I wrote a whole piece about how dire the media landscape was in the 2000s, and how everything became an apologia for the police state:
www.typebarmagazine.com/2024/05/29/nostalgia-ends-here-the-2000s-sucked-actually/
That, as they say, is how you do it.
Time is the main bit that was missing for me. Pointless to compare the attitudes of 20-somethings and 70-somethings now. What were boomers' attitudes 50 years ago?
Well I hate to imagine what a *worse* political strategist would do to the polling.
Awks.
Sparing a thought for all the parents who remembered at half past eight this morning that its World Book Day.
Oh no, it's a... Farage
'Men in their 20s are fucking eejits' headline aside, what a dumb survey.
Of course fewer boomers believe this now - they've had 50 years of experience with women.
The comparison should surely be 'what did boomers believe when they were eejits in their 20s?'.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Oh now I get it. Dubai is Golgafrinchan Ark B.
Mine was more Secret Seven than Mallory Towers, but otherwise almost identical. Is it an Irish thing, I wonder?
In fact, the first thing I remember writing was a terrible knock-off of a Three Investigators story. I loved those books so much.
This is nothing. Just send Mahmood out again to announce some more anti-refugee policies and you can easily find your way to fifth place.
The Luvvie Spoonful
Screen grab from FT: Trump 'very disappointed' in Starmer's stance on Iran strikes US president says prime minister 'took far too long' to allow UK bases to be used for strikes Image shows B-1 bomber taking off from Diego Garcia
Britain knew this once, but despite all the flag-waving, 'history' podcasts and Spitfire flypasts, it has forgotten the lesson:
Nothing will ever be enough for fascists.
"A mensch": an honuorable, decent, and upstanding individual.
"A Louise Mensch": an almost forgotten type of nutjob who texts the Pope to complain that his anti-war stance is woke.
Neil Patrick Harris in Starship Troopers?
We just have to hope she never gets Starkiller Base operational www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
a less affluent suburb of manchester just elected a plumber & those who insist we listen to the working class are furious
turns out it doesn't count if you're pro-trans & pro-immigration
As an academic born and raised in Denmark who researches and writes about Danish politics, I can confidently say that Cowley has no idea what he’s talking about. The piece is full of factual errors and falsehoods
Denmark has *far* worse outcomes - economic, social and integration - than the UK.
Just a fantasyland for those who want an excuse for their own xenophobia and/or are incapable of doing the hard work of confronting the UK's real problems.
www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
The Telegraph Tom Sharpe Ireland’s freeloading on the Royal Navy has plumbed new depths. It must stop We don’t have enough resources to look after ourselves properly – let alone carry the Irish
They're are at it again, lads.
Next they'll need Irish waters for their defence, need to stop craic traffickers and want to mine for Kerrygold.
Maybe we can lease some Martello towers back to ye, Tom, eh?
But a party source said Mahmood would not learn “the wrong lessons” from the byelection. “The idea that we are losing Muslim voters over immigration is plain wrong,” a party source said.
True. For example, Labour has lost my vote over immigration and I'm not a Muslim.
SS-GB News?
The Man in the Reich Asshole?
What am I saying? The Tories were 50 votes from a *fifth-place* finish
the Greens keep saying the kinds of things that people who vote Labour agree with and Labour keep calling it dangerous extremism, and I’m not sure you could plan a better voter alienation strategy
The current argument of the British right is that Muslims turned out in "blocs" with "family voting" to cast their ballots for a party led by a gay Jewish man, and this shows that multiculturalism has failed, voting is "sectarian" and we are in a crisis.
Hmmmmmm.
