god I hate this I hate this I hate it I hate it, I hate that the mainstream right has gone this mad and racist and radicalised, I hate that no one seems to know how to stop it from getting worse, it worries me so much and I hate it all
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Interesting what comes up when one googles Pearson 😑
aug 23, 2025, 10:41 am • 0 0 • view
They've let the far right genies out of their bottles. Lager bottles presumably. Good luck with their new world order, because most of them seem to be as thick as mince.
aug 23, 2025, 9:18 pm • 3 0 • view
"I was Starmer's political prisoner..." I doubt that Starmer has the first idea of who she is. Oh the Getalarf will publish any old right wing bollox. Has done for years.
aug 22, 2025, 10:08 pm • 1 0 • view
Was just saying the same! I find it terrifying that we seem to be hurtling towards this hideous destination and there is virtually no push back from the government or the media.
aug 22, 2025, 11:01 pm • 4 0 • view
Is there a PREVENT referral? Will social services be involved? She's still on probation- what will they do? 2 weeks and she'll be GB news host. Media holding her up like an idol. Its the new BGT.
aug 22, 2025, 9:35 pm • 16 0 • view
It’s incredibly depressing
aug 23, 2025, 10:18 pm • 2 0 • view
As some who studies both US and UK political media, I feel like the US is about 5 years ahead of us in terms of insanity but we are quickly catching up. I think coverage of our next GE is going to really test people's sanity.
aug 22, 2025, 9:31 pm • 22 2 • view
youtu.be/Ad_GnFcUcDs In 1961, American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell and his “Hate Bus” targeted the Freedom Riders and desegregation. This AAHIAH episode exposes how his racism fueled America’s past—and still haunts our present.
aug 23, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
aug 22, 2025, 9:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Hateful people interviewing hateful people for hateful people
aug 23, 2025, 12:34 am • 9 0 • view
She is a self confessed convicted violent criminal. The judicial system, including the court of appeal, had no doubt of her guilt. That's the story.
aug 22, 2025, 10:10 pm • 4 1 • view
aug 23, 2025, 6:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you. Fighting the continual temptation to normalise the once unthinkable, because one can't really believe it's as bad as it is, just drains one's capacity to remember this simply isn't right. Sometimes we need someone to get really mad about it all and remind us we need to fight back. But ...
aug 22, 2025, 9:47 pm • 5 0 • view
I completely agree. There is very little counter-voice save on here. The country has gone nuts and Labour has completely acquiesced.
aug 22, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh it’s all a bit and very much awful. Following in the “OGWN” model - have you watched Fisk on Netflix? Lighthearted Australian comedy about probate lawyers. Saved me this week.
aug 22, 2025, 9:33 pm • 17 0 • view
I recommended it on “escape routes” about a year ago! 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
aug 22, 2025, 10:37 pm • 4 0 • view
New series just came out!
aug 22, 2025, 10:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Brill! That’s my Saturday evening sorted.
aug 22, 2025, 11:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Watches the first ep earlier. Still just as good
aug 22, 2025, 11:13 pm • 2 0 • view
Fisk is such a giggle and a terrific antidote to this tsunami of crap
aug 23, 2025, 5:03 pm • 1 0 • view
I love her persistence with the brown trouser suits and George “The Webmaster” is a delight!
aug 23, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
We all hate it. Do we all hate it enough to act together and vote tactically in 2029 to keep the fascists out of power? Or will Starmer something something hand the keys of number 10 to a monster?
aug 23, 2025, 7:22 am • 0 0 • view
They know how to stop them (stop giving platforms in their papers, and shows, proper scrutiny of their lies, stop pandering to them politically), but it seems they don't *want* to. Which is must worse
aug 23, 2025, 6:53 am • 2 0 • view
From the picture it looks like she is living in more comfort than the poor people she wanted to burn out.
aug 22, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
‘Political prisoner’ ? Vomit worthy that the grifting bitch is making money out of this .
aug 23, 2025, 9:30 am • 3 0 • view
Yeah it’s so unheard of for people being arrested for saying something onli…. Oh
aug 23, 2025, 12:05 am • 3 0 • view
Yup, we are all fucked, forever, probably.
aug 22, 2025, 9:54 pm • 0 0 • view
aug 23, 2025, 9:35 am • 5 1 • view
You’re not alone - all consuming stuff. Send help. Hurry 😡🤮
aug 23, 2025, 6:45 am • 0 0 • view
The Telegraph is fucking awful, and Allison fucking Pearson is even worse.
aug 23, 2025, 7:26 am • 1 0 • view
And Badenock's reaction completely disregards the British justice system. The leader of the CONSRVATIVE party.
