Andrew James Carter

The Spanish Flu “came out of a vaccine lab” 10 years before anyone knew flu was a virus and 80 years before the first vaccine.

Nothing will satisfy anti-immigration campaigners. So we should give them nothing.

if congo pull this off i want the british museum empty by midnight

They say the winning teams always grow into a tournament, which is why England are now playing like confused pensioners with back pain.

Just off the top of my head… What if a young person needs mental health support *because* they lost their job or are otherwise unable to work? What if the best route back to work for a young person would involve receiving mental health support *first*? What then Andy? You fucking ghoul.

Labour’s approach to their leader is no different to their approach to policy. Superficial change designed solely to preserve the broken status quo.

There is no 10-year-plan to improve the country. “10 years” is how long they think Burnham can maintain the broken status quo; how long he can get away with pointless tinkering, falsely presented as change; how long they can do the bare minimum and lie about it. They are, of course, wrong.

Don’t normally put people on blast OR have any confidence in bluesky moderation - but making an exception for this ableist pillock.

jk rowling is still palling around with fellow transphobe kaeley triller on twitter, who admitted to the statutory rape of a minor under her care when she was working as a youth counsellor. rowling knows this because she blocks people who tell her

The best analogy to the conversion therapy Bill would be a Bill that banned smacking children "unless the adult believed that the little blighter deserved it."

You’ve essenced your last Evan…

Under today’s massively PR’d draft bill banning LGBT conversion therapy, Alan Turing never underwent conversion therapy. Because it was done by the State for his own wellbeing. 🥸🫪 Same now for trans people. Pink-washing garbage.

I've spent years working towards a ban on conversion practices, hoping to see a bill published. Today, I just feel so profoundly sad. As many others have noted, the draft has a carve out for "healthcare" so broad it makes a mockery of the idea this is a 'ban'. 1/2 www.gov.uk/government/p...

Burnham will do things* better than Starmer. *pandering to fascists; destroying the Labour Party; etc…

By April 2029 every video game will contain at least one Nicholas Cage.

He did the meme

Folks - stop engaging with this prick. He’s an obvious troll wilfully contradicting himself in countless different threads. Nothing he says is in good faith. He just wants attention and engagement so the algorithm spreads his bullshit further - block him and move on.

keir starmer is a good lesson in intersectionality because everyone has at least one reason to dislike him but most people have multiple overlapping reasons so they really hate him, and then old white guys are just out there like wow not sure where all this hostility is coming from

The UK has had 7 different Prime Ministers in 10years: 1) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 2) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 3) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 4) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 5) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 6) Useless, lying right-wing bigot 7) Useless, lying right-wing bigot

Labour’s problem will be diminishing returns. Starmerism lasted 24 months. Burnham brand Starmerism might last 18. So they need another 3 vacuous, unprincipled beige men just to reach the next election. They should have loads, but they somehow had to look outside Parliament even to find this one.

The whole political spectrum pretending Starmer passed earth-shattering reforms on renters/workers rights. He caved to the wealthy and even the watered-down dregs had to be forced over the line by the unions & threat of a backbench rebellion. He had the majority for generational reform. He failed.

Goading Burnham to move (even further) to the right. It’s a painfully obvious ploy, but Labour take the bait every damn time. (Because many of them are looking for any excuse to do that anyway.)

if there's one thing feudal serfs were famous for, it's their property rights

Analytically, this is why it's important to consistently talk about the political media class, to treat them as a single ecosystem of shared & mutually reinforcing interests, rather than as members of different parties & discreet professions that also overlap or interact