Jack Saundrs

Is it "diplomatic relations" when one party says whatever insulting thing that comes into their head and the other goes 'yes, sir"?

You know I'm not convinced that "politely nodding whenever foreign statesmen entirely ignore your made up rules for statecraft" actually is how diplomacy works?

Welcome to Britain, a country so short of dentists that an MP's 87-year-old mum pulled her teeth out with pliers. Also a country with thousands of foreign-qualified dentists who can’t work until they pass an exam so oversubscribed it’s like trying to book Glasto tickets. www.ft.com/content/f4e5...

no guarantees of anything but I don't think it's incomprehensible to think Boro won't stay the course (14 games in when he left, they were 3rd, weren't considered likely contenders pre-season, underlying numbers have them mid-table) and that Wolves will be better placed next Summer.

No jobs in history at all, so went for a think tank researcher job, no interview, 220 applicants, lol

As the British media ruthlessly and efficiently changes Sandie Peggie's defeat into a victory please note that all the nice liberal pundits and journos who'll do a frowny face about this will insist journalists and the media as a whole are just smol beans with no ability to affect anything.

Looking forward to what other regional employment tribunals the media will be reporting on en masse today! Race discrimination in Scunthorpe? Sex discrimination in Yeovil? Homophobia in Wrexham? Or is it only GCs who lost their case that get this treatment

Wolves fans singing "we scored a goal" sarcastically, they seem very ready for life in the Championship

How is Ki-jana Hoever (a) a Premier League player again and (b) still only 23

Nah, even now the likeliest outcome is that Boro and Wolves are both championship teams next season but the latter has 3x the budget

Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!

And, like, if I'm trying to persuade you that a whole imperialist state system is bad, rather than one guy is bad, why wouldn't I start with the most popular of the guys who lead that system?

this formulation also seems to hold for the 19th Century - "of course you have to understand Cecil Rhodes in the context of his time, it was normal to be a racist and white supremacist back then", followed by the idea that the British Empire was basically benign.

British conservatives will tell you in one breath that "it's no big deal, everyone in Britain was racist in the 1970s" and then in the next start going on about Britain's glorious history as the most moral Empire the world has ever known

and like if you're that incapable of feeling joy why are you even going to the football?

Get a fucking life lads, go for long walks, get a garden, spend time with your family and friends. Nothing obliges you to hate watch Jean-Philippe Mateta being probably the best centre forward in Palace's history.

All of Crystal Palace's recent success is built on the joyful footballing culture that immigration and diversity has given South London.

Imagine you hate all that and for some reason you'd like to spend all your time and money following the team around just to feel angry at it and yell abuse.

Crystal Palace fans are literally fighting each other. How has it come to this? Clashes between rival factions are the culmination of a long-running feud involving claims of racism

Feel like this is real evidence of what miserable lifeless fucks racists are www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Employers meanwhile are lobbying their absolute nuts off trying to make sure employees don't have any rights until they've spent a couple of years proving their worth, so terrified are they of accidentally employing any lying fakers who'll do anything to avoid a bit of hard work

I'm often struck by the internal contradiction in this kind of scrounger-bashing:

People like Johnson think Britain is full of lying fakers who'll do anything to avoid a bit of hard work AND that they'd all make such brilliant employees that it could save the economy

That wise!

you've been in left groups for 40 years, surely you've been made to sit through Matewan or Land and Freedom at least 6 times

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel.

pete_wharmby_books & ••• HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman pete_wharmby_books Ah, as expected the right wing press (and Freeman's pipeline from the Guardian op-Ed pages to the Times is worth looking into) is now piling on, suggesting that these scary ADHD activists are just trying to ruin things for everyone. Not, like, try to improve people's self esteem and sense of what is going on. 2025 is so horrifyingly, predictably *boring*

then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM

*requires a series of laborious processes to be as good as a chicken that I've just seasoned and roasted for a bit.

same, I like fried food, I'm going to fry food

If I ran a political party I'd go straight out and find whoever did the early PR for air fryers.

Persuading people not only that for some reason they needed to buy a second, smaller oven for their kitchen but also actively needed to evangelise everyone they knew into doing likewise. A genius.

They might put up with you, flatter you even at times, but this stuff is their real sense of the world

By the way everyone, what right-wing politicians say about immigrants is literally also what they believe about you.

You having an ordinary job is a kind of favour your generous employer and the nation has done you, allowing you to reproduce your existence despite not being AN ENTREPRENEUR

You might think that the "Labour" Party would consider labour itself to be a contribution to society, alas no, only "having lots of money" is a real contribution.

Perhaps they need to change their name to the Capital Party?