A bit of advice for journalists: At least *read* the quotes you’re cut and pasting into a story.

Look this is Britain we're talking about here. The plan is to make something that's already illegal even more illegal and continue to not enforce it being illegal because that costs too much money. It's our answer to every problem these days

Elon Musk is once again inciting violence on British streets because the government has taught him there are literally no consequences for doing so. They even carry on using his far-right social network to promote government policy as he does it. The absence of backbone is *astounding*.

Just f**k off you drug addled spunk monkey. You’re not from here, you don’t live here, you and your ignorant ramblings are not wanted here. The sooner someone shoots you into space, and you bob around like one of those Russian dogs in the 50s till the air runs out, the better off humanity will be.

Criminally unappreciated factor in underwhelming growth for the UK (but England in particular) - the swallowing up of disposable income as housing costs outstrip wage increases.

The Times newspapers using storylines from 'The Thick of It' as ideas for articles. youtu.be/GiY1wFEr-5o?...

I used to defend the BBC’s coverage until fairly recently. Election night 2024 was probably the point at which I snapped and could no longer avoid facing what it had become.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

Saw a tankie claiming reading noam chomsky made him more knowledgable about the Ukrainewar than Ukrainians in a bomb shelter, boiled my piss

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

Dunster (Somerset) Council By-Election Result: 🔶 LDM: 49.6% (+8.5) ➡️ RFM: 28.9% (New) 🌳 CON: 19.0% (-22.9) 🌹 LAB: 1.9% (-4.2) No GRN (-10.3) as previous. Liberal Democrat GAIN from Conservative. Changes w/ 2022.

On the “big two” parties - combined Tory/Lab vote in 2021 63% in Caerphilly, Today 13%(!) We certainly aren’t in Kansas anymore.

Actively insane and immoral

This is deranged and dangerous from the Conservatives, and similarly from Reform. If they could enact it, it would rip British society apart, destroy the economy & NHS, & make the UK an international pariah. Every decent politician & political journalist/commentator needs to push back hard.

Watching people with "Radical Marxists" and "Anarchist" in their profiles full throated defend a dude with a totenkopf tattoo because he talks like Bernie Sanders confirms every single prior I have ever had about them.

This take is completely demented. No, *not* "tattoo aside", you cannot put "I have branded the mark of white supremacy and fascism onto my flesh prominently and do apologia for it." If I found such a mark on my flesh I'd partially flay myself before letting the sun set on me like that.

🚨NEW BLOGPOST🚨 Since the government can't seem to see it, I explain how and why a simple act of Parliament can bring the Andrew affair to the end - and why they should do it. joxleywrites.substack.com/p/parliament...

This is a properly horrific policy just on the face of it, and gets worse the more you think about it. Its not just about deporting 'illegal' immigrants: but those who have spent their lives here, who we promised a home to, key parts of our community. Utter, utter scum

Jenrick is a Wolves fan, but they only played at Villa Park once (when Jenrick was 7) in the 1980s when he was > 2 years old. It is possible he could have gone to the next Villa v Wolves game when he was 14: that is far too deep into the 1990s (1996) to tell us about 1980s football culture.

It simply should not be possible to make a steam train out of our marginal taxation rate graph.

If you want a classic of the NIMBY local press genre, this is it. This is a brownfield (ex-hard stand caravan park) site, in the very centre of Bristop, where 40% of homes will be affordable. Its basically the dream development NIMBYs demand. And this is how work is written up.

If they're going to make changes to the big 3 they would be missing a hell of a trick to not iron out weird cliff edges like the 100k "trap" that actually cost the treasury money by encouraging self imposed income suppression...

At some point in the last 2.5 years I went to bed thinking of Israel as a flawed but recoverable democracy that could work out its issues eventually post-Netanyahu and woke up holding it in the same disdain as Milošević’s Yugoslavia and the Confederate States

I transcribed this demented ramble - he says he talked to Pete Hegseth one year before 9/11 (which he calls "one year ago"), admits he can't remember the title of his own book and claims he was the only one who wanted to kill Bin Laden in 2000 (he wasn't, and the book doesn't even advocate this).

You Can Just Push Shit In Back Seat Out Of Way

inviting Yaxley-Lennon to Israel is expel the ambassador level trolling. A direct assault on the political system by a hostile international actor.

The Guardian really has a anti-development slant atm, doesn't it? Yes, building new infrastructure means that some people are inconvenienced. But not doing it... well, you see the state of our rail system? And the housing crisis?

This is just incredible. Someone made not just a computer, but an *entire working LLM* out of (438 million) minecraft blocks www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

I’ve done my best to learn as little as possible about Mr Beast, and what I have learned has been repulsive

The average working class person is a young woman living in a big city whose peer group is incredibly diverse. Yet this person is completely invisible in our politics. Both she and her voting intent are considered irrelevant by our media and political leadership.

I tend to agree and a lot of these issues would be easier if housing costs were, say, a third lower. This is also where a lot of Tory priors breakdown, because younger high earners are more annoyed by their landlord than the taxman.

This is not the next best thing. Its disgusting, inhuman and will prevent people processing their loss in a healthy way. Death is part of life. A key part of being a adult is coming to terms with that. Ban this shit.

AI slop images on cards in the card factory 🤢

Kind of feels like a big deal that a Reform/Brexit Party former MEP has been convicted of taking bribes to promote Russian interests in Ukraine, and it feels like a bigger deal that this isn’t being treated as the major scandal that it clearly is.

It's IMO striking that the actual case that the UK should join its European peers and have a proper, free and universal ID card all involves things that improve the lives of the people who actually voted Labour in 2024, who are of course inferior to people who voted Labour in 1979.

This is one of the extremely aggravating things about Yankee rightists: the demand that not only their own society submit to them, but that everybody else in the world conform to their side in their culture wars lest our countries lose security guarantees. Independent nukes are, frankly, easier.

Wonderful news. A salutary reminder of the absolute benefits of scientific progress, and the absolute evil of conspiracist bollocks. Huntington's disease successfully treated for first time www.bbc.com/news/article...

This morning, again, it's just endless coverage of the president's "change of tone" on Russia. Which, if the past is any guide, will change again tomorrow and the day after. We might as well analyse an angry toddler's "change of tone" towards bedtime, bathtime and whether he likes the colour green.

I think the key problem here is a continuing assumption, in traditional media, that when the White House speaks on a major topic, this is a big news story. That model can't cope with a president with no regard for truth, who's in constant broadcast mode, & who veers around from one day to another.

Fundamentally the thing is that American policy is being directed by a demented old man who can be manipulated the same way that your granny can be manipulated by a scam call.

Sure. I left Twitter because I do not intend to legitimise an Apartheid-nostalgic, Sieg-Heiling, drug-fuelled narcissist by lending my weight to his right wing propaganda platform, knowing that he minimises my reach anyway. Each to their own though, I suppose.

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins? He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions. So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

really dislike that "Boriswave" used to be something you'd exclusively see being used by racist Twitter accounts but it's now made its way to the political mainstream, including today's Playbook headline

You know what else is 14 words? "Did you insinuate my wife was a prostitute on the Plymouth Herald comments section?"