It’s funny how there’s basically two types of European aristocrat left: a) Someone who owns the castle and art collection but otherwise just likes running the family brewery (90 percent of them) b) Someone who owns a pair of callipers and bankrolls the local branch of the Fatherland Front.

the government is too right wing for Dan Hodges now? fucking hell

To be really frank, if you are a Scottish Labour member screaming about /anti-English racism/ at this moment, you are fundamentally an obstruction to serious anti-racist work because you are trying to detract attention from real racisms to a basically fictional one.

Spain has fully implemented an arms embargo on Israel through a royal decree law. All weapons sales, military tech trade, port access for fuel shipments, airspace use for arms transport and settlement goods imports have been banned.

Be some laugh when the UK raises income tax levels in line with Scotland

what's funny to me about the british heritage sector, right, is how left-leaning most of the sector workforce is, because of global standards of best practice, and then how incredibly right-leaning the money- and I don't mean grant bodies, I mean donors and top brass- is. outstanding disconnect

Please do not read this as an endorsement of Scottish Labour in any way, but I do think it would be useful if UK Labour felt about Reform the way Scottish Labour felt about the SNP. It’s PERSONAL for them. There is a nastiness there. They want them finished! And the ground salted!

I once again must ask Labour people why I am supposed to care more that the SNP want independence than the fact that Reform want to repatriate my wife

Observing the argument on here between two accounts today concerning Reform and the SNP and it is safe to say that the future of Scottish Unionism is not looking bright

The extent to which the United Kingdom is a vassal state of the USA has increased dramatically since 2008

The reason Reform gets so much coverage compared to other parties, parties with more representation, is because the media is full of people who support far-right politics. It actually is that simple.

It's obviously true unless something unexpected happens, but a) the incumbent government needs to actually have *delivered for its coalition* to lead a republican front b) the leader needs to be a plausible leader of it and c) they do need to actually be able to say 'Vichy was bad'.

I demand the Prime Minister speak out urgently and condemn Reform's plan to deport millions of UK residents on a moral basis, not showing how they can't do his clever little sums

It would be good if the only political pushback against Nigel Farage's plans to mass deport hundreds of thousands of our neighbours, friends, family and colleagues didn't just come from a handful of backbench MPs and one regional mayor

really dislike that "Boriswave" used to be something you'd exclusively see being used by racist Twitter accounts but it's now made its way to the political mainstream, including today's Playbook headline

I'll go one further. Anyone and everyone who supports Reform is fundemntally an enemy of democracy and liberty in the UK.

So Reform UK are getting closer and closer to just full-out "remigration" and still the Great and the Good of our politics and media will tut and shake their heads and tell us we can't call Reform and their supporters evil or racist, even though they're obviously evil and racist.

I'm at an actual loss for words how evil this is

Now that we have achieved the symbolic victory of recognition, it is imperative that we focus on arms shipments to Israel and the use of British neocolonial outposts in aiding Israel and their allies

Good news, better shamefully late than never. Everything is far far far too slow but the once solid wall of western support for Israel by default is eroding brick by brick for many months now.

Excellent news, now onto more material moves

Starmer lifts a finger to enable this and he will eclipse Tony Blair in terms of being an American poodle

Starmer is expected to announce that the United Kingdom has recognized the State of Palestine later today (Sunday, the 21st) according to the BBC

Loving Macron's work because this will inevitably pressure a weak and beleaguered Starmer into at least considering this

To do this in the current moment, against a backdrop of both establishment hostility to the Palestinian cause and immigrants/refugees, is a choice and it is one that I am glad the First Minister has made

It's easy to now forget this but part of why say anti-Polish or anti-Romanian sentiment isnt visible as much now in the UK is quite simply that Brexit did in fact destroy hundreds of thriving Eastern European communities across this island and send hundreds of thousands of us home.

Given they don't have an identified leader in Scotland yet, I can only assume they have some absolute howlers lined up

Germany and Italy's reasons for holding out are clear but I'd be interested to know if there are any unique reasons for other small European states continuing to do so

The list of countries that are confirmed to be set to recognize the State of Palestine on Sunday and Monday, September 21st and 22nd. The United Kingdom France Canada (conditional, gradual) Australia Belgium (gradual) Portugal Luxembourg Malta Andorra San Marino

I'm telling my kids this was the Orange Order

a fourth faction has hit yorp

From Private Eye (via Reddit). Not at all surprising that the Deputy First Minister was the primary block on the Scottish Government's ending funding for companies sending weapons to Israel.

Embedding Palantir in all the UK's systems isn't a trade success, it's a security catastrophe

this exists it is called thinking

I'm not named but good to know my paper on Scotland's international relations and devolution is a useful source!

You want slaves

Couldn't run a bath man

Gen X men realising there's a topical reason to post a Judean People's Front joke

Peter Kyle might be a contender for the most servile minister this Parliament www.lbc.co.uk/article/brit...

FindOutNow are by no means the best but I feel that we're rapidly approaching the crossover point where Labour drop below the LDs and within single digits of the Greens

Your Party should thank their lucky stars that most of their membership will be 50/60+ and therefore not privy to the posting war element

You can claim that British state power is a historic force for good in the world. Or you can insist that it is right and proper for Britain to grovel to the greatest malevolence seen on the international stage since the mid-twentieth century. But you can't do both and expect to be taken seriously.

A map of the Israeli proposal to Syria was released by an American think tank, it has Israel -Staying in the Golan. -Staying in Mount Hermon. -Expanding the buffer zone in Quneitra. And would have Syria also concede to -Daraa demilitarized. -Suwayda no-fly zone for the Syrian Air Force.

Good explainer thread on this chaos from @archimbaldo.bsky.social

Zarah Sultana just give up already and join the Greens challenge 2025

I was initially sympathetic to people turning to this new party out of sheer desperation but if you’re still backing them in the hope they’ll get it together you’re beginning to look like Sideshow Bob stepping on rakes.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining