The ACPO / Labour Together story just became funnier.

So you're telling me that Starmer's two leading candidates for the top ambassadorial posting just happened to be the two UK politicians - from ostensibly opposing parties - who had a secret meeting on Oleg Deripaska's yacht? And that's not worth probing any further? www.reuters.com/article/worl...

The insistence that Starmer didn’t even like Mandelson sits strangely alongside the ‘to us he is just Peter’ informality of the initial announcement.

Ha, "I don't normally drink a half" is the new "I normally have frothy coffee in a mug, not a posh cup with biscuits!" See also: "I don't normally advocate for supporting universities, I'm too busy on the assembly line!" Authentocracy's moved from discourse into actual industrial policy.

The funny thing about Hannah Spencer is that she’s literally exactly what everyone pretends they want from politicians in political media: a working class woman who has broken into politics from a normal job, speaking her mind from genuine lived experience. And they fucking hate her for it lol

Wild shit from the assistant director of RUSI.

mind boggling response from a Labour MP. She either: does not have a clue how important universities are to the local economy; knows but doesn’t care because of some sort of ‘anti-elitist’ brainworm; or knows but is too worried to admit it lest it upset Reform voters. none reflect very well on her!

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Trouble with “he’s a decent guy who’s out of his depth” is most of Starmer’s failures are moral ones. Child benefit cap, Mandelson, the Gaza siege, the pledges. If what separates you from your stated principles is how it’ll play in the Daily Mail, it’s hard to argue you are in fact a decent person.

[extremely SpongeBob narrator voice] two months later

Probably not a good idea to play into notions of a Deep State.

Blowing up civilian homes as "terror infrastructure" as revenge for IDF's failure to occupy the village in 2006. "I've come for payback. To kill the murderers of Hezbollah, and to blow up their homes, which became terror infrastructure".

Palantir are about six months away from ordering their employees to leave audio logs scattered around their offices

look at palantir (and other AI) dipshits talk about the work they do - ie identifying, monitoring, & facilitating the extrajudicial murder of people all over the world - and tell me you defend a corporate structure's right to exist, or a "kill chain's" right to exist. and MY work scandalizes you?

it always surprises me when people react really viscerally to the idea of destroying systems and institutions that either no longer serve us (and can't be reformed), or never existed to serve humanity in general. putting the destruction of a system on the table shouldn't be a radical position

The Israeli historian Omer Bartov argues in his new book that a “state ideology” of Zionism has led to what he calls genocide in Gaza. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

What I am learning from the proliferation of AI images across Facebook is that a lot of people clearly didn't do enough Spot the Difference pictures as kids. It hasn't just added colour John!!!

He really has not changed since 1967, its terrifying

We are so far beyond even Teapot Dome levels of "government captured by private industry" in this country, and Democrats genuinely seem to believe their unpopularity is driven by being too nice to trans people, instead of being driven by their screamingly obvious hypocrisy about this.

Keir Starmer in 2020: "I had 8,000 staff as Director of Public Prosecutions and when they had victories I celebrated on their behalf and when they made mistakes I carried the can. "I never turn on my staff. You should never turn on your staff"

The first part of this consists of one (1) alleged crook apparently boasting about his abilities to scam the Home Office, and then there's an awful lot of dark & generalised “some people fear that X” and no (0) examples of people successfully staying here on a false basis 2/

It’s genuinely staggering how little substance there is to today’s instalment of the BBC’s attempt to create a national crisis out of a few unproven allegations of immigration fraud 1/

The people who will be hurt by this are domestic abuse survivors and LGBT+ migrants. The narrative through these investigations is going to lead to increased hostility.

The BBC undercover investigation into false immigration claims is deeply irresponsible journalism. It does not highlight that exploitation by unregulated advisors occurs because legal aid was cut and the system is insane to navigate.

