www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
12 hours to go in this gruelling 24 hour walk! If you’d like to donate to the fundraiser you can do so here 😊 donorbox.org/24hoursforwi...
Rees-Mogg should have 'Brexit was a lie and a con', tattooed on his forehead. A lot of people in the UK, I'd imagine, would be happy to help him do it #Newsnight
How can someone be so abysmal at politics? Honestly.
Nobody believes that Keir Starmer has a flag displayed in his flat. The people that don't believe it the most, are the far right. Which by a twist of fate, are the same people that Starmer is trying to appeal to, while pissing off every other voter demographic.
Same vibe. youtu.be/79QDhBtmDdk?...
Parliament reopened today, but Nigel Farage was in Washington DC on his 10th trip to the US since becoming an MP. You don't get to earn £1m from 12 jobs by wasting time on what is meant to be your full time role.
Each day I am astounded and mortified by this country’s descent into open and brazen racism I am equally astounded and mortified that rather than push back on the malign forces taking us to these dark places - an elected Labour government appears more interested in trying to learn from them
When he talks like this, he always comes off like a bloke who pretends he enjoys football, to fit in. youtu.be/79QDhBtmDdk?...
A new Silent Hill film, you say? Directed by Christophe Gans, you say? youtu.be/eej34Jw7woA?...
40 years. 😬 youtu.be/MaFbMGybSZo?...
Folks, @justdetention.bsky.social has started their Words of Hope campaign which sends holiday cards to survivors of prison rape. You can request cards here: justdetention.org/woh/
Those words will do fine. 😁
As an addendum to this, I wrote about the dumbness of Trump's India policy and how it empowers China and others. open.substack.com/pub/arthursn...
See, also, Reform wants to fund the Taliban.
Labor Day This is what it looks when the rich are in control. Change never comes easy for the working man.
Revoking an entire nationality’s visas is collective punishment and never acceptable — especially in this moment when millions of Palestinians lack equal rights, basic healthcare, and so much more at home, forcing them out of the US is unfathomably cruel. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/w...
I'm not anti-Starmer. I would be absolutely overjoyed if he actually started behaving like a Labour Prime Minister, rather than a terrified schoolboy trying to please the playground bullies. This is what we all expected after the Tories, right? The competent human rights lawyer?
'Maybe'
“I’ve never met anyone else remotely like him…He is and was profoundly stupid, completely lacking in intellectual curiosity.” www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Dragon House in York was defaced with racist graffiti last week, targeting a family who’ve been part of their community for over ten years. One window cleaner from Crystal Clean Services stepped up to clear the abuse.
As many have already said, astounding and outrageous that so many people - from normal civilians to the BBC and the UK government - are still on this openly fascist platform. STANDARDS. Seriously!!
Blair was an absolute twat after 2003, but he probably would have had no problem in calling far right thugs, far right thugs during his time in office. I can't picture him saying "look, I understand their concerns."
Thin ice for a white South African, wouldn’t you say?
Totally forgot William Sadler was in that, watched it last year and was like
The good news, is that Morgan McSweeney's genius is unquestionable.
Picturing peeps rolling out the picnic blankets to watch Stalingrad. 😂
What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:
His entire feed is basically, "I'm not right wing, but..." My favourite is the approval of Trump's economic plan. Good chance this lad is typing from a nondescript building in Vladivostok.
The Far Right: "We're just concerned citizens." Starmer: "I agree. That's exactly what you are. Do carry on with all the flag stuff."
Starmer could have said: Vandalism isn't patriotism; daubing red crosses on Chinese takeaways and writing racist graffiti isn't patriotism; perfomatively sitting in front of a flag or tying one to a mosque isn't patriotism; Patriotism is about making this country safe, happy productive for all.
Reform UK, the right leaning think tank Policy Exchange, and some Labour grandees, are all pushing for us to either leave the ECHR, or disapply parts of it temporarily or permanently. This puts me, you and everyone at risk, not just those seeking sanctuary.
Only a matter of time, really. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
And away we go!! For the next 24 hours straight I’ll be walking continuous laps of Parliament. This is going to be a mentally and physically gruelling experience but hopefully well worth it! Thank you for the incredible support and donations so far I couldn’t be more appreciative. ❤️🦊🦡🦅
"Welcome to Reform UK. Their councillors in Derbyshire have just terminated Adult Education in five centres. Reform UK, like Trump, love the poorly educated." via John Attenborough
Fair. But given the current context, it looks like further capitulation to far right.
But the context... Far right scumbags loudly calling for us to withdraw + coupled with Jack Straw (?) saying leaving wouldn't affect the Good Friday Agreement... Hell of a time for them to do this. It looks like capitulation to Farage and worse than Farage.
Going on Ferrari @lbc.co.uk in a minute to argue about the ECHR as well. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE.
Proper 'moving the deckchairs on the Titanic' vibe, tbh. The rot and moral void is right at the top of the government.
