Burnham will do things* better than Starmer. *pandering to fascists; destroying the Labour Party; etc…

California’s new eight-hour battery is making its grid even more renewable. California has switched on Tumbleweed, the first major US battery project able to discharge power for eight hours, twice the usual duration for grid batteries. Canary Media buff.ly/jBKQxrf #ShareGoodNewsToo

I note that the secret power behind the government’s throne can be graphically revealed to be deeply in hock to notorious sex criminals, Russian oligarchs and Chinese generals and that is just effortlessly swept aside, in favour of whatever this is.

If this sounds uncannily similar to the weeks-long Labour racism scandal, with heavily choreographed Worrying Revelations appearing in the papers turning into air-horned Shock Scandal precisely timed to coincide with a prime time TV scandal documentary, well, there’s something you have to consider:

Also collaborated with the Times and the Sun in 2009 on an idiotically damaging, weeks-long PR stunt designed to pin the blame for the 08 crisis on Gordon Brown personally, to decapitate the party and replace its leader with a crackpipe-sucking Blairite true believer. Perhaps this sounds familiar?

Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. In earlier incarnation, he supported the Iraq invasion; was chairman of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. What next?

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

the thing about greenblatt is that this is a dude who watched elon musk give a "heil hitler" and then said "looks like nothing to me." why would anyone take him seriously?

Let me just re-up a joke that last did the rounds on forums back in 2006, when the Israelis were also invading Lebanon…

A handy snapshot of where British politicians are currently at on the Fuck Around/Find Out spectrum

oh my god

We are currently supporting seven young trans people previously supported by Brighton WellBN and are working with our partners to identify more who are most in need. We presently expect to be able to support at least 15 young trans people.

Happy 10 years of Brexit 💃💃💃

Solar and heat pumps for everyone, everywhere. Get rid of at least half the cars in cities. Ban SUVs. Massive increase in cycling infrastructure and pedestrianised areas. Any job which can be worked from home is offered on that basis, with office as an option.

Paedophilia less important than embezzling ones own company.? Not a mention on UK media

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It looks like they're testing an experimental obesity/sleep apnea/hypertension medicine on Trump and only on Trump. To make the obvious point: that means Trump's health is so poor that no existing medicines are working.

He did the meme

The unfortunate part is, it’s even worse than that: at the elite level, both sides of the Leave/Remain divide calculated that the Tories winning and forcing Brexit through was in their best interest, because they would worry about the details later. So they all worked to ensure that happened.

For US followers: The entirety of the contrived soft hagiographies of Starmer and attempts to downplay his obvious failures, betrayals and table-setting for the far-right can be neatly summed up by the idiom, “Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”

This is Starmer’s legacy. The Labour Party will harm a huge number of sick and disabled people and centrists will talk about how “decent” the monster was. Sickening.

The most “metal” photo you’ll see all day. (Pic credit: Nick Bull)

Expect this to be the story for the next few years at least: it’s not that politicians (and their media hangers-on) have been failing the public, or trying to impose their own unworkable desires, or that *they* are at fault. The problem is that the electorate are all greedy, self-centred pigs.

Nazi alert (They’ve just taken the photo off the listing, you’ll have to go to the video or 360 tour) www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Fuck me

The only NHS offer to all trans kids by this deeply transphobic government is psychological torture. Elaborate and expensive justification systems, like Cass, have been set up to enable these. I call this “Contrived Authority” activism. Elaborate methods of justifying the unjustifiable

Keir Starmer is a bad person who used his power to make the United Kingdom a more unequal place and dismantle the possibility of opposing oppression and genocide, and to drive trans people from public life. If you think he is decent, I have news for you about your own moral judgement.

Btw this "a long term life on medication" is taking the exact same hormones in the exact same quantity that every other woman my age naturally produces, with all of the same effects It's fucking ridiculous to talk about it as if it's a life on opioids or something

I saw this referred to as the Strait of Warm Ooze. Very good.

