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you gotta think all this is worth far more to the band in profile and notoriety than simply being on the livestream, or in any of the 6Music airplay they have correspondinlgly lost

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“Dear patient, sorry your operation is delayed for a year but we got a low satisfaction score” Are these people on crack? www.dumptheguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

If members of the public have to wear a neon band with the name & logo of their local police force to avoid being traumatised/ brutalised, then the police are the problem. Devon and Cornwall cops, hire nd staff and train them, do your multi agency planning and stop criminalising disability.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

a cunt in 1970, a cunt in 2025.

submitted 8 hours ago • 14 comments

Remarkable watching the evidence pile up, and a substantial mass of high profile commentators continue to contort themselves ever more painfully in order to deny that reality is in fact reality.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

The centrist backslapping over 'Starmer listening to his backbenches' is utterly nauseating. It goes back to it all being a game to them. No matter that disabled people are still being thrown under a bus, that they consciously have lied about PIP, that we are othered and demonised. /1

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Tom Baldwin in the Observer: Keir Starmer is agonised by the choices he is making, and at heart remains a sincere left-liberal Patrick Maguire in the Times: Keir Starmer is a tough, ruthless bastard, with nothing but contempt for bankrupt left-liberalism

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From Wednesday, and I again underline: stuff like this is exactly why all those left wingers decided we couldn’t go on like this in 2015. My take then was: if we don’t change this system, we are looking at a future of awesome wealth for some, and grinding misery and relentless cruelty for most.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Have just seen this on FB, and made me love Tim Curry even more. From an interview he gave about an ill-fated on-set affair while filming Muppet Treasure Island.

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he was issued NHS prosthetics which he said were “good for fighting and smashing windows but not much else". so he paid £100,000 for prosthetics that allow him fine motor control. is everyone getting them now or are you going to shut the fuck up you rich cunt? www.theguardian.com/politics/art...

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Jesus Christ: because they are predators, Polly, because they go out of their way to exploit and then chew up people like you and stomp all over your good intentions, for their own horrible reasons.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Caroline Flint claims Kendall never wanted to target people who have difficulties washing or clothing themselves Thats a lie. Through changes to how people are assessed the cuts strip eligibility for PIP from people who cant use the toilet on their own &who cant dress themselves

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

"Yeah it's fine to do it Keir as long as it's people in the future, not the ones writing to me now"... great stuff

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Me for Freedom on the issues around the Assisted Dying Bill.

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It's probably a bit late now to try to tell British journalists that their job isn't to inflate or outright invent massively inflammatory numbers about Them Foreigns and present them on the front pages with an air of menace, to drum up domestic support for fascism.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Emergency legislation incoming? Nah, probably not...

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

I’ve always found the investment in Corbyn per se (rather than the window of opportunity his leadership of Labour provided and policies he stood on) a frustrating dead end, but comprehensible. I find the tendency of some people to do this with Starmer less decipherable. The cult of no personality.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Absolutely incredible work on this Zaku by Aksara Ngarmna www.instagram.com/p/Cb-QW64vTo...

submitted 2 days ago • 15 comments

I think a lot of people today are so far removed from the past that they forget that infant mortality was once so high that it skewed life expectancy down to 35.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

New homes are being built in places with negative satisfaction in public transport. @transportfornewhomes.org.uk www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Off the charts levels of spiderman_pointing_at_spiderman.jpg in this

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

News confirmed here. Just an awful, demoralising day for UK continuing education. www.york.ac.uk/lifelonglear...

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

This is very bad. cc @dreanyc123.bsky.social share.inquirer.com/TlioRI [gift link]

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

Defied the trans toilet ban in parliament and used the men’s 🏳️‍⚧️✊

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

Or here's a thought--maybe we could hire more actual human teachers, pay them better, make class sizes smaller, build in more paid prep time, and generally just invest in education instead of investing in AI.

submitted 3 days ago • 52 comments

Parliament is making trans people queue outside in the heat with no shade or water to see our MPs as part of the mass lobby with @transsolidarity.bsky.social - there are people here with canes and older people who need to come inside, @ukparliament.parliament.uk this is dangerous!

submitted 3 days ago • 35 comments

I personally like Mamdani, but my big fear is that Democrats nationwide will take the wrong message from his victory and try running likable candidates with good policies all across the country.

submitted 3 days ago • 10 comments

Yes to this but why stop there? Let’s go for full comprehensive universities established on co-operative principles. VCs to be elected by staff, paid the same as other professors and rewarded for the burden of their 4 year stint with a sabbatical afterwards. Local govt on the board too.

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

My additional objection to this is that the press was reporting, last week, that Labour was making decisions in government because they didn't want to be seen as aligned to him. So I would simply ask: who really needs to move on here?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

www.vulture.com/article/zohr...

submitted 3 days ago • 49 comments

So it tuns out that the polls weren't just a little off...Cuomo was never anywhere NEAR this. Mamdani gives me hope in a way I haven't felt in years. He feels like the future. America, get ready for this guy to be photoshopped in a communist hat on MSNBC and represented as Voldemort on CNN.

submitted 3 days ago • 42 comments

I guess you could say the people who thought Andrew Cuomo ran a better campaign than Zohran Mamdani were sequestered in echo chambers and out of touch with what people offline wanted out of a candidate

submitted 3 days ago • 158 comments

I keep seeing people claim that Starmer is being "attacked" to "weaken him so Reform can win". It isn't an attack to defend people's rights. It isn't an attack to call out bad policy. If Labour loses to Reform, that will be on Starmer, not the people who refuse to vote for what Labour now is. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 37 comments

lol

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it's like when DOGE published all those USAID programs that were clearly CIA fronts and went "wait, why were the democrats spending millions of dollars on 'voter education' and 'cultural outreach' in these countries? sounds woke!!"

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

A confidence vote on the most unpopular Prime Minister in a generation is exactly the moment of accountability this country needs No doubt they'll be bullying and blackmailng these MPs to change their minds Let's hope it doesn’t go the way they’re counting on

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Don't forget to rinse out every jar and tin you finish, guys x

submitted 4 days ago • 77 comments

I thought hard about this and I think the simplest way of explaining it is: They are the best possible government, so anything at all that helps them and stomps upon people they despise is automatically good, just and moral. And I bet they sleep like babies too, not a whisper of doubt.

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

I would ask: if the government unites with the Tory opposition to force through harsh cuts on disability payments that will have a devastating impact on people’s lives, while morally blackmailing their own MPs - is that going to look good, or bad

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

Found this on Reddit. Tiger has three eyes. Such a dismal world we’ve given ourselves.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power. Well said.

submitted 4 days ago • 54 comments

The historic Hotspur Press building on fire this afternoon, after the owners let it rot for years. (Son took the picture from the top floor of a nearby multi-storey car park)

submitted 4 days ago • 42 comments