captain beefheart's barrel

It’s a shame world class fencers don’t get to kill a guy even one time

reports are in that he got debated right in the neck. he got debated at long range and offered no commensurate counterpoint. also his blood exploded

but it was ‘political correctness’ that stopped the police properly investigating

Fascism is here

Hard to overstate to non-Brits just how conservative UK society really is, especially English society.

“I asked chatgpt” well i asked your wife. She’s leaving you, Steve; for being such a massive loser

Finnish foreign secretary on BBC News talking about the joint condemnation of the situation in Gaza keeps talking about how collective punishment is wrong. If it’s wrong now it was wrong 2 years ago too you spineless gutless coward. You and the rest of the liberal West belong in prison

Everytime someone from my hometown posts a group photo it story there are new boys who have dropped. Just fully fledged adult boys, often with beards. Spawned into existence just now in an adult state

The Sycamore Gap Had it Coming. My latest for Unherd

Inevitably some people are saying "it's just one officer" but as the final paragraph of the article makes clear, Kent police are backing that officer up:

the right are incredibly effective at shaming the left into submission, even the hardest leftist seem to be embarrassed at the idea of being 'woke' these days, even though it's the correct thing to be, even if it's annoying.

it’s so cool how almost everything is a scam and is simulatenously killing us

this is so embarrassing i was flirting with a woman at the park and a large bird picked me up and carried me away

Care whistleblower 'who saw elderly resident being punched' could face removal from Britain

Like thousands of foreign care workers, Meera's employer sponsored her visa. Unless she can find another sponsor, she now faces the prospect of removal from the country.

Very cool, Britain

DMG 2025: Communism in the Coalfields As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope…

As socialists from all over the world prepare to attend the 139th Durham Miners’ Gala, we explore the story of the Gala’s iconic banners, which celebrate our historic solidarity and continuing hope in the face of oppression and hatred.

i used a ray to shrink a human man down to the size of bean and then i ate him

One of the funniest news diagrams I've ever seen.

I'm beginning to doubt the sincerity of Keir Starmer's campaign against antisemitism.

just to be clear this would mean that I wouldn’t have gotten maternity pay despite also being a British citizen

A telegraph headline saying “Starmer: I’m a hard bastard”

I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so hard at a headline.

Rachel Shabi: "For 20mths we've been watching the most grotesque things.. slaughter, war crimes.. people are watching govts & media.. give financial/military support to Israel while it does this.. I respect any artist who uses their platform to call attention to this.."

Well said

The flavoursome summer tomato is sublime

On LBC @zoejardiniere.bsky.social lists 3 previous instances where military aircraft have been targeted by campaigners in order to prevent them being used in war crimes, and she describes the govt banning Palestine Action as terrorists as an abuse of state power.

Well said.

You’d think someone might ask why distributing aid in Gaza has proceeded like the opening twenty minutes of Saving Private Ryan, every day, for weeks. Is it normal to fire machine guns at starving civilians trying to collect flour? Because we are currently at one, two or three massacres *per day*.

An incredible moment

Check out what counts as conclusive proof of extremism at this point, then consider what *does not* count as extreme views. Roaring support for a regime whose soldiers are shooting starving civilians by the hundred? Fine. Saying the Irish prank band shouldn’t be jailed? Terrorism.

A man shouted Britain First as he shot an MP dead and Britain First are not proscribed.