Apparently it's all just a bit of a joke. Someone like Michael Gove can recklessly ruin the lives of millions of people and then just appear on #HIGNFY and laugh it off, still being immensely proud of himself. The hubris and the sense of entitlement are breathtaking.

It would, for example, be easy for a public service broadcaster to look to verify some of claims. How, eg, are black and white people treated by the police? There is a reality which is being wilfully distorted, and many people don’t know it.

Nigel Farage Listens to the News

Yesterday my 14yo told us she wants to rewrite her English coursework because the school’s AI checker gave it an 80% score (ie 4 in 5 chance it was written using GenAI). It definitely wasn’t. Another way AI is fucking over the kids. I hate it so much.

Oh my. I'd forgotten (erased) how much my younger sister loved Rebel MC. #totp

Fair play to the lady on the right #totp

Very sorry to hear of the passing of Anthony Head. I'll always associate him with this act of kindness from a few years ago.

has any man ever been more vindicated? x.com/stuartbuck1/...

Zelensky sets out Russia's and Putin's personal weakness, proposes setting a date for negotiations involving him and Putin, with European involvement, seemingly conditional on moves to return abducted Ukrainian civilians and stolen Ukrainian children. www.president.gov.ua/en/news/vidk...

Yeah - the normalisation of far-right racist scumbags by the news as 'protestors with valid alternative views' has been shocking to behold, particularly over the past decade or so.

Growing up across the political spectrum and in media they were labelled as thugs. In today's media landscape they are "protestors" with "concerns".

I think the way the media treats it as the mainstream discourse is the most dangerous thing of all.

I found this neat tool that lets you generate text and images just from your ideas. It's really good!

What, and I can't stress enough, the fuck

Still at least everyone who called people hysterical for pointing these things out and predicting outcomes like this in 2016-2020 have all apologised for it and are certainly not still doing the work of Farage’s publicity department for free anymore. Right? Right??

The same people who tell me I can’t ever be British because of my name are saying a guy named Nowak is British, but just for a few days while they hold riots

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“Nigel Farage is using the tragedy of Henry Novak to divide British communities. He's made a career out of this. We all know why he does it." 📺 WATCH: @maxwilkinson.bsky.social

🚨DR UK's Statement on the EHRC's New Code of Practice "We are appalled at implications that an adequate workaround is trans people using Disabled toilets instead. We will not be used as a loophole in the wider erosion of trans rights." Full statement👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disabil...

Kemi Badenoch, Keir Starmer…well done for your contribution to this group project.

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This? This is worth the post. One of a number of @libdems.org.uk standing up and being counted in the commons today. bsky.app/profile/tomg...

Incitement to riot is a serious criminal offence (Public Order Act 1986). So are encouraging/assisting offending, causing fear/provoking immediate violence, stirring up racial hatred, & terrorism (variously under POA 1986, Serious Crime Act 2007, Terrorism Act 2006 etc). Enforce the law.

GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands

When the father of a murdered son makes a public statement saying "we do not want his death to be used to create further division, hatred or tension", then I believe it's incumbent on any news outlet reporting on Farage's comments to ensure people know he has chosen to disregard the family's wishes.

Same

After last summer of calling incidents of far-right thuggery "legitimate", then trying and continuing to mimic quite extreme immigration policies by arguing that Reform's answers were not extreme, just "unworkable" - main parties have festered an environment where this will be seen as mainstream.

We saw it in rhetoric & policy last year of how the far-right hardliners within and outside Reform force Farage to become more overt in his racism. He feels threatened and responds accordingly. It's up to other parties to call this racism out for what it is rather than chime into it like last year.

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Labour has rolled back protections for trans individuals. The Under Secretary of State for Equalities has just opened the door for vigilantism against trans individuals. UK has dropped in terms of LGBTQIA+ rights under this government. This performative politics doesn't match Labour's own policies.

High gas prices are ANOTHER good reason to end car dependency, and to rethink how we get around cities, especially for short trips. @chrisboardman.bsky.social agrees. "You need moments in life where there's a reason to try something different and the high fuel costs at the moment are exactly that."

I’m a climate scientist. Let me fix this headline. “Nearly a century ago, scientists showed that burning fossil fuels warms the planet. Today, we know human emissions account for over 100% of the warming. Yet dark money and disinformation still work to keep Americans addicted to fossil fuels.”

£300,000+ a year.

Says the country with “Lord Lebedev of Siberia” awarded a life peerage by the PM who went against the advice of security services when appointing him 😆

the image of Sturgeon cautioning against panic buying while, just off-screen, Murrell is frantically trying to wedge 100 toilet rolls, eighty tins of baked beans and two twenty-litre cans of petrol into a cupboard

A brief history of the horrible views of Lionel Shriver. bsky.app/profile/snig...

Huge amount of daily newspaper output for years now has been “I relentlessly behave like an abysmal arsehole about absolutely everything, and nobody pats me on the head and says Well Done”. Or, alternatively, “I was acting like an aggro dickhead and people told me to fuck off, it’s totalitarian”

Peter Murrell bought 108 toilet rolls just hours before then First Minister Nicola Sturgeon warned the public against panic buying during the Covid pandemic.

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

To many people regional policy only began in 2010, which is why I think the failure to defend New Labour's record is both disappointing and leads to bad policy.

Two of the mechanisms to address economic and social inequality, EU regional development funds and RDAs were swept away by Conservative govt and then Brexit. Some history lessons needed...

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I bought some Ferrex Blu-Ray dvds today, 18 rated supposedly. They're bloody rubbish, just makes a grinding noise.

So that’s two of the “Raise the Colours” organisers now charged with violent crimes & a fifth of the 2024 race rioters with domestic abuse. Makes you wonder whether “innocent patriotism” & “protecting women & girls” are just covers for thuggish racism & misogyny?

"The world needs to grow up again" This is the most succinct analysis.

1966 a close family friend was a Police Sergeant in Ashington, a tough town in Northumberland & home to the Charlton brothers. He'd spent 4 years in a German POW camp. Very patriotic AND took his holidays in Germany. "Well oddly I speak German better than Spanish". The world needs to grow up again

'A Restore spokesperson has said that people without “indigenous British ancestry and Christian faith” cannot be considered British.' I'm an atheist so LMK where to self-deport to I guess anyway, good piece here on the right-wing online aura harvesters - as.ft.com/r/7beb9e3c-f...

Every society needs a way of dealing with risk, such as incapacity. Pre-industrial society relied on the family and community. When people moved to work in cities the state eventually took on the role. Now the state is retreating, individualising risk, and increasing anxiety. (Ned McCellen)

Tech company invents the bus. Again.

This whiny little cunt and his thug baby outriders are the saddest little posturing losers I ever done seen. Full on fingers in their ears trying to avoid the truth about modernity, progress and other people’s goodness. Strip back the anger and you find the fear. Pipsqueaks, the lot of them.