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52% voted for Brexit. "It's the will of the people!" - Farage. But 60% of Brits now want a closer relationship with Europe. Times and attitudes have changed. So should our relationship with Europe. The only people standing in opposition to the "will of the people" today are the Tories & Reform.

Sample sentence: "This yearning to “reset” Britain doesn’t stem from a plan to build something better – it stems from a refusal to imagine anything new." Indeed. A great article.

"But of course, the sudden bout of whatever-the-f*ck is not the only reason I’m not in a good place. Another is that the place I am in is Britain, where the governing party seems to have convinced itself that, “the far right is correct. Vote Labour” is in any way a winning strategy."

A hateful thing to say. People whose approach to life is not faith-based have done enormous good, majority non-religious societies have been some of the strongest proponents of human dignity and solidarity. Why is the BBC just printed this unchallenged? If it's "news", it should be balanced.

New Pope Leo blasts non-religious people, saying (quite shockingly) that 'lack of faith' comes from 'the loss of meaning in life, the neglect of mercy, appalling violations of human dignity' We'll remain composed in the face of such abject nastiness, but it's untrue to say the least

Happy 80th anniversary of Hitler killing himself in his bunker to all who celebrate, which, as I now understand it, is not everybody

Doctor Who really needs to take a deep look at Star Trek Strange new Worlds to learn how to balance camp episodes, with experimental episodes, with serious episodes…oh and how to structure episodes

Absolutely damning. Seems that the British government made not attempt to find out if the Russians had interfered in the EU Brexit referendum.

Starmer needs to realise that we're in 2025 not 2017

I used to be afraid of ghosts but then I found out they're not real so now I guess I'm afraid of the living Victorian child that stands at the foot of my bed screaming every night.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social raises an important question about the corruption of the justice system. Why was not one farmer arrested for blocking roads & bringing the whole country to a standstill? Climate protesters are in prison, farmers aren’t, why? What happened to equality under the law?

Nation Could Have Sworn Russell Brand Was Already Convicted Sex Offender

Forgot I was on a phone call about council tax Them: What band are you in Me: Erm, The Charlatans Them: Your council tax band? 😬

Gordon Ramsey: what's the special, sweetheart? Waitress: blackbird pie Gordon Ramsey: blackbird pie? Waitress: yes, four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie Gordon Ramsey: four and twenty, wow, fuck me, blackbird pie, jesus. what happened to your nose?

He does this every Friday.

Lady Gaga looks like she's about to tell her men to decloak and fire on the USS Enterprise

I’m giving up Swiss chocolate for Lindt.

These are dark days. But for Starmer, the collapse of the old order is a moment of political promise. He can use it to remake his premiership and the continent: new political space has unfolded before him in every direction. Will he seize it? New writing from me. open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...

Really good piece from Lewis. Starmer has been given the opportunity to become one of our great, game changing PMs - let's hope he doesn't blow it.

Are we all clear on why Musk is out to gut the government?

As I’ve said before: it’s fine for him to be in charge of his fake “DOGE” department, as long as he resigns and divests himself completely from Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink and X

bad news everybody, now only a 1 in 26,000 chance of the space rock putting us out of our misery www.iflscience.com/asteroid-202...

19 yr old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine alleged to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, an officer in the technical espionage division sent to the US as an undercover agent at the Soviet Embassy. THAT is who is hacking the treasury without clearance. gizmodo.com/doge-staffer...

Well what do you know. Reform UK's former leader in Wales has just been accused in court of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

FFS get a grip. You don't need to get into a fight every day, but you shouldn't be encouraging his pro-Kremlin position, or excusing it, or saying things which no right-minded person would think and no-one imagines you actually believe.

Having to do this in a reply to Elon bullshitting about the latest update to his anti-woke chatbot… bleak

I must admit when I set myself the challenge tonight of drawing all the British prime ministers since 1995 I’d forgotten quite how many of them there’d been and therefore wildly underestimated how long it was going to take me…

Amazing how quickly the security element of 'Project Fear' turned out to be an almighty bloody understatement...

JD Vance’s Munich speech laid bare the collapse of the transatlantic alliance

Europe needs to unite and beef up the common defence policy and stand shoulder to shoulder against Russia and fill the vacuum left by the USA. And it needs to do it now not in some imaginary far off point in the future. No space to dilly dally and if we do, then our kids will wind up in uniform.

And the cool thing is that this petition is now on 113,000… Crossing the 100K mark only accelerated it. 🚀

Lying politicians repeatedly say "Nobody is talking about #RejoinEU" Well, 100000+ peeps will now make THEM talk about it! www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/petitio...

Why is nobody talking about this?

Really not far to go now. Link —> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures! Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not! Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

With the Eagles obliterating the Chiefs, now is a good time to remind everyone that the last time the Eagles won the Super Bowl they refused to go to the White House because of Donald.

Just showed the latest ‘HeGetsUs’ Super Bowl ad to Jesus and Johnny Cash and they’re both freaking PISSED.

Closer economic ties with the European Union will boost growth by up to 2.2 per cent, according to new economic modelling shared with members of the cabinet www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Clarkson is right. Brexit has made travelling to the EU with any kind of professional equipment, nightmarish. Carnets for cameras etc is a bureaucratic, expensive waste of time. But it applies to loads of industries, esp musicians/performing artists etc. www.thetimes.com/article/5356...

Elizabeth Warren: Not one Democrat voted for Elon Musk. Not one Republican voted for Elon Musk. Not one Independent voted for Elon Musk. Not one Libertarian voted for Elon Musk. Damn, not one vegetarian voted for Elon Musk.

Mass protest outside the US Treasury Department in DC to stop oligarch neo-Nazi Elon Musk’s coup attempt. Thousands are calling for Musk's arrest. (📷 @Roots_Action) #3E #USprotests #DOGE

Being pardoned doesn't protect you from stupidity.

TRUMP TRADE WAR UPDATE: Colombia: Lasted 4 hours - Trump accepts what was already offered. 🇨🇴 Mexico: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts worse than before. 🇲🇽 Canada: Lasted one weekend - Trump accepts what was already agreed. 🇨🇦 Two-step process established: 1. Try to look tough 2. Just fold 🤡