Why, it's almost as if the political media class is a tiny incestuous clique who only ever speak to one another & are completely out of touch with the actual public. Arranging culture war deckchairs instead of tackling the icebergs of cost of living, NHS & climate crisis.

Here’s a far more useful idea than “whatever works”, one that will actually help you to understand what’s going on at any time rather than being stranded without a clue. (Drumroll) “Don’t focus on what they say, pay attention to what they *do*.”

We are hiring a bunch of management consultants

Feels like a pretty bad sign that the BBC are unquestioningly using the phrasing “gender ideology”, the loaded euphemistic language of the far-right and fascists to hide the fact that what they’re actually talking about is the existence of trans people. #BBCQT

Another normal morning on British tv.

Reminds me of sitting outside the White Hart in the Grassmarket with a beer on a sunny evening while a violinist played some nice sad song and a guy upstairs kept screaming “shut the fuck up” at her out of the window. A real Edinburgh festival experience for the tourists, there.

All the most horrible reactionaries in Britain love her, from the Labour right to the fascist far right.

actual video of a British person arriving in Heaven

The idea that Sir Keir’s handlers are shy, over cautious and overly benign toddlers scared to cause upset is hugely more flattering to the people who have enabled them to this point than the reality that they are deeply unpleasant, calculating, self-interested right wing psychos.

Seeing stories like this, in which a council has paid a private consultancy to help them resolve their contract with a second private firm they pay to run the leisure centres, libraries, museums etc, really just puts your head in your hands for you

I used to talk about how the Tories used to be enabled to play politics not on easy mode but on the level of those iPad games they make for babies and cats. Christ knows what all this stuff is, God mode maybe.