Jim Ratcliffe is a prick. I always thought he was.
He has done nothing to suggest that he is not a prick. I loathe Jim Ratcliffe and as a result I find it very hard to get behind his cycling team. He was a prick before he got into cycling. He’s always been a prick. I hope that clears things up.

It still baffles me that people still think that there was ever such a thing as a “moderate“ Tory

It is absolutely insane that we are trying to come up with workarounds and bans on children accessing social media when the simple solution - holding social media platforms responsible for their content under existing law - has been staring us in the face for years.

Rejoining the EU is the only way to stop Trump It is time to return home

Full EU membership should be put to the public at the next election. It's time to return home.

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Say no to Palantir in the NHS NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir - fight back

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Boycott the World Cup

Not a foot should be set in that country until the madness stops

We are Christopher Isherwood, watching the increasingly violent scenes of government thuggery and murder in the Berlin street below from our apartment window above.

When this is all over, every single person who voted for and enabled him should be forced to pay reparations and make a daily apology to the rest of the world.

We've spent ten years being proved right about all the things the loudest, biggest voices in the UK media insisted, often obnoxiously, we were wrong about. The real kicker is that there's no consolation whatsoever in being correct. Brexit, Putin, Johnson, Truss, Trump, Twitter, Netanyahu etc etc...

Everybody was sure that Somebody would stop Trump invading Greenland. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn’t do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody when Nobody did what Anybody could have.

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Hence some of the pitfalls of writing on the Internet, highly visible in e-mail, blogs, and responses to blogs. The mechanical ease and immediacy of electronic communication are deceptive. People write hurriedly, don't reread what they wrote, misread and are misread, get into quarrels, hurl insults, and use flame-throwers because they expect their writing to be understood as if they were talking. It's childish to assume people will understand unexpressed meanings. It's dangerous to confuse self-expression with communication.

Ursula K. Le Guin, spitting truth.

A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

I hope 2026 is the year more people realise that putting into power known sexual predators with a predilection for fascism is something to be, errrrr, questioned at the very least and that it should not be considered an extremist position on the scales of media balance to bring the subject up

Tomorrow evening it’ll be my annual duty to vaguely shepherd the activity on the #duvetknowitschristmas hashtag and urge people to give small sums to charity. 7.30pm? Something like that?

There are those driven by love and those driven by hate - sadly, the base simplicity of hate means it is platformed so often because it travels fast and thoughtlessly, thankfully I know far more people who have the courage and strength to be driven by love

The six

This is becoming a very very shameful episode - and a tragedy for these young and courageous people and their friends and families

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Right, she may have played for Birmingham City (and sadly not Aston Villa) but can you all vote for Karen Carney this evening on #strictly.

Not least because she has the most beautiful Brummie accent, and she is an absolute star and deserves to win outright.

Brexshit stopped OUR freedom of movement. Fuck everyone who played a part

Badenoch says the Conservatives would want fewer “low value degrees” and many more apprenticeships. As ever with such announcements I will perhaps take it more seriously when the kids of government ministers and MPs are routinely doing apprenticeships and not degrees.

Reeves speech did not mislead on challenges facing UK ahead of Budget, says OBR official Prof David Miles tells MPs the messaging given by the chancellor was

Oh.
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Part of our 2025 Advent Calendar, a black and white line drawing showing my version of Bigfoots wearing wintery clothes and bearing various wrapped Christmas presents.

Every year we make a free-to-download-and-print-off-yourself colouring-in Advent Calendar. This year’s heavily features Bigfoots. Please share!
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same as with Boris Johnson, we knew they were little shits at school who were allowed to become massive shits in adulthood, the fact people are """only finding out now""" blows my mind i feel like i'm going mad

Reform is a party that says things that appeal to racists, fields racist candidates, fawns over racist world leaders, made a convicted racist guest of honour at their conference, and whose leader refuses to outright deny having racially abused people.

If only there were a word for such a party.

I JUST NEED ONE WEEK WHERE THEY DONT FORCE FARAGE ON MY AWARENESS JUST ONE PLEASE GOD LET ME HAVE A BREAK

I often see people saying we have to be careful about using the term evil. But fuck it, if you support a policy that brings potential harm to a vulnerable minority or just makes their everyday life extremely difficult I'm going to call it how I see it. It's YOU that needs to take a look at yourself.

As anti-Labour media will always put words in her mouth, why not beat them to it:

"Yes it's true, Daily Mail readers, we are coming for you and your money because a) everyone else had to pay under the Tories b) Brexit screwed the poor c) you voted for both. Cheers, Rachel."

Nigel Farage Says Minimum Wage Should Be Cut for Young People The Reform leader said cutting the minimum wage for young people would boost business, as he attacked plans to raise taxes on the wealthy

YOUNG PEOPLE. LISTEN UP.

Today Nigel Farage said the government should cut the minimum wage for young people

...to “raise aspiration” and “boost business"

It's £10ph FFS!

Lower your pay so you’ll dream bigger

DO YOU SEE IT NOW?

Spread far & wide.

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Deporting people who have legally earned the right to be in the country is unforgivably repugnant, and a sliver away from the full white supremacist project that drives many in Reform UK.

Watch that mask slipping, remember it, and don't allow them to normalise this.

I’m sorry to do this.

But this Grisham character seems to have overtaken me in the Legal Thriller charts.

He seems to think he’s some sort of big cheese.

If you, like me, seethe at this injustice, #TheCutThroatTrial is currently *half price*.

Together we can get him.