aug 22, 2025, 9:31 pm • 9 1 • view
"Starmer's political prisoner" ......she pleeded friggin' guilty!?! Has anybody published an analysis of the political objectives of The Telegraph, The Times, The Express and The Mail? What do they hope to gain by continually publishing this sh1t?!?
aug 23, 2025, 10:11 am • 3 0 • view
The BBC article on this is appalling, claiming she was imprisoned for calling for mass deportations, not a fucking pogrom. When your national broadcaster is part of the problem, it’s hard not to be pessimistic.
aug 23, 2025, 5:58 am • 5 0 • view
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aug 23, 2025, 6:14 am • 0 0 • view
The entire right, from the Conservatives through to Tommy Robinson and beyond, are travelling on the same hate train now. They're off the leash. They feel like they can say and do whatever they want with impunity. Has a single Tory MP expressed even mild reservations about their direction of travel?
aug 22, 2025, 11:09 pm • 10 0 • view
I knew I liked you Marie, I hate it too. I don’t want to hate, but they drag you into their small, vindictive world. And I hate that too.
aug 22, 2025, 11:27 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree — the bloody Telegraph/Pearson — ‘political prisoner’ - give me strength 🤦🏻♂️ She pleaded guilty for fucks sake Madness
aug 22, 2025, 9:59 pm • 7 0 • view
Ditto.
aug 23, 2025, 9:35 am • 3 0 • view
Correcting inequality is the only way to stop populists winning. The only way. You cannot just counter the use of scapegoats no matter how overtly racist with logic and debate. This is about emotion. Fear, hopelessness and loss of pride and purpose. Hope is critical.
aug 23, 2025, 9:52 am • 5 1 • view
Just been listening to Gordon Brown’s chapter/s on this in Seven ways to change the world and on this I think he’s right. Education and jobs and a sense of belonging that does not need to be jingoistic. Decline and inequality is why we’re here and it’s no accident.
aug 23, 2025, 9:52 am • 2 0 • view
You are 💯 correct!! 🎯 Throughout the 20th century, as night follows day, there's a rise in Right-Wing Populism, Nationalism, Fascism & Racism following an economic downturn (e.g. 1930s Great Depression & Nazism). Why are we, as a species, doomed never to learn from history? 😩
aug 23, 2025, 6:14 pm • 1 0 • view
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aug 23, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
"Political prisoner" is very specific language that I believe was also used by the US J6 seditionaries.
aug 22, 2025, 9:37 pm • 5 0 • view
I couldn't agree more. Was just wondering how to say the same thing after seeing this and hearing Farage's hate filled 'policy' (including taking us out of the ECHR) given second billing in radio 4 and 5 headlines with no critique. I have complained so many times with zero result. Powerless is right
aug 23, 2025, 9:35 am • 3 0 • view
100% she pled guilty of a vile crime and is now a hero?
aug 22, 2025, 10:31 pm • 0 0 • view
And our government seems to think that pandering to these people rather than calling them out is going to help
aug 23, 2025, 10:03 am • 2 0 • view
Our media are pushing for a far right government. We need to figure out a way around this. Facts don't matter, internet lies and conspiracy theories appeal to emotion not reasoning.
aug 23, 2025, 9:57 am • 2 0 • view
Pondering how close that vile human is to breaking her parole terms Aren’t you supposed to show that you’re rehabilitated?
aug 23, 2025, 8:38 am • 2 0 • view
To be honest, I don't think she's in breach of Licence conditions. I work in the Criminal Justice System. There'll be things about compliance with Probation appointments, possible Electronically-Monitored Curfew,.....
aug 23, 2025, 5:59 pm • 0 0 • view
...permission to travel abroad, notifying Probation about a change of address, etc. Doubt there'll be a Licence condition about not giving media interviews. It'll be interesting, as Connolly will have to engage in Offending Behaviour sessions. She admitted guilt & now denies it. Very problematic 💁🏾♂️
aug 23, 2025, 5:59 pm • 2 0 • view
I bow to your greater knowledge, of course I was referring to what she is saying as opposed to whether she’s giving interviews Remorse? 🧐
aug 24, 2025, 7:38 am • 0 0 • view
She was imprisoned for the sole reason of being a racist arsehole.its disgusting!
aug 23, 2025, 6:57 pm • 0 0 • view
Let it not be forgotten that in The Tweet she does say "If that makes me racist, so be it."
aug 22, 2025, 9:36 pm • 9 0 • view
Yup. You are racist. Happy with that?
aug 22, 2025, 10:59 pm • 2 0 • view
What a piece of scum.
