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Starmer warned cabinet against ‘overly deferential’ relations with devolved governments Leaked memo dates from shortly after Labour Senedd members raised alarm devolution is being rolled back

Can't be sure, but this sounds like pure McSweeneyism - UK government giving money to Welsh councils to fix bins ("delivery"), forgetting there is devolution, then going "Fuck! why do I have to listen to someone not in No 10! Tell them to fuck off! high five!"
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

11.03.2026 15:49 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

At some point do we reckon the government might stop wasting public money trying to ineffectually charge all and sundry with "terrorism"?

11.03.2026 14:17 👍 69 🔁 23 💬 4 📌 2
Labour
is killing trans people

Labour is killing trans people

Labour is killing trans people

Pass it on!!

11.03.2026 13:08 👍 260 🔁 128 💬 1 📌 4

Hoocoodanode?!

10.03.2026 12:10 👍 45 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
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Green win shows progressive voters are now voting against Labour as well as Reform Gorton and Denton byelection shatters Labour strategy of neglecting its core base while focusing on Reform defectors

Was it only the Labour Party that repeatedly and very belligerently insisted that this was excellent political strategy, and that the public would love it? And that this was so obviously correct, so clearly undeniable, that only stupid or crazy people would resist it.

10.03.2026 13:11 👍 109 🔁 22 💬 9 📌 0

hate this in general but also what is Labour doing to reopen women's shelters? what is Labour doing to make sure conviction rates for rapes start going up again? what is Labour doing to make sure women feel they can trust the police? what is Labour doing to stop sexual harassers?

25.02.2026 21:31 👍 589 🔁 128 💬 23 📌 6
Cclegraph
'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'

Cclegraph 'Cambridge has been infected by trans activism. We're launching a battle for women's rights'

Again, the business of British newspapers is in large part just recruiting and exploiting the most bizarre cranks you can find for your horrible, unrelenting reactionary projects. IIRC the one on the right here is the daughter of a Times arts columnist, who is also a committed Gender War wacko.

10.03.2026 12:36 👍 453 🔁 81 💬 32 📌 30

Saying you'd pass the test because you're "a proud Brit" who has "served the country" immediately tells me you know nothing about the test.

10.03.2026 12:59 👍 33 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0

The reviews searched over 12,000 references. They screened 547 full-text papers for inclusion. They included 17. That's a 96.9% exclusion rate at full text. 530 studies were relevant enough to survive initial screening, then rejected by the review criteria. 6/10 reviews found 0 included studies.

10.03.2026 10:57 👍 884 🔁 261 💬 4 📌 9

Burn it all down

10.03.2026 09:23 👍 59 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 0

OFCOM all over this like a sloth on diazepam wielding a feather duster

10.03.2026 09:07 👍 262 🔁 66 💬 7 📌 4
New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent.
The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

New MP Hannah Spencer was given a police escort after an anti-hate demonstration turned violent. The Green Party MP had made a speech at the Greater Together Manchester event on Sunday afternoon in Piccadilly Gardens.

I try very hard not to use the word Orwellian too much but it’s the best adjective for the mauling of language at the start of this BBC News report. “… an anti-hate demonstration that turned violent”. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

09.03.2026 20:10 👍 545 🔁 171 💬 21 📌 20

Mate they swept Jo Cox under a rug as quickly as possible, they don’t give a fuck.

09.03.2026 16:21 👍 120 🔁 21 💬 6 📌 1

Yet - the SEND reforms propose to dilute children & young people’s legal rights & make it harder to seek redress! Is Government just naive, incompetent or coldly calculated?

