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I have seen people on this very website refer to this as Alan Partridge-esque, and having seen it to myself, I do now believe those people, as David Lynch said, should fix their hearts or die.
Robin Ince reveals to last night’s audience at a recording of Infinite Monkey Cage that the BBC has forced him to resign over his support of trans people
December 13, 2025 at 11:54 AM
I have seen people on this very website refer to this as Alan Partridge-esque, and having seen it to myself, I do now believe those people, as David Lynch said, should fix their hearts or die.
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Once again 7/10 was far too generous for this rancid organisation.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/libya-eu-...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/libya-eu-...
Europe is paying Libya to torture migrants on its behalf
On a rescue ship in the Mediterranean, a survivor tells of their detainment in Libya, which the EU helped to fund
www.opendemocracy.net
December 13, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Once again 7/10 was far too generous for this rancid organisation.
www.opendemocracy.net/en/libya-eu-...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/libya-eu-...
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Few years ago, Brian Cox posted a left bashing take about how u should have friends across the political spectrum, to justify being mates with tories (or words to that effect). When someone astutely asked how many fascists he was friends with, then, he blocked them.
December 13, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Few years ago, Brian Cox posted a left bashing take about how u should have friends across the political spectrum, to justify being mates with tories (or words to that effect). When someone astutely asked how many fascists he was friends with, then, he blocked them.
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“Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system.”
Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).
Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).
Silicon Valley’s Authoritarian Tech Right is not theorizing this world. They are already building it. The pipelines are operational. The feedback loops are functioning. The sovereignty transfers are completing.
A MUST READ 👇
A MUST READ 👇
The Authoritarian Stack
How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America — And Why Europe Is Next
www.authoritarian-stack.info
December 13, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“Europe faces an existential choice: build genuine technological sovereignty now, or accept governance by platforms whose architects view democracy as an obsolete operating system.”
Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).
Labour needs to wake up (and treat Palantir like the plague).
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Financial technological sovereignty from the US is by far the most critical security issue facing Europe and the rest of the world today.
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life.
My interview with Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned by the US for ruling to authorise an investigation into war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
My interview with Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, who was sanctioned by the US for ruling to authorise an investigation into war crimes by US troops in Afghanistan www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘It’s surreal’: US sanctions lock International Criminal Court judge out of daily life
Canadian judge Kimberly Prost, is unable to use credit cards, transfer money or book everyday services in what she calls an attack on the independence of the judiciary
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Financial technological sovereignty from the US is by far the most critical security issue facing Europe and the rest of the world today.
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Keir Starmer is purposely getting the country ready for a fascist government and nothing anyone says will convince me otherwise
December 12, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Keir Starmer is purposely getting the country ready for a fascist government and nothing anyone says will convince me otherwise
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But "nobody tells us what to write", say the journalists who remain.
Well no. You can just see who still has a job and who gets a promotion, and who doesn't get their contracts renewed.
Well no. You can just see who still has a job and who gets a promotion, and who doesn't get their contracts renewed.
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
But "nobody tells us what to write", say the journalists who remain.
Well no. You can just see who still has a job and who gets a promotion, and who doesn't get their contracts renewed.
Well no. You can just see who still has a job and who gets a promotion, and who doesn't get their contracts renewed.
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An incredible number of people on this website seem to think Russia being extremely bad and malignant will somehow mitigate the British government being totally disorganised and deeply unpopular, and that it will rectify decades of astonishingly corrupt and idiotic military procurement. It will not!
Do we think the British state is robust enough to survive an actual, for real getting-bombed war with conscription and so on? I really doubt it is: it’d be Ottoman Empire scenes by the end of year one.
December 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
An incredible number of people on this website seem to think Russia being extremely bad and malignant will somehow mitigate the British government being totally disorganised and deeply unpopular, and that it will rectify decades of astonishingly corrupt and idiotic military procurement. It will not!
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Full cultural bonfire in progress
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
December 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Full cultural bonfire in progress
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for me it was the refusal to reveal his donors in 2020 because the whole campaign was a massive lie and it's gone downhill from there
How can this inoffensive man have become so viscerally loathed?
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
🖊️ Lewis Goodall
Keir Starmer must make No 10 a content factory
The Prime Minister can only re-establish authority if he learns to command the message
www.newstatesman.com
December 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
for me it was the refusal to reveal his donors in 2020 because the whole campaign was a massive lie and it's gone downhill from there
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Just read the New Statesman’s profile about your boyfriend
December 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Just read the New Statesman’s profile about your boyfriend
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it's time for some Sensible Hysteria
Armed forces minister says UK is 'rapidly developing' plans to prepare for war
Armed forces minister says UK is 'rapidly developing' plans to prepare for war
The UK is "rapidly developing" plans to prepare the whole country for the possible outbreak of war, the armed forces minister has said.
news.sky.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:52 PM
it's time for some Sensible Hysteria
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The Editor of The Times and Sunday Times in Scotland has been arrested and charged in connection with “indecent online communications”. www.thenational.scot/news/2569064...
