We've long passed the point where Starmer's rhetoric is "in danger of" getting migrants killed, and appear to be rapidly approaching the point where he'll publicly admit to being sad if they are not.
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We've long passed the point where Starmer's rhetoric is "in danger of" getting migrants killed, and appear to be rapidly approaching the point where he'll publicly admit to being sad if they are not.
Timely reminder that there was bombing in Sidcup, as part of an organised campaign to destroy infrastructure and force political change but while Met terror police did the investigation, they bent over to avoid it being labelled as "terrorism". Sleepwalking into fascism www.bbc.com/news/article...
Jo Cox was murdered by a man with a house full of neo-Nazi agitprop and this was then retconned into a vague narrative about social media abuse
For the record, when I'm excited about "it happening" I mean Mindhunter Season 3
The Economist described this, as early as 2006 in an article,with visas etc, and the Irish government actively pursuing easy emigration for young people, as "Exporting the opposition"
They've already normalised performance enhancing drugs in tennis, so they're half way there
Mid set betrayals in a doubles game, while the coaches tamper with rackets etc
Family-owned Hadron collidors going to the wall
Paying 150 quid a year for someone to casually accuse me of supporting Hamas wasn't pleasant
Given their allegiance to T*te, McGr*gor and Y*xley-Lennon, I have reason to doubt a genuine care for women and girls
Indeed. BBC are very much being well behaved for the incoming boss
In discussing Brexit border issues in Ireland I informed a guy, who works in a school, that Ireland is another country. His response was as if I'd said Cornwall was a country.
Irish Mammy as Lady Macbeth: "Yarra, put in an application. The worst they can do is say no" The worst they can do, ma, is take a peek at our tax, property, and family history
No10 spokesman not prepared to criticise anything about Farage speech today. Not his description of "invasion", not his prediction that the UK on brink of civil war, not plans to pay the Taliban or Iran to take back migrants, or indeed to rule out doing so themselves.
Response from other parties. - Farage dialling up language of 'mass deportation' - Susan Hall and Gavin Williamson signing up to Restore Britain - Jenrick using the code of 'men from backward countries' to say he doesn't want any in any neighbourhood Badenoch + Starmer essentially mute on all this
The US also sold arms to revolutionary Iran. This is not a sign of ideology. It's a sign of greed.
I'm already scanning and packing my own shopping. If I see someone stealing baby formula or nappies: no I didn't.
So was the USA when it was only Nazis involved. It was the Japanese moving on their colonies that got them moving.
What if they've deliberately taken their time to convince gullible clowns that it's not a genocide?
🤬 Woman who admitted incitement to violence and racism on Social Media and in Court was jailed for 2.5 years. Gets released early and British TV and media repeating what she said originally, give her prime spot on TV. Britain wonders why they have a problem which every day is getting more extreme?
Can't wait for the ITV drama about Lucy Connolly, a innocent woman guilty of nothing more than committing the crime of inciting racial hatred.
The child traficker notorious for lying during each investigation into this can be trusted
Yes, in a sport most demographically representative of Britain, concerns about footballers being overpaid is classist at heart. Also, MPs and Journalists are underpaid, deliberately, to keep working class out, and render the positions hobbies for idle rich, rather than aspirational careers
fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you
If earth based human life was wiped out tomorrow, the two human beings with the most durable material record would be disgraced ex President Richard Nixon, whose name is on the plaque on the moon, and former Nazi and UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, who sent fraternal greetings on Voyager
No, you see, John Boyne is entitled to free speech which means he can say and do what he wants, but nobody else is allowed to say or do anything that John Boyne doesn't like, because that's cancel culture.
Maybe not indie, but X Com 2 is a great port for the Switch
This is a 'hostile takeover' but when Labour party head office deliberately sabotage an election campaign, smear and purge dissenters, and plough ahead with Tory policy it's "common sense government"
“i have to use AI because i’m bad at drawingggg 😭😭😭”
"You writers can't express opinions here. It's a literary award! "
The first time someone said that to me after moving to England was a real moment for me.
The lowest tier of politics possible is being Mad At People For Caring.
They'll ban something as honorable and useful as Wikipedia before they reprimand social media companies that spread vaccine misinformation, manipulate elections and circulate image-based sexual abuse.
Can't fault the clarity of Labour's message on protest. There are BAD protesters who must be punished (Irish musicians, anti-genocide vicars) and there are GOOD protesters whose views deserve respect (masked thugs with petrol bombs trying to start a pogrom)
Documented records of Carbonara are predated by proto Wi Fi technology
Also, a brave move to compare family calibre with Mamdani
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/why-did-ta... the blanket contempt for transparency runs deep
Why am I being sent to France? I came via Holyhead
I hate being bald and walking the same direction as another bald guy. It looks like we’re being summoned by our king
Ezo red fox kits (Vulpes vulpes schrencki) in Hokkaido, Japan, captured in 1974 by Minoru Taketazu. www.ajapanesebook.com/2010/07/take...
An interesting precedent to set, that funding crimes in Palestine makes one liable for them www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
The Hills Have Feelings Too, You Know
Genoa's new away kit launch looks like someone showed Suella Braverman how to use AI
Humans are the smartest animals? You never see dolphins bring crying babies to the movies.
