Amberlin

What’s that you say? Liz has a new book out which even the Telegraph is saying is even more unhinged than the last one? Wonderful, I’ll post this then.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Oh, hi!

Maybe we were right about Meghan all along, and the idiotic bigots were wrong? That would be a turn up for the books…

Sir. No. What are you doing? No. Stop.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Well done to everyone who's condemning Burnham for appearing on Gogglebox. It's a NEW LOW. You'd never have seen PMs or statesmen of old cheapen themselves by association with pop culture... or by appearing on high rating TV shows... Never happened

This one works better

is the *Labour* party really going to let its Home Secretary argue for semi-permanent indentured servitude?

Care homes were an “afterthought” during the pandemic and government failures caused the virus to spread “like wildfire” among vulnerable and elderly people, the public inquiry has found www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

They're weirdly pressing two kinds of white supremacist lies at once -- some non-white immigrants are poverty-wracked criminals who are eating our dogs and cats, but other non-white immigrants are rich elites who are buying up mansions and flying first class. Pick a fucking lane, you clowns.

Christ alive, yet another long whine from Liz Truss on 'why it wasn't my fault'. This has now been going for four years. Four years. And it'll keep going until someone intervenes.

Krissy made me get out of bed, leave the house and REVEL IN THE STUPID SPLENDOR OF STUPID NATURE this morning so now you have suffer with me

The plotter against America is joining forces with the plotter against Europe. Together they are plotting against the world, as I discuss in PN.

Terrible experience this morning when a totally unknown dog got into my house, chased the cat and got muddy paws on the sofa, then disappeared. I was out of the room but Rory told me all about it.

the way everyone's so excited about the Elizabeth Holmes thing is one of those times I just feel at right angles to reality, it's like discovering everyone else has got really into tiddlywinks or something

Jail time for people who stand on the left on tube escalators. Public stoning for people who walk at you looking at their phone. Stay tuned for more mad, unenforceable policy ideas aimed at minor daily irritations.

You know what? I'm starting to think it isn't just a few bad apples who slipped through Reform's "stringent vetting process" and that the party which proposes massively deportations, shooting unarmed civilians, ending the rule of law etc might attract racists. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Recognizing a bad faith plant in a town hall and politely but firmly gutting their gotcha like a fish is an underrated campaign skill.

"This is my sunbeam, go find your own"

What strikes me is how simultaneously biased and stupid this RW journalist is - failing to understand that the clip obviously proves *El-Sayed's* point about the inanity of religious bigotry (If the bigot's point was meant to be that El-Sayed supports a terrorist group, his denial is sufficient)

Farage won’t be replaced as Reform leader, if the past is anything to go by. Rather, Farage will replace Reform as the party he leads.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

The Morning Monty sleeps in.

Disabled people can now report media coverage that scapegoats and stigmatises them and contributes to the hostile environment many of them face in their daily lives, thanks to a new campaign. #InclusionLondon #DisabilityMediaAction www.disabilitynewsservice.com/new-campaign...

no offence but why is the British public being asked about my medical diagnosis, would it also like to check out my ankles and my elbows to decide whether I really have hypermobile joints, should I cough on them next time I have a cold so they can confirm that I'm ill

A rare moment of peace

Oh what a shock if only someone could have told them this was happening, if only

why is he always asking people to thank him

Sad. But at least she can go back to not being a lawyer.

That poor fella who was provoked into saying he wanted to bath his colleague as if she was his daughter, bloody rough on him...

Female Reform MP discovers that the party of 'it was better back in 1945/1955/1970' has regressive views on women. No sh1t Sherlock.

1) Same 2) Zoe is the first person I've seen refer to it as an incest comment rather than "sexism". But that was my instant reaction too. He's not just degrading her and being creepy, he's joking about a scenario of incestuous child abuse. That's not "banter", and it's not normal

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

If you can be "provoked" into saying/doing something racist, the chances are that you are, in fact, racist.

Europe:

A fellow member of the #HouseofLords expressed astonishment that I don't use so-called AI for research or speeches. I am astonished anyone does www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Ed Davey told the Commons in July what Reform activists were saying on doorsteps. Tonight, we saw ITV went undercover and got Reform councillors and candidates on tape.