are we just not going to discuss the fact that Robbie Williams has recorded a song about Morrissey then youtu.be/wi6UTY7jcoo?...

A genuinely interesting and important question, and I naively clicked the link in the expectation that someone involved in posing it might have attempted answering it too. Alas.

they simply cannot and will not accept the public's casual refusal to embrace the descent into the sludge factory, they can only see it as a failure on our part that must be rectified at whatever expense

never seen such desperation for the entire capitalist class to sell one technology

Has the UK government/opposition pointed out that Farage is basically recreating Liz Truss's Conservatives (which everyone fucking hated) from first principles

Have they fallen out of love with liberalism? Or are they 27 years old?

This is insane, but expected thanks to all that “clarity.”

Imagine working for Palantir and thinking you have meaningful ethical red lines

‘Anyone know what haggis is?’ … ‘I’ve got a ham baguette..? Probably something like this?’

opinions please, on Keir Starmer's Burns Supper ham rolls

Getting a staffer to quickly google 'what are the elements of a Burns Supper' and they wound up in some AI result that was more 'what are the elements of a secondary school tuck shop'

And what appears to be a ham ciabatta

still thinking about the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland wishing Scottish citizens a happy Burns Night with a picture of him looking very serious behind a plate of Tunnock's confectionary and a tin of Irn Bru

I actually did one of those shudders when you tense everything and your neck and jaw vibrate, reading these words.

Out on the town having the best Burns Supper of my life with a bunch of friends. They're all just out of frame, drinking closed tins of Irn Bru, too.

Can't help feel Scots have brought this one on ourselves a bit - Sturgeon getting a selfie with AOC holding a can of Irn Bru, dancing Tunnocks teacakes at the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony - but still. Hilariously insulting Burns Night post from the actual Prime Minister lol

aye but then he wouldn't get to imagine himself as Malcolm Tucker as he sits there on the toilet getting a wee thrill at all the big man swearies he's typing out on his phone

The odd thing here is that it's actually an inversion of Linehan's trajectory. He was a very highly regarded comedy writer who torpedoed it all in the fevered pursuit of increasingly bizarre and ghoulish right wing ideals

He is very nearly explicitly saying out loud at a press conference a core vulgar tenet of fascism: we are allowed to kill you if your worldview threatens our power

Explicit censorship on Tiktok in the US.

idk who this lad is but one of the replies said he looks like Jack Black playing Jack White in a new biopic and now I can't stop staring at it

I’m an opinion columnist and I’m giving you opinions. What more do you want?? For the opinions to be good????

haggis: good

The courage of Minnesotans is contagious.

you: there is no such thing as a 'guilty pleasure', all aesthetic worth is subjective, your enjoyment is valid regardless of social approval, 'cringe' is a cowardly policing of happiness me: my guilty pleasure is the dropkick murphy's version of worker's song you: 🤯😱😬😵‍💫😫🤮😭 youtu.be/Clj8htWcFho?...

The best rendering of anything by Robert Burns ever

"perfect victim" stuff is dangerous bollocks but if senior Dems can't step things up when the innocent person executed face down in the street is a white nurse working in veteran care, then even erstwhile "moderates" will come to see them as complicit collaborators as lines are drawn

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

Moved beyond words by the courage and resolve shown by the people of Minneapolis

it was always the *logical* endpoint though. It's not a contradiction, but the *reconciliation* of seemingly opposed libertarian and authoritarian tendencies, in fascism, where you just have to be part of the regime to have impunity and everyone not of the regime is fair game

I feel like "someone says it's raining, someone else says it's not, your job isn't to simply quote both, but to look out the window and see who is right" is such a widely accepted and understood truism about how to do journalism, and yet

just unbelievable to watch the news in real time and see how hard it is for them to say “the video doesn’t match what the government is saying.” they’re literally shrugging their shoulders and scratching their heads

So in addition to everything, he was on his knees face-down when they shot him

100%. If you want an alternative slogan you can go with "Abolish ICE before they kill again."

I too look at events in the US and conclude we should model our own system of law enforcement on their federal agencies

The BBC coverage is absolutely terrible. It leads on "sharply contested narratives" It has a dramatic skew to the US government It has posted the video but has failed to report on what it shows: it shows the US govt account is untrue

I know "Long 90s" and everything but honestly I am a little bit surprised at just how much interest there apparently is in David and Victoria Beckham's relationship with their adult kids

This is all such a weird argument. Hitler sang the praises of the US genocide of indigenous peoples. Lots of things are like other things! The reason people reach for 'Gestapo' before 'slave patrols' is not for the relative aptness of the analogy but because of how much closer it is to living memory

haha

‬New Polanski walk n talk is a smasher, and I really Iike his "I'm gonna repost all the praise" approach but - and I am sorry! - I find the apparently not uncommon sentiment "this is unlike anything expressed in British politics in my lifetime" a touch concerning and indeed mildly off-putting!

Listen to this. "If you define your politics by opposition to the genocide in Gaza, you should campaign actively for the people arming and abetting it." People who say these things are very obviously unserious individuals whose opinions on this matter - indeed on anything - should be disregarded.

Don't want to unrealistically romanticise the situation in Minnesota from afar, but it really does seem that while the situation is terrifying and nightmarish, the response is rad as fuck and deeply, powerfully hopeful

Statement from the entire Minneapolis City Council in support of a General Strike and Day of Truth & Freedom on January 23rd.

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Excuse me, what is this "British fans" talk please? The Tartan Army has not painstakingly cultivated a solid international reputation of chummy arm-round-the-shoulder soundness with the express aim of establishing difference from and smug superiority over the English only to be spoken of like this!

I just thought everyone should see this

As a tee-totaller there are of course times and situations where I lament the fact of No Pints. But let me tell you these are given a real run for their money by the sad lack of No Train Cans

Currently imagining what it would be like for my kids primary school to be in a situation that necessitated sending missives to all parents advising them against accepting food support from the government in order to avoid being kidnapped

I watched the movie Song Sung Blue last night and consequently find myself oddly disappointed that 'Play Me' by Kim Gordon is not in fact a Neil Diamond cover