"Empire is a thing that happened to other people until 1940" is fundamental to the modern British pyschosis, i think

This is horrific. Aid cuts are death sentences masquerading as fiscal prudence. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

"However, because of aid cuts, FCDO officials chose the “least ambitious” plan to protect Sudanese civilians." Aid cuts cost lives.

If a UK Labour Govenrment ever did this, it would solve the energy crisis. Because we could generate free electricity by hooking up certain Scottish Labour figures to the grid such would be their white hot rage.

Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.

Until I die, I will never understand why so many motorists think that “having a car” should give you special protections from doing crimes.

The most life affirming thing you can do is watch a sports game live outside of your own house. Football, Rugby, Cricket, even Golf, it doesn't moment. Sharing in little moments of triumph is a genuine delight.

Yesterday the UK Government pulled the Bill to ratify the treaty handing sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius in the face of a Tory amendment to demand the Government consult the Chagossians www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...

The Sopranos is great for many reasons, including for accurately portraying the American mob as a bunch of dumb goons and violent leeches using their heritage as an excuse to dodge hard work

Fundemntally this is a position held not only by the most hardline of unionists in Scotland but also of terminally poisoned English nationalists who see *any* independence movement in the UK as a nebolous national security threat.

Idk if European politicians "can learn" anything whatsoever from Mamdani but one thing I /wish/ they learned is to actually believe in things, specifically multiculturalism

Real ones can still remember being crushed by Clackmananshire in 2014

the uk government is terrified of doing absolutely anything about this

Incredible how many times in the last two decades that centre-left politicians in the UK/US have been willing to set their political coalitions on fire before conceding an inch to organised left-wing movements

A bit of selfish and shameless self promotion but if you appreciated my two most recent articles about public opinion vis a vis Palestine, one of them about Mamdani, please consider supporting my freelancing writing— my main source of income alongside SSI while I search for a new job.

Everything Donald Trump is doing to Americans and in America was pioneered by Dick Cheney on foreigners and abroad. He threw the imperial boomerang

This whole frozen funds debate is also reinforcing your argument that Western Euros are suicidally unserious. "My banking sector relies on letting the fascists that want to kill us all park their money here" is pure insanity made into policy.

The way “only white people can be English” has seamlessly shifted to “only white people can be British” is maddening. We all said this would happen!

We are about six to eight weeks away from someone saying that this country was destroyed by the Empire Windrush in a public forum

I believe have a moderate position on this sort of thing, in that I believe we should be allowed to put the creators of such monstrosities in the stockades and throw rotten fruit at them

I'd like to thank the King for his services to republicanism and condemn him for continuing to support a rapist/paedo

Yeah uh this is why I refuse to cede Tolkien to these people actually

Leftwingers who do not accept that you have to pay for socialist policies in some way are fundamentally unserious people

This is the basic formulation for almost all taxes on the wealthy. They are not themselves the great revenue raisers that left populists imagine but the necessary legitimisers of the broad based revenue raisers such as income tax rises that enable democratic socialist policies

The primary aim should be getting governments off X. I don’t actually care if they come here or just do more posting on Instagram or whatever, and it’s probably bad if issues with Bluesky are able to be used as a justification to stay on X.

The claim that "civil war is inevitable in the UK" is better understood as an expression of the author's desire to see blood spilt on British streets.

For those unfamiliar with the Halo games, the Flood is a parasitic alien lifeform so bad that superweapons known as Halos were built as a last resort to kill all sentient life in the galaxy in an effort to stop them. And the official DHS page is memeing about it while referring to immigrants. Vile.

Imagine telling someone in 2014 that Kevin McKenna would one day publicly defend the Royal Family and the Orange Order

kind funny that a bunch of Scottish Greens defected to Your Party because they felt it was more left wing, then 2 minutes later Adnan Hussain (who effectively owns the party) says capitalism is fine and that anti-fascist protestors are almost as bad as the fascists

Fondly remembering Starmer's supposed managerial competence as a key selling point for his leadership

Morgan McSweeney frantically googling "rulebook how suspend membership Labour party"

European nations have several colonies in the region, alongside some minor military assets. Questions must be asked of governments whether they will assisting American military operations against Venezuela in any way. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

really enjoy 'while he was alive' here - the BBC ensuring nobody goes away with the impression that Alex Salmond has been commissioning internal reviews from beyond the grave

In honour of the Halo Remake Reveal, here's my blog post about how doing these is cheap'n'nasty and a colossal point miss. tbh if you look at Halo's visuals and see something limited by the tech of its time you're artistically illiterate

The centrist opinion is that we give England independence and the new Union of Scotland, Wales and NI is the recognised successor state

Scotland has its first Yorp councillors

Absolutely stonking Plaid win in Caerphilly: as I understand what by-elections mean, Labour will now have to back Welsh Independence and a bunch of left wing policies in order to win back support, right? Or is it only when they lose narrowly to the fash they take up their policies?

What a result

Undersea tunnel linking Caithness, Orkney, Shetland, the Faroe Islands and Bergen

Given the way the world is currently I would seriously urge anyone who can to support the work of the Musuem of British Colonialism, a great team doing great work across three continents

Earlier this month, we published an interview with 2024 Voltaire Prize Winner and Researcher Mr Gerawork Gizaw concerning his fieldwork in the Kakuma Camp Refugee site in Turkana County, Kenya. museumofbritishcolonialism.org/archiving-st...

One thing Bluesky does lack is genuine Third Worldists bc they were all calling Platner racist a month ago, ahead of the curve.

This will sadly not get the coverage it deserves. A stark illustration of the continuing existence of a fragmentary British Empire www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

For me, the most notable figure here is the Green one

Winning back the left flank going well I see