And all this could've been avoided by adherence to the simple principle that anyone who expresses support for Nazism places themselves forever outside democratic politics. If he is genuinely rehabilitated, good on him. Go forth and do good work. But you don't get to stand for elected office.

"There are fewer than 100 available spaces left across the male prison estate in England and Wales, the BBC understands." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... BBC News 27 August 2024 🥶 Progress update? 1/2 -->

Under 100 spaces in men's prisons in England and Wales

The government hopes that overcrowding will ease once new measures are brought in this September.

bbc.co.uk

In that state, you need distinctiveness and a function. Go to X if you want to meet Nazis. Go to Truth Social is you want to suck up to the Mango Manbaby. Go to Facebook for the best in fake news. What do you go to Bluesky for? To find the Bluesky community. 3/4

Yep, the great weakness of social democracy is that it works. Its gains are taken for granted and the collective responsibility it demands can be resented by those it emancipates. It ends up defending what it creates rather than looking forward. Not sure we have a good solution here

Premier League Combined XI: Most Assists Over the Last 10 Seasons 🅰️ (who scored)

1/14 A brief break from #TheHormuzCrisis. I've never really explained why the phrase "put the Navy in the Channel" to stop #SmallBoat crossings isn't, in itself, a serious maritime strategy. It sounds decisive. From a maritime perspective though, it raises far more questions than it answers.

I’m bored of waking up and seeing a picture of a demonstrably shit golfer say the same old bollocks next to a tied back curtain by an aeroplane toilet

you owe readers an explanation as to why you said “parameters” of a deal when the president used an entirely different word.

It is quite strange how little the actual public inquiry we're having into the UK's Covid response - the one that's publishing in-depth reports every few months - factors into the "you're not even allowed to ask these questions" complaints. We are, in fact, officially asking these questions!

And covid was not harmless to children. Being at lower risk than adults does not mean harmless. There was acute illness needing hospital, late onset rare but serious inflammatory disease, Long Covid and 13,000 UK children who lost a parent. (more details in substack post at end) 8/12

The GOP is desperately trying to rewrite history, but just a reminder that Donald Trump was president during the lockdowns, and he awarded Fauci a presidential commendation for his work on COVID. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

✅ Touring Clacton ✅ Visiting local businesses ✅ Listening to constituents’ concerns ✅ Hi-vis vest Make your Vote Count! #VoteBinface #Clacton

This is Fenrir. He has not yet been successful in cuddling with the cat. But thinks if he goes slow enough she might not notice. 13/10 (IG: fenrirfanclub)

"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."

US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

theguardian.com

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

Vaccines work. If there’s a vaccine for it, I have been vaccinated. So has my entire family. None of us has developed the diseases we’ve been immunized against. That’s exactly what vaccines are designed to do. Dr. Fauci was a scientist working in an environment hostile to science. Nobody wins.

The person who wrote this was an 18-year-old boy planning an assassination for the Foxtrot network, a Swedish OCG that acts as an Iranian proxy He was one of several teenagers hired as contract killers by Foxtrot, including one caught in the UK Full story here (🎁): inews.co.uk/news/teenage...

How teenagers hired as killers by Iranian-linked gang pose a threat on UK streets

An 18-year-old Norwegian hitman - tracked to a Huddersfield hotel - accepted £21,000 from the Iran-linked Foxtrot network

inews.co.uk

I’m running 200km over 7 days to demand safer roads. On average, 30 people are killed every week on UK roads — deaths that are preventable. I’m raising funds for the charity Brake, who support bereaved families & crash victims. Please donate if you can. Thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/andy-co...

Andy's fundraiser for Brake, the road safety charity

Help Andy Cox raise money to support Brake, the road safety charity

justgiving.com

"I was crying and hyperventilating because I was terrified... I just wasn’t expecting someone to be so aggressive for such a non-issue."

"She walked back to check her door, saw nothing was wrong, and came back and started screaming about how I’m a f***ing moron": London cyclists share their "terrifying" road rage experiences + more on ...

road.cc

1. This New York Post cover: “Thousands of 9/11 families demand Mamdani be banned from 25th-Anniversary” is a brazen lie. How do I know? I interviewed the organizer of the petition.

given the history, I'm willing to believe a lot of that is insincere pandering but look, man, if you have to do insincere pandering because you live in a state where corporations have to kiss the regime's ass, don't try to sell us a vision where US AI companies are global champions of freedom

I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak decapitation attacks & bombs schools?

Our position on open-weights models

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on open-weights models

anthropic.com

The result is an enormous, unprecedented accumulation of wealth in the hands of the few owning these companies. The step that is unclear is how this will make everyone insanely well off. But the myth that enormous concentration of wealth trickles down to everyone has a clear social function. /2

Elon Musk "Anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" (25th July 2026) Women with liberal views "have been programmed to destroy western civilisation and don't realise it" (25th July 2026) June 29th: endorses the shooting of "traitors"

They've done 3 booster catches. They just haven't had one since March of last year. That's 5 test flights and an accident investigation ago. Next flight is going to attempt a catch of the Starship spacecraft, and to go all the way to LEO. Doesn't change the fact that the company's doomed.

I am a broken record: Climate politics is very hard so it is not difficult to get why pundits/party strategists/opinion fashionistas are advising political elites to do climate hushing, but unfortunately the genie is out of the bottle and climate politics is here to stay

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social · last wk.

The British public think climate change is a bigger global threat than mass migration.

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

Combine this with his endorsement of the guy calling for traitors to be murdered. One of those moments where the frontier of what's tolerated by our govt and by all the people happily posting there has been pushed out and it's frankly baffling to comprehend why.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · last wk.

Elon Musk, owner of X, has called the editor of the Economist "a traitor to the West, plain and simple" after her recent interview with him. He now argues that "anyone who opposes remigration is a traitor" Musk has been socialising violence since Aug25: "fight or die, that's what it comes down to"

The "I'm backing Britain" campaign surged for a few months in January 1968, after devaluation. It begins as a campaign by five secretaries about volunteering overpaid overtime, is seized on by government, the media and celebrities, and fizzles out by the summer.