Yes, there’s a reason why government and press unified on pushing the idea that people being angry about British connivance in the destruction of the Gaza Strip was not legit, and that it was evidence of menacing extremism and dangerous sectarian hatred directly threatening democracy.

How are things in Belfast? Are the people with Legitimate Concerns about paedophilia attacking unionist politicians’ homes in response to the Donaldson verdict? They aren’t? How strange. Their Concerns seemed so Legitimate when they were burning foreigners out of their homes a few weeks back.

Didn’t really damage the careers of the malicious pigs in the photo in the way you’d expect it to, did it.

Naaah, he will be remembered as an anti free speech, dishonest, genocidal, authoritarian, racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic transphobe who created problems when he had the opportunity to solve them. @thelondoneconomic.bsky.social is undermining its own credibility here.

Concealing your plans to scythe benefits from the public is not “moderate”. Nor is joining culture wars on the side of hateful, cruel reactionaries, or conniving in war crimes and genocide, vastly expanding what counts as “terrorism” or creating spurious pretexts to arrest thousands of protestors.

No, they won't. Political scientists and others warned explicitly at the time (2023-4) that any sustained attempt to appease the nativist right (Reform UK voters) by Labour would fail badly and cost them. Since that is practically most of what Starmer did, it's going to be a short article.

Maybe the reason people struggle to name Starmer’s achievements but can readily recall this, his comments on cutting off Gaza, him kicking people out of his own party en masse, blocking Burnham from G&D etc. is because he made a loud performance of being a thoroughly nasty piece of work.

“[Keir Starmer] arrived in Downing Street carried not by a wave of enthusiasm but by a tide going out everywhere else.” Shehab Khan writes about how Keir Starmer’s landslide win in 2024 contained seeds of his downfall from the start. Read: zeteo.uk/p/keir-starm...

The women and children protectors are quiet www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cw...

Zeteo actively challenging the "landslide" nonsense, representing the reality accurately, makes a stark contrast to the Freedland column I nodded to earlier propagating that hogwash to paint the electorate as "volatile and impatient" in the pretence they somehow turned on Starmer in prole unreason.

I’ll go you one further than Toby does: they *correctly sense that they are collectively responsible for* our illiberal turn; they are aware of how ugly and disastrous it is and aware that the people who drove it would not now be in a position to do so, had it not been for their active collaboration

Expect Telegraph columnists to be like "you know who else travelled from exile to power on a sealed train".

Former DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson is a paedophile, a jury has unanimously found: Guilty on all 18 counts, including rape of a primary school girl. Judge says jail is "inevitable" and ex-MP immediately remanded into custody. Full breaking coverage:

Heartbroken for the girls he abused. What courage they have shown. One missing thing needs to be highlighted here: Donaldson's conservative evangelical Christianity. CW: evangelical purity culture cultivates and protects pedophiles @dlmayfield.bsky.social www.strongwilledproject.com/purity-cultu...

The fun part is: the spokesperson is obviously correct, and nobody except the most hardcore partisans will now repeat Sir Keir’s big claims about Cleansing His Party Of Racism, because everybody saw Morgan bragging to ITV and the Times about how he cooked that up offscreen with the press.

Well, imagine that your politics are broadly the same as Labour’s 2020/26 and you are on the record for five years saying this stuff was shit-hot brilliance, and every reasonable people would obviously agree it was great. It’d be awkward to admit now that the public *fucking hate it*, wouldn’t it.

labour won bcos everyone hates the tories. @darrenpjones.bsky.social and his mates have destroyed the labour party by simply being more tory than the tories. this notion that ppl voted for labour’s manifesto( a few buzzwords and page after page of b&w photos of keir starmer ) is nuts.

One would think that if you won with a massive minority but a small vote share and then plummeted to historically catastrophic levels of unpopularity, this might lead you to conclude you didn't actually understand why you won. Alas, not these guys.