Sam

What kind of creature bore you
Was it some kind of bat?
They can’t find a good word for you
But I can
TWAT

Seatbelts are woke

When the FT starts sounding like @edzitron.com you know the shit is hurtling inexorably towards the fan

Big accidental Shabana Mahmood energy from this post

Ever since my uncle died from cancer of the pancreas I’ve refused to take the Eurostar

Trolley problem cartoon with “Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions” on one track and “trans folks in the U.S.” on the other

Scientists at Loughborough University create 'world's smallest violin' The violin is smaller than a human hair and has

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Vichy Labour may lack principles and political skill but you have to respect their comic timing

They made the desert boom!

Someone needs to tell Shabana Mahmood that the strategy of putting a minority Home Secretary in to sanitise the racism only works if you don't call this much attention to it.

Reminded of the famous Thatcher quip re. her proudest achievement being Tony Blair and New Labour. Farage could say the same about Starmer and Vichy Labour despite his party having never been in government (or indeed having had more than 5 MPs)

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Income inequality in the UK reached all-time lows in the 70s. I’m not sure *The Times* and an academic who was expelled by Labour in 1980 and later became a founder member of the SDP can be seen as neutral arbiters of the state of the nation in 1975 lol

Lest we forget eh

This is totally of a piece with Lisa Nandy branding independent MPs as “sectarian” for supporting the WMP ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv away fans. The idea that other “UK communities” might view Palestinians as fully human is incomprehensible to these freaks. Even their impact assessments are Islamophobic

The hot dog suits are coming out all over Europe

Cool. In a just world everyone who claimed chanting “Death to the IDF” was antisemitism would be sued into penury as well

At the same time that data centre water & energy demands in some areas are acting as a material obstruction to housing development

I guess he turned the volume up

Still from the video for The Specials’ “Free Nelson Mandela"

He’s FREEEE-EEEEEE!/The sandwich fella

By the end of this year the recipient of the inaugural FIFA Peace Prize will likely have invaded Venezuela with the rabid encouragement of the latest recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

The C in C-PTSD stands for “condiment"

When the truth is a “blood libel”, it’s antisemitic not to lie

Very funny IMO that by stripping him of his titles and demoting him to “Andrew MOUNTBATTEN Windsor” the Royals are helpfully reminding everyone that noncing runs in the Family

This is what Vance says to himself every night just before he eats another packet of salt and vinegar Taytos with his eyes (h/t @blindboyboatclub.bsky.social)

HIS OWN FOUNDATION literally funded research published last year projecting that climate change would drive over 120 million additional cases of malaria in Africa by 2050
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ethical consumption under late capitalism

The Witch or The Lighthouse