Englishman in New Jorts

Every day I wake up and deal with people romanticizing the early 2000s and making me feel old

Juicy on the ass

Someone a decade+ younger than I asked me if I saw the Matrix in theaters and how cool that must have been

I’m not a smart man, but (stares into the distance as seasons pass over the course of years)

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Are they pressing the Jimmy Saville button now? Hahahaha!

a Jeremy Vine & Daytime on... • Should benefits claimants be made to pick litter? 5・bh This is a suggestion from campaign group Clean Up Britain - they say jobseekers on universal credit should have to do four hours of litter picking a month or lose their benefits. What are your thoughts on this?

My thoughts are that my basic political requests were always 1) less deliberately horrible, cruel and vicious political/media culture 2) more and better public services and 3) far less complicity in America’s horrifying wars. I note this has been regarded as insanely extreme ideological lunacy.

wait a sec, that's john woodcock! a man who resigned from the labour party right as he was being investigated for sexual harrassment, allowing him to claim it was for principled reasons of not liking corbyn. who was then given a peerage by boris johnson for being sufficiently right wing.

We saw this with the frothing GC reaction the Elliot Page. He didn't come out as trans until he was in his 30s and the transphobic weirdos and all their sock accounts started crying, screaming, throwing up.

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants"

No you don't.

If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

This is incredibly funny to try because even if it *was* true, then it would mean Streeting was defending Mandleson in September for the love of the game.

No 10 claims Starmer 'positive, confident and determined', despite resignation of two key aides within 24 hours

I've never felt more certain in my life that I've just been reliably told a grown man is crying in the bathroom

I always think of this when people try to speak up for AI even a little....

im not asking for every labour voter to apologise, but at least say oops.

The public are IMO fully entitled to ask “why was this abysmal cunt everyone hates ever put in charge of anything” and the unfortunate answer is: he told maybe fifty of the country’s most awful journalists exactly what they wanted to hear, with no regard for what was real. And that’s all it takes.

Jim Pickard: We've seen from past history that under Corbyn

we had 180 MPs out of 220 calling for him to go.

And Jeremy Corbyn said: no thanks, I'm just going to stay here.

Although the party’s enormous membership wanted him to stay and it was the MPs who looked a right bunch of cunts, back then. Now everyone hates Sir Keir and McSweeney but can’t get rid, because the other potential leaders have been stitched up via factional bullshit or are just as badly compromised.

Furious clarity from Jude Wanga www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

The latest disclosures make clear that Epstein was different things for different people. For some, he was a fixer; a lubricant who assisted public figures to transition into lucrative private sector post-political work. That idea of politics—a means to personal enrichment—is Mandelson's entire MO.

Photo of Mandelson singing as Epstein blows out his birthday cake, with Labour-style logo that says Labour Friends of Paedophiles

If you want to understand the mainstreaming of far right politics and why defeating the far right at the ballot box doesn't mean actually defeating far-right politics, this is it

A compiled youtube video of Grand Theft Auto voice recordings in chronological order of recording called Lazlow's Hierarchy of Reads

Not just that nobody pushed questions: nobody wants to hear answers. They didn’t want to hear Peter and his cronies are crooks; they didn’t want to hear that e.g. losing Scotland meant the Labour right was fucked, probably forever. They didn’t want to hear the problem is chronic underinvestment.

If this story is accurate, then all those stories about Keir Starmer meticulously selecting only the highest-quality candidates in 2024 were horseshit and, in reality, we are now governed by a crop of MPs personally selected by the financially compromised ‘best pal’ of a child sex trafficker.

Breaking News 10m ago Six Palestine Action activists cleared of aggravated burglary over break-in at UK subsidiary of Israeli defence firm Breaking News 48m ago Mandelson "lied repeatedly to my team" and "I regret appointing him", Starmer says after new Epstein emails

Good day for the Govt

It will never cease being hilarious to me that the entire political and media establishment worked for years, bending over backwards, to install this gang of creeps, weirdos and crooks in the halls of power, but they're all so comically bent, corrupt and degenerate they barely lasted 18 months.

If Bilbo had Chat GPT

Norris says nationalising water isnt the answer because we'd end up footing the bill for the failure to invest in the past. But we are anyway! Who do you think is ultimately paying this £104bn Alex?

With nationalisation we'd cut out the parasitical companies creaming off the top

As an historian I often wonder how people learned nothing from the twentieth century and how we have fallen into the mess and rise of fascism yet again and here we are. People simply *don't care* that they are in a military alliance with and dependant on a fascist state when capitalism requires it.

Good news: the UK Government is now offering free short courses on how to use the rabid monkey that comes taped to every computer now for some reason! You'll learn how to...

- dodge the monkey's angry fists!
- understand its tortured screams!
- write invoices in bits of poo he's left on your desk!

Pleased to announce I've been hired to do the marketing for this campaign

Let’s take the government at their word and twenty minute taster sessions on Microsoft Copilot is the biggest government investment in adult education in seventy years, what does that tell us about this country?