Paul Lomax

Yeah, this is getting absurd. Zero scrutiny. BBC News broadcasts Reform UK speeches in full without interruptions www.thenational.scot/news/2667178...

Turn Downing Street into museum or flats, says Starmer’s cost of living tsar ft.trib.al/R1saNkc

If this is accurate, this is the entire case for nationalization of SpaceX and Starlink

This is fucked. Really bleak how entrenched this is becoming.

Wow, this is so good.

so restricting Ukraine's Starlink was Musk's idea, but after Moscow took advantage he became "alarmed about the possibility of adverse consumer reaction in Europe" to the "night of carnage" and denied responsibility I mean, it sounds like typical Elon

Next Feb I’ll be able to say this to 20-year-olds.

It’s simply not possible to do this and do what their voters want - people will still arrive and if you aren’t processing applications (see the IMA) you still need to house people before you deport them so it would mean hotels or large scale sites www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is *not* the result of "the success of Mahmood's reforms", but of earlier measures/other factors. Her proposals could make it considerably *worse* in future years. A few other points linked below.. archive.ph/0psJ8

Weren’t the people saying they weren’t terrorists relying on the fact they hadn’t committed or threatened to commit any of the specific actions under the Terrorism Act? Well… Four out of five of boxes ticked now. You may now proceed to proscribing Patriot Platform.

“Danny Tommo” should be done for attempted murder.

I thought all the betting shops on high streets were a sign of decline. Now it turns out it’s terrible if they close.

Somebody from Greenland / Denmark needs to explain what’s _actually_ been agreed, if anything.

I’ve come to realise that whilst AI makes dumb mistakes, so does the average person. And I fear the average person also ‘thinks’ as well as AI does. (Ie regurgitating half recalled things they’ve heard, with added randomness)

Most of the shit the US is dealing with is directly as a result of Trump not understanding words like asylum and deficit mean different things in different contexts…

I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.

“Book ‘em Lou - one count of being a bear, and one count of being an accessory to being a bear.”

It came of a Utd player’s toe so Haaland wasn’t offside. #manchesterderby

Based on the fact that this weekend one friend impulse purchased a second hand EV for £10k (she doesn’t know what make or model, it’s Chinese) & two other female friends have asked for advice on £10-15k second hand and new EVs (Dacia Spring etc), there’s a huge market for super cheap EV second cars.

Waiting for Donald to try and squeeze his name into it.

Crypto billionaire. Convicted in the US. Pardoned by Trump. Trashing our democracy by buying Reform. Does anyone think this is to improve our NHS, our schools, our public services…? Of course it fucking isn’t. It’s to make Ben Delo and Farage richer. That’s it. That’s all they care about.

Paging HMRC

Terrorism

In honor of Uber shutting down in Nigeria this week, here’s my favorite story about Uber in Nigeria.

90 years ago, Parliament responded to the rise of Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts by passing the Public Order Act, which banned political uniforms, private militias and the threat of force for political objects. The debates make very resonant reading today. Here's the Liberal Robert Bernays. (Short 🧵)

"It is hard not to draw the conclusion that the police and Home Office seem to be incapable of an appropriate response to the threat of far-right activity and violence."

It nevers tells you you're wrong just gets increasingly passive aggressive and sarcastic.

It even says inspired by Starship Troopers uniforms, which was a parody of fascism. So they’ve literally based it on a deliberately fascist uniform.

This needs nipping in the bud.

This might be my fault - I told them on Facebook they can “get in the sea”… Guess they took it literally! 🙃

Fundamentally, this should not have happened given that Tommo should have already been arrested for his part in the last stunt.

Posted this yesterday and since then we’ve had masked fascist thugs blocking roads with zero arrests and video footage of Reform pensioners assaulting a peaceful protestor with no immediate action.

"masked fascist paramilitary seizes port" just isn't the sort of thing the uk media would ever say, is it

They’ll likely all be wanted on domestic or sexual abuse charges, which is why they’ve covered their faces. Nonces to a man. Blackshirts, basically. Bussed in?

Nothing dictatorial about that at all

Zia Yusuf demanding a cabinet role whilst knowing he will never be selected, let alone elected, as an MP…

Having enough diesel to last 2.5 years doesn’t make sense when diesel has a shelf life of 6-12 months tops, and starts to degrade after just 28 days… You don’t want ‘gummy’ fuel.

Wait, he gets to go immediately but a family with a 7 year old and a pregnant mom who was trying to self deport is held for a month?

Make your favourite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: Two out-of-work actors go on holiday by mistake.

Shit, I think I’m the “previous generation” of which they speak. When did that happen?

Beating Reform here was no mean feat! (Thanks to Restore? Love to see it 😂)