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christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times

Just watched the BBC 10 O'clock news @bbcnewsunofficial.bsky.social Two stories - one on the Suffolk wildfire and another on the countrywide Welsh drought - with not a SINGLE mention of the climate Just beyond belief www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“AI will supercharge government”

From widespread racist violence, to attacks on places of worship and burning down homes and businesses of people of colour, our new Prime Minister is inheriting a country which is ripping at the seams.

Bridget Phillipson, reflecting on her years spent standing idly by while UK higher education crumbled into the abyss and tens of thousands of university workers implored her to do something, literally anything, to save their jobs: BUT WHAT ABOUT ME THO www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Daily Telegraph has raced through all five stages of climate denial this week. But this is, perhaps, the most ridiculous column so far: "Without minimising the severe downsides…especially on some poorer nations, many in Britain would enjoy the kind of warmer climate predicted by modellers..."

Meanwhile, look at the extreme discordance and dissonance of stories on this news page in the same edition...

Oldest trick in the book - privatization of profits, socialization of losses (while describing ‘socialism’ as the purest form of evil of course).

It’s not a slogan. It’s a cause. Abolishing slavery was a cause, and everything that’s written below about prison abolition was written about abolition of slavery. It’s good to have causes, if they are just.

I can't imagine a party running on a platform offering to ban or at least heavily tax second home owners or landlords would be unpopular Sure, second home owners and landlords are louder (and many would be in elite position and able to shape the agenda), but still... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

CW: rape US military bases in the UK are effectively acting as consequence-free rape centres. They should all be shut down. Why aren't the "protect our women and girls" crew storming these bases?

Has anyone conceptualised horseshoe theory? I can't seem to find anything which surprises me as it would be very useful!

Now expect self-congratulatory pats on their own backs from the mainstream elite claiming to have defeated the far right, missing that it was only popular by contradistinction thanks to their own actions, that Burnham has sent many bad signals in this respect and that its politics are now mainstream

Farage has said he thinks it’s “absolutely nuts” for CO2 to be considered a pollutant, while Badenoch says candidates aren’t welcome in the Conservative Party that support net zero. Leaders of the civilisational collapse cult.

The stranglehold the rightwing and far right have on our politics is absurd. Not a single policy or idea that benefits the country. A wild aversion to tax, immigration, NetZero, the EU.. trapping us in a dismal dead-end, unable to make progress for fear of the DailyMail demographic losing its shit.

These are designed to break people. This is what’s left of British democracy in 2026.

“A terrorist sentencing also means defendants’ serve at least two-thirds of their tariff in prison, much longer than is the norm. To obtain parole they must rescind their political views.”

What the guy who likes to march around dressed an SS officer? That guy??