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i think the wider point about all this nonsense is that the government is Officially Hapless and so the point of coverage is to take scalps and generally shove it around. And also that the overclass has radicalised into general hostility to representative government.
This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
i think the wider point about all this nonsense is that the government is Officially Hapless and so the point of coverage is to take scalps and generally shove it around. And also that the overclass has radicalised into general hostility to representative government.
Do you notice how the catch all excuse for an entire generation of awful public figures who have behaved horrendously, whether left or right, is: “the kids have all gone crazy on social media”. Do you see how it is in fact the old farts who have roasted each other’s brains on Twitter and Facebook.
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Do you notice how the catch all excuse for an entire generation of awful public figures who have behaved horrendously, whether left or right, is: “the kids have all gone crazy on social media”. Do you see how it is in fact the old farts who have roasted each other’s brains on Twitter and Facebook.
No, it’s the children who have humiliatingly and very publicly deranged their brains with Twitter dot com, while wandering drunkenly around their massive house
December 2, 2025 at 10:47 PM
No, it’s the children who have humiliatingly and very publicly deranged their brains with Twitter dot com, while wandering drunkenly around their massive house
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Even Kim Jung-un would be embarrassed by this bad theater.
Kristi Noem: "Sir, you made it through hurricane season without a hurricane. You kept the hurricanes away. We appreciate that."
December 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Even Kim Jung-un would be embarrassed by this bad theater.
Yeah, it’s not members of the public not joining in calling the police racist that is remarkable here. It’s the government and the right wing press jointly booting the police to defend the honour of fascist football hooligans. *That* is genuinely remarkable and unprecedented.
December 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Yeah, it’s not members of the public not joining in calling the police racist that is remarkable here. It’s the government and the right wing press jointly booting the police to defend the honour of fascist football hooligans. *That* is genuinely remarkable and unprecedented.
They may not even be lying when they say they believe this, that’s how bad it is.
December 2, 2025 at 9:26 PM
They may not even be lying when they say they believe this, that’s how bad it is.
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Reminder that when the Times had similar worries about Reform, its response was to give Farage this advice on implementation:
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
December 2, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Reminder that when the Times had similar worries about Reform, its response was to give Farage this advice on implementation:
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
"Removing a city’s worth of people would be an extended exercise. Identity cards would be a must if the population was to be sieved into legitimate and illegitimate camps"
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For non-Brits: nobody can afford to get sued by revved-up wingnuts and crackpots armed with JK Rowling’s money, and nobody wants to be the next organisation protested by the far right and monstered into the heart of the earth by the world’s most poisonous media outlets. So they are folding.
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Transphobes can afford to march across the country threatening to sue every institution they meet into submission.
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
December 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Transphobes can afford to march across the country threatening to sue every institution they meet into submission.
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
Parents of trans children daren't raise their heads for fear of a deluge of abuse and threats.
Is this justice? Is this liberty?
If you’re having to badger users into clicking on your product with a flag that won’t go away until they do, does that mean it’s a good product that people want
December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
If you’re having to badger users into clicking on your product with a flag that won’t go away until they do, does that mean it’s a good product that people want
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Remember, these regime-changers *do not* care about democracy. This is pure PR narrative. The US gladly coups democratically elected leaders (Mosaddegh, Lumumba, Allende, etc), and gladly props up actual autocracies (Saudi, Jordan, Egypt, etc) if it serves their interests.
December 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Remember, these regime-changers *do not* care about democracy. This is pure PR narrative. The US gladly coups democratically elected leaders (Mosaddegh, Lumumba, Allende, etc), and gladly props up actual autocracies (Saudi, Jordan, Egypt, etc) if it serves their interests.
The Led By Donkeys lads starting to look a bit terrorist groupy to me, maybe time for another proscription. MPs safety is the cornerstone of democracy etc and so on
December 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The Led By Donkeys lads starting to look a bit terrorist groupy to me, maybe time for another proscription. MPs safety is the cornerstone of democracy etc and so on
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"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain
12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, says watchdog
12 police officers would have faced gross misconduct cases over Hillsborough, says watchdog
None of the former officers accused by the IOPC will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired
Twelve police officers would have faced disciplinary cases of gross misconduct for a catalogue of professional failings relating to the Hillsborough disaster if they were still serving, the police watchdog has said.
However, no former officer named by the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) will face disciplinary proceedings because they have all retired. Some, including Peter Wright, the chief constable of South Yorkshire police at the time of the 1989 disaster, have died. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:20 PM
"We would have punished these guys if it hadn't taken us 4 decades to get round to it" is just a fantastic summary of police accountability in Britain
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V good point; the "at last a true conservative budget, this is exactly what we recommended and if we say otherwise at a later date will be lying" crowd were hoping for some vindication
Especially those that celebrated Truss and are desperate for redemption.
