If Starmer is serious about a "reset" for Labour then one of the first things which needs to happen is that he boots Mahmood, and others, out of the cabinet and scraps his government's cruel and inhumane policies and rhetoric against migrants, and other marginalised groups. #r4today

Worthwhile reading from Jacob once again. Capitalism is fatally flawed due to its shortsightedness. To only care about a quarter or two, or the last years results, leads to dangerous risk-taking and a frivolous attitude towards nature and resources.

To give him his full title - Sir Cyril Smith MBE.

NEW | On Wes Streeting’s late-in-the-day denunciation of Mandelson… WES STREETING’S MARIAH CAREY METHOD Just how stupid does the cabinet minister think we are as he denies the extent of his relationship with Peter Mandelson? Very. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/wes-street...

It won't change.

Most people today are extremely unaware of the sheer amount of freedoms the last 80 years have taken from us. We live in the most restrictive age in human history by a significant margin

I love how this is fine, but a government borrowing from itself to build profitable infrastructure will destroy our society.

This round of funding will do the trick!

The way people don’t understand that it’s a privilege to not care about politics given everything that’s going on

Starmer isn't getting punished for the Epstein files, he is under fire for knowingly appointing a corrupt ambassador. The Epstein files have prompted everyone in the media and parliament to "remember" that they had known this about Mandelson for their entire careers. Pay attention, Labour fans.

Being able to see their emails makes something very clear: The “anti-woke” movement was not a genteel intellectual inquiry, made by disinterested parties who cared deeply about free speech. It is a social circle of powerful people who feel threatened by #MeToo. www.theverge.com/tech/874721/...

If all these rich men "regret" their time with Epstein then why didn't they announce prior to the release of the files that their names would be part of the collection? Why didn't they self-report? The answer is they are not sorry and have no regret. They are sorry and regret they got caught.

One of the biggest signs that the UK is a deeply sick society is how much it hates and fears children.

Kids can't hang out in parks. They can't hang out at the mall. They don't have 3rd spaces because no one wants kids around and then we are surprised when they rely on SM for connection. If you take that away, what do they have left?

British values

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youtube.com/watch?v=shhu... This video is excellent. It's USA focused but relevant over here. Heck, we've just seen a group of protestors held for 17 months before getting their day in court, on top of the thousands of peaceful protesters the police have happily arrested.

Yes, and their anxieties about the pandemic--when they felt their controls over labor slipping, and when capitalist production and consumption was, for a brief second of time, NOT the primary motivating principle of society. A whole lot of them radicalized themselves willingly since COVID.

Imagine a trans person, who has done nothing at all but finds themselves in the papers because they encountered a terf, sending this out and Ipso helping remind papers of their code of conduct...

I think the thing that gets me about this is *they know* what they are and *they know* they should be hanging from lampposts.

oh look. it's *exactly* what we said would happen. these bans are not smart. they are reactionary and they harm vulnerable children. we said this would happen. there's no need for the uk to make the same mistake. @emily4mk.bsky.social

Have a window in your weekend? Then fill it with some refreshments and top tier film analysis from Mikey. Watch the John Wick one afterwards, it's my favourite.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

Isn't it super random that all of the "anti-woke" cancel culture academics who all leaned into transphobia and race science later in their careers all seem to be connected through Jeffrey Epstein?

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

Why does wealth only exist to tear things down why doesn't it exist to make Pizza Huts with bar seating

While reporting this, I had something happen that's never happened. A comms rep for one of the co's disputed my reporting and said what I was telling them was untrue because it was not in Grok, xAI's chatbot. I was looking directly at the files. And this person was using AI to challenge the truth.

I think I have the DVD somewhere. I used to at least. Great musical, lots of swearing.

Example No.1,000,000 of why the ‘Reform will be worse’ statement is absolutely ridiculous. Take a look at the indifference to child poverty for migrant children the HS has. András is right; there are no words. How do you describe such inhumanity?

Another nice reminder that fossil fuel company CEOs are not rational actors trying to run a good business. Their ideology is violent and vicious and short-termist

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

From 2000 the New Labour govt took asylum seekers off mainstream benefits & instigated a Home Office-run scheme of “dispersing” them round the UK, often to places with limited services and often moving them frequently & at short notice. Costly & badly organised travel was an inevitable consequence

Mahmood is honestly one of the most evil people in politics, which says a lot considering Windrush, Begum, the actual literal scandal crumbling before our eyes and the history of the British establishment.

Do they understand how mad they sound? As if anyone has ever decided to cross the Channel in a small boat because, if they make it, they might get to take a free taxi to a doctor's appointment? "Pull factors" on steroids. www.bbc.com/news/article...

‘Where do you want the Mandelson File, sir?” ‘Oh…erm… just put it over there — next to the Russia Report, The Cash-for-Honours dossier, The Sabotage Corbyn plan, The WMDs Fable and the rest of the New Labour Dodgy Docs. It’ll be nice and safe there.’

*sigh*

i know that this is an unpopular take, but everyone starting their own newsletter as a revenue stream is not a sustainable model for writing and reporting or for people who love and want to pay for media.

6.8 million people in the UK living in very deep poverty. WTF

NEW | Journalists who used Peter Mandelson as a resource for years are now pretending to be surprised about his character… Shock! as 'Prince of Darkness' revealed to be a dodgy, duplicitous wrong 'un brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/shock-as-p...

Car battery flat at 9:30pm a while away from nearest town, on a view above a beach so it's cold. RAC were going to take HOURS to get to me, I had to be at work early the next morning, it was pitch black. Mrs called a local taxi; driver called his mate, car jump started & sorted in under 20 mins.

This excerpt is just... *chef's kiss*

Two HRW employees that make up the entirety of the organization's Israel and Palestine program are stepping down after the leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a "crime against humanity." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

The narrative that the ruling class "went insane" during COVID was apparently not totally accurate. In actuality, they all believed that the Me Too movement killed their beloved pedophile fixer and lockdown just delayed them eventually punishing us all for it.

Also I’m bound to point out: yet another issue on which the left were obviously correct, years ago

I read thousands of pages of Epstein files this weekend trying to understand what he wanted out of his meeting with 4chan's Christopher Poole. Here's everything we know about Epstein's plans to dismantle the internet and, eventually, democracy. www.garbageday.email/p/here-s-how...

As others have said, this will need a committee to sort, then a review and then...and then... Just to make it look like Starmer has said or done something.

Just hilarious excuses really aren't they? "Nope, sorry, I have no recollection of £75,000 . What can I say, I'm a busy man."

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

What do you MEAN the president audibly SHIT himself live on camera and they immediately cancelled the press conference and rushed everyone out of the room like it's a fire drill, and it happened two days ago, and I'm just hearing about it NOW?

imagine my surprise to find out a rampant transphobe and all-around bastard of a person is not actually acting to "protect children" or feminism or whatever the fuck but is just trying to maintain status in the Global Pedophile club