Englishman in New Jorts
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It's more pathetic than that. He lost a vote on renaming the LGB campaign to the LGBT campaign in like 2004 and has stayed mad about it for 21 years.
“funny” thing about Streeting going after neurodivergence and mental health issues next is that’s just doubling and tripling down on trans people really.
did he have a bad experience at uni, having to listen to a depressed trans girl talking about her special interest, is that what this is about.
did he have a bad experience at uni, having to listen to a depressed trans girl talking about her special interest, is that what this is about.
December 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
It's more pathetic than that. He lost a vote on renaming the LGB campaign to the LGBT campaign in like 2004 and has stayed mad about it for 21 years.
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It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
December 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
It is essential to remember that Sensible centrists got everything they wanted in the UK.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
The left smashed, their Competent Sensible politicians won by a landslide last year and have a huge majority and the policies they dreamed of implemented.
And the result is endless horror.
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Couldn’t really be more starkly apparent that the choice is now Billionaires or Democracy, IMO. We can have one or the other but not both, as this system is currently constituted.
December 4, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Couldn’t really be more starkly apparent that the choice is now Billionaires or Democracy, IMO. We can have one or the other but not both, as this system is currently constituted.
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If the entirety of your op/ed compares demographic changes in London to the Khmer Rouge's mass murder of millions of people, you are willingly engaged in stochastic terrorism, and should be held responsible for any and all violent actions committed by fascists against non-white people
December 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
If the entirety of your op/ed compares demographic changes in London to the Khmer Rouge's mass murder of millions of people, you are willingly engaged in stochastic terrorism, and should be held responsible for any and all violent actions committed by fascists against non-white people
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I wish this was an exaggeration, but it isn’t. They appear to have actively worked to block their purported allies being granted asylum, so they couldn’t be called to give evidence in Britain.
The British government and forces left their local translators and interpreters to be killed by the Taliban so they couldn't give evidence in any war-crimes trials
December 1, 2025 at 8:45 AM
I wish this was an exaggeration, but it isn’t. They appear to have actively worked to block their purported allies being granted asylum, so they couldn’t be called to give evidence in Britain.
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An article in which the Guardian pitches one euphemistic way after another to avoid acknowledging that the EHRC is a hot mess that’s no longer fit for anything in the vicinity of ‘human rights’. 1/3
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Impasse over EHRC single-sex spaces guidance ‘distracting from other issues’
Staff at human rights body said to be ‘desperate for regime change’ over inertia after court’s legal definition of a woman
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
An article in which the Guardian pitches one euphemistic way after another to avoid acknowledging that the EHRC is a hot mess that’s no longer fit for anything in the vicinity of ‘human rights’. 1/3
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
I spoke to a journalist who definitely isn't me about how improv has suddenly become good and cool open.substack.com/pub/saulprie...
Improv: how did it suddenly go from embarrassing rubbish to brilliant and cool?
Improv used to be a bad thing that only losers would like. It's now good, because celebrities and Americans are doing it
open.substack.com
November 28, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I spoke to a journalist who definitely isn't me about how improv has suddenly become good and cool open.substack.com/pub/saulprie...
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This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
November 27, 2025 at 1:09 PM
This house tax pretending is making me more insane than usual because as a renter I’ve had to move every 1-3 years just as standard because rents always rise. And no one cares. House owners get a tiny fraction of that precarity and suddenly it’s the worst thing that’s ever happened
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November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
While it feels like I'm repeatedly slamming my head against a brick wall repeating this massively simple concept. Saying "Reform would be worse" doesn't make what Labour is doing better. Labour is now the most anti-immigration, anti-any marginalised group, government we have seen in decades. 1/
Very long thread: As with many of Labour's anti-immigration policies, this isn't new. British police have been stationed in other countries for this purpose for a long time
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
It does however show how Labour is pushing more on anti-immigration than previous governments. 1/
www.lbc.co.uk/article/shab...
November 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
"Reform would be worse" is both entirely correct and entirely irrelevant until polling day 2029. What matters right now is that Labour's approach is morally repugnant on its own terms, *and is empowering Reform*. As things stand today, its not Labour or Reform. Its Labour *then* Reform.
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The feeling I felt watching was familiar but I couldn't place it for a few minutes....then I realised....I felt the way I feel when I'm at a party and Cards Against Humanity comes out.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
The feeling I felt watching was familiar but I couldn't place it for a few minutes....then I realised....I felt the way I feel when I'm at a party and Cards Against Humanity comes out.
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This will reduce the numbers of foreign students coming to the UK and simply leave a bigger hole in the higher education budget which the government will probably fix with higher student fees for the rest of us.
"reeves to unveil £600m raid on foreign student university fees"
keep going gang! one of these unhinged plans is bound to pay off eventually!! (does not pay off and everything is on fire)
keep going gang! one of these unhinged plans is bound to pay off eventually!! (does not pay off and everything is on fire)
November 24, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This will reduce the numbers of foreign students coming to the UK and simply leave a bigger hole in the higher education budget which the government will probably fix with higher student fees for the rest of us.