Whichever, the proposed reforms shift power away from children & families

Details & advice here
www.specialneedsjungle.com

09.03.2026 10:11 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason

09.03.2026 09:01 👍 565 🔁 310 💬 8 📌 5
A YouTube video thumbnail, depicting a British comedian Jimmy Carr in front of a chart of UK political parties, with a title that reads "Jimmy Carr: Why the Working Class Moved Right (And the Left Doesn't Get It)"

A YouTube video thumbnail, depicting a British comedian Jimmy Carr in front of a chart of UK political parties, with a title that reads "Jimmy Carr: Why the Working Class Moved Right (And the Left Doesn't Get It)"

Seeing this put me back in the hospital

09.03.2026 10:53 👍 110 🔁 5 💬 10 📌 15

Wes Streeting isn’t doing this for the Reform vote he’s doing it because he’s a deeply revolting right-wing piece of shit and questions should be asked about the role of his religion in it if we want to be real

09.03.2026 10:48 👍 448 🔁 111 💬 12 📌 2
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Nigel Farage is saying the by-election - which Reform was defeated 41% to 29% by Green Party (14,980 to 10,578) was "stolen". Not "fraud" but on Reform calculating the % of eligible voters born abroad: Farage says it is "shattering news" that naturalised citizens + Commonwealth nationals can vote

01.03.2026 07:40 👍 212 🔁 63 💬 44 📌 35

Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.

Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.

07.03.2026 11:20 👍 1538 🔁 495 💬 68 📌 26
To my surprise, the campaign also offered lessons in love. I gave a quote to a newspaper about my blossoming relationship with Eilidh Hargreaves, features director at Tatler, and how (unfortunately for her) we spent our first Valentine’s Day canvassing. The quote led to us trending on X thanks to some incel lefties who run an account called ‘Reform UK Exposed’. ‘The “Family, Community, Country” campaigner divorced only last month,’ it raged. Really? Eilidh and I met more than three years after my separation – at The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards no less. In any case, the attempted hit-job backfired as politicians and journalists rushed to our defence. ‘Ha ha!’ remarked one shrewd commentator. ‘Having an attractive and successful girlfriend will increase Goodwin’s popularity, you complete spanners.’ Indeed. I’ve tried and failed to forget another comment: ‘Goodwin is clearly punching

To my surprise, the campaign also offered lessons in love. I gave a quote to a newspaper about my blossoming relationship with Eilidh Hargreaves, features director at Tatler, and how (unfortunately for her) we spent our first Valentine’s Day canvassing. The quote led to us trending on X thanks to some incel lefties who run an account called ‘Reform UK Exposed’. ‘The “Family, Community, Country” campaigner divorced only last month,’ it raged. Really? Eilidh and I met more than three years after my separation – at The Spectator Parliamentarian of the Year Awards no less. In any case, the attempted hit-job backfired as politicians and journalists rushed to our defence. ‘Ha ha!’ remarked one shrewd commentator. ‘Having an attractive and successful girlfriend will increase Goodwin’s popularity, you complete spanners.’ Indeed. I’ve tried and failed to forget another comment: ‘Goodwin is clearly punching

After reading Matt Goodwin’s diary in The Spectator, I am more convinced than ever that he has a humiliation fetish.

06.03.2026 20:54 👍 133 🔁 23 💬 20 📌 13
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The idea the North Sea is some great goldmine waiting to be tapped is entirely at odds with reality.

07.03.2026 11:35 👍 369 🔁 121 💬 16 📌 6
a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period

a black and white British Rail poster titled "The argument for electrifying our railways, will become clearer in time." with four panels showing scenes from 1978, 1987, 1995 and 2005 with oil running out over that period

"The argument for electrifying our railways will become clearer in time."
British Rail, 1979.

07.03.2026 10:49 👍 648 🔁 177 💬 17 📌 15
07.03.2026 09:27 👍 41 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0

FUCK this shit

06.03.2026 18:26 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

A song dedicated to Darren Johnson.

06.03.2026 18:09 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

It’s like that by design, Chris.

06.03.2026 16:44 👍 121 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 0

He sexually harassed her until she killed herself by setting herself on fire

05.03.2026 03:16 👍 151 🔁 55 💬 3 📌 0

Shaming to the Met and all involved.

06.03.2026 15:34 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 0

Definitely one for @dimorphodons.bsky.social @bsrg1.bsky.social @phonicunderground.bsky.social

06.03.2026 14:14 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 3 📌 0