I guess he turned the volume up

By the end of this year the recipient of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize will likely have invaded Venezuela with the rabid encouragement of the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

The C in C-PTSD stands for “condiment"

Very funny IMO that by stripping him of his titles and demoting him to “Andrew MOUNTBATTEN Windsor” the Royals are helpfully reminding everyone that noncing runs in the Family

This is what Vance says to himself every night just before he eats another packet of salt and vinegar Taytos with his eyes (h/t @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social)

HIS OWN FOUNDATION literally funded research published last year projecting that climate change would drive over 120 million additional cases of malaria in Africa by 2050 www.bcg.com/publications...

ethical consumption under late capitalism

The most telling thing about this was how she immediately followed up “this concept with a contested/ambiguous/capacious definition is obviously and unequivocally bad” with “haha I’m not reading the replies"

“On Sunday/President diarrheas on the country/He was fuckin horses by Wednesday, and on Thursday and Friday and Saturday…"

Been thinking about this and wondering if the strategy is to be so cartoonishly aggressive and maximalist in their philosemitism that even when it all blows up in their faces they’ve still succeeded in shifting the terrain away from calls for a wider boycott to a battle over this specific game

The date is 6 November 2025. Elbit drones circle Villa Park, keeping watch for Palestine flags. In the 90th minute, with the scores level, Ollie Watkins finds space to shoot in the Maccabi area but is torn to shreds by a Spike missile, thus preventing the most antisemitic goal in football history

I guess if you can pretend a genocide isn’t happening for two years, you can pretend a riot didn't happen yesterday easily enough too

The Young Republicans Were Practicing Politics the Right Way

This seems a bit unfair (based on this speech from a few days ago at least) www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

I know Streeting and the rest of his accursed faction are obsessed with resurrecting the ghosts and ghouls of the long 1990s but I didn't have Simon Fucking Wessely on my bingo card

Imagine the all-channels screaming and baying for blood if a parliamentarian of any party had described a Zionist Jew as one of Netanyahu's "useful idiots". For the likes of Houchen, Jews only count to the extent they can be instrumentalised, dead or alive

The inverse is also true - describing the far right as "populist" implies that forces in opposition to them are elitist, technocratic, out of touch, etc.

It's never been clearer that Israel is basically the vanguard of the new fascist international but Starmer et al will no doubt keep the spy planes (and the F-35s) flying over Gaza

Responding to an act of terrorism perpetrated by an English citizen against the English Jewish community in England with 'this is why we need to be nice to Israel' is disgusting. I'm sorry if its not my place to say but that is just fucking disgusting.

Another ghoul cynically conflating all Jewish people with Israel and its genocidal armed forces. One more example of what @gabrielwinant.bsky.social memorably termed "the conversion of grief into power"

So it turns out that "delivery, delivery, delivery" = taking two years to build an "online hospital"

He looks like he fell into Tommy Robinson’s washing machine

Side issue, obviously, but was Nick Clegg wearing a hotdog costume when he gave this speech?

Jon Cruddas apparently once summed up the Labour right's approach to politics as "kiss up, kick down" (H/T @davidwearing.bsky.social). Clearly that also extends to their media outriders

“The Great Noticing” has very quickly morphed into “The Transparent Telling On Ourselves”

The quiet part really is getting said out loud a lot these days

Ask not for whom the bell tolls...

I think this becomes a lot more comprehensible once you realise that the people advancing this ideological worldview are basically a death cult, and therefore desensitising ppl to graphic violence and killing actively aids their political project

Why would someone whose day job involves penning genocide denial for the Jewish Chronicle have such a fucked-up take on London? Truly, a mystery www.thejc.com/opinion/how-...

This is also absolutely key to why, in addition to being racist and morally repugnant, Starmer's aping of far-right rhetoric, imagery & policy will never satisfy the voters it's aimed at - because it's drab, boring, buttoned-up and self-consciously "sensible"

TIL that Japan had universal 50Mbps broadband back in 1999! Here in my patch of south London (less than 6 miles from the seat of government) we were still stuck at that speed until June 2025

France was pretty much the template for triangulation and mainstreaming of far-right positions and rhetoric, exemplified by the 2021 debate wherein Macron's interior minister accused MARINE LE PEN of being "soft" on Islam: x.com/trtworld/sta...

All that is not action is noise. This week's column on Gaza as politicians rinse and repeat statements of concern without meaningful pressure on Israel. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

For every politician and journalist who supported Israel's onslaught, or stayed silent: This photograph should haunt you for the rest of your life. You will never scrub the shame away. No future achievement, however great, will ever erase what you helped inflict on Gaza.