Ellis Beck

There is absolutely nothing old or consolidated about *multiracial, pluralistic democracy* in America. It only started 60 years ago.

And the conflict over whether or not it should be allowed to endure and prosper has been the central fault line in U.S. politics ever since.

Thanks very much, it’ll be nice to not have to give Amazon the money too.

I don’t blame Joshua. Would anyone criticising him turn down their highest ever pay for their easiest ever work assignment? The whole thing is really just another example of how how ignorant great swathes of the public are.

It’s like deciding to redecorate your house in a slightly different shade of beige.

A new survey reveals negative attitudes to Reform UK Ltd Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests, provoking negative reactions

Reform UK Ltd gets 92% of its funding from climate change deniers and fossil fuel corporate interests.

The president of the most powerful nation on Earth is so terrified of the tales that an imprisoned sex trafficker can tell that he plies her with a comfort puppy and custom meals and is holding out the prospect of a pardon.
77 million people voted for this.

Repulsive. Sex offending behind a veneer of golf club respectability.

What? Really?

What a horrible shock. Superb tribute from @timadamswrites.bsky.social

‘Death remains my intimate shadow partner. It has been with me since birth, always hovering close by. I understand one day we will finally waltz together into the ether. I hope when that time comes, I die with the satisfaction of a life well-lived, unapologetic, joyful, & full of love.’
—Alice Wong

Somewhere out there someone who’s the best at what they do is terrified that they have imposter syndrome while a bunch of barely literate pedophiles are very calmly running the world

Hi, I’m in the U.K and I took a look on Amazon with a view to getting The Payback. Unfortunately it’s not on kindle or available as a paperback. The only purchase option was a hardback at a price equivalent to about 70 U.S dollars. Do you know why this is? Does the novel not have a U.K deal?

WHITE NOISE Exciting times for GB News, which last month signed up young far-right activist Charlie Downes to present a new show, Radio Britannia, with political commentator Alice Grant. The gruesome twosome’s first show aired on 22 October and their second came out on 5 November. Downes will presumably be fitting in well at the broadcaster. On Elon Musk’s X, Downes – who is also the campaigns director of ex-Reform MP Rupert Lowe’s Restore Britain, a pressure group obsessed with expelling foreigners from the country – can be found declaring that the “Islamophilic government is… actively siding with and covering for the enemies of the indigenous British people at every opportunity”; pronouncing that “remigration is a political and demographic necessity”; and claiming that “what is desirable is an ethnically homogenous Christian Britain”. Just the man for GB News!

GB News' latest host is the campaigns director for far-right MP Rupert Lowe's 'Restore Britain'. He calls for an "ethnically homogenous Christian Britain".

This is a channel which has several people in the Lobby, and which has privileged access to No 10 as part of the broadcast 'pool'. Nuts.

Apparently the legal advice was that it was BLT not GBH.

There are also many non parents who also have sufficient moral compass to be appalled by Epstein and co.

Epstein’s Ghost Christmas Past is coming for Trump…and MAGA

“The rape of children is not the tariff disaster. These crimes fill people with revulsion across the political spectrum. It can’t be blanked, wheedled out of with weasel words, equivocated, blustered into submission or drowned out with MAGA slogans.”

A photogrpah of Donald Trump in white suit and baseball cap talking to a young girl with young women on either side in the background.

These aren't 'underage girls', they are children...

Nothing will change until the political system is freed from the clutches of corporations and the super-rich The law is being used to enforce existing power structures for the benefit of the few

The Rule of Law in England.

Legal-aid is scarce.

Backlog of 78,329 Crown Court and 361,027 Magistrates’ courts cases. No speedy hearing.

The Post Office scandal shows that corporations can hound innocent people. No one charged for false prosecutions and ruining lives.

In the UK, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's friendship with Epstein has led to total disgrace.

He's been stripped of his titles, reduced to the status of a pariah.

Nobody is defending him.

He's a TOTAL disgrace.

In America, Jeffrey Epstein's close mate, Donald Trump, remains the president.

Insane.

The truth is that 80 million Americans voted for Trump and must have known perfectly well who and what he is and what he stands for. Trump actually reflects American values (for desperate want of a better word) both currently and in historical terms.

😂😂😂🤮

You just can’t argue with stupid.

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Everyone knows what he did. It's not a mystery, it's well-documented. It's not normal to walk into children's beauty pageant changing rooms while 15-year-olds get changed; it's not normal to brag about 'grabbing women by the pussy.' Stop pretending you need to see some files. Join the dots.

It’s a new take on the perennial social care issue, rebranding and doing away with the very concept of social care itself as some kind of woke luxury belief.

His wealth.

Things gradually slotting into place.

Utterly sickening.

He looks like the baddie from The Incredibles.

Sky News just had Kelvin Mackenzie on, former editor of The Sun, one of the people at the centre of probably the most disgraceful front page in newspaper history, complaining about BBC journalists not being objective and 'fake news'. Astonishing. ~AA