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And yet, even this daily unscientific encouragement of gambling is always more dignified and coherent than Thought for the Day.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

This shit is so grim. These guys are grifting like they're stripping the copper wires out of a slowly collapsing building.

submitted 1 day ago • 199 comments

Just extraordinary that Brexit appears to have caused the number of civil servants to rise by more than a third, up by 131,000. The loons didn't put that on the side of their bus

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

submitted 2 days ago • 469 comments

Containers of cyanide swilling around the North Sea are why you should be sceptical of any politician promising a bonfire of regulations.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

To repeat: the Trump administration peace deal was always a deal for peace between Russia and the US, not Russia and Ukraine. In it, it seems, the US gets Ukraine's resources, Russia gets Ukraine's land, and Ukraine gets to say thank you.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

Yes, yours

submitted 4 days ago • 18 comments

The question about the 2020 election is the sickest, apparently requiring job candidates to deny reality in order to be appointed. Dangerous, horrible stuff.

submitted 6 days ago • 11 comments

HEY EVERYONE REMEMBER WHEN TRUMP WAS IMPEACHED FOR DENYING AID TO UKRAINE BECAUSE HE WANTED ZELENSKY TO LIE AND SAY BAD THINGS ABOUT BIDEN AND ZELENKSY WOULDN’T DO IT? Maybe literally one fucking American newspapers could mention this in their, “think pieces,” about what happened yesterday.

submitted 11 days ago • 433 comments

UK did a great job of sucking-up to the school bully, and in activating the latent but potent deference-snobbery-flattery of the Crown. Good, short-term expedients. But in longer-term UK still needs to extricate itself from US, and minimise/eliminate exposure to its abuses of power.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

The AI madness is so far out of control that "Our product wrote a completely false news alert and credited a real news source" doesn't even rate a corporate comment, let alone an ashamed apology and pulling the product www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 89 days ago • 79 comments

World’s richest man believes homelessness is a “propaganda”

submitted 93 days ago • 885 comments

Oh great job guys. You know that tech oligarch who amassed obscene wealth by doing financialization? He was super left wing until he saw your post

submitted 100 days ago • 105 comments

It's kind of funny to see this happening so literally except they're getting mad they can't get to the last panel.

submitted 116 days ago • 116 comments

The people of Clacton thank you, Nigel, for your service. ~AA

submitted 127 days ago • 11 comments

Kemi Badenoch and four leading Shadow Cabinet members have all received donations from funders of a Tufton Street climate science denial group Badenoch now says she is a "Net Zero sceptic" and backs calls to scrap "radical" climate change measures bylinetimes.com/2024/11/05/k...

submitted 128 days ago • 25 comments

Brexiter who moved his business to Singapore and bought vast swathes of land to avoid IHT is now given media space to have a good old moan. None of these people gave a single shit when their Brexit took our rights and grenaded our economy. God knows how they can show their faces let alone comment.

submitted 129 days ago • 75 comments

£1.4 billion in a single year. There ought to be an inquiry into how the whole debacle was allowed to happen. Except it would just increase the costs. Absolutely astonishing waste of public funds.

submitted 134 days ago • 7 comments

I bet you think you could not possibly despise Boris Johnson any more than you already do. But here he is, while shilling for Trump, trying to equate the democratic push in the UK for a softer Brexit or a referendum on the deal, to the violent January 6 attack on the Capitol. Utterly contemptible.

submitted 135 days ago • 77 comments

It's hard really to express the contempt I have for everyone involved in how columns like this get made. Just utter unfactual crap that everybody involved knows is utter unfactual crap.

submitted 136 days ago • 10 comments

We are here: theonion.com/both-campaig...

submitted 136 days ago • 7 comments

The year is 2044 and elections are being held between Earth President James Milktoast and Revulon, Hordemaster of the invading Arachni Host. Reporter: Ken who are you voting for? Me: I’m undecided. Reporter: Isn’t Revulon saying he will eat all humans? /1

submitted 139 days ago • 35 comments

The British legion represents the original Antifa.

submitted 139 days ago • 1 comment

my wife googled “united airlines customer service” the other day and the AI summary seemed legit enough so she called the number that it listed. she got like 30 seconds into the call before they were asking for her BANK INFO. a scammer had gotten their number prominent enough that the AI grabbed it.

submitted 154 days ago • 57 comments

www.bbc.com/news/article... Excellent new verb there

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

A reminder that Robert Jenrick's most recent donor is a sanctioned oligarch whose firm has extensive fossil fuel interests. bylinetimes.com/2024/10/17/r...

submitted 144 days ago • 37 comments

This is an eg of phenomenon identified by my brilliant co-author Elisabeth Ivarsflaten nearly two decades ago: "reputational shields". In a world where anti-prejudice norms matter, parties who want to mobilise contentious views need a "shield" from accusations of prejudice 🧵

submitted 148 days ago • 14 comments

Day 500 of this 'scandal' and I still can't quite work out what it's supposed to be

submitted 148 days ago • 23 comments

What an absolute carry-on. The UK goes through the motions of 'choosing' the USB-C standard even though it has already been chosen by the EU and the market. H/t @chanret.bsky.social www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/u...

submitted 148 days ago • 8 comments

The Tories are lost because every part of their ideology has failed. Commentary on the leadership race has focused on the candidates, but their fundamental problem is that their entire worldview has collapsed. By me, for Bloomberg - £ but screengrabs: 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

submitted 152 days ago • 23 comments

reskeet with a tweet you still think about: This is bound to be an immortal classic

submitted 154 days ago • 5 comments

Keir Starmer asked by a Tory MP why he's cancelled Boris Johnson's 40 new hospital plan Starmer: "Because the promise of 40 new hospitals didn't involve 40, didn't involve hospitals, they weren't new and they weren't funded."

submitted 155 days ago • 22 comments

It’s simply too much to bear that the media can’t universally call this man unfit to serve

submitted 239 days ago • 20 comments

Former Tory MP Amber Rudd skewers the charlatan that is Boris Johnson in her review of his memoir Unleashed. As bad as things were in the UK under Johnson, it’s clear that with his unsuitability for office it could have been significantly worse.

submitted 158 days ago • 24 comments

well I'm in floods of tears www.thetimes.com/article/5ecd...

submitted 159 days ago • 103 comments

From the folks who campaigned for, then against, their own "oven ready deal"

submitted 160 days ago • 4 comments

LAPD officer raids medical facility, thinking it's a dope farm, runs into MRI room with his gun. Gun gets stuck to the strong magnets of the MRI, so cop hits emergency shutdown, discharging all of the helium inside. An epic blunder causing huge damage. Just, wow. www.france24.com/en/live-news...

submitted 165 days ago • 57 comments

Keir Starmer once sat in a rich friend's house.

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