Steven Fielding

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That’s the spirit.

Things Can Only Get Better …

Didsbury will be fuming.

Not sure how Chorlton got on that list.

Yes, whoever was doing that here should really go back to Twitter.

In a recent grooming gangs trial in Scotland, all but one of those found guilty were gingers. Bizarrrly, I saw no moral panic about redheads.

There are so many to choose from. It’s a very competitive field.

There’s no comfort in knowing that some of those on the hard right suffer from crippling insecurity or just plain weirdness; the same could have been said of leading Nazis and that really didn’t do the world much good.

It strikes me that this explains at least some of Goodwin’s personal politics: status anxiety.

A disconcerting number of high status people upended their worldviews because other people did not affirm that status in the way they thought appropriate.
And social media accelerated this because for high status people it is often the experience of people telling you that you are wrong.

We are still waiting for that race war that Powell predicted in 1968.

Minister accuses Nigel Farage of siding with late paedophile Jimmy Savile in online safety row Peter Kyle said Reform UK leader’s objection to new rules put him on side of predators

A bit late to this but however ridiculous and unfair this might be, this is EXACTLY how Labour should respond to Farage. on.ft.com/4msWI68

And they almost put Stockport on the map.

It did happen here, under Boris Johnson, if he hadn’t been such a self indulgent lazy dick, goodness knows where we would have been.

Mike Huckabee, Israel’s Passionate Defender as Gaza War Drives Allies Away

“You are the key. Without you, Jesus won’t come back.” US antisemitic Zionists must be amongst the maddest and most dangerous people in the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/w...

My lack of reputation goes before me.

And I’ve not even started drinking yet.

He might be a bastard, but he’s our bastard. As I think one president said, the one who everybody goes on about how great he was.

I would definitely defend it.

Although to be fair, some of those institutions have harmed them.

If you don’t already, you should listen to one of those life affirming documentaries they tend to have on the BBC World Service.

It is slightly depressing but actually absolutely necessary to appreciate how little so many people care about principles - like democracy - but do care about how they are being materially affected by stuff - like the price of eggs.

There are a number of protests in Manchester this weekend including a visit from the far right group Britain First. Please see the message to our communities from Manchester City Council below - “Manchester does not tolerate racism, bigotry or division”
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It usually means I end up watching politics live which is often a fetid sump and a disgrace to public service broadcasting. But then I haven’t watched Question Time for years and years.

The only time I watch TV New is at my father’s as he usually has that on constantly. But apart from that, I do avoid it and really only listen to the BBC World Service for news now. It’s actually rather nice being a citizen of nowhere.

Is that Rupert Murdoch at the end of that line?

What is worse is that she still pops up on the BBC as a serious commentator although she is so comically bigoted I’m sure she does more harm than good to the causes she supports.

But to be fair, he will be available to Sky and the BBC to say on one day Trump is brilliant and on the other day he’s a disaster. We are fortunate to have such commentators as him.

She definitely had a soft spot for villains.