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submitted 9 hours ago • 115 comments

"The Poop."

submitted 4 hours ago • 432 comments

We were out in Totnes again yesterday. We talked to a lot of people about the local election results in Devon, and how they clearly show the need for change. Many of our new coucillors 'won' with little more than 25% of the votes - which means, of course, that 75% of voters wanted someone else.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

If you want to know our thoughts about what may come next and more importantly what should come next, do have a listen. Plus you’ll end up better informed about the Aussie election too! 🎧👇

submitted 11 hours ago • 4 comments

here's today's post: "all hail Pope Fuckface the First" — has Donny ever even cracked open a Bible? thanks for reading, and please sign up for my daily newsletter to keep getting the good stuff —

submitted 9 hours ago • 339 comments

🧵 Farage claims Reform-run councils will "bring in the auditors" to identify wastage. How much will these "auditors" be paid? And will their directors include people like Farage's close friend "Posh George" Cottrell? He's among several fraudsters closely connected with Farage...

submitted 10 hours ago • 10 comments

Lose to Reform so give Reform everything they want. Well, that's been a winning strategy so far. Once again we have a government hell bent on demonising migrants to pander to what is in fact a minority of voters. It doesn't work, and people suffer in the meantime. observer.co.uk/news/politic...

submitted 9 hours ago • 12 comments

As with the Trump tariffs and his war on migrant labour, the UK needlessly added obstacles to the flow of trade, investment & workers. The net effect of Brexit was to knock 4% off GDP, make inflation worse & force deep cuts in struggling public services.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

I can’t bear to see any of that stupid anti-immigrant rhetoric anymore. Years and years of this nonsense taking us back to the past. How can humans still be doing this in 2025? The politics of distraction will never benefit the people but it seems that’s a lesson many are immune to learning.

submitted 9 hours ago • 8 comments

Keir Starmer is about to find out who the real blockers are after disastrously failing to provide an alternative to the far right, and leading an attack on those protecting the environment from inside Government archive.ph/2025.05.03-1...

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Something for Starmer Govt to learn from Australian election: Environment groups opposed to the Coalition’s plan for an atomic Australia have taken a victory lap around the party’s defeat at the election Nuclear to slow for transition www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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On CCS, Blair last week was just channelling Starmer's existing Carbon Capture policy. Starmer inherited this from the Tories WITHOUT REVIEW and has already ignored scientists and sunk £22bn of public money into CCS last autumn www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Some of it is pure cultural appropriation - there were pagan traditions and a preexisting Roman pantheon (albeit quite basic), so it was an amalgamation of the two. But it's a mistake to see it as one-way traffic. Much of it was probably done BY Greeks who colonised southern Italy for centuries. 1/2

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

Two beautiful #Roman glass dishes, one in blue-green glass with yellow swirls, the other made from deep purple glass with green, yellow, & red swirls. They were both made about 2000 years ago, & are on display in the V&A (London) 🏺AncientBlueSky #Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientGlass

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

“See you in court.”

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Pity the poor Reform newly elected councillors. They never thought they would be elected, and now they have. First issue is that many of them have good paying jobs, the recompense for a councillor is meagre and people expect their councillors to be full time. Second, many of them are contd.

submitted 1 day ago • 13 comments

You can see why this man went bust 6 times.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

This is unusual trading by a politician. Marjorie Taylor Greene bought Palantir, $PLTR, on April 8th. On April 17th, Palantir, $PLTR, was awarded a government contract with ICE to develop ImmigrationOs. She sits on the Committee of Homeland Security Palantir is up nearly 50% since.

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Analysis of the English local elections by Sir John Curtice: “support for Reform averaged 43% in wards where more than half of adults have few, if any, educational qualifications. In contrast, it polled just 19% where more than two in five have a degree.”

submitted 10 hours ago • 97 comments

This man defies parody

submitted 9 hours ago • 121 comments

Yeah - let's have lots more children and lots more houses for them when they grow up, until the country is covered in concrete and tarmac More people - just what need on a tiny planet heading for #climate catastrophe amidst capitalism demnding ever more growth www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

submitted 10 hours ago • 3 comments

Still waiting for Farage-mesmerised BBC to devote more than passing sentence to fact that Greens have more councillors than Reform and that Ed Davey's Lib Dems have all bit wiped out the Tories in their traditional shire heartlands....

submitted 14 hours ago • 47 comments

The real threat to the Tories: Liberal Democrats won nearly 60 seats at Westminster from the Conservatives at the 2024 general election. Ed Davey's party now controls more councils (68) than the Tories. Reform has 5 MPs and controls 8 councils.

