there is literally one proven policy to reduce traffic congestion long-term.

it’s congestion pricing. and Trump just spent a whole year trying to illegally scrap it in New York City

Rep. ILHAN OMAR Talks Terror In Minneapolis And Becoming American YouTube video by The Adam Friedland Show

The Adam Friedland interview with Ilhan Omar was great btw

Has the Starmer government given a formal reason for why it has not yet either published the UKG response to the ICJ ruling from July 2024 or banned the import of settler goods and services from occupied Palestine

Opinion: As boomers die off, America's anti-Israeli tilt is likely to harden. Fewer and fewer Americans think of Israel as David standing up to the Arab world's Goliath. More and more associate it with heavy-handed militarism.

Very funny how FT is actually the only newspaper on the planet

Define Jewish State The phrase is even more complicated than it appears.

After seeing the aftermath of Abdul El-Sayed asking Olivia Reingold what she meant by a Jewish state, I became convinced it's a question that should be asked more often. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Really great, short, succinct assessment of a question that gets asked all the time without its core phrase ever really being truly defined.

Wrong. Negotiators were not "bedeviled" by such things from 2015 to 2018 - because a deal was in place to address them. Trump left it. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/04...

Anyone who is especially angry about the Jesus statue should do some serious introspection about why they weren't as angry about everything which preceded it and why they weren't demanding that the US and Europe do something, anything of tangible note.

No we should definitely tilt the playing field against the fascist party. There's a pretty strong case that we should de facto ban the Republican Party.

AOC talking to RFK Jr. Her facial and hand gesture has the spiritual energy of that Italian hand gesture where you pinch your fingers and wave your hand (the "ma che vuo" gesture).

how it feels to say "sprezzatura"

It was well known *and yet* every mention of Peter on social media had a hundred responses that were just the photos of him with Epstein, and that achieved nothing at all - didn’t make anyone blink - until the Americans released his sucky, criminal emails.

In the UK today the de facto position is that you can be subsidized by the taxpayer, through charitable tax relief, to campaign for the pathologisation and elimination of a group nominally protected by the Equality Act, but not for its protection.

I once challenged someone online to give me one example of an elected Democrat using the phrase "birth-givers" in place of "women" and they unearthed a single transcript of a three hour long hearing from the Congressional Black Caucus in which it appeared once.

we’ve reached a point where democratic hopefuls think they can prove they have national appeal by publicly criticizing a wing of the party that exists only in the minds of on right-wing podcasters…

Totally fine that large parts of the British government are jumping into bed with a company whose public statements are "we are, at a fundamental level, absolutely batshit crazy neofascists".

People out there arguing coldly that it should be a crime to try to live as a trans person.

These are dangerous fanatics, and they have the ear of at least 3 UK political parties, and most of the media.

Fatal flaw: Keir Starmer’s leadership vacuum threatens to swallow him up The PM’s current and former colleagues say the Mandelson scandal has exposed the hollowness of his hands-off style.

"'Lots of people think Keir Starmer is a good man who is out of his depth,' said one Labour insider. 'Wrong. He’s an asshole who’s out of his depth.'"

University workers have traditionally been among the most loyal of Labour voters. This is the thanks they get in return.

"Britain is ungovernable" is just trying to blame the public for their own mess. I legitimately cannot understand how you can believe this when the voting public under 2 years ago handed Labour an earth shattering majority. This isn't the behaviour of a public refusing to be governed.

Doing talks at universities designed to cause outrage has been part of the far-right playbook since the 1960s when American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell did it. The point is to cause an outcry from progressive students and therefore get coverage and sympathy because the “evil students” were mean!

Kevin Schofield KevinASch...•4h "To come on the radio and claim that there was any surprise that Peter Mandelson had any links to Jeffrey Epstein, links to China, links to Russia ... it is frankly preposterous."

To be fair, it probably would come as a surprise to the public, who would’ve heard very little about any of it. But then, they also wouldn’t have known that Peter Mandelson had been the shady power behind the throne for years, because they weren’t told about that either.

It is IMO important to grasp that what’s happened here is: the revivified corpse of New Labour worked tirelessly offscreen for years to raise up a new generation of hopeless fail-sons, and now the whole lot of them are being sucked into the bottomless pit of their fathers’ corruption.

i do love how "i take responsibility for [x]" now just means "yes I did it and fuck you, there will be no consequences"

It says something about the BBC that in the face of significant cuts and hard priority calls they chose to launch an in-depth undercover investigation into whether refugees are faking being gay.

I think I'm far from alone thinking I'm not interested in funding people with those priorities.

A dozen politicians, aides and officials — including some who have worked intimately with the prime minister in Downing Street — spoke to POLITICO on condition of anonymity, because the matter is sensitive, and described a leader defined primarily by his absence. Starmer, they say, has no ability to manage a team; an aversion to conflict; no guiding mission for power; no energy to drive change; little interest in people; and no interest in political strategy. While not all agree, some suggest Starmer just isn't willing to do the tough work a prime minister must — perhaps because he likes his time away from the office more than he should.

Those things you heard about Starmer being good? A consummate manager with a thirst for social justice? At the absolute minimum, a hard-worker? All fake news I’m afraid

Starmer trusted his first-choice chief of staff, Sue Gray, to have prepared an oven-ready plan for power, which Labour would roll out the day after winning the election. It turned out no such plan existed. Starmer then replaced Gray with his election mastermind McSweeney, who had been serving in a political director role. McSweeney was given the power to provide political input on Starmer's behalf into a huge swathe of policy decisions across government and, for a time, things improved. https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-dangerous-leadership-style-uk-peter-mandelson/

“Starmer assumed Gray had a super-secret plan for governing but she didn’t so they did nothing” is such a wild line, and the hacks seem so uninterested in learning more about this astonishing, farcical setup

Allegation that Morgan McSweeney phoned previous FCDO Perm Sec Sir Phillip Barton, and told him "just fucking approve it" re: Mandelson's vetting ..!

oh hang on, 4 fronts - that someone in no 10 was angling for a head of mission, ie diplomat, job Matthew Doyle (head of comms sacked by PM, v much not a career diplomat, bonkers idea ) which suggests they saw diplomatic service as somewhere you could park people you sort of owed one.

I would look at the astonishingly long list of MPs and officials who suicide bombed their own careers to tank their party and put these swine back in the top jobs, and were rewarded for it with peerages and other non-jobs for life or e.g. ambassadorships, and start putting two and two together.

Senior Labour figures charged after criminal investigation into alleged vote rigging Exclusive: Four people charged after criminal investigation into irregularities surrounding Labour candidate selection process for Croydon East

Hahahaahhaha
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as long as they don't promote piker it's all good