You misunderstand. "The voters are never wrong" is when the party's left loses elections. "The voters are hipster wankers" is when David Lammy might lose a job.

Me too bitch, you're not special.

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I co-founded an orchestra 18 years ago. Since then, I’ve seen doors close for working-class musicians | Robert Ames

I have lost patience with the sector’s talk of diversity when it refuses to acknowledge those people who can’t afford to keep playing, says conductor and composer Robert Ames

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This government is still sitting on parts of a buried report laying bare catastrophic risks facing us from ecosystems collapse. My message to @andyburnham.bsky.social: tell the truth. Release the report in full. And prepare the country for what's coming. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Polanski calls for report on ecosystem collapse to be published in full

Green leader says ministers must stop ‘hiding the truth’ about threat to UK security from climate and nature crisis

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Important to recognise that "legitimate concerns" is performative, not descriptive. People are not saying "you are justified in being concerned about this real problem." They are saying "these are the things we are prepared to treat as legitimate."

Polly Pallister-Wilkins@pollypw.bsky.social · last wk.

When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns.

If it cost *twenty grand a year* just to send you to high school, do you even live in the same reality as 90% of the country? I would say: No.

Anyone who talks about climate mitigation in terms of affordability isn’t a serious politician. This is going to be a perpetual crisis situation for the rest of everyone’s lives, and the cost of the damage will be incalculable. Anything spent on effective mitigation is a good investment.

Pete Sikora@petesikora.bsky.social · 2w ago

Reminder: Kathy Hochul gutted New York’s climate law because she claimed it’s “not affordable”. Aaaaaaaaa…. 🧵

This is true of all parties and it’s what I mean when I say: the press decide. If they decide your party is great and it should be booming in the polls, it’s plain sailing. If they decide you should fuck off, they suddenly start noticing your scandals.

Jack Saundrs@jacksaundrs.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's roughly 10% of the UK electorate who periodically get enthusiastic about the possibility of left social democracy but are very easily persuaded out of it by some quick tabloid nonsense about the guy presenting it to them - it's fascinating really

🚨 HUGE DEVELOPMENT: (UK) Andrew Feinstein, the left-wing independent who ran for Holborn & St Pancras in 2024 and earned 18.9% of the vote, has said he WON'T be standing in the by-election for the seat. 👀 A KEY piece of the puzzle for Zack Polanski's hopes of winning the seat for the Green Party. ✅

Labour only got rid of Starmer because they felt electoral pressure from the left, they only went with Burnham because of that pressure & they'll only deliver left wing policies if they continue to feel that pressure. Donate to Zacks campaign here: donatetothe.greenparty.org.uk/london-by-el...

Let's get our sixth Green MP elected - Green Party

We have a chance to elect our 6th MP - London's first Green MP! But we have just 5 weeks to raise over £200k. Will you help us get there?

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A far less established and powerful actor has decided he cannot appear alongside a very vocal bigot. So he has decided to decline what is probably a very important opportunity for him. And now Lipman is berating him in the mainstream press. Who's the bully here?

“My marriage ended when I refused to stop fighting for the rights of my wife” is one of those things that should make you check yourself

Damaging a golf course is not terrorism. We've lost the plot in this country www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Seven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’

Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti

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in a world of JK Rowlings be a Dolly Parton

We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.

This is the guy that started the campaign against Arday, which was apparently necessary for scholarly integrity.

Adam Rutherford@adamrutherford.bsky.social · 3w ago

I had not some across this before, but if you want an example Nathan Cofnas’ scholarship, this is a doozy. Again I say, being sacked is not the problem; being recruited in the first place is what deserves scrutiny.

Fucking hell, sometimes the consequences of your own actions really suck.

Ulez has delivered remarkable public health gains in a short period. Sadiq deserves more credit than he’s had for defying Labour pressure to U-turn after Uxbridge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ulez led to better lung size and function among London children, study finds

Researchers find capacity stunted by pollution restored after introduction of ultra-low emission zone

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Andy Burnham says the bigger questions of oil and gas will come "at the right moment in time." On the eve of another heatwave when thousands of people have died already, when is a better time to rule out drilling for new oil and gas?

Britain is burning through its fifth heatwave of the summer. And the government is considering drilling for MORE oil and gas. Rosebank and Jackdaw must be stopped.

Good. Now we need action. Tax fossil fuel giants to pay for firefighting helicopters. A cool space in every community. A maximum working temperature. And no new oil and gas extraction in the North Sea. We cannot negotiate with the science. www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...

UK weather: Burnham to chair Cobra meeting on extreme heat as temperatures surge again

The Government will meet to discuss this summer's record-breaking heat as the tally for days above 30C in the UK is broken.

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It is genuinely weird that the Guardian article about Banks doesn’t mention this at all.

Bob White@rwdwhite.bsky.social · last mo.

Incredible, Gabriel Pogrund must be popular with private investigators because he’s already been investigated and smeared by the Starmer-supporting Labour Together. The attitude of some of today’s politicians is that rather than behave better, they would rather intimidate/smear journalists.

Kathleen Stock standing outside a women's bathroom thinking "well my work here is done," then moving one door down the hall to the disabled loos and just starting over

Nick Barlow@nickbwalking.bsky.social · last mo.

In a move that will surprise absolutely no one who's been paying attention, Stock has decided that women with disabilities are suffering from "social contagion"

Paul Marshall, the co-owner of GB News, has tripled his hedge fund investments in fossil fuel companies in the first quarter of 2026 to £2.1bn. They're a propaganda channel cashing in on destroying our future. Always follow the money.

Every Green elected makes a difference. This is objectively funny.

Explains a lot about why all the lads are out praising the racist wife beater for his irascible wit, doesn't it?

flyingrodent@flyingrodent.bsky.social · last mo.

All kinds of interesting learnings, today. The editor tried to get rid of him for being a nasty piece of work and Rupert Murdoch personally intervened to protect him.

Turns out this is 2 months old. How is it not 40 years? Jesus Christ.

A. F.M.D., a teacher@fmdteacher.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Well done Aisling Bea. We are bored of these shits like Ross asking these fucking questions.

Two things. One of the main exploitation methods of those spreading misinformation is to take normal scientific arguments over details and suggest they imply doubt over an entire subject. The second, what is ‘at best’ supposed to imply other than that the idea that long covid itself is a lie?

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 2mo ago

Long covid is a disputed subject, at best.

What is it ‘at worst’ then? What’s the range of opinion on the health of millions of affected people you’re willing to entertain? Because this is very much not just saying it’s not yet adequately understood and treated.

Lewis Goodall@lewisgoodall.com · 2mo ago

Long covid is a disputed subject, at best.