Toby Starbuck @StarbuckToby

@HoodedReptilian @Mar_Musa This style of hyperbolic 80s advertising was widely parodied when it aired in Britain at the time. That said, this ad from 2025 is very much in the same vein, with a stylistic update, and somewhat broader demographic representation. Problem? youtube.com/watch?v=9Erhtq…

Right-wingers thinking an ad for a razor is some profound civilizational statement and taking it as a foundational text is so self-parodic as to feel made-up but in reality they post it again and again with the same rapture of discovery and nostalgia It's sad, frankly

Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern

3 days ago

Right wing propaganda… but it’s literally just a random commercial from the 80’s.

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@Trevorbean79 @PhilipProudfoot You are too young to be senile.

All-time classic sentence.

It truly beggars belief Burnham’s policy is being ‘drawn up’ by the former head of Labour Together, a faction so toxic and right wing, it effectively destroyed Starmer’s government.

Steven Swinford @Steven_Swinford

24 hours ago

Times weekend read: * Andy Burnham may be at his most powerful - no Cabinet positions announced, 'North Korean' levels of support among Labour MPs - but there are already tensions and jockeying for position among his most loyal allies * Such is the speed of coronation that

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I hesitated to comment on Ann Widdecombe’s death because, for most of my life, she seemed less like a genuine political threat than a national eccentric: a crank with enough wit, media savvy and ballroom exposure to turn reactionary politics into a marketable personality. Tory elders adored her precisely because she was a wingnut. The party establishment had enough residual sense to keep her away from its highest offices and never elevate her to the Lords. She could be wheeled out to harrumph about civilisation without being permitted to redesign it. None of that remotely justifies her apparent murder. She was found dead in her own home. Whatever the eventual facts, nobody should meet a violent end alone and frightened. You can’t really call that justice. It is not politics. It is barbarism. But being appalled by her death does not require us to perform a posthumous lobotomy on her politics. A Britain remade according to Anne Widdecombe’s wishes would have resembled a clerical-fascist state concealed beneath parliamentary procedure, Christian morality and the tasteful antimacassars of respectable Middle England. She opposed abortion rights, LGBT equality and the human-rights protections restraining state power. She supported capital punishment, mass detention of asylum seekers and a criminal-justice system built around punishment, humiliation and fear. She did not want to set human rights back by a few regrettable decades. She wanted to reverse the foundational principle that adults possess individual rights which do not depend upon Anne Widdecombe approving of their lives. All the people now presenting her as some great trailblazer for women might take five bloody minutes to examine what she actually wanted women to be permitted to do with their bodies, relationships and futures. She was not a misunderstood feminist revolutionary. She was not a harmless old eccentric who occasionally became overexcited about Brussels. She was a profoundly authoritarian moralist whose immense personal confidence convinced her that her religion, disgust and prejudices should become everybody else’s legal obligations. The eccentricity was the camouflage. The politics underneath it were vicious. She was essentially Aunt Lydia with a novelty television career, except without the redemption arc. A woman convinced that repression became compassion when administered briskly, in sensible shoes, for your own good. Condemn her killing completely. But spare me the canonisation. Death deserves dignity. It does not confer innocence.

Matthew Stadlen @MatthewStadlen

2 days ago

Here’s Ann Widdecombe in five minutes on seizing the day, religion, converting to Catholicism, the afterlife, her favourite poet, holding true to her political views, pantomime, Strictly, trying to do the right thing, and what sort of Prime Minister she’d have made. RIP.

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@andyburnham is a coward. He apologised for the position this Labour Government has taken on Palestine but He won’t call it a Genocide, he hides behind international law. He won’t commit to Sanctioning Israel. He won’t commit the British government to stop sharing intelligence and resources with Israel and he won’t commit the RAF To stop doing spy flights over Gaza. What he forgets is the minute you suspect a genocide we have an obligation to take steps and save lives. Just like he forgets that Greater Manchester doesn’t just mean growth in the centre but for every community that feels left behind, like Wigan, like Rochdale, like Bolton. All our communities should to be protected. That’s why we need @greenpartygeraldine and that’s the difference she will make.

Great to see how well the new report into rent controls has landed! It saves renters money and it saves Govenrment money. And some of that money should be used on building new social housing stock, too! Win/win all around! 🙌🏽

The Green Party @TheGreenParty

2 days ago

Rent controls would save households up to £2,400 a year and the Government £2 billion a year. It's a no-brainer. But only the Green Party has a policy to introduce them.

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@EdgarHolroyd @annettedittert @carolecadwalla Get a grip, Edgar.

@DavidJABell21 @BladeoftheS Name the “Green MPs”. Afaik only Ramsay, who has a shared property with an ex that they are trying to offload.

@ShitpostRock @01_Crimson_01 Disgust is an evolved response that protects us from disease. It’s why we don’t eat our own shit or fuck our siblings either. (Maybe you do. I don’t know, in fairness.)

@fesshole You can’t “decapitate” limbs.

This looks exceptionally bad, but remember: you could’ve picked up a newspaper at random off the stand most days in the last decade and found the left being described in it as a moral rot, a virus and a cancer, all of which had to be various rooted out, excised and expunged.

Dr. Jane Clare Jones @janeclarejones

2 days ago

If you don’t recognise why this kind of talk is fascistic I really can’t fucking help you.

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Burnham talks as if the genocide in Gaza is in the past, but it's happening NOW. Britain is arming Israel NOW. This UN report is from two weeks ago. Burnham must commit to fully ending UK complicity NOW.

Many partners of deputy directors of communications at the Foreign Office are saying this.

Pippa Crerar @PippaCrerar

3 days ago

MY ANALYSIS: Andy Burnham’s apology over Gaza marks a ‘reset moment’ as Labour seeks to win back progressive voters theguardian.com/politics/2026/…

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@flying_rodent "What am I? Chopped liver?" - Benjamin Disraeli

@WitchfinderG0 @LBC You wish. My lot are in the Domesday book. Muting you now. Don't want to waste my Saturday chatting to a dickhead. xx

Why has this man not been sacked?

Megatron @Megatron_ron

4 months ago

NEW: 🇺🇸The head of NATO Mark Rutte "NATO is a platform for the United States to project power on the world stage."

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@freespeechmarty @JeremyVineOn5 Get a grip, Martyn. And please, pleeeeease learn what words mean before you use them.

@THFCSJP @LeftieStats @Dontmesswosint That's the rule now is it? We own everything that we got to first? Muting you now for my own sanity.