“He looked like he hadn’t slept for a week”

Was it Boris Johnson?

To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.

How much more evidence do we need? The ultra-rich and the governments supporting them will destroy everything for the sake of profit, power and pride. Nothing is precious to them - not human life, not the living world - except their own wealth and status. Our survival depends on resisting them.

This is like some Nuremberg Rally or Joseph Stalin speech, it is so delusional and crazy.

Made-up and completely invented “facts” followed by standing ovations after every sentence! We are witnessing something really sinister.

#StateOfTheUnion2026

You mean like most of the world?

Membership in the Lab party has totally collapsed from a high of 500,000 when it was actually left wing.

December 2018 is ancient? It feels like yesterday to me!

A screenshot from the Graham Linehan Facebook page, dated January 26, 2017. "Here's something to watch for: sub-par entertainers/hacks etc smelling that sweet right wing sucker money and making their move."

Nine years to the day since Graham Linehan foresaw his own fate.

Adapt, shrink or die: the global crisis in humanitarian aid [FREE TO READ] The UN’s outgoing High Commissioner for Refugees on the west’s retreat in Sudan, the folly of abandoning state-building and ‘necessary anger’

Despite the focus on small boats, most refugees stay in poor countries.

I went to Sudan, where nearly 1/3 of the population has left their homes, to see how the UN is coping with Trump's cuts and the west's retreat.

Sudan is a brutal, forgotten war. Please do read: as.ft.com/r/7db76b9a-8...

I know it's hard to track all the threats to democracy out there right now, but this is at the top of the list.

This weekend I watched Nuremberg (2025), which ends with a shattering quote from RG Collingwood: "The only clue to what man can do is what man has done."

White House posts digitally altered image of woman arrested after ICE protest Guardian analysis shows images are the same, with Nekima Levy Armstrong looking composed in original but sobbing after alteration

I know some people are cynical about everything now and just say “eh, what do you expect” at every new low, but really this is just astonishing and outrageous, and I don’t think we should shrug at that www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST WINTER STORM, REMEMBER FOUR TIPS: 1. FILL UP YOUR TUB AND/OR POTS WITH WATER FOR YOUR TOILET. 2. DO NOT USE PROPANE HEATERS INDOORS. THE FUMES KILL. 3. EVERYONE STAYING IN ONE ROOM CONSOLIDATES WARMTH. 4. THE NORWEGIAN CAMP DIDN'T DESTROY ITSELF. ONE OF YOU IS THE THING.

Some safety tips for the big storm! Be safe, everybody.

THERE'S NO JOKE HERE!!!!!!

WHAT IS THE JOKE?????????????

(it's the Big Bang style of writing geek humour)

These “purity or bust” fools cannot even see their own foolishness.

Detention of 5-Year-Old by Federal Agents Incenses Minneapolis A photo showed the boy with an oversized hat and Spider-Man backpack being held next to a vehicle as his father was detained. A Homeland Security spokeswoman said the man had fled and left the child.

A 5-year-old boy was detained with his father by immigration authorities on Tuesday in Columbia Heights, Minnesota. A photo of the child standing next to a vehicle with an adult’s hand on his Spider-Man backpack has prompted outrage.

This week in San Antonio I met two traumatized young boys who were locked up for 6 weeks at Trump’s “baby prison” in Texas. Taken when they checked in for a routine hearing, their mother waiting in the car with their backpacks for school.

It’s insane this is happening.

That is exactly the reason why I’m prepared to vote tactically to make it stop.

You’re effectively the enabling it, refusing to do so, you fuckwit idiot. You’re the one who is evil as shit, because of emotional hysterics.

I’m not supporting the murder of children at all, let alone so my life can be a little bit better. You disgusting PoS.

Not if it’s only for tactical purposes it isn’t.

Yes but according to current polling Farage would likely be PM. Also the incumbent party isn’t going to call an election early if it’s going to be wiped out.

Best Fife the far right a chance to explode by themselves.

The reply of my last post claimed it wasn’t.

I have told you explicitly to stop be disingenuous. Yes.

Not if it helps the Greens.

Again. Misuse of refute. My point is irrefutable.

It might also increase the chances of another government.

No I haven’t. See those goalposts shift? I’ve been invited to explain how voting for a Labour candidate instead of Green candidate boosts the chance of getting a green government elected. I’ve told you to stop being disingenuous. My patience has been exemplary, but t is not without limit.

I’ll vote tactically for any party to keep out Reform (and Tories). At least this one isn’t pretended that tactical voting isn’t effective.

You also have misused “refute”. You and those idiots have not refuted anything.

Look up the meaning of refute. It doesn’t mean what you think it means.