Asked about rising racism and hatred in the UK, Keir Starmer says "the very sad thing is I am not able to say that in the 10 years since Jo Cox's death that things have got better because sadly they have got worse. That's on all of us to fix." Well yes, and your government has done what exactly?

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Lord Alan West yesterday: "Things like welfare.. are unimportant when you lose a war & you have Russian Chechen stormtroopers coming down the street raping women & killing people" Reintroducing the workhouse or Russians raping your mum. They're the only choices, ok.

The robots are only programmed to arrest criminals. Law abiding citizens have nothing to fear.

Definition of “terrorism” turns out to be surprisingly malleable and flexible, eh

I'd also like to know what is the magical property of 3.5% of GDP being spent on defence that is a guaranteed Putin repellent, as opposed to the 2.7% we currently spend which is apparently catnip to the Russians as a sign that we're begging to be invaded.

That’s quite a lot of bases and military personnel to have around your capital city from pretty hostile foreign power that is quite openly demanding payments with menaces, is it not

I look at this and see “Fascist US government demands a zillion pounds, with menaces”; “government agrees secret plan to fuck public out of a zillion pounds, fails to deliver” and “Comediously unpopular gets horsed out of power” and it does not fill me with lots of joy about our 100% real democracy.

I’m not sure on the chronology here but - Labour government elected with secretly agreed plan to scythe benefits - Fails to scythe benefits because doing so is comically unpopular - US Vice President calls Europe weaklings, demands they buy a zillion dollars of US arms company whizzbang…

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I mean, it does look like America has demanded an explicit figure in military spending - most of it, I’d assume, from US arms companies - with threats of what will happen if we don’t pony up, doesn’t it. If it isn’t that, then it’s weird how much it looks like it.

Elon Musk endorses an open call for violence which frames refugees as "invaders". This is why we need to #makehatecostmore www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/fight-the-...

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Trump and Bibi’s war will push 33 million people into poverty. Let that sink in. A war for no reason that accomplished nothing will ruin the lives of 33 million people around the world, far from the war zone. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/b...

On the Today programme, Nick explains that “many listeners” will be “worried” about Miliband becoming chancellor because he was “rejected as prime minister”. Once again, the effects on these guys’ brains of reading all the papers before 5am deserves urgent study

Certainly describes my situation: facing redundancy from a humanities job in weeks, no chance of another academic role, and at a university that went from teaching 15-20 languages to none.

Real 2015 vibes about this, as the right wing crackpots who infest and shittify our politics and media flail and screech about how utterly terrifying *Ed Miliband* is. Imagine how personally demeaning it is to be required to take these cranks seriously, for work.

I refuse to belive that Badenoch is seriously beyond the pale when what she says is no less wacky than what the Mail and Times publishes on a regular basis. The Tories are doing poorly because Reform is eating their lunch, but "serious" Labour is not doing much better.

The thing is, Badenoch really is all the things the lads say they hate and fear: she’s an incurious idiot, an ideological wacko with poisonous views, a reckless dumbass who would gladly pile Britain into one stupid disaster after another *and* she is not even a good, pleasant person face to face.

For non-Brits: our media outlets are of course delighted to witlessly repeat any old shit they’re given by party PRs. The country wouldn’t be the way it is, if they weren’t. But they don’t like it when their compliance is simply assumed, and they *really* don’t like it when it is obvious that it is.

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This is fantastic

Most right wing politicians are dumbfucks promoted way beyond their ability due to all the money backing them. Humiliate them an investigate their funding is how you get rid of them or at least help break the allure they somehow have.

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He didn’t win a landslide victory. He got less votes than Corbyn and only won due to FPF. He is so disliked because he was part of a bloodless coup that usurped British democracy and shamelessly took part in a genocide while treating old ladies as terrorists for protesting the murder of babies.

Why did Keir go from a "landslide victory" to being so disliked? Trevor says its because he scrapped the 2 child benefit cap, didnt cut welfare & wasnt tough enough on migrants No mention of freebies, Mandelson, genocide, being a compulsive liar or the complicity of our msm

To be fair to the guy, it’s not like he tried hard to hide that the project has always been “eradicate the Palestinians by any means available, take everything”. It was bullshit artists in this country who told the public it wasn’t so.

There’s no point in continuing to interview brazen liars like this, unless we’re gathering evidence for future trials.

I'll take one of these retired admirals/generals seriously when they float higher taxes on the rich as a way of paying for it

Sounds like AI is a huge liability and billionaires are mega-crybaby about it as per. "established studios with a positive track record see a "catastrophic" 40% to 60% drop in sales when they use AI"

The problem is, our hawks want an astonishing sum of money to buy missiles and drones from American arms companies and the only way of raising it they will tolerate is even more deep, painful cuts to benefits that the public won’t tolerate. Minds will be turning to ways to get around public opinion.

There’ll come a time, in the not too distant future, when nobody will *ever* have questioned the fact that Trump is a ludicrous clown. A laughable figure, so stupid that he can’t even comprehend how stupid he is. The fact that’s not correctly the case makes me feel like I’m taking crazy pills.

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Hugely unpopular policy. Khan could have reneged or bowed to pressure at any point over the last few years but he stuck to principles and pushed on. Politicians could learn a lot from the Mayor. Ignore the papers, and invest in long-term policies for public good.

I see this kind of comment, "but still the right will deny and delay..." Yeah they will. They will happily kill you and your relatives to suit their ambitions for a more brutal world built on wealth. It's not because they're stupid or ignorant it's because the waves of death do not matter to them.

This. Labour should regard the right-wing press not as legitimate media but as enemy propaganda, and make no concessions to it.

It’s weird how - when the press goes looking for racism in Britain in the 2020s - the only places it can ever be found are in left wing politics, public services, unionised professions and academia. Isn’t that remarkable, given what you can see and hear every day.

I again point out that “The Bolsheviks are conspiring with the untermenschen to sap our will to power, and - by hidden, sneaky means - to undermine and destroy the Reich” is not just similar to the content of Mein Kampf. *It is* Adolf Hitler’s sales pitch, it was right at the core of the project.

I've yet to come across a take where the answer isn't "do what Dubs says" www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This. I grew up in a very socially conservative area and our local bus driver (it's a place everyone knows the bus driver) came out and began to transition. She got some abuse. In solidarity... all the farmers road the bus in drag to show they supported her right to live as she wished

We fucking warned you about terfs

My favorite part of the pitch is "As long as you stinking communists agree to support Labour, we will forgive you for being hateful and horrible. But you must make the first move, so we know we can trust you."

I like how vague this is about what it was that happened in the last decade, and why left wing people might have good reason to be suspicious and angry about anything coming from their supposed comrades. Sure, some stuff happened, but that’s all in the past now.

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Bodies in Nottingham NHS trust mortuary in state of ‘advanced deterioration’. Horrific, beyond words. Bodies not transferred to freezer in time due to insufficient storage. Years of neglect, poor workplace culture, underinvestment, staff shortages.

“Up here in the north there's no wage packet jobs for us, thank Christ While young married couples discuss the poverties of their self-built traps And the junior clergy demand more cash We spit in their plate and wait for the ice to melt” #FallFriday

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