The absolute cynic in me just feels like leaving the UK to burn. Honestly, I spent time, effort, energy, money trying to help and turn us away from this and you just told me I was part a CULT

As a clinical psychologist, may I contribute to this debate the 4 elements of a real apology? 1. Damage assessment. A real apology inventories the damage done. It’s not just, “I was late to BDS.” It’s also, “I led you to believe you wouldn’t need BDS, that Israel could reform itself and, worse, that there was a real antisemitism problem on the Labour Left.” It’s not just, “I wavered in my principled defence of Palestine and its national liberation struggle,” it’s also, “I’ve made it hard for you to trust my judgment going forward; I've made you wonder what my real motives were.” 2. What you did wrong. A real apology identifies what you actually did wrong. “I should have called the antisemitism smear campaign for what it was and defended its victims: Jackie Walker @Jackiew80333500, Chris Williamson, @DerbyChrisW, Ken Livingstone, Ken Loach, @AsaWinstanley and others who are welcome to contact me to let me know how I hurt them and give me a chance to apologize and atone.” “I should have denounced my liberal Zionism earlier.” Instead of saying, “I’m sorry if I offended anyone,” or, worse, "At the time Jeremy Corbyn was saying the same thing or less radical things," either identify what you did wrong or don’t apologize at all. This can lead to an agreement to disagree, or it can lead to understanding how you could have expressed yourself fully but differently, and then to a real apology. 3. Why you did wrong. A real apology identifies the actual reasons for your bad behavior. Maybe mention the pressure exerted by the liberal media, the JLM, the Momentum liberal Zionists, etc. You could also describe, from the inside, how hard it is to risk touching the third rail of Western politics and risk ostracism in the media, how everytime you spoke about Palestine you had to make sure the liberal Zionists would not come after you, etc. The next step, what will be different, will be convincing only to the extent that it is tied to the reasons you misbehaved. The more superficial or generic the explanation, the less effective the apology will be. 4. What’s different now. The relationship is not ready to move on until you’ve made some necessary changes, which address the reasons for your misconduct. “I’m going to remind myself my commitment is to Palestine liberation and not acceptance by the liberal class and liberal Zionists.” “I changed the way I’m looking at my role so I’m more willing to reflect critically on my past mistakes and illusion that all was well in occupied Palestine before the 1967 war. I now see the genocidal logic was baked into Zionism as an essentially settler-colonial project, so there is no room for any "liberal Zionism". Also, "I realize now that there are some people who actually want to use anti-semitism to divide and weaken the Left and weaken solidarity for the legitimate right of resistance of Palestinians, in whatever way they choose. This is why, regardless of what I may think about this or that movement and its ideology, I fully support all forms of Palestinian resistance.” Finally, offer to rewrite your presentation of Israel's history and the Left links to Zionism in any future editions of your book, as well as your account of antisemitism in Labour. I will post this in the comments to Owen's video. Let's see how long the comment lasts. With thanks to psychologytoday.com/us/blog/…

oh wow so florence pugh got diagnosed with pcos and endometriosis by a gynecologist in america and then she want back to her gynecologist in london and that gynecologist told flo that she couldn’t possibly have pcos bc she was only 27 and that she was making it up basically

the problem with the whole ‘listen to your body’ thing is my body is always telling me it’s a great time to get cozy in bed.

"how could this have happened," we cried from our vacation home while our kids were barely affording groceries

When I was in my early 20s, I went to court over a traffic ticket. It was the first time I had ever been in court. I watched the judge sentence people to jail for not paying the exorbitant court fees for minor infractions. When it was my turn, I told the judge that he was

A photographer I follow on Instagram has put together that his bronzer use amps up when he’s stressed / close to an election and is tied to his days in the rise of reality tv, and it’s fascinating (More screenshots in replies)

Ever since someone on here pointed out that cars get the cop treatment by media I haven’t been able to unsee it.

📢 BREAKING: The four ACTIVISTS who draped ex-PM Rishi Sunak's EMPTY Yorkshire mansion in black fabric to PROTEST NEW OIL AND GAS have had CHARGES of criminal damage DISMISSED.

In January 2025 Energy Prices are expected to go up at least another 3% in the UK. In France they will drop 10%, due to falling energy costs even though their bills are already 40% lower than ours. We are being ripped off.

7 years ago, we bought a plot of land on the US-Mexico border to stop racist billionaire Donald Trump’s dumb wall. But this year, an even richer, more racist billionaire—@ElonMusk—fucked that land with tractors and garbage, so we’re suing for $15 million. ElonOwesYou100Dollars.com

Robert Jenrick, who is the favourite to be the next Conservative party leader, received £75,000 from a firm which has no employees, has never made a profit and has £332,000 in debts after taking a loan from an untraceable British Virgin Islands company tortoisemedia.com/2024/09/20…

I slept on TikTok for YEARS but this is the funniest 11 seconds I’ve ever seen

sorry i can’t come tonight, i’m watching the rock paper scissors simulator season finale

🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer has officially lasted longer as PM than Liz Truss

Oh well, next public holiday is Christmas Day.

This is late capitalism. Every inch, every cent of value must be extracted before it all burns down. Humans are smart but yet so stupid. With every evolutionary step we wiped out those before us. Now, it's just us. Guess what we do next.

I feel like they're trying to do with "four-day week" what they did with "living wage" - take a leftist concept and change the definition to make it way less radical, while also making it harder for people to discuss the original proposition

If I come across anyone saying "The grown ups are in charge" I will lose them as follower. What is grown up on starving children, in making disabled folks live even more miserable, funding more on Trident and wars? Bye.