There’s lots of praise for stuff like this which I can’t compute. What makes it objectionable for Israel to compete this year that didn’t apply last year, other than that last year was *your* moment in the spotlight and this year isn’t? It’s very easy to do what’s right when nothing’s on the line.

14:40 Pat McFadden (Secretary of State for Work and Pensions) at the Labour Party Conference (1/4): Impressively, he manages to give a 10-minute speech and dedicates precisely seven words to disabled people. #TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare

i see openai hired the someone from the liberal democrats to run their bar chart division

I think part of the reason more people are speaking up about Gaza now is the long history of famine being depoliticised as a sort of natural/Malthusian disaster rather than a catastrophe resulting from the decisions of political actors. You can ask to feed the starving, but not why they are hungry.

The Tories are like the evil stepmum the electorate live with who bans them from having friends and feeds them a diet of pure asparagus whilst the Labour Party is like the aunt they visit once a year who gives them fudge and slips them a £20 note which stops the child from going apeshit.

“heard you’re a trotskyite bruv”

My brother. My mother. My aunt. All disabled. All gone. Not peacefully - but ground down by a system that said they weren’t worth saving. I survived what killed them. Now, Labour are coming for me. Read here: violetcoalwrites.wordpress.com/2025/07/07/o... #Takingthepip #AusterityKills

In Parliament today I spoke about the truth behind rising welfare costs - and why I cannot support the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which does not address these roots causes. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap3x...

Those who are sick and injured or Disabled today and in the future need our solidarity, and from Greens they will get it. This rushed, shameful, cruel Bill must fall.

16:18:03, Dr Marie Tidball (Lab, Penistone and Stocksbridge), who has a congenital disability, rises (1/3): #TakingThePIP

16:12:17, Jeremy Corbyn (Ind, Islington North) rises (1/2): #TakingThePIP

15:55:28, Richard Burgon (Lab, Leeds East) rises (1/3): #TakingThePIP

15:43:09, Marsha De Cordova (Lab, Battersea), who is registered blind, rises (1/2): #TakingThePIP

15:21:36, Rebecca Long-Bailey (Lab, Salford) rises (1/2): #TakingThePIP

The UK justice department has lost all veneer of being anything other than a rogue, lawless entity. They will overrule independent sentencing guidelines because enough far-right crybabies whine about it, but will damn throwing red paint over machines abetting genocide as terrorism. Take care.

I feel like we’re getting to the ‘do something or get out the way’ stage of rising fascism and I have to get off my chest that as much as they individually seem like nice enough people, the current Green Party leadership are not meeting the moment whatsoever.

New Green Party advert just dropped explaining why you should vote for them. And its a cracker!

happy anniversary to those of us who celebrate

Poverty is the new draft. From one study in 2000, just before Iraq: - 50% of all recruits have literacy/numeracy skills at levels at or below those expected of an 11 year old From a sample of 500 recruits: - 69% were found to have come from a broken home - 40% were joining the Army as a last resort

i would like to officially apologise to the supporters of keir starmer in light of this new evidence which proves that his values truly are rooted in those of the labour party.

we know macron loved seeing a man still at work long past the pension age

One year ago today, Aaron Bushnell died protesting the Genocide in Gaza. Take a moment to remember Aaron's sacrifice. Art by @krime.bsky.social

National defence is not determined many guns you buy - you're not going to be able to defend yourself if the health service is so underfunded you can't treat the wounded, if your manufacturing workforce are living in poverty, if all the public utilities are in the hands of foreign billionaires etc.

Conversion therapy is torture. Wes Streeting, the Health Secretary, met with and took advice from a group who promotes torture.

It Happened Here (1964), d. Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo. Alt-history of a Nazi occupation of Britain during World War II.

The BBC won't give her front-page coverage, but Khalida Jarrar is one of the 90+ Palestinian hostages set to be released as part of the ceasefire deal. A PFLP politician, she was arrested in December 2023 and has been held without charge in a windowless 2.5 x 1.5 meter cell.

There is a lesson that the left needs to learn from the last 15 months. What we are doing is totally ineffective. If Trump was able to end the genocide simply by demanding it, Biden could have done the same. Public pressure, protests, the ICJ, everything...it wasn't enough to force Biden's hand.

Trump and Musk's threats to Britain, Canada and Greenland shouldn't be shocking; it's what the US, with their allies, have been doing to the whole world since 1945, except now they're threatening the sovereignty of white countries. The imperial core would rather cannibalise than loosen it's grip.

From Lilley gleefully singing about taking welfare from single mothers, to IDS being dragged to the UN over his government’s DWP reforms, to Nandy’s talk about sending employment officers to meet hospitalised mental health patients, the UK treats disabled Britons with the contempt of eugenicists.

Every day I feel more confirmed in the opinion that the alt-right pipeline begins with being too embarrassed to join a DnD group. The roleplay cringe is from this lot is unbearable.

well we know what he and the president will be bonding over

the only service for which i will thank johnny mercer is this clip

Looking at you Wes 🔪 Taking puberty blockers away is only going to inflict more harm to trans people.

merry christmas from no. 10

No, Keir Starmer is not running a soundbite government!