The Failed Anarchist Revival

"Never let your conscience be harmful to your health
Let no neurotic impulse turn inward on itself
Just say that you were happy, as happy would allow
And tell yourself that that will have to do for now"
- Paddy McAloon of Prefab Sprout, 'Life of Surprises'

Courts service accused of covering up IT bug that caused evidence to go missing Sources say judges in courts and tribunals will have made rulings when evidence was incomplete.

Courts service in England & Wales 'covered up' IT bug that caused evidence to go missing.

Software had a long history of data loss.

Executives covered up flaws.

Judges made rulings with incomplete evidence.

Another Post Office type of scandal looms.

UK homelessness minister resigns after tenant eviction claims Rushanara Ali was accused of hypocrisy after claims she removed tenants before rent rise of almost £700 a month

well that's a win

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets in Jerusalem with a group of Republican lawmakers on an AIPAC organized trip, August 6, 2025. A group of around 70 men and women are all seen smiling broadly with Netanyahu in the middle (Kobi Gideon/ GPO).

Sometimes a photo stops you in your tracks.

Taken yesterday, Congressional Republicans sit smiling with the key architect of what major international agencies conclude is a genocide.

To answer future generations’ question: this is how it was allowed to happen.

(📸 Kobi Gideon, GPO)

worse - at least we know the Tories are bastards. these are the same, with added hypocrisy

has she misunderstood her remit? or does she think her job is to *increase* homelessness?

Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month Rushanara Ali, who has spoken out against 'unreasonable rent increases', relisted her four-bedroom townhouse in east London for £4,000 a month

UK Homelessness minister threw out her tenants - then increased rent by £700 a month.

Rent increased from £3,300 to £4,000 a month, 21% increase.

As Mahatma Gandhi said: "Be the change that you wish to see in the world".
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you're right about market forces: except in this market, there are powerful players whose business would be wrecked by a complete transition to renewable energy. their nightmare scenario is being left with stranded assets

government can correct this but Big Oil wields power there too

I think a lot of people don't care about the facts and numbers - they're just looking for someone to blame, and preferably someone who's weaker and looks different. the Farages of this world rely on being able to channel that emotive response with "rorschack slogans" like 'take back control'

Jewish supremacist advocating annihilation of innocent Palestinians and doing so with impunity.
#palestine #US #gaza

Israel can not allow aid in Gaza to avoid starvation but can spend $150M to buy influencers to say the starvation is fake

Israel's war crimes now coming with a PR package

Inside Trump’s New Tactic to Separate Immigrant Families

Trump’s New Tactic is to Separate Immigrant Families
“The practice appears to be a more targeted version of the mass separation of migrant children from their parents”

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/05/u...

looking back a century, there were trams in lots of towns and cities in the US... but "the market", ie an unholy alliance between Rockefeller and Ford, bought them up and shut them down

"the market" only obeys money. and Big Oil has more than enough to fry us all

you need a red one

indeed. it requires no feedstock and it's very hard to monopolise. John D Rockefeller must be spinning in his grave 😁

hello Kitty

in Spice, no one can hear you scream...

another effect is that perfectly good low-carbon building material (wood) is literally going up in smoke, with the subsidies meaning that wood prices are higher than they otherwise would be

(and yes, I'm a carpenter)

UK biomass emits more CO2 than coal | Ember Burning wood is a larger emitter than coal in the UK, and is the electricity sector’s second largest CO2 emitter after fossil gas.

there's a downside to this. Drax has been converted to biofuel, ie wood pellets, and the carbon footprint of (importing and) burning wood turns out to be higher than if they'd kept burning coal. it's considered 'carbon neutral' but that's false accounting

ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

REMRATS

Environment Secretary urged to apologise for ‘misleading’ Scottish water claims Holyrood’s Climate Action and Energy Secretary has written to Steve Reed about ‘inaccurate and misleading comments’ about water quality in Scotland.

UK Environment Secretary must apologise for ‘misleading’ Scottish water claims.

Claimed water “pollution levels in Scotland are worse than they are in England”.

Water Commission found 66% of Scotland’s water bodies to be of good ecological status; 16.1% in England; 29.9% in Wales.

it's a bit like this

"'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party."

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine ALT: a cartoon dog is sitting at a table in front of a fire with the words it 's fine everything is fine

I'm sure Trump will appoint someone who'll tell him sweet little lies

Right to buy in England ‘fuelled housing crisis and cost taxpayers £200bn’ Common Wealth report calls discounted sales of council homes one of the ‘largest giveaways in UK history’

it looks like Captain Obvious has ventured into journalism

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

2 + 2 = 5

his punishment is to wake up each morning as... himself. a mind like that must be deeply unhappy

I asked Chatgpt to show me a London tube train and this was what I got, so it must be true

"What we're seeing now is the most horrific stage of Israels starvation campaign... Israel has been using aid as a way to bait civilians & has been killing civilians who have been seeking aid..."

Michael Fakhri, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food

the netanyahu regime deliberately starved, then murdered, 91 human beings today, and wounded some 400. if this atrocity had happened in uk, france, america etc. this event would echo around the globe and never be forgotten. in gaza, it's just another day.