I don't think this was actually deliberately published as ragebait, but the entitlement contained within is remarkable and a classic example of the sort of sentiment governments sometimes just have to face down inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...?

Over at the Daily Telegraph, they're scratching their heads as to why the former mining and steel producinv city of Gliwice in Poland is now 45% more prosperous than Darlington... and why it has new shiny infrastructure... without mentioning EU funds for urban and regional development...

Very proud of my friend @naomialderman.bsky.social who has followed the release of a brilliant and timely book with this brilliant and culturally very significant move observer.co.uk/the-critics/...

That's made me feel a bit emotional, well done Eze.

Post a movie where you’re from

There are many things wrong with this psuedo Van Gogh painting from The Range, one of which is that it looks like a ginger one-eared Jeremy Corbyn.

I think @arseblog.com called it about this being Eze’s game last week. Bang on

Too generous to Russia in my mind, but this may be the price of peace.

a reminder that the conservative base that underlies MAGA (and the Fox News Cinematic Universe before it) came out of direct mail scams going back to Goldwater these people have always been the easiest marks in the world and, apparently, always will be

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: Because it saw someone from work on a Saturday.

I wouldn’t do that

Concise and v good

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

You will have to imagine my surprise, because I am not surprised. The dogshit rightwing Irish 'patriots' who fall for this psyop should cop on = it's just another anglo invasion, wake up, muppets.

The fact that in both 2019 and 2024, the winning party did so with a set of manifesto promises that could not be kept and dissolved upon contact with actual office is something that as an industry we should be much more bothered by than we are.

Can’t help but feel the country would be in much better better state if ppl (voters, journalists, politicians) didn’t get BORED so quickly Reality doesn’t care how boring something is - you still have to address it. Holding up a red/blue/ green hanky over there as a distraction solves nothing

I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.

I also write about how little the floods have been covered in national newspapers, and how appalled I am that the Prime Minister has said nothing to the people of Monmouthshire directly. Please read and share. www.thenerve.news/p/storm-clau...

Sorry to keep banging on about it but it's literally *they are on Twitter and think it's the majority view*

Solo mooch around London. Found myself at a railing that struck a sudden memory in Covent Garden so took a photo at exact same spot. 35 years later. Life eh?

Overly aggressive poppy display for a coffee stand at embankment - so much so that a red traffic cone has been positioned on the bridge just to fit in (centre top)

It’s not as simple as me disagreeing with what Mahmood is doing and saying - although clearly I do disagree But every single piece of her defence and attack on these issues is so fundamentally broken I can scarcely believe is being said, and it’s coming from a Labour politician It’s scary

Hi All, just sent out this (mostly free). The Long Con of the Trump administration came to an end yesterday, as it was always going to do. We are back in the Oval Office with Trump and Vance ambushing Zelensky. The whole pivot to Ukraine was a sham to help Putin. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

Richard Tice, March 2025: "I have never met Nathan Gill, and he has never had anything to do with Reform,"

I wonder how much of the whole Coutts/Farage banking thing was tied up with Russian money And how many English democrats tried to defend farage with the whole “stout yeoman should not be persecuted” thang

It's January 31st, 2020, and Nathan Gill is celebrating our imminent departure from the EU.... and that terrible idea of a European Army. Hmm, now I wonder who else would have been delighted about that.

I *think* the attempt to speedrun authoritarianism has failed. The new acute danger is greater political violence (Trump calling for hangings, etc). But the concerted danger is down the line, when MAGA realizes the bill for all this corruption will come due. www.offmessage.net/p/maga-disar...

oh, that's... that's not... you can't call it that

I just don't think humanity is going to make it: the median human is just too stupid, and the internet has connected them together. As they smash the props holding up civilisation, the suffering now and to come is a tragedy.

Yes, our Labour Home Secretary really did just post this on Twitter. It's not an AI hoax. More's the pity.

Seriously - go look at the front pages of Axios, Politico, WaPo and NYT right now. Is there any sense of the depth of America’s betrayal of Europe? Does the coverage reflect in any way how GOP has suddenly made America subservient to Russia? That’s a nyet.

This is precisely it

As he betrays Ukraine and imperils UK security interests, I really don't think it should be beyond the wit of the Labour party to tie Trump to the UK right. It's just a matter of will.

And mortgage lenders would have no reason whatsoever to say this www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

Johnson sanctions Covid inquiry Covid inquiry publishes results “Stitch up!l” shout Johnson supporters Not. Serious. People.

Do love a good chart...

Excellent. Long overdue Well done Ben

Two solvable problems right there lads

Russia's ambassador to the UK, Yakovenko, boasted about Brexit to another diplomat: “We have crushed the British to the ground. They are on their knees and will not rise for a very long time” Today, Farage’s close ally, leader of Reform in Wales, was sentenced to 10yrs for taking bribes from Russia.

There's a lot wrong with the US stitch up of Ukraine, but one of the worst is the demand that Ukraine hold elections within 100 days. The gall. What about elections in Russia ffs. Trump really is a total menace. Evil. #Trump #Ukraine #EU #Nato #Putin

"Sir Keir told the BBC: 'Every minute that is spent talking about anything other than cost-of-living is a wasted minute in my book.'" OK, so why does his government keep banging on about immigration? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Breaking character: I am open to the idea the media's coverage of Biden's age and mental acuity was fair or perhaps not even tough enough. But the fact that it was so much tougher than the coverage of Trump's (more severe) mental decline is damning and I can't see how anyone could argue otherwise.

Not got over this brutal Spotify recommendation. Not that it's wrong per se

"Trans people could be asked about whether they should be accessing single-sex services based on their physical appearance." No. not "trans people". ANYONE. This moral panic leads inexorably to the policing of women based on their appearance deemed to be "unfeminine". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Jesus wept @teamlabouruk.bsky.social

I am struggling to believe the Russians decided to throw money at solely at one relatively obscure UKIP MEP.

Well worth a read

It’s just nuts. Even if you accept Labour’s policy diagnosis, we “lost control” of our borders, and concern about immigration was rising long before the alarming rise of racism. The big change on racism has been we traded an anti-racist government for one that is at best Trappist on it.

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