Michael Carley

On a similar note: small business owners whose online presence doesn't say the country they are in. Oh, you are in Newcastle, you say. Is that in the UK, Canada, the US, Australia etc etc?

Help out your potential customers.

For example, do this, for the benefit of dopier customers.

I see Dishonest Bob Jenrick thinks that because his parents were in the (carefully unspecified) vicinity of an IRA bomb, armed agents of the state should be allowed to commit massacres like Bloody Sunday.

You know, I think Gavin and Harris might be the same.

Shame the Progressive Democrats are no longer around to back Gavin.

... I'll bite... what's an anglo? Is he trying to call us angels but is using a local spelling?

From the article: it’s absolutely striking how those worldviews – the one nation Tory, the Cameroonian Conservative – have been erased, in favour of relentless demonisation: of migrants, Muslims, benefit claimants and protesters

This latest revisionist nonsense from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social can only *possibly* be true if you were in a coma during the Cameron years.

Demonising migrants, Muslims, and *especially* benefit claimants was a CENTRAL PILLAR. What was the bedroom tax about, Zoe?

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Just a reminder that the reason these articles exist is because liberals need to pretend to still care about climate change when they have abandoned every single structural reform and are fully committed to disaster capitalism. Eugenics is the next step there.

Fire extinguisher next to a statue of Joan of Arc

Hell of a thing to put next to a statue of Joan of Arc. (h/t David Pilling)

"Britian loses"

One of the side-effects of the implosion of the Conservative party is how beyond amateurish their entire operation is now.

Even at a senior level the quality and experience of the people working for them is just incredibly low

Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

Ok so all that stuff about how parties can only win from the centre was bullshit then? Like I think I agree, but it would be great to clarify that point
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It strikes me as a more pertinent question to ask if any tenant had an issue with him

As a big fan of revenge and holding grudges I have thoroughly enjoyed the last two days. 16 years and then ending somebody's presidential hopes. Delicious

Tony Blair in a pilot’s uniform recommending a ‘snort of Yank bum’.

As Tony Blair is once again seeking attention, here’s a bit of political satire I kept from 2001-2.

I'm getting a sense of a generational divide (as well as an obvious class one) on the Jim Gavin story. Older people I've spoken to seem quite sorry for him but everyone my age and younger seems to see this as a kind of vicarious revenge fantasy for all the bad landlords they've had over the years!

This clip has been circulating a lot and look I don't want to be critical, it's great that it's inspiring people.

BUT. There is one thing he says that's inaccurate and it's important that people understand the reality.

He says that their trade union didn't support them. That's not true.

Good god, some of the American answers to this. Tempted to say they don't have a sense of humour, except then they'll respond with what is there to laugh about when we're living under a brutal dicatorship. The answer is everything. There's everything to laugh about, because it's all we've got.

my bad landlord kept our deposit after letting a leak get so bad that mushrooms started growing in our bedroom and my partner got fungal pneumonia. so yeah, very difficult to relate to people saying "you'd have to feel sorry for Jim Gavin"

If we're not careful, this will put landlords off seeking office in the future

#Áras25

not only did obama make extrajudicial killings chic during his tenure but he also gave tom homan his first job in ice and a medal for how good he was a deporting people. both sides share the blame and part of being a grown up is accepting that and working to change it.

This week, the lads explain Reform have been getting 100 times the news coverage of other similarly sized parties, and they conclude this shows “bias”. It really is depressing to see this kind of tinfoil hat cranky nonsense taking hold of the centrists. How would this media conspiracy work, exactly?

#Áras25

I saw every political party leader in the UK on the news talking about the attack on the Jewish community in Manchester except the one political party leader who is Jewish and from Manchester.

Maybe I missed something?

Like all of us Éoin he has absolutely no interest in the wedding plans of this friend of a friend who has unexpectedly shown up for what he thought was their quiet pint

Anyone aware of any non-Shakespeare early modern plays being performed Jan-Mar 2026 in London? Setting texts for a Renaissance Drama module and would love to track down something the students can go and see!

Or is it that for once the birdshit has been pressure-washed off the path between my office and the coffee bar?

Perhaps we'll never know

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There's something special about the day before a University open day

Is it the sense of anticipation as everyone gets ready to share their love of their subject with new learners?

Is it the buzz of activity as they put the finishing touches to their presentations?

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It's a sad indictment of what the UK has become/is becoming that Irish citizens living in the UK, often with their families, are becoming low-key nervous about pensions and benefits.

"It is hereby declared that, notwithstanding that the Republic of Ireland is not part of His Majesty’s dominions, the Republic of Ireland is not a foreign country for the purposes of any law in force in any part of the United Kingdom ..." (Ireland Act 1949, Section 2(1)).