#MakeOrcsWalkAgain
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As Russia's refining sector is reduced to ash I think defence planners have some interesting question to ask about the security implications of running on fossil fuels for transport. Hitting a nuclear plant is high stakes / escalatory, solar and wind too diffuse but refineries? Game on. #EnergySky
Remembering when the NYT went on a weeks-long bender covering a decades-old real estate deal the Clintons were involved in, in which they *lost money*.
Rare video capture of a Spotted Eagle Ray getting airborne then using its wings to brake. I took this video near St Petersburg, Florida. #nature #amazing #animals #awesome #wildilfe #ocean
Gary Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. Wait, no, that movie was already ruined.
Vaxxed?
Did anyone see President Trump say that?
Just remembered that iirc one of the Labour 2024 intake *is* an Afghan refugee. Jesus what is he feeling right now???
Tonkin Archipelago
Isn’t Vance making a worse case?
Bringing in Armando Iannucci to script the final seasons of The UK was a wry choice
68000 followers and counting for @aftermath.site , the number goes up every week, and as our primary social media platform its helped us grow from 1400 to almost 5000 paying subscribers in under two years
“I don’t want asylum seekers to live on my street” is genuinely a wild thing to say as a notionally progressive politician
Bluesky is now among and often *the* highest referer to @motherjones.com. That’s traffic that has been additive. Only Twitter has dipped btw, the rest as fairly steady state (and instagram impressions and video views on all platforms up enormously.)
Yvette, I'm confused.
Brilliant lads, we're getting roasted for not being normal about flags by the Northern Irish
More women and children will die in the Channel as a result of this policy. More kids fleeing war, persecution and torture will be separated from their parents in makeshift camps. More smugglers will gladly take their money. More votes for Reform. The moral bankruptcy is staggering.
"Actually I didn't even apply to Stanford, yeah, they just wrote to me and said come and study here, yeah, and they weren't the only ones, either, and they said I was so good that I could probably skip a year, yeah. But in the end I went to Sussex because of my allergies."
Today is the first day of public trading for Trump’s crypto scam.
Somebody is throwing things out of a window of the White House wtaf
He'll be telling us he has a shrine to the flag next
*a small bit of Russia
I'm seeing a lot of people on LinkedIn and local Facebook who are feeling really distressed and upset because they feel like the flag graffiti is aimed at intimidating them (despite in many cases being proud British citizens with normal fondness for the flag). This isn't just Discourse.
The white heat of racist anger.
Starmer has one week to stop f*cking about on this, otherwise I give up on him.
’Social media is selling ringside seats for a carnival of hatred… let’s not fall for it.’ After an ‘angry summer’ of immigration debate, Andrew Marr warns against being ‘fooled’ by online discourse.
She is being seriously racist.
Home Secretary says "when we wave the union flag, when we wave the St George's cross" it is to represent the values of Britain, which include compassion towards asylum seekers. Yvette Cooper trying to give the recent flag-waving a different slant.
You would think that Yvette Cooper's decision to suspend the family reunion scheme for refugees would appeal to the Telegraph's readership, right? So what do they do? They surround a tiny headline with wall-to-wall anti Labour stories. You can NEVER appease the Right. A lesson Labour never learns.
🎶 your own personal Smithers 🎶
UK business is doing what German business did with Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party: help them into power on the expectation that they can control them afterwards. Didn’t work then, won’t work this time.
ICYMI: Heathrow Airport has been unveiled as a "major sponsor" of Reform UK's conference this coming weekend. Reform says "big businesses flock to the Party they perceive to be most likely to form the next Government." (Heathrow is majority owned by state-owned sovereign wealth funds - inc. Qatar)
JD Vance Rushed To Walter Reed After Inner Hillbilly Returns
Starmer inviting photographers to see the flag and pitbull he bought to impress the median voter, but oh no, the pitbull has pooed all over the flag and run away, and as Starmer runs to catch it his trousers have fallen down, and hes spilled thick white glue onto his crotch then fallen onto the flag
“I get it. I’m racist too.”
Interviewer "how would you feel if your daughter had to walk past one of these hotels." Starmer: "I completely get it". Interviewer: "they are worried if their children are safe" Starmer: "I understand why people want the hotels closed." Maybe push back on some of this?!
