Peter Moore

These are just petty, cruel people.

One of the dilemmas of living through the second Trump administration is that saying these things out loud seems crazy. But yeah, the death penalty is an established, well-documented thing we have on the books for precisely these kinds of crimes; they obviously did it; and it's not hard to prove.

I tend to think that the message of the National Security Strategy for Europe is less "treat America as a threat" (because it will take a decade at the absolute best for that to be feasible) and more "recognise that the US runs on court politics and take action to make sure hostile factions lose."

Being generous, the problem is a lot of MPs don't actually want to thoughtfully engage with different audiences, they're just going to defend their choices up until then, and that's a problem when /nobody else likes those choices/

I'd love to learn more about his time in Austria, as from what I can piece together he lived there 1965-2003. A remarkable man.

Sometimes this backfires though as "bad daddy big hair" (Keir Starmer) is compared to "love daddy no hair" (me)

Once again, "imagine getting to place a side bet on your kids soccer game" is an indicator of severe levels of degeneracy and in a healthier/more functional society, we would nuke these ppl & their entire business model from orbit

Like MAGA, transphobes have gotten everything they wanted in 2025. And, like MAGA, they've never been more vitriolic toward the institutions they've captured, more disgusted by their wounded victims, more ready to plough forth into realms of cruelty that even they would have balked at a year ago.

Always found it a useful comparison that Americans found it insane that a British PM would express an opinion on banning dog breeds, while lots of Brits entirely refused to accept that it might actually be useful to send a trade delegation to Albany.

Trump, unlike the British executive, controls remarkably little that American people use day to day. He's driving down a much bigger road.

We're watching the wholesale burning of every scrap of dignity afforded to trans people in the UK, their rights, their medical services, their employment, their place within society, their bodily functions.

It is a disgrace, and a disgusting stain on the government and media of this country.

At this point I want Labour to stay out of it to avoid touching it with the Starmer Curse.

Organisations like the Guides and the WI could have chosen to fight rather than capitulate, difficult and expensive though that might have been, and it's not unreasonable to criticise them for not doing. But it is this Labour government who could and should have fixed this problem when it occurred.

A Labour government passed the Equality Act. A Labour government was in power when the Supreme Court interpreted it to not mean what ministers at the time were clear it was intended to mean. The Labour government response should have been to legislate to fix it. Not doing so was a cowardly betrayal.

Here’s Judith Butler explaining what this movement is and always was, about five years ago.

Even better, they rent it out for corporate events.

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It's also weirdly ignorant of their own role in that change. Israel is no longer an underdog because the US exerted immense influence across decades to create a system in the Middle East that does not threaten American interests. This includes Israel, and is *the* project of muscular American power!

Given the any injury rate on British roads is 0.38, doesn't this mean that Waymo rolling out here would, like, make the roads less safe?

Not clarifying the Equality Act in line with what we know was the original intention of its Labour drafters is an active choice.

This so sad. I know they really didn’t want to do this. The petty cruelty of the gender critical movement seemingly knows no bounds.

I think something that hasn't quite pierced their environment, but which bankers IME get, is that as difficult as it is a promise to raise taxes is a lot more politically realistic than a promise to cut spending, let alone cut it in the run up to an election.

It’s also very important to note, imo, as something important about humanity, how this fact is essentially forgotten beyond people being specifically startled by it in isolation

a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit

This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started

At least most other lines of work where people talk shit to your face about how pointless your job is and how terrible you are come with DB pensions.

Which then prompts the slightly troubling but probably true thought of: Are British houses so small that prime working age adults with families live in properties of roughly the same size that pensioners downsize to in other English-speaking countries?

IME with my older American family - who *all* have downsized - it might really be that there isn't much in the way of "smaller, but the same" by which I mean still getting a garden and a garage just, less and easier.

"Oh when I complain about immigrants I don't mean your wife and dad, I-"

"Fuck off Steve"

They disagree with me on much of the stuff I can be calm about, but agree with me on everything that I might punch my shitty cousin over if I've had six drinks.

My son has, since we moved to Richmond a couple of months ago, received more contact hours of assistance from Richmond Council in the past week than we received from Surrey in 2.5 years.