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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz6g85qp0p6o Country’s flat broke with hardly any economic growth, yet the whole of the political and business establishment aren’t allowed to say exactly what has caused nine years of economic misery.

Trump gutting social programmes relied upon by so many people in (poorer) red states… Reminds me of Starmer zealously gutting social assistance that voters of the “red wall” in the north of England use in large numbers. Same huge strategic error. Same disregard for large scale human suffering of...

Slight tangent, and I’m talking here about UK politics rather than the US, but as recently as 2017 we had a socially conservative Tory prime minister willing to legalise self ID. No one was really bothered about the issue other than a small, obscure, group of bigots. I’ve rarely seen a...

I wouldn’t even want to risk going there on a holiday or a business trip, to be honest. I’m a white British man with no criminal records or anything suspicious about me, so on paper shouldn’t have anything to worry about (other than the US’s high crime rate) , but the US government seems to be...

Personally I’d never vote for a “Corbyn Party” any more than I would Reform or UKIP or BNP, as in absolutely ******* never. I despise that hateful little man and his death cult.

The knife could’ve been spoils of war smuggled back after VE Day. That’s the least-worst explanation. :/ I mean I remember reading somewhere that the Walther P-38, the G1 Megatron gun, was often owned by American WWII veterans who’d taken them off living-impaired Nazi officers. (Thankfully my...

You ******* know that there are people in the GOP who wanted to call the place Alligator Auschwitz as a point of pride.

Advocating for universal healthcare and a minimum wage are left-wing extremism in the States, aren’t they? (I don’t mean that facetiously. It seems like the idea of a basic welfare state is extreme over there.) (And yes I don’t like actual left-wing extremists, like Trots, etc. They can be as...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/30/falling-birthrate-bridget-phillipson-education-secretary-labour Labour in April: “Britain is full! Keep out, dirty foreigners!” Labour in June: “breed for Britain, we’re dangerously under-populated!”

Orban is one of those centre-right politicians who’s ended up hard-right (if not full far-right). He was centre-right during his first stint as Hungarian prime minister in 1998. His party Fidesz has also gradually moved its European affiliation, from ELDR (liberals) to the EPP (centre-right) to...

Another recolour concept: SS86 Grimlock in Diaclone colours as pre-reformatting-in-BM T-Wrecks, Diaclone Slag as Triceradon, Diaclone Snarl as Dinobot Striker, and Swoop as mega-obscure character Ravenus. (Hang on, isn’t SS86 technically in Ravenus deco? Well, the Swoop redeco can be in G1...

Just arrived from Hasbro Pulse (UK). My girlfriend looked over and said “he’s not a jellyfish”, so I guess she’s picked up on stuff after twenty years together?

That “Israel, NO!” tweet, I mean, how much does that absolutely debase the entire office of the president? I mean, I have no words.

I’m old enough to remember when Al Gore was going to be the warmongering president, while GW Bush was touted as the peaceful non-interventionist.

Oh, I realise that. Just that looking at the figures, unfortunately the recorded homocide rates are still massively higher in the safer major American cities than even the sketchier European major cities.

Honestly, if I was American living in America, I could imagine myself owning a gun. For protection. Being an English man living in Britain, I’m unlikely to encounter a gun outside certain settings like an airport or a party conference,* but it’s a whole different situation in the States given...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/putin-ukraine-russia-war-peace-talks-b2774375.html Putin is such a wanker.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2z4rmyl0yo Ridiculously high temperatures expected this coming week in the UK. Not fun when our buildings are designed to insulate, have poor air flow, and air conditioning isn't widely found in buildings, well, except supermarkets or high-end offices. Just...

Magnificent!

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/06/17/ministry-of-justice-scraps-public-support-lgbt-diversity/ (Paywall-breaking link.) So, the government's abandoning what could be called that "DEI" (not that we call it that), with a particular focus on LGBT people. This 'Labour' government isn't...