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Why wouldn’t they do this? It worked like a charm last time, and the wingnuts at the national equality body are sticking their oar in again, just to underline that this is how it is now.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

That’s not very Era Of Good Vibes, George

submitted 9 hours ago • 5 comments

What does it mean if the political/media class are militantly vigilant and will fight to the death against threats from the left; always try to appeal to and co-opt threats from the far right, and are largely oblivious to the effects of their own policies and behaviour?

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

On the News Agents, the lads struggle to decide whether Tony’s latest Very Rare Intervention is dumb or smart. Jon explains that it seems dumb but that means there must be some kind of misunderstanding because Tony is too smart to do dumb things. Honestly this shit is exhausting sometimes.

submitted 11 hours ago • 3 comments

Come on

submitted 11 hours ago • 153 comments

“We expect - demand - to be publicly sucked off as deep and hard as those deranged far right cranks were”, an especially nice look for Private Eye, and a helpful lesson in where pandering to deeply unpleasant reactionary cranks out of expediency will get you.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

The lads giggle their way through the Conservative leader hyperventilating about a grooming gangs coverup, while wondering what the hell she’s playing at. Perhaps she has been reading their paper, which has been full conspiracy/Bolshevik depravity doom bonkers since day one and continues to go at it

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Strong evidence in support of the theory that the effect of great wealth is equivalent to brain damage.

submitted 13 hours ago • 15 comments

Given how badly Trump is arsing it and how openly the Israeli government is talking about the deliberate bad faith of its negotiations and public statements, I might ask myself whether future governments might one day go looking for scapegoats.

submitted 13 hours ago • 1 comment

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

submitted 1 day ago • 101 comments

it really is astounding that a presidential administration crashed the growth trajectory of the wealthiest country on the planet in basically two months

submitted 15 hours ago • 938 comments

I don’t want to pick any one person in particular but if I was a minister in a one-term government, I would consider how much legal largesse and political cover will be afforded to me re: future inquiries, rather than assuming it would be comparable to how much was granted to, say, Tony or Alastair.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

An interesting point, given what happened right after Leave won the EU Referendum, when the Tories very much *were not* left to wriggle alone in the dump they had done in their own nappy.

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

A notable point in this book review from 2022, which maybe helps us to understand just how important the PM has always been in what was theoretically his own leadership project archive.ph/gxefJ

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

A two-part object lesson in how performative authoritarianism done by the left is never enough for the right.

submitted 18 hours ago • 64 comments

Why can’t we focus on the important issues, like screaming in unified terror at Irish hip hop bands

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

I don’t want to deter people who are finally waking up to how bleak and disastrous this shit is - hooray, wow etc - but it is monstrously aggravating that they were all told this at length ten years ago, and reacted much like they were being mooed at by annoying cows. *No shit* lads, do you think?

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

I don’t think you can understand 2025 without grasping that what’s happening here - a bunch of rich idiots winding each other up to hysterical reactionary terror, mostly by listening to the drivel of overtly fascist cranks - is pretty much what happened in politics and media in Britain in the 2010s.

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Thames Water's business model: ✔️Pay £10.4bn in dividends ✔️Rack up £19bn of debt ✔️Make customers service the debt through their bills ✔️Underinvest in essential infrastructure ✔️Offer pitiful compensation when that infrastructure fails Water privatisation has failed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/a...

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

If you want to talk about Israel and Palestine in mainstream American politics or the US Jewish Community, you are required to pretend that the politics and beliefs of the Israeli Minister of Finance are completely immaterial to the politics and actions of the Israeli government.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments