It’s funny when people say shit like this as if The Troops 🫡 aren’t a part of the exact same fash machinery.

When they say ‘English to a high standard’, do they mean like in this graffiti that my children and I once had to walk past?

Eric Adams sucks as mayor so bad but I'm going to miss his bizarre public addresses and things like this anti-rat infestation video where he's a Jedi fighting Jabba the Rat he posted just 2 days ago.

Keir Starmer REALLY SAID "There is no point to me people asking why do we need it [digital IDs] when we all acknowledge there is a problem" Right after he refused to answer how illegal working is stopped by a digital ID if people *already need a NI Number to work* and that doesn't stop it. Lmao

Debbonaire got spanked at the last election and lost her seat to Carla Denyer and she's clearly still salty af about it.

Brits calling paracetamol "Tylenol" though.

Here is the thing. I do not live in an echo chamber. I have gone my entire life in a world where the majority of political media has been screaming that I'm a stupid asshole and anyone who does what I want is basically a Muslim traitor to the country.

No. Absolutely not. Too big. Hate this.

This shows how so much "news" (even in the respectable much-loved broadsheets) is often just the regurgitation of PR.

A mad little story of brazen food PR nonsense, and a wider indictment of media context collapse in Ireland and everywhere else. Excellent work by @allthefood.bsky.social

Roy bom

This might be the most concentrated centrist campaign in history. "Farage is racist" out of one side of his mouth while saying "Farage is right" out of the other. A worm ideology for worm people.

Keir Starmer says he's known for 10 years that the left has got it wrong on immigration & wasn't listening to peoples concerns Really? Because 5 years ago he said the left wasn't bold enough in talking up the benefits of migration. He really is the most duplicitous politician in my lifetime

Hell yes we’re hitting our spiritual home of Nottingham at last, bringing me one step closer to my ultimate band ambition of recording a live album in Bugmans

Terrorist attack in London gets little coverage by UK Press.

We’re all scrolling Bluesky guys - we’re not too busy to do twenty seconds’ reading.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Hi is this what it looks like when you live in a good, functioning democracy?

feeding my cat some freeze dried chicken so he can pretend he’s on a space station

Keir Starmer's entire strategy to combat the far-right.

Very nice of @beckylaverty.bsky.social to come and see us yday and then crop this picture to make it look nice and busy

Well don't I feel stupid

I think we might have reached a moment where the progressive candidate openly responding with "shut the fuck up" would lead to a bump in polling.

I only just heard of the Riyadh Comedy Festival. Looking forward to the truth-to-power jokes from some of these self-proclaimed stalwarts of free speech.

lost it when he slapped in the arm bar

yeah they did this in the city I grew up in with money that was withheld (levelling up funding) so they redid the old covered market so now the weekly rents are 1k, it is so unaffordable that nowhere stays open for more than a couple of months and they wonder why no one goes there

Wasn’t there a very similar headline the other week that he was gambling on Trump’s visit and some nebulous promise of dark money from tech firms? How many gambles does this cunt get?

The thing about Labour levelling up and giving money to ‘smarten up town centres” is that you can paint a shop all you like but if people have no money to spend in a shop because their bills are too high and shopkeepers can’t afford the rent then your town centre will remain desolate

at this point it almost doesn't matter that not all of these guys *have* a coherent political ideology, because the internet communities they're all a part of are all completely subsumed in the same ironic language and signifiers used by white supremacists (as i noted in that FP link up there)

I've written about this a half-dozen times since 2015, because it continues to be relevant that the alt-right originally weaponized irony and memes in order to 1) spread extremism without consequence and 2) cultivate all these semi-ironic violent extremist edgelords foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/15/c...

Has anybody collected all the different issues Tony Blair has claimed ID cards would solve over the past 25 years

I'm gonna die on this hill, but Mangione isn't a political revolutionary. He's a Hobsbawmian "social bandit" whose good looks, choice of unpopular target, and amorphous politics (if any) provided a blank canvas for people to project their hopes and fears on. theracket.news/p/all-we-wan...

These very true words from Steve Hely have given me tremendous comfort over the years.

i think a lot of the whole gen z hates sex scenes thing can largely be boiled down to "generation that lives with parents doesn't want their parents to walk in at the wrong time"

@garydooton.bsky.social @andihamilton.com Lads I’m absolutely fuming; I think I’ve got good enough at Silksong to be enjoying it now.

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

Did you notice how quickly the debate moved from “it’s not about you, you came here legally and integrated, it’s illegal immigration” to “people with indefinite leave to remain should have their status retrospectively removed” The more we legitimise anti-migration narratives, the worse it’ll get.

had the urge to do this since the moment i saw this post! #pixelart

BBC news with its Farage fetish and which has run several uncritical interviews with racist agitators outside the homes of people seeking asylum has just put on a hot dog suit

Centrists can take patriotism and shove it as far as I'm concerned. You'll find me in the sensible death camps within a decade.

Lucky some people have somewhere to go. White people at work talk about collecting passports like pokemon, meanwhile the western consensus is I'm a genetic rapist, antisemitic swan eater, and India won't let me in because my mum was born on the wrong side of the border, making me 50% terrorist.

The use of the word 'Tylenol' just highlights the terminal US brain our media has.

Even back in the 70s and 80s when I could be hassled by the police for walking while trans, no one ever tried to stop me pissing in the Ladies or tried to make me change into my swimsuit among men. There is no dignity or respect involved in taking away rights I have exercised freely for forty years

Feeling a bit under the weather and trying desperately to fend off a cold or something before I have to drive to fucking Derbyshire and play a show on Friday. Massive hot curry and an early night it is then.

If every person currently trapped in the hell that is the UK’s immigration system was just granted citizenship tomorrow the state would save a fortune. This government (like those before it) is more interested in cruelty, bureaucratic violence & racism than human dignity

Bloody hell

I find Wes Streeting's presence unpleasant, so he should be banned from all spaces I could ever possibly visit. That's how this works, right Wes?