Is it. Despite the country being governed by a borderline Covid denialist with the support of the right wing mass media. The public discourse, so stifled.
Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 4d agoIt really isn’t “end of.” The absolutism of this commentary really reminds me what a stifling time in the public discourse Covid was.
🧵| photos from the Veiled Prophet Parade 1946 - 1960
A point that people don't consider with the Loyalist/Unionist affinity with Israel is not that it simply exists in opposition to the Republican-Palestinian connection. Zionists and Unionists consider themselves "exclaves" within their own territories, surrounded by enemies constantly under siege.
elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 4w agoSo I’m in Belfast
Trump correcting himself at the NATO summit in Ankara after calling it the Iran War, calling it a special military operation with the goal of ‘de-nuclearisation’. Compare with Russian SMO in Ukraine and ‘denazification’. Are we having fun yet?
You've got his words about the responsibilities of parliamentarians in the space of this debate.
Adam Bienkov@adambienkov.bsky.social · last mo.Asked whether he accepts any responsibility for rising racism and hatred over the last two years he has been Prime Minister, Keir Starmer's spokesman tells me that "you've got his words about the responsibilities of parliamentarians in the space of this debate"
Start with the children's cartoon cosplay eugenicists.
@ironeconomist.bsky.social · 2mo agoBlue sky making a strong case for banning adults from social media.
BREAKING: The defence secretary and armed forces minister have both resigned. With Captain Tom and Paddington dead, Britain is now helpless in the event of an invasion. It gives me no pleasure to say this, but our last best hope is (1/2)
Counterpoint: you are a weird dullard working for a shitehawk magazine that has supported multiple fascist regimes.
"I review books for the racism factory in-house magazine" Yes mate, that's a bad thing to do for money. You are a bad person.
James Ball@jamesrball.com · 2mo agoI review books for the spectator like twice a year? Feel free to find an article I wrote there that does what you claim.
L-R: young james may, young conor mcgregor, old connor mcgregor, all the peaky blinders, AI generated football hooligan snooker ref.
Auld Bendy@auldbendy.bsky.social · 2mo agoSo many different varieties of cunt in one photo: Fake leather jacket racist cunt Fake spiv racist cunt Haunted Viking racist cunt Oswald Mosely looking racist cunt 'You can't come in 'ere wearing those shoes' looking racist cunt
Have come to see Britain's obsessive crusade all things trans as effectively a flex from a decaying establishment that wants you to know that while it can't (or won't) do anything to materially improve your life it can still make the lives of a small minority of people much, much worse.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, this earth of majesty, this seat of Mars. This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this nonce-owned open air clown prison
"Significant policy differences" with the Greens, not so much with the Tories.
I Am Damo Godzuki@b11ckchps.bsky.social · 3mo ago"Progressive Alliance" update for anyone saying the Greens should stand aside for Burnham.
"Progressive Alliance" update for anyone saying the Greens should stand aside for Burnham.
Barnet Post@barnetpost.bsky.social · 3mo agoBarnet stays red as Tories agree deal with Labour It means the borough's only Green councillor has been frozen out of power https://barnetpost.co.uk/2026/05/20/barnet-stays-red-as-tories-agree-deal-with-labour/
Anyone tempted to buy the crap that Ramsay and by extension Walker are selling should keep a close eye at what "cooperation" happens in councils that are currently NOC with Green pluralities over the next few weeks.
Peter Walker@peterwalker99.bsky.social · 3mo agoWith the full caveat that social media is not life, the sheer viciousness of many replies and quotes feels striking. People saying Ramsay and others should be "purged", and utterly dismissing any cooperation with other parties. It's a long way from the Greens of the "progressive alliance".
Hold up everyone, a tech industry lobbyist who used to head up the Labour Club at Cambridge has a progressive case for welfare reform.
George Eaton@georgeeaton.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe progressive case for welfare reform – excellent from @marthadacombe.bsky.social on how to make the system fiscally and politically sustainable. www.arguably.uk/p/to-save-we...
If Andy Burnham wanted to win Green votes, he should simply follow his own parties statements and start offering Green voters policies on introducing heroin to children and making it mandatory for all marriages to be declared gay under shariah law
The thing to remember about the Lib Dems is that they're essentially just the Labour Right but for Britain's whitest constituencies.
Jack@jhol95.bsky.social · 3mo agoThink some of you are starting to do the Corbyn thing again with Polanski (making an individual the sole paragon for progressive politics despite flaws and dismissing or getting defensive over repeated instances of questionable character or judgement that you wouldn't accept from other politicians)
obviously I hate Reform and the Tories because they're the natural enemy of everything I believe in, but I *despise* the Labour right because they have sabotaged any possibility of an alternative from within, and salted the earth behind them, out of sheer petty vindictiveness
Easy one this. You ended up here by doing exactly what you're doing now. Which is all you know how to do: vexatious anonymous briefings to hacks designed to shitstir & fuck over colleagues & absolutely no positive political project beyond that
