They seem to be attracting the anti-abortion / Christo-fascist element
Looking on in mounting horror
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They seem to be attracting the anti-abortion / Christo-fascist element
Wasn't she under investigation?
Reform's polling isn't moving either. They've topped out at 30% - only 9 points ahead at this stage under the current circumstances doesn't seem that much given the hype they are getting. Any proper scrutiny should see at least 10% lopped off that.
What Happened to Labour's 2024 Voters? Using the recent wave of the @britishelectionstudy.com I look at people who voted Labour in 2024: - How many are still with the party? - How many have left? - Why might that be? TLDR: they've left because of economic issues/concerns, probably.
I'm now thinking of that MI6 bloke who was found folded up in a zipped up bag and they concluded he put himself in there. Cosy.
Still only a single digit lead
I think Your Party will succeed in putting up some Palestine flags on some UK allotments.
The famous 'Rivers of Piss' protest
Seveneves is an odd book. The first half is absolutely incredible sci fi but the second half is just weird and not in a good way.
On some dark days I might imagine punching some fascists lights out but that’s really not how I roll. Laughing at them is always better
The WSJ owes the trans community a massive apology and it needs to be front page in the biggest font possible.
I’m on board
They should invent a logging on that immediately catapults you out of the front door
A shiv in the shower awaits
There wasn't anywhere near this level of scrutiny when he was appointed.
I hope he makes it to trial.
This has made me feel happy and a bit sad at the same time. Weird.
Facts are facts: Right-wing extremists account for the overwhelming majority of extremist-linked deaths in America.
Yes, this professionally carried out killing is opening up opportunities all over the shop and the timing was incredibly convenient.
Maybe they hired him because he was friends with a pedo?
Trump "Hey, where's Mandy?" Starmer: "I had to fire him for lying about his association with a child rapist.....would you like some more tea?"
Every photo of Patel has taken him by surprise
There's a bar?
Has she ever made a film that wasn't a banger?
What Kim Darroch up to these days?
No one has been caught and yet American conservatives know exactly who did it and why. It feels like it's being used as a pretext for something, something really bad.
Binning him off just before the state visit might be decent shade in an otherwise massive fucking shitshow
It'll be a nice coded message to Trump
Axes and horses together just makes me think of the Godfather
The fact that he carried on dealing with him after he was convicted makes my blood boil.
I'm slightly miffed GoGo Penguin didn't get a nod this year - a superb album. CMAT for the win.
This needs qualifying as to whether or not the respondents think it's a good thing or not.
Can we also use the term 'brexiter' rather than 'brexiteer'? Let's not give them any thoroughly undeserved hint of adventurousness.
Brexiter is a plastic patriot? I can't believe it
How much of their post conference polling dip was down to announcing Nadine Dorries as a marquee signing? I was under the impression Reform voters despise Johnson for botching brexit and massively increasing immigration. Becoming a repository for failed Tories is not what Reform voters want, is it?
It's not meant to end. The right's grievance machine needs constant fuel or it turns on itself. Immigration is low hanging fruit.
If anyone at a work meeting asks “any questions?” I occasionally reply “how do I get out of this chickenshit outfit?” It goes down really nicely.
Donald Quixote
Nature abhors a vacuum
Labour are flailing about trying to 'head off' Reform when all they really needed to do is ignore them at let them head themselves off.
As soon as they open their mouths they display their unfitness for government. And I doubt hitching their wagon to MAGA so emphatically was such a great idea.
Oh, I think they have decided to hide it too.
I'm sure someone is hiring a JCB as I type this
Not deliberately going against the grain here but didn't a Banksy mural get stolen in London recently? And by stolen I mean literally hacked out of the wall and carried away.
Crack is a powerful drug
I’m sure any scrutiny of their economic policies will be by a panel of experts including Oakeshott and someone from Tufton Street
I just listened to a BBC6 music news bulletin gushing about how slick and professional their conference is this year. Still only polling around 30% though.
The most important news from today's reshuffle:
Every Tory horror show failure joining Reform will be a boost for parties that offer policies and people that actually connect.
How is anyone going to take them seriously when all Reform is now are the worst Tories and a bunch of conspiracy theorists?
