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TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Sunday, 11 June 2023 13:45 (two years ago)

Sorry Scots, looks like you'll be yoked to perfidious Albion for a while yet

darts macabre (Matt #2), Sunday, 11 June 2023 13:49 (two years ago)

I blame that shifty husband of hers.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:09 (two years ago)

https://dkanut5j171nq.cloudfront.net/catalogue-images/ti104236.jpg

calzino, Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:35 (two years ago)

Getting arrested or indicted is all the rage these days

StanM, Sunday, 11 June 2023 14:48 (two years ago)

Given she posted her driving theory test yesterday, polis clearly thought she was a flight risk, hence the lifting

— Michael Scanlan is on MAB (@ScanlanWithAnA) June 11, 2023

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 15:11 (two years ago)

NEW: Seven hours after her arrest, Nicola Sturgeon has been released by police without charge. pic.twitter.com/Y541IJImwu

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) June 11, 2023

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:01 (two years ago)

IT'S ALMOST AS IF

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:02 (two years ago)

LOCK HER UP

rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 11 June 2023 17:04 (two years ago)

Last year I planned to take my own life. I saved up my antidepressants with a plan to overdose on them. I didn't tell anyone, my girlfriends found out and staged an intervention.
I reached out to my MP (and someone I consider a friend) @KirstySNP ahead of this debate. https://t.co/qS3GsFx9KI

— Heather Herbert (@HeatherHerbert_) June 13, 2023

xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 10:47 (two years ago)

Not sure where else to post this, but I am feeling a bit shat up about the attacks this morning: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-65887752

emil.y, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:31 (two years ago)

that, and another incredibly bleak and depressing child murder as a result of chronically under-funded and over-stretched social services, thank you Tory Britain

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 13 June 2023 13:46 (two years ago)

twitter was not a good place to try and find any accurate reports about the carnage in Nottingham this morning. I had to scroll past hundreds of grotesque idiots linking it with asylum seekers and the French attack from last week.

calzino, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:14 (two years ago)

The only time I can find on the news reports is 4am, which strikes me as a very poor choice of time to do terrorism, so I'd be surprised if it did turn out to be a 'terror attack'. I think Neil S is more likely to be correct.

emil.y, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 14:59 (two years ago)

also the judge that gave a 24 month sentence to someone with 3 kids, one of them disabled, in that abortion pill case is a total dick.

calzino, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 15:27 (two years ago)

I found the Nottingham incidents particularly difficult because:
a) my oldest friend died early this morning, very near to where one of the attacks occurred, and I was scared that the medical people were going to be delayed in reaching her (thankfully they weren’t).
b) someone else I know, who lives in the next street to where one of the attacks occurred, couldn’t sleep and took a night time walk down that very street, an hour before it all happened.
c) one of the streets that was sealed off was the same street where my oldest friend and I lived next door to each other, 40 years ago.

mike t-diva, Tuesday, 13 June 2023 22:48 (two years ago)

sorry to hear that Mike, that's awful.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 14 June 2023 06:27 (two years ago)

yeah, horrible

Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 09:30 (two years ago)

Oh god, Mike, that's all terrible, I'm so sorry. In my friend group there was a lot of working out exactly where it all happened and who lived there and if everyone was alright yesterday, but that sounds so much more intense.

emil.y, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:05 (two years ago)

It's horrible for you both. Horrible when the violence is so near. Sorry to hear it.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 14:18 (two years ago)

My non-music job is as an informatics/analytics lead for a major London trust and I have seen many “AI” automation proposals. All of them have been staggeringly unworkable in almost every way, largely proposed by (albeit well-meaning) folk with no working knowledge of NHS data. https://t.co/qJyZVIomjg

— Phexioenesystems (@phxsys) June 14, 2023

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 14 June 2023 16:04 (two years ago)

I'd like to see old Boris wriggle his way out of this one!

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:24 (two years ago)

well at least our next likely PM is not an unprincipled, lying, adulterous piece of human garbage, lol

calzino, Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:29 (two years ago)

Ouch, they've really done a number on the lying sack of shit.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 June 2023 08:54 (two years ago)

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

nashwan, Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:06 (two years ago)

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

nashwan, Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:06 (two years ago)

Boris Johnson
Liberal, nuanced, cautious: is this the real Boris Johnson?

the Graun had his number right from the start of his premiership

calzino, Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:12 (two years ago)

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:19 (two years ago)

lol

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:21 (two years ago)

Jog on Jogson

nashwan, Thursday, 15 June 2023 09:29 (two years ago)

An ok piece laying out our next crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/jun/15/drought-is-on-the-verge-of-becoming-the-next-pandemic

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:03 (two years ago)

Pollster: 'Boris Johnson is more unpopular than Phillip Schofield or Xi Jinping'

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:50 (two years ago)

he's history's greatest monster

Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:56 (two years ago)

Unless you're an equally conniving corrupt MP who is now free to act with impunity until the next time the press need a wicker man