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Sometimes I surprise people by telling them the “EDF” in EDF energy who own 8 nuclear power stations means Électricité de France which is owned by the French government. So it’s acceptable for EDF customers to fund the French state but not for energy to be owned by the UK state.
Having Energy sold at cost would save the UK £1,000 per household and be a massive boon to the economy.
Instead you pay £30bn extra which goes almost entirely to people who don't live, pay tax or spend money in the UK.
Instead you pay £30bn extra which goes almost entirely to people who don't live, pay tax or spend money in the UK.
November 23, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Sometimes I surprise people by telling them the “EDF” in EDF energy who own 8 nuclear power stations means Électricité de France which is owned by the French government. So it’s acceptable for EDF customers to fund the French state but not for energy to be owned by the UK state.
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I've yet to get a hold of this book because I've just been ill and way too busy lately, but my assessment that we essentially had a violation of democracy occur that if it had happened in the Middle East or Latin America would have resulted in the country being turned into glass remains unchanged.
The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I've yet to get a hold of this book because I've just been ill and way too busy lately, but my assessment that we essentially had a violation of democracy occur that if it had happened in the Middle East or Latin America would have resulted in the country being turned into glass remains unchanged.
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These wackos thought they’d get one of their court cases over the line, and then Britain would rise up to salute them and enforce their demands. That hasn’t happened, for the obvious reason that Britain is not jam packed with vicious headbangers, so they now need to explain that to themselves.
This little transphobic rant by Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times really shows how pathetic gender critical ideology is. They play victimhood every day from the national media, while childishly insulting the existence of trans and non-binary individuals, calling any criticism of that 'silencing'.
November 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
These wackos thought they’d get one of their court cases over the line, and then Britain would rise up to salute them and enforce their demands. That hasn’t happened, for the obvious reason that Britain is not jam packed with vicious headbangers, so they now need to explain that to themselves.
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To say the entire press taking this utterly cynical, vexatious horseshit and ramping it up into national terror amounts to a big thumb on the scales of democracy significantly undersells just how serious this stuff is. It raises questions about whether we’re a democracy in any meaningful sense.
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
To say the entire press taking this utterly cynical, vexatious horseshit and ramping it up into national terror amounts to a big thumb on the scales of democracy significantly undersells just how serious this stuff is. It raises questions about whether we’re a democracy in any meaningful sense.
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The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
November 23, 2025 at 9:48 AM
The actual real explanation always turns out to be way more dumb and insulting than you imagined it was.
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I see that disagreeing with the findings of an official report is not in fact a career-ending affront and insult that means the speaker must be relentlessly hounded. Perhaps the rules have changed?
November 21, 2025 at 11:05 AM
I see that disagreeing with the findings of an official report is not in fact a career-ending affront and insult that means the speaker must be relentlessly hounded. Perhaps the rules have changed?
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Quite helpful to have one of Britain’s foremost fascist crackpots making this point, in a week where the national equality body put forth slapstick guidance on how the public must be policed in their use of toilets. Yes, it does look absolutely insane when it’s put like that, doesn’t it.
November 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Quite helpful to have one of Britain’s foremost fascist crackpots making this point, in a week where the national equality body put forth slapstick guidance on how the public must be policed in their use of toilets. Yes, it does look absolutely insane when it’s put like that, doesn’t it.
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My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
November 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My new favorite kind of meme is "here are detailed instructions on how to turn off AI". 🔨
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One of the skills he used to become PM was convincing commentators he had the skills to be PM, and given his failure to convince anyone of anything ever since, that can’t have been very difficult. Which seems like a wider problem for everyone tbh.
Articulates the problem facing Labour: Starmer has the skills to become PM but not to be PM; and there is no underlying strategy because the years in opposition were wasted. Difficult to see this being turned around before 2029 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Starmer’s squandering of a historic election victory is a tragedy nearing its finale | Rafael Behr
The tactics that gave Labour its huge majority in 2024 were no preparation for government – and the prime minister has proved he has nothing more to offer, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
One of the skills he used to become PM was convincing commentators he had the skills to be PM, and given his failure to convince anyone of anything ever since, that can’t have been very difficult. Which seems like a wider problem for everyone tbh.
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A key issue here: if the right are just destructive fascist wackos bent upon racist persecution and looting, then why did all these very important, clever people spend decades angrily demanding compromise with them, and insisting anti-migrant hate campaigns are not racist? Extremely awkward!
If you have to admit that Farage is a racist then you have to admit that a bunch of other people who shove his opinions onto the front pages every day are racist. And then you have to ask: "why did we let these people screech about the Hitlerian menace of the anti-racist left for 5 years?"
On Nigel Farage's racism, of course it is possible that someone can believe one thing when they're a teenager and something completely different when they're an adult.
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
But where is the evidence that has happened in this case?
Instead all of the evidence points in the complete opposite direction
November 19, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A key issue here: if the right are just destructive fascist wackos bent upon racist persecution and looting, then why did all these very important, clever people spend decades angrily demanding compromise with them, and insisting anti-migrant hate campaigns are not racist? Extremely awkward!
Check out no.6 on Starmer's pledges when he became Leader of the Labour Party.
"Defend migrants' rights" 💀
"Defend migrants' rights" 💀
November 17, 2025 at 2:01 PM