The cruel opposite of the logic behind universal basic income that says better to help someone who doesn't need it than to not help someone who does

"Tonight, on The Cruelty Is The Point..."

Andrea Jenkyns who asked for an extra £147k to help answer emails has been posing with a fake "budget box" because yes that's a totally normal thing that regional mayors do.

Let’s be clear: the Trump administration isn’t “pausing” funds to fight fraud. They’re weaponizing Medicaid to punish a state that rejects their extremism. They’d rather see a child lose coverage than see a Democratic governor succeed.

Damn right, Micah! @23carra.bsky.social should try being professional, as should Gary Neville “I’m professional, doing my job. You should try that and stop being so biased toward Liverpool.” 😉 Micah Richards, always the ultimate professional 😂

How Matt Goodwin's definition of "the Elite" focuses on university workers and civil servants, while excluding the investment bankers, asset managers and global real estate executives who pay him bylinetimes.com/2026/02/25/r...

The more Reform UK male politicians obsess over sex the more convinced I become that being rejected by women is the true engine of the party

Channel 4 have over-estimated the Great British public's appetite for programs presented by Jimmy Carr, usually with Jonathan Ross as a guest.

There's a whole thing going down on the right wing X-sphere where vloggers go and stand outside mosques... try to provoke worshippers... and then claim they have been "assaulted" - despite the people on the footage appearing to be entirely reasonable and just asking them to go home.

Exc: Matt Goodwin rails against the elites but is paid to fly around the world to speak with them. The Reform candidate says he's “not part of establishment”, but has given talks at the London Stock Exchange, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Asset Management and Google www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

The Trump State of the Union speech in two minutes. You're welcome. zeteo.com/subscribe

Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, "If we lost the midterms - heaven forbid" "If we lost the majority in the House" "It would be the end of the Trump presidency in a real effect"

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

Just Daily Mail 'journalist' Sarah Vine comparing the UK's only Jewish leader of a political party to Adolf Hitler. #politicslive

🇪🇺 Stephen Gethin MP: "Ukraine, Moldova and others see their future in Europe. Why on earth doesn't the UK" "80% of our young people, 16 to 24 year olds want to rejoin, Customs Union, they want to rejoin." "75% of Scots want to rejoin because this has been a failure"

This was not meant to happen.

BREAKING: Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Tory peer Lord Toby Young, who has advocated for “progressive eugenics” and is in a business partnership with the editor of a reconstituted Nazi eugenics platform - by me via @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/r...

Reform UK is refusing to suspend a councillor who reshared a post calling for a female Labour MP to be shot. Given the history of violence against MPs in the UK, calling this an “honest mistake” is indefensible. There can be no excuses. national.thelead.uk/p/exclusive-...

Remember UK, this is what Farage wants for us. #Scottishindependence

Some still carping on that Mandelson is the "biggest political scandal"...no, it's not. Johnson's dodgy dealings, lies, partying whilst thousands died, comment re let the bodies pile high, son of KGB officer put in HoL, secret meetings to depose May, secret meetings with Lebedev is biggest scandal.

Your party leader’s fascist mentor was best mates with Epstein but please, lecture away…

Stephen Githens MP: "Nigel Farage told us the UK will not be the last member to leave. No one left, and more members are seeking to join." "Now, are there any colleagues from Reform today? None." "Now, there are some from the Conservatives, and I can never quite tell who's in and who's out."

The most annoying line in MAGAworld, and there are a lot!, is the ‘they tried to kill Trump’. They? Who is they? The president keeps getting attacked by… his own supporters.

Rubin: "There is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm she is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified as accusing Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15"

Americans think Europe is the problem continent - meanwhile, Europeans are just laughing at you...

Someone like Emily Sheffield reminds me it's the same group of people who keep setting our narrative. These people are on Politics Live & Newsnight, they do shows on LBC, or do the paper reviews on BBC or SKY, or appear on Question Time, or write columns in newspapers etc etc....over & over.

The circle of life... George Osborne was replaced as editor of the Evening Standard by Emily Sheffield, sister of Samantha Cameron, who is the wife of David Cameron, whose Chancellor was George Osborne, who was replaced as editor of the Evening Standard by... #politicslive bsky.app/profile/paul...

It’s why he’s paid the big bucks

This is how their concerns and qualms began with both Me Too and Operation Yew Tree: all of this stuff looks like “mob justice” to these lads, by which they mean “important people like them being accountable before the law, like everyone else is”.

You can guarantee these lads will be there swords drawn, ready to fight, whenever a wealthy and important person is arrested. Particularly but not only for sex crimes.

One of those occasional reminders that Farage's gang are mostly entitled 'Thatcherite+' people.

Good for the U.S. women’s hockey team for declining wannabe dictator’s invite. Let the men’s team get cold McDonald’s hamburgers.

Watch this from Historian Sir Anthony Seldon 👏 ➡️ Calls to wipe student debt and pay for it out of general taxation ➡️ Bring in Martin Lewis and give him four weeks to find a solution ➡️ There are no dead end courses eg the arts, stresses universities are so much more

I mean there is more prevalent shit to do…

Are you angry watching #DirtyBusiness on Channel 4? You should know what Thames Water is doing RIGHT NOW Its creditors want permission to pollute illegally until 2040 ⁉️ 24 Thames Water MPs have written to tell the Minister and @ofwat.bsky.social to say NO 👇👇👇 weownit.org.uk/news/is-your...

Something I found, I’m not about conspiracy theories. Never have been, never will be. I’m about shit people making shit decisions, with that being said….enjoy your hate watch Spurs fans or enjoy non spurs fans Just some of the decisions that have gone against us in this game over the last 3 years

Once upon a time...

Days after Andrew Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Peter Mandelson has been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office Are the authorities looking into that time Boris Johnson ditched his security to party in Italy?

I’ve seen it, so you lot have to as well.🤢

Such a charmer

"David Davis has called on the home secretary to urgently introduce a grace period to allow hundreds of Britons to continue to travel on their 2nd passport while their British passport is processed." That's David Davis core Brexiter. Who caused this catastrophe www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Ladies and gentlemen, Please meet Tim Nott, the chair of the Reform UK Party in Bath. He likes to do..."acting." (yes, that is him.)

Zia Yusuf is a practising Muslim. He's currently fasting because it's Ramadan. And he tells The Times this.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

“I’m just saying … bsky.app/profile/ronf...

Oh, I wonder why there's a shortage...

MOTD Comparing Spurs disallowed goal today VS similar goals allowed in EPL this season