Jack Saundrs

Putting Greens aside, think the idea that these five things have some unassailable majority in favour is pure centrist dad delusion.

2/5 Israel, USA, majority is the other way
1/5 most couldn't tell you what NATO means
1/5 pro-military gets a majority only if you phrase it as "be nice to veterans"

It's not even "atypical" for like the half mile radius it's in?!

What am I to do, with degrees from both unis? Must I beat myself up?

Hearing word that the KCL boys behind that bra bomb have gone one further and stolen UCL's mascot, a prize pig, the night before their big game against State

Banner on a UCL building advertising TEAMUCL v Kings at [sport] with the slogan "200 years of bleeding purple"

Small thing but the claim that UCL students have been "bleeding purple" for 200 years over "varsity" sports against King's, feels weirdly symbolic of the entire university managerial/marketing fraction's total lack of comprehension of the UK university

Will never not irritate me that deciding to do bad policy to avoid having an honest conversation with the public is framed as the "tough" or "difficult" choice.

Bill Schwarz had them bewitched by Rhodesians and Afrikaners but it was the US all along

Underpriced the extent to which the New Right succeeded in their main project of subordinating all domestic politics in Britain to the interests of the disgustingly violent, racist settler colonists the Empire had deposited around the globe

three quarters of the national newspapers I saw in the supermarket today went with a variation of "beloved international statesman Donald Trump calls PM a pussy, we love this" and the commercial logic of caping so hard both a war and a president that are both massively unpopular is ... questionable

The idea that Britain has a "free press" rather than a propaganda complex for the U.S military industrial complex has taken a real beating in the last 48 hours

Darren Jones, honourable member for BAE Systems and Riyadh, he'll be fine

The Labour Party, of course, have such brilliant, realistic plans for everything

Tbf, they've just moved on to Muslims shouldn't be allowed to vote and it should be illegal to be anti-Israel

The problem with the ephemerality of social media and the rapid news cycle is that absolute bangers like this get forgotten, not put in museums where they belong.

They'll do this and then they'll tell you that anyone opposing it is an impractical Utopian dreamer who doesn't live in the real world

Cover of a French picture book for children, a little girl with cropped hair in a green dress is playing the recorder

Pages 3 and 4 depicting le briquet (lighter) and la cigarette

I was given this 1976 picture book for French children for the boy and I was not prepared for it to be FRENCH French

I know it's axiomatic to these weirdos that all our state's enemies are lunatics, incapable of rational self-interest, but why would Iran want to multiply opposing forces for no reason?

There's a lot of centrist dad wannabe "realists" in the replies here going "well he can't rule things out, what if they attack us?" and, I dunno, maybe consider that ruling out UK involvement would considerably reduce the chances of that eventuality?

I feel like this absolutely sums up what's going on here. It ought to be impossible to not know where this stuff is from: it's the newspapers. It's all day every day on every front page. It's what our own fascist elite tell us every day they want. And yet, everyone is confused.

Maybe it’s because I’m a colonial historian but so many of these white nation states seem to behave exactly like they did in the 19th century: ‘your leaders aren’t right for you,’ ‘we’re only killing you/colonizing you/installing puppet leaders for your own good’

Would guess it's meant to be something like the French Carihbean speciality poulet colombo?

It's a bit "garlic bread" in phoenix nights

Think they're more likely leaning in a "London has fallen" direction

Got to appreciate a true innovator - "the English have too many seasonings" 👌

Oooh, new ridiculous trans-atlantic food discourse unlocked!

I think as a matter of principle it was always bad for "we can bomb and murder countries into the shape we fancy them being" to be an accepted consensus amongst European/n.americans, but when we're talking Trump/Netanyahu specifically, it's wild anyone it's an acceptable thing to think

in case anyone ever needed confirmation that it's not about building a democratic Iran, it's about collapsing Iran and turning it into a land of rubble that can be bombed every six months

What he said after losing Runcorn to reform

Of course, viewers in Scotland will already be familiar with this sort of sudden suspension of "never tell the voters they're wrong" norms