I am particularly annoyed about this stuff, because I automatically believed her when she started going on radio deliberately eliding this stuff with her relationship with her local party. Why would anyone play stupid games about such a serious matter? It wouldn’t have occurred to me otherwise.

This is all horrific stuff, and I invite you to go back to 2018/19 and reread her columns, newspaper interviews and podcast appearances talking about it, and then decide who it sounds like it was, that had been doing all this.

Crop yields down, our countryside scorched and over 2800 people are dead due to this summer's heatwaves. Meanwhile fossil fuel giants are raking in record profits. We must end this rampant profiteering, and cut fossil fuels from our energy mix as soon as possible.

Damian Carrington@dpcarrington.bsky.social · 2d ago

BP profits more than double to $5.7bn in three months as Iran war sends oil prices soaring - "While BP banks enormous profits, millions of households are paying the price" #energycrisis #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Why would this need looked at? Who does it matter to?? Why would we indulge such bigotry???

Jonathan Portes@jdportes.bsky.social · 2d ago

"There's a real thing going on in the composition of the staff...does that not have to be looked at as well?" Nick Robinson, on Today, discussing this news.sky.com/story/nhs-st...

Everybody who is reading this survived Covid. Not everyone did.

Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · 6d ago

🧵On @thenewsagents.co.uk yesterday, school closures and the lab leak theory were offered as two examples of legitimate questions that were hard to ask. Both have in fact been asked constantly since 2020. But here's a thread on why I think they were wrong and dangerous on school closures 1/12

Pro-Palestine protesters, who sprayed red paint and broke some windows, are about to be sentenced as *terrorists*. Neither they nor the jurors were told of this possibility during their trial for criminal damage. So they were unable to defend themselves against this far more serious charge.

At astonishing speed, our rights are being cancelled, worldwide. In the UK, the prosecution of Rajiv Menon KC is the latest example of blatant authoritarianism. Why? Because this is what billionaires and corporations demand. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Think our basic rights are safe? In the age of oligarchs and corporate lobbying, think again | George Monbiot

The global assault on our freedoms is coming ever closer to home. Just look at the sinister prosecution of UK lawyer Rajiv Menon, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Climate change the right have denied for decades will wreak havoc on British farming, the lack of food will cause unrest. And still a bunch of thick cunts will vote for the right wing pricks cos-playing in farmer gear. How does one persuade an insane person they are insane?

++BREAKING++ The UK and Spanish governments have issued a joint statement overnight: "[We] agreed that this summer’s wildfires demonstrated that climate change was now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life." www.gov.uk/government/n...

Same thing her and her pals - particularly the ones she names here - have been doing for a very long time.

Hard to explain exactly how Britain really, really *feels like* a country where all of our most virulently racist wingnut crackpots were given prominent platforms many years ago to propagandise, and to harass and harm all the people they hate, doesn’t it. You feel it in the air every day, now.

The worst part about being executed by a roving Reform death squad, for me, is definitely going to be the liberal next to me lecturing me for calling it fascist.

Really annoying to hear Michael Walker lean into “the left are to blame for the right not caring about climate change” nonsense. The left care about climate change & have leftist solutions to it. The right have not cared & it’s not the left’s job to devise rightist solutions to it

Do the rest of the world refer to the “US and their proxies” when thinking about the UK?

The government isn’t getting rich by stealing from you. Landlords are.

Is this internalised? Is this used as a basis for further analysis? Perhaps it explains why people with views Paul Dacre approves of get more screen time than those who have views he does not? Perhaps it explains it better than "the British public are inexplicably selfish"?

There’s a really weird phenomenon in British media, of columnists writing rude offensive don’t-really-stand-up-to-scrutiny opinion pieces designed to annoy people, then being offended by people telling them their piece is shit and rude

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It's coming home@kiersturmer.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tim Shittingham

I hate UK news coverage. Its as if nothing has happened thats worth reporting so they have endlessly speculate about the meaning of what has happened, and to do that they bring on people that are determined to spin what’s happened a certain way to give it the meaning they want others to take

I will never understand why “I would love it if we beat them” was apparently a sign of manager losing it. ‘Man cares about his job’ is not usually something UK media thinks should be mocked. RIP Kevin Keegan

Finally made it from Twitter