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Trump’s remark on May 4 about not knowing whether he needs to “uphold the Constitution” comes just a little more than 100 days after he swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States." That’s saying the quiet part out loud. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

submitted 9 hours ago • 130 comments

Here’s a fun fact, Ivan Dabbs is half Maltese, his mum’s maiden name… is Arabic in origin. Can’t make it up.

submitted 9 hours ago • 3 comments

A couple more from home. A stunning Broad-bodied Chaser buzzing us in the garden. Also an absolutely diminutive (2mm) Beetle found in the conservatory. It seems to be Psylliodes affinis, the Potato Flea Beetle.

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Genuine question: Isn't lack of empathy diagnosable as a mental disorder in the DSM?

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

I believe it....

submitted 1 day ago • 116 comments

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 A fat old man with fake arms...

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Absolutely bang on. He's still carrying that Ming vase and he needs to put it back in its display cabinet and crack the fuck on.

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💙💙💙💙

submitted 12 hours ago • 88 comments

Fixed it.

submitted 11 hours ago • 306 comments

Now we know why he didn’t have his hand on the Bible when he took the Oath of Office.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1001 comments

This is useful, from @eastangliabylines.co.uk “…if all of the ‘Reform-curious’ abandoned Labour for Reform, Labour would lose 123 seats, but they would keep a parliamentary majority. But on the other hand, if the Liberal Democrat- & Green-curious switched, Labour would lose 250 and the election”

submitted 3 days ago • 11 comments

How devoid of humanity do you have to be to get obscenely rich off the backs of the desperate? 'In February, Merkur was fined almost £100,000 by the gambling regulator after the Guardian revealed how staff allegedly exploited a vulnerable cancer patient.'

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Blair is ‘asking us to reject pathways that are proven to work for ones that might never. And, wrapping it all up in a golden brocade of fustian eloquence, he's blaming our collective lack of progress on those with the least power and influence.’

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[Trump shoots someone on Fifth Avenue] John Roberts: "it's an official act" Pam Bondi: "we'll be prosecuting the person Trump shot" Sean Hannity: "tonight: a look at all the people Joe Biden killed" New York Times: "not since Teddy Roosevelt have we had a rugged leader unashamed to hunt big game"

submitted 1 day ago • 65 comments

Labour is handing this country on a silver platter to Reform. People do not vote Labour because they hate immigrants and want Reform-lite. They vote Labour because they want it to make a positive difference to their lives.

submitted 2 days ago • 303 comments

Amazing. Yes, that’s definitely the message that has produced victories for centre-left parties over the last week

submitted 1 day ago • 24 comments

Holy shit, you guys. I just read Curtis Yarvin'a actual writing instead of a summary. The man is 51 years old, treated as an intellectual by the Sand Hill elite, and he writes like the most annoying freshman honors student who ever discovered Nietzsche from a comic book guide to philosophy.

submitted 1 day ago • 124 comments

An Evening Reflection

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"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.”-- @naomiaklein.bsky.social & Astra Taylor www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Unremittingly stupid.

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In the workshop today I'm making replica Roman Tubuli, or box flue tiles, decorated with a roller stamp. It may seem odd that this decoration simply served the purpose of providing a key for the plaster that would be applied over the top once they were mounted in the walls.🏺#Archaeology

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Mainstream radio presenters like Vanessa Feltz are perfectly happy to contribute, in their own small way, to the rise of the extreme far right. Her interview with me on LBC just now was chock full of lies. Calls herself a journalist. Really I wonder how they sleep at night.

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Last night, I posted a picture of Trump depicting himself as Pope. Many of you were wondering if the picture was real. It is real, and now it is disgracing the People’s House page on Twitter. It is outrageous that no one in his admin. dares to stand up to this demented, malignant narcissist.

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