sense of dread that everything is going to be this soon enough

America, the country where people used to sell souvenir postcards of lynchings, takes a very dim view of celebrating violence committed against the people doing the lynching

The hellsite has been back to its pre-Elmo best today, amazing takes everywhere.

The Telegraph Rayner tax scandal - £40k tax dodge - Statement Angela Rayner dodges £40,000 stamp duty Deputy Prime Minister reduces tax bill for Hove flat by declaring it as her main residence [Photo: Angela Rayner pictured at the weekend in Hove, where she has just bought a flat Credit: Dan Charity/The Sun on Sunday] Robert Mendick Chief Reporter. Amy Gibbons Political Correspondent 29 August 2025 8:57am BST

The Telegraph Money > Property > Second homes How to avoid tax on your second home From stamp duty to council tax, shield your wealth from Labour's tightening net [Photo of houses around a bay - Areas such as Cornwall have added a premium to council tax bills for second homes Credit: iStockphoto] Fran Ivens Senior Money Writer 29 August 2025 1:21pm BST

On the same day in the Telegraph:

Great breakdown from BES folk (now very excited for the Wave 30 release!).

Stresses the point that Labour won in 2024 with a lot of 'vote lending' - across the Lib-Left bloc - which, unlike Johnson in 2019, it has failed to acknowledge.

If you’re wondering how Robert Jenrick’s online radicalisation is going, he just likened Caribbean nations suggesting reparations should be paid to Al-Qaeda

In the UK, if you're far right and win 5 seats, all the British journalist will declare you the new Prime Minister. If you're not far right though, they lose all interest 🤷

This is insane.

What next? Steve Laws reviewing "Mr Loverman"?

In the 8 years between 2017 and 2024, The Mail, Telegraph, Guardian, Observer, Mirror, Express, and Star have printed a total of 10, 430 articles about trans people.

Ten thousand, four hundred and thirty.

Peston keeping his job after that says it all.

Something that makes me a little sad is that we’ve totally lost the kind of optimism for the future that we had back in the early 2000s

I have been thinking a lot about my adult life and how it hasn't gone to plan, mostly through my own mistakes, but the souring of that optimistic future really has been a backdrop to it all.

Gaza’s youngest influencer aged 11 among children killed by Israeli strikes Yaqeen Hammad offered tips for surviving life under bombardment and is just one of dozens of minors who have died

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas.

'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

I hate you guys. Please repost

British people are not any more transphobic than anyone else, "TERF Island" is just a statistical error. Transphobia Jo who lives in a cave and does 10,000 transphobias a day is an outlier and should not have been counted

There are only two possible options available for Gender Criticals: suppress research, or ignore research. No matter how many studies and trials they do it'll always show the same thing

The Daily Mail may be reactionary, but The Daily Telegraph has become actively dangerous. Bill Deedes would be horrified at what it has become.

Institute of Economic Affairs Under Investigation by the Charity Commission The Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) pressure group, which campaigns against clean energy policies, is being investigated by the charities regulator. The Good Law Project (GLP), a legal advocacy gr...

The IEA, the dark money pressure group that inspired Truss’ mini budget, is (finally) under investigation by the Charity Commission

I actually didn’t see anyone worshipping corbyn they just saw a chance to vote for such “far left” policies as “maybe children shouldn’t be in abject poverty” and “treating people of colour as a valid people who vote” and “homelessness should end”

Corbyn hero worship is a myth peddled by people who couldn't stomach leftist policy.

Local reporting. What?

Daily Mail article - Labour STILL cannot decide what a woman is Weeks after trans ruling, it axes women’s conference to avoid protests. #TransAgendaClips

Like with migrants, it doesn't matter how awful Labour are to trans people, it will never be enough for the likes of the Mail

Mad to be watching the slow death of Labour and the Tories at the same time, both strangling themselves to chase the same 20% of the population that hate them and want Reform.

Starting to think that bombarding people with content designed to make them ill-informed, angry, and antisocial for hours upon hours a day has been a real disaster for society and possibly not one we can come back from in our lifetimes

This is no different to school libraries removing books after Section 28 became law.

The level of surveillance and policing demanded by transphobia will always be more disruptive to your life than the rights and demands of trans people ourselves

UK suspending trade talks with Israel over Gaza blockade, Lammy tells MPs – UK politics live Foreign secretary tells parliament that the Israeli government’s ‘egregious actions and rhetoric’ are isolating the country from its friends and partners

Uk suspends trade talks with Israel, sanctions violent settlers
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It's just so funny this ruling has caused complete and utter chaos yet it's considered politically unacceptable just to say "yeah Supreme Court has made a complete hash of things, ruling is incoherent and incongruent with obvious intentions of government in 2010, we must legislate to correct this"