If my family life consisted of outsourcing the care of my children to an entourage of maids, nannies & other staff before shipping them off to a boarding school, I would simply stfu about ordinary families being 'disconnected'

Keir Starmer's currently sat looking at some papers, the buzzing in his head is getting louder. Saying "Stop Making Mistakes" over and over as he ponders whether it was a good idea to bet the entire UK economy on magic beans.

All reminds me of how hostile the media used to get about media studies. ‘It’s just watching telly and reading newspapers’ (and also ‘potentially working out what we’re really up to’).

Lots of responses to this, so I’d point out that all of this chat makes more sense if you understand the insane aggression he’s talking about is “women accusing my friends of sexual harassment, and members of the public being angry on social media about police murdering black people”.

What strikes you as more likely? That the whole country of seventy million people has unaccountably gone insane, or that maybe two thousand people who all know each other and work together, often in the same building, have slowly roasted each others’ brains to lunacy. www.ft.com/content/c7e4...

The Arab Spring is a relevant point to pick, because it’s when all the lads joyfully hailed social media as an excellent tool* for people to organise against cruel, unjust regimes that rule by force, propaganda, patronage and inertia. And then they stopped, and had a think about what that meant.

a spokesman for BrewDog said 'this is the one thing we didn't want to happen'

Their strategy here is “Win over elderly reactionaries or bust”, and it’s helpful to understand that for them, “bust” means “very well-remunerated post-politics job with corporate donor” or at worst, “period in opposition, then try again with exactly the same shit”.

Once again Labour's strategy is to say that racism is terrible, and therefore we will defeat the racists by giving them almost everything they want
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You've put that out into the world, and that's enough

Hahaha. What are people doing if not watching Twin Peaks A Limited Event Series

A deeply unpopular reel

You spent seven years roaring into cameras that your own party, its members and its supporters were not only very racist, but the most deranged form of Hitlerian crackpot racists imaginable.

Oh Fraser, such wilful ignorance. Will Farage be sending border force into South Kensington to deport white French people or Clapham to deport white Australians do you think ?

The “immigration debate” in this country is completely fucking mental.

We’re repeatedly told that voters are concerned about migrants who “break the rules” or “don’t contribute” by people who then suggest the solution is to make life harder for those migrants who follow the rules and contribute.

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We can say this until we’re blue in the face and it won’t make a blind bit of difference, because this isn’t and wasn’t ever electoral calculus. Put simply: this government has total contempt for the libs, never mind the left, and it wants to represent rich reactionaries and retired racists instead.

Mandatory unpaid work to be done by The Other, is it?

I cannot adequately explain how incredibly bad it looks, that the police *literally raided the First Minister’s house live on national television and put a crime scene tent over her front door*, while everyone knew this idiotic bullshit was going on and actively worked to ensure its success.

I feel it’s very irresponsible and inflammatory to accept donations from extremely partisan pro-Israel billionaires to help wreck your own party, then conceal them from the authorities while booting the pro-Palestine left for antisemitism, while you facilitate the genocide of the Palestinian people.

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

There's a massive crossover between terfs and antivaxxers. Very few people believe in just one anti-science paranoid conspiracy theory