I had the misfortune of having to sit beside my brother’s in-laws at a recent family dinner. They both come from an area in the North that has been resolutely fucked by the Bullingdon hypocrites in government, yet decided to vote for Brexit in the recent referendum. Someone brought it up and their answers were…

“I also love being transformed,” she said. “Everyone always wants to make me myself. Because not only am I a model, but I guess I have a name too, so people try—they get confused, they don’t know how to use me.”

You’re wrong. Whilst there were many appeasers/collaborators, the French resistance played a vital role in defeating the Nazis:

Not to mention China, and the Soviet Union...

This is quite a good article on the allegations of antisemitism in the party - some of which are true, others of which are unfounded - but, mainly, how these allegations serve to portray “the left” as a whole

In what sense do you get the idea she is self-interested/idiotic? I think she has done a lot of amazing work as a domestic violence campaigner and has always been forthright in her determination not to be a careerist/bland opportunist. She’s pretty passionate about standing up for her constituents and has even been…

With my bisexual hat on, I’d say:

Corbyn is a bit deluded, but I think that’s what you get when you essentially put someone who is an excellent, passionate and principled local councillor into the role of leader. I think it is certainly true to say he has been given a rough ride by the media, but this is something that goes with the role. He may quite…

It’s another fucking LEAN IN

The US has never acted “without really any policial benefit” in the context of foreign relations, either cold war-era/Western ideology or national interest has always motivated policymaking 

What exactly are “fundamental American values”?

Watching this clip without sound (at work, lost my headphones) is very, very unnerving. Trump’s flapping lips look like a cross between a startled guppy and the erupting pustules from the Bog of Stench (RIP David Bowie). You can also literally see that there is just nothing behind his eyes: no cogs wirring, no attempt…

I really, honestly, truly think he is seriously over-inflating his time serving as a particularly annoying Boy Scout.

Can it really be called ‘ascending’ to power if you there because of gross nepotism, wealthy parentage or the warped and illogical anachronism of monarchy? You don’t really have to climb, or even bloody walk very far....you are just...already...there . Yuck.

You are absolutely right to highlight the hypocrisy here. It makes me sick that so many have bought into the bullshit narrative Trump and his war hawk coddle puppets have sown about the ‘necessity’ of the airstrikes, and their use of these images to lend credibility to a militiary operation.

Totally.

Another piece featuring James Corden. Ugh.

This is the kind of thing I want to point to whenever my mother or any other conservative commentator tries to make the case that all cops, regardless of who/what they are, should be regarded as ‘heroes’ just by virtue of the job that they sign up for.

That’s true, but then if you are keeping it in a locked gunsafe, it doesn’t say much for the ‘self-defence’ argument in favour of gun ownership....

“the muted applause of people wearing expensive gloves, three or four people clearing their throats, and William sort of half-whispering, “Thank you, thank you,” as Kate smiles and says nothing”