There's still a little way to go uphill in the background?
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There's still a little way to go uphill in the background?
Next time take the bottle with you when you fill the glass the first time?
You can absolutely guarantee that Labour's conference is going to include the most unhinged anti-asylum, anti-immigration rhetoric and promises of the type you would more likely to associate with Reform, all couched as "progressive" and "mainstream".
Deep sigh... Okay, for those at the back who missed out on the whole fact that asylum seekers and other migrants already have arduous ID checks, or that, by the very nature of people being undocumented additional, id's are irrelevant in this context. 1/3 www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/star...
Apropos of nothing in particular.
TL;DR A plea for @ofcom.bsky.social to address some difficult but basic questions of scope and compliance responsibility in the #OnlineSafetyAct.
Far-right thugs are so desperate to prove their ‘patriotism’ that they’ll risk innocent lives just to make a point. Under section 132 of the Highways Act 1980, it’s an offence to affix items (like flags) to lamp-posts or other structures on the highway without permission
Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.
Disney+ running a “last chance to save 10%” offer over on British Facebook. The entire comments feed is about Jimmy Kimmel. I’ve no idea how the numbers will shake out. But if even Brits are raging about this and cancelling subs, that doesn’t bode overly well.
Reform councillor suspended for alleged PM threats www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
👏👏 Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock has told Sir Keir Starmer it is “time to look at rejoining” the EU to ease the country’s economic woes and get a grip on small boat crisis. Kinnock, led Labour 1983 to 1992, said UK could no longer afford the “huge self-inflicted losses” created by leaving EU
Splitter!
In the eighteenth century the rise of literacy precipitated the greatest transfer of knowledge into the hands of ordinary men and women in history and helped to destroy the old feudal order in Europe. As literacy recedes a neo-feudal future looms. substack.com/home/post/p-...
Power is the rock on which truth founders. The mainstream media, with a few exceptions, is a single-issue lobby group, whose purpose is to assert the rights of capital. Here's what I've learnt about the industry in 40 years in journalism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
German TV comedy “Heute Show” relentlessly taking the piss out of Trump. No-one has been fired yet
This was not, of course, the case made by the Leave side - who dismissed any arguments about the potential negative impact of Brexit as "Project Fear".
I think he means Brexit was worth it even though it made OTHER people poorer. Twat.
The whole WhatsApp saga would have never been mentioned in their perfect world.
“The Pentagon told journalists that if the conduct themselves as real journalists their WH journalist credentials will be revoked. Only propagandists welcome in the WH. Beginning to look as if retaining WH press credentials will be a mark of shame
Anybody ask her why Mone and Lebedev are still there then?
...and memes are the last refuge of the lazy
To bastardise an Asimov quote: 'swearing is the last refuge of the incompetent'...
Misinformation about people seeking asylum has become so embedded facts are treated as false because they "don't match public perception". It's crucial it isn't repeated as if it's acceptable because it's "what some people believe" An opinion means nothing when it's based on false information.
In the USA this is satire, in the UK it's Your Party. theonion.com/left-wing-gr...
(art by @guido-kuehn.bsky.social) —————— You can't practice free speech when your mouth's full. #Kimmel
Please, for God's sake, put aside petty differences and practice some solidarity. We desperately need coherent and effective alternatives.
Reform suspends councillor who allegedly posted comments about killing the prime minister www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
ABC = Always Be Cowardly?
People say there is no difference between the Tories and Labour. There plenty - but not enough I just wish Starmer was as ruthless with the hard right wing placemen in Ofcom, the BBC and other captured quangos and regulators as it is with its own (soft) left wing
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon being deported twice in 24 hours - first from Colombia, then from Panama - because he’s deemed a national security threat, just a week after he led a march calling for migrants to be deported, is the kind of schadenfreude we can all savour.
