It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

every one of these names sounds like a very drunk person very earnestly trying to tell you which stop to get off at

Jenrick casting 1980s British football hooliganism as something that was easily dealt with by police and not an era defining issue which we're still living with the consequences of today... He's genuinely the most unserious person in British politics rn

The key to understanding here may be that these people don’t have a fucking clue what they’re talking about, but they have never let that stop them running their stupid mouths regardless. Why would they? They are the most brilliant and wise people in Britain.

It’s worse than that IMO: they have so utterly bullshat themselves into a corner that they can’t get out of it, and are absolutely committed to whatever horseshit and drivel is now required. The only question left is whether this is tactical, or whether they are proper wingnuts who believe it all.

Starmer condemns decision to ban Maccabi Tel Aviv fans from Aston Villa game on.ft.com/3WdOJia

I've spent my life arguing against all football fans being tarred with the same brush, but to not even acknowledge that Maccabi Tel Aviv's far-right fans posed a threat to public order, and Birmingham's Muslims in particular, is next-level racist gaslighting

New figures from Shelter show that the number of children homeless or in temporary accommodation in England has reached its highest level since records began.

172,420 kids without a permanent home of their own- an 8% increase in a single year.

Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
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The politician in South Carolina who has introduced a bill redefining contraception as abortion also wants people who share websites to be charged with aiding and abetting homicide.

It's really telling that mainstream journalists are doing stuff about the *possibility* of the ADF or the Heritage Foundation starting to influence UK politics, when the reality is that they have been here for years, spending huge quantities of cash and succeeding in areas like trans rights.