I was at Gaddafi’s last big speech in Tripoli. It’s a high bar but I think Trump nudged it

These men have been through the horrors of war and even they're finding this Trump speech tough going

Once again one has to wonder what it is about Sadiq Khan, out of the wide panoply of European social democratic and socialist big city mayors, that causes Mr Trump to have such an obsession with him?

What even is this speech, Jesus Christ

like in a fun quirky way or

Lula still both sidesing Ukraine 😓

Just remembered that the last time Trump addressed the UN General Assembly, they laughed in his face.

Can we train beavers to build a third runway?

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

It's all so fucking grim. Eugenics and misogyny all wrapped in one sold by disinformation that benefits grifters. I honestly don't know how we get out of this.

As America's most pro-business leader in a generation, I will choose one company each week and accuse them of witchcraft

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

There's a wrong way and a right way to report this

Me on the way to the rapture.

watching kimmel tomorrow

Infuriating - no criticism of Tom Clarke's reporting on this, the actual content of which is a perfectly sober rundown of the facts - but surely an organisation like Sky News knows that 90% of people on the internet don't read past the headline?

Politically, you’d think kicking Truss out would be a free hit for Badenoch: terrible reputation with the public, easy way of signalling you’ve learned lessons, she’s not going to be nice about the party anyway, Reform won’t take her (and even if they did you’d be delighted). And yet?

Logging on

There should be a high bar for politicians attacking the media, but maybe Ed Davey has half a point here? For example, the first three paragraphs of this BBC story repeat Reform's £243bn figure without saying that the thinktank behind the estimate now disowns it. (This is mentioned in paragraph 35)

Not seeing the difference is an act of will

3. 45 year old mother of two British children who leaves country for over 90 days in whatever period Reform are using to look after sick relative, and is not allowed back in. 4. Hong Kong BNO visa holder, likely to be arrested by Chinese on return, but does not have a job meeting salary threshold

Some very obvious cases that Farage and Yusuf need to be hammered on: 1. 78 year old pensioner on ILR for last 30 years who obviously cannot get work visa 2. 35 year old born in UK to non-nationals, never got UK citizenship because of cost, loses job and has to move to country they've never lived in

Predictable spin on today’s ugly announcement from our fash-hungry media.

think that realistically I would have always been deeply, deeply worried about the rise of far-right ideas in public discourse but I truly never expected this level of blithe elite complacency, turns out I do feel worried but mostly I feel like I'm going insane, watching them do.......nothing at all

They are not hiding it, people who don't see it at this point are choosing not to

At this point, if you do not see what is going on here, you are dumber than a Nazi

The US is not one or two election cycles away from being OK even if they’re blowouts.

Reform are now coming after people with permanent residency. It'll be citizens next. No one is safe from authoritarian governments.

Not like the Lib Dems to campaign for something which then has unimaginably damaging consequences in the long run...

what i feel like 2028 is going to feel like:

Imagine my shock

My brother and I actually spent some time a while ago trying to recreate a playlist of what our dad used to have on his tapes in his old Ford Sierra while we were growing up. Turned out to be mostly punk with bits of new wave. Skids, Jags, Wire, Squeeze, The Ruts, The Adverts, Tenpole Tudor, etc...

RFK Jr's "personal life" section of Wikipedia is the craziest evil shit i've ever read holy shit lol

You want slaves

Hey so that’s mass psychosis❤️

This piece highlights this weird phenomenon where many of the industries that get targeted under the banner of BDS are also under target from the Israeli government, which isn't likely to be persuaded to change its course by witnessing its "enemies" experience more pain

this exists it is called thinking

The most absurd thing is that people across the USA are now being fired for quoting Kirk’s own words like this instead of engaging in the apparently federally mandated hagiography of him

Not convinced the average Brit, let alone the average British pundit, will ever internalise the idea of freedom of speech to the extent (until recently) enshrined in the 1st Amendment, largely because we’ve never really had it here.

I miss the Old Internet.

Torn between thinking that Twitter shutting down Vine was one of the most consequential decisions in internet history and cold dread at the thought of what Musk would have done to a platform like that had it still existed when he took over…

Tony Blair used to talk about the difference between the 3-second, 30-second & 3-minute conversation - the point being that simplistic policies, that poll well, collapse under the more sustained scrutiny of an election or time in govt. So what happens when there is *only* the 3-second conversation?

wrote about this last year and sure I wasn't in any way the only one but imo people voting for populist politics in the 21st century *is* a sign that they do just have too much faith in institutions, as opposed to not enough - they want to have their little tantrum but assume things will just hold