Chris

One for the flag-shaggers. youtube.com/watch?v=sRCL...

Full House. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cm...

“The smile was all teeth now” - paraphrase @stephenking.bsky.social

The achievement of Serbian students overthrowing Aleksandar Vučić can't be overstated. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and two months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.

🔥 OBAMA: “The thing is, Iran didn’t have nuclear weapons — because I put a deal in place he pulled out of… and the war he started is why the price of everything is UP… how much time do you think Hegseth spends looking at himself in the mirror? These are not serious people.”

NYPD arresting an ICE goon for trying to steal someone off the streets of NYC. RESPECT!!!

The immigration doom loop, summed up here by @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Welcome to the weekend everyone.

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Runaway AI poses a threat to us all. How humanity stays in control should be a priority for everyone Projection location: Slough, UK Narrated by @gavinesler.bsky.social

Seven Brides For Seven Brothers For Tax Purposes

I was on the telly.

🚨 "This is the first time the British state has openly recognised something accepted by other intelligence agencies in the US and Europe, that Brexit was a target of Putin’s disinformation warfare."

Exclusive: Do you remember the polling company Redfield and Wilton, which appeared from nowhere in early 2020, whose polls quickly appeared in lots of publications? The company’s director is a registered solicitor, prompting questions over where the polling expertise came from. Here’s the answer…

Wishing you and yours an absolutely amazing Indigenous People’s Day. 🪶✊🏾✨

Pollsters Redfield and Wilton, which have consistently produced some of the highest figures for Reform of any firm, employed a senior aide to Farage to oversee their political polling, without disclosing his role. A second Farage aide was also used to place exclusive polling by R+W in the press

The world has become a far smaller place and it's gonna be increasingly difficult for any one nation to dominate. Trump is isolating the US at every opportunity. His crowd of dumbass followers think they're indestructible and untouchable. They've got a rude awakening on the way in the next decade.

"The Russia hoax The Russia hoax The Russia hoax The Russia hoax The Russia hoax......." Hmmmm 🤔

Gotta say America, speaking from across the pond, this guy really knows how to nail it down.

This is a very long-winded way of saying "I don't understand what the word socialism means. I've never understood what the word socialism means."

For me, the main thing isn't the 'nasty' label, it's the fact that they have NO new ideas. They're still banging out that narrow ideology of low tax/low to no regulation/small state/trickle-down economics. They been talking this sh*t for decades, and look where we are!! They've got nothing to offer.

October 7. Three years since terrorists killed 1200 people, mostly civilians, and took 250 more hostage. They stormed a music festival, turning a celebration of love and connection into a nightmare. I wrote about Nova - what happened, and how to remember it www.newstatesman.com/culture/2026...

Holy shit.

Jewish families stood alongside Irish dockers, trade unionists and neighbours from across the community. More than 100,000 people filled the streets. On Cable Street, they built barricades from timber, paving stones and an overturned lorry. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFY4...

"Dear Diary, There were six by-elections in England and Scotland this week and Reform lost all of them. Two of them were seats we previously held. The problem with running councils is that people can see how useless we are."

In a nutshell..!

Bit late to this one. Lewis Goodall and Jon Sopel taking the 'don't you know who we are?' approach to interviewing Heidi Alexander. Check out this episode of The News Agents on Global Player - share-lbc.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...

Anyone who believes this bunch of con artists represents their interests is either a billionaire or seriously misinformed. leftfootforward.org/2026/09/outr...

NYC — Actresses Hannah Einbinder & Susan Sarandon arrested protesting Netanyahu

“It's about privilege. I don't even get to vet who moves in downstairs, let alone feel that I can dictate to gov't how it can use land it owns a mile away. Why do they think they get to dictate what happens on public property within miles-radius of their country living? It's not a reasonable ask.”

We shall grant Piddington independence. Then we will colonise it and civilise its inhabitants until they achieve the kind of maturity required to govern themselves inews.co.uk/opinion/pidd...

Byline Times has identified seven Reform councillors who are listed as members of the masked anti-migrant groups bylinetimes.com/2026/09/16/t...

🎵 Oh the times they are a chaaanging 🎵

The people of Piddington have spoken. I say, grant them independence. Border controls. Visas to cross into the UK. Tariffs on goods. No GBP. No NHS. No benefits or pensions. Let us know when your little lilywhite enclave has gone all Mad Max and you started eating each other. BUH-BYE!

In the movie version of this, after Piddington runs out of food water and money as a result of leaving the UK, the residents apply for asylum and end up housed in a military base, with HILARIOUS consequences. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is very powerful. In fact, I think I might try to re-post it every day. We're gonna have to start thinking about how we square up to the racists because soon, it might be too late. I wonder if Piddington's little referendum stunt would have received so much media attention if it was 'up north'.

You can have all the money in the world. All the power you've ever dreamed of. You can be surrounded at every turn by sycophants praising your every syllable. But you can't switch off that voice inside. And when you're broken and twisted and you've done terrible things it'll never stop haunting you.

Labour sending out fundraising emails off the back of the Harborne and Delo donations. Yes chaps, that’ll do it.

Riddle me this. If somebody donates £36 million to a political party and £5 million to its leader, how is the £5 million not political? Asking for a parliamentary standards commissioner.

I absolutely LOVE this. Christian Bale spent roughly 17 years fighting to make this happen. This week, his foster-care village opened in Palmdale, California: 12 homes built specifically to help keep siblings together when they enter foster care.

This German comedy sketch (with English subtitles) perfectly captures so much of what is going on right now in the UK, the US, and across Europe. "Playing the 'Nazi Card' in the Third Reich", by Browser Ballett.

Let's hope they make the right decision - the cruel killing of Gannets must be outlawed.

BREAKING: after the Tate brothers’ lawyer had to expose their wealth as fake to prove they’re not a flight risk, a judge has DENIED their release pending extradition anyhow. So now we know their fake rich and they have to stay in jail anyhow HAAAAHAHA www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Politico: "The latest Private Eye pulls various data together to suggest the Rachel Reeves agricultural inheritance tax changes might be having the intended impact: pushing tax-avoiders out of farmland and making it more affordable for real farmers." (Cont.)

I don't know who the fuck this lot think they are, but they've definitely all seen Fight Club WAY too many times.

The strategic position of the USA would’ve been immeasurably better if it had not started this ludicrous war with Iran and instead given the Patriot interceptors its wasted to Ukraine, to defend Ukr against Russia. What the USA has done, insanely, is strengthen China and Russia.

Men will send me emails like this and then go rampaging on the streets of Dover and Portsmouth claiming they want to keep refugees out in order to “PROTECT OUR WOMEN!” Not a single one of the young male refugees I’ve worked with has ever spoken to me with such violent misogyny.