I'd argue that the left critique of "centre right parties keep the far right out of power" has been entirely vindicated. We can now see how the centre right normalises the talking points of the right & lays the ground for the fash. It is what shifts the Overton window

I can’t describe how much I am loving earthborne rangers. Just an incredible incredible game

I hate it when liberals “correct” the “department of war” to the “department of defence” because that’s the only honest thing the Trump administration has done

Is this good

I have to confess something. All this time I’ve been thinking that the “Butlerian Jihad” was something to do with *Judith* Butler. Like a “Gender Jihad” if you will. Turns out it’s actually from Dune.

Full statement posted to Twitter 5 mins ago.

The United States is behaving in a way that is indistinguishable from how an advanced Third Reich would had it emerged victorious from World War 2, and nearly every leader in the developed world is now abandoning their duty to confront it, having acclaimed and legitimated it every step of the way.

Please help me understand how Glen Powell is considered attractive. He elicits such a strong desire to punch

It might be because I never learned to drive but something I’ve never been able to understand: if cars going both directions drive on the left side of the road, how do they not crash into each other?

Save £3 on your Spotify subscription by cancelling it and instead buying one album per month from Bandcamp or Qobuz, yours to keep forever. Bonus: you might, like me, start enjoying the process of discovering new music again.

"... their realities are far removed from most ordinary people's. Everyone knows MPs live a rarefied life, and it's farcical to pretend otherwise."

The thing I can’t get my head round is how specialist training is unquestioningly presented as a “perk” that was being generously given to doctors instead of, you know, how we get specialist doctors

The only way to end the sexual abuse of children who are detained and incarcerated is to stop detaining and incarcerating children. There are no "reforms" that end sexual abuse inside.

If I end up working over my hours I make sure to spend longer in the toilet to make up for it. I call it “time in loo”.

Real honour to write something for one of my favourite newsletters, on how anti-Muslim politics is really the only thing left for many of the Wests right wing (and even left wing) political parties

Just saw “The Drama” — it was hilarious and brilliant. The first “elevated romcom” perhaps?

What’s the stickiest animal in the forest? A deer.

zack polanski going after the fbpe vote it seems

love a good cheesy film. texas chainsaw massacapone

Anyone know what the TikTok “swarming the streets” thing is? I don’t trust the papers to properly explain it, and they mostly just say “mob of teenagers”.

Happy birthday to bipolar disorder!

The government is reportedly considering triggering the break clause in Palantir’s NHS data contract. It's a no-brainer - this break clause is an exit ramp and the government should take it.

The counterterrorism police re-arresting Qesser Zuhrah (one of the Filton 24) for an Instagram post are covering their faces like ICE. When the court releases folks, the police continues the persecute them, also like ICE. Fuck Labour Party and their authoritarian gestapo bullshit.

hell bluesky again. need help with learning about a particular EU immigration/asylum/brexit thing that i'm uneducated about & sure i'm getting wrong somewhere. the following is as i think i understand it (& so possibly incorrect):

The shamelessness of the right wing media is at least giving us the gift of absolute clarity. There is no misapprehending the situation we are in.

The difference between these two is racism

Reminder that this was all based on an urgent blog post raising “major concerns” over so-called “family voting”, from the previously obscure Democracy Volunteers, who then immediately went incommunicado and now seem to have been woefully unable to substantiate the very serious allegations they made

Christ, if he gets this badly trounced on home turf - the GBN studio - you can see why he shat the bed so badly in Manchester:

it’s too late to make any improvements now

I have an idea for a reality tv show, who do I talk to? It’s called “planned economy” and is based on @monzo.com’s “coin jar”:

Based Blunt www.hellorayo.co.uk/greatest-hit...

whooooooo remembers 'family voting'

strong contender for most relevant meme of 2026

Immigration enforcement is far from new, but it has got worse under Labour. There's always a significant degree of racial profiling in raids, along with a routine failure to protect victims of exploitation and modern slavery, favouring Instesd to penalise them. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The world energy shock is coming — it will deepen inequality in ways we've seen before. Our new @newstatesman1913.bsky.social piece argues that without urgent government action, the Strait of Hormuz crisis will ripple through our economies and rip apart our societies. Here's why. 1/

Question from the “Life in the UK” test in which we force people who want citizenship to pretend that the UK offers “freedom of belief and religion”.

Would strongly recommend stopping whatever you’re currently doing, jumping on the first train to Bath, and booking a table at Yak Yeti Yak, which does the best (and spiciest) Nepalese food I have ever tasted and my favourite meal out I’ve had in a long long time.

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

You’re not sticking to graphics when you stick to graphics.

Europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of Hormuz:

Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.

The deterrence plan in full:

Lots said about Starmer’s capitulation to Trump, but not enough said of the fact the other aggressor in the war which Starmer is supporting through the use of our bases is a country currently committing genocide whose leader is wanted by the ICC. We’ve joined the war on the side of the genocidaires.

The global economy is in dire straits