Scottish branches of 'Your Party' write to Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana demanding some "transparency and respect" from their co-leaders. "We must all deescalate, work together, and reject temptations to intensify hostility... [so] the worst caricatures of the left can be overcome"
What use are credentials in the first place if you can only print what the Govt tells you?
this is the actual attack on free speech that can be seen from outer space www.ft.com/content/41cc...
Windsor Castle Tuesday night. Four of us arrested for 'malicious communications'. Now released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8V4...
Why?
Superb…
Who the f**k is Sid?
Replace him with Laurence Fox and it might work. Series 2 should be Katie Hopkins...
' Now they're drowning us in butter! It's mass spudicide!!' And I don't even want to know what lengths you went to in order to get that gravy thick enough to slice.
'What lucky potatoes we are to be chosen... wait, what's happening...that sharp knife is getting rather close... ARRRGGHHH!!! GURGLE... ... thank God that's over with... Wait, what's that thing coming down over Bob??? MY GOD! THEY SMASHED BOB! OH NO! NOW THEY'RE COMING FOR CHARLIE!!'
Lord Peter Mandelson did not disclose in the House of Commons register two flights he took at Jeffrey Epstein’s expense in 2003 worth a total of $7,486, raising further questions about their relationship. www.ft.com/content/4cf6...
Anyway, shouldn't that be 'If you haven't drunk something strong enough to hallucinate you can see your great-great grandmother in the graveyard telling you 'you really feel it when they cremate you! It hurts! Warn everybody!!!', I don't even want to know you.'
That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.
Absinthe for teh win!
I know people won’t like this, but Corbyn had his time. In some ways it was a glorious time, and one that the Labour left never expected, but it failed, and that time has passed. Time to move on.
If I were there I'd be very tempted to ask 'You demanded Obama release his birth certificate to prove he's American, why shouldn't the public now demand you release the Epstein files to prove you're not a pedophile?'
Maybe it's just the dementia talking...
As I wrote last week: there are age verification providers who have already built the racial profiling and discrimination modules to plug into their offerings the minute they legally can. internet.exchangepoint.tech/the-dog-that...
The entire artistic workforce of Disney should walk. Now. Imagine how good their output will be run entirely by MAGA. Have they even SEEN ‘Good Morning Vietnam???’
🟢 @zackpolanski.bsky.social on current British politics... ❌ "Brexit has caused a complete disaster where we have lost a lot of our relationship with our European neighbours. We need closer relationships with our neighbours" "How do I see the country? I think we are deeply divided, deeply unequal"
Picture this, Britain with Farage in no 10.
Might make them a little more agreeable next time there's something to be decided. They'll agree to anything just to avoid an offsite meeting at your place.
('cheap bastard couldn't even give us a decent wine!')
Cue the screams of shock from outside as you see one of your colleagues literally rocketing past your front window being propelled along by a stream of something... umm... unpleasant. They'll start worrying every time you invite them round for another drink and will never want to come again...
Invite the idiots around for a friendly drink. Get the cheapest wine imaginable. Spike their paint-stripper style wine with industrial strength laxatives that only really take effect once they've left? Less wine for you but also more spare time?
Martin Daubney proving that there really is a lower tier in life than being a former Loaded editor.
Democracies don't have some god-given right to prevail. Great nations can descend into autocracy, and more - throughout history - great civilisations have been known to crumble practically overnight. 80 years of peace and relative prosperity have lulled millions into believing it all immutable.
It is like a cruel but accurate joke someone made up about the left: "Two Corbynites walk into a pub and fall out over the definition of Corbynism. One of them was Corbyn." Just join the Greens, Zarah. You will be so much happier.
Pyongyang-style
They’re betting everything on “this time even tougher than ever we promise” on immigration to save Starmer. I’d say brace for a proper BNP-style conference speech.
Take a breath. Look behind the hostile headlines. What this government is on the verge of doing is to expand this one-in-one-out deal into, essentially, a safe and legal route from France. It is - and has always been - the only solution to dangerous crossings and what has been needed for years.
