I am a PhD sociologist who works outside academia and I approve this message.

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

What if... what really makes Britain "ungovernable" is... the nature of its political media and of its political class?

The man behind Olly Robbins is Dave Penman, General Secretary of the FDA, the trade union representing senior civil servants.

The message here? Join a union and have your union rep with you when you need them!

Wild that people are going to bat to defend such obvious rank corruption

You can tell it was Peter Mandelson’s project because it isn’t a political operation that dabbles in bungs and influence peddling. It’s a bungs and influence peddling operation that dabbles in politics.

Actually, adults probably shouldn't be allowed to smoke. There's nothing in health/consumption terms that's close to lethality of smoking and preventing addiction justifies what would otherwise be draconian measures. Nicotine bring notoriously harder to quit than heroin etc.

The world's unluckiest critic of nonces...

🚨 NEW: Olly Robbins will tomorrow accuse Keir Starmer of pressuring the Foreign Office into approving Peter Mandelson's appointment

A Whitehall source says he "won’t hold back" and that his appearance will be "box office"

I’m not some very forensic politics clever clogs smart boy but I think would have just simply avoided this mess by NOT appointing the serially disgraced best friend of an internationally notorious pedophile

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

Keir starmers entire argument is that he is essentially a moron that was not trusted with essential briefing about an important diplomatic position which I'll accept. I also don't think this person should be prime minister

put something like Starmer had a very successful career outside politics and is surely unique in rising to the top in two different professions. Love him or loathe him that takes talent and hard work. What a shame our media seem to hate him for it or is it because he won't play their games or let th

Nearly fivefold increase in children in unregulated social care settings in England Exclusive: Vulnerable children being placed in caravans and Airbnbs when Ofsted-inspected homes cannot be found

Important and alarming reporting from top colleague @lexytopping.bsky.social about the increasing numbers of children in England temporarily placed in unregulated social care settings including caravans, Airbnbs and holiday camps.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

University workers have traditionally been among the most loyal of Labour voters. This is the thanks they get in return.

Her office said the Office for Students (OfS), which regulates universities, had received reports of speakers and lecturers being harassed and blocked for holding gender-critical or religious views, of foreign interference suppressing academic freedoms, and of ideological belief requirements featuring in job advertisements.

The OfS will be able to use the new complaints scheme from September. From April, it will be able to fine universities the greater of £500,000 or 2 per cent of their income, which would amount to millions of pounds for large institutions, for breaches under the Freedom of Speech Act. Ultimately, universities could be deregistered for egregious cases.

Bridget Phillipson will introduce new laws to make it possible for Universities to be fined millions of pounds if they don't silence students who protest bigots invited onto their campuses. It's like the Tories never left office.

By Nigel Farage Opinion Jews are now living in danger - and the Government's failure to confront the root causes is a national disgrace Antisemitism is at odds with British values but the rot is spreading with Keir Starmer's Labour asleep at the wheel April 20, 2026 0437

It’s quite amazing how British politics relentlessly innovates in the art of insulting the public

Col. Lou Zocchi at a 2008 convention talking for 20 minutes straight about why his dice are better dice:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ-A...

It’s just frustrating to see the media refuse to acknowledge that views like this exist. This guy is pretty regularly quoted as a “concerned therapist“

Totally fine that large parts of the British government are jumping into bed with a company whose public statements are "we are, at a fundamental level, absolutely batshit crazy neofascists".

The actual reason is simple, Mandelson helped them with his press contacts to wage a war against the left of the Labour Party, and collect crooked donations, and wanted a cushy political adjacent job as reward, and the current leadership of Labour are crooked and wanted to give it to him

Classic meet cute

Reports of a third attempted arson attack on Jewish targets in North London this week. It's getting really scary and more people need to start taking it seriously.

The Yanks wanted to keep the old ambassador!

Sinclair is a UVF convicted armed robber. He’s not a documenter or ‘journalist’ - he’s a violent racist who just happens to turn up to pre-organised racist intimidation & violence that he promotes and monetises. Not acting on far-right public order offences and harassment is state complicity.

Well, they fuck each other, Theban Band style, but not outsiders. They worship death so cannot even symbolically engage with fertility, reproduction etc. It all has to be sublimated into sex within the chapter. This is why their gene seed is an object of reverence.

Ed Wood was a great film and Landau was spectacular in it!

Well. I know what a shoggoth is, but the rest is impenetrable!

I’ll never forget watching The Wicker Man with my outer Hebridean mum. “I just don’t know where there got all that wicker from”

Packets of all four flavours of Nik Naks, together in a shop

This might not translate globally, but for UK people, this is like seeing the Beatles reform