"It is not that one expects these guys to actually *like* Starmer: few of those who actually voted for him do. Nonetheless – when did denizens of the British right convince themselves that backing a foreign leader over their own countrymen was in any way patriotic?"
On "patriotic" "conservatives"
Photo of a cuneiform tablet fragment shaped a bit like an irregular diamond. It preserves nearly 20 incomplete lines of text separated by a horizontal ruling
There's a broken cuneiform tablet from the Old Babylonian period, nearly 4,000 years ago, which preserves a tiny portion of a dialogue between two friends.
It feels a bit like the conversations I've been having for the past week, so I wanted to share it.
This 18-year-old Afghan girl had offers from York and Reading – thanks to Shabana Mahmood, she will now never escape the Taliban | The Independent www.independent.co.uk/news/people/...
#BBCLaurak: Keir Starmer was concerned about the legality of Trump's actions
Tory war monger, Penny Mordaunt: "And this is the crux of it, Starmer is more interested in process than outcomes"
Mordaunt literally saying the PM should ignore international law, & LauraK doesn't even qn that position.
Enjoying every hour of the warm weather — and still can't believe we survived that winter. #russiaisaterroriststate
BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers.
This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight.
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Put Trump’s criticism of Starmer and other democratic leaders against his consistent syrupy praise for authoritarian, brutal leaders.
Starmer is in good company. Just remind yourself how Trump praises authoritarian antidemocratic leaders in this thread. It’s an eye opener 🧵 1/
Genuine questions: could these people be in the pay of the regime? And would that, to use language some of them favour, make them both ‘economic migrants’ *and* ‘welfare scroungers’?
🚨FBI Interviews of Epstein/Trump accuser.🚨 Read for yourself. Time to subpoena Trump. ⬇️
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Karen's claim that Jesus never "dialogued" with a devil is odd considering that in Matthew 4:1-11 Jesus famously dialogues with *the* devil. Is she sure she is a Christian? Does she find herself worshipping false prophets.
Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump gets life sentence for molesting 2 children
ffffuck i forgot about this
Reform UK has blocked another journalist from reporting on one of its events
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As revealed by my colleague @adambienkov.bsky.social last year, the BBC drew up a strategy to appeal more to Reform voters.
Might be waiting a while for them to do the same for Green voters...
South West Water admits criminal offence over Devon parasite outbreak.
Water unfit for human consumption, 150 people fell ill.
SWW already has nearly 200 criminal convictions. Licence not cancelled, no exec prosecuted, record high customer bills, sewage dumped in rivers.
Privatisation is a scam.
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
Michael de Adder, Counterpoint
One of my favourite sides of politics/media.
Of course. No one wanted this war. They wanted food and health care and energy prices to go down. Now all those things will cost more.
It's a war of folly by a doddering old man who likes when things blow up and needs to distract us from the child sex ring he's connected to.
Great. Now search the web to find out which of these scenarios occurred and give me your reaction 14:16 Let me search for each of these scenarios. Searched the web Searched the web Interesting — I caught a very notable detail in the Wikipedia article. Let me search for more on the Iran situation. Searched the web Searched the web That is extraordinary — scenario 2 literally just happened. Now let me check the remaining scenarios.
New research by the Impartiality project team (@stephencushion.bsky.social, @mattwalshjourno.bsky.social, @maxwellmodell.bsky.social & myself) tracked coverage of the Greens on BBC & ITV News at 10.
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#impartiality #GreenParty #GortonandDenton #byelection
OK, the Gorton and Denton by-election, I have some thoughts!
Let's take a look at some of the FACTS and burst a few of the more ridiculous takes doing the rounds
But first up, can we acknowledge just what bad losers Reform are?!🤣
Right, let's get started...
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“I am the son of the guy whose secret police force used to terrorize you, please install me or my friends, for democracy” is an amazing pitch from the shah’s son
Remember that this is a man who had the following to say after a school shooting in Iowa:
“It’s just horrible – so surprising to see it here. But we have to get over it. We have to move forward.”
People die and he just doesn’t care.
Labour must cease taking progressive voters for granted, says Sadiq Khan
In fact, the extract from the Home Secretary's comments suggests that her rationale is wholly dishonest - the settlement changes concern people who are here legally, not illegally
"How can you oppose war when Khamenei was evil?"
Simple. If you killed Donald Trump by nuking Washington DC, I would not mourn Trump but I'd still say you're an evil war criminal who belongs in the Hague. It's really not hard.
