Natalie Washington

Hold on, let him cook

Why does nobody understand the concept of a public good anymore

It's not right that people who don't go to Parliament bear the cost for others to

Am I doing this right?

It can't be that negatively selected because Matt Yglesias isn't here

'agree to disagree' on violent state sanctioned murder is a pretty grubby state of affairs isn't it

A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017. "Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

Aha yes that's probably it! Thanks

Why have 30 people followed me today. Is this another Twitter exodus or did I do something

Yeah I mean this is part of it right - people often say that it's because retail premises are too expensive etc but that's also the market

Genuinely these people have absolutely no idea how the economic system they live in and probably support is supposed to work. So much "*they* took our high street shops away!" Who did? Who took them? The invisible hand of the market, that's who.

There is extremely fertile ground for communism in the local town Facebook groups of Britain. The people in these groups all seem to want a planned economy, and seem to hanker for a grand authority which dictates which shops open in any given town, irrespective of business case.

Jonathan Ross is one of those names, like Benito Mussolini or Leopold II of Belgium, where all of the people named it are the worst sort of cunt

To be clear, this is Graham Linehan appearing to celebrate the murder of a woman.

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This is a crushing blow for the reputation of the FlFA Peace Prize

Inquiry into failure to spot dissident’s offensive tweets Aubrey Allegretti - Chief Political Correspondent Alaa Abd el-Fattah celebrates with his family in Cairo after he was freed from jail An internal inquiry has been launched by the Foreign Office into the “unacceptable failure” of officials to spot “abhorrent” social media posts from Alaa Abd el-Fattah. Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary, admitted “deep distress” had been caused to Jewish groups by government statements welcoming the political activist’s arrival in the UK. These included a Boxing Day tweet from Sir Keir Starmer saying he was “delighted” el-Fattah had been allowed to travel to Britain, which set off a backlash after a history of social media posts calling for Zionist civilians to be killed emerged. Downing Street stressed on Monday that Starmer had been unaware of the comments, including calls for Downing Street to be burnt down, made between 2010 and 2012. Cooper said that present Labour and former Tory ministers “were never briefed on these tweets” and civil servants in charge of the case “were also unaware”. “I take this extremely seriously both to ensure we have accurate information and because of the deep distress this has understandably caused,” she wrote in a letter to the foreign affairs committee on Monday night. “It is clear that this has been an unacceptable failure and that long standing procedures and due diligence arrangements have been completely inadequate for this situation.” The unexpected emergence of el-Fattah’s tweets risked contributing to the distress felt by Jewish people given “rising antisemitism, and recent horrific attacks”, Cooper added.

One week they're crying about people getting visits from the police because of tweets, the next week they're calling for inquiries into tweets.

realise how bad our legal position and the behaviour of this govt really is. I don't even think it's a reaction to Reform because they're not really any different on trans folk - in fact their prisons spokesperson said they would put some trans women in women's prisons!

Yeah you're not wrong - basically their direction of travel is faster and more dangerous, and the federal govts intent is very clear. Some states are standing up for trans people and that's the only saving grace. I would rather be here than there at the moment, but I do think it's important people..

...rape in the entire country. They have this in very few states. We're basically a global outlier with very few countries worse

...current reading of the EA2010 post UKSC this year. They have overall bathroom bans in very few states but we're closer to that than they are on average. They still have trans women in women's prisons and sports in many states, and as things stand our CPS treat non-disclosure of trans status as..

A lot of complexity and obvs some US states are much worse than UK, some are better. In general their access to healthcare is better (informed consent in places), access to gender recognition is easier in many states although it's regressed, and very few states have a law as egregious as the...

Yeah the UK has more transphobic laws at a national level than the US does in almost every way.

If you drive professionally then you should be held to a higher standard, not lower! Even if you don't drive professionally, if you do something egregious like this that should be it! It's not like driving is some core human rights that cannot be taken away

If you're a vet & you mistreat an animal in your private life, you'll be treated MORE harshly than if you're a regular person. Yet if you need to drive for your job and get caught speeding in your private car, you seem to be able to argue a ban will disproportionately affect your job. That is worse!

We have such a ridiculous attitude towards driving. Having a licence is not a right, and it should be denied if you can't be trusted to do it. One thing that always annoys me is that driving is the only discipline where you're treated more leniently if you need to do it for your job.

The poster quoted in the quote tweet saying Sonia Sodha is right about something

The person they're providing a counterpoint to posted positively about Sonia Sodha, so that reveals a certain level of bias as to why they'd want us all back on Twitter

Yeah like round where I live you see people in actually dirty mitsubishi shoguns or whatever and you know they're actually using it. I still do not need to see these 2.5 ton RWD SUVs anything like as much as I do though!

One other thing, I'm just going to say it - there's a certain category of extremely online city dweller who seem to genuinely think not having a car is completely achievable for almost everyone and they're living on a complete other planet to most of us, unfortunately.

I think we should be taking significant measures to completely discourage driving in cities where there's decent public transport alternatives. Tax the shit out of people driving where there's a public transport alternative. The problem arises in non-urban areas where there's often no alternative