'legitimate concerns'

I keep procrastinating by reading articles on how to avoid procrastinating.

Men are afraid women will laugh at them. Women are afraid men will kill them.

Can't wait to read Liz Truss's new book.

Huge congratulations to Harry Kane on winning the Ballon d’Or. We’ll always be grateful for what he gave Spurs, both on and off the pitch. His support for Proud Lilywhites and the LGBTQI+ community has meant so much. He's One Of Our Own!

A bad week for Trump and co?

The only way Brexit was ever going to unite Remainers and Leavers was if it had been a runaway success. Ten years of division and decline is more than enough! Rejoining will be the success that reunites the country. If we dither then Brexit will continue to fester.

Bolsonaro's loss is not just a loss for Bolsonaro. It's a loss for Trump. For Musk. For Milei. For Netanyahu. For Farage. For Meta and Zuckerberg. For the meat barons, the fossil fuel corporations, and the rest of the neocolonial looters. And it is a massive win for humanity and the living planet.

Fascinating Jeremy, now tell us about the time you cut national insurance twice as an electoral game despite knowing we couldn't afford it.

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Britons should use money we haven't got to buy food the country doesn't grow, store it in homes that don't exist, in spare rooms that got taxed away, so we can survive when reservoirs nobody built run dry because of a climate the govt won't protect. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

64 Candles 🎂 today for the always brilliant BOB ODENKIRK

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Brian

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

That zoom out to nothing is diabolical work by the cameraman.

Modern life is rubbish

AI, AI, oh...💣💀

Excellent argument for use against dangerous Reform UK Islamophobic illogic via Simon Mathews

"ITV have done an internal investigation and the findings is that they did nothing illegal, now everybody must move on, that's how it works, doesn't it?" via Iain Iffy Fleming

Storm Austen is forecast to bring rain and wind to parts of the UK for several days. Or, if you live in North Wales, normal conditions for the time of year.

no their not

Approving the Jackdaw gas field solves none of our problems, while contributing to the existential crisis of climate breakdown. The government has privileged special interests above the general interest. It's a shameful, cowardly decision.

True!

So would I ... meme via Progressive Alliance Cornwall - against Reform

The reticence of people in the media and in politics over the decades to call Farage far right when we *all* knew it is part of the reason we’re in such a sorry state.

This needs to change, though I know how difficult it is to get the appropriate help. There is nothing 'strong' about hiding or bottling up your problems.

Farage says there’s no room for racism in his party. Is that in the same way there’s no room for another sardine in a tin of sardines?

Not only are Reform UK Ltd choc full of racists, homophobes, anti semites and misogynists…. They’re also choc full of pedophiles, sexual deviants, wife batterers and frausters. One Reform bloke looks at a woman and wishes he could have bath night with his kid again? Off the scale lowlifes.

It's really not going well

The idea that it's just a few bad apples in Reform is such bollocks. You get every impression that the whole fucking orchard needs to be condemned.

There’s too much caution about calling Farage and Reform racist. They have no such timidity when they threaten to strip us of our rights and protections, to mass deport people and kill them at sea. They routinely insult, perv, vilify and hate people. You don’t ‘nice’ that away. You call it out.

The trade unions resisting a political donations cap in the UK are ragged-trousered philanthropists. Thanks to their delusion that a system allowing limitless donations enhances their power, they're in danger of handing the country to the far-right parties that billionaires support. Burnham must act

What a fascinatingly mental idea. Music listeners don’t think like this

Cruel, pointless, impractical, and ultimately dangerous. The rooms in hospitals which will now be used to offload trans people are often required for clinical reasons ie to treat the immuno-compromised. This is the product of a country that has gone insane. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...