@brianwoolfinder.bsky.social settle an argument- are scousers northerners?

think if you're broadly a centrist and were suuuuuper concerned about attacks on free speech from the left and so you decided to give the right a hearing then you need to realise you were taken for QUITE the ride (and don't really have anyone to blame but yourself)

Chris Mason is a profoundly unserious man who writes about politics as if it were a video game with no real consequences. True to form, this article is purely about optics. Not a single policy is mentioned

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

get why she had to go but irksome she lost her job to something quite complex and, let's be honest, reasonably minor in the grand scheme of things, when shadow cabinet members get to merrily hang out with Eddie Swastika without any repercussions

I don’t want to be too shrill about this but I think the BBC, ITV and Sky have disgraced themselves in their coverage of the anti-refugee protests. A massive failure of judgement. But now we know the next time a progressive protest “isn’t news” that it’s nothing to do with numbers

what the fuck is this headline from the BBC, I feel like I'm losing my mind www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Zoe doing the Lord’s work

fundamentally the problem is that if you think "hotels are where I stay on holiday and I like being on holiday so living in a hotel must be fun and it's not fair others get to do it and not me" then you have the intellectual reasoning of a little child and it's going to be hard to engage with you

A reminder: Asylum seekers are in hotels because of a huge application backlog that the gov't must work through. Robert Jenrick - now, bursting with creative solutions - processed applications slowly ***on purpose*** as a deterrent.

Here he is, as Immigration Minister two years ago, saying so. ~AA

how the fuck do you take a job as homelessness minister and not think "hmm, maybe I should disclose my buy to rent property portfolio"

A superb piece of journalism in The Observer: it seems like the one of the sacred texts of Nature Writing (TM) is not quite as much of an unflinchingly honest read as claimed

observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

Dear USA

Deploying troops against civilians will not go well.

Yours
Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Amazing news that the Home Office has apparently worked out how to bring hundreds of thousands of native UK workers into the care industry

International flights are expensive these days

silent majority my arse

Avoiding the hordes at Formby Beach