Scottish newspaper editor arrested and charged over 'indecent communications'
A LEADING Scottish newspaper editor has been suspended after he was charged in connection with ...
www.thenational.scot
December 11, 2025 at 5:42 PM
The Editor of The Times and Sunday Times in Scotland has been arrested and charged in connection with “indecent online communications”. www.thenational.scot/news/2569064...
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So she invited Andrew Mountbatten- Windsor onto the HP set?
December 12, 2025 at 9:27 AM
So she invited Andrew Mountbatten- Windsor onto the HP set?
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And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Getting tanked up and climbing lampposts
Instead of seeing your kids
Your wife wished she'd never known you
But sadly for her she did
Now you're painting roundabouts in heaven
In your British City kit
Like a candle in the wind
Getting tanked up and climbing lampposts
Instead of seeing your kids
Your wife wished she'd never known you
But sadly for her she did
Now you're painting roundabouts in heaven
In your British City kit
December 12, 2025 at 9:18 AM
And it seems to me you lived your life
Like a candle in the wind
Getting tanked up and climbing lampposts
Instead of seeing your kids
Your wife wished she'd never known you
But sadly for her she did
Now you're painting roundabouts in heaven
In your British City kit
Like a candle in the wind
Getting tanked up and climbing lampposts
Instead of seeing your kids
Your wife wished she'd never known you
But sadly for her she did
Now you're painting roundabouts in heaven
In your British City kit
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For the price of one single nuclear power station Britain could install battery storage units in every home cutting fuel bills by over £200 each a year by using off peak energy and removing the need for around a third of expected need for generating capacity.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As the UK looks to invest in nuclear, here’s what it could mean for Britain’s environment
In this week’s newsletter: The government’s bid to speed up nuclear construction could usher in sweeping deregulation, with experts warning of profound consequences for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
For the price of one single nuclear power station Britain could install battery storage units in every home cutting fuel bills by over £200 each a year by using off peak energy and removing the need for around a third of expected need for generating capacity.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)
December 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
This is your annual reminder that the Time Person of the Year award is NOT meant as an endorsement, for example they gave the award to Adolf Hitler in 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, and 1943 (when the magazine was renamed Hitler Monthly)
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GOD: if my commandments get 50,000 likes, i will tell Abraham to kill his son
December 11, 2025 at 7:24 PM
GOD: if my commandments get 50,000 likes, i will tell Abraham to kill his son
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People are dying and hospitals over run because he’s fucking shit at his job, and is on par with Matt Hancock at this stage
December 12, 2025 at 9:04 AM
People are dying and hospitals over run because he’s fucking shit at his job, and is on par with Matt Hancock at this stage
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blame Streeting for the flu stuff because the last flu season was bad so they knew this was coming, they also track from the southern hemisphere, if there are stock issues etc, this is on him as there is enough stock from the manufacturers and the fact the vaccine programme is not robust is on him
December 12, 2025 at 9:03 AM
blame Streeting for the flu stuff because the last flu season was bad so they knew this was coming, they also track from the southern hemisphere, if there are stock issues etc, this is on him as there is enough stock from the manufacturers and the fact the vaccine programme is not robust is on him
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Impunity is an enabler of criminality. And again, I suggest that we spend some time reflecting on the radicalising effect it must have on British politicians to be so deeply and directly complicit in such monstrous, racist crimes. These people have crossed a threshold into a truly dark place.
Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor
Britain threatened to cut off ICC funding over Netanyahu arrest warrant, claims prosecutor
Karim Khan makes allegation in court submission while defending move to prosecute Israeli prime minister in 2024
The British government threatened to defund the international criminal court and leave the Rome statute that set it up if it pressed ahead with plans to issue an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu, the ICC’s prosecutor, has claimed.
Karim Khan made the allegation in a submission to the court defending his decision to prosecute Israel’s prime minister. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Impunity is an enabler of criminality. And again, I suggest that we spend some time reflecting on the radicalising effect it must have on British politicians to be so deeply and directly complicit in such monstrous, racist crimes. These people have crossed a threshold into a truly dark place.
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(Mickey Mouse voice) Haha, hi! Jet fuel can't melt steel beams, haha!
December 12, 2025 at 12:42 AM
(Mickey Mouse voice) Haha, hi! Jet fuel can't melt steel beams, haha!
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