Reposted by Chopper ChilversToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 16hless pattern recognition, more recognising there is a pattern 511831
Reposted by Chopper ChilversAlejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map. 9653103277
Reposted by Chopper ChilversRoland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 24/09/2026These guys are protesting about 'groups of fighting age men threatening local areas'. You've got to admire the irony. 481120302
Reposted by Chopper ChilversTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I do think you basically charge a few of them with the cybercrimes they're committing and the "alignment" problem does suddenly start to disappear. 251457342
Reposted by Chopper ChilversTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 23/09/2026How I feel right now about the British/ 🇬🇧English( whatever) political landscape is that some one wrapped in a Union Jack could whack me over the head with a flag pole & the BBC would shove a microphone in my face asking why I provoked the attacker & the Home Sec would invite the attacker for tea . 271370380
Reposted by Chopper ChilversDan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Not a dicky bird about thugs trying to sink a dinghy with a rescue worker on board or their claims to be "forming an army". Two boats of people seeking safety land and bingo bango they're the ones portrayed as the issue. Labour is complict in the rise of the far right. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukHome Secretary hits out at 'unacceptable' migrant landings in KentUsually brought ashore by Border Security Command or the RNLI, these are the first uncontrolled landings since 2025. 44949318
Reposted by Chopper ChilversTom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026The complete and total collapse of state function in the face of far right extremists. It is frankly ludicrous that Daniel Thomas continues to be at large given the series of crimes committed which he has literally filmed. 281173380
Reposted by Chopper ChilversStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2026www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comThe Bayeux Tapestry of Fascism: The Stephen Collins cartoonContemporary British political life is a rich tapestry indeed 916970
Reposted by Chopper Chilverssolomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Nothing says "lets clean up politics to deal with Reform's super rich donors" like holding a No.10 drinks party for Labour's Ultra High Net Worth donors. 38231
Reposted by Chopper ChilversMB @sugarcubedog.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Macklemore just announced he’s donating the $1 million he made from Sheeran’s tour to 6 organizations to support Palestinians and he’s asking Robert Kraft to match it. This is just the first part announcing it. 7172151583
Reposted by Chopper ChilversGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 16/09/2026We should ask ourselves why this is something a Labour Prime Minister feels the need to refute. After 16 years of austerity, a tax and spend socialist is just what we need. 43738148
Reposted by Chopper ChilversStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The media treating this story as some hilarious 'village that roared' nighy-dench-mirren movie is pissing me right the fuck off. It's soft-selling fascism. We have become an inward looking, xenophobic joke. 1152795
Reposted by Chopper ChilversHenry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 11/09/2026How it started / How it's going 31777325
Reposted by Chopper ChilversStephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Why are there so few bank holidays in autumn? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...theguardian.comThe bank holiday calendar explained: the Stephen Collins cartoonThere’s a reason for the bank holiday ‘gap’ 812527
Reposted by Chopper ChilversPete Fraser @petefrasermusic.bsky.social · 11/09/2026The way you win over voters to the right is to say you understand their concerns and that they’re right about everything. The way to win over voters on the left is to tell them you hold them in total contempt. 12505101
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJohn Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 10/09/2026What is this comment from the Labour MP? No, the issue here isn't that the attempted pogrom had the wrong targets! 44850304
Reposted by Chopper ChilversPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 07/09/2026When I lived in the UK none of my concerns e.g. affordable housing, climate action, increases in welfare spending, scrapping tuition fees, an ethical foreign policy, were ever framed as legitimate concerns. lnstead I was routinely told to fuck off by most political parties for having such concerns. 201782453
Reposted by Chopper ChilversMatthew Willis (Naval Air History) @navalairhistory.com · 06/09/2026Contrast the police statements about the Dover blockade yesterday with the Just Stop Oil protests in 2022 9528284
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJonn Elledge @jonnelledge.bsky.social · 06/09/2026picking a side in a face off between street fash and the RNLI is not fucking Sophie's Choice, it's strawberry ice cream or a bucket of shit. and the Home Office go for the bucket every time. 7751198
