Any time I look to see what the Labour government is up to in the UK it turns out to be things like making posters that Alfonso Cuarón put in the background of the long tracking shot that opens “Children of Men”.

British values

This amused me greatly 😂 especially the fox painting 😂 Thank yoooo @cheekybudgie.bsky.social

[Couples counselling] Goldfish husband: "I don't even know who you are any more." Goldfish wife: "I don't remember what I ever saw in you" Goldfish Counsellor: "Who are you guys, and how did you get in here?"

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

That time I recreated the Simpsons intro using only stock footage.

There's no reason to accept this as normal, though. Much of Starmer and Labour's unpopularity is not misfortune but his own doing. Mandelson was a choice. Consistently pursuing policy positions designed to appeal to people who will not vote for you - and alienating core supporters - is a choice.

Starmer's reported condition - incredibly unpopular, shorn of authority, probably un-reelectable and yet will stagger on for want of an alternative - is just the new normal of how Britain is governed. It was also true for two-thirds of May's premiership, half of Johnson's and all of Sunak's.

People who are clever, kind and funny are also very attractive! shocker

My dog sometimes says the word "woof" in a regular human voice. He only does this when there's nobody else around. He knows no-one will believe me.

We've had 6 incompetent PMs in a row. It's surely statistically improbable that this is pure bad luck and has nothing to do with our political culture/system or capitalism. But that's what we're being invited to believe.

GOOD NEWS! Starmer has uncovered the one Bad Dude in politics! It's Peter Mandelson! And now he's all taken care of it's back to the business of being good and normal and just stfu and enjoy things being as good as they can possibly be!

Pretty shocking to see someone in the Labour Party lying their way into an important job, while also calculatedly betraying everyone who ever entrusted them with power and influence

Instead he's conveniently utilising Mandelson as a lightning rod and scapegoat for the massive institutional corruption that enabled him. Just a bad apple, folks! Nothing to see here! Don't look at how rotten the barrel is!

Until last weekend Mandelson ŵas more warmly welcomed by the Labour nabobs than Burnham.

A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.

The Lords is a massive problem. How can a supposedly advanced country still be maintaing a veritably feudal upper house where you can't get rid of members. It's absolutely insane.

Mandelson was on Laura kuensberg the other week and she asked him why he stayed friends with Epstein after he’d been to prison for being a paedo and he gave some excuse and then they just carried on talking about other news stories for the rest of the interview.

Again: Morgan McSweeney was Labour’s billionaire bribes officer - a redundant position in a member-funded party antagonistic to government by bungs and secret agreements. Then suddenly he had all the media access and funny money he required to launch a wrecking campaign *and* a leadership campaign.

"I can be a pedophile all on my own" is not the flex he thinks it is.

straight up Gestapo shit

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Seriously though, looking at both Carney and Albanese it is genuinely remarkable how much Starmer has fucked it

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

The coolest Congresswoman there’s ever been.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

‘Or You Could Just Get Takeout,’ Reports Little Voice That Already Knows It’s Won https://theonion.com/or-you-could-just-get-takeout-reports-little-voice-t-1850409519/

This newspaper would like to offer our sincerest apologies to Mr. McEldroon, his lovely wife Peggy, and their beautiful children, Michael and Sally. We recently visited them at their home, located at 18 Maplewood Lane, to express our regrets personally.

Maybe if whoever this is wants that message put out, they should have to put their name on it

All the anti-war and anti-occupation protestors were right. All the far leftists were right. All the “woke scolds” and your friend who’s “too woke” were right. They were somehow even more right than they may have realized at the time. But really, it was always obvious they were right.

Quite remarkable that these people genuinely imagine that they were heroes for pulling every dirty trick in the book to expel the left. "It was horrible. People were calling me a liar simply because I was lying".

I mean, we all laugh at David Cameron because he fucked it into the sun chasing the votes of racist pensioners, but he did at least get a few of them, and not none.

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.

"Meanwhile, Princess Anne went for a ride in Kirkbride, Queen Camilla went shopping in Wapping, Prince Edward dropped a clanger in Bangor, and the young ladies of Buckingham asked Prince Andrew if he'd mind staying at home. Now it's goodnight from me ... ... and it's goodnight from him."

Rick Astley's boxing career was very short lived.

Weird there's been so little analysis of how rightwingers worldwide have proved that their talk of patriotism and sovereignty was bullshit. They'd give it all up for this grotesque horror. Of course that would entail admitting the left were correct about them, so we'll just never talk about it.

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

fascinating to compare how Wall Street reacts to the possibility that a socialist might have some power somewhere versus how it reacts to the concrete reality of a literal madman tearing down the American-led post-WWII global order

This Europa League match on Thursday sounds like it’s going to be the friendliest in history.

The promo is already top notch:

Seems unfair that you only get to use the bouncy slide to get off a plane when things have gone wrong. The bouncy slide should be a treat they give to the best passengers who did the flight correctly.

Robert Jenrick is unique in British politics for being the only MP who is an anagram of his constituency

I left university in 2019 with £49,600 of debt. A few months later, I became an MP and have since received a salary that puts me in the top 5% in the country. 6 years on, the repayments from my salary have brought this total to down to £48,600 - just £1,000 less.

i can probably guess tho

Could have highlighted how he removed cartoons from the walls of places they locked up kids because they made it too welcoming but no, Labour are attacking Jenrick for letting in too many migrants