Rob Lavender – He/Him/His

There is so, so much to criticise the Labour govt for – but the Tory attack lines are some of the most stupid criticisms I have ever seen. The latest – David Lammy bought a suit at some point in the same week that a thing happened – proves they're getting really silly now.

I think it's a perfectly cromulent word, personally

I couldn't agree more, however I would like to add that I personally find it jarring when any ostensibly left-wing politician is a landlord. Getting a poorer family to pay your mortgage for you is gross and Tory-coded.

Imagine getting 170 people who aren't trying to get to Israel, taking them by force into Israel, then telling them they have no right to be in Israel and deporting them. Far from the worst thing Israel has done recently, but certainly one of the stupidest-looking.

It's weird how, in just a few years, the debate has moved from "is immigration good or bad?" to "how should we deal with this awful immigration problem?", without any actual significant shift in people's opinions. It's all down to the media's framing, which is why articles like this are so rare

Big pharma is at war with the UK, and the government can’t back down now | Nick Dearden The industry has always wanted the NHS to pay more for its drugs; now it is pulling research and investment out of Britain, says director of Global Justice Now Nick Dearden

The NHS gives Britain the buying power to force great deal on drugs companies. So they want it broken up and privatised to increase their profits. And their plans to break it up are championed by Reform and Nigel Farage. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I remember that GTA mission: "Always looking for his next heist, Kier hatches a plan to steal the rights of the most vulnerable people in the country. This will be like taking candy from a baby..."

It would be super interesting to learn who has been shorting Kenvue (who make #Tylenol) shares lately. Surely not anyone with ties to the Trump admin. That would be immoral and illegal.

An early attempt at a golf ball, before they realised that they've been doing the dimples inside out?

Feels like UK govt are preparing a convoluted defense for the Hague, "look if I thought we were assisting in a genocide, would I really go out of my way to recognise the victim as an independent sovereign state?"

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"…the workers were in the US temporarily, helping to build an electric car battery plant run by … Hyundai and LG".

Hmn. Now why on earth would a president bankrolled by Tesla's owner want to disrupt this project – oh wait, something just occurred to me…

Nigel Farage uses private company to pay less tax on GB News earnings Exclusive: Reform leader’s use of personal services firm is a practice criticised across the political spectrum

Since this is apparently a resigning matter, I’ll just leave this here…

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

I suspect one likely difference between Kyle and the US shows he emulated is he'd constantly tell people with kids they can't look after to "put something on the end of it!", a message to which the Catholics may take umbrage. Anyway Kyle's an awful shit... Rinder is a decent guy by all accounts

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a bald man stands in a church with candles Alt: Clip from the film Highlander, of the antagonist, Kurgan, stating "it's better to burn out than to fade away"

Mind you, what about all the effigies of individuals about whom people are largely ambivalent? Must be very boring for them, just hanging around, zero attention paid to them. Bet they're secretly hoping to suddenly find themselves at the centre of a geopolitical crisis

Just watched an #ICE raid on Sky News. Awful, of course, but there's something incongruous about the fact they were all driving Hyundai and Lexuses while kidnapping anyone who looks remotely foreign. If you're going to be xenophobic, at least do it right.

Trump was a joke until the media started taking him seriously. Same over here in the UK with Boris Johnson and then Farage. Vance met with Murdoch at the latter's mansion a few weeks ago, just before the Epstein chat started up in earnest again. Wonder why... Murdoch is the kingmaker *dons tinfoil*

Not to get all Kent Brockman "I for one welcome...", but I'll boycott the US for it's human rights abuses before China. I saw an "exposé" of conditions and pay at Shein factories and honestly I've had worse jobs that paid less on UK farms. Still not good but that's global capitalism not China.

Looks like two new Pokémon just dropped

It is remarkable how Donald Trump's base is entirely people who up to 10 years ago hated/feared two things more than anything else: Russia, and paedophiles. And somehow he has got them rallying behind both now. Genuinely impressive. Awful, terrible, but yeah - wow.

I heard the owls in Washington State are not what they seem...

(Beautiful pic btw)

Exactly! Take tarrifs - oh, scared of the free market all of a sudden are you? And I thought you were Republicans... Pathetic. Ayn Rand wouldn't touch you with someone else's 10ft pole, losers

MY VOICE MY CHOICE Abortion isn't a problem; it's a solution. Divorce isn't a problem; it's a solution. #Me Too isn't a problem; it's a solution. Feminism isn't a problem; it's a solution. The problem is that patriarchy doesn't want us to have solutions. -Farida D.

I worry that my main motivation for being like this is not because it's wrong to hurt the pixels, but rather because deep down I have an overwhelming need for the pixels to like me.

That's why we should lock up billionaires. If people might want to do something that hurts other people, eg stealing, you make that thing a crime to stop people doing it.

You mean the Worst and Most Criminally Corrupt blockage EVER in the History of the United States of Awesomerica, caused by Sleepy Joe, Crooked Hillary, Covfefe Kamala and their Army of DANGEROUS RADICAL LEFT EVIL TERRORIST-POOPERS to DESTROY our Great Cubicle and install Woke urinals

Authors, if you've not seen this yet, an open letter about John Boyne's inclusion on the Polari prize list

Why are Labour further right socially and economically than Cameron/Osborne-era Tories? The Overton Window hasn't shifted that much; your party has. Where is your humanity, collective or personal? Criminalising refugees is not a win.

Sounds like I See You Baby (Shakin' Seabass) by Groove Armada

These are amazing... Please tell me which one my like is responsible for, Uncle Biome!