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Zelensky's finest achievement to date may be in not lamping these cunts

submitted 21 hours ago • 26 comments

a regular bugbear of mine - when something goes over budget on costs by 50% it's the end of the world, but you can underestimate the benefits massively and people treat it like a success story. Crossrail was arguably built 20 years too late because of these errors

submitted 1 day ago • 22 comments

"Don't forget to click below to subscribe to the official Doctor Who YouTube channel"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

again I point to 'liz truss but without the ability to remove liz truss' as the key to understanding what will likely happen in the next few months to the US economy.

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

She's not a casualty! She hasn't even actually suffered a loss! She abused a colleague, was suspended based on that colleagues complaint, and has since been reinstated.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Summing up Stephen’s thread

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels haven't aged well. For example, Moonraker - published almost exactly 70 years ago in April 1955 - features a villain who's a super-rich industrialist and rocket-maker seeking to cause chaos because he's a secret Nazi. Such a silly idea!

submitted 6 days ago • 92 comments

I see the politician who wants a British DOGE, but going much further, and also the winter fuel payment not to be cut, and also the VAT rise on private schools not to take place, and also the IHT increase on farmers not to take place also wants defence spending to go up.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

A power struggle within the court of a soi-disant absolute monarch involving a faction of hardline Calvinists. More news from 16th century Scotland as we get it.

submitted 7 days ago • 9 comments

You can tell a lot about Britain because in the posh supermarket, Waitrose, the detector thingy is like “go off king. You put your laptop bag on the scale by mistake. We trust you” and every other self service detector is like “welcome to the country that gave the world Judge Dredd”.

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

"Russia has a massive numerical advantage in manpower, and that advantage will persist regardless." Pic totally unrelated

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

The most successful electoral force in UK history is polling at 9% with people <50. And as long as they keep pretending this is the fault of the under-50s, who "don't want to work", have been brainwashed by "woke ideology" or don't believe in "Western civilization", there's little hope of recovery.

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

I feel like every day we get closer to an opposition frontbencher referring to the Labour government of 2010 to 2024.

submitted 10 days ago • 14 comments

It means “I dislike immigration from certain countries because they don’t agree with British liberalism, an ideology and mode of living that I am explicitly hostile towards”.

submitted 10 days ago • 19 comments

I hope people understand what we are seeing here. 1) Trump and Putin are preparing a common plan to dictate to Ukraine. 2) Ukraine will surprise them (at least Trump) by refusing. 3) The War will continue. 4) The role of Europe will be decisive.

submitted 10 days ago • 71 comments

I’m not sure you can spend the last decade painting anyone who still supports membership of a trading partnership as a traitor then pivot to “we must give the authoritarian invader of Europe everything he wants” and not expect a teensy bit of Quisling chat back, if I’m honest.

submitted 11 days ago • 6 comments

Just want to have a government that stops talking about tough decisions and actually makes one:

submitted 11 days ago • 23 comments

Kemi, which frontline politician over the last five years has spent the most time debating what a woman is?

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

Someone should ask Kemi’s opinion on Gamergate

submitted 12 days ago • 14 comments

These people won't be happy until they've literally erased trans people from public life. Literally made it illegal to be trans. A thing that it has NEVER BEEN BEFORE. Trans people have lived happy lives in this country for centuries. These fascists want such people dead.

submitted 15 days ago • 15 comments

Yep, speaking from the outside, one of the main things that always baffles me about Trump + the broader US reactionary project is that their vision of American culture is just so... shit, to put it bluntly. Just sort of bland and monotone with half-hearted attempts at more that look fake and tacky

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

'we need to raise taxes on the wealthy - oh god no, not my constituents'

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

submitted 16 days ago • 21 comments

The Class War is like WW1; just as when the last Tommies passed away, the poppy campaign became cloyingly performative, now all parties obsess about stereotypical white working class voters even though almost all workers with memories of mass employment in heavy industry have long entered retirement