December 2, 2025 at 12:34 PM
V good point; the "at last a true conservative budget, this is exactly what we recommended and if we say otherwise at a later date will be lying" crowd were hoping for some vindication
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"Drawing a line under the mistakes and idiocies of the last few months means moving on from Corbynism. With all the dust having settled, it's clear this is what Your Party has started to do"
Going Beyond Corbynism
On Saturday evening I was in a foul mood. Throughout the day, on social media and YouTube, from text messages to WhatsApp updates, the news ...
averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 PM
"Drawing a line under the mistakes and idiocies of the last few months means moving on from Corbynism. With all the dust having settled, it's clear this is what Your Party has started to do"
Bless the Guardian for continuing to wallop Farage with this, and you can see he flails uselessly when he’s asked about it. But do you see how nobody else is stampeding to assist and, if anything, the right has rallied to his defence? What lessons should we learn here.
December 2, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Bless the Guardian for continuing to wallop Farage with this, and you can see he flails uselessly when he’s asked about it. But do you see how nobody else is stampeding to assist and, if anything, the right has rallied to his defence? What lessons should we learn here.
This is obviously correct and you can tell it is, because the MPs and media figures who spent the last two years screaming in terror at the public protesting genocide aren’t at all frightened now. They’re laughing, feeling silly that they were ever worried.
Your Party's antics assume a luxury the left does not have: time | Owen Jones
Legal spats, public denunciations and an obsession with internal process must be consigned to the past, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This is obviously correct and you can tell it is, because the MPs and media figures who spent the last two years screaming in terror at the public protesting genocide aren’t at all frightened now. They’re laughing, feeling silly that they were ever worried.
It’s starting to look like people aren’t going to warm to the Pundits’ Party after all.
December 2, 2025 at 8:09 AM
It’s starting to look like people aren’t going to warm to the Pundits’ Party after all.
Comical scenes here as Lord Mann - an extremely obvious idiot and blowhard - is dragged up to huff, roar and bullshit his way through yet another committee, while senior police officers quite reasonably explain what happened. Self-clowning shit, reported as if it’s *the cops* behaving horrendously.
Villa-Maccabi Tel Aviv ban evidence 'changed to fit decision', MPs told
West Midlands Police chiefs are providing evidence to MPs about the decision to ban Israeli fans.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Comical scenes here as Lord Mann - an extremely obvious idiot and blowhard - is dragged up to huff, roar and bullshit his way through yet another committee, while senior police officers quite reasonably explain what happened. Self-clowning shit, reported as if it’s *the cops* behaving horrendously.
Seems to me like it might actually have been helpful to have domestic production of pharmaceutical products, oh well, time to pay up because America’s mad emperor demanded it, I guess
"The NHS will have to pay 25% more for new drugs"
In the US pharmaceutical companies rip off patients & the UK govt has signed a deal with Trump so they can do the same to us here.
In the US pharmaceutical companies rip off patients & the UK govt has signed a deal with Trump so they can do the same to us here.
December 2, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Seems to me like it might actually have been helpful to have domestic production of pharmaceutical products, oh well, time to pay up because America’s mad emperor demanded it, I guess
Deliberately inflicting soulless, careerist status quo merchants who believe in nothing except imposing order upon yourselves and everyone else, and then sobbing into your frothy coffees because they just want to pander to the same people the Tories did and don’t think anything needs to change.
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December 2, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Deliberately inflicting soulless, careerist status quo merchants who believe in nothing except imposing order upon yourselves and everyone else, and then sobbing into your frothy coffees because they just want to pander to the same people the Tories did and don’t think anything needs to change.
This week, Kiran thinks the right wing press’s noses are out of joint because they repeated rubbish they’d been told by the Treasury. I have no idea whether that’s true, but I note a consistent theme of the era is lobby journos enraged because the government of the day made monkeys of them again.
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This week, Kiran thinks the right wing press’s noses are out of joint because they repeated rubbish they’d been told by the Treasury. I have no idea whether that’s true, but I note a consistent theme of the era is lobby journos enraged because the government of the day made monkeys of them again.
I like to listen to movie soundtracks while I’m working and Spotify just threw up the score from Under The Skin. Damn, I can tell I’m just going to be humming that to myself all week now.
December 1, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I like to listen to movie soundtracks while I’m working and Spotify just threw up the score from Under The Skin. Damn, I can tell I’m just going to be humming that to myself all week now.
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this is a key point. various elite centrists and liberals have become radically pilled on transphobia (likely on Vichy Twitter) and joined the right-wing exterminationist crusade
December 1, 2025 at 4:00 PM
this is a key point. various elite centrists and liberals have become radically pilled on transphobia (likely on Vichy Twitter) and joined the right-wing exterminationist crusade