when, o when, will these cranks be treated as cranks and shunned, then relegated beyond the fringes of civilised society

imagine if you were a vampire that lived for 100s of years but you just had a regular guy's memory. Like a normal person. "What was Venice like in the 14th century" Ahhh, I don't...I don't fucking remember. There was a guy, Vincenzo? Maybe that was the 15th century. Wait, did I live in Venice?

🔥 Caroline Lucas: "Your position is utterly incoherent." 🔵 "We've got a party that pretends to be an insurgent party, an anti establishment, anti-elite party, and yet it's stuffed full of old Tory retreads." 🤔 "I mean, it just doesn't add up."

At this very moment both the BBC News and Sky News channels are yet again showing a live speech by Nigel Farage. When will they start showing every speech by @zackpolanski.bsky.social and @eddavey.libdems.org.uk live as well?

Not surprising Farage hasn't bothered to announce a health spokesperson - his entire team is populated by politicians who broke the NHS. They've also forgotten about a foreign affairs spokesperson, but I guess they will take their orders straight from Trump's White House anyway.

Wrote a new Substack. Share it with every woman you know. They’re coming for our rights. tashthinks.substack.com/p/reforms-ha...

I think I’ve been scammed….My Rottweilers haven’t grown in months 😱😱

Don’t fuck with football. It made Johnson move to lockdown when they cancelled fixtures. It’ll call out racism too.

This morning we will hear the result of the judicial review of the government's ban on Palestine Action, on the grounds that it's a "terrorist" organisation. An important moment, which could have a major influence on freedom of speech and association in this country.

Watching @news.sky.com now and they are talking about how “using terms such as colonising and raising concerns about fighting age men, are seen by some as divisive”. No, these terms are racist dog whistles. When racism appears, call it what it is don’t look for ‘editorial balance’. This is poison.

Obviously zero reflection in any of this on how operating the largest empire in human history may have turned us into a multicultural nation. We are here because you were there. #Empireland www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A new Department for Growth with a mandate to boost long-term prosperity, improve living standards and end the cost of living crisis. This is the beginning of our plan to Get Britain Growing Again.

Well done to Sky for correcting this bit of ignorance. As shown extensively in the Epstein files there's plenty of proof that being rich doesn't mean you have any great insights into the world.

He doesn’t own Manchester Utd, he’s a minority shareholder. He ‘turned around’ the losses there by sacking ordinary working class people. Meanwhile he’s spent millions paying off poor choices on the football side. He’s a parasite in our national discourse and our national game, @news.sky.com

Big target for South Africa on the super over. Got to get 18! #T20worldcup #AFGvSAF

TOMAS SOUCEK HATES HAIRCUTS 😭

How's your diet going? 🤔

This is what’s happening not at all far away whilst we continue to do politics as infotainment. Don’t get me wrong. Release all the files and put them all in jail. But this is literally the only game in town and if we don’t wake up to that, we go the way of all the other civilisations that are gone.

I have an amazing idea for major ambassadorial appointments. Just appoint a highly qualified professional diplomat.

Starmer’s claim that “Mandelson repeatedly lied to (his) team” before being made ambassador, betrays a fundamental flaw in his approach. He treats being PM like being a CEO and it’s not. He delegates things that he ought to be across the details of. He should have known he’d be accountable.

Instead of conferring titles, gongs and baubles and then demanding those titles, gongs and baubles be removed… …perhaps as a modern, mature polity we should have far fewer titles, gongs and baubles in the first place.

This is not turning out to be the investment I had hoped for.

Frank McKenna: "The political obsession with net zero migration is becoming detached from economic reality. "The UK is an ageing society with persistent labour shortages. Our economy depends on access to global talent." https://bestforbritain.substack.com/p/net-zero-migration-is-an-economic

Kent deserves better than this. www.thetimes.com/article/d64e...

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

I’ve done local politics for 25ish years. I’ve seen every graph going. Or so I thought. How the flying f@&k do you present a f@£king 8k+ majority in the seat like this?! You have nothing positive to say about what you did with it? At all? Get these morons off of Twatter asap. 🤦🏻

I’ve come across an old episode of the A-Team. They’ve taken a job from two young women who make lemonade. Apparently someone wants access to the “special spring” that makes their lemonade so good, and are cutting the brake lines on their delivery truck to bully them into selling up!

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

This is the BEST explanation I have seen so far.

Please spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Reform got away with a crap campaign in the local elections last year because nobody in the media went into the detail. The media can’t run ‘referendum on Starmer’ & ‘What about Burnham?’ for a month. They aren’t going to win the by-election. Could be won by the Greens though.

Excellent on the howling unsuitability of Matt Goodwin to be a Manchester MP… or indeed an MP anywhere at all. But that’s Reform for you. Frothing racists and needy inadequates demanding support from a voting public that doesn’t deserve any of their shit. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The people of Gorton & Denton deserve much better than an opportunist extremist using their community as a platform for his own career. HOPE not hate will be actively campaigning to make sure Matthew Goodwin does not get elected.

This week's column is about something that's arguably more important than anything in the news, crucial as some of the other issues are. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@chrisgpackham.bsky.social I wonder how many news outlets have even picked up this report. It is quite stark and backs everything that you were saying on @news.sky.com this morning. Sobering stuff.

Interesting interview with Chris Packham by @sophyridge.bsky.social and Wilf Frost on @news.sky.com this morning. This joint report, quietly released by Defra and the security services shows just how immediate the climate crisis is. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0e...

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news.sky.com/story/the-no... There has, understandably been concern about how the murder in Minneapolis has been reported by UK news outlets. This, from Sky News, is an excellent example of unbiased reporting in my opinion. Perhaps all is not lost.

Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) Directed by Frank Capra

This is my friend Matt's Emmy from 2011 which I now proudly accept. Thank you all for this great honor.

In his Q&A session yesterday, Farage said that he needed washed up Tories like Jenrick & Zahawi because the candidates winning his party councils around the country don’t know how anything works & can’t effectively govern. So he wants these losers that have experience in government on the team.

It’s good that Elon Musk has backed down in the face of consequences. But he must still be held to account for what he is: a purveyor of child pornography.

NASA say that the crew member who was ill and returned to earth is doing well and now having a meal with colleagues.