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- Comment on Leak from secret UK meeting on US attacks on Iran an ‘absolute travesty’, says Lammy 15 hours ago:
Keir Starmer suggested allowing the US to use the bases to carry out defensive strikes against Iranian targets at the meeting last Friday but was met with opposition from Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper and Shabana Mahmood
Shows you the power one single minister, albeit the Prime minister wields over the cabinet. Of 8 members, 4 opposed aiding an illegal war and yet it happened anyway. Such a shit system of governance for an entire nation of 65 million people.
- Comment on It's all SO simple! 19 hours ago:
Y use mny ltrs wen few ltrs do trik?
- Comment on The three archetypes 1 day ago:
- Comment on They seemed nice and normal until.... 2 days ago:
Another casting with unique eyes is Eyegor from Young Frankenstein
- Comment on Most Reform UK members believe non-white British citizens should be forced or encouraged to leave, poll finds 3 days ago:
Racist fascists are racist fascists, poll finds.
- Comment on ..? 5 days ago:
“Tankie” is just a derogatory term for anyone to the left of the person saying it
anarchists will use it for almost literally anyone
Great logic. Almost as if you’re speaking shite, unless anarchists are on the right now…
- Comment on Arrest after Churchill statue defaced with graffiti 6 days ago:
A bigoted tangent.
What does the length of someone’s hair have to do with anything?
If we wish to normalise self expression we need to self express. If everybody becomes short haired shirt wearing drones then any expression of individuality becomes deemed even more extreme than it already is.
I understand the point of vandalising a statue of a highly regarded politician and “war hero” not achieving much but garnering public ire, but the point of people dressing and wearing their hair as they please just screams intolerant judgemental arsehole.
- Comment on Riddle 1 week ago:
Exactly. How else are you meant to “catch 'em all!”? It’s a Sisyphean task otherwise
- Comment on Royal Mail bosses to be called to Parliament over letter delivery failures 1 week ago:
They’re a private company now, no?
If the government want a prioritised letter service they should provide a publicly funded prioritised letter service.
Call it People’s Mail to distinguish it from the stain of royalty and provide a much better service than Royal Mail can offer.
But that assumes that New Labour are a) competent b) care about public services for the good of the average person. Neither of which assumptions stand up to scrutiny.
- Comment on Met apologises to Commons speaker for sharing tipoff with Mandelson’s lawyers 1 week ago:
Senior Scotland Yard officers were meeting Hoyle in person on Wednesday afternoon to explain their error, which is regarded internally as a serious breach of protocol.
An official custody document shared with Mandelson’s lawyers is understood to have referred to the Lords speaker as the source of the information – a mistaken reference to Hoyle, the Commons speaker.
After the Lords speaker, Michael Forsyth, said it was “entirely false and without foundation” to say he had tipped off police, Hoyle went public with the fact it was him.
Incompetence on top of incompetence. The Met are really putting their best and brightest on this case.
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- Comment on People living in UK’s poorest areas have less diverse gut bacteria, study finds 1 week ago:
The killing of kids with £2 chicken and chips
Is a tactic of war, waged on the poor
Can’t save wages on slave wages
And you don’t think fresh fruit with your face on the floor
Nah, you need money for the kids
Rent and light plus food in the fridge
But that last box can be the hardest tick
Cos scraps will suffice but they might make you sick - Comment on Nottingham killer was not sectioned because of his race, inquiry told 1 week ago:
Calocane, who was a student at University of Nottingham at the time, later had a mental health assessment where he described hearing voices. The assessment concluded Calocane was dealing with a first episode of psychosis, which was attributed to sleep deprivation and exam-related stress.
Langdale said a doctor involved in the assessment had been “leaning towards” sectioning Calocane due to it being his “first presentation of psychosis” and a lack of information about his risk history. However, a team of mental health professionals considered research evidence that examined the over-representation of young black men in detention.
It’s shit like this that gives the racists ammo.
I’m not a medical expert by any stretch of the imagination, so I may be talking out my arse here, but it sounds like unless it’s explicitly pertinent to the assessment the team shouldn’t be made aware of the ethnicity of the person they’re assessing. So they can neither positively or negatively discriminate.
- Comment on BBC sorry for airing racial slur shouted by guest with Tourette's at Baftas 1 week ago:
BBC are about as genuinely sorry as BP were after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill
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- Comment on Scottish government deletes data from school 'sex survey' 1 week ago:
Moral panic over information that aids local doctors and government strategy.
I’m pretty certain I was asked similar in my day as well, although it was a while ago so hard to remember.
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 1 week ago:
failed to load media 🥲
The full length video (4:20 one) appears to be broken on their website. Anyone got a copy?
The rest load fine (30 and 15s ones).
