Neil Atkinson

And what's particularly funny about this is for so many of them, their radicalising event is that they haven't achieved what they think they 'deserve' now:

Struggling to find much humour in the likely next leader of the Conservative Party cosplaying the National Front of the 1970s.

JFC the man has not one ounce of shame in him.

He went to private school and Cambridge. He owns three homes and rents a fourth!

Incredible this.

a reminder that my book is currently almost OFFENSIVELY cheap on the ebook reader of your choice

I've worked out what's happened here, this guy has bought Mark E Smith's haunted trenchcoat and it's possessed him to recreate The Fall's tour schedule

Only doing 2 nights back to back in one place.

Shrewsbury.

Obviously.

I can't stop looking at this. We're trying to sort a tour out at the minute and this has wrecked my head.

Every mf likes to say they are taking tough decisions, no mf wants to take tough decisions

A gamechanger

Also, for all that we enjoy the comedic stylings of Kemi Badenoch, a party leadership which is only three percentage points ahead of her, having been at 45% as recently as 18 months ago, might want to have a look in the mirror and ask what it is doing wrong

There is a decency agenda absolutely in tune with majority feeling in the country that would be an open goal for the government if it wasn't also inclined to lurch towards an unpleasant space. Indeed it is one Keir Starmer could have personified if he could escape "Blue Labour" unpleasantness.

This is a lie.

There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.

But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.

What should happen: National revulsion, hounded out of public life

What will happen: New set design for Sky News as three very, very right wing parties fight out The Deportation Election

I think if people hear "the Republicans are an existential threat to democracy, and so I will make sure to put them in my cabinet because we need their perspective. Here's my friend Dick Cheney to tell you more," then it makes them think *you* aren't really serious, tbh.

A quite insane tour schedule

This is the maddest tour I've ever seen in my life. It seems like he's doing more gigs than there are days in the year.

I agree with every word Zelda Williams says. And this at the end from OpenAI makes me want to go full Ned Ludd. Creators can’t have a blanket opt-out on copyright infringement of their work and have to fill out a form appealing to OpenAI’s mercy every time? Fuck off into the sun

Thing is, if you’re a lawyer and a Tory - maybe you’re even a Tory peer - and you fail to speak out very clearly and publicly against this stuff, you’re signalling for all to see that you’re at best comfortable with fascism and the destruction of the rule of law

A situation where rich, powerful corporations can do what they like, and their individual victims have to spend their life-savings taking court action, individually, to stop them, is a “libertarian” capitalist‘s wet-dream.

David is slightly unfair. There is a clear difference here.

Conservatives and Reform plan to forcibly expel large numbers of people who are legal, permanent residents of migrant origin. The BNP proposal is voluntary.

…And my point here is not “and so liberalism is bunk”. It is: these people are very well aware that all this was done, and done with impunity, and that there’s very little preventing repeats now. And that’s just scratching the surface, there’s plenty more Red Riding 1970s horrors like that.

SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsk... •27m → Replied to SpinningHugo The brilliance of Britain is that it is a concept. Its whole point is it is a *liberal* place. We don't care what religion you are, what colour your skin is, what your backgorund is, what your beliefs are. We don't subject anyone to the choices of others.

Sure, but also it appears military intelligence collaborated with paramilitaries to murder citizens, that the government declared war on and then crushed the largest trade unions, with baton charges. The police appear to have been fucking with and molesting protestors and activists for decades…

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer.

This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

This whole obsession with "too many people going to uni" is such a classic example of the parochialism of UK policymaking. No one bothers to ask why the % here is lower than in most other developed countries or whether that might be relevant.

At least and at least one European.

Interesting this is onwards. Had wondered if it was just a specific thing for the World Cup year.

Everything I have learned about [insert name of far-right US media pundit], I have learned entirely against my will.

This is all complete nonsense. How are they building the capacity? Who is paying for it? Data centers take two and a half years a gigawatt. No real money has changed hands! Bullshit galore
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This week, the lads explain Reform have been getting 100 times the news coverage of other similarly sized parties, and they conclude this shows “bias”. It really is depressing to see this kind of tinfoil hat cranky nonsense taking hold of the centrists. How would this media conspiracy work, exactly?

In summary: the government shoved out an announcement about a new massive power grab over the public without thinking much about it, lied about what it would be used for and we reckon this scheme shows there’s a shadowy power behind the throne. That’s all we’ve got time for, join us next week.