Incredible historical document here: Blinken says Israel’s PR is failing because social media allows people a direct look at what’s happening, shorn of the ability to mediate it, and it lands with emotional resonance. Romney then says yes, that’s why we moved to ban TikTok

The nightmare in Sudan is clearly worse but the key difference is that our government isn’t offering bottomless assistance with the mass murder, and TV channels are not full of people telling you it’s regrettable but sadly necessary, or flat out awesome.

I’ve had two different fascists raise this with me in the last 24 hours, deeply unsurprising to see The Sensible Moderates muscling in on National Front territory.

Another enthusiasm-sinkhole of absolute dogshit, the last time I can remember people being as utterly switched off from politics as they are now.

Used to make headlines when it was happening in Russia

Blinken says social media strips Gaza of context and history and it cannot be stressed enough the average 24 year old explaining Palestine on TikTok does a significantly better job providing both context and history than CNN or NYT. It’s a low bar, but it absolutely clears it

Like many others, is just professionally mates with important people

hearing a lot about how privileged these student protesters are - and no doubt that’s in many ways true - but their privilege is clearly not protecting them in this particular moment is it. they’re being expelled, evicted, beaten and shot by cops. so what’s your point?

We can achieve unity here by making politicians say boys have a penis and girls have a gina, and also they would retaliate with a full nuclear attack

In whose mighty company

This is such an immensely funny and satisfying exploration of the mindworld of reactionary panic-liberalism in its response to the Gaza protests defector.com/they-are-insec…

Just the most arrogant people on earth. Still, she's only saying what Starmer and his coterie are thinking twitter.com/BBCPolitics/st…

You don’t send this guy on TV to show you’ve listened and reconsidered, so you can discount all of this “we’re trying to win these people back” stuff all the way down to zero.

More pertinent: if the lads were all talking about a thousand year Tory Reich, and all it took to make the government *explode* was for the press to start telling the public who the Tories are and how they behave, then what do we think has happened here?

As an aside, whenever happened to that big Unite police investigation that was going to expose the corruptions and name the guilty men? That was years ago.

You’re going to have to actually do it this time, our current situation is what happens when you don’t follow through on this stuff.

Jim Fitzpatrick successively tweeting articles by Matthew Syed and Rod Liddle is as good a short guide to New Labour's actual political positions as you could wish for, I think (even if the image comes out blurred)

Because the papers’ two major goals at present, pushed by different interest groups within ‘em, appear to be “shitefest Labour in to supplant the Tories and restore a bit of credibility and authority to this drivel” and “Orbanify the Tories into a 100% National Front enterprise”.