Reposted by Chopper ChilversAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Labour MP & ex-immigration minister Mike Tapp here, telling the racists they’re right, & criticising them only for going about it wrong & being insufficiently appreciative of the government’s efforts to placate them, and also equating racists with the targets of racism 611141
Reposted by Chopper ChilversToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 06/09/2026www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...prospectmagazine.co.ukWhat is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right 49435
Reposted by Chopper ChilversDr Anke Marsh @ankemarsh.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just so we are clear: The 83yo priest on the left is a terrorist. The balaclava-clad men on the right are protestors with legitimate concerns 522038941
Reposted by Chopper ChilversLee Hurley @hleehurley.com · 05/09/2026As gangs of masked men block Dover port, I will just leave this here www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comFive Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance 3923951157
Reposted by Chopper ChilversSaul Staniforth @saulstaniforth.bsky.social · 04/09/2026"If the Labour party did something even vaguely like this.." Labour Together was set up & run by the likes of McSweeney, Mandelson, Reed & others. It was found to have broken electoral law on multiple occasions. Not only did Lab take no action, it promoted the people involved! 622496
Reposted by Chopper ChilversMax Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 31/08/2026I don't think it should be controversial to say, "we will not provide financial or military assistance to a country where the Minister of National Security brags about popping people's dreams of 'food' and 'education' then sending them to a prison where they are starved." 8650381163
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJason Briggeman @jbriggeman.liberalcurrents.com · 08/08/2026American Nazis existed in the 1980s–90s. They were reported on derisively and known as "neo-Nazis." They were, so far as young me could tell, universally thought of as loser freaks with no real power. So it must be hard for older people to imagine that young neo-Nazis run today's Republican Party. 624632
Reposted by Chopper ChilversPhil McDuff @mcduff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Again: if you don't want fascists to take your indefinite detention and disappearance machine and turn it up to 11, you have to not have it in the first place. 14619
Reposted by Chopper ChilversGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/08/2026I know this isn't terrorism. You know this isn't terrorism. The authorities know this isn't terrorism. But, once again, they have labelled protesters "terrorists", as part of the long-running programme to ensure that no one dares protest about anything any more. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comSeven charged with damaging Trump’s Scottish golf course accused of ‘terrorist connection’Course at Donald Trump’s Turnberry resort was painted with words ‘Gaza is not 4 sale’ and clubhouse was sprayed with graffiti 13534511489
Reposted by Chopper ChilversGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/08/2026People can "just adapt" to a changing climate, a thousand rightwing voices keep telling us. Either they lack imagination or they don't care. Try "adapting" to this. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...theguardian.comNepal flash flood: more than 1,500 missing, mostly tourists, after disaster kills at least 165 at Tibet borderEntire populated areas swept away after glacial collapse causes catastrophic flood in mountainous region popular with trekkers and pilgrims 20243781813
Reposted by Chopper ChilversTarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.social · 26/08/2026"Neutral in the culture war" 111155785317
Reposted by Chopper ChilversAnnie Leymarie @annieleymarie.bsky.social · 25/08/2026@drandrewboswell.bsky.social: "The Government should follow the only principle consistent with climate science: 'We will not create new sources of emissions'. It must reject both new North Sea drilling & this flawed 'storage obligation' proposal. The decision will define Labour’s climate legacy..." 0289
Reposted by Chopper ChilversToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 24/08/2026the equality act. the thing you just aggressively reinterpreted to roll trans rights back decades 46915
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJana Bacevic 🌲🌳✊🏴 @unsocialtheory.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Just in case you missed the biopolitical import of "foreign-born UK citizens", that means *citizens of the UK*. The Nazi population policy is alive and well. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comReform says it would put foreign-born UK citizens lower on social housing listUK-born married couples under 35 with children would get priority under proposals to be outlined by Farage’s party 29335
Reposted by Chopper ChilversMicroplastics Inc. @microplasticsinc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026Yeah bro, I'm baffled. www.ft.com/content/daaf...ft.comThe UK should resist calls for infrastructure public ownershipPrivatisation is not the solution for every situation but it can be highly effective in many cases 419661
