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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.

@Sunstorm you’re happy to defend Alex Jones, a man who claims a “Jewish mafia” controls the planet?

I’m not looking forwards to this.

Shame. He absolutely deserves being booted out.

I was “throwing shade” (as the kids say) on failed Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Unfortunately, in Britain it seems that most people who declare themselves to be an “anti-racist activist” are antisemites who doesn’t believe antisemitism to be a form of racism, mostly likely because they don’t consider Jews to be actual people.

Amnesty International for using what could be interpreted as a pro-Russia position that the ongoing war is Ukraine’s fault for not having unconditionally surrendered the second that Russia starting shelling their cities.

Wankers.

Reminder of how jive Brexit is.

The trains in Germany are ultra luxury and ultra reliable compared to the ones here! ;) And ludicrously affordable. Believe me, I’ve compared. The €9 rail ticket deal sounds incredible as someone who has to pay the equivalent of ten times that for a return rail ticket to London Waterloo from...

Unions are ridiculously better in Germany by all accounts, in terms of what they offer as benefits of membership and being better organised…

Both Tory leadership contenders have said that they want to ban unions from striking. Not sure how I feel about that, seeing as trade unions all wanted Brexit, which inevitably was going to lead to the Tories scrapping our employment rights (most of which derived from EU social legislation)…

Retirees and working-age tourists both do that – it’s basically the default British behaviour when travelling to, or living in, non-English speaking countries.