Peter Mandelson has been arrested - send up the hater signal. It's once again a poster's holiday.

It's true! He's caused the intolerant, abhorrent, extreme, far-right politician Nigel Farage to lose dozens of elections over the years.

It's really this simple people. If you make up shit about a politician etc. that you hate, it just makes all your other valid criticisms seem less credible. Stick to the facts, they're enough!

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

This is a great start, but they also need to get rid of the crazy high interest rates for Plan 2 - especially since that’s the plan that was created during the coalition years. I earn above the median income and I still pay back less than my yearly interest!

This is causing despair in academe. (1) We were forced to close during Covid. We had no choice! (2) We're not service providers like a restaurant, we are institutions of state. (3) We did everything we could. (4) This will cripple current students' education. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

It’s worth remembering that the police literally have a program to ruin public spaces out of a ridiculous paranoia that if they’re too nice and have too many plants, drug dealers and muggers will hide in them. No wonder they view a playground as a potential drug den!

Not true any more! Well I don’t know about burritos specifically but between places like Birria Landia, Taqueria Ramirez and Mariscos El Submarino, there is mind-blowingly good* Mexican food in NYC now :) *to a (well-travelled) Brit - take that with a pinch of salt and a squeeze of lime

Yeah, sure, but every time something like this blows up it metasizes into the usual tropes and then some Brit says something dumb in exasperation and then they get piled on and it turns into a three day argument

It’s just tiring, man. A sizeable chunk of people have turned the admirable multiculturalism of America into a reason to never broaden their horizons or learn a single fucking thing about a different culture

I am so tired of Americans believing that the sole marker of a country’s international food scene is the Mexican food 😂 Honestly it’s kinda parochial of them, “this is the food we do well because they’re our neighbours, therefore you must do it well too” And yes our Mexican food’s embarrassing.

Not to be unsympathetic to students but it's faculty and staff who should be suing, not the students.

agree with this (hah) but also think a particular mistake the left made for a long time online, and still makes to an extent, is failing to understand that the person whose mind you may actually change is the one reading the argument you're having, not the one you're arguing with

I’ve maintained this for years, the UK is substantially more free than the US in practice (even if it’s not perfect, and even going backwards a little).

Meanwhile, the UK is also leaning even further in this direction ... "@ukri.org is changing the way it invests some of its allocated budget – to align with national priorities and contribute to economic growth across the UK"

The collapse of curiosity driven research has occurred in STEM too. Everything has to be outcomes focused - cure disease, grow better crops, etc. But so much of what humanity has discovered is from "basic" curiosity-driven science. I'm hugely in favor of funding curiosity in every discipline.

What I need people to understand is when legislators argue that professors should teach more and research less, it's not because they think our research is actually worthless. It's because they don't want anyone to be able to develop or disseminate expertise that goes against their party line.

My bus driver is currently arguing with the company, should I be concerned?

Did you know it’s (still) illegal to say “I support Palestine Action”? It’s illegal. It’s one of the only sentences you’re not allowed to say.

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

a clinic that provided services to 12,000 people being closed on the basis of 8 complaints perfectly captures the nature of the uk 'trans-debate' www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

the master's tools rule. you should steal them. if you don't, you had better hope whoever does likes you and your cause

I’ve just sent a postcard to my MP asking them to #StopRosebank - the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK. Can you join me in using the tool? PS: I covered the cost of 4 more postcards besides my own! So go ahead and send one for free :) @stopcambo.bsky.social stoprosebank.postbug.app

I for one would like to be full speed ahead to uber-woke, net-zeroist, rejoinerism

Discord hasn’t been banned. That’s a perfectly fine platform for making new friends who don’t necessarily live in the same place as you but share an interest, or for keeping up with existing ones. People are acting like everything has been banned, not just algorithm-driven public social media.

Oh so the Canary’s straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Good to know.

And We Knew It Was Our Time (Lane 8 and Massane) Maybe I'm just picking this one because it hit HARD during the first Covid lockdown and will always give me the shivers. I'm also a sucker for slow-burn electronic tracks (see everyone's favourite Strobe) www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4Za...

A truly hideous right wing smear campaign against these six activists for exercising their free speech rights to protest - and confronted with the evidence all six have been acquitted.

My good dipshits, Biden did so many of these that SCOTUS had to break Chevron Deference in order to prevent them.

The last time Democrats had a filibuster-proof trifecta they enacted the largest expansion of public welfare in half a century through Obamacare. The last time Democrats had a trifecta they spent trillions of dollars on infrastructure to fight climate change and tax credits for families.

"Here, Dovydas, please hold on to this thousand or so pounds that is earmarked for making sure that little Timmy from down the road can eat" "No fuck you I want a new e-bike" -statements made by the utterly deranged

What we've seen in Minneapolis is what I would expect to see in any big RefUK deportations drive here: voters who liked the idea in theory will turn on it with some viciousness the moment things get publicly nasty and violent. Partly connected to their own guilt as they watch it unfold on TV.

Seeing the news this morning like: #AlexHonnold #Taipei101 #FreeSolo

They know what they say is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. The media know that what they repeat is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Their supporters know what they are told is untrue, they do not care it is untrue. Telling the truth is not enough, unless people care about the truth.

Today should have taught you that having (not even using) a gun is all the excuse they need to murder you. The idea that it would protect you from them is ludicrous.

The BBC claims to have “research” that supports its decision to use abusive transphobic terms for trans women. But it will not share that “research”. At the most basic level research is not research if it is not published. It is just a lie. The BBC is lying.

Another Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

MPs are elected as individuals, not just interchangeable extensions of their party. They must be given freedom of association and allowed to vote how they choose. Even if we personally don’t like it! A move like this gives party whips far too much power - they’d use these by-elections as a threat.

ICE and MAGA really did bet the farm on all of Minneapolis’s white people going “oh yes, please take away our disgusting, evil non-white-foreigner neighbors, oh thank you so much.” it’s beautiful that they’ve been proven incredibly wrong about that - may the rest of the country do the same.

BBC once again sending a breaking news notification to tens of millions about a case affecting half a dozen people, just so they can mainline transphobia. Thanks guys. And they’re refusing to refer to the victimised trans woman as “she”, instead she’s a “biological male identifying as a woman” 😡

If you see one, the most important thing to say is “WHAT’S YOUR NAME” because otherwise the person is gone for good, maybe. I witnessed one in an alley as the sole pursuit car, I was the only witness, I froze for a second and didn’t shout it in time, and the guy is just… gone now. I’ll never know.

People saying stuff like this don’t want to fix the system. They want to endlessly critique the system.

I was 20 when HS2 was announced. Great to know i’ll probably be in my late 60s when the Birmingham-Manchester section starts work let alone finishes. Seems like a country doing things the right way!

"I'm not in Minnesota -- what can I do to help?" A list of ideas!

Yes! I love the "spectrum of allies" concept. commonslibrary.org/spectrum-of-...

I’m so glad this meme has now reached the level of oversaturation that people are making fun of it, because hopefully that means I won’t see as many people attaching it (the original) to their every waking thought!

I picked up 30 new followers out of nowhere today and I’ve no idea why

Amongst everything else, I'm thinking about how eager the UK press were initially to swallow the Met's lie that Jean Charles de Menezes was a terrorist after they executed him in a tube station

publicly rejecting it, on every social media account you have, and amplifying every other rejection, is also signaling. they’re a weak regime, getting weaker, in a mix of false bravado and panic and fear, and who they fear is us. they should.