Fun game of happy family: Saad here, on one page, cites Steven Pinker, Richard Dawkins & literal 3rd reich nazi apologist Douglas Murray. Not to mention that the bullshit (in the formal & informal senses) notion of "suicidal empathy" was promoted by none other than our modern day Goebbels: Elon Musk

Imagine a study that found kids with ADHD have more visits to doctors than kids without ADHD — and used that finding to suggest ADHD treatment doesn't work. That's the standard of evidence the anti-trans braintrust is willing to accept.

"Though direct acts of massacre took place in colonised territories everywhere, slow, indirect killings have more often been the means of annihilating Indigenous peoples." www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

We (UK) had 15 years of austerity. We had our worst decade of wage stagnation since the Napoleonic Wars. At the start there were no food banks and today they are everywhere. If your graph doesn't capture that, that's not me failing, it's you.

Something's got to give. You have to either stop pretending you genuinely want teens to go outside and do things, or you have to massively increase the amount of funding and, crucially, *space* for activities for young people – some of which will be self-organised and, yes, a little bit scary.

It's amazing how long this discourse cycle keeps going despite the fact that the *London Metropolitan Police* – hardly an institution of bleeding heart liberals – has said that they didn't witness shoplifting or widespread criminal damage. Archive: archive.is/KgDa3

This is an aid-drop off location. Every day people defend this.

This is an aid-drop off location. Every day people defend this.

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

I wrote this yesterday www.hauntologies.net/p/israel-bom...

It must be strange to be somebody producing really high quality investigative work on this topic for Reuters (news agency) while Thomson Reuters (parent company) participates in the same kind of data-sharing surveillance stuff you're working to expose

We do in fact subsidise the arts and we used to believe opening access to the culture/music via education. But good luck winning the less fortunate to this version of liberalism I suppose.

The depressing angle on this is that many (possibly most) people don’t have actual convictions. They go along with whatever lets them fit in and have relative psychological safety in their social spaces. This is why letting bigotry become socially acceptable is so dangerous.

Bondi was monstrously corrupt before she got the job. Senate Democrats know this, but they always, always, always feel compelled to do the "gotta hand it to Republicans" thing.

I’m allowed to be a killjoy about this. I want a real, meaningful, convincing explanation for why the rocket launch by nine companies arming a genocide, two projects (artemis and sls) that have sucked funding from space science, and a dead-ended vanity project (humans on the moon) is exciting at all

And every year Penntrification extends the color line and deepens segregation in schools (& doesn’t pay tax to fund the school district). Having worked there for 6+ years, I can vouch we shouldn’t idolize Pennovation without observing the adverse socio-economic impacts the uni has had on the city.

Somehow our streets have become taken over by vehicles. We’ve allowed the needs of motor traffic to dictate the experience of everyone getting around or hanging around on our streets. 🚗 💨 🚚💨 🚦 And children have lost out more than any of us. We can do so much better. 🤸🏽 🤸‍♀️ 🛝🌷 🌳

Love how both Hazony and Caldwell go on Ezra Klein and play the waffling good-natured uncle, no strong opinions, just shoulder-shrugging equivocation. The beta strategy for their mainstream turn.

Allegations of “family voting” was *the* top story on the BBC news summary the morning after the by-election. It was specifically alleged or implied by spokespeople from every major political party. It was directly reported by the political editor of Sky and the political editor is the Spectator.

Moreover what critics are asking is impossible: how was the newly dominant right of the Labour Party supposed to think of 1 coherent idea beyond “continue to smash internal enemies” on the hoof, in the span of just six years.

Is this a shitpost?

Absolutely not. If you are using AI to write you should 100% be ashamed. Shame is one of the last bulwarks against a total slop apocalypse. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/b...

It cannot be emphasised enough that this is enabled by the major parties playing up 'sectarianism'.

Here’s the government’s current anti-extremism expert. I urge you to note that his definition of “extremism” includes Scottish nationalism, gender recognition and talking about history in ways he doesn’t like. Do we think these clowns swarmed into government and media about two weeks ago?

this is, uh, pretty fasc