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University Textbooks from the year 2076 on the 'Rise of Britain's Far Right' will have a little section on how 'Ex-Tories being absolute whores for a cash transfer' was an important factor in normalising extreme views.

Y'know if Labour people like Glasman, McSweeney, Embery and Woodcock took over Reform, I'm not sure you'd even be able to tell

the default key to use the light augmentation in deus ex is f12 which is also the stream screenshot key. so here's all of the times i used the flashlight in my last playthrough of deus ex

I mean, imagine for a second what kind of headlines we'd have seen if, say, Seamus Milne was caught on camera with, for eg, the IRA, talking about having people killed. Do we think it's not very clear and obvious what the reason for the disparity in coverage is, here?

You have to laugh at the sheer insanity of Turning Point UK being found to be organising literal contract killings and paid agitation at protests up and down the country and it barely even raises a flicker across the press. If that isn't 'terrorism' on some level I don't really know what is

Remember the centrists doing their little victory dance around this? Turns out that decades of indulging "legitimate concerns", punctuated by occasional bouts of tutting at the overt far right, does more to strengthen the far right than weaken it. Who could have guessed? (Many of us).

Ludicrous. Europe's centrists have (especially in France) pursued an active policy of bashing and blaming the left while simultaneously adopting large parts of the far-right's programme and ditching key liberal principles. You've been in power for years: the social and economic malaise is on you.

Cutting all this "red tape" seems to contradict a bit the government's view that AI is amazing and will reduce administrative burdens to a fraction of what they currently are www.ft.com/content/0a5c...

A reminder that Cofnas didn't appear ex nihilo

Exempting medium-sized companies from audits feels a bit reckless, to put it mildly www.ft.com/content/490c...

That's an odd game for children to play

It's this, and, it's also an overtly supremacist and eugenicist ideological turn. It is founded on the idea that life is supposed to crush the weak and that if you help people you're undermining society at large by preventing a natural process that would eliminate undesirable elements.

As far as I can tell no UK mainstream outlet has picked this up. Fair to say it would be very different if it was a left wing group linked to a hitman.

An absolute ransack of the climate. When ministers say this will 'help British energy consumers' or 'bring down bills', they are *lying*. This gas will be sold on the open European market, and will feather only the nests of fuel execs. Cynically delayed until after the H&St.P by-election too!

This is fine* *And remember, if you point out how far the world is falling behind on climate targets and that current clean energy progress whilst laudable isn't big or fast enough, then you're a typical left-wing misanthrope who just wants to complain

And there we go. I get that politics involves trade-offs, but this decision really couldn't be more opposed to what the New Economics Foundation was recommending when Miatta Fahnbulleh was its Chief Executive

Damn. "Contract Killers and the Far Right is an Al Jazeera Investigation that exposes the links between the right-wing student movement Turning Point UK which has organised and participated in anti-immigrant protests in the UK and an armed paramilitary who can arrange murders for money."

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

Lads, we used to joke that the politics of the Labour party boiled down to what went down well in Zone 2 dinner party chats & well. He just tweeted it out

Bringing up this one again in light of The Lads being shocked and appalled about what ITV unearthed Reform councillors saying, as if it's something new rather than something that's Noticed or not depending on political expediency

What mask?

‘Last night of the pogroms’

Just reminded myself I need to find the Radio 4 segment from sometime last week that tried to pin some of the blame on "gamer culture" (or words to that effect) for this Norwegian teenager who was arrested in Huddersfield for signing up to carry out a hit

This is the kind of policy that you'd expect, well, a mayor to come up with. He's giving the vibes of a football club's new manager who mainly signs players he's previously managed

closing the rape factories is collective punishment, which is against the geneva conventions you know

I knew The Lads were being weird with their unanimous disdain for "picky bits"

Alternative headline: 33% of Americans are full blown Nazis.

a 27 year old trans woman died after being refused entry to either the male or female cancer wards & made to wait for a (rare) side room www.translegalclinic.com/justice-for-...

And again, it's just sticking plasters. Burnhamism isn't fundamentally changing anything - it's just better TikToks and hoping that doing things like filling potholes and giving people £50 vouchers here and there is enough to see off Reform

Everything is gender as you can see by this graph we are spending more on effete social care than masculine warmongering, as such the tale of modern britain is that we’re girly and gay what do you say minister???

"And when I went to Wembley I saw 22 strong and healthy athletes running around for over an hour and a half whilst 90,000 people sat on their arses watching them and doing nothing. Really makes you think"