- Comment on Banned Mullvad VPN TV ad criticizing United Kingdom escalating censorship and mass surveillance “And Then?” 1 week ago:
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- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 1 week ago:
I have books in languages I don’t or barely understand, some in topics I know fuck all about. Does that disbar me from being the nationality that I am?
Is this an American comment that I’m too European to understand?
Like… wtf, people can’t own books in other languages now?
Who’s to say he doesn’t know Polish? Who’s to say it’s even his and not a family member’s?
This is such an arbitrary and meaningless detail to pick up on in an attempt to disprove the legitimacy of a photograph of a guy who looks very likely to be Gottfrid, that it reeks of anti intellectualism.
- Comment on Statistics chief complains to BBC over impersonation of staff in hit drama Industry 2 weeks ago:
This reads like an idiot that can’t discern between fact and fiction…
Similar to this story: theguardian.com/…/play-fascism-violent-scenes-ger…
The whole point is it’s fraudsters at the door, and specifically not the ONS. It’s telling about the nature of their work that the head of the ONS is unable to make that distinction and fears the erosion of “delicate” public trust. Maybe it’s delicate for a reason.
- Comment on Local reporter ‘shocked’ over picture of his face on punchbag at UK town hall 2 weeks ago:
The council went under no overall control in May 2025, after being controlled by the Conservative Party since 2000.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltshire_Council
I wonder where the child-like bullying brainrot mentality set in from…
- Comment on 'Just push us into the sea': The frustration of an area failed by politics 2 weeks ago:
Oh no! Smells!
Won’t somebody please think of the children’s olfactory receptors!
- Comment on Do not give away Diego Garcia, Trump tells UK 2 weeks ago:
What does Thedogdrinkscoffee tell Trump?
- Comment on Suicide rates for UK men are a ‘national catastrophe’, says Prince William 2 weeks ago:
Almost as if economic inequality and social hierarchy, which he promotes and benefits from, are major contributing factors to the problem…
Fucking hypocritical toff trying to play the philanthropist to improve the royal image in the wake of the Andrew/Epstein scandal. Sod off, unless he’s calling for major constitutional and economic change this is nothing but virtue signalling.
Instead, he’s asking that we get educated and do some introspection, as if the average person has the time, energy, and privilege (like he did) to do that at the same time as working their 9-5 and potentially raising kids. Boo fucking hoo that he’s had some sad feelings while millions suffer due to the inequality his family helps to prop up.
- Comment on ‘Quite frankly, we have nothing to lose’: how the UK is going weird for its 2026 Eurovision entry 2 weeks ago:
Except your morals by happily playing alongside a genocidal regime
- Comment on Brushing fraud: Britons told to beware of mystery parcels as new scam soars 2 weeks ago:
A source if anybody else missed this news and is curious:
- Comment on Darwin was a real one. 2 weeks ago:
And yet, you write. Curious.
I have a timed close-book exam today so I am of course 1 Oct 1861
- Comment on Families in New York City demonstrated against a proposal to allow cars in a local park. A politician showed up in a car to mock them 3 weeks ago:
which has racked up 38 speeding and red light tickets since 2017
That’s 4.2 tickets every single year.
First of all, how is running a red light just a ticket?
Second of all, why has her licence not been revoked with that many tickets?
America is a weird fucking country.
- Comment on Former senior aide to Keir Starmer loses whip over friendship with sex offender 3 weeks ago:
Oh I see you’re a security guard at Elbit Systems
- Comment on [Opinion] The fall of Mandelson and McSweeney proves Corbyn was right 3 weeks ago:
Today, only former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn emerges from the scandal as vindicated by his principled stance opposing New Labour’s support for US imperial wars and corporate influence.
But the record is clear: throughout the two-year genocide Streeting loyally stuck with Starmer’s policy of maintaining the alliance with Israel, avoiding serious action over its crimes, offering military and diplomatic support, while making performative criticism to distance Labour from the horrors committed by its ally in Gaza.
Numerous MoD officials had recently joined Palantir - and pressure is mounting on ministers over what looks like state capture by a Trump- and Israel-linked US surveillance firm.
The project built by McSweeney around Starmer, aided by his mentor Mandelson, was brittle, authoritarian, factional and paranoid, as well as sexist and racist.
It cared nothing for the victims, be they trafficked women and children, or the Palestinian men, women and children of Gaza. It suspended black and Muslim female MPs for the slightest infraction.
But… But… But I have been repeatedly told that Labour are pro-worker and lefty liberal loonies! Even by Lemmy members who have signed up to servers that promote anarchism. Have I been lied to? Could it be that the pro- capitalism neo-liberals aren’t in fact left wing at all?
I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
Next you’ll be telling me that all they really care about is wealth and power.
