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But am I right that it was a ruling on a definition...not a ruling that required 'implementation'? And if so...he's a lawyer, so any misunderstanding will be wilful/convenient.
November 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
But am I right that it was a ruling on a definition...not a ruling that required 'implementation'? And if so...he's a lawyer, so any misunderstanding will be wilful/convenient.
Article doesn't mention whether her partner is still Reform's Richard Tice, who I'm sure would have a view on who the next Director General should be. 🤫
November 11, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Article doesn't mention whether her partner is still Reform's Richard Tice, who I'm sure would have a view on who the next Director General should be. 🤫
I feel as though you've been calling out Labour on this for a long time - I don't know how people have missed that?!
November 10, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I feel as though you've been calling out Labour on this for a long time - I don't know how people have missed that?!
And saying it's 'in response to' the 'Supreme Court Ruling' is weak. Nothing about that ruling makes this decision inevitable or necessary it just provides @cyclinguk.bsy.social with an excuse for transphobia, and I'm appalled they've taken it.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
And saying it's 'in response to' the 'Supreme Court Ruling' is weak. Nothing about that ruling makes this decision inevitable or necessary it just provides @cyclinguk.bsy.social with an excuse for transphobia, and I'm appalled they've taken it.
I'm wondering whether we can also talk in terms of 'billionaires will take less'. 'Pay more' can sound punitive - and while I'm absolutely for punitive measures for billionaires, the 'take less' message also highlights what absolute leaches they are, off the backs of the rest of us.
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I'm wondering whether we can also talk in terms of 'billionaires will take less'. 'Pay more' can sound punitive - and while I'm absolutely for punitive measures for billionaires, the 'take less' message also highlights what absolute leaches they are, off the backs of the rest of us.
Smacks of a piece written up against a deadline - 'I heard a former MP say 'vibes' and I got a whole [flimsy] article from it!' What a weird fluff piece, though, suggesting Labour are the only serious ones, poor things, making their 'tough decisions' while the rest of us just don't understand 🙄.
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Smacks of a piece written up against a deadline - 'I heard a former MP say 'vibes' and I got a whole [flimsy] article from it!' What a weird fluff piece, though, suggesting Labour are the only serious ones, poor things, making their 'tough decisions' while the rest of us just don't understand 🙄.
"...even patted me on the head - they do that there apparently, but nobody's ever seen him pat someone on the head quite like that - he said 'You're doing great, Sir, so much better than the last one' - he didn't even know Sleepy Joe's name..."
October 30, 2025 at 2:01 PM
"...even patted me on the head - they do that there apparently, but nobody's ever seen him pat someone on the head quite like that - he said 'You're doing great, Sir, so much better than the last one' - he didn't even know Sleepy Joe's name..."
I think if the Labour government were trying to make any constructive argument as to why the public is wrong in their misapprehension about asylum seekers living in hotel luxury, the Tory media would be having a field day with it. Labour just amplify the Reform narrative on this.
October 30, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I think if the Labour government were trying to make any constructive argument as to why the public is wrong in their misapprehension about asylum seekers living in hotel luxury, the Tory media would be having a field day with it. Labour just amplify the Reform narrative on this.
He might also try to develop a spine and explain that 'hotel' in this context doesn't mean room service and all-you-can-eat buffet. Conditions aren't great. I have seen no attempt by Labour to actually correct the mis-information that persists from the right, painting these places as luxury stays.
October 30, 2025 at 8:50 AM
He might also try to develop a spine and explain that 'hotel' in this context doesn't mean room service and all-you-can-eat buffet. Conditions aren't great. I have seen no attempt by Labour to actually correct the mis-information that persists from the right, painting these places as luxury stays.
'Speaking a different language' is just code for those things. They know what they're saying, they're just playing at finding ways to say the silent part out loud without saying it out loud. It's actually just as loud.
October 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
'Speaking a different language' is just code for those things. They know what they're saying, they're just playing at finding ways to say the silent part out loud without saying it out loud. It's actually just as loud.
