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Isabel Oakeshott: anti-migration commentator, economic migrant to Dubai, possible future evacuee of the very British state she insists is broken.

Isn’t it funny how mobility becomes acceptable when it’s your own?

AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability and every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.

[We see a close up of a young white male, tanned, white teeth, coiffed hair clearly an influencer on social media. It is an image such as you see when social media posts are shown on the news. In the corner of the screen is named a location: DUBAI. He is staring slightly off-camera for several silent panels of the comic strip. His eyes move slightly. He is having a thought.] From off-screen a newsreader’s commentary comes: NEWSREADER: Extraordinary images here of an expat in Dubai [The influencer’s eybrows raise slightly] …Having their first ever geopolitical thought. [CUT TO a BBC news scene. The BBC newsreader CLIVE MYRIE is talking to an interviewee next to the screen showing the social media influencer’s face. The interviewee’s name is David Jones]. CLIVE MYRIE: To explain the significance of this moment we’re joined by David Jones, our Expat Thoughts correspondent DAVID JONES: Clive, this is momentous It was caught on film at the end of an Instagram post titled: ‘Dubai Is Brilliant’. [Pointing at the screen, the influencer’s expression still the same] You can clearly see in the eyebrows here, the dawning realisation that there *might* be something in the world beyond his dickhead self. It marks a *huge* departure from all the Dubai Expat’s previous thoughts. CLIVE MYRIE: Which are…? DAVID JONES: You've Got To Get Yourself Out Here Mate, Everything Is So Clean, I Don't Have To Pay Taxes, I Am Incurious As To Why I Do Not Have To Pay Taxes, and Spa. CLIVE MYRIE: And might we see an expansion of these new Thoughts in coming days? DAVID JONES: I think we can expect to see: “I Deserve To Be Airlifted By A Country I Pay No Tax To” CLIVE MYRIE: Mmm. [Ends]

We are deeply concerned by reports that military commanders are framing the Iran war as “God’s plan” and invoking Armageddon in official briefings.

Service members swear an oath to the Constitution — not to any religion.

We are reviewing these reports and will demand accountability.

Or a Stop the War Rally.

I'm fascinated by Bernard Sleigh, I have a print of his Ancient Map of Fairyland on my stairs. He was an interesting character by the sounds of it, finally retiring to the Cotswolds, insisting on his belief in fairies.

the british government not only hates me because I'm foreign, but also it wants to give away my stuff for free to billionaires

OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!

Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds

But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣

Right, let's get started...

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No, Shabana Mahmood, people seeing failing state support and crumbing infrastructure don't have either legitimate concerns or a legitimate grievance against immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers.

They have a legitimate grievance against governments.

Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social

Days left to act: Ban cruel cages for hens Right now we have a unique opportunity to stop this industrial-scale torture: The UK government has proposed ending the use of cages for hens, and they have launched an official consultation to ask th...

Can you do me a quick favour today? ✍️

The government is finally asking if they should ban cages for hens in the UK. 🐔🐔 Lobbyists are trying to block it, so we need huge numbers to show them that the public wants this ban NOW: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/en...

"So Mr Trump, what was it that first attracted you to the country with the third largest oil reserves in the world?"

Excellent thread 🙂👏

Looks like that Nobel Peace Prize is in the bag now.

Absolutely this. I’ve watched more than 50 years of war from that damn country and the pattern is always the same: mass civilian deaths, defeat for America, and chaos in their wake as they turn tail and run. They change nothing, they improve nothing. They make everything worse. Toddlers with guns.

Starmer’s response to yesterday feels like the end of his leadership

There’s no way can compare Greens to Reform and expect to win back the voters that have left you

Yeah, having now slept on it properly, it is weird that no losing parties statement really reckons with why people might have chosen the Greens and instead they all chose to blame sectarianism. It does suggest that they still don't really recognise people who vote Green as, you know, real people.

We finished watching Small Prophets last night. I hope it’s not a spoiler to say that it’s an utterly beautiful, funny, warm, sad, heartbreaking, heartwarming, strange, insightful, wonderful thing and I suggest – no, INSIST – you watch it as soon as humanly possible.

Yep

I think people (columnists/reporters) have to stop declaiming that whatever Trump’s just done is the beginning of a new strategic phase. He’s just a man who unceasingly channel flicks through his own idiotic notions.

Perfect satire. 10/10, no notes.

Ah… no, wait, I’m hearing… we’re just getting news that this is… real. Yes, it’s real. Please recalibrate your satire meters.

Matt Goodwin there, Reform candidate who evidently forgot to “tell” enough people to vote Reform

Abortion was phase I, trans healthcare was phase II, birth control is phase III

Personally I think linking your healthcare system to your unemployment/state financial support system in this way is absolutely fucked.

Give to us our dumb tech, our software that doesn't try to do things for us, our fridges that are nothing but fridges, our cars with keys to turn, our physical buttons, give us disconnection, give us agency, give us our choice

As ever, ever, fuck this and every other dominant beauty standard, they are all designed to keep us in bizarre submission - this way and other ways.

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a ink drawing of a man tackling another man swinging a sword by grabbing him around the waist and putting his face in his crotch

swordfighting tactics, germany, 16th century

Sorry this is "unemployment fears" at the same time as they are pushing AI to take people's jobs, which is obviously something that will start with the entry level jobs that young people need?

CAN THEY NOT THINK.

#Labour #Starmer

Didn't Starmer... Basically have to be forced by his own MPs to abolish the two child cap?

And didn't he pull the whip on seven MPs for supporting an amendment to abolish it?

Where is the moral centre of his government?