This disingenuous commentary doesn’t help anyone. Frauds start unravelling pretty quickly. That you apparently cannot afford to put your oven or treat yourself is quickly undermined by the question “so why are you spending £50 per week on petrol?” Then, it turns out, she has an agent and /1

Ash@queerash.bsky.social · 4w ago

Elaine in this article "can't remember the last time she used her oven" but also spends £200 a month on petrol (so driving probably ~50 miles a day?) (she's also a professional old person; she was on Good Morning Britain last year, and then also at the Nov budget, and the year before lmao)

No return to cabinet for Wes Streeting might be the best decision made by Burnham today. (Hoping I'm not premature on that pronouncement)

Electoral Reform Society: "Andy Burnham’s entry into Downing Street today means that for the first time in modern history we have a prime minister who is openly committed to proportional representation."

One of these teams have not come to play football #engarg

looks like Thames Water has given a 14% pay rise to its chief executive and a 26% rise to its finance director

I'm not with the "don't get drawn into it" crowd. Argentina have come for war so let's give it to them. As an energetic Darlo crowd is apt to chant "get into 'em, ..."

“Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! What is the charge? Receiving a bung? A succulent five million quid? Get your hand off my penis!”

I awake to wonderful news that football won overnight. 🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

Report says by aiming at children Israel is undermining capacity of Palestinian people to exist Israel continues to commit genocide by deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, an ⁠independent UN inquiry has found. The report by the UN independent international commission of inquiry examined violations against Palestinian children since the start of the war in Gaza, and said about 30% of those killed by Israeli forces have been children. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

It also misreads how right-wing voters view these issues, which tends to be existentially. As soon as you accept their premise that civilization is crumbling under a tide of non-white invaders, you make any move to the "centre" woefully inadequate as a response.

Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

like the underlying idea behind popularism is that left-liberal/socdems need to shift to the cultural centre on social policy (immigration/minority rights) and the issue with that is that contemporary electorates for left-liberals *really* do not like being told to eat shit on social policy

The attacks on Ed Miliband, the one truly successful person running a department under Starmer, shows that the lack of seriousness in British politics goes way beyond No.10 to the press, the trade unions, the business sector.

For Fathers' Day, Keir Starmer posts a photo of his own father, who died in 2018, and a non-political message. The replies are a torrent of vitriol & cruelty, all with hundreds of Likes. We complain a lot about the quality of leadership, but there's a huge problem with the way we treat politicians

So my daughter has taken to talking to Gemini, at times when she's upset with us if we tell her off. This is the sort of toxic thing it's saying to her: #Gemini

Call me an idealist, but I think that a prerequisite for hosting an international sport event should be that you're willing to host an international sport event.

Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FIFA has now confirmed that Artan will no longer be able to officiate at the World Cup, which like for players, is the biggest moment in the lives of referees. FIFA has said it is nothing to do with them, but a decision made by US authorities and that the decision is not likely to be changed.

All referees should refuse to officiate at the World Cup until he's reinstated.

Tariq Panja@tariqpanja.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FIFA has now confirmed that Artan will no longer be able to officiate at the World Cup, which like for players, is the biggest moment in the lives of referees. FIFA has said it is nothing to do with them, but a decision made by US authorities and that the decision is not likely to be changed.

None of your business pal

Michael Feola@feolski.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Actual tweet from the vice-president of the United States. Using a tragic death to bullhorn the talking points of the far right international -- their xenophobic gospel of "civilizational death" ("mass invasion of migrants"!).

Keir Starmer's response to Nigel Farage at PMQs just now was probably the most powerful and eloquent I have seen him in the Commons. The full answer is worth reading.

What Reform did today was an incitement to rioting and an insult to a grieving family. This bloke should have hung his goddamn head in shame.

Trev@caerleonite.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Well done @iandunt.bsky.social for not letting Reform cllr Alex Wilson take the high ground for what Farage did.

It's funny that everybody in the venue, seemingly everybody following on social media and everybody I know in person vehemently wants Israel to not win and yet they did really well in the public vote 🤔 something needs to change in the voting and something needs to be done to stop vote manipulation.

Bangaranga Bulgaria!!!! Fuck you Israel. That is all. #Eurovision

Come on Bulgaria 🤞#eurovision

Is it time for the UK (and the other big nations) to pull funding from #Eurovision and just go through qualifying? We've tried big songs, we've tried professional singers we've tried classic euro-fun songs and we get embarrassed every year whether it's deserved or not. Ditto Ger, Spain, France

UK: a very Eurovision song. One I appreciate for taking part but this is a poor show really. Entertaining but not a competitor.

Malta: wanted him to do well. Really nice seeing just needed a banging chorus with a hook. Not quite it but by enjoyed it #Eurovision

Delta Goodrem sang really well but I'm not one for warbly songs. In line with Australia not being a European country she gets nil points

Before 2014 My life in Donbas wasn’t perfect But it was peaceful. I went to school Celebrated holidays, Spoke russian or Ukrainian - No one cared. There were no tanks, No “liberators” No tricolor flags forced on our cities. russia stole that life. But I still remember it Ukraine remembers too.

In the same month Nigel Farage bought a £1.4mn house in cash - weeks after he got a £5mn gift from Christopher Harborne for his "security" (h/t @alifortescuenews.bsky.social ), Farage put in an app to rebuild his house in New Romney into a modern three-storey home with a basement conversion

😂 Sam Coates makes an ABSOLUTE TIT of himself. Calls PM photos "fake news" then finds out they're from the Press Association. If you make a spurious, inflammatory point you never made about any official photograph before, to pitch yourself as the only reliable source, at a minimum check your facts.

The absolute state of this Labour party to have spent years in opposition, watching the damage caused by the Tory soap opera and thought "yep, more of that". Absolute fools. #Starmerin

Contrary to Labour MPs saying people ‘hate’ Starmer, I don't hate him and their scape-goating of him misses the point. It is Labour policies and Brexit red lines that are the problem and I see no leadership candidate, indeed no Labour MP addressing that.