Jack Saundrs

There are people out there who think it's ridiculous to say that killing 100,000 Palestinians and expelling 100,000s more from their land is a genocide, but that describing people coming to your country to work and start a family as genocide is totally reasonable.

What happened to them in Scotland, basically: an avoidable disaster that they all seem to have refused to even think about, because the implications of it - that they got outflanked to their left, just a bit, and that was all it took to wreck them - were so deeply offensive.

I dunno, did anything good come out of the last few times Britain did it?

Should we regret not joining in with Vietnam?

Like, why?

It's like being asked to congratulate a lottery winner on how well they picked the numbers.

Peter Mandelson released from bail conditions Police have decided former minister is not a flight risk, but he remains under investigation

So this corrupt bastard with multiple houses overseas has his passport returned to him and is released from bail, while young actionists are kept imprisoned without bail for years?

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

At half time Alan Shearer suggested Mo Salah wasn't angry enough to attack crosses

I can only presume Arne Slot forgot to say "pass quickly" before kick off but remembered at half time.

You might think it interesting to speculate as to what complexities of the game enable a football team to "move the ball quickly" or force them to "move it too slowly" but it doesn't seem to be worth talking about.

Are they not scoring? They should move the ball quicker

Have they started scoring? Gonna bet they started moving the ball quicker

If football pundits weren't allowed to offer "move the ball quicker" as analysis, I think they'd just sit there in silence for the entire game

A post by that dickhead Robert Peston reads The final report of the Water Commission includes this calculation: "We estimate that over £85 billion has been extracted from the English water system by shareholders and affiliated parties since privatisation." Given the parlous, creaking, under-invested condition of Britain's water industry, this was egregious pillaging by shareholders that was licensed by successive governments and the regulator. As the report says, company executives and boards, regulators, ministers, all were to blame. It summarises: "this £85 billion represents a direct transfer of value from the public to private owners — a sum extracted while storm overflows proliferated, leakage targets were missed, and river health declined.".

From what I’ve been told by several human briefcases, it’s not economically viable to nationalise the water industry

Imagine the snivelling little wankers in Starmer's office that put this shit together.

Honestly, quite hard to take all their bloviating about geo-political security when all these little shits are so obviously enjoying themselves

Time and again you see judgements ostensibly about class which are actually about age cohort.

You *still* see polls, strategy and discussion of class built around the National Readership Survey categories - a model structured around a collar line that is obsolete and that doesn't properly filter for retirement (let alone home ownership)!

Maybe, but context would have been different at Spurs I reckon.

Incredible how inaccurate Labour's imagined map of class composition has become.

This party was having historically and sociologically informed debates about affluence, deindustrialisation, service work by the late '50s and now they're like "hmmm, what if every voter is a retired miner?"

Was it "sectarianism" when 50% of (sub 5% muslim) Denton and Reddish voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party in 2019? What weird thing is supposed to have happened there in the last 7 years that Reform would have a chance?

if anything it was a respectable performance! The two right wing parties only got 22% combined last time out

like, everyone had Denton as the right-wing bit, but Labour got 50% of the vote there even in 2019! Where were all these right wing voters supposed to come from?!

the amount of Islamophobic content they've managed to generate out of a historically left-wing constituency voting for a left-wing MP is astonishing

takes a special kind of incompetence to have a top 6 budget in the bottom 6. Man U have to managed to fix it with a fairly middling Championship manager

unclear, but don't imagine the SU's marketing/comms will be anything to do with the political side/elected sabbatical officers

do we think Spurs would have been this bad if they'd kept Ange in the Summer?

Rifkind here making the insane claim that opposing war is both a niche political view and endlessly proven wrong, when not only is it always the majority view, it's hard to think of a more vindicated position.

Which makes sense from their point of view, but doesn't explain why the proud patriots of one of those vassall states - who spent the last decade pompously hectoring the rest of us about the crucial importance of our "sovereignty" - loudly insist that its citizens should be proud to submit to this.

This guy was forced to resign in disgrace effectively because he was facilitating government access for a corrupt lobbyist for foreign business interests including a prolific sex trafficker.

They had a cosy leaving do for him, where they gave speeches about what a jolly good fellow he is.

Getting annoyed that a polician is "very political" is peak New Labour brain

Look, it's perfectly clear, they consider every other country a vassal that should pay them tribute or an antagonist. There isn't really any other category you can be in.