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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/liz-truss-kwasi-kwarteng-at-10-nhs-cancer-economy-b2601932.html Apparently Liz Truss was going to scrap cancer treatments on the NHS. (Of course thankfully she didn’t, as she was only prine minister for a month.)

I remember trying Starbucks when in the US back in 2000. I’d heard of it from American films. We didn’t have that chain or anything like that back then (at least not in Not-London). There was the novelty appeal. I wasn’t prepared for how highly caffeinated the coffee was. Made me twitchy and...

He’s starting to look the Emperor Palpatine…

Oh FFS. The whole excuse about the protests ‘actually’ being against the murder of several kids doesn’t wash given that 1.) misinformation about the assailant being a Muslim and an asylum seeker started immediately 2.) the protesters used racist, xenophobic slogans like “stop the boats”, “send...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3rdwx4yx12o Almost 35C in parts of Britain today. Hate to sound like an English version of Kup, but I remember when temperatures of 17.5C were considered a warm summer day…

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/aug/11/far-right-demonstrations-abandoned-amid-warnings-of-10-year-sentences Planned far-right protests never happened at the weekend due to a combination of widespread counterprotests, and judges throwing the book at convicted rioters.

TBH, I’m genuinely worried that the race riots in the UK (well, England and Northern Ireland) the last week were a dry run for something dark that could happen in November in the States; online far-right agitators were manipulated behind the scenes to trigger it all off, and I wouldn’t be...

Oh, given how racist and nationalistic the country has been these past eight years, I’ll take members of the public standing up en masse to race rioters over the alternative.

Space Wanker’s done it again and shared a faked ‘news’ story from the co-leader of a British neo-nazi group. Our new government needs to bite the bullet and just IP block Twitter. I don’t like governments enacting authoritarian moves like that, but given twitter was used to enflame violent...

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/07/thousands-of-anti-racism-protesters-take-to-streets-to-counter-far-right-rallies Thousands of people across Britain… Turned up to counter-protect, greatly outnumbering the racists.

https://news.sky.com/story/amp/seriously-elon-musk-criticised-over-totally-unjustified-remarks-about-uk-riots-13191820 He’s in “all lives matter” mode about the UK race riots now. Wondering how much this constant amplifying of disinformation to spread disorder is a dry run for November in the...

Space Wanker is now predicting that Britain will erupt into civil war. EDIT: The UK government officially condemned Space Wanker for this tweet. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/05/no-10-criticises-elon-musk-post-x-riots

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/tory-police-commissioner-blasted-saying-33391927? A police commissioner for Hampshire in England is more sympathetic to the far-right rioters currently burning and looting towns and cities across the UK than the victims of the disorder.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0jqjqxl3dyo Far-right riots have affected Stoke, Liverpool, Bristol, Hull, Manchester, Blackpool and Belfast.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/southport-far-right-protests-police-b2590232.html (alternative link) Britain’s erupting in far-right riots, in part because of jive-stirring by a certain MP.

That Vance guy... Had never heard of him before. The brief footage I've seen online, he comes across as Generic Alt-Right Weirdo, to be honest.

Remember two decades ago, when we (on both sides of the Atlantic) were warned about certain ethnic groups all being potential terrorists scheming to overthrow western civilisation? Imagine if any members of those ethnicities had openly called for violent revolution while holding an elected...

Getting vibes of when the Tories eased out various prime ministers during their last term of office, how it gets stirred up in the media for several weeks beforehand. Then suddenly happens. Feels very similar. From this side of the pond, anyway. (Also reminds me of Labour’s last time in...

Every time I see Trump with that wound dressing stuck to the side of his head, I think of Starscream as drawn by Jose Delbo…

We’ve already had Farage and various Tories on our news media earlier today ranting about “left wing extremism”. Whenever America sneezes, we catch a cold…