Felix Trayhurn

It's not a competition, but it is sobering that, according to the most reliable figures we have, Israel has killed more Palestinians *seeking aid* than Hamas killed on October 7.

Senseless killing upon senseless killing.

*with teeth so gritted that they're splintering into a thousand pieces* yes you were correct Mr arsehole Corbyn fan, and I was wrong.

It absolutely rankles that the diehard Corbynite prick acquaintance who gratuitously insulted me a bunch of times for disliking Corbyn, and who cut up his Labour membership card the day Starmer won the leadership election, was much more right about Starmer than I was, the sensible Politics Knower.

Indeed. The board are in a bind now - if they want a well run company that makes high quality products they need to fire Musk, but firing him will make them all lose a lot of money so instead they keep him on to ride the speculation train, extracting money for as long as possible until it collapses.

He is objectively a net negative for efficient and competent running of the company. However, the massively overvalued stock price is pretty much down to his grandiose (false) promises and cult following. If they fired him it would be a better run company but the stock price would completely tank.

47% of people think immigration is primarily illegal. There were 4% irregular arrivals in March

New YouGov polling. A monumental failure of our political class to educate, a monumental failure of our media to report fairly, for a generation

Not even joking when I say the educated urban bourgeoise need to develop class consciousness. So much horrid shit throughout the developed world comes from them internalizing that they are illegitimate in a way the “noble” and “authentic” peasants and proles are not.

I think they're just so used to dumbass tweets from Shaun and similar British leftists that they're misreading and jumping to conclusions rather than engaging with what you're actually saying but it's pretty annoying when they get like this regardless.

As always, a bunch of American liberal posters I usually like (as in I follow or are familiar with a lot of the people currently dunking on you) doing tweets about anything/anyone British become instantly completely insufferable. They're currently pretending you're basically ShaunVids, which... No.

AI obituaries will never be better than this.

These are the top replies, being financially rewarded for posting this stuff, and the explanation offered by the site’s own AI for why it’s like that.

Anyway just flicking through the Sunday newspapers reading about some minor content infractions that Ofcom might look into at the BBC/Channel 4.

I'm having a clear out today and in the process I found the ticket for a talk he gave that he signed for me at the end and I just sat staring at it for a while, thinking about all the sensitive and thoughtful feminist things he said at that talk that turned out to be utterly insincere.

Ghislaine Maxwell quietly moved to cushy new Texas prison as she pushes for deal to tell-all on Epstein, his associates Ghislaine Maxwell has quietly been moved to a far more favorable Texas prison camp as she hashes a possible deal to divulge secrets about her sex-crimes accomplice Jeffrey Epstein.

Trump transfers Ghislaine from Florida to cush Texas club fed camp as initial inducement to exonerate Trump as negotiation for pardon/commutation continues nypost.com/2025/08/01/u...

That banger also stuck in my mind, pretty sure it was by @bheanilla.bsky.social

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

NEW: We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office.

ICE claims officers use a “minimum amount of force.”

You can judge for yourself.

By @nicolefoy.bsky.social @mckenziefunk.com

WASPInomics and the magic avocado tree Why boomers struggle to make sense of the millennial world.

My latest, exploring with numbers how the millennial household budget is basically incomprehensible to retired boomers.

"On the fifth day, he followed a black market trader down an alleyway and paid almost $100 for a kilo of lentils. Boiled at home on foraged firewood, the rare find was his family’s first meal in almost a week: a few spoons of lentils in warm salt water, split between six children and nine adults."

How utterly pathetic is the elite class of America that the man they bend the knee to is Donald fucking Trump?

The NYT is deeply on board with Trumps efforts to destroy universities. "Bring universities to heel" isnt an accident, its a clear statement of values coming right from the top of the paper.

Who is accountable in privatised Britain? From unadopted housing estates to a road no one seems to own – hollowed-out local government can no longer cope.

Imagine buying a new-build and paying full council tax, only to find you must pay a private company to fix the road and streetlights - and the fees can rise at any point with no explanation.

Also, you live by road full of potholes that apparently nobody owns

www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.

Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)

will take any chance to repost my favorite survey from sweden, taken in 2023, which is 'safety politics' in a nutshell:

53 percent of respondents believe Sweden is unsafe
22 percent say the county they live in is unsafe
10 percent say it is unsafe in their neighborhood

www.dn.se/sverige/valj...

A man coughing up blood. Men zip-tied face down on a wet floor. CCTV turned off. Men forced to eat off of a chair like animals while handcuffed. Solitary confinement if you complain. This is just three paragraphs from a new report.

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

He's one of Britain's richest men. So why does Asif Aziz's property company keep leasing London gift shops to overseas students based in abandoned offices or flytipped car parks — before vanishing without paying millions of pounds in taxes? www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

An unbearably sad statement from the Editorial Committee (SDJ) of the AFP news agency, please read:

"Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die.
AFP has been working with 1 writer, 3 photographers and 6 videographers, all freelance, in the Gaza Strip… /1

Ironically he was one of the few I was actually interested to hear from because he was Pelosi's heir apparent and in the thick of things as opposed to a lot of the others who were past their prime and reminiscing but boy was he a waste of time.

During the pandemic he was a guest speaker at one of our regular corporate "morale-boosting" zoom town halls (we got a lot of famous guests due to our CEO being connected), and he was so fucking juiceless. Dull platitudes with zero charisma behind them, he was probably the worst guest speaker.

i can see this one is going to get a lot of use

Every day and in every way I find Robert Jenrick more and more unnerving. Like an alien wearing a politician flesh suit.

Three stunning and shaming paragraphs, by Rachel Wolf of Public First, in @theobserveruk.bsky.social