Reposted by Chopper ChilversThe Onion @theonion.com · 22/08/2026Democratic Socialism: Myth Vs. Fact theonion.com/democratic-socialism-m… 212555340
Reposted by Chopper ChilversAlasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · 20/08/2026Sure would be awful if anyone thought we were an island of strangers for whom an experiment in open borders had been a squalid chapter causing incalculable harmtheguardian.comRacism and sexism have become normalised in Britain, says equalities ministerExclusive: Bridget Phillipson says politicians have helped fuel hatred and that police are not taking violence against women and girls seriously enough 718058
Reposted by Chopper ChilversToby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 20/08/2026you said immigration had caused "incalculable harm", made the system brutally illiberal, & made you benchmark of success gaining the trust of nativist voters yes the political right deserve a lot of condemnation for their radicalisation, but labour has also been *agreeing with them* on core values 1606
Reposted by Chopper ChilversPascal @pascallth.bsky.social · 20/08/2026By definition, everything that makes the country better will make it more attractive to migrants 4327
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJohn Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/08/2026Anyone who doesn't think we had autistic kids back in the day didn't know the kids I knew in elementary school, the ones that were called "hyper" or "spastic" or were suspected of having "water on the brain," etc. Kids today are a lot better off with a formal diagnosis and treatment. 1393347294
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJack @jackinpogform.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Funny innit? The risk of misdiagnosing a single neurotypical person is worth dragging each and every ND person back to the 90s where they were 'difficult,' 'thick' or 'disruptive' 211122212
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJonathan Hopkin @jonathanhopkin.eurosky.social · 16/08/2026The genius of George Osborne: cut investment when money is cheap so that you have to do much more of it when money is expensive 730893
Reposted by Chopper ChilversJustin Lewis @whenisbirths.bsky.social · 15/08/2026‘I wanted to impress my boss, Piers Morgan’ 13249107
Reposted by Chopper ChilversTanita Tikaram @tanitatikaram.bsky.social · 15/08/2026White professor ‘ MattGPT ‘ whose most recent book contained fabricated quotations, non-existent source references, & left ChatGPT URLs accidentally embedded in footnotes is sad about Jason Arday’s death but still wants Arday & all black academia held to higher standards than his own writing . 11158481559
Reposted by Chopper ChilversKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet. 17455922065
Reposted by Chopper Chilversironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 14/08/2026You told everyone it’s an emergency when you used the emergency broadcast system; and now you are telling people to stop using the emergency phone number to tell you about the emergency because it’s not an emergency. Great job everyone. 610823
Reposted by Chopper ChilversHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Feel like one question i always ask when reading stuff like this is: will the rich send their kids to trade school? 34895175
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for The Guardian. Script as follows:
[scene is Winston Churchill in a bbc studio, giving his 'finest hour' speech]
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CHURCHILL:
The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.
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CHURCHILL:
Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war.
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CHURCHILL:
If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free
and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sun-
BBC PRESENTER:
Thank you prime minister
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BBC PRESENTER:
Mr hitler, your response?
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HITLER [in the studio]:
Vell zis is hysterical woke nonsense as usual from mr Churchill
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HITLER:
What we are proposing -
CHURCHILL:
Hang on
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HITLER:
Let me finish - what we are proposing eez a simple power-sharing arrangement -
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CHURCHILL:
What's he doing here
BBC PRESENTER:
It's important we hear both sides of the debate
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CHURCHILL:
This isn't a debate
You don't debate fascists
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HITLER:
Oh here we go with ze Godwins law!
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HITLER:
Why must you people always compare ze things you don't like to 'fascists, Nazis, Hitler'...
CHURCHILL:
Because you are a fascist Nazi Hit-
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HITLER [standing up, saluting]:
RAUSS!
BBC PRESENTER:
*Please* Mr Churchill let him speak
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