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 June 2023 13:57 (two years ago)

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Thursday, 15 June 2023 14:03 (two years ago)

Corbyn on R4 PM today - first on Glenda Jackson, then on Johnson, then on Labour - was excellent. (Twitter thread)

“The meeting went silent, every body turned to stare at each other, and Glenda gave me the biggest wink you’d ever seen”

Former Labour leader, @jeremycorbyn , shares his fond memories of working with Glenda Jackson, who has passed away at age 87.#bbcpm pic.twitter.com/wqqT2WdrMb

— BBCPM (@BBCPM) June 15, 2023

mike t-diva, Thursday, 15 June 2023 20:06 (two years ago)

I listened to a GJ interview a few years ago and she was saying Corbyn shouldn't have been the leader because working class people who the Labour Party are supposed to serve are preternaturally a socially conservative bunch of people. Her politics were basically of that detestably condescending noblesse oblige variety of the Labour Right.

calzino, Thursday, 15 June 2023 20:42 (two years ago)

...which makes JC's tribute all the more generous, and suggestive of a broader acceptance of differing views than he's generally given credit for.

mike t-diva, Thursday, 15 June 2023 20:57 (two years ago)

How dare Jambone Crumhorn say anything ever

two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:11 (two years ago)

he has consistently been very generous towards other party people like that, and it has rarely been reciprocated unless you could take a knife in the back as a friendly gesture. It's all very well being a nice guy, but they were going to destroy him even if he wasn't.

calzino, Thursday, 15 June 2023 21:12 (two years ago)

I was living in Primrose Hill with a bunch of Balearic ravers and club runners from a fairly infamous estate in South London and they did terrace chants of GLENDA IS OUR LEADER, OUR LEADER, OUR LEADER when she was elected, which was the only bit of levity in the 1992 election. They were classic ex-terrace hoolies who’d had epiphanies about violence and racism while on pills in Ibiza, and every single one of them hated Thatcher for destroying any cohesion in their community of origin (and the rest).

BTW Glenda Jackson also told anyone who asked that she did not consider Jeremy Corbyn to be antisemitic and that his advocacy for Palestinians was the cause of the accusations.

steely flan (suzy), Friday, 16 June 2023 06:21 (two years ago)

turd that won't flush transferred to new bowl

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FyvnYv5WcAIMp4a?format=jpg&name=large

rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 16 June 2023 12:42 (two years ago)

Now endless videos and pics of him jogging.

TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Friday, 16 June 2023 12:51 (two years ago)

"-and it'll be required that we only say nice things about him from now on"

xpost obv

Mark G, Friday, 16 June 2023 14:29 (two years ago)

apparently johnson's first mail column will be essentially an advert for a new weight loss drug.

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 16 June 2023 18:01 (two years ago)

not 'apparently' it's already online.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/textbased/news/text-12203407/BORIS-JOHNSON-Wonder-drug-hoped-stop-raids-cheddar-chorizo-didnt-work-me.html

and yes, this an advert free way of checking/hatereading their site.

mark e, Friday, 16 June 2023 18:50 (two years ago)

He's no Adrian Chiles.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:01 (two years ago)

God that was a slog, makes me yearn for the exquisite prose of Adrian Chiles. Wonder who actually wrote it?

lolworthy xpost

darts macabre (Matt #2), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:03 (two years ago)

I think they'll need endless videos and pics of him jogging for this column to work.

Renaissance of the Celtic Trumpet (Tom D.), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:07 (two years ago)

Next column: the responsibilities of fatherhood.

darts macabre (Matt #2), Friday, 16 June 2023 19:10 (two years ago)

i hope they are able to remove sunak as pm asap because that seems like it gets really funny and stupid and is probably the best hope for the election not producing a one party state

ufo, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:05 (one year ago)

new thread is this way -->

Stability is change: crossing the floor from potato to potahto in uk 2024

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:17 (one year ago)

yeah but does the new thread have discount trainers?

This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:19 (one year ago)

that price is going to shoot right back up on july 5

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 23:20 (one year ago)

seven months pass...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/01/2025-economic-recovery-recession-voters-labour

"The public knows, deep down at least, that Britain’s problems are longstanding and are not going to be solved in six months."

Lol ok, large portions possibly understand this: so what is the plan?

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:27 (six months ago)

"Growth prospects should improve a bit as the year wears on. But even that forecast is based on a number of questionable assumptions. The first of these is that Donald Trump is bluffing about the scale of the tariffs he intends to impose on imported goods into the US, and that, subsequently, fears of a full-scale trade war are overblown. The second is that global stock markets – which look vulnerable to bad news – do not crash. The third is that the era of unexpected bad shocks – pandemics, wars, higher energy prices – is now over and that the global economy can look forward to a period of stability."

The employment rights bills will take care of this.

