She's more the Doctor What?, or maybe the Doctor Why?
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She's more the Doctor What?, or maybe the Doctor Why?
Won't riot about Water Companies, cost £16bn a year Won't riot about Banks, steal £82bn a year. Won't riot about Supermarkets, take £20bn a year, 4x in 3 years. Won't riot about Energy Companies, stealing £130bn a year. Will riot about Asylum Seekers, cost less than £3bn a year.
This is why ‘staying to fight’ on X is a flawed argument. It’s a stacked deck, you can’t win.
Starmer could have said: Vandalism isn't patriotism; daubing red crosses on Chinese takeaways and writing racist graffiti isn't patriotism; perfomatively sitting in front of a flag or tying one to a mosque isn't patriotism; Patriotism is about making this country safe, happy productive for all.
FGS, does he not realise how sad, pathetic and desperate this looks? No-one normal "always sits in front of" a flag, no-one normal is going to be remotely impressed by this – and none of the flag shaggers will be either because it's so clearly insincere, it's the "How do you do, fellow racists" meme
It's scary how many acts of war Russia carries out while not officially being at war ... and how we just let them.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
How did Rudy Guiliani fracture vertebrate when he’s a spineless piece of shit?
FFS!!! The New ‘Executive Director of Communications’ - Tim Allen - was a Trustee at transphobic lobby group ‘Sex Matters’ until this morning!!! 😖😖😤 Don’t tell me the ‘trans lobby’ are powerful while transphobes sit in Number 10 Downing Street! 😠😡 👉🏻 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
The ever-more radcalised Elon Musk regularly shares content from Steve Laws. Laws leads breakaway faction quitting Homeland for its leader only supporting the voluntary, not forced repatriation of British-born minorities "I don't care if they were born here, every single one must go" i
Another day, another utterly shameful cruelty against refugees announced. Recognised refugees - so people granted the long term right to stay in the UK because they have escaped real danger - will face new barriers to reuniting with spouses & children safely in the UK #r4todat
Life’s getting a bit more crap here if you are a person from an ethnic minority 🧵
I'll take that!
You beat me to it by 30 seconds, dammit!
Older teenagers, sure, but if parents of kids of the age shown here aren't keeping a close enough eye on them that they aren't aware that the kids are going off on these hate parades – even if they haven't explicitly encouraged them – then that raises some serious questions about their parenting.
According to the fash, all working class people are the kind of racist, bigoted scum who shout at hotels and deface mini-roundabouts. It's only the university indoctrinated middle class who can be woke.
Working class people aren't allowed nice things? Working class people aren't allowed to be progressive? The Telegreform is seriously unwell. Someone should put it out of its misery.
I don't know if I'm the first one to nominate this to @sturdyalex.bsky.social for next week's #WokeyDokey but it's a definite contender.
Any children on a hate march like that should be immediately taken into care. I don't care how overloaded the care system is, they would be better off being raised by wild foxes than by their parents.
He should be wearing an orange suit by now, not tan. Although given the way he does his fake tan, a tan suit for him would be orange!
Go to the funeral and P-A-R-T-Y 🍾🍷🍸🍹🎉🎊🎆🎇
And yes, I'm assuming they've all got the same dad, but twelve different mums...
The one day a month they get to see their dad, and this is how he spends it with them 🙄 Seriously, if an Asian community was doing even a tenth of this they would have Prevent onto them in no time. But white terrorists get away with anything.
Somehow I can't see Tesco Value sliced white being on her shopping list 🤔
This whole thing is great but the highlighted bit made me laugh out loud. 😂 Marlon on Snoop:
He's gone off to patent Sticky Tofu Pudding
Musk has shadowbanned the 10 Downing Street account on X, and is stepping up his destabilisation antics as he pushes forward his efforts to control the entirety of Britain's electric power. We have to push back against this foreign chaos-merchant dividing this country with his hate.
A pound to a penny, you can't find me someone banging on about Judeo-Christian values who isn't also violently anti-semitic 🤔
I guess this is what we're going to have to get used to... NHS Worker (and British citizen of Filipino origin) with 15 years of service abused whilst walking with her family in W Yorkshire. She's leaving the country and I'm sorry. The tone from the top is always heard at the bottom.
YES! Thank you... Say it again, and again, and again. They are not "illegal immigrants". - seeking asylum is legal and has been since 1951.
The same politicians who claim that other people should keep their noses out of politics are quite happy to stick their own noses into every last aspect of everyone else's lives.
Richard Tice consistently claims to be standing up for "Christian values", on the basis that "we are a Christian nation". If that's your pitch, you can't just tell the Bishops to shut up when they criticise your policies.
Unfortunately it's human extinction that they're heading for, and not just their own.
As a very good Origin Story episode covered recently, there's pretty much nothing that could happen on Earth that would make it less hospitable to human life than Mars. But the fash's hero/god complex won't let them admit that colonising Mars is basically impossible even for them.
