www.ft.com/content/c98a... Christ this island of ours just gets shittier and shittier doesn't it? "Shall we use our wealth to feed the needy?" "No we can't afford it, need to build more over-designed tanks that deafen our own soldiers don't we?"

If "gender critical" is a protected belief, then so should "gender critical-critical". Just sayin'.

People with “gender critical beliefs” getting it included in government guidance that you can’t call them horrible transphobic bastards is so wild like I don’t have to spend billions lobbying for legal documents to get people to like me, have you tried being a nice person instead

These people simply cannot comprehend that work might be bad for you and a break from work might improve your health.

Well would you look at that. Fraud in the voting system that has NOTHING to do with the person putting their x in a box. Meaning the Voter ID legislation, brought in to prevent fraud during voting, has been utterly useless. Apart from to prevent legitimate citizens from voting.

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The purpose of an immigration system is not to "support the economy and public services". It's to allow people to move from place to place, something that has happened for as long as humans have existed on Earth. Long before "What about the economy?" became a concern.

what a weird country we've built where the prime minister gleefully announces no fucker wants to come here any more

The West, all too aware that the coming decades will see millions upon millions of climate refugees fleeing the uninhabitable tropics, is paving the way for making sure they can keep all those people stateless.

A reminder that the immigration moral panic being touted daily by the UK's media and political establishment is entirely fake and disconnected from all available evidence.

It's absolutely fascinating how many meetings government types are having that just aren't written down or minuted or recorded anywhere apart from "this meeting happened". Especially coming from this "spy on everyone everywhere government".

What does it say about the creeping fascism of contemporary Britain that the country’s imminent “most left wing prime minister for two generations” has to immediately sign off on one of the most extreme and cruel border regimes in Europe?

This is why focusing on migration is a lose lose situation, people can’t tell if it’s up or down and when it is down quality of life in the UK does not go up proportionately because immigrants are a good thing. If you want to talk about foreign corporations taking advantage of the UK I’m all ears

The Helen of Troy controversy is ridiculous. It’s not history, it’s fiction. How many real historical figures get whitewashed by Hollywood? Why’s that’s ok? Also, in Xena: Warrior Princess, Helen was portrayed by a Black woman, and that was in the 90s! How is inclusive casting a scandal in 2026?

This is insane and evil and wrong on every level. Saying "it's not discrimination because we say so" doesn't change the reality that it IS discriminatory against a minority group. England has become an anti-trans hell hole and I hate it.

I got one of these too. My response was similar, if less creative. Keep an eye out for anyone who starts posting positively about this site - they are likely getting paid.

Starmer's legacy seems to be the collapse of the further education sector in this country. I know the issues universities are facing are complex but it seems Labour haven't done anything to help them.

This ad is a perfect summary of AI being shoved into everything: you pay a monthly fee so a forest fire in the making can skip all the important things to give you a vague simulacrum of productivity not based in any reality, without any ability gained or skills honed for you personally.

“Let’s use the Iran crisis to subsidise the aggressors in the Russia-Ukraine war” is immoral and stupid policy

A Labour government sits paralysed as many of the basic foundations of the UK's strategic competitiveness get stripped away one by one

Instant flashback to a conversation on here a while back that was so insightful I had to save it

About a decade ago, the perception that society was getting slightly better for marginalised people utterly broke the brains of every person in charge of things. How are you taking a service you became so synonmous with that your company's name became a verb and fucking it up like this?

Well there it is. Trump, a known fraudster, debtor, sex-offender and worse, is apparently above any kind of reproach. Turn America off and start again, this version has reached ultimate corruption.

Google's AI search answers are ultimately parasitic. As @dumbfun.bsky.social points out, when the websites Google is blatantly plagiarising close, it's AI will be less and less useful. Let's go back to sending weblinks manually to Yahoo I say.

A lot of newer followers often ask me who Tina was, the dog that means so much to me. This is her beautiful story A lot of older followers will also enjoy seeing her big, beautiful face I'm sure.

See, this is why I keep saying it's wrong to think of the Labour right as the rightmost edge of a left-wing party. They're just very right-wing people who happen to be in an ostensibly left-wing party. This is what they got in to politics for. This is what they love doing.