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Drake is the all-time biggest loser of a rap feud and that includes people who have gotten shot and died as a result of rap feuds

submitted 26 days ago • 56 comments

An astoundingly misleading column by Colville. Firstly, ignores that there is already a 10 year route to ILR, shown to be massively damaging all round. Ignores many dependents also earn, and can't claim support from the state, and the grooming gangs line is frankly just a dog whistle. 1/

submitted 20 days ago • 19 comments

Trying to make Dominic Cummings a thing again is a fantastic example of how addicted to drama the UK press is and how much it resents now having to report on policy and government after a decade of just thrilling gossip and court intrigue. An entire national conversation modelled on Bizarre.

submitted 20 days ago • 23 comments

fuck around then, Pingu

submitted 21 days ago • 4 comments

Imagine putting your name and face to this rhetoric

submitted 20 days ago • 14 comments

Feel like a huge amount of American psyche is invested in "Who you were in high school" rather than, like a normal country, "Where you went to high school".

submitted 22 days ago • 8 comments

I think we can already award the prize for stupidest Labour MP’s policy proposal. “That thing that destroyed three Tory governments, the thing that if we did it would wreck our economy, let’s do that, in a doomed effort to pose as a knock-off Nigel Farage.”

submitted 23 days ago • 32 comments

In all seriousness if the US were any comparable parliamentary democracy every news channel would have a countdown clock anticipating him losing a vote of no confidence and being removed

submitted 26 days ago • 51 comments

if you dress like this the menswear guy should get to hunt you for sport

submitted 26 days ago • 8 comments

"We can also wreck the country in two weeks" does not seem a convincing pitch to be making here Honestly these people are not talking to the UK public anymore. This content is directed at the US and a clique of UK groypers.

submitted 27 days ago • 9 comments

Peculiarly unnerving watching the modern British right using Britain almost entirely as an audition piece for a role in America, isn’t it? Not even properly nationalistic any more

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

“WE WILL MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN AND IT WILL ALL BE WORTH THE PRICE WHICH MUST BE PAID” may legitimately be the most supervillain-rant thing I have ever seen a person say in real life, complete with all caps. Not ideal that it’s coming from the holder of the most powerful office in human history

submitted 27 days ago • 36 comments

Perhaps if the BBC weren’t institutionally transphobic they would question why it is always the same people launching new campaigns to make accessing trans healthcare more difficult if there were the tens of thousands of anti-trans detransitioners they claim there are

submitted 28 days ago • 12 comments

Prominent figures within “gender-critical” feminism are absolutely enamoured with noted rapist Donald Trump.

submitted 28 days ago • 39 comments

a very key thing about Donald Trump is that he cannot perform the symbolic roles of the presidency even a little bit.

submitted 29 days ago • 40 comments

will never stop amusing me that a substantial portion of the U.K. right commentariat switched from “the future is glowing & bright & everything is for the best in this, the best of all possible worlds” to “Britain as a nation is finished” precisely at the point Truss was fucked by the bond market

submitted 30 days ago • 3 comments

Such an annoying critique of big infrastructure plans - 'but it'll take years for it to be built/make a difference'. Yes! That's why stuff needs to get started & why governments need to look beyond one political cycle. Otherwise we just end up 20 years later in the same position.

submitted 31 days ago • 22 comments

a pox on the houses of everyone, in the UK, the US or elsewhere who, despite not seeing themselves as reactionaries, decided that trans kids were somehow the most important issue in the world at a time when so much else was going on, and who got their wishes now, but at what cost

submitted 31 days ago • 19 comments

It’s very funny to me that people who leave the Labour Party whether from the left or the right will invariably define everything they do again in relation to the Labour Party including trying to replicate some of its most toxic internal dynamics wherever they go

submitted 32 days ago • 10 comments

Said this re the grooming gangs and we’re back to the same thing. Unclear what exactly failed in social services/how, bc they’ve been scant with info. But Britain does expect children’s services to be a firewall vs threats it’s appalled by, while entirely deprioritising them the rest of the time

submitted 34 days ago • 6 comments