That would be my preference too. In Vance's circles it may be 'acceptable' to feel that way, but by no measure does it seem 'reasonable'.
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
That would be my preference too. In Vance's circles it may be 'acceptable' to feel that way, but by no measure does it seem 'reasonable'.
@zarahsultana.bsky.social's expression there is all of us looking at that man.
October 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
@zarahsultana.bsky.social's expression there is all of us looking at that man.
I can't tell whether they're trolling Trump or trolling the USA with the crown/King thing.
October 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I can't tell whether they're trolling Trump or trolling the USA with the crown/King thing.
And no one asks, 'To quote you, you just said 'We didn't win' - can you tell us more about how that felt?' They just hear him say these things and they let them slide. It's crazy.
October 29, 2025 at 10:46 AM
And no one asks, 'To quote you, you just said 'We didn't win' - can you tell us more about how that felt?' They just hear him say these things and they let them slide. It's crazy.
You're absolutely right. There's such an unpleasant snideness in even a lot of the less bad media. They show themselves up in all their ugliness, at once pretending to be better than the Daily Mail, while at the same time cribbing off their playbook. 'The state of journalism' indeed :(
October 29, 2025 at 9:59 AM
You're absolutely right. There's such an unpleasant snideness in even a lot of the less bad media. They show themselves up in all their ugliness, at once pretending to be better than the Daily Mail, while at the same time cribbing off their playbook. 'The state of journalism' indeed :(
He's devoid of class, taste, decency, cultural or historical awareness or care. He's a shell, and he has form. The only things that make him tick are self-aggrandisement and money. The latter I guess because it's the only 'worth' that man has ever had. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
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October 21, 2025 at 12:48 PM
He's devoid of class, taste, decency, cultural or historical awareness or care. He's a shell, and he has form. The only things that make him tick are self-aggrandisement and money. The latter I guess because it's the only 'worth' that man has ever had. news.artnet.com/art-world/do...
To be fair to Clarkson, it must be exhausting for him to represent the peak of human physical perfection and have to endure the sheer ugliness of all around him.
October 20, 2025 at 10:40 AM
To be fair to Clarkson, it must be exhausting for him to represent the peak of human physical perfection and have to endure the sheer ugliness of all around him.
Nicely done. She's never been the sharpest pencil.
October 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Nicely done. She's never been the sharpest pencil.
I'm intrigued to know where he's 'exhibiting strong (...) neurological and physical performance'.
October 14, 2025 at 1:19 PM
I'm intrigued to know where he's 'exhibiting strong (...) neurological and physical performance'.
I mean, even with the mask he's pretty unpalatable!
October 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I mean, even with the mask he's pretty unpalatable!
I disagree with you. 'Worst' may be subjective, but I certainly don't have a short memory. And I consider there's a particular cruelty in Labour having convinced voters that they would protect them from the worst of what the Tories had planned, but to instead take those plans and run with them.
October 13, 2025 at 12:04 PM
I disagree with you. 'Worst' may be subjective, but I certainly don't have a short memory. And I consider there's a particular cruelty in Labour having convinced voters that they would protect them from the worst of what the Tories had planned, but to instead take those plans and run with them.
This government is one of the cruellest - of any party - I've seen in my lifetime, because they seem so shockingly comfortable using people as collateral in chasing the far right. The devastation and distress their casual knee-jerk pandering is causing is unforgiveable.
October 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This government is one of the cruellest - of any party - I've seen in my lifetime, because they seem so shockingly comfortable using people as collateral in chasing the far right. The devastation and distress their casual knee-jerk pandering is causing is unforgiveable.
Whenever I think I've seen the worst of what Labour has to show, me, they have something worse. They demonstrate the same level of callousness, cruelty and disregard for people that we saw for 14 years under the Tories. It feels worse from Labour, because they pretend they're something else.
October 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Whenever I think I've seen the worst of what Labour has to show, me, they have something worse. They demonstrate the same level of callousness, cruelty and disregard for people that we saw for 14 years under the Tories. It feels worse from Labour, because they pretend they're something else.