I can't get over how nakedly Islamophobic this is. I mean, The Spectator is trash but this is....

As Homer put it the better part of 3,000 years ago, the blade itself incites to deeds of violence; if you put these guys anywhere, they're going to brutalize people, because they're lazy, stupid thugs and that's what they've been hired to do

The Telegraph 2 @Telegraph. 1h • The Prime Minister has blocked Donald Trump from using British bases for offensive strikes on Iran X Read more about the new military arrangement telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/... Starmer: US can use British bases to strike at Iran in Hormuz

Well, I think that says it more eloquently than I ever could.

A quick reminder of Starmer's leadership pledge number 4.

Oh no, my magic beans

It cannot be emphasized enough, the notion that the states of the imperial core care about human rights in the global South is an extraordinary farce. They are quite happy to produce open-air slave markets in a failed state if it suits their interests.

There's something deeply obscene and broken about the fact that Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are bombing elementary schools in an illegal war of aggression, and there's still a sense among the opposition that it has to be explained in terms of gas prices in order to get American voters to care.

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

NHS official pushed to add patient data to Palantir platform whilst also advising company

A lobbyist who worked directly for Peter Mandelson, on the Palantir board, and on the board of *four* NHS trusts.

Lobbying the NHS to hand over even more patient data to Palantir.

This absolutely stinks. Get Palantir out of the NHS. Sign my petition:

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

This just isn't true. The 1951 convention requires state parties to facilitate the integration and naturalisation of refugees because the people who drafted it weren't moral vacuums or stupid enough to think that persecution that made people flee for their lives would magically go away in a year.

Welcome to the Museum of Thatcherism! I’m afraid we’ve had to increase prices for tickets and refreshments again, sorry, but it’s “what the market will bear”, isn’t it. You can purchase tickets to use the gender-policed toilets by downloading this data-scraping app

That seems pretty suboptimal

I love how the main impact of the internet on government seems to be to enable them to offload bureaucratic bullshit onto the general public, and this is mis-sold to us as "cutting red tape".

No thanks to whoever didn't imagine how their workload would play with semi-disabled people.

Summary here: Sir Keir foolishly asked a good faith actor to investigate what happened in the Labour racism scandal and when he produced a report saying it was *wildly* different to what the public had been told about it, ignored him. The party later sent him menacing letters for talking about it.

Be wary of people calling themselves the "silent majority" because they are never silent and most definitely not the majority. Even mobilising every gender critter in the UK they could only muster a few thousand objections

I've been saying this!

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC...

US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

The IEA got everything they wanted and believed in when Liz Truss came to power, and her government and their ideology didn't survive two months of contact with reality before being totally exposed and collapsing.

Total frauds, but still screaming that they need to be the ones in charge.

Nothing nice or wholesome or joyful or community based is allowed to exist.

The horns and whistles work What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.

ICE whistles work.

The default position of the British gutter press is roughly around the level of Der Sturmer in 1938, and everyone has to politely tiptoe around this to avoid calling it what it is.

Photos of the 8 people o hunger strike with text saying: TOOLKIT FOR SUPPORTING THE HUNGER STRIKERS Actions to take from Monday 8th December 2025 if you are based in the UK (BELOW FOR OTHER LOCATIONS)

There are currently 8 political prisoners in the UK (on remand for alleged actions taken in solidarity with Palestine) on hunger strike.

Most have been on strike for well over a month. Their health situation is critical.

Here is a Toolkit actions you can take: shorturl.at/kBwT8

This is so disgusting.

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

UK immigration status fears prompt carer to cancel benefits she is entitled to Woman cancels all benefits including disability living allowance for daughter after policy change announcement

Extremely grim consequence of Home Sec announcement of penalising claiming benefits claims in routes to settlement: a low-paid carer cancelling housing benefit, universal credit, and disability allowance for her autistic daughter’s personal care and mobility www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday Link for more information: https://www.popsci.com/science/voyager-one-light-day-earth/

Voyager 1 is almost one light-day from Earth. The intrepid #spacecraft will cross a major distance milestone in November 2026 - 16.1 billion miles. #Voyager1 #lightday

Link for more information: www.popsci.com/science/voya...

The 50 wealthiest families own more wealth than the bottom 50% of the population.

How can this Labour Government say this is a "cost of living" budget and refuse to tax the rich?

They care about protecting power and wealth. And cost of living is a buzz phrase for them. Dire.

Today is the 4th anniversary of the worst ever tragedy in the Channel.

At least 27 men, women & children drowned in the freezing water, & 4 more have never been found.

Since then, neither we nor the French have done a thing to offer people in this situation with real solutions.