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Protesters against the monarchy have been using blank banners to avoid being arrested, but are still being arrested. Because it’s Britain, where we’re living in a slightly less authoritarian dystopia than Putin’s Russia.

Anti-monarchy protesters are now using blank banners to stop themselves getting arrested… And are still getting harassed and arrested by the police.

First move as king? Fire 100 of his staff with no warning. Nice.

First move as king? Fire up to 100 of his staff with no warning. Nice man!1

Can’t even go out to the shops in this country without encountering bizarre scene like this.

Change of plan, we’re getting a bank holiday after all! (No,I don’t know why we call our national holidays that either.)

Any shop, business, public space or transport in Britain with an electronic screen currently has an imagine like this on…

(I don’t think this is technically true, given stamp sets are printed many months in advance, but…)

Imagine if the Queen’s last official act turns out to have been swearing in Liz Truss as prime minister.

I think the future of US politics for the foreseeable is basically what we have now, the Republican Party as far-right, and the Democratic Party as a catch-all party for everyone to the left of the GOP.

The significant majority of his supporters, realistically.

IMO there needs to be a Europe-wide Manhattan Project for renewables (I’m not anti-nuclear at all, I just realise it takes a long time, years, to get new nuclear power plants into operation). In the meantime, any European country who were aiming to shut down existing nuclear plants should really...

This had better not lead to the British government building a spaceship and attempting to plunder another planet of its energy resources…

The next prime minister, everyone.

The New Statesman was also the name of a sitcom about fictional evil Tory politician Alan B’Stard, as played by Rik Mayall. Although to be accurate, that evil politician character would probably be a milquetoast centrist when compared to today’s GOP style Tories.

The boss of the main transport workers’ union, who recently became a left-wing folk hero, turns out to be a Putin apologist Tankie who blames the EU for ‘bullying’ Russia. (The man is rabidly pro-Brexit, like most British union bosses.)

I mean, he basically looks and sounds like an absconded mental patient who can temporarily half-pretend to be lucid.

Grifting alt-populist conspiracy theorist defends grifting ultra-right conspiracy theorist, basically. (Didn’t realise that Brand is now an anti-vaxxer / COVID ‘truther’, so I guess that vid taught me something.)

Polio is making a comeback thanks to post-Brexit deregulation.