Adam

I happen to agree with Giles Coren that restaurants that serve Giles Coren should not be subject to food hygiene standards

I commute four hours a day to work in the office - Gen Z aren't lazy Lily-May Edwards travels two hours each way from north Wales to Liverpool to work in the office.

I can't even work out what this is manufacturing consent for but it's not good

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kompromat is only really valuable if it isn't already public knowledge. You couldn't even call the depth of Mandelson and Epstein's relationship an "open secret"

Honestly it would have been less embarrassing for Starmer to have said he appointed Mandelson because he was loyal to his friends

Be fair. Just because everyone who has ever been on the internet has burned into their retina images of Mandelson belt shopping and blowing out candles with Epstein doesn't mean a government vetting process could possibly pick that up

In fairness, how could these professional journalists with all their connections be expected to know what all of us have known for years without having had to conduct any research whatsoever? How could a government vetting process be expected to pick up something like this?

Turning the dial on the consent manufacturing machine to 11 and a bit

They're going to start paying welfare benefits in NFTs

It's all about plausible deniability for these people. It's much harder to pretend - to yourself - that you're not immoral when it's in the news

Labour can only punch left

Something extra cowardly about the reference to ICE doing more of this under Obama. OK - so are you saying it's good or bad?

How the Right Gets In

Pretty sure the "high IQ" crowd are the ones with a near monopoly on "loud talking"

Mine, all mine

You don't gotta hand it (your Nobel Peace Prize) to Donald Trump

Curious how supportive Trump is of the civil liberties of protesters against the government of Iran

They are also invariably the ones most resistant to paying into the public purse

Reckon their leadership overestimate how far his disdain for paying tax is enough of a selling point

Trying to imagine the response if there were a Labour Friends of Russia event

Jesus it's lucky that the thing that's essential for Labour to do aligns perfectly with the political ideology that he claims not to have here

Such a shame for him because he'd obviously really like to do the progressive things but the vote share, you see

There's a word for the kind of regime where disdain for the president gets you killed

Two in five arrested for last summer’s UK riots had been reported for domestic abuse Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse

I'll ignore your misuse of the word "native" but now do you want to share the mug shots of white paedophiles and sexual abusers? On this issue: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

The obsession with "grooming gangs" from the far right in the UK is very much rooted in them wanting a monopoly on child abuse

The definition of chutzpah

Some of the changes don't fall into that category, but the freezes on income tax and NI thresholds absolutely do

Pretty remarkable that Reeves managed to find the most cowardly, regressive ways to raise tax possible

All the same people who "strive" to send their kids to private school