Duncan the Bee

Tax dodging immigrant worries about immigration.
They really are the worst of us.

Bubble chart from the Observer article showing the proportion of amendments and speaking time in the Lords being taken up by a very small number of members seeking to block progress. Main figures shown are discussed in article text.

A tiny few Lords are simply refusing to allow the House to come to any decisions on assisted dying. This is profoundly undemocratic. MPs put huge time into listening to the public during the Commons stages, and then had the courage to make difficult decisions there. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

Shameless hypocritical arseholes

At the level of pure grift and corruption Farage comes very close to Trump.

Five-time draft dodger and abject coward says what?

“We are putting Palantir on notice. This is a military surveillance company tied to authoritarian surveillance and the devastation in Gaza — and it has no role in our NHS.”

Green Party leader Zack Polanski on why Palantir must be kept out of the National Health Service.

An edit of a 'Traitors' confessional shot with Robert Jenrick sat in the chair. The caption identifies him as 'Robert' 44, Wannabe PM and a traitor'.

Tonight's turret meeting will be pretty awkward

Prayer for Uninteresting Times   Send me a slow news day, a quiet, subdued day, in which nothing much happens of note, save for the passing of time, the consumption of wine, and a re-run of Murder, She Wrote. Grant me a no news day, a spare-me-your-views day, in which nothing much happens at all, except a few hours together some regional weather, a day we can barely recall. Brian Bilston

This, please.

On Monday, Trump ran roughshod over intl law - the UK took no action.

On Tuesday, Trump threatened a NATO ally - the UK took no action.

Today, the UK supported Trump's military operation in the North Atlantic.

When will this govt stop appeasing Trump and stand up for the rule of law?

Pat Bagley cartoon

Cartoon by Pat Bagley, The Salt Lake Tribune

Screenshot of an archived tweet from Donald J. Trump dated October 9, 2012. The tweet claims that President Obama might launch military strikes in Libya or Iran due to falling poll numbers and describes him as desperate. The image shows the tweet in the older Twitter Web Client interface, with the timestamp visible at the bottom.

There’s always a tweet.

Couldn't agree more.

How to buy yourself a needy malignant narcissist? Just offer him a phony, made up "Peace Prize" & he's all your's!!!
No need for a formal ceremony as he'll snatch from the box & put it on all by himself. Both laughably pathetic AND pathetically laughable. 🤡 🫣

There's a lesson here for Labour and its approach to Reform UK.

Spot on

In honour of its proponents, I suggest that the Dmitriev-Witkoff proposal should henceforth be called the Dim-Wit Plan

And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.

Ah, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay MP, BBC critic and (checks notes) a pro-Nazi who the wartime Churchill coalition interned.

YouTube video by Goldmine Video 90s UK TV Advert BBC Complaints department Julie Walters French and Saunders Eastenders Attenborough

A good day to resurrect this:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaEA...

The BBC is in crisis in the same way that GB News would be if you put Owen Jones on the board armed with a veto and plenty of coffee.

the right winger who was appointed to lead the BBC in the hope of appeasing right wingers has been driven out by right wingers for not appeasing right wingers enough and the BBC has the chance to do the funniest thing ever

We have built a society in which people of different skin tones, religious backgrounds & cultures get along, share power, work alongside each other, procreate with each other, recognise the each other’s humanity and democratic rights. It is a STUNNING ACHIEVEMENT OF WORLD HISTORIC PROPORTIONS.

LIMERICK

It was the Medical Council’s belief,
That as a form of effective relief,
Paracetamol would
Be next to no good
From the pain of the Satsuma-in-Chief.

The remarks weren’t “about Charlie Kirk,” they were about how this administration is using Kirk’s death as an excuse to shut down critics … and they responded by proving him completely correct.

General pattern in regime change: the comedy gets better and then it gets banned.