Minister for lambrini
I remember as a kid being at the zoo and a hippo deployed the shit paddle and pebble dashed the lot of us. Good times.
Stop pretending these guys are normal and do your bloody jobs properly
Ripley: How many rodeos is this for you, Lieutenant? Gorman: Thirty eight... simulated. Vasquez: How many *combat* rodeos? Gorman: Uh, two. Including this one. Drake: Shit.
Maybe now we can find out what conveyancers actually do that takes that much time and money
He was fireplace salesman of the year.
There's an awful lot of it about
This is properly mental.
This is the delivery I voted for.
It’s fucking mental that this is the photo they have released to prove he’s ok.
Why doesn’t he just plan to fuck off?
Why do we always buy the lie that technology will somehow make us all into creatures of leisure? We are more likely to be inserted into the Matrix than live in The Culture
Curry didn't originate in Britain but neither did Morris dancing or Christianity.
The other day I heard a BBC news bulletin that didn’t mention immigration once and was generally quite positive.
But now, instead of billionaires with their own space programmes being taken out, Bond can now be deployed against the real evil of organised labour in fulfilment centres
I just listened to a BBC news bulletin that didn’t mention immigration once. Astonishing.
I’m just going to pop this fizzy wine in the fridge just in case.
In space no one can hear you in space
A conversation with an anti immigration fanatic revealed to me that they believe being in supranational organisations like the ECHR means 100s of millions of people could migrate to the UK at any time. These people want to nail the windows and doors shut whatever the cost. That’s the mentality of it
'crime crackdown' put down the Kool-Aid
One high ranking General has already tried to make the point that they swore allegiance to the constitution.
The main ideological underpinning of Trump's second term is the Heritage Foundation. They are the architects of project 2025. Who would they back?
It was only the other day people were talking about how it might end for Putin and everyone had the same thought of Beria's execution in Death of Stalin
It's really half-arsed. Just whole-arse it if you are going to do it, Trump
So 23% strongly approve. There is always around about 20% of a population that would vote for Cthulhu if they could.
It's the same answer I give when people ask me "why do you fart into jars?"
Has it got a strap?
Getting some nice 'Shining' and 'Omen' vibes from the girl top left.
Disappointing that it's only 40%
The Overton Window is disappearing over the horizon
If it's too difficult politically for Starmer to do it himself why doesn't he let the 'powerful' pro-EU back bench group off the leash as a stalking horse? Let them make the case. And why are the Lib Dems not ruthlessly exploiting this more? Is there reluctance in the media to platform a challenge?
This has shot to no. 1 in my favourite Raphael Behr articles. It's really past time for the gloves to come off about brexit and Farage to have his nose rubbed in his mess. Labour needs to do far more as do the Lib Dems but the media are also seemingly reluctant to ask him difficult questions.
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It's odd seeing Forbes articles pop up on my discovery feed. Acting like everything happening in America is perfectly normal.
Is he playing China at Uno?
My wife 'doesn't like sci fi' but loved the Murderbot Diaries. She also tried GOT and liked it until they killed Sean Bean. I did point out to her that's what normally happens to Sean Bean.
Hear me out, this could be conspiracy theory territory but could the move to boats be a deliberate ploy to make the crisis more 'visible'? We know Putin has form in weaponising migrant crises and has links to people smuggling gangs. Could he have seen brexit as an opportunity to destabilise the UK?
When people say “I’m not racist I just have different opinions to you”. This is one of those opinions.
If I hadn't passed my A-levels and got into university I wouldn't have met my wife.
I saw them at Glastonbury 2007 and they were easily one of the best acts there.
Tuesday the 19th was the fourth consecutive day of no small boat arrivals according to the Home Office
Proper 'they throw you in jail if you say you're British' vibes.
I meant the BBC6 music presenters
It's funny because it's true
It makes you wonder what the presenters make of it given the openly progressive views some of them have.
I think that ship sailed a long time ago.
The BBC used to have a superb film review show on Radio 5 with Simon Mayo and Mark Kermode. That went with nothing to replace it. It's not easy to find critics you can trust