Speaking as a cradle Catholic I can't tell you how weird it is that all these rightwing assholes mistook the Church for a misogynist cigar bar and signed up

OK, but these would be broad-based popular policies that would be life-enhancing for society as a whole, so there's no way he's going to enact them

MUPPET TRENT REZNOR: what have I become / my swedish friend? SWEDISH CHEF: ervie wurr ye durr gurrs awerre en de ern

I wish Mr Alito a thousand days of good health. Well, let's say 1023.

What strikes me here is the failure to understand that a lot of energy providers are not upstream oil and gas suppliers, so they're passing on their own costs to consumers rather than engaging in "reckless profiteering"

So very much this. The people making the money are the (these days usually state-controlled) primary oil producers in major oil producing countries. Good luck getting Putin or the Sultan of Brunei to share the profits...

ok if we just shut up and give them this one then play the long game, it opens up a lot of poetic irony come 2028

teleporting is real if you consider drunk driving a form of teleporting

Subtweet: important distinction between "universally subsidising energy use" and "universally subsidising daycare" is that "more energy use" is bad for society and specifically the opposite of what we need to achieve, whereas "more daycare use" is good for society and what we need to achieve

I was at the resolve poverty conference with work and it's frustrating that this stuff is so well understood by professionals trying to tackle poverty but not acted on at a policy level. It's just cash!

Rare miss from The Onion. This horse is brown.

The RAF and USAF lost planes bombing Germany in 1945 when the Luftwaffe barely existed and didn't have any fuel. Hell, as I've said before, they lost shedloads of planes *after VE Day doing transport flying*

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

I am begging people to read what Hannah Spencer actually wrote. She does not want to do redistribution to the poorest, she wants to do universal support. Ie support to middle and upper middle class households paid for by magical tax the rich policies.

This is right And political "experts" will respond: ahh, but let me explain politics, you'll be really unpopular if you don't do <insert stupid political idea> instead And my answer is: you xxxxing "experts" have been having your way for years & none of you are popular either So do as James says

I don't understand this point at all - the AWS servers in the Gulf are serving Gulf customers who require local hosting, you could explode the lot of them and the only impact on the US or Europe would be the extent to which Gulf customers shift hosting to those markets

If you think a technical tweak to university admissions generates a 5% swing in vote share in an actual election as opposed to a push poll I have several free transits of Hormuz to sell you.

this would be an amazing way for It to happen

so I was not aware that this is, apparently, quite a common conspiracy theory among the Japanese far-right?

there are two absolutely canonical Good Friday posts

Oh man, I bet all the Harper's Letter signatories are ALL OVER this clearcut case of college campus free speech impingement.

Going to tell my children about their exciting new future growing turnips.

Larry Elliott in the Guardian and James Dyson in the Times agree. They are also both very wrong. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Even without reading the pieces, you can entirely and correctly conclude sentence #2 from #1. One of the greatest tricks the Devil ever pulled was pretending that ad-hom is a fallacy, rather than an almost-always-correct rule of thumb for information filtering.

I didn't realise that Switzerland had a specific Genuinely Evil Murdoch Level Villain, but it does en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christo... (via www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZiB...)

A good indication of whether someone with Views on the UK is at all serious is whether they view the City of London as a Borgia/Protocols Conspiracy Against The Volk, or a surprisingly enlightened and successful local council www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/exh...

Some sad news to report, I'm afraid... Jeff Grant, the director of legendary public information film Lonely Water, died on 13 March. He fought to include the film's horror elements, and they proved so successful that it opened the door to the shocking PIFs that we know and love. (1/2)

This ruling is disappointing. As with the Post Office trials, it's morally abhorent that any entity other than Crown prosecutors should be able to bring criminal proceedings, no matter how shonky the conduct www.brettwilson.co.uk/fare-evasion...

I believe the Nigel Front will fail at the next UK election; a thing which worries me more is that with the non-fash-but-silly populists doing their best to milk public grumpiness, this sort of Know-Nothing nonsense is going to cut through on both sides of the horseshoe archive.is/202603271207...

I initially thought France and America were the same place, possibly from some confusion about being “the other side of the water”

I remember a similar but UK-centric version of this aged about 7 or 8 where I learned about Jesse Boot [non-conformist founder of eponymous pharmacy chain] at normal school and Jesse [father of King David] at religion class, both as Important Guy From the Past

Hate the grammar, love the sentiment

This is very good and entirely accurate existentialcomics.com/comic/648

Also it's really good when kids from different income backgrounds mix from a young age! It has spillover benefits for everyone!

These are the same stretch of track. Sad that the events the previous week didn't cut through (www.gov.uk/transport/ra...)

Interesting piece on metrication in Cyprus - they just went and did it, as late as the mid-1980s: metricviews.uk/2026/04/01/c...

This is a well-written polemic, but the conclusions are completely useless as a statement from an aspiring party-of-government's most prominent elected representative, particularly one who's supposed to be pro-environment www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The attack on birthright citizenship is the Geistesgehalt—the spiritual content—of the MAGA revolution. www.unpopularfront.news/p/birthright...

You wouldn't know it from much of the coverage but Reform are now seven points lower in the polls, on average, than they were six months ago

We are in the sixth year of the decade where real material limits came back to the west and people are still not getting it

If anything they’ve been misrepresented in her favour. Does the average normie who vaguely understands Rowling to be a controversial figure know, for example, that she said a trans worker belonged in “a police interview room” for offering to help a mother and daughter in the women’s section at M&S?

Genuinely wonder if this is X brainrot on Wes's part - in real life the number of terfy queers is mercifully low (there are some, of course, as with all terrible positions), but going by X activity you'd think the LGB Coalition were a mainstream org

Very satisfied master criminal reclining in comfort to survey his new collection whilst munching on kitkats. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

The answer to this one based on the what the War Kit Knowers are saying appears to be that both sides are lying, and Iran has downed an F-15

Journalist: "Do you mean the American war in Iran or our war in Afghanistan?" Pakistani petrol minister: "Yes" (nb this is a joke not a press conference quote!)

"Muscular Christianity is among the defining symptoms of the bad British military leaders that Dixon analyzed." - absolutely great piece from Krugman on the obvious current parallel: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-psycho...

gang i can promise you that arguing with anti-electoral deadenders who post about how they’ll never vote for the lesser evil is time on this earth you will never get back, and spending it doing literally anything else is a better use of it.

I’m working on a story about this claim and I’ll give you a spoiler: it’s not true

This ABC article is pretty irresponsible. It features the government saying true things about the fuel supply, "countered" by some dickhead who owns a few trucks making up reckons, plus fash-adjacent doomy liar Matt fucking Barrie banging his autarky drum www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...

Sometime I’d like to visit this alternate Europe that appears to exist in some of our transatlantic poster cousin’s heads. It seems interesting.