Tories want to keep people (especially the poors) locked into high energy bills because they're bankrolled by fossil fuel companies so it is highly profitable for them Plus it's become a culture war issue and they have zero principles so all BadEnoch knows how to do is be a contrarian for rage-bait
You don’t see this👇🏼news pushed by the BBC on its main news page like they “report” when Farage opens his mouth or a migrant lands etc.. #RightWingScum put a Union Jack on a Mosque to intimidate them.. So its leaders put it in a window saying 'This is our flag... we are proud British Muslims”👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼
But Labour aren't saying that! They need to be loud and clear that this is both legally and morally fine, and why, actually defend themselves on a point of principle, rather than just saying "the Tories were worse" and implicitly accepting that they're in the wrong as well.
More likely that 14 years of Tory governments left them condemned to live in squalor and penury, and berated by the Telegraph for days if they dared to have a TV made this century or a mobile phone of any sort in their household. Who is going to focus on schoolwork in that kind of environment?
The idea that anyone at the Telegraph has ever met a white working class person, let alone gives the tiniest shit about them individually or collectively, is absolutely comical.
Written on one of Enid Blyton's darker days...
“They looked like grotesques from a Roald Dahl book. Shrivelled, pinched faces, every bit as nasty as they sounded.” This week: vandalised takeaways, racist pensioners, and the privilege of being a 6’3 white immigrant.
The Knights Who Say Ni****
Trigger's Broom. It may have the same name, it may even have some of the same components, but it is not the same party.
Numerous stories in the UK of racist attacks on nurses, taxi drivers and people’s homes. Is it any wonder when so much of the media, including mainstream have demonised migrant communities on a daily basis. What did they expect? And some have the audacity to run the racist attack stories too!
This whole summer only one story has dominated our entire politics & it comes down to literally 30,000 people in hotels. Ridiculous. The government needs to get a GRIP it’s pathetic.
This is where the empty headed Flag shagging leads. Race hate.
Today (Sat 30th) from 6pm on LBC - Rylan’s ill-informed rant has shown we need to spit some facts on immigration. @zoejardiniere.bsky.social joins me in the studio. - Do we need people like Ed Davey to remind us Trump’s actions aren’t acceptable? - Are you angry? Is social media to blame?
Party like it's 1999?
This week Nigel Farage learned what he must have long suspected: that there is nothing so disgusting that he can’t say it for fear of being challenged by the Prime Minister. THREAD
"Addressing the issue" is essential, but that means refuting Farage's framing of the issue. The media makes sure plenty of people live in a post-truth world, so it doesn't matter how much better their life gets any more, they will still be led to believe it's shit and that's all immigrants' fault.
There can be absolutely no “shock” about this. The media has been shamelessly platforming Reform all summer. All summer, we’ve had hate-mongering headlines about immigration. It’s a tedious and grim inevitability that you’ve made people angry enough to want to vote for this shit in response.
So on the one hand they will constantly berate you for eating meat, and on the other hand you're not allowed to *not* eat meat? 🤦🏻
A lot of nuke-bros love to talk about how much space solar takes up. I wonder how many play golf? interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so... Via @carbonbrief.org
Check the windows 🪟
I don't have a whole lot of time for the Church, but when the fash are constantly banging on about upholding Christian values, it's relevant for the most senior Christian in the country to highlight that they are talking bollocks.
The reactionary right are modelling themselves on the American Bible Belt, where people who loudly proclaim their Christianity while living a life that is that absolute antithesis of Christianity. It takes a special kind of stupid to believe Jesus was a white man with a conservative ideology...
People with no sense of humour will never stop being funny
I'm not convinced that compulsory voting is a good idea – even with the option for NOTA or spoilt ballots. People who don't vote generally have no interest in politics, and people who have no interest in politics are easy prey for populists. Could hand a lot of votes to Politician McPoliticianFace.
For anyone who supports online voting ... how confident are you that Russia/Musk/someone else isn't able to hack the system? This is an old video, but everything still applies, and even more so with what we've seen around the world in recent years. youtu.be/w3_0x6oaDmI?...
The kind of people who wang on about immigrants/poors would quite happily condemn them to a 30-year old TV that can't get anything beyond 4 terrestrial channels and Teletext, and then when it stops working, hard luck, it's your own fault for being foreign/poor.
Hmmm, someone who has staked his life on AI claims AI will be transformative 🤔, no conflict of interest there. What will be "hard to believe for many" is how overhyped all this bollocks about AI being a game-changer is when customers have to pay the true costs and the bubble inevitably bursts.
And Chislehurst. Who knows what deep secrets are hidden in those caves...
Comedy Central that areas like Kenley, Beckenham and Sidcup are deemed unliveable ... for any reason other than house prices!
The fact that Reform were trying to run a person who had been dead for six months as their Croydon Mayoral candidate is proof if it were needed that they are not a serious party. It demonstrates abject incompetence and no vetting as well as utter contempt for the electorate.
