James Lloyd

something quite brain-melting about the hard right's position apparently now being "we hate all Muslims and distrust Muslim states, aside from that one Muslim place that still has slavery because that sounds fun"

Genuinely convinced one of the reasons the British right has gone off Singapore/LKY-posting and replaced it with Gulf-posting is that at some point some of them clocked that "doing things the SG way" meant "state backed multiculturalism and ethnonationalist social media baiting is literally illegal"

I know this is uncomfortable to admit, but there is a small area in England's second city where people are just not integrated with the rest of society. Many of them hold views that arguably go against British values.

Yes, we need to talk about the Tory conference in Manchester.

Something bleakly funny that the tyranny that infects America is not some kind of nouveau 20th century authoritarianism, but truly 17th century monarchic "rule without parliament"

Honestly I hate Jenrick more than Farage. Far more sinister because of the speed of his transformation from off-the-shelf Tory mediocrity into dead-eyed National Front race-baiter

The UK is within spitting distance of having more murders portrayed annually on TV shows and movies set in the country than occur in real life

Most people looking at Halo: waow so futuristic

Me looking at Halo: Where the fuck is your tube artillery? What do you mean you don't have mortars? Why do your infantry have no disposable RPGs?

Me: it’s ironic that the Tories are proposing this colossal new spending and infrastructure measure when they have systematically gutted state capacity before

The Tories: no no, we actually want to gut it even more now, like firing a quarter of the civil service

Just *fundamentally* unserious

It’s happened again

Emmanuel Macron

🚨🚨 Do not answer calls from unknown +33 callers 🚨🚨

You may be at risk of this man promising to appoint you prime minister of a western European state with no functioning parliamentary majority

Bit on the nose that one of the few stands at Tory conference is Dignity in Dying

This is all true. What the UK needs is a good long spell of properly conservative government, say for 14 years or so, and to exit major liberal international institutions; that will finally begin to roll back the left-wing capture of the country

If you want to understand modern britain just assume the state in 2010 forgot that it could like spend money and it becomes performatively louder about its power and SUPER bans things it cant enforce instead

The example I always use is that governments everywhere have just accepted the massive rise in phone scams as something that can't be helped, but demand we trust them with micromanaging the country's demographics

It's a strategy that amounts to:
> Ignoring or even tarnishing strengths
> Constantly bringing up major weak spots, while repeating the failings that made them weak spots
> Missing open goals
> Paying no attention to voters you should be targetting

Julia Roberts in a tweed jacket

Andrew Garfield in a denim shirt

IMHO, the posters for After the Hunt look like ads for Marks & Spencers' autumn range.

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

Oh you're telling me Westminster journalists are credulous idiots who have turned their brains into porridge online, you're telling me this now, for the first time

You'd have thought the PM doing his big speech on the former should have ended the confusion, and yet, that's not how Starmerism works.

Trying to stop Tracey from going to a Saudi comedy festival is a solid 30 Rock B plot

Sorry Bake Off but “a chocolate reset” sounds like a sex act that’s banned in all states below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Wait you’re saying clinging on raggedly against a Chelsea playing with ten men for 85 minutes wasn’t a turning point for Amorim’s United!?

If I were the Labour government, I would simply govern on behalf of the people who elected me in 2024 and might vote for me next time.

Aside from anything else, I do not understand why Labour feel the need to issue mea culpas on their immigration stance when they weren’t in power from 2010-2024.

ok but while we’re on the subject seven Premier League clubs is at least one too many

Experimental post: The Inevitable March of Time
From the moment of this post, Super Mario Bros. is now closer to World War II than it is to the present day.

Look, small boat migrants are:

- possessed of an entrepreneurial spirit

- not afraid of the sea

- willing to risk death rather than stay in France

They certainly sound like natural Britons to me!

People say "autism never used to exist" and then you go to the Natural History Museum and the exhibit has a caption like "Born in 1762, The Revd [name] was famously irascible, steadfast in his routine, and dedicated his life to collecting 25,000 rare beetle specimens".