Manu Ekanayake

The timing of this is all about Kash’s desperation to change the narrative from his trip to Italy.

I think some of this is a consequence of her being Too Online, in that she has always been too partisan to be properly effective IMV, but: today is wild. She has *friends* who she is calling “paedo defenders”!!

This is why I'll never understand POC Tory politicians - it's one thing to vote that way, I get it even though it's not how I think. But when you're suiting up for the party itself you have to *know' that a lot of the supporters will at best always think of you as 'one of the good ones'

“AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations”

perfect ht @mordent.bsky.social

🇮🇷 Iranian university students demonstrate across Tehran

Footage shared on social media on 24 February shows Iranian students demonstrating and chanting slogans at several universities across the capital, Tehran.

Let me show you a wardrobe you can build with $1,700 🧵

It *literally* does.

Thats what it is. A document which says youre British.

If Epstein was still alive, Todd Blanche would’ve already had him transferred to a Club Fed after he agreed to give a statement that Trump did nothing wrong.

I rewatched You've Got Mail yesterday and the way Greg Kinnear's character is railing against technology ruining the world but the technology was email.

This is wonderful.

Terrible news for the government and media. Now that their favoured platform is down, how can they reach their target audience of Nazis, misogynists and pederasts?

Still composed, always candid, Gisèle Pelicot is the stro... The French heroine at the heart of a court case that shocked the world was as calm and impressive in her only UK television interview as she was on the stand

Gisèle Pelicot is the strongest woman I have ever met

“Strength is in my DNA”, she said, writes Victoria Derbyshire

https://bit.ly/4ttR2wS

Donald Trump and Liz Truss

I just saw this posted (elsewhere) with the heading 'The Slug and Lettuce' and I genuinely guffawed.

Lazy McCarthyism

Donald Trump is "the Epstein Administration."

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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

This morning I posted our petition to get Palantir out of our NHS and our public services.

Over 40,000 people have now signed it - thank you.

Please do keep sharing!

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Relationships between Jews and Christians definitely are the foundation of this country but perhaps not like that.

The crusades the Christian right in the UK worships so much were funded by expropriating a Jewish underclass while inventing blood libel & Jewish banker stereotypes that persist today.

<staff kitchen>

NAZGUL #1: I just...
NAZGUL: #2: What?
N#1: Like... Seriously? We're hunting HOBBITS now?
N#2: I mean okay but clue was in the name
N#1: True, but still
WITCH KING <entering>: Hey
N#1: Hey
N#2: Hey

<Witch King leaves with coffee>

N#1: Maybe we should have said something
N#2: Maybe

Morgan McSweeney: a Downing Street chief with the heart of a downhill ski champ

No slope too steep

He leaves office with his head held low (<20%)

A generational Pasokification speedrun 🏅🕊️

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If a Labour government just didn't spend its time using the bully pulpit to talk about what bastards foreigners are and pandering to anti-trans cranks it'd make a real difference to me. So it's relatively easy for a new leader to significantly shift my opinion. It therefore *cannot* be Wes Streeting

New data shows surge in trans kids’ suicides following healthcare rollbacks | Good Law Project A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare

“A freedom of information request by Good Law Project has found that deaths by suicide of trans young people under 18 surged following the withdrawal of gender-affirming healthcare…”

The political attacks on healthcare for young trans people has horrific outcomes. Trans youth deserve to thrive.

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mashallah he is gone, to celebrate I've made the piece I wrote last year about arguably the most embarrassing project I've ever worked on free to read: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/so-about-t...

McSweeney going is excellent news. It doesn't fix any problems by itself, but it is the precondition for fixing those problems.

Boring opinion: if people know the name of the Downing Street Chief of Staff, the CoS is not doing a good job.

He and Cummings now have the chance to create the most god-awful podcast together.

The Founding Myth of Morgan McSweeney Reports of Keir Starmer's chief adviser's supposed campaigning genius do not appear to match up with the facts

Morgan McSweeney is the reason the Labour party is unrecognisable to many who previously voted for it. All based on a myth that he fended off the BNP in his local politics days in Barking council. Probably a good time to read this by @adambienkov.bsky.social www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/the-foundi...

In a touching tribute to his mentor, Morgan McSweeney has resigned in disgrace.

Mandelson: here's where we're at so far...

The government knew Mandelson had ties to Epstein - as was reported in the FT in 2023. This was raised in the initial vetting report when he was a candidate for ambassador (the full vetting process dind't happen til after he'd been announced)

There’s literally a straight line between Trump, Epstein, and the retaliatory lawsuits against women who came forward with allegations against celebrity men like Amber Heard and Blake Lively. They all even have the same PR folks. And yet people still refuse to see it