If *Republican politicians... Remember that they laughed when Democrat politicians were attacked, showed no remorse at all when they were killed, and Trump is now actively inciting people to assassinate Kamala Harris by removing her Secret Service protection.
Gun laws alone won't, you're right it will take more than that. But without gun laws, you won't even get started, nothing else will make a meaningful difference.
HTF is the human heart anything to do with mental health – is that really the level of biological knowledge that Republicans have? ♥️≠🧠 And what are they doing about the mental crisis, other than everything they possibly can to make it dramatically and irreparably worse?
The demonisation of asylum seekers has to stop - it has real-life consequences. One asylum seeker told the BBC: "[We face] real intimidation, real hostility. The first time [the protests] happened I was like 'Are they going to come in?'." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdxy0p9jx1qo
Preferably a bit that Thames Water is responsible for.
By design, without a shadow of a doubt. The question is whether TPTB actively support his agenda, or are completely ambivalent but will do anything to chase ratings. And frankly, I'm not sure which would reflect worse on them.
Labour's cowardice in the face of extremism iandunt.substack.com/p/labours-co...
Definitely, the combination of the two is what is so deadly. But even on their own terms, the Republicans' argument doesn't stack up. Ultimately, Republicans love guns more than they love children. And if that isn't a mental health crisis then I don't know what is...
Sounds like they're giving you permission to take today off!
For a tenth of their market value 🤨
If you want to find someone who is not civilised and doesn't abide by British laws, James, look in the fucking mirror 🪞
To be fair, it's also a mental health crisis. Which the Republicans have done everything possible to foment, and which they have zero intention of addressing because it would be the complete and total antithesis of their agenda.
This is not good news. We can't wait for a convenient moment before taking climate action. The time is now. "the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades" www.theguardian.com/environment/...
MAGA stands for everything that is anti-American 🤷🏻
People who claim to be Christian can often be pretty right-wing and reactionary... I wonder where Calvin Robinson is now 🤔
Why do they get a second chance? No, they've picked their candidate, the fact that they haven't done the most cursory vetting procedures should disqualify them from having another go. Different if she died *after* the selection process, but that isn't what happened here!
It beggars belief that they are selecting candidates without those candidates even applying for the role...
For Reform to even bother selecting a parliamentary candidate for York is an exercise in futility – not a cat in hell's chance they could win either of the seats in the city.
Reform will have to reselect in Croydon, as their initial candidate for Mayor had been dead for 6 months when they selected her, Inside Croydon report Being dead is one way to pass the social media vetting but was likely to get noticed eventually insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
She'd be a dead cert ☠️
This is just next level insanity. In January this year, Reform picked Sharon Carby, aged 70, from Bradford, to run as their Croydon Mayoral candidate. There was just one rather significant problem. She had sadly died in July 2024. insidecroydon.com/2025/08/27/f...
I don't remember there being a "debate" 🤔
🚨🚨Major story: So, now #russia is irrevocably also with war with the #EU after strike against EU delegations building in Kyiv www.politico.eu/article/russ...
Let's hope Notts Live responds by pulling together every anti-local-council story that it can find and the newspaper becomes a non-stop diatribe against Reform, detailing every single grievance that anyone has against them...
Also, why the fuck do we want house price growth in London? Probably 75% of the country's problems are directly linked to the extortionate and frequently unaffordable cost of residing within easy reach of the capital city.
I've written about the concerted effort by the combined forces of the right to turn convicted race hate monger Lucy Connolly into a victim, a saint and a martyr. @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2025/08/27/l...
The fact that you check the word in the dictionary before sounding off shows that you're not that much of an idiot!
And it's true in both directions – a lot of the US media is silent or complicit in what is going on in their own country whereas the rest of the world is seeing it and reporting it for what it is.
Of course Telegraph, and others, opening gambit about the horrific school shooting in Minneapolis is to focus on attacker allegedly being trans. You notice no-one ever says "white man" in relation to other shootings. The shooter's gender identity is irrelevant to the hideous crime they committed.
Let’s clear up some facts. There is no such thing as an “illegal immigrant”. The UK DOES NOT grant asylum visas overseas, except for very limited schemes (except large schemes for Ukraine and Hong Kong).Refugees can only claim for asylum when in the UK. So their fate can only be decided, once here.
Two innocent children are dead and the far right are racing to use it as pretext to further eradicate trans people. This mass shooting had nothing to do with the shooter being trans and everything to do with them being radicalized online by a nihilistic murder cult that worships mass shooters.
A thoughtful piece on the role of independent journalists and commentators in the age of Reform.
So let me get this straight. ChatGPT coached a kid through suicide attempts while validating his ideation. The response from OpenAI is, "yeah, turns out if you talk to an LLM long enough the safety features stop working." Guess the usage patterns of people who most need safety features!?!
It is quite astonishing how many people- and the institutions that they are part of- appear not to have realised or simply do not care that “a republic, if you can keep it” implies the need for the active upholding of the Constitution
Andy Elms 