Manchester United, a post-satire football club for a post-satire age.

"We’re seeing a purely manmade famine."

Seems like we’ve entered the period when the framing of the latest stage of the Gazan genocide - the famine, not as another avoidable but intentional phase in Israel’s strategy, but as some sort of natural disaster or act of God

The Hamas attack on October 7 was a horrendous crime against humanity. But the only relationship between it and the even greater crimes against humanity being perpetrated in Gaza today is that it is being used as an excuse for what certain Israeli ministers and generals have long wanted to do.

✍️ When evil becomes normal: what Gaza reveals about the human condition A Gaza doctor’s chilling account challenges us to face the banality of evil – and the global powers quietly enabling it

🚨 RIGHT NOW opposite Labour Party HQ in London. We’ve turned their street into Jabaliya camp in Gaza. A genocide is happening, but the Labour government is supplying weapons, intelligence and diplomatic cover to the perpetrator. Protesting this is not terrorism.

Absolutely dystopian juxtaposition from the Guardian front page. Difficult to understand how anyone of decency and conscience can defend this government at this point. Just sheer moral degeneracy to arm a state that does this and arrest people for objecting. Wtf are we doing as a country?

If only there were half the outrage over Israeli soldiers shooting starving people queuing for food as there has been towards some rappers mouthing off at Glastonbury, we'd be in a very different place

So it will be illegal to belong to or even express support for a group engaging in non violent direct action to stop a genocide But it will still be legal to volunteer for the armed forces committing the genocide, and to express support for them (as most in Westminster and Fleet St do)

Oh, America… www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Fuck, I’m sharing a Daily Express article: www.express.co.uk/news/uk/2070...

And on it goes.

This is what it's like to live in a racist society. If the perpetrator is white, they're just some lone madman whose actions have no political implication. If they're an immigrant - in particular a dark-skinned Muslim immigrant - they represent their group and are part of a political attack.

staging a show-and-tell about a fake genocide during a real genocide to the government that has done the most to seek justice for that real genocide is designed to break our brains. They know what they are doing. www.cnn.com/2025/05/21/w...

Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

Only the stupid and morally bankrupt claimed that this was anything different than an ethnic cleansing charged land grab

What Labour fail/refuse to understand of course is that anti-immigration politics can't be addressed at the level of technocratic policymaking. Those most animated by this don't know the exact numbers and won't know or care if the line is "going down". It is a misplaced libidinal desire for cruelty.

Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.

Last-minute spreadsheet wars between the Treasury and the OBR are ludicrous way to run a country, a ludicrous way to run an economy, a ludicrous way to fund public services and a ludicrous way to run the welfare system www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

These folks have never *ever* believed in freedom of speech, or freedom of any kind but the freedom to amass levels of wealth that are cataclysmic to organized society. Cancel your subscription and make a donation to kick-ass independent journalism of your choice.

For those who find wonder in gazing at in-flight trackers

Empires are defined by the stories they tell and those they choose not to

2025 book recommendations (that nobody asked for):

I don’t want to live in a world where people think Gladiator II was good

this week's column www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/n...

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