I don’t know whether to laugh or cry reading this. Are they actively trying to blow the fucking bond market up? Gilt yields are already at post-2008 highs on the rumour of him alone. Triple lock and a tax cut for pensioners. Paid for by the young, who are taxed, frozen, and priced out of a home they will now never own. So we beggar two generations to gild one. We tax the cradle to subsidise the grave. And then we wonder why nobody is having children. What is wrong with these people? We were promised adults in the room.

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Do you reckon Theresa May had some non-evil equivalent to the JK Rowling black mould which turned her from a section 28 supporter to the most progressive PM on LGBT rights the UK has ever had?

My funemployment summer potentially starts next week so I am going to need this dungeon weather to improve *rapidly*. First time in my adult life I can sit in the park all week. Get. With. The. Programme.

Just get pissed in a park ffs stop trying to import yank nonsense

The USAID cuts are one of the worst things America has ever done in its history It could have even been a slow phase out to let non profits take its place. But instead, it was purposely chaotic. They purposely made the state of it ambiguous before suddenly pulling all funding

It means the end of the middle class. And, as a consequence, majoritarian democracy. In a sensible media landscape that’s a *centre right* argument.

But taxing wealth so normal people can afford to see a doctor and not go bankrupt over inhalers is radical left. OK

(The legendary) Stanley Tucci doing a UK food series as a follow up to two series on Italian food is a) incredible and b) funny. Yanks are about to deny what they're seeing harder than they deny election results.

[Greggs - one sausage roll remaining] "... And a sausage roll, please"

Musk as a trillionaire- anyone as a trillionaire- is a grotesque economic, moral and political problem. We cannot have individuals with that level of power, whatever they might have achieved.

The hospitality industry wants their VAT cut to 10%. It will cost £12bn Who benefits? ❌ The smallest most vulnerable businesses? Nope. 45% get nothing. ❌ Consumers? Nope - prices won't fall. ✅ Nearly half the cash goes straight to large chains. McDonald's gets £400m. 🧵:

To rubbish the UK. Classic Reform. They hate our country.

Thirty years apart, Salma Hayek still looks good posing with a snake

The fact that this was supposed to be a social critique of generic pop but instead the gays completely missed the point, made Netflix release it and then MADE IT CHART will forever make me laugh 😭

It’s like he lives on a completely different planet. One in which a nuclear power hasn’t been repeatedly threatening to wipe out our island for the last 4 years. Utterly divorced from reality.

The Left blames the rise of populism & race riots ~on false consciousness: "the media", Musk etc. sublimate (correct) anger at "austerity" or "capitalism" towards (incorrect) anger at migrants – that's the default progressive narrative. But boat crossings decades of mass low-skilled migration have become a symbol of state failure, systemic atrophy & broken political economy. If central government can't even stop 50k illegal undocumented arrivals/yr, then how can it be practically expected to "build socialism"? How can we create a "new economy" without weaning our low-waged, low-productivity services model off the import of cheap labour from abroad (which represents hard competition in wages, jobs, housing etc., esp. for people at the lower end of the income/wealth scale)? How can tens of thousands of British citizens suffer the indignity of homelessness while illegal migrants are put up in hotels/council properties/subsidised HMOs by local authorities with no £ to spend on non-discretionary services? There are 3 options now: A) The Labour government ( the wider Left) learn how to talk about these issues in a non-racialised, pragmatic way. Stop the boats, deport foreign criminals, and implement a system of managed, legal, mostly skilled migration based on the immediate needs of labour market & in line with a plan for domestic skills training housing provision. Frame the issues around fairness, control, security & ending free-for-all Deliveroo economics. Normie populism, not ethnic grievance B) A Reform/Reform-Tory coalition wins, plays on a kind of counter-woke politics of quasi-ethnonationalism, applies hard limits to immigration/stops the boats while imposing a private equity/hedge fund/crypto deregulatory bonanzo regime C) Nothing happens, boat crossings continue, social cohesion/the social contract continues to disintegrate & we come to expect the occasional pogrom every summer – the politics of Robinson/Restore gains startling ground...

RT @MayorofLondon: Complaining about nightlife when you *checks notes* choose to live in Soho is like living in South Kensington and compla…