the good that you do persists in this world

this is so incredibly dodgy, sure am glad the BBC has promoted it so uncritically! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Sometimes I see people I remember from those days complaining and it's like, you got the anti-liberal Labourism you wanted and guess what it's dogshit

jealousy psychiatrist

I do not think the USA in its current state is capable of handling Scotland playing Brazil, in Miami, with an 11pm kickoff

Actual working class people reacting to Lord Maurice Glasman ranting about My Beloved Working Class:

Greens For An Australian-Style Points Based Immigration System

Finally home after > 27 hours of grindset creating shareholder value through AI agentic workflow and guiding a warrior-ethos meditation during my ketamine break. My 8 year old dog: "Do you have to slay so hard because the villain misrepresented an OBR analysis to Parliament?" Me: "Bitcoin."

launching the Institute for Type of Guy studies

every time Argentineans post their little crybully rants about the Falklands it's a reminder of the mentality that resulted in their incompetent fascist junta getting hundreds of their own conscript soldiers killed in an unprovoked invasion.

just to be quite clear, it's absolutely correct that the service members involved in a war crime are thrown under the bus regardless of Hegseth's involvement

Any political journalist after 2017 can't scrutinise policy, All They Know Is Mcdonalds, Charge Their Phone, Tweet, Be Bisexual, Eat Hot Chip And Lie

ℑ𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔊𝔯𝔦𝔪 𝔇𝔞𝔯𝔨𝔫𝔢𝔰𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔉𝔞𝔯 𝔉𝔲𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔱𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔒𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔐𝔬𝔦

FYI for anyone looking for a 2026 project, it turns out the Guinness world record for most stairs descended by a slinky is incredibly underwhelming

thinking back to The Good Old Days pre-smart phone, when from around 15 I would regularly disappear for days on end and my mum would only know where I had been when I reappeared hungover and exhausted on a Sunday before school retvrn to tradition

please, no social mobility for my beloved working class

listen this is what happens when you promote Mass transit

what does the Tory party have to offer an undergrad who hasn't done the reading and is desperately bullshitting to back up their half baked claims? they made them leader 😌

GIMLI: never thought I'd die fighting side by side with a fairy LEGOLAS: what about side by side with the black panthers and women's lib? GIMLI: aye, I could do that (GIMLI is in full leather throughout)

Bond markets spooked as the Chancellor appears to disappear behind raised hands; gilts stage rally as she reveals she was actually there the whole time

And honestly I don't give a fuck if it's popular or not. It's going to make a lot of kids' lives better. That's the point of government. Not an opinion poll.

I think that far too much weight is being placed on 'can you rules-lawyer your way through an interview about how you've put people's taxes up' and 'what will people actually experience' - if you're raising my taxes (you are), just raise them by enough to get out of the v tight 27-9 spending rounds!

just logging in after my first day doing devops for the OBR. going great so far, taking a little break for a big gulp of coffee and to catch up on the budget news

realising I'm in *England* with sudden mounting error as all of the supermarkets are closed

wow lanyards are based

the only pivot this pair should be making is to "in jail"

There’s a word we used to say. They don’t let you say it anymore, but I think it’s a beautiful word. We call it: dialectic. You have the thesis, and then the antithesis, and if you put them together it’s a synthesis. Very powerful. We’ll be looking into that. Very materialist, the theory of history

BREAKING President Trump declares Mamdani "Lisan al-Gaib"

me, seeing this post out of context: yeah I bet it is difficult to get monkeys to form a government

the only framework the Ukies should accept is the one they hang Putin from

Look, if you are trailing a budget and then immediately walking it back, before trailing an asylum bill and immediately walking it back, then you are just bad at politics and policy. There are no redeeming features here.

We aren’t obligated to suppress our own beliefs to help make deeply cynical political strategies work

sorry I just refuse to engage with this in a "the policy is unworkable and it won't shift the polls!" framing - it is morally bankrupt and frankly evil, no further analysis required morality isn't a failing and there is no excuse for leaning on performative cruelty as a polling aid

The thing about hating morgan mcsweeney is that its easy. And fun too!

important that we don't lose important titans of industry through poorly considered policy, like *checks notes* metaverse experiences and technology companies?

MACSWEENEY: let's assume for a moment that you are a rudderless politician with no clear worldview or strategy STARMER: assume away

Correctly, I think the Labour Party is best understood as the performance of a centre left political party put on by several political strategists but (unwittingly) in a manner akin the producers.

why wait - I said something would take 6/7 days in a standup last week and one of my colleagues automatically did the thing, because he has preteen children and behavioural conditioning through repetition is strong

well this is how I spent 5 minutes of my precious weekend

"Thank Heavens Reeves froze the thresholds," says the median voter in 2029 as they walk past the derelict sports centre and down the empty high street to cast their vote.

a real insight into the British psyche is that the median voter almost certainly simultaneously thinks fly tippers should go to jail & would flat out refuse to ever pay enough to cover a legitimate waste collection

all of my friends and voters are just out of shot, enjoying themselves too

I know it’s always like this. But one striking thing from the budget kite flying and kite pulling back in, is how major policy decisions are constantly being buffeted around by iterative forecast changes. All feels a bit of a silly way to be making major economic policy & political decisions.

Everything they do should be about what best sets up whichever fresh-faced MP becomes the leader in January 2029 to go 'I'm new! Inflation is down, interest rates are down, bin collections are weekly, GP appointments are up and the police catch criminals again!'

the country at the top is a fun outlier that you can just tell the person who made this graph debated excluding for ages

meat actually is murder and being unable to consider reducing or removing your consumption of it is a moral failing

There might be some truth in this, but I think it understates the government’s achievement, which is to have synthesised the worst aspects of all three of the Blairite, Old Right, and Soft Left traditions