It was all supposed to snap back to normal after elections in 2019, then 2024. But the politics they created are so insane - so utterly divorced from reality, requiring so much effort just to keep the bullshit straight in their heads - that it has created a new, awesomely horrible and scary normal.

If corporations paid ‘where they play’ not ‘where they say’, the UK would be up £13 billion a year. It's time we ended the corporate tax scam. 👉 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s wild how Kemi is just this funhouse mirror of ten years of horrible UK politics and media, showing the rest of them their reflections with deeply unsettling and embarrassing distortion. What she’s doing is IMO little different to what they’ve done, it’s just more ham-fisted, crass and idiotic.

People having nothing but good things to say about you when you die, or nothing but bad things, is heaven and hell in reality. We'll all end up somewhere between the two but how far in either direction is totally our own choice.

Explaining to a friend about the "rabbits in waistcoats" sbu-genre of british childrens lit (ie beatrix potter, wind in the willows, etc) and its american counterpart "possums in overalls" (pogo, emmet otter's jugband christmas, kissyfur)

It's not an intrusive thought because it's the only one in there.

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Stop calling me an amateur. I've been doing this for decades. I'm incompetent.

This entire incident was a perfect example of policing directed by landowners and their priorities, not policing in the public interest or justice. They can stage full-scale operations for this, but ask them about illegal hunting, and it’s a different story.

Our Encounter with Northamptonshire Police - the private security for landowners and local hunts

How far will the police go to protect hunters and landowners?

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I'm seeing a lot of people confidently predicting a Farage win. Time will tell but I'm not so sure. The UK's conditioned to vote against rather for. Are the people of Clacton against foreign people more than Farage? And there's a majority of non-voters out there who might be feeling mischievous.

You only need to go back about 30 generations or 600 years with parents doubling in number each time for the possibility of being related to the entire world population of the 15th century.

The dual reality of UK establishment media.

Why does everyone behave like a great victory has been won when a far-right party is the second most popular one in an election? Second. Right wing first then far-right. I don't want the country I live in to have that level of hatred nurtured by its media. They shouldn't be in the results at all.

THEY'RE DUMPING SEWAGE INTO OUR WATER! And then dodging tests. And £45 million in fines. 🎧 Full episode out now! #SouthernWater #OTTUTR

I think what's happened here is the press immediately recognised the obvious truth of what Hannah Spencer said but their idea of fairness/compromise is to still go in two footed on her, a vile 'leftie', and then circle back and pick up her points a few months on without acknowledging they were hers

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That's weird, because a whole discourse happened where we were all told drinking was super normal and anyone asking questions was a gross communist who didn't understand? www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Every five days, a mosque is attacked in the UK. How many of them have you heard about? How many of them made the nightly news? At least 70 attacks in the past year alone. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

One UK mosque attacked ‘every five days’, says British Muslim Trust

More than 70 attacks have been recorded over past year, including acts of violence, property damage and vandalism

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I'd love to be a centrist, no longer on the left of flock trying to urge it away from danger and toward a more sustainable horizon, but happy with where we've moved to, satisfied and relaxed in the middle.

The indifference of the British elite toward mass suffering is astonishing.

Farage and Reform called it an incitement to commit murder... @unrelentingego.bsky.social isn't having it. Here's what actually happened — and why we need to back @zackpolanski.bsky.social! 🎧 Full episode available below! #UKnews #UKpolitics #OTTUTR

The public are IMO entitled to ask why, if it was quite straightforward to wreck Nigel Farage with maybe six weeks of half-committed noticing things, why that was not done at any point in the last two decades instead.

Setting up a podium for people to read poems is now terrorism. Andy Burnham can stop this. He isn't.

Just sitting on the pavement is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement Opposition to our govts support for genocide will not be tolerated and must be crushed. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com

Who is in charge now? Is it the Prime Minister, this time.

Steven Methven: "Whether clapping is now supporting a terrorist group is a really good question" That this question even has to be asked - whether just clapping makes you a terrorist, is a sign of how far our govt has gone in its efforts to protect a genocidal apartheid regime

Just sitting on the pavement and clapping is now terrorism. Not saying anything, not holding or displaying any signs, just sitting on the pavement & clapping. Andy Burnham can stop this. But he isn't. Reporting by Steven Methven for @novaramedia.com

Whilst the cost of living crisis continues to spiral, with food and fuel prices soaring, so do global oil and gas companies profits. Shell has today announced it's profits have more than doubled. This is obscene. www.reuters.com/business/ene...

Shell profit more than doubles to $9.8 billion, second-highest on record, as Iran war lifts prices

Shell's ​net profit more than doubled from last year to $9.84 billion in the second quarter, beating expectations, helped by ‌higher energy prices and increased market volatility during the Middle Eas...

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capitalism has always required cheap labor and resources from a periphery, and the West has maintained that imperial arrangement through violence. it’s imperative that we transition to a post-capitalist economic system. @jasonhickel.bsky.social on the Better Future Pod:

Do the police generally warn people not to commit terrorism because they’ll be arrested if they do? And if they don’t, would we say this is different because it’s deeply idiotic, as well as insulting and insanely authoritarian

As the climate crisis worsens, who should we trust to manage & deliver our water - the private water companies that have been ripping us off for decades, extracting huge profits while pumping sewage into our rivers & ignoring leaking pipes, or us?