Our aid cuts have been just as severe. It won't kill as many people because we spent less to start with, and focused a bit less on health/food programmes. But we've got nothing to be proud of here.

Epidemiologists Confirm First Airborne Transmission Of Mar-A-Lago Face https://theonion.com/epidemiologists-confirm-first-airborne-transmission-of-mar-a-lago-face-2/

If I were writing for the New Yorker I would be v careful about the subject of "things acquired primarily as a marker of aspirational status and a signal to others which could potentially be produced a lot cheaper because their value to customers is not really in their admitted intellectual quality"

Statements that have now come to light from a handful of @TheGreenParty candidates are totally unacceptable & require immediate action. There’s no place for anti-semitism or any hate speech in the party. This is a society-wide problem & needs to be rooted out wherever it’s found

As far as I can tell the Arts Council does not have an X account, although Number 10 Downing Street does.

Not paraphrasing Stephen's newsletter, which I highly recommend you read (I have even been sending people a pdf), but part of this is downstream of people thinking "Why am I not seeing condemnations on X, the everything website, like I would see ten years ago on twitter."

Matty has correctly discerned that the skeleton key to modern American politics is that gaping chasm of cultural/educational polarization, and has concluded that the way to resolve this is for liberals to just voluntarily stop having a distinct culture, opinions, or institutions of their own.

Fascinating that British political discourse is still haunted by the ghost of The Dinner Party: an event that's shifting, protean, always happening somewhere, capacious enough to hold all your enemies' decadent iniquities, and never happening either at your house or that of any your friends

UK antiracism discourse in the United Kingdom in 2026 is just different social minorities claiming that the reason why “Social Justice Inc” hasn’t solved their problem is they are too busy with another social minority and no-one noticing that Social Justice Inc filed for bankruptcy sometime in 2011.

Farage has assessed - perhaps correctly - that nativism and NIMBYism are the ideological core of the British right. The strategy that logically follows - "concentration camps, but not where you live" - would be comical if it didn't entail concentration camps.

It's already like this in NI schools and has been for months, all because the DUP decided they wanted it to be like this so they just did it and nobody did anything to stop them.

If Rudy is on the way out it's only fair that we remind ourselves of this, the funniest thing that has ever happened. People are sometimes gaslit into being told that finding this amusing is "cringe" or "resist lib" and that is wrong. It was an absolute, cast iron, day of absolute hilarity.

I think most reform voters want to pretend the concentration camps won't be necessary, and publicizing them as a campaign strategy isn't helpful

I do think it sums up “the weird way the Internet shapes politics unnoticed” that “some chants that people should knock off but are mostly an ignorable part of an in-person march” are given more explanatory power than “the website that is full of antisemitism of every stripe that MPs hang out on”.

he's been rushed to johns hopkins landscaping

There's also a very real and persistent sentiment amongst many cis people that the elevation of trans issues is trans people's doing, and that if not for our public histrionics and hysterics, the world would be happy to leave us alone. And GOD I fucking wish I lived in that world.

the 2024 election was probably the easiest combined morality/IQ test ever created and yet so many Americans not only failed it, but are now acting like they’re the victims after doing so

"Quote from Count Dankula" — the Russian government

thank you sam alito for ending the unconstitutional racial discrimination against white conservatives and allowing them to obliterate federal representation for as many black people as they can manage, as the reconstruction congress intended

Banning private jet flights during a jet fuel shortage feels fair enough to me.

Gen Z has rediscovered the Flintstones & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to 2 million years ago "Watching The Flintstones... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier working in a quarry as a brontosaurus operator."

Fascist kitsch

"there is nothing Starmer can do to stop the crypto cash" I'd say there's always the option of criminalising the holding of what is literally the crime currency, and which exists for little other practical reason than that

This take is inarguably correct and people say truly, truly insane things in response.

Are they nostalgic for the 90s or for Kodak Vision 35mm fine grain film stocks with 1990s color grading

carcinisation

Once again George Galloway is organising with fascists. (David Cleese was one of the key spreaders of Islamophobic rumours that sparked the 2024 summer pogroms in the UK.) searchlightmagazine.com/2026/04/geor...

we're in Hastings for the weekend. where should we go in Hastings to get blasted?

I've had lots of canvassers from both parties but tbh too upset to speak to any of them so suspect I'm coded as a non voter.

So interesting to experience an electoral area going from being rock-solid Labour to marginal. More contact from canvassers in a fortnight than 16 years of living in SE London combined. Two letters on headed Commons notepaper from the MP so far; three direct mail shots from Labour today alone

you get a lot of american bluesky liberal posters who will argue america has a more nuanced and developed concept of race and integration than any other country in the developed world who will turn around and sound like enoch powell when talking about british food. on a daily basis

every QAnon influencer, seeing this post: This is it. President Trump is speaking to us directly. The storm is HERE. Trump, posting: that's me in the picture

It’s really quite horrifying to witness an evidently lonely man being sucked into a make-believe relationship with an LLM that is spewing out the spam product of consuming too much pulp-romance fiction.

The Fifth Circuit has ordered a halt to the mailing of abortion pills, cutting off the primary way that thousands of women have obtained safe abortions in the years since Dobbs and raising grave public health risks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

Seems less than ideal that big finance can and will choke off funding to a pillar of civil society based on a transparently bad-faith political prosecution by an openly fascist president

In other news, I wrote about banning smoking for some legal adults but not others, and why that's a pretty absurd principle in a democratic society. I don't smoke, I don't work for the tobacco industry, I just think rights should either be for everyone or no one www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

I think a minimum wage at 75% of median wages would have some quite bad disemployment effects. A school leaver facing unemployment unless they can find a job that pays £30k a year feels somewhat risky to me.

I do feel like a lot of the explainer stuff trans people already wrote years ago about who is co-ordinating all this etc could probably stand to be refreshed and republished now. People seem to be getting a bit more switched on. So if you have any of that stuff, you might want to reupp it.

It's a fact that the left contains a minority that is intentionally antisemitic, and that another minority can stray into that territory without necessarily realising it, and that any successful left-wing project has to banish the former and educate the latter

If the consequences for Farage's undeclared mega-donation aren't justifiably severe, Parliament really won't have a standards system to speak of. Every action like this that goes unpunished is a big incentive for politicians (of all parties) to break the rules.

This is the sort of gutter racist that Zack Polanski is retweeting?

Oh was the queem there?

A great way to guarantee the government will fall even further short of the housing targets it was already going to miss by a mile. This might finish off building in high-demand cities entirely.

I don't think the BBC should report verbatim the conspiratorial claims of someone who keeps getting sectioned with psychosis.

There are two forms of antiracism orgs: Real ones (British Future, HNH, Belong, SRTR, JCF, CST) which are, to a extent, Sunder in various hats* Fake ones which are, in essence, the SWP in various hats. And the former seem to be increasingly struggling for support and funding.

Emailed all the candidates in my ward about their thoughts on trans people. Got a personalized reply from the lib dems in 15 mins (who are not targeting my ward). Greens came back a week later with a good but a bit generic reply. So have gone 2 votes LD and one vote Green.

The whole UPF thing is a pseudo-scientific way of expressing the phrase we used to call "junk food", to pretend that the correlation "people who eat pies and drink Coke all the time don't generally have good health outcomes" says useful things about food regulation rather than [$ and time-]poverty

the subtext here is that sophie cocoran, prominent in the right wing grifter circuit, is applying for low level internships because she is unemployed. chewed up and spat out by the machine www.theguardian.com/law/2026/apr...

right wingers in 2026