And a happy #WhyArentYouDeadYet right back at you
Too often people like me go to the dialysis clinic for dialysis.
Reform UK's Councillor Jaymey McIvor, #Ongar and Head of Local Government has just been called out in full Essex Council for sending photos of his private parts to people and not paying back his bounceback loan. Reform UK's 'vetting' process takes a battering too.
the New Yorker on Jimmy Kimmel
Second only to ‘Womble of Death’.
Called ‘Minty’ but any chance? So it’s lamb for the top table and it’s mum for everybody else?
They will cut a great road through the law if they get into power Zia Yusuf "Lawyers have done as much damage to this great country as politicians over the last couple of decades. A Reform government will change the laws to neutralise their poisonous attacks on the interests of British people."
This is a great cover.
Reform's contempt for the rule of law is very obvious
@support.bsky.team auto play was re-enabled without my consent or any action being taken by me. Why?
"In the span of three days, Disney won five Emmys for Andor (a show about resisting fascism) and then suspended Jimmy Kimmel (for resisting fascism)." – @case.murphy #uspoli #fascism
An excuse for a trip back there to get a replacement?
Cowards www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...
Feck Nationwide www.theguardian.com/business/202...
This is misinformation, pure and simple, from Shabana Mahmood. To grant the injunction the judge had to decide whether the claim was vexatious and he decided that it wasn't. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
I hear he goes through therapists at a rate of knots. They all end up giving up, and their reports invariably contain a lot of uppercase text and exclamation marks.
Designating non-existent organisations. This is Emperor’s New Clothes territory. Again.
The people responsible have apparently been arrested under the Malicious Communications Act. I just hope others have more projectors lined up and ready to use.
Starmer at that press conference, giving every impression of a nervous chipmunk sitting next to an alligator that's just swallowed a hand grenade.
To even allow the appearance of this — Starmer’s No 10 adopting Trumpian media management policies — seems extraordinary to me. Very depressing.
Look who came with
New blog post: PSA: The video game crash was not worldwide reverttosaved.com/2025/09/18/p...
Just like he bet on Mandelson, is continuing to bet on McSweeney, and on a health secretary that's received hundreds of thousands of pounds from organisations linked to private health? It's almost as if there's a pattern emerging here when in comes to Starmer's judgement.
We should have been working to disentangle ourselves from the U.S. from day one.
Right, that’s it. I’m done.
Tax accounting: the 3rd oldest profession?
Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.
Again. I here the firefighters refuse to bother turning up these days. Something about the sheer futility of it all. Something @wulfhelm.bsky.social ought to be familiar with…
At least he could bake a cake without burning it.
Via 'Everyone Hates Elon' campaign today: An advertising van displaying a photo of Donald Trump with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been "confiscated by police after travelling around Windsor as the President stays with the King at Windsor Castle." (Latter pics are video stills - vid was too big)
*Unless it is Cameron being replaced by May, May being replaced by Johnson, Johnson being replaced by Truss, or Truss being replaced by Sunak. It is only if Starmer goes. Absolute. Charlton. Hypocrite. Imbecile.
Well said, @jamesomalley.co.uk "The more we allow racist intimidation to become normal, the harder it becomes to return to a society where racism is considered beyond the pale." open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
NEW: A FOIA doc obtained by the @brennancenter.org shows a misconfigured DHS platform left sensitive natsec intel—including info about surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of unauthorized users. @agreenberg.bsky.social has the scoop. (No paywall bc FOIA) www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-...
Spot on @privateeyenews.bsky.social !
Keep wondering when Lord Glasman will defect to Reform, but actually wonder if he'd go all the way to the furthest right. He is certainly an ongoing embarrassment to any idea of a progressive Labour Party.
Kemi Badenoch's refusal to even mildly criticise a convicted far-right criminal and his billionaire mate, openly calling for violence on our streets, tells you everything you need to know about her leadership
*groan* I see what you did there...
as a free speech champion, Trump will hate these arrests www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