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:30 (six months ago)

Look comrade we all want to erase the first 6 months of the Starmer government but reviving this thread is a bit drastic

Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:30 (six months ago)

Lol sorry

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:31 (six months ago)

No it made for a good metaphor

Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 1 January 2025 20:31 (six months ago)

Incredible.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgSfpI4WUAAi4gC?format=jpg&name=large

Side note: new thread, y/n?

gyac, Thursday, 2 January 2025 13:48 (six months ago)

I think we should keep reviving different old ones

Sir Kock Farmer (wins), Thursday, 2 January 2025 13:58 (six months ago)

That's right

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 January 2025 14:45 (six months ago)

We should have a proper monthly lock and post regime like they have on the US one.

I know ours will barely scrape 50 but what's another thread?

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 January 2025 14:47 (six months ago)

New thread! We need to talk about twatty rocket man lecturing Kieth about Oldham, and trying to break Yaxley-Lennon out of gaol through the power of tweets alone.

Grandpont Genie, Thursday, 2 January 2025 19:52 (six months ago)

I think we should keep reviving different old ones


Ilx’s most lovable behaviour

gyac, Thursday, 2 January 2025 19:59 (six months ago)

not feeling a strong consensus for a UK "getting very annoyed with Elon Musk for attacking *checks notes* all the most despised and loathsome villains from the previous half dozen UK pol threads"

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 2 January 2025 21:07 (six months ago)

starmer only deserves a shit old thread like this tbh, fucking wasting new pixels on him

Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Thursday, 2 January 2025 21:09 (six months ago)

Several ministers said they thought this should be the trigger for the government to leave Musk’s platform. Others, however, warned that doing so could cause a diplomatic incident given Musk’s role in the incoming Trump administration.


nods wisely

Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 January 2025 21:21 (six months ago)

imagine what a boost it would be for Bluesky

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 2 January 2025 22:20 (six months ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/02/labour-economy-agenda-starmer-reeves-trump

This piece is explaining Lab economic policy. Its clearly not going to be enough but one thing is that the communication of it has been appalling.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 2 January 2025 23:12 (six months ago)

Mesmerising performance from @LukeTheNuke180 to win the World Darts Championship.

Congratulations Luke on being the youngest ever PDC World Darts Champion. An inspirational performance under such pressure to lift the trophy.

You should be really proud of what you've achieved…

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) January 3, 2025

xyzzzz__, Friday, 3 January 2025 22:27 (six months ago)

this should get the red wall back onside

Zurich is Starmed (Noodle Vague), Friday, 3 January 2025 22:44 (six months ago)

he's always been a big fan of Bullseye, obv like any knight of the realm hailing from the tory heartlands, who went to a posh selective school - he loves a bit o' bully: Here's what you could have won - a state funded social care sector that doesn't cause vulnerable people to die!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 3 January 2025 22:55 (six months ago)

OK did just lol at the headline Elon Musk turns on Nigel Farage and calls for new leader of Reform but perhaps it's not really surprising given how much Jenrick and others are comfortably out-flanking Farage on saying idiotic, racist AF shit.

nashwan, Sunday, 5 January 2025 17:53 (six months ago)

Ah, international Rats in a Sack, you love to see it…

guillotine vogue (suzy), Sunday, 5 January 2025 18:12 (six months ago)

Labour posts AI slop on TikTok to promote its policies, to the background of a song containing sexually suggestive lyrics about a “young girl” (2025) pic.twitter.com/5gOMsHKBtH

— insane moments in british politics (@PoliticsMoments) January 6, 2025

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 6 January 2025 17:44 (six months ago)

Holy shit he's about to find out who was chief prosecutor at the time. I can't look away pic.twitter.com/qPDOAGHAWo

— TheIainDuncanSmiths (@TheIDSmiths) January 5, 2025

🤣

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 6 January 2025 21:51 (six months ago)

Donald Trump please liberate us from this!

xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 January 2025 22:17 (six months ago)

Going well isn't it?

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jan/09/pound-falls-to-14-month-low-as-bond-sell-off-piles-pressure-on-rachel-reeves

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 January 2025 14:46 (six months ago)

And this with a leading economist as Chancellor!

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 January 2025 14:47 (six months ago)

From these two stories you see a Lab government acting like a Tory one which is the Liz Truss budget becoming the new "there is no money left" letter as cover for the same market driven austerity.

The problem is that 'culturally' the country does expect Lab to spend more so it might be why they have tanked so fast in the polling.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 January 2025 11:20 (five months ago)

Truss is an idiot and LOL Lilico (remember him?) but it would hilarious if she managed to sue Starmer for defamation and opened up the floodgates to all sorts of retrospective claims.

Please play Lou Reed's irritating guitar sounds (Tom D.), Friday, 10 January 2025 11:24 (five months ago)

My brother did say I was right not to vote for anyone lol, which I was taken aback by. So I'm using that to say that people expect Lab to sort stuff out, and they are very far from doing that.

OTOH they have plenty of time to waste.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 10 January 2025 11:27 (five months ago)


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