It's not currently hard to imagine Labour carrying on like this until 2029. There is a huge moral void at the top of the government. There's also a massive disconnection from ordinary Britons, which is leading the Labour leadership to see us all as pissed, racist thugs.
“Must be willing to work in an exciting, fast-paced environment.” The environment:
My main issue with the debate around ECHR is that no one advocating for it seems willing to accept that the past decade of politics has shown us that withdrawing from organisations/treaties/institutions always has more unintended consequences than intended, usually negative.
Fiddling with the ECHR, simply because they are terrified of Farage is appalling. A new low achieved every day.
Labour actually talking about 'amendments' to the ECHR, because they're terrified of Farage and his Dumbtroopers, is a new low. Start fighting, you pricks.
Yeah, I can't see any progress being made with this, when the rot actually originates at the top.
Infighting is the curse of the Left. And it always follows them into power. No. 10 Labour factions concentrating on battling each other, rather than sorting out the country sounds accurate, tbh. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
September is here. The mix of lots of rain + hot sunshine has been great for nature here in rural Lancashire over the summer. Lots of green, lots of insects, lots of life. Now the seasons are turning.
This
*get Brexit over the line
For the next few years, Britons are going to be battered senseless by 'we need to leave the ECHR'. It's the same playback that was used to get over the line - tell people that nothing will really change, when actually, *everything* will change.
The Danielle Smith regime's escalating war on public education, science, and knowledge.
And what I've learned is that I wouldn't last 5 minutes inside the Tudor Court. All those fuckers playing 6th dimensional chess with each other to try and keep themselves out of the Tower and in the Ginger King's good graces.
In an ideal world, they would cast this eternal circlejerk aside, and concentrate on getting into power, so they could help people, but that's like, so much hard work, man.
The Labour Left always has the best policies in terms of improving lives. But it really isn't interested in real power. Never has been. It's interested in forming committees to investigate the feasibility of forming other committees to protest whichever parts of Labour, are not the Labour Left.
"Musk has shadowbanned the UK government from X" Me: why is the UK government on X and why does it want to remain on X?
Labour looking to 'amend' the ECHR, is probably going to go as well as anybody expects.
Rudy Giuliani absolutely did not try to shortchange a sex worker and then was pursued by her colleagues, don’t you dare suggest such a thing
No, Carswell and others like him haven’t been ‘radicalised’. They’ve always thought like this. The only thing that has changed is that they now realise they can get away with saying it out loud.
I never watched Wolf Hall when it first appeared, but I've binged both Wolf Hall and The Mirror and the Light this weekend. So, so good.
Fuckwits.
Right wingers are all like ‘I just want sh*tty sliced white bread and full-fat beef milk and spam and asbestos and measles and poverty and then I’ll finally live in a world reminiscent of the yesteryear I’ve evoked in my imagination where everyone is white and hummus is illegal and I am king’.
Alternative stats
CEOs are trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while they plan on replacing you with a robot. Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
We're living through an age where those with the most power and money have yawning voids within them that can never, ever be filled. Irrevocably broken, deeply dangerous people who will still try to fill those voids, even if that involves billions suffering and dying, and the planet burning.
In a word, “backhanders”.
They'll be too busy saying 'nothing to see here' while all the horror unfolds. As is the current state of affairs in the US.
"I really like that politician"
Oooooooooof.
Ouch…
I can
A great use of your time, tbh!
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Truth. 😁
Nearly a million people marched against Brexit. Not front page news. 50 people gather outside a hotel. National news for weeks. "Fears of mass unrest", media says.
"There is nothing in Farage’s new plans that would make women safer. In fact, it puts us at further risk." His "concern for women is more than a hollow performance. It’s dangerous." Important read! ⬇️ https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2025/08/nigel-farages-hollow-dangerous-concern-for-women
He looks like a fascist Charles Hawtrey in that pic.
😂
See also: decades of absolute wankers carting that flag off to European cities and wrapping themselves in it as they riot, smash up businesses and generally behave like the worst ambassadors on the planet.
That pic lets us know the amount of meds they are pumping into him, to keep his carcass upright.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
He may be alive, but the amount of medicine it's taking to keep him upright would probably power the healthcare system of a small country for a while.
We could debate that until the sun burns out. Plenty of officially-recognised states around the world have been built on the suffering and bloodshed of people already living on that land. Israel certainly qualifies in that respect.
I mean, all countries have a right to defend themselves. But Israel isn't doing self-defence. It's doing genocide and colonialism.
I need Autumn to be 10 months of the year. - best regards, Someone with ginger skin
There's no such thing as the 'dissident Right'. They're Nazis.
This is the enduring lesson of Weimar: extremism never triumphs on its own. It succeeds because others enable it—because of their ambition, because of their fear, or because they misjudge the dangers of small concessions www.foreignaffairs.com/germany/hitl...
Trump: owned by Putin JD Vance: owned by Thiel & Musk
youtube.com/shorts/Np3lS...
This will not stand. The Golden Throne is already reserved for David Attenborough.
youtu.be/FACb1IHtTxM?...