aug 23, 2025, 9:25 am • 0 0 • view
Would you accept a hug from a well-meaning ordinary?
aug 23, 2025, 5:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Sorry, but they've always been mad, racist and radicalised. Now, they're not afraid to say so in public. I remember young Tories saying this kind of fascist shit at Uni in the 80s. Privileged kids echoing the "lower-class" NF morons I met growing up. Now they run the media, Tory Party, etc.
aug 23, 2025, 12:52 pm • 4 0 • view
💯%!!! ☝🏾 Check out the history of the Monday Club, which for a considerable part of its modern history, was affiliated with the Conservative Party. It's members harboured Far Right views. The Brexit vote gave bigots, racists & xenophobes permission to be vocal 😡 en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_...
aug 23, 2025, 5:49 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh Marie! I hate it too. I'm not reading the article (paywall), but can imagine. So my response is: She encouraged people to kill refugees. She pleaded guilty to this. The law under which she was convicted was introduced by a Thatcher government. Starmer was not involved in the case at all.
aug 22, 2025, 11:33 pm • 12 0 • view
Is the telegraph still mainstream though?
aug 22, 2025, 9:30 pm • 4 0 • view
aug 23, 2025, 5:40 pm • 1 0 • view
We are quickly descending into the same madness that is consuming the USA right now. British people need to wake up.
aug 23, 2025, 9:32 am • 4 1 • view
The US, where people who formented insurrection are pardoned, and tanks are on the streets of the capital. If we're not very careful, this will be our reality.
aug 23, 2025, 10:31 am • 2 0 • view
She's a political pawn. Someone needs to step in to stop the grooming! SHE PLEADED GUILTY
aug 22, 2025, 9:43 pm • 1 0 • view
This is disgusting from The Torygraph. It's turned into a far right rag. Treating a racist convict as a hero of free speech. Absolute bollocks. What's happening to my country?
aug 22, 2025, 10:00 pm • 17 0 • view
Me too! I find it scary, especially as so many are so easily taken in by it.
aug 22, 2025, 9:47 pm • 6 0 • view
No. You were convicted of inciting violence. There is nothing 'political' about that.
aug 22, 2025, 11:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Weird country these days.
aug 22, 2025, 10:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Every time I see that picture it reminds me of Julie Burchell, which doesn't help.
aug 23, 2025, 4:43 pm • 1 0 • view
Connolly said ‘set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and politicians with them’. I guess she might feel differently if someone threatened her or her family in the same way. No, not a political prisoner.
aug 23, 2025, 9:39 am • 4 0 • view
Agreed. This bootfaced queue-jumping kid-bullying biffer painting herself as some kind of martyr is just gross.
aug 22, 2025, 11:02 pm • 1 0 • view
Agree. And all that vitriol published in the RW MSM. Hate speech platformed.
aug 23, 2025, 10:04 am • 0 0 • view
We need a massive march to show the far right and their media enablers that they are in the minority and that the country is better than this.
aug 22, 2025, 9:56 pm • 2 0 • view
During the worst, most cynical years of PiS’s democratic backsliding in Poland, I used to meet each month with a journalist friend just to unburden ourselves of how dispirited and worn down we felt. I know exactly the emotions that went into this post.
aug 22, 2025, 9:35 pm • 41 1 • view
I think the powerlessness is the worst of it, it's maddening
aug 22, 2025, 9:38 pm • 40 0 • view
The traditional media have teamed up with social media algorithms to make only one viewpoint, only one philosophy, one party, legitimate and authentic. The rest of us, the 60-80% of us, have been told we don’t matter
aug 23, 2025, 12:24 am • 1 0 • view
And now I have to read vacuous articles by supposed liberals exhorting me to go back into a pit of viciousness which is still for all I know populated by the same people who spent eight years telling me to fuck off back to England. For the good of pluralistic debate, you understand.
aug 22, 2025, 9:47 pm • 14 0 • view
The worst was not so much the powerlessness itself as the way that powerlessness was enforced through a deliberate, relentless, ostentatious erosion of anything resembling good faith.
aug 22, 2025, 10:03 pm • 18 1 • view
I was broken by the news that the housing bill had dropped any mention of Section 21. I know it's going after the wrong end of the wedge but it just meant there's no hope coming from *anywhere*.
aug 23, 2025, 12:54 am • 1 0 • view
I'm the kind of person who rescues wasps from swimming pools, but I'm really struggling to think of a strategy which isn't "kill all the bad people". Or on a good day "trick them into killing themselves"
aug 22, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Are there no left wing media barons? Why are they all right wing nutters? Looks like our £5 a month podcasts aren't winning the war kids, we need a rethink.
