Can we talk about the 'less rational arm of things' then, because that actually does seem to have been the significant bit, doesn't it?

The thing to bear in mind is that this isn’t conjecture: we know *for certain* that e.g. Morgan McSweeney, Steve Reed et al held a secret launch for their wrecking campaign based on dossiers full of dubiously-edited quotes and emails, screenshots and Facebook likes, explicitly as a political weapon.

The Corbyn era lasted just 4 years. We are now 6 years past that, during which time Labour (and later the UK) has been run by precisely the politicians the party and media prefer. It has collapsed into an offensive farce which relies on pretending ever-larger recent historical events never happened.

How is a good, decent man like Keir Starmer supposed to do his job when he’s constantly having to deal with the likes of Olly Robbins posting thirst traps and TikTok videos with deceptive titles like “That’s not what happened,” and “You are lying and I will testify to that under oath”

Handy Guide:

✅ Free Speech: When GCs who had no relation to my University complained to try and get me kicked off my course

❌ Not Free Speech: Exercising one's right to peaceful protest against those advocating your exclusion from society – on the campus you have to live and work in

These women weren't outliers. According to the New Statesman's polling, young women are twice as likely not to want children as young men. All the Leeds women told me they feared a Reform government pressuring them to have babies. One woman mentioned Suella Braverman's pledge to scrap the Equality Act and repeal other human rights laws. "It just feels... out of control." It all felt impossibly bleak. Most of the women I met were educated, engaging, bright and charismatic. But they weren't excited about their futures. They didn't like the men they knew, or the idea of those they didn't. Men were just a threat who could harm or trap them. And the most privileged women were the most downcast.

It also didn't feel like students just trying on radicalism for fun. There is a real stratification of different groups under 30. The internet has pushed young men and women further apart. And the people they interact with on the internet reinforce their beliefs. In a vicious cycle, the femosphere both reflects young women's disaffection and perpetuates it, radicalising them further. A significant majority of young women feel isolated from the rest of the country. The two main political parties aren't reaching out to them specifically. They fear Reform. Many say they will vote for the Greens in the upcoming local elections, but few seem to believe that will make a difference. They don't feel represented by mainstream politics, and they don't think anyone cares. Their growing isolation could also have profound long-term consequences for British society. It will almost certainly make relationships harder: fewer than half of young women feel men understand them. Young women are much less likely than men to date people who disagree with their politics. People will get lonelier, and angrier. And it's getting worse. Among those under-3o, younger women feel the bleakest: women under 25 are most likely to believe things are "stacked against me, no matter how hard I try".

All the women I spoke to were involved in what they viewed as deeply moral missions to change a world that they believed didn't care about them. Of course it wasn't making them happy. That was kind of the point, though. "I think to be a person that cares about other people," said the Leeds student with the pink hair, "you've got to be pessimistic'

I mean, what. Are these women wrong? No, they are not wrong: they are responding correctly and perceptively to our leaders enforcing an utterly bleak and miserable reality upon everyone, then grinding home their total impunity to make sure everyone understands resisting is futile. The end.

Children ‘low-hanging fruit’ in fight to end trans care, official at pro-Trump thinktank says America First Policy Institute, which boasts close ties to president, discussed transgender policy ‘reform’ at DC event

Once again, the right is openly admitting that the entire focus on trans youth is to ultimately ban all gender affirming care for adults.

All the credulous reporters and institutions that helped launder this right wing project are responsible.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Four years ago

damn. what a wild thing for a senior civil servant to have done unilaterally without ministerial input. ah well.

This Lord Robertson? Why are arms dealers being invited on to do free adverts by these programs?

Yes Kent, come on!

John Prescott's son stands for Green Party in Hull local elections John Prescott's son, David, is standing for the Greens in Hull's local elections.

John Prescott's son stands for Green Party in Hull local elections

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A reminder, again, that the establishment have to maintain that the Corbyn era was a non stop cascade of Hitlerian racism because otherwise their response - a decade of public pants shitting, Boris Johnson, diamond hard Brexit and Keir Starmer - seems like an insane overreaction.

Green Party leader Zack Polanski arrives in Margate on eve of KCC Cliftonville division by-election By Local Democracy Reporter Simon Finlay Green Party leader Zack Polanski arrived in Margate this evening to a rockstar’s ovation as he backed his candidate ahead of a crunch by-election tomorrow (…

"Green Party leader Zack Polanski arrived in Margate to a rockstar’s ovation as he backed his candidate ahead of a crunch by-election (April 9).

Mr Polanski was met with a wall of noise as he entered the music venue."

Vote Green Cliftonville!

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Somebody is trying to wreck that ceasefire ASAP

The time between fossil fuel crises is just going to keep shrinking, until there's no discrete single "crisis" - just one unbroken prolonged state of global suffering due to fossil fuel unreliability

The best time to ditch fossil fuels was 30 years ago. The second best time is now

The UK must immediately and unequivocally suspend support for the US military.

The Government have tried to appease him, then they tried to say they're standing up to him.

Words aren't enough - it's time for action.

Yes, that’s not a contradiction. The change will have terrible impacts. To have supported it someone must either not understand that, or think it isn’t a priority. As a voter i’m allowed to judge democratic representatives on their actions, even if they believe they’re doing the right thing.

Thanks, i hadn’t seen this. It’s good to see a celeb doctor give a really solid answer.

This is pretty amazing, even with all possible caveats about it only being one poll etc.

Interesting. It seems that the public are simply wrong about whether MPs are in touch with them.

Again, you’re quite rude. Why wouldn’t it occur to me?

But to be ‘in touch’ would surely mean prioritising the foreseeable material effects on disabled constituents over self-justifying ‘govt language’.

For someone with such a high opinion of MPs, you seem pretty dismissive of everyone else.

I said I value actions over intentions: most Labour MPs voted to make more ordinary disabled people destitute. Seems ‘out of touch’ to me.

Top Green official hits out after receiving death threats from Iran smear The deputy leader of the Green Party has slammed Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Tory MP Alec Shelbrooke for falsely claiming he had been…

Btw this - from Keir Starmer - was a slur. www.thenational.scot/news/2590387...

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

You seem to want me to face more accountability for my views than literal MPs! But OK, for one thing I would have more respect for someone who had spoken and voted against this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late | Frances Ryan If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. Don’t ignore that: in life’s lottery, that could easily be you, says Guardian columnist France...

You seem to want me to face more accountability for my views than literal MPs! But OK, for one thing I would have more respect for someone who had spoken and voted against this: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

So it's specifically Labour MPs that you don't think the Greens should be disparaging?

Do you think it would be OK for her to say it about Conservative or Reform MPs? Or do you honestly think that everybody in parliament is doing their best with a good heart?

Firstly, even if she were wrong it wouldn't mean she was spreading 'dishonest conspiracist slurs'. Language matters and people can honestly disagree. But, much as I think there are some good MPs, we can see policy, voting records, public statements, and they matter more than good intentions.

It's in the definition you shared of a 'slur'. And you made it pretty clear that you think that 'slurs' are unacceptable.