Brilliant, brilliant point made by Jolyon Maugham of The Good Law Project, on the complicity of the media in facilitating and perpetuating Johnson's political career:
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"To all those journalists who are calling Johnson a liar now. Why didn't you call him a liar then? During the referendum? In the Prorogation? During Covid? That was your job - not kicking him now because he's finished. We've paid a terrible price because you didn't do it." #UKPolitics#UKJournalism
Well this is a terrifying graph I'd not seen before. No wonder the Tories are slathering at the opportunity to reduce disability benefits. #UKPolitics#LongCovid
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I felt I should edit this thanks to @swearylibrarian 's intervention. In case you don't notice it down there on the bottom left, I'd like to draw your attention to the fact that cunts made it on there.
Good work, people.
Savanta asked 2,000 people to give them one word to describe the Conservative government. Here's the word cloud they created.
This is a real piece of Government literature. Repeat, this is not a joke. @jkfanghanel you're even more right than you thought. #UKPolitics#Science#FFS
Or - hear me out for a minute - we could hold men accountable for sexual assault and let women do whatever the fuck they want. #SafeStreets#UKPolitics#WomensRights
"The health minister Maria Caulfield told Sky News it was 'pretty severe and serious stuff to be accessing notes that you don’t have permission to'."
Perfectly fine to give an international spyware company access to the entire nation's NHS records before you've even finished negotiating the terms of the contract though.
WEEK 30: Students at Cardiff University chased Jacob Rees-Mogg off campus yesterday, after he'd been invited by the University Conservative Association to give a speech.
One protester shouted "Tory cunt" as the car eventually got past the crowd 😂
BREAKING: Officials at the Department for Business and Trade have threatened to stop work on arms exports licences to Israel, according to emails leaked to Sky News.
Edit: "The PCS confirmed to Sky News that it is considering legal action against the government"
"The hermit crab is not, in fact, hermetical: they're sociable, often climbing on top of one another to sleep in a great pile. When a crab comes across a new shell that turns out to be too big, it waits nearby until another crab comes to inspect it. If it's too small for a second crab, they hold claws and form a queue until a crab who fits it arrives, then the next crab in line claims the newly-housed crab's shell ... "
from 'The Golden Mole', by Katherine Rundell #Crabs#Nature#Bookstodon