It's not business, it's murderous corruption

The homophobes, racists and misogynists run through the party from top to bottom. The ones standing in the local elections are attracted by the ones at the top

Taps sign while Badenoch is speaking...

With Orban gone the EU has now approved the 90 billion Euro loan to Ukraine and another package of sanctions on Russia. V good news.

The key to success here was that he identified and targeted the most gullible group of people on planet earth - American MAGA.

Written in March, how things change

Revealed: How Big Oil is pushing Labour to drill the North Sea Oil and gas lobbyists have met ministers 96 times since July 2024 as industry pushes to overturn Labour's North Sea drilling ban and scrap energy windfall tax.

🚨 NEW: Inside Big Oil's campaign to push Labour to drill the North Sea

Oil & gas lobbyists have met UK and Scottish ministers more than once a week since Labour took office

MPs have asked questions in Parliament after meeting lobbyists, and more 🧵

democracyforsale.substack.com/p/revealed-h...

Mahmood: White liberals who want to put me in a box can f--- off Home Secretary responds to heckler claiming she is trying to ‘out-Reform Reform’ with tough stance on immigration

“I do think there is that element of it which is: ‘How dare you, a brown woman, say a thing that we white liberals think you’re not allowed to say?’
No Shabana Mahmood, it's more like "How dare you, a Labour MP, spout far-right white nationalist talking points and remove rights from refugees"

Can we stop pretending that this is not an insane man now?

Taste The Biscuit YouTube video by Vincent Gargiulo

"Seth, what's in your iTunes playlist these days?" #TasteTheBiscuit

youtu.be/GchgAvD1fxA?...

Looks like I got this right (apart from the misspelling). The problem arose because of a procedural mismatch: a political appointment was treated as a departmental appointment for the purposes of vetting with no reference back to the person (Starmer) making the appointment when an issue arose. 1/

The idea that you need to send corrupt sociopaths as Ambassadors to DC is so funny, because it's a standard we have never applied anywhere.

We don't appoint corrupt gangsters to embassies in Moscow or religious fanatics to Tehran.

Also, Mamdani is able to handle Trump fine without becoming him.

'We are black, we are white, we are dynamite'.

Moving to see children in 1970s Hackney stood up to the National Front by getting organised. A beautiful recognition of our common humanity and reminder that the push for equality has long been driven by courage like this.

Relevant messages for today.

Worried all this Peter Mandelson business is going to distract from whatever the hell Keir Starmer's policy agenda is, and could undermine confidence in him with his supporter.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

Your regular reminder that Uniserve Ltd got over £1.4 billion in VIP lane COVID contracts without tender.

Their profits increased 500% overnight, and they didn't deliver almost £180m of contracted goods.

They just happened to share an address with Julia Lopez.

New Hungarian PM brutally confronts a news channel that banned him for years.

Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

That's a parrot not a vulture

Highbrow

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

Thought Napoleon was Stalin with a nose ring?

Residents on street that won Reform’s energy bills prize say Reform hasn’t paid Reform’s competition promised to cover the winning street’s energy bills for a year

👀 People on street that won Farage’s energy bills competition say Reform hasn’t paid

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/reform-...

HULK BEEN PERFECTLY CLEAR!

Questions to which the answer is yes.

Wait a minute, is this the same Richard Tice who repeatedly called for Angela Rayner to resign over her dubious tax shenanigans? Surely not, because that would make him look like a hypocritical wanker. Oh.

NEW: Nigel Farage says X is now becoming “a very unpleasant place” due to a rise racist accounts and content Reform leader says that many of his ethnic minority candidates are experiencing huge levels of abuse

BRB, just telling my stockbroker to go big on Hot-Dog man memes

It’s not that these people still exist. That’s just biology. It’s that they are still being paid to shit in their own hands & start clapping.