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Starmer's anti-immigrant speech today wasn't just a moral and political embarrassment. It was also an intellectual embarrassment. inews.co.uk/opinion/star...

submitted 19 hours ago • 162 comments

Spain, you could do the funniest thing right now...

submitted 18 hours ago • 132 comments

The step-up in anti-migrant rhetoric from the government is shameful and dangerous. Migrants are our neighbours, friends and family. To suggest that Britain risks becoming “an island of strangers” because of immigration mimics the scaremongering of the far-right.

submitted 20 hours ago • 85 comments

You won't find an emptier suit outside of a department store. Hard to think of a major world leader this devoid of conviction and courage. Never really seen anything like it. It's like they discovered a new political quality called antileadership or something.

submitted 17 hours ago • 67 comments

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submitted 17 hours ago • 3 comments

Funny point about 'island of strangers' rhetoric, it assumes level of homogeneity in UK society pre-large scale migration that is patently absurd, as though regional, religious, socio-economic etc cleavages did not exist, as though the 'national community' was not actually series of sub-communities

submitted 17 hours ago • 8 comments

Having only been a political journalist under the Tories, I wondered if my work would be different under Labour. In reality, it's still just hearing an announcement then reporting on how horrified charities and experts are

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

After due consideration, having weighed up the relevant evidence, assessed the balance of arguments and gamed the likely implications, I have reached the conclusion that Keir Starmer can fuck off from a great height.

submitted 16 hours ago • 201 comments

Immigration and the UK — the main thing really is this: UK governments have, for ~ the last two decades, pursued anti-immigration policies. You tell me one positive outcome from that approach. There isn’t one. Not a single one in my view. There is, however, a very long list of harms caused.🧵

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

There is something bordering on abusive in the way ministers today are talking about public services – Jacqui Smith on universities, and Yvette Cooper on care homes. They are blaming institutions for decisions forced on them by government, without admitting they or changing anything.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

I am in favour of assisted dying but you simply cannot allow it in a country that hates the vulnerable and disabled as much as the UK.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

Older generations of middle aged men had to get up to read the Sunday papers whereas I can stay in bed as long as I like scrolling through huge screenshots of the worst bellends in Britain spouting off

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

pulling a critique of the bell curve from a university library but not the bell curve is as concise a way i can think of to describe the goal of the speech discourse in the past 15 years

submitted 2 days ago • 29 comments

Here's JSO's short cut of my protest rant on Politics Live. www.youtube.com/shorts/L_93v...

submitted 24 days ago • 46 comments

"The Empire is like America ten years from now".

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

extremely good response that goes way further than the headline tbh. liev schreiber: one of the good guys.

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

The Cass Review has been thoroughly, and repeatedly, debunked and discredited. It is time that people, especially the government, stop attempting to use it as some kind of get out for anti-trans and non-binary policies they absolutely know are harming people.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Wes Streeting speaking at policy exchange, a right-wing think tank, should finally confirm once an for all that he is, indeed, a right-wing lickspittel cunt

submitted 2 days ago • 39 comments

This guy must be employee of the month at the getting shoved into lockers factory.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

love that bbc made years and years about how the media enabled the rise of a far right politician as if they haven’t done the exact thing for farage

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

Under Labour’s welfare cuts, 1.3 million people with cancer, arthritis and other diseases could lose PIP. They could have just made the very wealthiest pay their fair share. What an absolute disgrace that they are choosing to make life harder for disabled people instead.

submitted 3 days ago • 50 comments

I get told “give Labour a chance!” “Where did you expect them to get us, in ten months?” If someone is driving in the wrong direction, you point it out before they reach their destination. They have poor plans for the NHS, and are increasing privatisation. I’m not waiting 5 years to talk about it🚨

submitted 4 days ago • 52 comments

We seem to be intent on making it ever harder for migrants to integrate, whilst complaining that migrants don’t integrate

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

You mean like by taking some kind of English language test? You know, like the English language test most have to take already? Labour is just pushing things which already exist at this stage.

submitted 5 days ago • 65 comments

🧵 Seeing posts about the Papal conclave is really tiresome. Yes, we know you watched the movie & that, actually, your knowledge of Roman Catholicism is suspect. Worse are the journos ‘predicting’ the next Pope. The self-described ‘Catholic’ ones are far right fundamentalist [1]

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

Wouldn't rejoining the EU be a better battleground to fight Reform on than performative cruelty to immigrants? Reform will always win the latter, despite Labour's very best efforts to ape them. But undoing Brexit shifts the narrative very significantly away from immigration as the main focus.

submitted 5 days ago • 47 comments

“We could get migration down to zero by the time of the next election” - no you couldn’t and also why would you want to? We are not demons and ghouls, we are humans; but dehumanisation like this is why it feels like Europe is only about five years away from something unimaginably terrible.

submitted 4 days ago • 12 comments

LLM defenders are always like, "Everyone uses it! There's loads of misinformation about AI!" Okay, then how come whenever I talk about how shit it is, I get almost universal agreement, and every time a company uses genAI to make something, the audience rebels against it en masse.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

always this

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I have never used ChatGPT in my life. This isn't to brag, but to illustrate how useless it is. Because I am exhausted and would take any worthwhile assistance offered at this point.

submitted 5 days ago • 19 comments

A lot about societies treatment of artists went downhill as soon as people forgot it's a craft one works at becoming skilled at, not some magical power you have bestowed upon you by fairies upon your birth.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

voice in my head said today “late night talk show hosts were like streamers before twitch” as if there aren’t still talk shows and as if I’ve ever been on twitch

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

that fucking second slide is everything. art and the money it makes has NOT disappeared, it's just spirited away into bottomless corporate pockets. It's still profitable to endorse and support the arts, it just never seems like it is, because it's all immediately taken

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

“I asked ChatGPT,” well I asked your mom and she said you’ve always been a disappointment

submitted 6 days ago • 57 comments

A crossover inspired mainly by the fact that my wife misheard “Ra’s al Ghul” as “Roz al Ghul.”

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

FUN FACT: Since 2019, Nigel Farage's Reform has taken more than £2.3 MILLION from oil and gas interests - making up an astonishing 92% of the party's donations. Reform are NOT for ordinary people. They're in the pockets of the big oil lobby.

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the Oracle of Delphi and she said “artificial intelligence is a hack job”

submitted 7 days ago • 18 comments

Seems like 90% of U.K. media has already decided Farage is the next PM. So I guess we’ll see how much sway legacy media has over the population and how easily manipulatable we are as a nation.

submitted 7 days ago • 42 comments

In poll after poll you see these same kind of numbers, and for whatever reason, the takeaway is that YOUNG men have a fascism problem when clearly OLDER men are more likely to be fascist according to every poll

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments

Maybe some boys might be getting into Andrew Tate because their fathers are intellectually lazy and pathologically incurious

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

This is exactly right on what the government is getting badly wrong on the politics and policy of immigration:

submitted 7 days ago • 7 comments

Immigration is not the problem it’s now widely believed to be. Brexit is much more of a problem than it’s reported to be. So how can govt achieve growth, fix public svcs and deal with the cost of living if fear of Reform means it won’t be honest with us about these 2 elephants in the room? It can’t.

submitted 8 days ago • 114 comments