Extorting a stake in a UK company vital to Britain's national security would be.. interesting.
Got to wonder how the extortion will play out with BAE Systems. A UK-domiciled company can’t legally just give away 10% (or 15% or whatever Danegeld is demanded). But what is the mechanism to extort stakes in wholly-owned US subsidiaries?
The Eye of Sauron turns away from Intel and gazes at defence companies.
When GOP controls govt, it supports govt ownership stakes in big U.S. corps. For now, the shares are non-voting shares. Could change in future. Basically it is setting firm-specific, higher corporate tax rates. Now, targeting highly govt dependent firms. www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Yes, do tell me more about how cliff edge thresholds in taxes and benefits don’t actually drive behaviour.
WW1 dressing. They will change it to a poppy in November.
Hey, we need to keep hopescrolling.
For sure. It’s just a lie.
Oh, that’s the great thing about nerve agents: you can take a preventive antidote shot.
I just spoke with a doctor who won’t watch the news anymore for its relentless assault on mental well-being. And I know people who have stopped with BSky for this reason. So to assert the decline is from BSky itself is definitely [Citation needed].
Would fail Ofsted inspection if they were a school. Do we expect so much less of government ministers, of Ofcom, of the Equality and Human Rights Commission than we expect of primary schools, Revealed preference: if you are rich & powerful, can promote racial hatred without a whisper of criticism
Oo, ooo, I got a new Trump conspiracy theory: slow acting nerve toxin on Putin’s hand, shakes hands with Trump, a coupla weeks later bada boom bada bing.
Why Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children Commissioner
So British curry has outlasted the United States?
We scared off the racist Labour MP talking about luxury hotels for immigrants. Is that good or bad?
Causation is trickier to determine.
Several simple practical things could be done to help Make X Lawful Again - EHRC investigation into the prima facie breach of Equality Act duties, by complaints system routinely protecting criminal content - Ofcom request for info on prior trajectory of jailed users bsky.app/profile/sund...
Also, people *shouldn't* be on a Nazi propaganda site (and most especially, nor should HMG).
Politicians have for decades failed to understand how GPS works and that's why they periodically spend truly stupid amounts of money on studies of GPS for road pricing or tracking whatever is the moral panic of the day (was pedophiles, now is refugees).
"TV detector vans are in your area" but for meat.
This is a tactical, as well as moral, error. Musk is spectacularly unpopular in the UK. There's a chance to take the patriotic high-ground, calling out foreign billionaires stoking up violence in Britain, without being seen to dismiss "ordinary people". And you can challenge Reform to back you.
Reform supporters are unappeasable: they’ll just bank this (if they notice) and climb to the next rung of the ladder of racism.
Prediction: not one of the flag shaggers will hear this or remember it or pay any attention to it or change their attitudes.
One call to Angela Merkel from them is all will take.
X is bad mkay
Wednesday 10th September (next week) - massive strike/standstill day all over the country is on the agenda. If you're in France, avoid public transports etc if you can as everything will be disrupted.
No public appearance from Trump today according to his schedule. His last televised appearance was six days ago.
And obviously everybody around the world wishes the President well.
The USA has screwed up so badly by decimating the US relationship with India because of Trump’s childish, destructive ego, that the state department is now in the process of grovelling. In the end the US will probably cave, as it has with China.
Yvette Copper as HASC chair has said numerous times on the record how important family reunification is. How she has children and it’s what every family would want. The mind boggles at how much of a coward she is now.
The treasury has upgraded from a 1991 copy of Lotus 123 running on a Gateway 2000 to a 2003 copy of Excel running on a Celeron processor powered Torsten Bell
There are a set of actions which aren't cravenly ignoring this rubbish, or having a public fight with Musk. And that's for every single UK public sector body apart from ones with acute public service needs - like the police, initially - to simply stop using X.
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
Keep in mind that when we talk about family reunification routes, they only apply when someone has been granted refugee status. That means this government is saying, "we know you have fled persecution. We know your family remains at risk therefore. We are going to ensure you cannot see them again".
Asked on Sky News about this tweet from Elon Musk, part of a recent stream of far-right messages from the X owner about the UK, education minister Stephen Morgan doesn't directly condemn or contradict it, saying the government "understand people's frustrations across the country" about migration.
