Facebook. Nottingham council building has a huge, building-sized St George’s flag on it. Comments section under the photo is pages of “ooh, this will trigger the lefties”, “haha a lefty meltdown incoming”. Paaaages of it. These people are angry at imaginary adversaries aren’t they.
Book cover: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy by Gil Duran
Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad.
Coming soon:
The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.
Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed.
Please pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...
Was there ever any merit to the claims that Boris Johnson wasn’t shown restricted documents when he was Foreign Secretary as he couldn’t be trusted to keep them to himself?
The Telegraph is incoherent. “Culturally insensitive” and “avoid offending” at the top of that, is not the same concept as “may not translate well” at the bottom.
The first section says people are offended, the second says it’s simply that they might not understand. I wonder which is true huh?
Telegraph newspaper editorial on Mandelson's appointment in December 2024 versus editorial today
I’m very jealous. Patterns do not suit me at all but I am very clumsy.
Also, what is “backs deportations” referring to?
Deportations of those with failed asylum claims v far right’s proposals for mass deportations?
FFS autocorrect
My favourite Shania Train track
strange these op-eds about women being too angry have all come out the last few days when during the same time there's also been a massive investigation published on an online rape academy with millions of viewers a month and none of them have bothered to even cover it, even as news
no, they're planning to replace ILR with rolling visas which still allow you to be eligible for citizenship - which is more secure than ILR - decades earlier than labour. i'm so tired of having to repeat this
That’s fineeeeeeee
Recent BBC articles highlight misconduct by a small number of unscrupulous advisers who charge thousands to fabricate asylum claims. This is fraud & must be stopped. But the coverage is selective, harmful & risks obscuring the wider reality of access to legal advice. 🧵
Over the past week, the president posted an image of himself as Jesus, the vice president challenged the pope on Catholic doctrine, and the secretary of defense quoted the speech of a fictional hit man and presented it as scripture.
ChatGPT: you’re right you’re so much smarter than him. He’s so schlubby and you’re so suave. Columbo will never catch you.
Definitely not here to judge parents who send their children to grammar school.
The stats above were just to show the “we were poor and I went to grammar school” are a pretty tiny cohort in 2020s grammars
Dr Challenors Grammar School - guess what the intake is of free school meals kids?
For a clue, to help you, the figure for all mainstream schools is 28.9%.
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Dr C’s is 2.73%
Current figures off govt compare schools website.
Happy Meldrew Point Day, Eminem! Today you are 19,537 days old and have reached your Meldrew Point - the age of Richard Wilson on the day One Foot In The Grave was first aired on Jan 4, 1990. I don’t believe it!
I’d watch that movie
it feels quite bad that it's basically impossible to argue that much of the modern right in the west has become both entirely intellectually shallow and deeply, fundamentally morally corrupt without sounding like a tedious teenage tankie, because it is.....the factual truth
Corruption and competitive autocracy are two halves of the same coin. Corruption is how you reward your supporters and bully your opposition without resorting to outright violence. Keeping the machine going eventually becomes *the* reason for staying in power, over anything ideological.
Obviously the ideal is to stop the far right from taking power to begin with but it’s always good to have a reminder that their rise and consolidation is not some inevitable and unstoppable force of nature.
"Matthew Goodwin has been paid a salary of up to €10,000 a month [from Hungary's state-funded MCC], according to leaked documents obtained by Hungarian investigative journalists Direkt36 and reported by the Good Law Project"
That could all end if Orbán loses...
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.
You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.
I miss the 2021 timeline where everyone got excited about the big stuck boat. That was a better timeline.
Not just social media. I have to regularly tell my 82 year old Telegraph reading dad that well actually dad, the Telegraph just made that up.
And he’s an intelligent, informed man. It’s infuriating.
Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
Astronauts Victor Glover and Christina Koch in their orange astronaut suits as they sit inside the side of a helicopter after it has landed
LOL, trying to stay offline and do my work, and friends are sending me
"LOOK AT THIS NEW PIC!" texts ....
This one is worth it.
First PoC and first woman to go around another world. Don't stop talking about this point. It's important.
#ArtemisII
I am a sneerer and am also incredibly earnest and optimistic. I think there is a place for both. The key is knowing when and where.
My favourite two people ever on telly. I love them so much!!