Jane Fonda teams up with fascist, fatphobic dudebro and disgraced lawyer, Keir Starmer, in a new podcast which promises to be as shitty as you're imagining it to be.

Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter need to get the corporate equivalent of an execution by gunshot to the back of the head the very first day of the next administration

It’s probably the question on which I’ve moved most to the left over the past 20-30 years. Billionaires are threats to democracy. I’m not sure what practical and effective steps can be taken to deal with the threat though.

Farage is very obviously demonising legitimate public interest here, and he's doing so in a way that sets millions of his followers on a single photographer. It's incredibly dangerous.

"As part of the Guardian’s journalism covering Nigel Farage’s purchase of a £1.4m property in cash shortly after receiving a £5m personal gift, a photographer took pictures from a public path and showed his press card when asked to identify himself."

Just incredibly bleak. Meta is an evil company profiting off this and their algorithms encourage it. The government needs to take proper action. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The defeat of the AV referendum is criminally under-appreciated as a dark day in British history. It was a good idea, and admirably suited to the present situation, where much of the voting public is primarily motivated by loathing of (at least) one party, rather than support for any of the others.

Men are using Meta AI glasses to secretly film women at beaches, shops, on the street & on nights out. They then post these clips online where they receive a barrage of misogynistic abuse. I’m campaigning to make this behaviour an offence. Women deserve to feel safe in public spaces.

Shinji, get in the Battlestar

Not being funny, but this sort of thing is why I just dont trust any of you to be telling the truth when you say the mods are out to get you

Truss and the Tories / far right in particular have been subject to basically no reckoning on the 2 years they've been out of power. Farage was significantly responsible for Brexit, a decision that - however viewed - has been a disaster. Yet the idiot is lauded by the press.

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This is also why any poll that includes Restore or some other obscure far-right outlet is an obvious ratfuck btw

The Greens won a ward in Birmingham with less than 21% of the vote

I believe the Real Greens have just been IGV'd out of a second seat in Mid Scotland and Fife. Huge questions for Electoral Commission to answer after two elections of this.

East Surrey County Council Results (new council) 🔶 LDM: 40 (+34) 🌳 CON: 10 (-34) 🌍️ GRN: 8 (+4) ➡️ RFM: 5 (+5) 🏘️ LOC: 5 (-9) ⚪️ IND: 4 (=) Liberal Democrat GAIN Changes based on notional results from previous councils.

Multiparty politics in action, does anyone believe FPTP could cope? The outcome would be a complete lottery!

Since the day has finally come, reminder that one look at the 1931 election result should tell you that Labour losing badly in Wales is a more existential result than the Red Wall or even Scotland

Plaid absolutely storming it in Wales, appear to have become the "not reform" center-left vote everywhere

Ouzel Valley (Milton Keynes) Council Election Result LDM: 35.3% RFM: 23.3% CON: 17.6% GRN: 12.8% LAB: 11.0% Lib Dem Elected (X3) New Wards for 2026

24 minutes into the news at one and we get the first mention of the Lib Dems, the party currently in second place in the polls. Guess how many times reform has been mentioned.

Probably fair for the Liberal Democrats to claim 'winning here' in Richmond

BBC bigging up Reform UK and saying congrats to them and stuff! With not even a third of the councils in and a lot of debate still on where we're to land! Quality of coverage very poor and runs on rails: 'Reform triumph' was decided on weeks ago. Pitiful.

Whenever the Greens announce a policy, people are always like “but have they thought about…?”or “have they considered…?” No, they have not thought, they have not considered, and they won’t be doing so. The political incentives being what they are, they have no need. It’s slopulism all the way down.

🔶 Lib Dems HOLD Richmond, winning 54 of 54 councillors.

Central Southsea (Portsmouth) council election result: LDEM: 42.6% (+42.6) GRN: 20.9% (+13.0) LAB: 18.3% (-57.1) REF: 14.1% (+14.1) CON: 4.2% (-12.6) Liberal Democrat GAIN from Labour. www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Portsmouth City Council Results (1/3 up) LDM: 8 (+3) RFM: 5 (+5) CON: 1 (-1) LOC: 0 (-2) LAB: 0 (-5) Liberal Democrat GAIN from No Overall Control Changes w/ 2022 for outgoing councillors

Trying to follow this UK election thing. Seems to me the party that campaigned on copying the far right lost to the far right which is exactly what has happened the previous 73737 times this has been tried in various countries. No one votes for the copy www.bbc.com/news/live/c1...

CCHQ apparently chipper this afternoon, I’m told. As the polls continue, they’re “utterly convinced” Susan Hall has won

More shite from the Nazi rag, claiming parking enforcement is a war on drivers.

This Reform announcement about the concentration camps they want to build, from unelected businessman Zia Yusuf, is somehow even more horrifying than you might expect.

This is honestly the most coldly furious letter I think I've ever seen from a police chief to a politician. By quite some margin.

So, naively, I thought it would be the likes that got Zack into trouble. But here he is attacking the police rescuing people from an anti-Semitic rampage.

I have nothing particularly useful to contribute except this: this is the direct consequence of Polanski's uncritical embrace of the idea that the Labour antisemitism scandal was basically fake. He opened the door to those people and lo and behold

One detail I hadn't realised about parliament finishing today - today is the last day a hereditary peer will ever sit in the House of Lords.

Abolish the BBC Local Democracy Reporting Service.

Noteable that most of the abusive people in this appear to be elderly people abusing younger disabled people.

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Normally my reaction to “calls for tougher laws” is no, just enforce the laws we have, but in this case I say we just ban the fucking things www.irishexaminer.com/business/tec...

Kind of a perfect metaphor for the media and the role they've played over the last ten years

You don't need to actually ban it directly, you just give the job of setting maps to non-partisan committees with a remit to make the districts compact, not biased and focused on communities where possible. This is how other countries do it.

Exactly. When you pander to certain interest groups you generally get bad laws. New Zealand canned a similar law because it was unworkable. This law will look very silly and be completely ignored with 5 to 10 years, I guarantee it. We will just laugh at it.

If this is true (and I am *very* dubious) then you'd be well into revolution territory - which probably won't end well for the tech that too so many jobs or any executives who developed/introduced it. Being candid won't help you.

"30% of people, mainly middle class, are about to become unemployed" is the sentence usually uttered in the first episode of a six party BBC documentary about a revolution

In short, did you know you can just not be annoyed with people

In case you’re confused - the £100k of tax Richard Tice failed to pay here is totally different to the - £92k of tax not properly withheld on dividends - the £600k side-stepped via highly aggressive tax avoidance Industrial scale grifting revealed by @danneidle.bsky.social and Gabriel Pogrund

Reform UK chief Nigel Farage has accepted over half a million pounds from foreign governments, companies and donors since becoming an MP. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...