I don’t think Badenoch’s plainly unreformed neo-Nazi adviser is any sillier or more insulting than anything else her cohort have to say about destabilisation, anti-racism and anti-extremism. She’s just too stupid to realise you can’t do this with someone jailed for quite horrifically abusing an MP.

“We’ve decided to give the former neo-Nazi an important job, shaping policy for the next Conservative government, not emptying the bins in Loserham-on-Sea.”

Credit to Badenoch, this was a totally unsurprising news alert until the final clause when my eyes popped out of my head like a cartoon character.

To put this in terms the Telegraph normally feels more at home with: Workshy scrounger invites WHOLE FAMILY to my dinner party, expecting ME to pay for his failures in providing for his own family.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 20h ago

I was wondering why I’d got 19 clickthroughs from The Daily Telegraph…

3 lions dead of heatstroke in Tokyo zoo. It’s all too late innit?… Every part of the globe having extreme climatic conditions… and Trump days what now? Drill baby drill. Mankind is a horrible thing.

It is staggeringly reprehensible and reckless to continue this insulting bullshit at a time when the global far right have advanced so far that *the leader of the Conservative Party* is defending recruitment of a convicted neo-Nazi, on the grounds he is an expert on antiracism and anti-extremism.

Me: (a smart columnist, looking at claims made by an ex-Tory neo-Nazi booted out of the party for crimes, now standing as a Tory councillor whole doing a rehabilitation tour parroting the agreed media line in his new “anti-extremism” gig) This is extremely convincing stuff, and very worrying.

EHRC Code of Practice comes into effect today so remember to be an absolute pain in the arse to any service provider who is trying to actively enforce it.

Marbs, my grandcat, is quite prone to mood swings. He's fairly neutral atm 🙄😸

I left my phone at my pfp bro's this aft. I've been so anxious but he's just brought it to me when he realised. And that's just one of the reasons I love him 🥰 💜

I had to pull tag nuts off my grandcats butt and then use wipes to clean his bumfluff...some men are properly disgusting 😬

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · yesterday

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

People like Liddle actively made life worse for disadvantaged people. He stirred up hatred against ethnic minorities, immigrants, Muslims, women, gay people, disabled people, and trans people. He didn't just disagree with them, he harassed them and made their lives worse.

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

Liddle to be celebrated

An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that.

brokenbottleboy.substack.com

"we should build an army by creating a society no one would want to defend"

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...

Not speaking ill of the dead is how Jimmy Saville got something approaching a state funeral.

This whole incident is helpfully instructive, isn’t it. Here, we have the country’s worst politicians, including a former Prime Minister, queuing up to salute a bold iconoclast who irreverently spoke truth to power and discomfited the great and good. It makes it pretty clear, does it not.

Echo the Australian magpie annoying a tuxedo cat named Gilbert in Thames, New Zealand. The pair are known to be friends, though the magpie is often described as an annoying sibling that frequently pushes limits. They are part of a group called "Tuxedoes Unite" located in Karangahake, New Zealand.

BREAKING: ​The newly elected Prime Minister of Hungary announced that Netanyahu will be arrested if he enters Hungary.

Another Israeli airstrike in Gaza. More people murdered. Since the ‘ceasefire’ over 1,230 Palestinians have been murdered in Gaza,and over 4,000 injured. There is no ‘ceasefire’ Stop selling UK arms to Israel.

If you can’t think of anything nice to say, I believe there’s a vacancy at The Spectator.

As Rod Liddle has died, I notice this column I wrote in 2019 about his attacks on people with M.E. is on the most read again. Rebekah Brooks, of News UK, described Liddle today as “provocative”. In reality, he spread lies about very sick people for cash. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Rod Liddle vilifies disabled people. I’m tired of the hate. We all should be | Frances Ryan

Whether it is ME patients or another target, huge swathes of the media have normalised hatred of minorities for years, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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rod liddle greatest shits thread right here. so much awful garbage.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 3d ago

Your reminder Rod Liddle not only said he couldn't have become a teacher because he "could not remotely conceive of not trying to shag the kids" in The Spectator, but he also wrote laws banning child pornography are "absurd" in The Guardian. Abhorrent.

The new CEO of Bluesky wants to change Bluesky from being a leftist bubble. The thing is, there’s nothing wrong with being a leftist bubble: the idea that everything has to be all-encompassing and suitable for everyone is a trap. 🧵 1/4

Calling it a bubble is to miss the point. Go to where a community suits you, and where you suit the community. Where you can get what you want. I don’t want fights any more. I want facts, freedom and fun - peppered with interesting information. Is that a bubble? Maybe, but a good one. 4/4

Oh I say, water falling out of the sky 💦😶‍🌫️

"What if his family reads it!?!? His family read worse, when he wrote it"

Ben Goldacre@bengoldacre.bsky.social · 2d ago

Sad to see people posting on social media negatively about Rod Liddle, who died yesterday. If I have disagreed with you very strongly in life - and you die - I hope I'll be either silent, or kind.

Oooh light rain forecast for here tomorrow #Yorkshireland UK

Nail on head 💅

Pete Fraser@petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think a lot of ppl within the media really, really enjoy the idea of ppl on the left, or even progressive people of any kind, being baited by columnists. The whole ‘I may not agree with him but he wasn’t afraid to slay the odd sacred cow’ thing is entirely conditional on who the cow was sacred to.

Haters focusing on Liddle's violence toward his pregnant partner, his galloping racism, or his repeated defences of paedophilia, should remember to mention he was also one of the worst writers to ever do it. A calorie-free hack of the first water. Just absolute dogshit, back to front.