But according to many economists, asking the people on this list (www.thetimes.com/sunday-times...) to contribute more and horde less is bad...

Just a little PSA- Neil Gaiman has reactivated his Bluesky account. Because he deactivated before a lot of people could unfollow him, and/or because Bluesky doesn’t remove you from a person’s followers when you block them, a LOT of you are still publicly listed as following him. You should check.

You can either make the system fairer or make family reunification harder for refugees. But not both.

Give a speech in which you tell the grads they can’t do things on their own and that machines are here to replace them. Demonstrate that you are so far up your own tech bro ass that you can’t even hear the growing disgust for your bullshit. These people are idiots. Fuck AI.

Aside from obviously incorrect arts/stem thing - it's also super grim that, even as universities around the UK lay off staff, the super wealthy continue to donate mostly to the richest university in the country, one of the very few that absolutely does not need the money.

Can’t really underline hard enough that all of these these toilet-quality far right cranks were happily invited into our house by our horrible media outlets and our spectacularly dumb and nasty politicians

Article 3 and Article 8 of the the ECHR are, in particular, ones that can be used to protect refugees, trans people, disabled people, and reproductive rights This should worry all of us given the bigoted direction of Labour and the threat of Reform and the Conservatives in the UK

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Now paywall free: Me on the way right-wing papers present Farage’s relationship with the public like Beatlemania with a ballot box thenewworld.substack.com/p/right-wing...

It's heartbreaking that games as a medium remain out of reach for people telling the stories worth telling most. www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfe...

Enioying my day off resting, playing and enjoying Lamplight city by @grundislav.games . Trying to find a kidnapped child and investigating a protest in front of a factory. Today is a good day.

One thing which is never discussed because it’s ignored, is the radicalisation of Israeli society. Over 85% of the country, agree with and fully support Netanyahu’s actions towards Palestinians, Lebanon, Iran, Yemen, Syria etc. If it were any other people, world leaders would be alarmed.

😃Breathtaking image of Jupiter captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft NASA 💫

You will note the Prime Minister didn't hold a panicked press conference where he spoke at length about the importance of defeating Islamophobia and that the press didn't engage in a full scale hysteria operation.

Starmer’s (or Streeting?) next year will be more authoritarianism and further removal of rights Digital IDs National Securities Bill Police Reform Bill Courts Modernisation Bill Immigration & Asylum Bill No Bills to ease the CoL? Reduce poverty? Improve services? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Also, this is why the Paramount/Skydance/Warner Bros. Discovery merger is so terrifying to us all. Fewer competitors means fewer movies and shows competing in the market. Less choice, fewer jobs making those choices. It's lose/lose for creatives and audiences both.

Everyone knows Hollywood is fucked, but most people don't actually know why. The studios used the strikes as cover to cancel a full 1/3rd of TV production across the board. 1/3 of TV cast & crew are out of work. Fully. There just aren't jobs for them. Many are people who made your favorite shows.

Terrorist convictions mean you serve your full jail term. You can't travel to another country. The police decide if you get bank accounts, phones and computers and they have open access to all of them. For life. Absolutely insane to secretly use this on kids convicted of criminal damage. Deranged.

What kind of justice is this? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Imagine as a cis person you woke up tomorrow and you were no longer recognised by your gender. Everyone misgendering you despite you knowing what your gender is. If you challenge anyone on it, they call you agressive, threatening and delusional. Yeah, that's what being trans in the UK is like.

100% agree. Too many people on this blighted, soggy island just treat groups of young people as a nuisance. Forgetting that there's always been a generational divide. Oldies didn't like their kids going out listening to Elvis/The Beatles etc.

At some point there needs to be a *proper* conversation about how cruelty has become a new normal for so many people. And we can't just keep putting it down to structures. Too many people with plenty of agency are actively choosing this.

I gave an interview recently about the importance of making nightlife more affordable for young people, and some of the feedback was, what a woke interview. And I think: so much of the current moment is just indulging people who don't want anyone else to have nice things.

If the lobby journos invited to Morgan McSweeney’s secret wrecking campaign launch in 2018 had reported “there’s a new Labour wrecking campaign in town with shitloads of cash, sending terrifying-sounding vexatious horseshit to the Times”, then it would’ve exploded on the launchpad.