aug 22, 2025, 9:46 pm • 4 0 • view
I'm very much of a mind that if you are the type to amass enough cash to be a media baron you are unlikely to be the type to have any empathy for the suffering of others and so unlikely to be anything other than a raging fascist in outlook. So left wing media barons can't exist. We're on our own.
aug 22, 2025, 10:34 pm • 5 0 • view
We're screwed then. Wonder what (insert favourite podcaster) has to say about it? Narrator:- Why don't you get off your arse and actually try to do something.. Us :- I've stopped using X Fartage:- Open the camps
aug 23, 2025, 6:52 am • 1 0 • view
£5? Bit steep.
aug 22, 2025, 9:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Start by calling it what it is. Not big fancy phrases ethnonationalism , populism which no voter understands or references to Nazis which are fatuous. Hate politics will do. Every time I see a Reform or extreme right Tory or a DTel article puffing Ms C just add adjective “hate” so it becomes normal
aug 23, 2025, 8:56 am • 1 1 • view
It's a simple fact to understand. Mainstream media do not want a labour government. They will produce headline lies every single day to bring them down with no remorse.
aug 24, 2025, 7:27 am • 1 0 • view
She is meeting up with Trump's people next. But, that is democracy and a free society. Trump or Vance will declare that this shows there is no free speech in the UK while ignoring the fact that she is totally free to spout lies and talk to them. We are aslo free to laugh at them. I suggest you do.
aug 23, 2025, 12:15 pm • 1 0 • view
Several papers stopped reporting circulation figures about 2020. The Mail, bizarrely continuing to advertise its failure, has halved since then to about 650 thousand. Telegraph was down to 360 thousand in 2019 and if halved since then ..... Fewer and fewer people read newspapers. Any consolation?
aug 23, 2025, 12:06 am • 1 0 • view
To this I will add that I now f*ckin hate the BBC
aug 29, 2025, 8:21 am • 0 0 • view
You’re not alone
aug 23, 2025, 6:48 am • 1 0 • view
That perfectly describes how I feel about the UK right now. 😞
aug 23, 2025, 6:11 am • 0 0 • view
I’m trying to find consolation in knowing there are many of us who feel the same. Lucy Connelly is a pawn but doesn’t realise it. She’ll have her licence revoked if she’s not careful. The media using her don’t care a fig about her. She’s expendable but useful to their narrative at the moment.
aug 22, 2025, 9:59 pm • 7 0 • view
Me too. We have to understand that they are messing with people’s heads. Deliberately, doggedly. Creating confusion, fear. Enjoying, loudly,our grief at the loss of truthfulness, decency, tolerance. t’s like a sport to them, but with the huge prize of domination of all opposition. Solidarity.
aug 28, 2025, 7:10 am • 1 0 • view
Also even if you set aside the mad right wing stuff.... This is an absolutely terrible way to do journalism? Think GB News has totally normalised the idea that you can essentially be interviewed by your fan club.
aug 22, 2025, 9:34 pm • 47 0 • view
And dhe was released on the 'Early Release Scheme' that they bemoan every other day of the week. Pearson had nothing to do with it
aug 22, 2025, 9:56 pm • 30 0 • view
The Right have essentially given up - the are frothing rage machines from 28 days later Https://bsky.app/profile/tadaaa.bsky.social/post/3lwew3bmpy22n
aug 23, 2025, 7:08 am • 3 0 • view
These words - exactly how I feel, Marie. And the fact that my old profession - in which you are now engaged I see - has been corrupted so thoroughly to be playing a complicit role adds to the rage.
aug 23, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
For a start we need to stop normalising "extreme right" like it was some standard part of the political spectrum and go back to calling them racist arseholes.
aug 22, 2025, 10:42 pm • 1 0 • view
Its absolutely now damage limitation for 2029. I’m afraid we have to brace for at least 5 years of chaos, hate and grifting corruption. It’s a certainty.
aug 22, 2025, 9:41 pm • 0 0 • view
Alison Pearson is like a poison in the body politic.
aug 22, 2025, 10:05 pm • 5 0 • view
But did you really expect any better of the Torygraph?
aug 23, 2025, 7:49 am • 0 0 • view
That's not true. We do know from history how to stop something like this. It's been done before, by the Allies of World War II. By the Union Army in America. And as uncomfortable as that may make progressives in the western world, who have only ever known peace, that is the answer.
aug 22, 2025, 11:57 pm • 0 0 • view
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aug 23, 2025, 7:38 am • 1 0 • view
It really is just cunts all the way down isn’t it?
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