There’s something deeply odd about how “the Greens are just the same as Reform” is treated as obviously true by so many within Labour when no one else believes this - and evidence no one believes this is not hard to find

Also to note - Mahmood is essentially saying that immigration policy should be made entirely for political reasons and those reasons should be what they think their ideal type working class voter believes. Quite literally a policy of pandering.

Can Sadiq Khan stop Asif Aziz's mass evictions? We went to the billionaire's home to get answers, as a leading homelessness charity cut ties with the landlord and tenants begged the mayor to save their homes.

Breaking:
*Asif Aziz's mass evictions of Londoners appear to be BACK ON
*Sadiq Khan personally demands immediate response from the landlord
*Leading homelessness charity cuts ties with the Aziz family and refuses donation
*Questions over legality of paperwork
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...

This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right

Really not sure if telling Green voters they we're stupid enough to be hoodwinked by extremist anti-NATO crack dealers is the most productive way for Labour to behave. Makes them sound like they're joining Reform in a kind of Mary Whitehouse prig chorus

Spectator headline "The Green party is playing with fire in Gorton" by Ed West.

Dunno Ed, if I had to pick a party in Gorton that's "playing with fire" I think I might take a closer look at the Blood and Soil chaps micro-parsing who gets to call themselves English and flirting with Great Replacement Theory, not the nice Greens lady encouraging brown people to vote.

The biggest problem with the UK's political system is that colossal pieces of shit can write abhorent nonsense like this in a journal famous for publishing vile poison... and still have everyone come to their garden party because it's all a bit of a lark and all in good fun eh chaps wot wot.

Labour's swing toward racism is perhaps the biggest unforced error in British political history; burnt their base to ashes and won them not a single vote on the right.

just quite maddening that Osborne's legacy is currently "hey that guy who helped the Tories get back into power then was chancellor for a while until Brexit, and now he has 300 jobs lol" and not "look, everything the light touches was fucked up by George Osborne in some way between 2010 and 2016"

Yes, and hasn't the HO noticed that people in Australia and NZ have been up in arms about this for months, where a lot of people are caught in the catch-22 of being a UK citizen but not having a UK passport as they haven't needed one

shotgun not me but think there's scope here for a proper, lengthy, meaty feature looking at every single policy area in Britain that's currently fucked specifically because of a decision George Osborne took, reckon you could make it an actual mag cover, his fingerprints are everywhere

Great to see the Conservatives wanting to reform student loans. Would like to see an account for Osborne replacing maintenance grants with loans in 2015. This has left poorer students with bigger debts vs richer ones for a whole decade, compounding inequality between rich and poor. It’s scandalous.

Adorable.

Reform wants jack booted thugs to remove me by force.
Labour wants to make it financially and administratively impossible for me to stay.
The effect on me isn’t terribly different except one hopes I get kicked in the head while it happens, where the other simply calls me a failed experiment.

Paris tonight (Le Monde):

this is fascinating, thank you

Tony Blair faces the camera - Illuminations John Wyver writes: I have hugely enjoyed Channel 4’s The Tony Blair Story (broadcast last week and available on catch-up), for which the series director and narrator is Michael Waldman (who I should o...

Tony Blair faces the camera

Reflections on the visual techniques of the central interview in The Tony Blair Story, a trilogy that I have enjoyed enormously. Historical references include the Interrotron, our State of the Art, Jana Boková, and Golgotha.

www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/tony-blair-f...

Is there, inside Badenoch’s head, a little Badenoch who waves a red flag when an interview is going in the wrong direction? If there is, it was too busy playing Candy Crush to notice what was happening. “Let’s be honest,” Badenoch went on, warming to her point about how trivial the whole Prince Andrew-Jeffrey Epstein thing really was. “He’s eighth in line. There’s seven people, including some very little children…” she trailed off. Had the little Badenoch woken up and screamed out that the next logical point in this sentence was speculation on the deaths of the king’s grandchildren?

Kemi Badenoch crashes through the red flags. My SKETCH.

thecritic.co.uk/inne...

Billionaire Peter Thiel says that America is similar to the Weimar Republic "Liberalism has exhausted itself... Democracy, whatever it may be, has exhausted itself... Therefore, we need to start talking far beyond the Overton window."

Talking openly about this in public too, so I think it’s time to ask ourselves what we collectively want to do in response to a billionaire class that is not embarrassed about declaring themselves kings.

It’s *classic* Starmer to use the dying vapours of his evaporating authority to panic-run the dismal policy of restricting jury trials.

How fitting for a former lawyer: one last go, one final verdict, one more time.

And how fitting if it was the verdict that finished him off.

Backbench MPs should be asking themselves: am I willing to be a vehicle for this? What is my job here? Is it to do as I’m told? Or am I more important than that? Is *this* more important than that? Was I elected to do this? Was *this* in our manifesto?

And is there any evidence it will work?

Full of admiration for what Emma does in threads like this one. Read it, it’s interesting.

Community meme: I CAN EXCUSE FASCISM. BUTI DRAW THE LINE AT MERCANTILISM.

The Supreme Court:

The guys who made millions selling NFTs aren't hanging their heads in shame at their folly. They got theirs, the rug got pulled, and they moved on.

And, in an illustratively large number of cases, they specifically moved on to selling AI.

HippFest HippFest is Scotland’s first and only festival of silent film with live music, centred in and inspired by Scotland’s first and oldest cinema; featuring exceptional screenings, commissions, workshops, ...

My release of the 1917 adaptation of KIDNAPPED will be screened at Hippfest on March 19, its first big screen showing in over a century with music by the wonderful @silentsweeney.bsky.social

See New Jersey double for Scotland in Scotland

www.hippodromecinema.co.uk/hippfest/

If Andrew's been arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office, why the heck hasn't Mandelson?

"You tried to overthrow the government, but you failed because you're a dipshit" sentencing guidelines

South Korea: Life imprisonment

US: Ah, let the wee fella have another crack at it

openai: who can we hire to improve our dodgy image

openai: how about lord wormtongue von himmler-slime. everyone loves him right

As this guy popped up in what was, on a conservative estimate, the 250th Tony Blair documentary, i did wish someone would see fit to make one about how this charlatan's fundamental misunderstanding of economics had broken the British state.