Englishman in New Jorts

Centrists who react to Nazis gaining ground with "we should try to reach out to them more" and react to socialists gaining ground with incandescent rage and tutting about populism are letting you know that their "centre" exists somewhere off beside Augusto Pinochet

Zohrans improbable victory should be an inspiration for all of us to pursue
Our wildest dreams. Take up skateboarding even if you have a bad back. Call your ex girlfriend and tell her you understand how to love someone now. Start a Ukelele math rock band.

Had to share this from twitter just because

The failure of the “blue no matter who” crowd to rally behind Mamdani really just lays the reality of that position bare, doesn’t it?

I think Sudan might shoot up the news agenda somewhat if two US Presidents and two British PMs e.g. announced we were sending the RSF more machine guns and missiles to kill more civilians, then told the press everyone protesting against it was a traitor extremist and sent the cops to arrest them.

on the topic of dick cheney, one thing i’ve always said is that you shouldn’t kill a million people

Jess O'Thomson • @jessothomson.co.uk Follow Call me an elitist, but I broadly believe those writing editorials for our newspaper of record should have to read and at least mostly understand legal judgments before providing commentary on how 'clear' such judgments are.

This isn’t how it works. What happens is, Britain’s horrific media outlets stoke years of escalating, terrifying panics intended to spread fear and hatred, make their indulgence of politicians conditional upon their willingness to play along, then threaten Consequences if they don’t get their way.

It's been half a year since the 'Clear Supreme Court Ruling' landed and there's still no one can adequately summarise the guidance. However, my 'Everyone who writes for The Times should drink piss' ruling remains clear and consise.

NHS Sussex are forcibly detransitioning trans people. These patients need full restoration of their healthcare, and everyone involved in doing this needs to be sacked.

The lads didn’t spend all that time e.g. angrily ignoring the Iraq inquiry report and stomping all over Tony’s enemies, just to *not* plaster him all over their papers once every two weeks, wittering whatever bollocks he’s been told by the latest squillionaires who gave him money.

There is ample evidence that privatized public services are strangling households and extracting obscene profits off citizens. And there's shit in your water.

Was it immigrants who pushed subprime lending onto the desperate and then sold that debt so extensively that every institution was exposed to it?

Was it immigrants who responded with ideological austerity targeted at the most vulnerable when it inevitably imploded?

The clear thread running through Goodwin's career is the drive to imbue his creepy fixation on immigration with the legitimising authority of supposed mass support. Here, audience members have disqualified themselves from the category of "the people" in his eyes by virtue of disagreeing with him.

This is what every tech company advert looks like now

A drawing of ET waving at us on the cardboard packaging for a 1980s product called "E.T. Punch Balls" As this is a repost of a Feb 2023 tweet of mine, found here https://x.com/DemonTomatoDave/status/1623464715077795840?s=19 , I have taken this photo from the No Context E.T. account who posted it there, and who originally I retweeted.

Never became as popular as "ET Phone Home" did it

those of you who are afraid of aging, please understand that one of the huge blessings of middle age is arriving at this exact station

Harriet Harman doesn't like Zack Polanski because he beat her in a competitive eating competition where they were seeing who could consume the most slices of deep dish pizza. Google 'Harriet Harman PIE' to learn more!

"One of the reasons Starmer has become so disliked so quickly is that many voters believe he embodies the system. "He is almost an Al-generated version of what a politician looks and sounds like"

Who told the public that he embodied the system? Who was it that said they were the real conservatives, and who said this was *precisely* what Britain needed, very enthusiastically cheering all of that on every step of the way?

back in the summer this city felt safe. now I can't walk down the street without seeing a skeleton, pumpkin with a face, things of this nature. it's just sad to watch the city I love fall apart.

That’s a fantastic comparison, because the reason they added lead to gasoline was just to increase convenience a tiny bit, and they’ve poisoned the world in the process.

The good news is: Impossible as it may seem, we banned it worldwide and its bad effects are now mostly gone.

Makes you think.

Buxton: Why one small town with very little immigration turned to Reform UK How national concerns affected a local election in the heart of the Peak District.

The whiter the area the more likely it is to have a Reform problem. Immigration isn’t the problem, otherwise you’d get Reform in more diverse areas - it’s fear of change among older people.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

No shame, no opprobrium: racism is priced in now. Of all the right’s victories, this one has been critical | Jason Okundaye In this age of Tory nativism and Faragist populism, the question isn’t ‘is this person a bigot’? Now it is ‘does that matter at all?’ says Guardian writer Jason Okundaye

Probably not a coincidence that all the smartest, most Sensible people spent the last ten years screaming abuse at the country’s most high-profile antiracists and doing everything they could to hound them out of public life entirely.

The Labour right is fracturing The party's right wing won the peace after the Corbyn wars. But do they know what they want now? By Morgan Jones

The key thing here where she observes that there was unity and purpose in hounding out the left but now that’s done, there’s just… nothing there. And that’s true, there are few ideas, there’s no project and no purpose beyond sustaining themselves in office while snagging a sweet post-politics gig.

The breaking down of anti-racism norms *in elite circles* in British politics is starkly at odds with the direction of public opinion on race. Adam Bienkov @adambienko... • 4h Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp repeatedly refusing to say that he thinks Reform MP Sarah Pochin saying she doesn't like seeing black people on TV was racist. Says he wouldn't use her "language" but it's right for her to express "legitimate concerns" about migration

Almost like the problem is and always was elite radicalisation, and not Yer Da on Facebook

I do have a genuine theory that part of the problem is he's trying to run the country like a CLP and the problem is that if you crush the left they do not, in fact, quit the country and cease to be a factor

AI feels increasingly like rebadged BonziBuddy

John Rentoul @rentouljohn.bsky.so... • 16h Striking chart from Chris Clarke of total net satisfaction with all 3 main party leaders: voters have gone off them since 2010

“Voters have gone off them since 2010” being the most in-depth explanation we’ll get. Was there a particular program implemented around 2010 that’s proven to be disastrous? Maybe there was, but what if all the important people had said it was great and screamed abuse at people who said it wasn’t

As long as we're talking about tattoos...

Why is Piers Morgan always given so much time and space? Because our media is a relentless circle jerk where people whose main experience is dinner bang on and on about the world they can barely see above their goose pate and Stilton foam