Liam

Absolutely insane.

Labour would have purged and smeared someone like Zohran Mamdani.

Wes Streeting's politics align far more closely with Andrew Cuomo.

The lessons from Mamdani are about how to defeat both the right - and the bankrupt "centre".

🚨 NEW | Labour falls to 3rd place

➡️ REF – 31% (-2)
🔵 CON – 19% (+1)
🔴 LAB – 18% (-3)
🟠 LD – 13% (+1)
🟢 GRN – 12% (+1)

Via @Moreincommon_, 31 Oct-3 Nov (+/- vs 27 Oct)

A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power's landlords and the left merely tenants

Because the left are viewed by the press and by our abysmal political class as hated enemies and as automatically and fundamentally illegitimate, in a way that even the nastiest and craziest right wingers are not. Because Thatcherism itself is their only non-negotiable red line.

You can almost see the exact day Corbyn stopped leading the Labour Party on the graph.

A red show cocker spaniel sits in the back of a car. She is wearing a plastic cone on her head and it is hiding part of her face at a comedic angle.

If you needed a boost on a Monday.

Two kings.

Poll predicts Keir Starmer will LOSE his seat to the Green Party at next election Though there's still a few years left until our next General Election, the Green Party renaissance will give Sir Keir some food for thought.

Let's make this happen. Together.

www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/pol...

It is kind of fun how you can now say “Sure, but that was an idiotic and wildly dishonest hate campaign Morgan McSweeney concocted out of Facebook posts by random members of the public, at the behest of Peter Mandelson” and nobody will object to that any more, because they all know it’s true.

Disabled people warn of ‘severe’ consequences if chancellor removes Motability VAT exemption Disabled people have warned of “severe” consequences if the chancellor goes ahead with reported plans to remove the Motability car scheme’s VAT exemption in next month’s budget. Disability News Ser…

Disabled people have warned of “severe” consequences if the chancellor goes ahead with reported plans to remove the #Motability car scheme’s VAT exemption in next month’s budget.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...

Disabled people face ‘systemic’ barriers in accessing community equipment, parliamentary inquiry finds A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called on the government to draw up a national strategy to address the “deeply troubling” and “systemic” barriers that prevent disabled people accessing the…

A cross-party group of MPs and peers has called on the government to draw up a national strategy to address the “deeply troubling” and “systemic” barriers that prevent disabled people accessing the equipment they need to live independently.
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-peo...

A crochet spitfire in front of a building. No, really.

A different view of the crochet spitfire - no, I really do mean it, it's a full sized spitfire made from wool. This angle shows it apparently on tow by a rope of poppies, because of course it is.

www.yoursouthport.com/blog/life-si...

In Flanders Fields, the crochet grows...

The "sip...bloody hell" meme isn't strong enough here.

A man on the train was very clearly looking for a way to power his phone and getting frantic about it. I had a power bank that I could have easily lent at no detriment to myself, however, he was wearing a Leeds United shirt and I am a Bradford City fan so he can GET TO FUCK

SEPTEMBER 2 2017, 12:O1AM, THE TIMES Truth Hurts Not for the first time, The Times has been criticised for reporting the facts as it finds them. This is a kneejerk response that betrays a blind spot on the left n a series of reports this week The Times has questioned the appropriateness of a London borough's decision to place a young Christian girl with conservative Muslim foster carers. Documents seen by this newspaper raised serious doubts as to whether Tower Hamlets officials were putting the child's interests and happiness first. Social

I note that the Times quietly deleting their crank reporting is not a lapse in standards: it is *a significant improvement* on the last few years, when the paper would report wildly inflammatory drivel then roar abuse at people who asked them to stop doing it, until people stopped talking about it.

Simon Nixon @nixonsimon.bsky.so... • 12m One of the worst aspects of the @thetimes.com fake news story is that the paper's first response was to cover up their shoddy journalism by smearing their source, claiming he had had misled them when their reporter had simply emailed the wrong Bill deBlasio. H/t Also, why is a supposed "paper of record" deleting its fake news stories rather than correcting the record? It would be far better if they were left online with a full explanation, not least so that future historians studying the collapse of western liberalism can trace the degradation of the media

This guy was editorial lead at the Times between around 2018-22 or so, and wouldn’t it be helpful to have people explaining what exactly was going on there.

there is no debate to be had about integration in the UK. The debate should be about what we do about the way we indulge delusional people by pretending their arguments are not bad faith.

DWP’s plans ‘in tatters’ as McFadden scraps white paper on further disability cuts Ministers have dumped plans for a major white paper containing a swathe of further cuts and reforms to disability benefits, following months of activism by disabled people and allies that forced th…

Labour scrap disability cuts white paper, following action by Disabled people... but ministers could use secondary legislation to “sneak things through in dribs and drabs and hope changes won’t be noticed”.

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwps-plans-i...

Via @johnpring.bsky.social

Melody Maker(?) cutting: "What would you do if you were Prime Minister?" Mark E. Smith's answer: "I'd halve the price of cigarettes, double the tax on health food then I'd declare war on France."

A friend sent me this only yesterday.

Notable people who could lose their seats to the Greens:

David Lammy (Tottenham)
Darren Jones (Bristol North West)
Hilary Benn (Leeds South)
Kim Johnson (Liverpool Riverside)
Lucy Powell (Manchester Central)
Clive Lewis (Norwich South)

Andrew is a sort of non-prince now, a… well, I’m sure there’s some sort of portmanteau word that would describe him well.

Gentiana Lutea — Mona Caron in Le Locle, Switzerland.

Portrait of Andrew Mountbatten (hiding).

Danny Baker @prodnose • 12h Taking imaginary titles away from someone who allegedly had sex with an underage girl. Is that how it works for toffs? For the "upper" class? Whereas if he was just some bloke...

I notice that 15 years of screaming all-channels terror about librulz helping Asian sex offenders do crimes - for no well-explained reason - has precisely overlapped with it becoming grimly clear that the upper echelons of society are infested with rapists, child molesters and arse-grabbers.

Portrait of King Charles III with Sir James Wilson Vincent Savile and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor.

Why won’t people talk about slow ghosts?

Because they’re the last taboo.

Westminster Voting Intention:

RFM: 32% (=)
GRN: 17% (+2)
CON: 16% (-1)
LAB: 16% (=)
LDM: 12% (=)
SNP: 2% (=)

Via @findoutnow.bsky.social, 29 Oct.
Changes w/ 22 Oct.

So why does the BBC label the academic and economist Faiza Shaheen an "activist" but refuse to do the same for the former academic, turned anti-migrant activist Matt Goodwin?

If we ever saw a future where body augmentation was a thing, instead of cybernetic eyes, arm blades, super strength or titanium bones I'd go for an extended bladder so I could sleep through the night without needing to get up to pee. Something actually useful.

Some guy: Seconded. This is one of the most pressing issues facing the UK. Cut the Russian funding, block the Russian troll farms and you've almost wiped out the toxic rise of far right extremism.

Was it Russian bots that made Nigel Farage a household name? Was it Russian bots that spent the last fifteen years furiously telling the public e.g. liberals who refuse to be racist are helping minority group criminals to commit horrendous sex crimes. And so on, and on, and on.

I did my best derisive laugh.

The Israeli military killed 46 Palestinian children overnight.

That's 10 more than the total number of Israeli children killed on 7th October.

Yet there was more outrage over the fictional beheadings of Israeli babies than these 46 kids.

That's easy: because there's no outrage