Angela Vince

The US federal attack on Portland has resulted in the best advertisement for a city that I have ever seen. Round-the-clock joy, community solidarity and silliness that much of the West has lost and longs for.

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

Appalling and sloppy... but EVEN more so when you consider the show's subject matter...

Oh no, hope she's ok.

Stewart Lee: The thugs have taken my flag. So I’ve taken theirs What do you do with a lot of cheap banners hanging from motorway bridges once you’ve torn them down?

🔗 Read the full piece

www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-le...

Russia and the rise of the radical right Marine Le Pen meets with Putin before the 2017 French Presidential election (Photo credit Mikhail Klimentyev/AFP via Getty Images)

New post just out:

The relationship between Russia and the European radical right goes well beyond Reform's Nathan Gill being bribed.

In this post I trace the history back to the 1990s and look at the threat it poses now.

(£/free trial)

open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/r...

Being the same age I wanted to be her as well as Annie Hall. What a career what a class act.

Oh no Diane Keaton. RIP you darling woman. 😥

Fantastic comments from the audience on #bbcqt.

Politicians should take note and stop stoking division and fear.

"The vast majority of people in this country live very happily and very peacefully together." 👏

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Now let's make our posts about who won, rather than who didn't win.

SHOCK POLL: NIGEL FARAGE WILL BE PM TOMORROW IN an amazing poll conducted by The Pointless Polling Company, it was revealed that voters' intentions may well change over the next three and a half years and at present it's 100 percent impossible to guess what the next government might look like. However, 99 percent of journalists agree that it would be much more fun if we had an election tomorrow and everybody resigned and everything was chaos and Farage had a go at being PM, just for the hell of it, because it was so much fun when Brexit happened and then the government kept falling every five minutes and we could write endless pieces about (cont. p94)

Private Eye offers up an excellently scornful commentary on the relentless polling. It’s become ridiculous and has oversimplified our politics to dangerous levels of stupid and irresponsible.

Such a positive thread, but we must not let the haters and charlatans destroy it.

That'll be me with my Irish passport while my husband waits! 😂

“They make a desert and call it peace.” - Tacitus

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We all know Brexit’s to blame for the crisis facing UK steel - it’s time for politicians to be honest and reverse it | Simon Jenkins With British industry faltering, the excuse that the public wants this is risible. Parliament must force Starmer to act, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Day 2079 of #Brexit: ‘Between 2021 & 2023, British exports to the EU fell by a serious 27%. [] Cambridge Econometrics estimates that over the next decade Britain’s economy will be £300bn smaller than if we had not left the EU. This is self-harm on a heroic scale.’ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Simon Calder interviewed on new border controls leaves no listener in doubt about his feelings on our disastrous Brexit making us a third party country on our own continent.
#r4today

Happy Birthday!

Exactly this 👇👇

So thankful for her insightful knowledge unsurpassed by any other commentator, hearing her obvious relief this morning was wonderful.

Always worth a listen even if at the moment a terrifying vision of what's happening in the US.

Five water firms provisionally allowed to raise bills by further 1% to 5% An independent group appointed by the competition watchdog rejected nearly 80% of increases sought by companies.

Water bills for England households to rise even higher.

Bills already up by 36%. Competition regulator permits another 1%-5%, £556m hike

No curbs on exec pay, dividends, sewage dumping as companies raise capital from customers, shareholders get returns.

End the Scam. Nationalise water

This lot are trying to normalise racism.

But that’s not the Britain I know... and our Giga Poll of 45k shows that. Diversity is its strength, not something to fear or smear. Some people, desperate for power, will say anything.

Kemi Badenoch was spouting blatant lies today in her speech. She said that Motability cars are being given to people with ADHD If that is the case, it is because they have a mobility condition also. You don't get given these cars if ADHD is your only disability.

For reference:

Kemi Badenoch's leader's speech quoted Martin Luther King. MLK was a socialist, of course.

I'm surprised Badenoch hasn't promised to scrap degrees in Modern History. She hopes people will forget May 2010 to July 2024.

My husband's at the dentist while I'm listening to Badenoch. Lucky him.

I'm only listening to this nasty snarking because @mrjamesob.bsky.social is challenging her facts. Still can't wait for it to stop.