We're 6 months away from Musk claiming to have invented Samsung
There's a horrifying reveal to be had when we find out that Nick Cave is the most normal of the Australians
He's Nick Cave's Wario
Vince McMahon: who’s there? show yourself! Hulk Hogan’s ghost: *carrying many chains* IN LIFE I WAS YOUR PARTNER DUDE, THESE ARE THE 24 INCH PYTHONS I FORGED IN LIFE BROTHER
when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
So he wasn't of the Ballyferriter Hulks?
A terrible human. Tamgentally, this collection is weird and really great in places toddkaneko.com/the-dead-wre...
This is correct. If one invented Sharon as a caricature of "Industry Villain" there's not an editor in the country who'd let it slide
It would make the genocide and ethnic cleansing more difficult to cover up. Currently the narrative that they're aren't a nation of people makes convenient cover for the mystery of where they've all gone.
Imagine achieving all that and being the third most famous Michael Collins
Contemporary Britain being famous for an abundance of good faith, political will and concerns for mutual interest
It’s the Movie of the Summer for 48 years straight — that’s right folks, It’s ‘Sorceror’ Time™️
Especially as the party are actively in support of literal boots on necks
water left in a glass overnight tastes bad because it gets haunted
There's a guy at my local open mic who learned Ukulele in retirement, and now plays 4 to 5 open mic gigs every week, and has found a huge number of diverse friends in doing so. He explicitly says he misses NOTHING about work.
The singularity is awesome
To be fair to the Democratic Party freaking out of about Zohran Mamdani, it has never before had a previously unknown brown man with a foreign-sounding name and a gift for political communication rise to national prominance while defeating an incumbent backed by big money and the party's elites.
We're talking about an educator too illiterate find themes such as racism or misogyny in Shakespeare
I last heard it applied to this, and wasn't sure how to feel. Because the book is really quite good
And also, as an Irish person, who shares a language and pub culture, I still find British pubs to be idiosyncratic at best and occasionally weird by comparison Fruit machines, for a start...
Given he blocks when you ask about it, I fear for his capacity for self relfection. He likes speaking truth to working class voters; to popular, powerful, Media-savvy billionaires, not so much
We could see to what extent he's managed to self reflect on his initial assessment of Rowling's Transphobia as perfectly sensible
I'll take the block as a "No"
Any self relfection on your initial assessment of Rowling's Transphobia as perfectly sensible?
The Times of London has given Words for My Comrades a most stellar review www.thetimes.com/culture/book...
BBC 6 Music News tells me Musk wants to set up a ‘centrist’ party. Is great replacement theory centrism now? Btw almost all stories on 6 Music heads were about immigration - Labour can’t get down asylum hotel costs; Pam Bondi clip. Barely a single story about an actual news of a real world event
Ireland waits patiently for her era
It isn't possible to design a school system where everyone leaves with the skills needed for the workplace because *they're all going to do different jobs*. Workplace training needs to be done by employers.
Indeed. I've met a bunch of English people who've insisted Labour engineered polish immigration to secure their votes, as if a swathe of catholics who grew up under the boot of Soviet communism would just happily be homogeneously left leaning somehow
And this is a conspiracy that is A) True and B) goes all the way to the top open.spotify.com/episode/5Gdu...
This was interesting www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
That episode of Only Fools and Horses where Del unwittingly facilitates a hit for Gerry Adams under the impression he was arranging knock down transport for a race horse
I do think that a better media would be interrogating how a Leader of the Opposition has ended up arguing that we shouldn't prosecute people for calling for burning down hotels with people in whilst people are burning down hotels with people in.
Is there any evidence or polling that successive democratically elected governments haven't been a relfection of the wider public will for sustained and terrible violence against civilians?
Didn't his da serve in Northern Ireland, amongst a bunch of rabble for whom law and order don't apply, by act of parliament?
Oh, UCD Philosophy graduate here. I would have a keen interest in this too
I still vividly remember the Irish Independent running an opinion piece referencing the Battle of 1389 as proof that it wasn't simple Good Guys Vs Bad Guys. I was a child but I could see that kind of article for what it was
This is good. I want more
Is the generation defined by the age of the audience? Was the Boomer culture of the 60s was created by the Silent Generation?
Sad news for gamers: GTA VI has been delayed another year after a pipe burst in the Rockstar office and all the little guys from the game got washed away
I wrote this, on the sad, sorry sight of Keir Starmer putting away the dog-whistle, and picking up the megaphone. www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
The White Rabbit hardback and trade paperback editions are here! Ireland and UK, you can buy these in your local bookshop from June 19
Welsh, Irish and Scots speakers didn't cross the border. The border crossed us.
christ, what a day to be an immigrant cursed with the ability to read
Every picture of Mikel Arteta looks like a render from a stunning new PS3 game you'd see on the cover of Edge circa 2007
Utterly, utterly incredible. One of the most dramatic football ties I've watched in almost 20 years covering this sport. A reminder of why we all fell in love with it to begin with
Does the lie that there's no difference between far left and the far right lower barriers to voting for the far right?
new gender neutral greeting just dropped
While Musk lectures you on wasting public investment
British Media:how do these rich people we went to school with that we keep covering maintain their media coverage?
Respectfully, at some stage, British people need to take responsibility for their own votes
