I just don't buy that the right wing MSM is "monstering" this government for trying to cut disability benefits, demonise trans people, and attack immigrants.

The replies to this from Starmer supporters are unmoored from reality.

The *only* response to this is all the other governors drop out.

I know a rascal when I see one, and this is 100% rascal

You don’t have to share trumps racist posts. Not about the superbowl. Not about anything. We could join truth social if we wanted. We’re here though.

Macbeth: SHIT

You can't use a Thermometer to measure Fahrenheit. You need a Thermomile.

Young men are the second most liberal group in the country after young women.

Saying you would take a "much tougher stance on immigration" than the Labour government is (or should be) discrediting for the same reason that saying your budget plans would be "very fiscal" would be. What does it mean?

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The allergy that we have to spending any money on anything. Maybe there are "better" ways of spending money, but we don't do that either. The perfect analogy for the UK as a whole. It's crumbling from decades of underinvestment, and now we have to spend silly money on it if we want it to work.

For future reference, if you multiply the average circulation of the magazine you've written some short columns for by the number of columns you've written, arrive at the figure of FIVE MILLION, and proudly list it on your academic CV, someone reviewing that is going to laugh out loud.

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I'm 40, and I am now being told for the very first time that professional wrestling isn't a legitimate sport. By someone who should be now given a crown and cape. For services to being a very clever boy.

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Kind of amazing to see the "Fuck ICE" chants on Dynamite getting noticed a bit outside of the wrestling bubble. Some people going "There are wrestling fans that don't like Trump?!" with real "A dog that can TALK?!" energy.

"why are you always shitting on dems instead of the guys actually doing this" when the firemen sit around with their dicks out watching my house burn down I don't go yell at the fire!!!

It was only a matter of time before the pro wrestling fans of Bluesky and the Star Trek Deep Space 9 fans of Bluesky looked at each other and realized that 90% of their interests overlap

or you could take the bullshit at face value because you think it makes you seem savvy, your choice

“But FA, we spent so much money!” is not the argument I’d be making if I had 115 charges.

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Oh good, *Dangermouse* is about to start.

It seems even more unlikely that Wes Streeting will ever be Labour leader or PM now and I think that's worth taking a minute to appreciate

Too many people on Bluesky think that relentless expressions of despair are a sign of intellectual sophistication.

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Appointing Peter Mandelson as the ambassador to the US against explicit security vetting advice is the resigning issue that the press spent an absurd amount of time trying to convince us that "he had a beer and a curry" was.

Hot Take 2: if this is Mandelson's position, there is no reason for him not to issue a statement to this effect. If he has not issued a statement to this effect, the BBC's "understanding" of his actual position may be inaccurate. Stop letting people play this game.

The Ai slop British Musem Scandal is worth being aware of, mostly for the BM’s absolute bonfire approach, which so far has been: Post Ai photos for promo to instagram Remove Ai photos after backlash Deny any connection to Ai Unfollow the content creators who pointed it out AND YET

A reminder.

one thing that would be cool, when prominent creators turn out to be terrible people, would be if we didn't have to go through this performative dance of insisting that their work was never good in the first place.

I'm sorry but it's very funny to me that the legislature of a G7/P5 country of 70 million is currently drafting the "Fuck This One Guy in Particular Act of 2026." Also, imagine tolerating a system of privilege so entrenched you need to rewrite centuries-old rules just to get at one douchebag.

It’s so funny that this guy’s entire thing is “Oh are you triggered by what I have to say about marginalized people” but he loses it when someone more well-liked than he will ever be talks about an actual injustice

Authoritarian law enforcement is immoral and does not work... *someone brings bike onto rush hour tram* ... but we need to revisit this.

And so, who is to blame? "It's the spineless dems not providing opposition!" "It's the republicans doing the actual evil things!"

If a university student group had celebrated Charlie Kirk being killed, complete with a graphic made from an actual picture of the killing, the whole lot of them would have been expelled before the ink on the digital story was dry.

Have found it quite underreported in the UK that the Norwegians are speedrunning a total collapse in approval for the monarchy. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

how fucking dare you

It’s a ‘how to pay for healthcare’ sort of day for me. Glasgow bound and lecturing our PGT students on healthcare financing, plus CPP published this late last week.

Mandleson, of course, is by all account still a member of the Labour Party. Worth remembering Neal Lawson, the head of compass, was almost expelled from the party for retweeting someone who called for tactical voting in a local election. www.ft.com/content/1728...

Anyway, here's some wrestling promotions you can watch that are better than WWE and aren't currently doing a show in Saudi Arabia in an arena built by enslaved people (I'm going to skip AEW as they're hopefully already well known):

What the fuck does "appear to show" mean? Isn't there a mainstream journalist left who can just report what they see? www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

feel like that's just called "living in a society", if you're used to living in the world and interacting with your fellow man you'll be used to the feeling of "fuck this person is tedious BUT their heart is in the right place", if you can't deal with it you're simply too online and/or anti-social!

While we're shouting into the wind, politics isn't a plural. Neither is physics or mathematics. English is confusing, I know, but...

It's easy to blame anti-vaxxers for declining vaccination rates, but rates had recovered post Wakefield. We can and should keep battling them, but perhaps we should also look at properly funding public health and working on re-establishing trust between medical authorities and the population.