Lee Curran

It's funny how for some things owning a £1m+ house In London makes you a out-of-touch wealthy elitist with luxury beliefs and then suddenly when it's tax time they're back to being ordinary salt of the earth folks living in an expensive city

I don't use the word lightly, but this is really just evil isn't it. "Your identity makes us uncomfortable so be gone from public spaces." Fuck off.

If you saw Shabana Mahmood’s idiotic and insulting display in the Commons this week and wondered: what kind of slack-jawed ignoramus would fall for this abysmal bullshit about how her ethnicity means you can’t tell her not to do migrant crackdowns? Well, the answer is: Guardian columnists.

Billionaires handing money back and forth, no one creating anything except carbon in the air. Anthropic buys Nvidia chips; Nvidia gives Anthropic billions to buy even more chips; Microsoft gives Anthropic billions, which Anthropic spends on Microsoft Azure, run by Nvidia, etc. An ouroboros of shit.

Behr et al didn't just support Starmer because he wasn't Corbyn, but because he appeared to match their ideal politician: a business-like administrator who mouthed conventional platitudes and had no interest in challenging the neoliberal orthodoxy. It is that worldview that has failed, not one man.

What percentage of the populace do we think could reasonably be described as crackdown-loving Thatcherites who non-negotiably demand austerity, cruel stomping upon minority groups, huge bungs for energy and tech company donors and unconditional participation in decades of America’s war crimes?

Rail worker who saved passengers from stabbings leaves hospital Samir Zitouni's family say they are "really happy" but that he faces a significant recovery.

So that hero guy who saved all those people on that train has left hospital, just in case you missed it because no fucker is keen to draw attention to it www.bbc.com/news/article...

It is a serious problem for our political discourse that the most consistently astute commentator in the country is someone posting anonymously on social media behind a rat avatar.

People are probably calling Labour racist because Labour keep being racist. If they want to stop being called racist they should stop doing racist things.

When the government accuses asylum seekers of being given "golden tickets" and "tearing the country apart" and the media cheers them on, you know the mainstream elite has accepted fascism as a valid alternative to the radical change needed to address the many crises this country is facing

The takeaway IMO is aggro centrism is an astonishing historic disaster. Not only does it not work - it delivers very little for the public, doesn’t address core problems of the era and disillusions the public with democracy itself - but it actively aids the far right and prepares the way for fascism

With the ending of permanent asylum, taxes on foreign students, two U-turns on income tax, a refusal to listen to business concerns about hiring costs, again I ask ‘who are Labour for?’ What is the vision underlying all these choices other than responding to last week’s polls?

Increasingly likely that "all pain, no gain" will be the title of the post-mortem of this government.

The UK govt: "Hmm, we might have to ban VPNs & a whole range of otehr basic privacy safeguards, to Protect The Children, y'know."

Also the UK govt: "It's perfectly fine to let Nazi billionaire & friend of Epstein Peter Thiel trawl through the entire corpus of NHS personal data on your children."

The only threat to the NHS is Wes Streeting. Solidarity with the BMA.

There are also big problems with the way the Guardian has reported this. Basically a puff-piece for their centrist golden boy.

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Again, maybe what the takeaway we should have from political reporter after political reporter not just getting chummy w ppl like Trump or Epstein (or RFK Jr 👀) but actively running interference for them—either in their coverage or privately—is that its an industry full of ppl that are Bad Actually™️

What's fascinating here is that as she rhymes off the list of gender critical people at Newsnight pursuing an explicitly gender critical agenda, in the context of a discussion of ideological capture at the BBC, she doesn't recognise that she was part of the ideological capture of the BBC by GCs.

NHS staff who visit patients at home say St George’s flags can mean ‘no-go zones’ Black and Asian staff left feeling ‘deliberately intimidated’, according to chief executive of one NHS trust

We cannot understand the emboldening of racists/fascists on the ground without centring the role of the discourse of mainstream elite

This Labour government, anything right of it and any media that does not cover them as enablers are responsible for this

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Happened to have the news on last night when Tim Davies resigned & I couldn't help but notice how, within the space of ~20 minutes, the story morphed from one about a dodgy edit aired over a year ago to the BBC's alleged "anti-Israel bias". Real stink of shit coming off all of this.

Moore rather gave the game away on Today just now when he mentioned climate change as one of the things on which the BBC should be impartial. Treating the truth and lies as though they are equal isn't impartiality, it's an abdication of the most basic journalistic responsibility

Imagine if someone had to resign every time the BBC misrepresented trans people, for example.

Athena Kugblenu @athenakugble... • 30m do you have any idea how nuts it is that people have lost their jobs for implying that Trump supported and encouraging the Capitol Hill riots when that is exactly what happened lol. we were all there in real time watching him tweet 'stop the count'. this is hysterical Athena Kugblenu @athenak... • 35m BYEEEEEEEE www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd... B BIC NEWS BBC director general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness resign - live updates It comes after a leaked memo criticised the editing of a documentary about

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve said words to the effect of “it can’t get any dumber or more insulting than this” but here’s the thing: it always can, and it always does.

The BBC's senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship

Can we just stop please? Just let it go. We are not anywhere close to “conscious” machines.

We’re going to look back on hot takes like this in 20 years and wonder how people fell for such clear fairytales.

Weird who gets an apology and retraction for Panorama episodes and who doesn't, isn't it?

Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’

This would be a more convincing argument if Keir Starmer had not himself made a whole series of promises which he then declared completely undeliverable as soon as he became leader www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

must-read analysis of how Musk's twitter is drenching new users with right-wing propaganda

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The billionaires can buy the newspapers and buy social media and buy attack ads, but they can't buy their way out of how much we fucking hate all of them.

Tonight's even more proof the mainstream reporters who are still on Twitter are suffering from a brain problem akin Havana Syndrome that is preventing them from accurately doing their jobs. They are being cooked alive by a snuff-focused apartheid algorithm.