I’m really glad for these people that they’ve been able to come here without danger, but it’s absurd that their good fortune depends on someone else first having put themselves at risk in the Channel and then having the misfortune to be sent back. How can this possibly be a way to run a system?

I think crypto is a good example of why the obsession with GDP above all is misguided. This 'industry' barely employs anyone and its economic activity is conning gullible people. It's socially worthless and a drain on the real economy, but it makes the big line go up.

Sarah Akinterinwa on the privilege of being able to ignore the British far right – cartoon

“Journalism is printing something that someone does not want printed. Everything else is public relations.” - George Orwell

Despite Corbyn's politics being mostly aligned with my own, he is pretty similar to other politicians of his generation in his determination to selfishly hang onto power.

It really shouldn't need saying, but being concerned about the most powerful military machine in the history of the world falling into the hands of fascists isn't 'student politics'.

Read this right now please.

Spain first of Eurovision ‘big five’ to decide on boycott if Israel participates

One of my favorite genre of posts on Twitter right now is people who think grok can help them find the killer

I FINALLY FOUND IT

Every other X post is just this now

If Farage wins the next election, it will be down to one person. His name is Keir Starmer. This thread explains why. 1. Destroying faith in democracy. The UK decisively voted out the Tories, only for Starmer to give us a Continuity Tory government, shamefully beholden to economic power. 🧵

Did you know it's legal to say "an Elbit arms manufacturing plant in Bristol has closed its doors after months of targeting from Palestine Action". But it'd ILLEGAL to follow that with "what incredible work from those heroes". That'd be an offence under the Terrorism Act of 2000. Don't say that!

“I reject this talk of holes. The household budget is nothing like a national economy.” Just so weird to hear a politician addressing the electorate as adults.

Okay it should be a much bigger deal that they reduced their projections for selling agents by $26bn, and no, the reason isn't "they'll build them into ChatGPT," it's because they don't god damn work. Sam Altman said this was the year that agents would change the workforce! Nasty!

UK ignored obligation to prevent genocide, witnesses tell Gaza tribunal

I feel a secret door in my house would be redundant because every time someone came over I couldn't resist the urge to be like. 'Yo check out my secret door, isn't it awesome?' Which kind of defeats the point.

I was on the Moral Maze last night, and I have to say, with the blazing self-deception of Tim Stanley and Paul Baldwin, and the failure of other contributors to grasp some basic realities, it was an almost perfect showcase of everything that is wrong with the media. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Need a book for something you are studying? It's now legal just to steal it... So long as you are a billionaire dollar company. An insane ruling that proves the rich are above the law. Check out Steve from GamerNexus. His work is always top notch.

Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.

People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.

Gaza’s journalists are talented, professional and dignified. That’s why Israel targets them | Nesrine Malik

In the UK, the water shortage is so bad that the government is urging citizens to help save water by deleting old emails. It really helps lighten the load on water hungry datacenters, you see. 🔗 www.404media.co/uk-asks-peop...

"I entrust you with Palestine – the jewel in the crown of the Muslim world, the heartbeat of every free person in this world" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The government response to experts not giving a shit about stuff like blockchain and LLMs is a bit like the guys who think they can tell their mechanics exactly how to fix the car.

Europe’s ‘happy vassal’ complex on.ft.com/47nnpEL | opinion

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza. Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF. #NotATarget Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

🚨HAPPENING NOW: Hundreds arrested in Parliament Square in protest organised by Defend Our Juries The arrest of otherwise peaceful protesters is a violation of the UK’s international obligations to protect the rights of freedom of expression and assembly. 1/3

The industry argument here seems to mostly be 'being held to the law would ruin us'. This is an interesting defence. By the way, how is Napster doing these days?

Time to: 💸 Tax the super rich 🏥 Protect our NHS 🏫 Invest in public services Agree? Join us: join.greenparty.org.uk

Of course, you could tax wealth and not wages, starting at > £10M, but that would mean those of you FT types wouldn’t be able to afford perhaps your 6th or 7th holiday this year, so won’t happen. Instead, what is left of a degraded middle class will be shredded further, whilst inequality explodes.

Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)

‘We are dying slowly, save us’: starvation takes hold in Gaza after a week of appalling milestones

It cannot be denied: this is a deliberate and coldly-calculated famine, engineered by a technologically-advanced state which knows exactly what it is doing. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

The conspiracy: the police were too woke to go after paedos The reality:

God, the number of people who were willing to believe that the South Yorkshire police were too woke to prosecute sexual abuse cases, when in fact the police force was itself an instrument of patriarchal sexual violence. It’s like a case study in the worst excesses of the British press.

Starmer says his government will “recognise” Palestinian statehood in September - on his timeline, on his terms But Palestinian lives aren’t a bargaining chip and his conditional 'humanity' is a moral failure “Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” – Gustave Mark Gilbert

Because he doesn't believe Palestinian lives are equal to Israeli lives. Because he's totally lost his humanity in his bubble where he sees peoples lives as bargaining chips. And because the man is devoid of all principles and compassion. Next question.

labour want to ban vpns but it’s adults installing them. this isn’t about protecting children. it’s about state surveillance.

.001 milliseconds after it dawns on me that I’ve been ignoring/supporting a genocide: most important thing now is no scolding about this

Every word of this thread

A defiant George Monbiot avoids arrest amid wave of pro-Palestine Action protests @georgemonbiot.bsky.social said it's "an Orwellian situation in which people calling for peace are arrested under the Terrorism Act, while the UK actively assists Israeli state terror" www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

If someone claims to have been a former Labour voter and are going to vote Reform: legitimate concerns. Must be listened to. Labour must Get More Racist. If someone was actually in the party and was told to leave for having morals: Your concerns are pathetic. Vote for Labour while we insult you.

The party was subject to a hostile takeover by its right-wing in 2020 because the left threatened their revolving door system of sinecures and make-work jobs at utility companies, so now the party mainly functions as a way for MPs to audition for future employment opportunities. Sorry about that.

“Just outside Gaza, tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items & fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them," write 109 aid agencies today. Israel is committing Palestinian genocide and it is monstrous. Credit: Anatolu/Getty Images

Kit Malthouse to Lammy "can he not see his inaction & cowardice is making this country irrelevant? Can he also not see the personal risk to him, given our intl obligations, that he may end up at the Hague because of his inaction?" Lammy tells Malthouse his language is unbecoming

Difficult to conceive of a more ill-judged decision then the one the Home Office took here. It is an affront to free speech of a kind which is really indistinguishable from what you'd see in a police state.