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Come on QCs, catch up. We had a huge referendum in 2019 on whether Britain is a nation that tolerates vast amounts hilarious corruption, openly lying to the public, self-dealing

I’m sympathetic to this stuff, because it really is quite hard to break a system that has been busting its arse to keep the Tories in power for the whole

Everyone involved in this tweet can absolutely GTF with this stuff, particularly the Times and the ex-MP who turned this whole debacle into a personal ego-trip on the credulity of

I’ve now read this and TBH I am pretty fucking confused by it. No doubt this is because I’m a dumbass, but it seems to me that it’s quite intentionally

We can only hope all this stuff is posing and PR aimed at impressing the newspapers because if it isn’t, it’s going to be a long and very stupid few

Incredible scenes in our very normal top selling newspapers Really remarkable Verhoeven vibes (Normality intensifies) Ah, Britain’s irrepressible, irreverent press

Nothing has actually happened here but for some folk, in ways that we don’t generally talk about because they don’t really make any sense, a smashing and vital victory has

Absolutely recommend this piece as a good insight into where many Scots are politically at present, in both the good and bad senses: correctly summarises broad situation then sails off

We actually saw this playing out on front pages with the Mail and the Express thanking Farage for his service in deranging the brains of half of the electorate, and

The more dim-witted pundits are always helpful because they’re thick enough to say what others are smart enough to hint at. Here, we get the startling revelation that “cancel culture”

Could we helpfully split the argument about speech and cancellation into two distinct parts: 1) Grief on Twitter, which is absolutely impossible to ever stop when you’re talking to a

Thinking about similarities between the way we got into our current situation and how the US bullshat itself into the Iraq War but the differences seem a lot more stark: