You are kidding but i have increasingly moved to the view that we all underestimate just how much most of these people are enhanced out of their minds on both legal and illegal substances
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You are kidding but i have increasingly moved to the view that we all underestimate just how much most of these people are enhanced out of their minds on both legal and illegal substances
That's funny, this article features multiple people from the same political background commenting on the arrest but I can't see anywhere that the article actually tells us what Linehan said. The article even talks about the importance of context 😄
Make the tariffs infinity, imagine how big gdp would be then
Emergency austerity budget on the way
I think i said a year ago, after they fucked it right out of the gate, that the support would not be returning. Even cynical me didn't think they wouldn't do anything to try
justice for some victims
also have tax code that isn't so easy to fiddle with challenge
i believe it is bad that there is a cheeto in the white house
And while i am extremely skeptical of the Reasonable Tory plan to the extent that they do exist, you don't get them by chasing reform voters, as Reasonable Tories think those people are disgusting (even if their politics aren't so different)
The load-bearing myth at the heart of UK politics is that the politicians and media are tolerant and decent and working people are knuckle-dragging bigots, but it's actually completely the other way around.
And i am not going to type anything my lawyers would advise against but the open secrets are pretty open
Because justice isn't mostly about being even handed to two political parties and The Democrats would do well to purge their child rapists regardless. I can't believe this needs to be explained
Labour needs to do some totally different thing i can't explain that they won't do
Streetings comments are as much about Lucy Connolly as Graham Linehan
There is something unspeakably terrible but also hilarious that in the future historians are going to have to teach people about the time the government used a kid named Big Balls as an excuse to invade an American city with feds and national guardsmen
If I incited violence against Streeting, if I encouraged people to assault him if they met him, I would be arrested. But apparently if you're inciting violence and encouraging assaults against trans people or immigrants, that's all fine by Streeting and Labour.
Conveniently what musk and trump demand too
Ah the things the lobby journalists know and choose not to say
don't want my children hearing that
yes the We Can't Wait For Politics To Be Normal Again Era was the greatest time of their lives and they didn't realize it
If you don't know, this was the tweet: " “If a trans-identified male is in a female-only space, he is committing a violent, abusive act. Make a scene, call the cops and if all else fails, punch him in the balls.” This is not only hate speech, it is also the definition of incitement to violence.
Labour Party contemplates changing law to make it legal to incite violence against trans people.
if i were a backbencher - even one of the new ghoulish ones - i'd be so pissed off that this wasn't *fun*. Shouldn't this be fun?
all the good tvs were given to asylum seekers
Interested to see how people who spent five years insisting Jormery Crobnym was a Russian asset because he was on RT will respond to a guy who actually worked for Putin. I didn't make the rules, you dickheads did.
wasn't long ago they all thought it should be illegal to @ them, how is this going to work
sames as RFKjr - it's all "your medical problems are your own fault" [does not apply to Wes's kidney cancer]
Yes precisely
to be fair the not-quite-obvious-enough subtext of most spy movies is that the intelligence agencies keep creating world-threatening fuckups that some semi-rogue agent has to then fix
quite often extremely sexist, when useful
We live in a cool country where the husband of the very racist Home Secretary gets to berate you for not supporting their party enough on live breakfast tv
[paul retweets column from Boris "no i did not do financial crimes with that russian" Johnson]
how americans (especially) imagine how posh old money brits live/how they really live
what i am hearing is that Polanski wants to surrender to Putin ? worrying
Look at this response from Polanski to Sophie Ridge's attempted gotcha on flags To *finally* have a mainstream political voice standing up for racialised & minoritised communities being intimidated by the violent fash on our streets It's really not that hard, is it?
i'd take the 'release the epstein files, but everything redacted for republican-aligned but not democrat-aligned people' deal if it was on the table
To reiterate; This is how the Guardian describes a tweet that advocates assaulting trans women; “Posts on transgender issues”
It shouldn't be refreshing for a a left party candidate to say they want to win but somehow it is. I don't think even the libdems want to win too much - happier having their little club
everything is AI now. The Oregon Trail is AI now.
funny he says "helps the tories" instead of "helps reform" which is the new line
The top five most frequent non-politicians on BBC Question Time all write for a single rightwing paper And this was from last year
Don't feel like doing a repost that puts the murder video on the timeline yet again but do feel like repeating the point that the president just straight-up assassinated 11 people for supposedly doing something that wouldn't be a death-penalty crime if they were caught and convicted
Folks, a party iffy on protecting completely innocent and ordinary immigrants and transgender people is not going to go out of its way to defend the human rights of accused drug traffickers. We're talking about people who lack the moral courage of the average Pomeranian. Don't know what to tell you.
It doesn't "know" anything at all and the fact that the people most invested in, and involved with, the "AI" industry seem to genuinely not understand the basic structure of LLM-based chatbots is very disconcerting. They can't possibly be this stupid, can they?
you'd think the governor of illinois basically going "we're being invaded by an authoritarian" would be something you'd see real easy on the front page of most everything an hour later
mr. pritzker, sir, please focus on kitchen table issues because david shor says you must. That means going on TV and saying, "I am focused on kitchen table issues."
Perfect policy - not one human ever turned theirs on
The best quote I’ve ever seen about this is that every Democratic leader of the 21st century is ideally suited by temperament and mindset to be in congress in 1995 debating the v-chip.
Pritzker continuing to have some faith in the MSM is sad. I know he has no choice but the MSM is actively rooting for an invasion, actually.
Illinois Gov. Pritzker ahead of Trump National Guard deployment: "To Chicagoans... Look out for your communities and your neighbours. Know your rights. Film things that you see happening... Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America."
Pritzker again exhorts the news media to tell the truth about what's happening: "I refuse to pretend that any of this is normal."
also, what do you think people conclude when they hear you say Donald Trump is a "wannabe king" who is "attacking the American people" (both true things Jeffries has said) and also that you want to find common ground with him? Probably that your criticisms are insincere or that you're weak or both
Mr. President what about the price of eggs
the democratic party's bias to normalcy is gonna kill us off. the gop is literally talking about a military junta and the democratic leader is operating like he can just cut a deal with republicans like its normal times.
shout-out to everyone who had Stupider Gulf Of Tonkin for Venezuela on their bingo cards
oh i know his views are perfectly normal and sensible, they're just going to pretend they're crazy and "unpopular" because it is what they do. Go ahead, shag NATO as Trump comes to town
you know who else's movement was sabotaged by his unpopular foreign policy? Tony Blair. imagine thinking people give a shit about NATO after years of "fuck europe" being the dominant politics
does dorian have polling about these statements being unpopular?
*Weird too
like most people i post my dumb shit and talk my phone friends instead of screaming at the television, all these guys who think social media is their personal stage and PR vehicle are just werd
He’s chosen to bring in a guy who used to edit the Sun, to do the comms, and now it’s all flags and deportation porn.
Institutions and government feeds and influentials left or pulled back. I don’t know who they imagine their audience is anymore
Who cares what the numbers are, people leave and don't return, mostly.
Also twitter is obviously dying or these people wouldn't be complaining constantly
There is literally no benefit in throwing your lot in with Glinner. No one likes Glinner, there are even terfs that don't like Glinner. Glinner's kids don't like Glinner. Starmer has the political instincts of a deck chair.
Is he still dead
yes i thought so too but.. surely.. not... i guess so!
Labour are so dumb they really think the flags are about flags
His trans daughter is on another magazine cover today
not always true but "any coverage is good coverage" probably applies at the moment, given that the usual coverage is no coverage
Remember: The Abundance Bros also have newfound BFFs at the Pacific Legal Foundation, a right wing Libertarian law firm who has aggressively attacked bedrock environmental laws (much like Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson, Matt Yglesias) who are also sponsoring the Abundance Con.
One of the wild things is the level of condescension you'll get from "tech experts" who will say "wrong answers from Google is good, actually". I would submit that anyone who doesn't understand why Google suddenly getting basic questions wrong, that it used to get right, is bad... may be off track.
Basically (and I think this is what Chris is really saying; I just don't think it's expressed helpfully by bringing the debt path into the story) the UK has absolutely no problems that couldn't be solved, except the government has promised not to solve them in order to get elected
i've never really understood the law on this stuff. Doesn't a hole rip in time and space if anyone comments on an ongoing criminal case?
Apart from all the other stuff it’s wild that the prime minister of the UK has installed a row of England flags
right unless i am missing something?
It's quite funny how "The Argument" was presented as a left/liberal publication and they were incapable of holding that pretense for a nanosecond, the whole thing has been "you should post on X," "you should be nice to your MAGA family members," and "JD Vance isn't so bad."
what is shor's intended point here? anybody know?
The Greens ought to respond with this
amazingly forensic
probably ghost written by david shor (not even a joke)
oh dear, time for another blogger ethics panel
Telling that you only get questions like this from regional BBC journalists, as opposed to the "are you also frightened asylum seekers will assault your daughters, PM?" questions now levelled by their national colleagues
the truth is there does need to be something for people on visas because they got rid of the id card and replaced it with... nothing. but that's different than cards for everyone
are they going to be given free phones for these digital cards
probably demand welsh and scottish labor campaign with the st. g's cross
I preferred the Ramsay/Chowns "if we're nice and very centrist we could win 2 more seats" approach
AI can do it all, like magic
adam, no fair remembering things.
As Yvette Cooper pushes forward new laws to make it harder for child refugees to get safe passage to join their parents in the UK, here's a picture of her from 2020 campaigning for the complete opposite.
Whatever happened to the anti-racist, pro-migrant, campaigner and human rights lawyer Keir Starmer and why has he vanished just as the far-right return to our streets? bylinetimes.com/2025/09/02/r...
Question to Zach Polanski at the leadership announcement: "Q: How can you take on Nigel Farage when your policy on immigration is so different?" Everything wrong with British politics and media summed up so succinctly in a single absolutely unhinged question.
Who is the "them" that require id cards. Your nan?
We're cooked
Direct this at the bbc
Divisive is one of those words that gets applied or not without any criteria at all
The Lads got very comfortable putting aside old conflicts and uniting to fight the real enemy - jombly cromblyns and mean lefties on twitter - and i do not think regularly Spectator contributors like Mr. Bush are going to abandon that soon
We all have one superpower, just have to figure out what it is