Tom King

A very British flavour of fascism, that.

You don't need to be 'Left' (as in Corbyn/Sultana variety) to have seen this a mile off.

Liberals (UK version) saw it too.

People who think FPTP is a good system only think so because it has historically favoured their political views and chosen parties. This is always, and everywhere, true.

They will often dress it up as 'tradition', 'strong government', and 'keeping extremists out'. But it's just fancy dress.

Ah yes, the old 'FPTP keeps out the extremists' argument, which works until the mainstream parties have thoroughly screwed up running the country, and pandered to extremist views in doing so... thereby encouraging voters to favour extremists.

*turns and looks down camera*

My first encounter with Polanski was him rage-quitting the Lib Dems when he didn't get shortlisted for the Richmond Park by-election in 2016. He's "new to politics" in the same way Farage is an outsider.

WHY IS YOUR HEADLINE NOT

"potato, tomato, let's call the whole thing off"

During the 2024 campaign Trump literally just said that if he wins they will "fix it so Republicans will never have to vote again" and the press was like "huh I wonder what he means by that, doesn't seem like something we should follow up on"

"that's more of a political question" - well, yes, we already have more than enough abundance to create prosperity for everyone living on this planet.

The political question is actually the important, hard bit. But yeah, let's focus on wasting resources on magical machines.

This is plain and simple advertorial, done by a guy who never met an 'advisory council' he wasn't willing to join and promote in exchange for a few thousand more quid.

Has there ever been a more obviously mercenary ex-politician?

Lemon juice and salt water also work really well for other Teslas, not just the Cybertruck. Remember to use sandpaper to buff it out afterwards.

Why was the correct answer (George Osborne's austerity) not provided as an option?

To be fair, it's the same at all the major grounds. Edgbaston was almost impossible to get to except on foot, because they don't close the Pershore Road to car traffic.

It doesn't even need to be all day - just 9.30-11am and 6-7pm would do.

I'll never understand why they don't close the Harleyford Road to everything *except* buses on match days.

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

The level of overt racism being experienced by friends and family especially outside of London is crazy. The UK is changing rapidly. Monkey noises, being kicked out of Airbnb's, racial slurs and a general hostility. People of colour have always had these experiences but it is ramping up.

‘The film wouldn’t even be made today’: the story behind Back to the Future at 40 The time travel comedy was a surprise smash in 1985 and remains a Hollywood touchpoint and as it reaches a major anniversary, those who made it share their memories

Well done, you read a recent Guardian article. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

the only way this makes sense is if Peter Kyle thinks until you prove your age, you exist in a liminal, schrodinger-like state in which your age is unknowable, and so by proving your age you thereby reduce the potential outer bound of existing vulnerable children by 1

Developing ways to drastically reduce infant mortality is good for life expectancy figures, it turns out

This is where we are at as a society. *LIFEBOAT CREWS* are having to defend *SAVING THE LIVES OF DROWNING PEOPLE* because some of the people they save are foreign.

This is just fucking sick

"Written by humans for humans" - how good can the magazine possibly be then?

Reform is a brilliant brand name because it gets free publicity any time any politician talks about public sector reform, welfare reform, etc. It shouldn't really have been allowed.

yeah, great. Use the statehood of people as a bargaining chip.

All the moral fibre of a man who subsists entirely on 3-week-old doner meat.

Bromley by-election produces first Reform UK win in London The Conservatives put a huge amount of effort into their campaign, but were defeated in a former ward stronghold

My article on Reform’s first win in a London borough by-election www.onlondon.co.uk/lewis-baston...

Came here to say this plus Cartwright Hall is also v good.

People proposing this kind of stuff are *literally* as bad as people who would propose reanimating his body, as though that would somehow recapture his talent and skills.

London is so cooked. you can't go anywhere now. terrifying. etc etc

Has he forgotten his facepaint today?

Get the fuck off Substack already.

something something church roof, something something stern words for Trump