fucking idiot.

Because the lads choose amongst themselves what is news and what is a snooze, and the choice is heavily directed by the Sun, the Mail, the Times and the Telegraph. So that means that it’s usually wall to wall screeching and bullshit, every day of the year.

Centrists who react to Nazis gaining ground with "we should try to reach out to them more" and react to socialists gaining ground with incandescent rage and tutting about populism are letting you know that their "centre" exists somewhere off beside Augusto Pinochet

Zohrans improbable victory should be an inspiration for all of us to pursue Our wildest dreams. Take up skateboarding even if you have a bad back. Call your ex girlfriend and tell her you understand how to love someone now. Start a Ukelele math rock band.

Had to share this from twitter just because

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

I think Sudan might shoot up the news agenda somewhat if two US Presidents and two British PMs e.g. announced we were sending the RSF more machine guns and missiles to kill more civilians, then told the press everyone protesting against it was a traitor extremist and sent the cops to arrest them.

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

This isn’t how it works. What happens is, Britain’s horrific media outlets stoke years of escalating, terrifying panics intended to spread fear and hatred, make their indulgence of politicians conditional upon their willingness to play along, then threaten Consequences if they don’t get their way.

It's been half a year since the 'Clear Supreme Court Ruling' landed and there's still no one can adequately summarise the guidance. However, my 'Everyone who writes for The Times should drink piss' ruling remains clear and consise.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

The lads didn’t spend all that time e.g. angrily ignoring the Iraq inquiry report and stomping all over Tony’s enemies, just to *not* plaster him all over their papers once every two weeks, wittering whatever bollocks he’s been told by the latest squillionaires who gave him money.

There is ample evidence that privatized public services are strangling households and extracting obscene profits off citizens. And there's shit in your water.

Was it immigrants who pushed subprime lending onto the desperate and then sold that debt so extensively that every institution was exposed to it? Was it immigrants who responded with ideological austerity targeted at the most vulnerable when it inevitably imploded?

The clear thread running through Goodwin's career is the drive to imbue his creepy fixation on immigration with the legitimising authority of supposed mass support. Here, audience members have disqualified themselves from the category of "the people" in his eyes by virtue of disagreeing with him.

This is what every tech company advert looks like now

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

Harriet Harman doesn't like Zack Polanski because he beat her in a competitive eating competition where they were seeing who could consume the most slices of deep dish pizza. Google 'Harriet Harman PIE' to learn more!

Who told the public that he embodied the system? Who was it that said they were the real conservatives, and who said this was *precisely* what Britain needed, very enthusiastically cheering all of that on every step of the way?

back in the summer this city felt safe. now I can't walk down the street without seeing a skeleton, pumpkin with a face, things of this nature. it's just sad to watch the city I love fall apart.

That’s a fantastic comparison, because the reason they added lead to gasoline was just to increase convenience a tiny bit, and they’ve poisoned the world in the process. The good news is: Impossible as it may seem, we banned it worldwide and its bad effects are now mostly gone. Makes you think.

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Probably not a coincidence that all the smartest, most Sensible people spent the last ten years screaming abuse at the country’s most high-profile antiracists and doing everything they could to hound them out of public life entirely.

The key thing here where she observes that there was unity and purpose in hounding out the left but now that’s done, there’s just… nothing there. And that’s true, there are few ideas, there’s no project and no purpose beyond sustaining themselves in office while snagging a sweet post-politics gig.

Almost like the problem is and always was elite radicalisation, and not Yer Da on Facebook

I do have a genuine theory that part of the problem is he's trying to run the country like a CLP and the problem is that if you crush the left they do not, in fact, quit the country and cease to be a factor

AI feels increasingly like rebadged BonziBuddy

“Voters have gone off them since 2010” being the most in-depth explanation we’ll get. Was there a particular program implemented around 2010 that’s proven to be disastrous? Maybe there was, but what if all the important people had said it was great and screamed abuse at people who said it wasn’t

As long as we're talking about tattoos...

Why is Piers Morgan always given so much time and space? Because our media is a relentless circle jerk where people whose main experience is dinner bang on and on about the world they can barely see above their goose pate and Stilton foam

Sir Will Lewis of the Telegraph and then News International’s defence against the hacking inquiry, here. Almost like the British press is a kind of permanently leaking acid spill that dissolves and destroys everything it touches, like being splashed with xenomorph blood.

The woke football flags are so good. From the river to the key is incredible

The thing about Labour (not just Jess Phillips) is that they reopened the Grooming Gangs story to engage in some good oldfashioned islamophobia and they'll be damned if they let some uppity *CSA surviviors* make it about police corruption.

More specifically: what’s happened is that from about 2018 onwards, MPs and media commentators created a kind of free-fire zone for themselves in which they could say and do more or less anything they wanted, with the usual rules of public conduct suspended, as a temporary, emergency measure.

I hate to pull the immigrant card, but as an immigrant, it feels awful when elected MPs say I ‘need to go home’ and propose stripping me and all other immigrants of all our legal rights to live here. No, anywhere immigrants move is their home. The UK is my home.

The whole British government and media loves Maccabi Tel Aviv fans! The far right football fans that love to cause violence! *5 minutes later* We regret to inform you the Maccabi Tel Aviv fans are far right and have caused violence

bittersweet seeing parts of the lethargic british press sluggishly get around to wondering if US far-right religious think tanks are working to influence british politics. they are, yes! it is not secret! do your jobs better!

And we’ll have to ask, because it’s difficult to square the current all-channels racist insanity with e.g. 2019’s crushing victory for the forces of decency over the extremely racist, hateful left, and the total eradication of prejudice in 2021. Nobody can explain.

As I said re: France - a scenario where aggro reactionary centrists fight it out with the far right is fine by reactionary centrists, because they will be in charge half the time. Their enemy is even softly left wing people, because a country that has left politics has no need for aggro centrists.

Good thing nothing like this is happening closer to home, eh? That would be so embarrassing for the Guardian

This is absurd. If supporters of an English football club went to another country, committed violent hate crimes and public order offences, and the police in a subsequent country decided they couldn't be doing with it, the Prime Minister and the Leader Of The Opposition would not be caping for them.

You're absolutely right — starting a land war in Asia wasn't just a bad call, it's 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗰 𝗯𝗹𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀. Thank you for calling me out on that — really. I'll be extra-strategic from now on. Would you like me to get cracking on those 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗰𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿?

A reminder that it took UEFA less than a week to ban Russian clubs from European competitions back in February 2022.

You may note the contrast with other candidates, who knocked the lads bandy with their ability to look at least somewhat sharp in a suit and deliver a dull speech full of meaningless platitudes.

like basically everyone who works in software I embody this tweet and do not under any circumstances want to talk to my computer

We had *years* of “finally Labour are listening to the public and changing to become what the people want”. Look at the polls, really appreciate how popular they now are. To whom were they listening, to have earned all that praise? *Who* wanted this. Was it the public? Was it the people.