#KemiBadenoch's choice of company 😡 1/ neo-Nazi named "Bonehill-Paine". #NominativeDeterminism 2/ In #Badenoch's #ConservativeParty: Support for #ECHR: you're fired. 3 years in jail for antisemitism = you're hired. screenshot from […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The cynicism of the UK's Tory governments is staggering. They talked tough, & legislated for longer sentences. But they didn't build enough prisons to house all these prisoners for long sentences. I don't hold with England+Wales's fixation on imprisonment. Its […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

The cynicism of the UK's Tory governments is staggering. They talked tough, & legislated for longer sentences. But they didn't build enough prisons to house all these prisoners for long sentences. I don't hold with England+Wales's fixation on imprisonment. Its […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

25 years ago, a 2-legged friend stitched up my adoption by a traumatised wee 4-legged man. It was v cleverely done, without warning or consent. I have rarely been so blessed. ~5yrs later, my man packed the car, and the pair of us drove a loong way to go camping […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

"Christian Brother" is an Irish oxymoron. Young men coerced into a life of chastity & poverty in the name of Christ & education. Their own trauma & resentment was infamously vented on their pupils by decades of sadism & #rape. Now they try to evade liability for their crimes. As an […]

Water fell out of the sky this afternoon. Not much, and not for long. Maybe ten minutes. But still, for that ten minutes, there was real wet water falling out of the sky, just like they write about in history books.

Prime Minister #AndyBurnham described it as “the biggest transfer of power from Westminster in a generation.” Mayors to get shares of income tax and business rates, says the headline. https://northeastbylines.co.uk/news/politics/mayors-to-get-shares-of-income-tax-and-business-rates/ But it's […]

EVs have now overtaken all other engine types in Irish new vehicle registrations for the first time. Market share, January–July: BEV: 26.12% . Hybrid (petrol electric): 24.59% Petrol: 20.39% PHEV : 14.45% Diesel: 12.45% […]

#AndyBurnham's localism/devolution agenda crashes in its 2nd week. In Brick Lane, #AngelaRayner overrules a unanimous decision by #TowerHamlets Council. She wants a data centre, not homes. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/aug/04/brick-lane-redevelopment-approval-datacentre-london It's […]

Until this weekend, I had been blissfully unaware io the concept of Reduced Fat Pesto. Now I have three questions: 1/ who the hell did this? 2/ wtf is wrong with them? 3/ have they been caught? #pesto #FoodCrime

Until this weekend, I had been blissfully unaware io the concept of Reduced Fat Pesto. Now I have three questions: 1/ who the hell did this? 2/ wtf is wrong with them? 3/ have they been caught? #pesto #FoodCrime

Words matter, says Avital Ash. Rapist is wrong.

#AndyBurnham is off the front pages. I found no trace of #Burnham on the front pages of the websites of BBC News, Sky News, The Guardian, and The Times. Andy got 2 links in the front page of the Torygraph, but both were to mad columnists. So not News. The polcors said his plan was 2wks on the […]

“‘Northernesia’: a debilitating condition that renders the sufferer unable to know where the North is.” (George Gunn, on @BellaCaledonia) #scotpol #ukpol #AndyBurnham #Burnham

"#GlenHansard is no Irish hero", writes Rosemary Mac Cabe. Rose,ary says she'd like to file this under “things I may regret writing”. But then again, maybe she won’t. (She says "if you’ve been personally affected by the issues raised in this piece, I’m so sorry. And I believe you.") […]

8. The capitulation of Amnesty International signals a bleak new era for transgender people in the United Kingdom. The country that once ranked first in Europe for LGBTQ+ rights now sits 22nd on the ILGA-Europe Rainbow Map, after 11 consecutive years of decline.

“‘Northernesia’: a debilitating condition that renders the sufferer unable to know where the North is.” (George Gunn, on @BellaCaledonia) #scotpol #ukpol #AndyBurnham #Burnham

♫ ♪ ♭ 𝐼 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝐼e 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑑𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑑𝑜.... '𝑊𝑎𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑒𝑝 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒........ ♫ ♪ ♭ #AndyBurnham #Burnham #ukpol

"If you are using your microphone, you are more likely to be arrested under the #TerrorismAct", — warned a heroic officer of the #MetropolitanPolice in #London on Thursday. Luckily for Londoners, this microphone #terrorism was halted by prompt arrest of the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

@deasey.bsky.social I had to investigate. It turns out that the speed of light is 1.8026×1012 furlongs per fortnight. And that this is part of the wider furlong–firkin–fortnight (FFF) system of measurement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFF_system

JKR bullying Amnesty International, which has stood up to literal dictators, is further proof of what I've been saying for years, which is that TERFs are basically like Scientologists. They will use their lawyers to scare people away from criticizing them.

It seems to me that we should flip the normal working assumption and consider billionaires (whose wealth is often inexplicable in normal honest terms) as criminal suspects until otherwise proven innocent. Round them all up, deal with them and then maybe consider whether the learning from that […]

"British military power is not used to deter aggression, but to enable it". Excellent editorial in the #MormingStar. #ukpol https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what-links-palestine-action-arrests-burnhams-nuclear-weapons-splurge

What links Palestine Action arrests with Burnham’s nuclear weapons splurge?

MASS arrests of peaceful Palestine solidarity demonstrators in London were the backdrop to Andy Burnham boasting of his commitment to enlarging Britain’s nuclear arsenal in Barrow-in-Furness this week.The left has a lot of work to do to turn the existing majority against British complicity in Israeli genocide, and the growing hostility to military partnership with a Donald Trump-led United States, into a more consistent rejection of the militarist agenda being forced down the country’s throat.

morningstaronline.co.uk

2. On July 8, Amnesty International UK released a report titled “A Growing Threat: The Anti-Rights Movement in the UK.” The report mapped 117 organizations working to restrict the rights of, transgender and queer people in the United Kingdom, and documented the financial infrastructure behind them.

All the claims made about capital flight and brain drain because non-doms' favourable tax status was ended were false. The number of non-doms fell by just 0.5%. https://archive.is/yDSqR h/t Socialist Economic Bulletin #ukpol #FT

In April, the Starmer government passed an Act of Parliament enabling the police to shut down any protest they deem to have a “cumulative” impact on the community. The only protests that have ever succeeded are those with a cumulative impact. Effective protest is now illegal.

#London, Thursday: heroic #MetropolitanPolice officers arrested at least 117 terrorists, mostly elderly. In a sinister escalation, many of the terrorists displayed no sign of their opposition to #genocide or support for #PalestineAction. #MetPol arrested the […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

All the claims made about capital flight and brain drain because non-doms' favourable tax status was ended were false. The number of non-doms fell by just 0.5%. https://archive.is/yDSqR h/t Socialist Economic Bulletin #ukpol #FT

The #GreaterManchester Mayoral election votes will be counted today. It looks like an easy win for the #LabourParty's #BevCraig. That's a big reversal of the #ReformUK win expected 6 ,months ago when Labour blocked Burnham's return as MP. But there is a v […] [Original post on mastodon.ie]

Absolutely nuts: Google Earth now has a feature that lets you convincingly fabricate satellite imagery www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...