I feel sad. I think this country finally had a good government and the media and social media algorithms have gleefully torn it down within two years. We are fucked

I've just watched this old episode of HIGNFY from 1992 with comedy royalty Peter Cook and Douglas Adams. If you want to get really arseholed play a drinking game where you drink every time somebody mentioned/pictured has died. youtu.be/8_ieICHDNXA?...

The Conservative Deputy Chairman Matt Vickers here laughing and giggling as the host makes homophobic jokes about the Russian-backed arson attacks against the Prime Minister. What has happened to this party?

The Gestapo marched hundreds of thousands of innocent people to their deaths. I've ended private schools' tax breaks to invest in state schools. No responsible leader makes vile comparisons like this. Kemi Badenoch is not fit to be Prime Minister.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress. It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress.

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

Bum

BTC: "Trump wants to leverage Americans' pain to pass a voter suppression bill. Democrats put forward 9 standalone bills to fund TSA. Trump rejected them." "Why was it OK to fund ICE under Biden and Obama, but now it's a problem under Trump?" "Because ICE can't stop shooting and killing people."

How Kemi Badenoch's spokesman responded when I asked if she agrees with her Shadow Lord Chancellor that Muslims praying in Trafalgar Square is an "act of domination"

I'll tell you this for free, a lot of the people on the airwaves as Iran experts and Russia experts are the same people who got basically everything wrong on everything that has happened in the last 15 years. And yet, they are still on the airwaves presented as experts.

Poor Matt Goodwin. All he ever wanted was to be a hard working MP/academic/tv presenter/commentator/writer/pollster/wealth adviser/women’s health guru and you all ripped that away from him. A shame

This duet cover of Radiohead's "Creep", between a son and his Shastriya Sangeet classically trained mother, is the mash-up I didn't know how much I needed in my life. Totally spontaneous sobbing may have taken place. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZoH...

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telling the secret police they have immunity to harm & kill citizens really lays bare the hollowness of decades of right-wing GOP screeching about encroaching Big Government - it was never a problem they had with government per se, just that it wasn't being used to harm the people they wanted to

Never fart on heated seats.

Nothing says "smash the political establishment" quite like begging the Prime Minister to put your mates in the unelected House of Lords.

Hello

Wow! So it's now 5 who recognise the experience and commitment of Jess Phillips, verses 5 who wants her out - a group which includes at least 1 which is working with Reform. This is now nothing more than Reform trying to destroy the inquiry and undermine the Labour government.

Rural pursuits #rtept

Dad’s books are full of empathy, common sense, and a healthy suspicion of the powerful. But at its heart his work is also about how systems keep people poor while pretending it’s their own fault. So I hope Kemi’s taking notes as well as reading the jokes.

Good

@bhaalspawn.bsky.social welcome 😊

@waplord wanna try this? legalfood.co.uk

fair to say Kemi Badenoch’s last interview on BBC wasn’t a storming success

Almost done 500km in my running shoes. When do you retire yours? distance or vibes?

Even Putin would be embarrassed by this.

The right-wing reaction to Labour securing a difficult Indian trade deal is a useful reminder. Even if this government was performing better, they'd still brand it a failure. Absolutely no reasoning with the modern British right at all.

It used to be a newspaper

Opposing force

Happy Saturday!

His boundless and insatiable coveting of material vanities has brought nothing but despair upon my sense of self.

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

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He’s got away with untold crimes, lies & offences. He’s achieved the highest office in the land. Twice. He’s lining his pockets on an industrial scale & persecuting his enemies for fun. But he’s still a miserable, bitter, humourless & furious man. Because deep inside, he knows *exactly* who he is.

Presumably, him dying in Easter means he's guaranteed to rise from the dead in three days, and bring with him chocolatey salvation from the Great Rabbit himself?

How lovely #thebirds

Ahh a non European business class flight

I enjoyed this

One man is standing up for the rule of law in Britain. His reward is to be savagely attacked by right wing think tanks, newspapers & politicians. They understand where the battle against populism is taking place. And they've marshalled their forces accordingly. iandunt.substack.com/p/a-good-man...

No Way!

Britain's wrongest man rides again.

Yep. Insane AND idiotic.

Why are we all pretending these were quakers being arrested at a Quaker meeting hall rather than “people who rented out the space”? You can object to the arrests (on balance, I do, yes) without pretending this is some assault on religious liberty y’know.

“We’ve had declining call numbers ever since we hid all direct dial numbers to us deep in a hidden shaft of the Mariana Trench”