@paddykinsella
Writer, on the lookout for hidden trails, adventure tales & good ales. Gutter-based stargazer. Drum basher. Taekwondo try hard. Fan of books, bands, bikes, boats, boards, beaches, beers. Anti-fascist always. Antisocial when hungry. Political southpaw.⚒️🥋
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
The groundswell of anger against Katie Hopkins touring Britain like she's just some normal celebrity grows.
Well done to local people in Dorset who aren't taking it lying down.
www.change.org/p/katie-hopk...
Who the hell is this guy? And what does he want as a return on his £millions invested in Reform? Because it sure as shit isn’t a fairer, more progressive, equal and prosperous UK with good public services and well-regulated consumer protections.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Good piece👇
Reform fury as someone else wins by Our By-election Editor Tim Shipsink The losing candidate in the Gorton and Denton by-election, Matt Goodwhinge, has demanded an immediate re-run of the election on the grounds that he lost comprehensively to someone else. "It's totally unfair and rigged," said Goodwhinge. "I shouldn't be required to sit there and suck it up, just because I lost." Mr Goodwhine continued, *I can't believe that all those voters I demonised failed to back me. Especially after I was endorsed by Tommy Robinson and ten million Russian bots on X. "We have clear evidence of family voting, where people voted in order for me to stop deporting their families." Mr Badloser concluded. "I'm the victim of colour prejudice. They didn't vote for me simply because I'm not green." Reform leader Mr Farage, speaking from a sun lounger on a rock near the Chagos Islands said, "It's a tragedy that the people of Manchester won't see Matt in Westminster, but my constituents don't see me in Clacton either." PLUMBER DEFEATS MATT GOODWIN Photo of Hannah Spencer with speech bubble saying… I've stopped the cock
Beautiful from Private Eye on the massive toddler-tantrum that Matt Goodwin and Reform are having, because they got whooped in Gorton and Denton.
I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs
Just a random reminder that over 50 members of Congress collectively own millions of dollars in defense contractor stocks.
They stand to personally profit from wars that enrich these contractors.
Make no mistake, this is legalized corruption.
Watch how they vote this week.
Wonderful deflation figures here👇
And this despite all the fawning media treatment and filthy cash they get lavished upon them by self-interested elites.
Fuck the fash 👊
The government's immigration proposals are an obscenity: They needlessly punish refugees, make integration basically impossible, and introduce a sliding system of administrative abuse depending on how wealthy you are iandunt.substack.com/p/can-we-ext...
Reading reports of the obliteration of a girls’ elementary school in Iran, where at least 165 people (mostly children) were blown to bits during the recent US-Israel ‘precision’ bombing campaign, this piece by the Ukrainian poet Oksana Maksymchuk came to mind.
lot of love for the guy who thinks it's in Dorset
Did the Navy hospital boat make it to Greenland yet?
THIS.
They might as well call it Operation Tiny Penis. Pathetic.
Hilarious how Reform complain about people calling them racist and the moment they lose an election, they say too many brown people voted
Cover of The Lancet:
@thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
God, this story is utterly horrifying. What do these pricks tell their families about their day at work when they get home each day?
It was framed as a lot of things this election, including (legitimately) hope versus hate, but it was also grift versus graft, and more than anything Hannah’s win is down to her hard work. 👏
From plumber to Parliament: the Green Party's new MP www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
👇Very poor result for Matt Badloss*
*👏 @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com
And the Tories lost their deposit. A grand evening all round.
This sounds and looks ace - it’s on my list 📚
But, sadly, it is how the BBC now works.
Labour’s ‘preferred messaging’ that they’re the only party able to stop Reform also sounds idiotic when they’re desperately mimicking Reform on policy to try & lure back rightwing voters. People aren’t as stupid as Labour HQ thinks they are, but Labour HQ is far more stupid than we ever imagined.
The principled plumber throwing a spectacular spanner into the works of Reform and Blue Labour. 👏👊🫡
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obviously today is a huge embarrassment for Matt Goodwin and for Reform, which is something that we absolutely ought to celebrate, but we must also remember it's a huge embarrassment for Morgan McSweeney and Maurice Glasman and all the Blue Labour weirdos, and that's important to celebrate too :)
Well played team Green 💚👏.
Lovely and reassuring to see those Reform arsehats get comprehensively beaten.
It’s a proper psephological ear syringing session for Labour.
Are you listening now @labouk.bsky.social ?
If you wanted a litmus test for what the Trump administration truly stands for, then this is it.
An invitation for this little criminal tagweasel.
Flavor Flav here, saving America’s soul all by himself. 👇🏻✊🏼👏🏼
Cartoon by Nick Anderson