As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle
And it will never be enough for the voters they're chasing. Labour are burning their party for a demographic who will always hate them, and further entrenching right-wing radicalisation that might more literally burn us all.
“Well, you see, true removal of human rights has never been tried.”
People who don't routinely read the business/IR press are starting to hear about how big a deal this Trump-Modi thing is www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/b...
It’s an almost pure form of Luddism when artisan slop makers are complaining that unskilled machine-made slop is taking their business.
When I look at different social networks and even communities on them to see what questions, criticisms and reactions are getting lobbed around in response to a story I covered, it's so *incredibly* apparent which platforms have which demographics more and less represented among post-ers.
Someone at the Times could have read the GFA or even used Google to know that the Policy Exchange report is utter rubbish. And in what kind of messed up polity are people engaging in wishful thinking to deprive themselves of rights?
time travel to 2005 and tell yourself that in 20 years, the president is Donald Trump, he's threatening to invade Chicago, no one is 100% sure if he's actually even still alive, and the Governor of Illinois is on the internet asking if we're in a Weekend at Bernies situation.
Still on the EHCR are we? British politics is stuck in a post-Brexit doom loop, addicted to spectacle politics and unable to engage with its actual problems: the sclerotic post-GFC economy that has seen real wages stagnate and increasing inability of government to invest in public services.
Hire a Black woman. We tend to be very good at what we do because we simply are not allowed to be bad at it.
For decades the world's biggest above-ground tank - located 7km from Darwin- has been leaking huge quantities of LNG- possibly the equivalent of millions of tonnes of C02.
universe loading the bases for a walkoff grand slam
As a Gen Xer, I don't think I can articulate how weird it feels to be doing early '80s "Who's the Premier This Week?"-style Russia watching in my own country re: my own government. Comrade Chernenko has a cold.
the internet did deliver on its promise to connect people and spread ideas around the world and unfortunately the ideas that it is best at spreading are conspiratorial and fascist
Again - the reason that the Good Friday Agreement locks in the ECHR is that the UK had repeatedly been held accountable by the European Court of Human Rights for human rights breaches during the Troubles - while national courts had failed to do so, even upholding miscarriages of justice
Israel threatening to formalize its already-existing regime of annexation & apartheid over the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank in response to European recognition of the State of Palestine is the diplomatic the equivalent of “if you fire me from my job, then I will go home and beat my kids.”
This is spot on, and not just with regard to legal reporting. We increasingly live in a world of binary and deeply simplistic thinking. Which means that everything is slowly turned into a us-versus-them question. It is disastrous for reasoned debate.
Well, I suppose that's one way to put it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Looks like an especially shit Marvel movie
I think you just need to open your eyes and watch it happening.
It's remarkable that rhetoric that with any other society would be perceved as language of civil war is now just treated as just one of those routine things in US politics
Ah, Sunday afternoon. The perfect time to slap together the different test cards used during "The Event" sketches from Series 3 & 4 of That Mitchell & Webb Look.
Famously, attacking Corbyn over Salisbury made a bunch of swing voters pro-Russia. Labour people love to go “it’s different this time”, it never is, it’s always just Labour doing what it almost always does. (Losing.)
always good to check the edit history on Twitter as they can sometimes be revealing What Douglas Carswell has written today is awful bad in its final form, but his original tweet was worse He's not correcting a typo "From Epping to the sea, let's make England immigrant free" just showed his hand
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![Douglas Carswell @DouglasCarswell From Epping to the sea, let's make England immigrant free [Quote tweet] @GBPolitics *NEW: Epping locals vow to stop paying council tax after the High Court ruled that asylum seekers can stay in a hotel [@DailyMail] 1:25 PM Aug 31, 2025 509 Views There's a new version of this post. See the latest post](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2kf2qj56o2vq7jfaq4x4ogp6/bafkreihz7cel6hmysoidvh5whqaenwplsnan2nabdaega3dc6rmdzunree@jpeg "Click to view full size")
"Why wouldn't you want the President of the United States to flood the streets of your city with soldiers to very temporarily and completely unsustainably suppress all human activity, including crime? I am a very serious journalist."