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Has cancel culture gone too far? You can’t even have one Nazi tattoo anymore.

Stephen Flynn, the SNP leader at Westminster, pushed on Monday for the government to bring forward its own motion to strip Prince Andrew of his title, saying there was “no justification” for inaction. The Labour MP Rachael Maskell also backed calls for legislation, but parliamentary rules mean that individual MPs cannot raise it themselves without facing sanction. There may be a small loophole for MPs to ask about the funding of royal residences – Andrew still has use of the 30-room Royal Lodge, which is owned by the crown estate and for which he has a private tenancy agreement – but any debate is very likely to be tightly restrained. (In the Guardian, 21 Oct)

Can’t call MPs liars in Parliament. Can’t call princes paedophiles in Parliament. Funny that.

Lisa Nandy: "He's right to say that it is unprecedented in recent times that an entire group of away supporters have been entirely banned from a game"

Unprecedented in recent times? In 2023 Legia Warsaw fans were banned from a game at Villa Park.

Starmer and the Met Chief Constable interfered in this case. That's a major red flag and public scandal, abuse of public office, and a collapse of the rule of law.

When transphobes from Graham Linehan to JK Rowling and others are effectively granted immunity that's a problem.

Never really got the whole lets move everything to "the cloud" movement. Having all the eggs in a few baskets does mean huge mess when the basket is kicked over

Post by A.R. Moxon: I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

Go team?

David Gauke on X at 10:17 PM, Oct 17, 2025: There seem to be some on this site who imply that the ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans is a result of concerns that the Maccabi fans were going to be violent. Do they really believe that was the reason?

Sky News, 8:25 PM · Oct 19, 2025 BREAKING: Tel Aviv derby football match cancelled after riots broke out in and around the stadium.

How It Started How It's Going

There is plenty of weirdness to the other side too

When Jenrick says that things were 'less than well-mannered' in the 80s at football games, he means fans threw bananas at the Black players.

I've spent my life arguing against all football fans being tarred with the same brush, but to not even acknowledge that Maccabi Tel Aviv's far-right fans posed a threat to public order, and Birmingham's Muslims in particular, is next-level racist gaslighting

Without his titles, doesn't that just make him Mr Beast

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

A ridiculously tasteless "joke" taking the piss out of a recently deceased man's complexion

A timely reminder that the founders of Hard Drive were forced out and replaced by AI supportive tech bros.

Block and move on

You see a faded sign at the side of the road that says fifteen miles to the

RIP Drew Struzan
A master.

Woah! So Labour's position really is, 'telling us off for breaching human rights undermines the case for human rights'? Proper Trumpian stuff from Labour's answer to Suella Braverman.

United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int Strasbourg 14/10/2025

Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...

Happy Fake Nobel Prize Day, everyone.

sometimes I think about this

I guess you can say they're trying to bury the Jean Hatchet.

Kent police apologise to protester threatened with arrest for holding Palestine flag Force agrees to pay damages to Laura Murton, 43, who also had sign saying ‘Israel is committing genocide’

An important precedent set which I hope is wielded broadly

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Ah yes difficulty hiding your vast wealth, a classic portent of doom

Dear President Obama, I saw in your statement you said "Israeli families" & "the people of Gaza." Palestinians have families, too. This kind of language contributes to dehumanization. Dehumanization is part of what caused so many to stay silent as 20,000 children were killed in this genocide. I've sat with wonderful Palestinian families from Gaza. They look at their children just like we look at ours - with all the love & hope in the world. Love, Ms Rachel

Seeing Ms. Rachel say exactly what needs to be said to Obama is so damn refreshing

Caitlin Flanagan @CaitlinPacific I’ve missed hearing Woody Allen’s voice - I’d been so rattled this week and there he was, his full self. ⁦ @bariweiss ⁩ is the perfect interviewer. She seemed almost like a daughter to him - in a way she is. We all are. Order Life with Baum!

like a daughter to him

Disgusted barbie

This this and this. They’ve lost all credibility to ever speak on free speech again. That’s bigger than whatever money they got. Next time they complain, we laugh.

Edinburgh Evening News headline "Auld Hag: Viral London shop selling Scottish produce announces first Edinburgh pop-up in Stockbridge"

Can honestly say I've never wished a business more ill will than I have than with a "viral London morning roll pop-up" seeking to introduce morning rolls to Scotland via the medium of Stockbridge.
Fuck off all the way back to Angel and don't stop until you find yourselves in the sea.

Fuck Gavin Newsom. I will never vote for him and you shouldn't either.

Lol

CBS Is About to Hand Over Its Newsroom to an Anti-Woke Crusader. You Should Be Worried. She’s made a career railing against “wokeness.” Now she’s in charge of a venerated newsroom.

now that the news is official: some thoughts on Bari Weiss taking over at CBS News, and what it means that the Free Press—a publication that never apologizes or corrects itself when its "reporting" is ripped to shreds—is touted as a needed dose of "trust and integrity" slate.com/technology/2...