LET HASAN PIKER'S WORDS SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES What do you call Crimea? "I call it a part of Russian territory bitch. That's what| call Crimea. I call it cry me a river. A Russian river" Twitch, Feb. 2022
Which Democratic candidates campaigning with Hasan Piker have this as their position on Ukraine?
"Don't let the special operation in the Donbass distract you from Putin's real crime; screwing the Russian middle class"
“I lost my job after harassing a complete stranger in the street because he’s Jewish”
Thrilled to be working with @channel4tv.bsky.social on a new documentary on Keir Starmer's govt. It'll examine how he became the most unpopular PM on record and how the seeds of the unpopularity were sown long ago. And whether he can recover.
Out end of March!
www.channel4.com/press/news/c...
I do think it's legitimate to criticise Polanski for failing to be straight with the electorate about the trade offs of policy, however I do think this is the sort of criticism you could extend across more or less every party ATM and part of our challenge is we're just debating levels of unreality.
It helps if you start from the perspective that actually saying 'due to this war, things will get worse' is more helpful than making unduly optimistic claims.
Make yourself feel slightly better, or at least differently depressed, about bleak global news by reminding yourself that Kemi Badenoch thinks the *only* reason Keir Starmer could possibly have had any concerns about this war is his electoral dependency on British Muslims.
Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC ‘lanyard class'. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.
Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately.
And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse.
It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores.
Iranian-built Shahed drones have been an indispensable part of Russia's terror campaign against Ukranian civilian infrastructure, read a fucking wikipedia article.
“For all we know, we could be in the middle of Keir Starmer’s finest hour”.
Starmer’s critics say he is imperiling the UK’s special relationship with the US...
But is it Donald Trump who's doing the damage?
Honestly the collective national level of disdain for Brits living in Dubai on all my social media platforms today really is bringing the UK together as one in a way that's hard to achieve in the modern era.
I think essentially, even now enough of Labour’s lost voters say they are open to a return. Do I think a fresh leader who disavows the blunders and goes “we need to seize our European destiny” can repair enough of the damage for Labour to survive as bloc leader? Yeah, absolutely.
A fascinating bit of convergent evolution that the McSweeney-Starmer project has basically ended up leaving Labour in the same position as its Western European peers…as a result of deliberate, wholly avoidable choices.
But it is another example of how Reform boost turnout for progressive parties. They are so profoundly toxic. When you put it alongside the Tories losing their deposit, the right have a serious problem.
a year is a long time in politics
Is a brutally honest revaluation of why Labour won in 2024 necessary to revive its fortunes? Great weekend read by @jessicaelgot.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
You can tell that this place has the juice because where else would you get "actually, Wahaca is a sign the UK wants mexican food but not mexican people," "Thomasina Miers is doing imperialism" and "bike lanes are anti-sex worker and colonial" all in one day.
Statement from Virginia Giuffre’s family: “Our broken hearts have been lifted by the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty... He was never a prince. For survivors, everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”
Great Britain won seven Winter Olympic gold medals in the 20th century, five more from 2002 to 2022, then three this weekend!
It is so embarrassing that it has taken nearly a decade for a British minister to say this, a statement of the absolute bloody obvious
Yeah, British politics is simple. You just need to improve public services without any meaningful tax increases, reduce immigration without any labour market impacts, and deliver growth and you'll be hugely successful.
There's an almost direct negative correlation between column inches about a CoS and success. The ones who did it best (Powell, Llewellyn, Barwell) were the least well known.
There's no reason to accept this as normal, though. Much of Starmer and Labour's unpopularity is not misfortune but his own doing. Mandelson was a choice. Consistently pursuing policy positions designed to appeal to people who will not vote for you - and alienating core supporters - is a choice.
After some consideration, the synthesis I have settled on is Starmer is bad and cynical for shamelessly pulling strings to block a rival, Burnham is bad and cynical for being ready to risk a Reform mayor in Greater Manchester for his own ambition, and it is time at last for chaos with Ed Miliband.
Good point. Not many people know this, but I actually have access to a special, *secret* version of the global economy where I, and I alone, suffer absolutely no ill consequences to the global spike in food or energy costs, by using the special password 'are you nuts?' at the supermarket.
every provocateur who wangs on all the time about Britain being “broken” should be sent to an actual failed state or autocracy for a month as a learning experience, there’s no shortage of them
Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham tells Faisal Islam that Reform are “anti-North” over its plan to scrap the £45bn northern corridor rail link & “breathtakingly arrogant” to tell investors to shun the North of England.
“Look at them… There’s nothing northern about them,” he said
Maybe Morgan McSweeney, Luke Akehurst and other factional, Blue Labour strategic geniuses are seeing things we can't, but being destroyed by parties on the centre-left in Wales and Scotland does not scream go Reform light to win to me.
I just don't think there is a good line. The reality is we're completely boxed in, especially given the priority is protecting Ukraine. You could try and point to that being the priority I guess + encourage viewers to make the connection.
