I must apologise for Richard Stupid Tice not understanding that no gas or oil is ‘our own’ because Maggie Thatcher sold it off, so it is all sold by private companies on the global market. Norway did not sell theirs off and now have a sovereign wealth fund of £1.6trillion.

The guy who was president 34 years ago is younger than the current president. That is an insane trend.

I don't like to gratuitously slag off the Littoral Combat Ships*, but this is basically the concept they were designed for. I mean, good luck persuading anybody it's a highly sinkable concept they want to be aboard at the time, but... *You read that right. I don't like it. I love it.

TV shows should be required to have an #ad logo in the corner of shows like "Battle of the Brands", which is currently on @channel4tv.bsky.social. It's just a very very long advert for Nandos and KFC, complete with lots of excerpts from actual adverts for the products.

Am sticking with my bet that the right is reading this wrong and that the majority of voters are not at all unhappy Starmer has upset Trump by holding back from a war whose purpose and end game no-one seems able to define.

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

He's use to partying while being locked down isn't he.

Worth listening to The Rest is Entertainment this week on Dubai influencers. Key point: UAE government pays people to move to Dubai to be influencers and promote a particular image of the place - luxury & safety. People paid to leave a liberal democracy & 'shill' for an autocratic socialist state.

Tillis: You decided to kill that dog because you had not invested the appropriate time in training it, and then you have the audacity to say it’s a leadership lesson. You killed a goat and said it was behaving badly. You’re a farmer — you don’t castrate a goat, they behave badly.

What they’re basically saying is that Starmer and the UK isn’t allowed to operate an even moderately independent foreign policy outside of the United States. That is both ahistoric, wrong and weird for people who constantly tell us how sovereignty is what matters most.

The number of commentators/journalists salivating at blaming Starmer for ruining the “special relationship” is genuinely pathetic If anyone ruined it- if it even really exists- here’s a reminder of who did it.

Look, the reason is pretty clear: Donald "In The Files" Trump is trying to distract everyone from something, not sure what that could be... www.ft.com/content/fd31...

Why do local news feel the need to weigh in on international news stories? My local news is currently reporting on the Iran war. Last month they were reporting live from Spain.

Christ, Estate Agents really are shitty people. Surely the racists behind accounts like this must stop and think that if all the lies they tell are true then why are they having to tell the lies instead of show the real thing!? www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

Controversial, but in theory I'm not against this. I've long thought that asylum should be temporary as long as protection is needed, but there has to come a point where somebody has been in their new home so long that it is now just their home. The big Q for me is 1/2 www.bbc.com/news/article...

People like Farage and Trump love to pretend that switching to Green power is expensive, but look what's happening in the world. Fossil fuels are increasingly becoming unstable both in supply and price. www.ft.com/content/dac7...

In 2020 Nigel Farage said of MPs who defect & refuse a by-election “it’s not right, it’s dishonorable” Giving voters the right to have a say on an MPs defection is vital to restoring trust in our politics - and isn’t that exactly what the government has pledged to do?

The problem with HMG’s position is that saying “we’re only involved in defensive operations” requires all of us to conclude that Trump and Netanyahu are trustworthy partners.

"Family voting"...

That Nigel Farage thinks it is more important not to endanger his backing from the US government than take a position that reflects the overwhelming sentiment of the British public reflects underlying structural contradictions that could split the British Far Right

The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost

Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X "Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain earlier today." x.com/Osinttechnic...

There is always a tweet.

🚨VERY IMPORTANT! ON 16 MARCH PARLIAMENT WILL DEBATE A PETITION FOR BY-ELECTIONS TO BE TRIGGERED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN MP’S DEFECT Make sure your MP attends! youtu.be/LPO_ZWlyb7Q?...

What? Starmer has a political strategy?? I don't believe it.

So, if I have this correct Reform lost the bye-election because the Islamists all forced their wives, who would otherwise voted Reform, to vote for a female plumber whose party is led by a Jewish Homosexual?

Gorton and Denton. Just a simple question for Reform: Does this mean Matt Goodwin is now a ‘Shadow’ MP? 😜

So the Telegraph is taking this well

The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win. The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong. Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…

I don't know what they need to investigate. I've not seen the disabled AI sex accounts, but every time I log on to Insta I'm flooded with AI sex accounts. Insta is basically unusable now. BBC News - Instagram investigating AI profiles 'fetishising' disabled people www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Reform: There's too much state interference. Also Reform: We will force you to marry, stop you getting divorced, make you have babies, dictate your religious beliefs, control your sexuality, penalise you if you are disabled and deport you if you don't look right. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Also used to work for Curry's when they used the ad slogan "always lowering prices". It was my job to change the TV's price tag from £399.99 to £399.95. Technically a lower price...

Was a temp at Currys 2009. They had three screens showing Harry Potter. Composite, Scart and HDMI. Underneath was Basic, Silver and Gold HDMI cables. Mis-selling at its finest.

Up until the late 90’s we actually debated whether assaulting kids was a legitimate method of school discipline. Also it never covered private schools. Presumably because it wasn’t the state that was doing it?

Farage and Reform’s attitude to what or what isn’t violent language is interesting isn’t it

I love the idea of some hotel receptionist saying “And we’re looking forward to welcoming Lord Mandelson next week as well“ and Hoyle saying “wait what”

Lowe has got elected on a different less overt agenda (Reform 2024) and is now introducing a form of overtly prejudiced politics beyond anything in parliamentary politics this century - further right than the BNP in the content, and - that he would be v unlikely to have got in on

the most predictable problem in the world is happening.

Nigel Farage refuses to apologise and condemn Reform councillor Simon Evans for sharing a death threat against Labour MP Natalie Fleet 😱 Keir Starmer explained what happened and invited Nigel Farage to apologise Instead, Nigel Farage stood up and spoke about something else

I feel this shop is trying to tell me something

And to what extent several outlets across the broadcast, print and online media find this newsworthy, as the Guardian senior political correspondent Peter Walker clearly does.

I don't understand why the govt is doing this & hasn't better publicised it. But, I also don't understand why a dual British-Dutch woman couldn't enter the UK on her Dutch passport to visit her dying mother. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

"Woman's world is her husband, her family, her children and her home. We do not find it right when she presses into the world of men." - Some Austrian guy but Reform probably approve

Stockholm as a result of the tragedy of NATO occupation. Vuhledar after the joy Russian liberation.

Harrowing, and war crimes I knew them," he says of the soldiers executed. "I remember one of them screaming 'Don't shoot, I'll do anything!'" One also says he saw 20 bodies of fellow soldiers lying in a pit after being "zeroed". The term "zero" is Russian military slang for executing your own.

Paddington at the BAFTAs, but he’s doing Tony Montana’s ‘bad guy’ bit from Scarface.

This is the single best piece of news Keir Starmer has had since July 2024.

The replies to this are horrifying and, frankly, incredibly ignorant. Tics are literally involuntary. They do not indicate the existence or absence of secret prejudice. They are NOT random, but can be socially contextual - the urge to say or do the worst possible thing in a given moment.