Another genius move by the Starmer government with consequences that could not have been predicted by sensible people with Oxford PPE degrees.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

We are in an awful awful mess in this country where people have been murdered and you see the media wheels spin within minutes, heading straight to the opportunistic cudgels, followed quickly by the politicians and the Met - they’re disgracefūl monsters

I despise this argument. If we drop the minimum wage back down to £3.70 will everything drop in price? No, of course it sodding well won't.

Even now, at this very late stage, there is time and space to step back and admit you’ve fucked it. Just say: We were wrong to facilitate this genocide, which we did in good faith. We were wrong to demonise these grannies. We were wrong to join in the tidal wave of migrant terror. We were wrong.

If you are shocked by what the Trump regime is publicly stealing or crimes it is committing, imagine the magnitude of the crimes they are actually hiding.

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Thread of Portlands being amazingly and beautifully unhinged while protesting ICE

But remember everyone, it's those that come across in a small boat with nothing who are ruining society. Definitely not the Sunday Times Rich List set who lunch with & fund all our elected representatives. Nooooo.

This is the legacy of those who spent the late c20th and early c21st disingenuously lecturing us about "free markets and free societies". Oglipoly, fascism and the climate emergency. Today's dystopia grew directly out of the political economic order they built.

You’ll recall that the selling point for organising our societies like this is that this is the best, fairest and most efficient way to determine value and allocate resources

I hope people understand just how horrifying this is as a trans person. You could just be getting in with your life, not doing anything to hurt anyone - and suddenly you find yourself dragged into a horrible legal case where the press is painting your going to the toilet as somehow predatory.

Gee, all those political commentators who wrote "Starmer spoke from the heart, really good speech" under 72 hours ago are going to be feeling pretty foolish right about now... (if they had souls or emotions that is).

One thing that really stands out at the moment is how much of the stuff driving all this is utterly, *completely* untethered from reality. This is nothing to do with climate change, it's ingroup signalling to a very small number of people who have been utterly radicalised.

People recognised as refugees fleeing persecution & granted the right to live in the UK to be denied the right to be joined safely by their spouse & children. This Labour govt is a moral void, a stinking darkness, an empty hollow of cowardice & contempt. #r4today www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Spain and Italy no longer accompanying the flotilla. No doubt, due to the inevitable violent aggression, Israel is about to inflict. The flotilla bravery is off the scale 💔 #Solidarity #FreePalestine www.catalannews.com/society-scie...

oh it's the actual, genuine, real end of consensus reality

Solution to that, cancel your Xbox Game Pass Subscription. You'll be fine if you do, trust me.

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Anyone remembers the panic in 2023 because Labour lost a by-election in Uxbridge and South Ruislip over ULEZ expansion, and the pressure Khan was under to axe his climate/air quality policies? Feels like a decade ago now.

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The Saudis didn’t pay big money for famous American comedians because they were super eager for comedy, they paid for PR like this.

Wrote about some failures of major media orgs to meet this moment with a few recent truly head-scratching examples.

As one comment said, how come Starmer doesn't realise this is how he's viewed? www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8uO...

aftermath.site/the-ea-sale-... Fantastic writing by @rcmacleod.bsky.social . They're not wrong. These mega-mergers ultimately end up with so many people, including the general public, losing out. The only people who tend to benefit are those at the top.

⚠️ SICKO LIVESKEET ALERT ⚠️ Yeah ok let's do this thing, we're doing the Kier Starmer Labour Conf Speech live, why not I really loathe myself www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

"Abundance" is just a rebrand of neoliberal deregulation btw. So not only has it bombed in the US, but it's a repeat of Cameron et al cutting "red tape" that lead to Grenfell and rivers full of sewage.

this business model should be flatly illegal taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome ban it completely

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

It's not just bribery. He's now using personal litigation, backed by state extortion, to extract "settlements" which he then puts into an account he created to spend on government work, all entirely outside of Congress taxing or appropriating. It's full Charles I illegal taxation and spending.

Maya Forstater is a fascist

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this is the most miserable woman alive. she’s alienated herself from everyone who ever loved, respected, or trusted her and sees any attempt at conciliation as an underhanded attack. she is in a mind jail of her own creation that will just grow more and more isolated as she marches to the grave

This is not actually how copyright law works. I don't need to opt out, copyright is automatic and you can't just use* my stuff without asking But it *is* how the UK government is proposing to change the law, to benefit AI firms instead of creatives *For a given, currently debated, meaning of "use"

It's quite impressive how anti civil liberties Labour are. They didn't have facial rec at the "Unite the Kingdom" rally a couple of weeks back. Bet they trial it a "Palestine Action" protest.

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

TLDR: Emma Watson says regardless of their disagreement over the rights of trans people, she still values her time with Rowling. Rowling says Watson can go fuck herself. Because that’s what transphobia does to people.

Yes, cos Hollywood has such a good track record of protecting women and girls. Clearly Watson is completely sheltered. If only she’d taken time out from acting to earn two degrees and be a UN ambassador, or given time and funds to help found organisations that protect women in her industry… oh wait.

My family came here 50 years ago. They've worked, paid taxes, raised families, been good citizens. My many colleagues and friends who were either born elsewhere, or their parents were, the same. It's so offensive to be told you're here on sufferance.

It really is just relentless the constant dehumanisation in this country. Prove you deserve to be here. Prove you deserve to be cared for. Prove your gender. Prove you deserve to have human rights. Prove you deserve to stay after a whole decade. It just chisels away at your humanity

"A library in every school" may conjure up a library, but (as usual): £132.5mln / 1700 primaries = ~78k per school. A starting school librarian earns ~£21k a year, and you haven't (re)built a space or bought books or an inventory system. So not a library then, just some shelving and books.

Mr. Beast is apodeictic and perhaps a priori proof of the incompatibility of the wealthy and healthy society

This is such reckless endangerment of human life for the sake of views and it's disgusting to watch

Hold up, hold up. *This* is a key financial backer of the Tony Blair Institute for Change, and the owner of the company in pole position to deal with the UK's digital ID roll-out? RIGHTO. fortune.com/2024/09/17/o...

That's the 14 words Nazi slogan next to "VOTE REFORM". Keir Starmer today said those voting for Reform weren't racists. I think they just might be...

A lot of people assume that Amsterdam has been biketopia since time immemorial but it actually was car hell for decades before the citizens became fed up with car fatalities and forced the government to rebuild everything around mass transit and bikes. It took time and will, but they did it.

imagine right, you've had to get past the 28k/38k minimum income requirement for a spouse visa, your visa conditions are *work is not a requirement of entry*, you'll pay about 14 grand over 5 years minimum across 3 visas, and you have to also pick up dog poo from the local field or you have to leave

Everyone on this poster deserves unemployment. Carr can get in the bin especially. What a twat.

To be clear! This is “burn everything to the ground in purifying flame” levels of bad. It is so awful, so disgusting, so insanely reckless and destructive that *everyone tangentially involved in an anti-democratic atrocity this horrific must be hounded out of public life entirely*, just for a start.

It seems to me that what Morgan has very obviously done here is considerably worse than the stuff that had coppers storming through Nicola Sturgeon’s front door and digging up her back garden live on national television, and everyone is saying it’s old news and there’s nothing much to see.