Rayvin

That is staggering tbh. Burnley looked even now like they'd make a decent fist of it. Hard to think of anything other than relegation for them now, no matter who they get in.

I love how Russia is trying to claim the damn thing had a fire and sunk, as if it's somehow a better visual that a state of the art warship was taken out by gross incompetence from its crew rather than an enemy missile.

I lost interest in Squires a bit over time but I honestly do think he's consistent with his views so I don't take issue with him pointing the finger at us. His skill IMO is managing to keep on top of all the various micro-developments that occur across the week's football news and fitting them into his comic. I agree he's not the best artist.

I say we let him do it and then all switch to another platform.

How long until the next GE? It feels like we've had an eternity under Johnson now and while I did at one point believe he'd bottom out on lunacy and "populist" trash, I now suspect that what I think the basement level floor of human decency is, is already something he's looking upwards at.

Well that's incredible. I don't understand how that can be an immigration policy but apparently Denmark are doing it (despite being in the EU?? Did they leave and get back control as well??) so it must be ok.

I don't understand this - we are sending immigrants to Rwanda..? On what basis? I mean what is the supposed logic, why Rwanda?

I think Gemmill was the first person to interact with me Can't be sure but he's always tried to maintain this 'heart and soul of the community' vibe (to some success, honestly) and so I was an early outreach initiative clearly

Tbf I think they're consistent on this with their own managers too. It would explain why they hound them out when they're in third and safely set for promotion - made up stats and general nonsense which they goad each other into believing. So I don't think this time it's necessarily that they're plainly and openly biased.. I think they're just fucking morons.

I honestly sometimes think maybe I'm too harsh on the Daily Mail because they have this occasional angle where they seem to stand up for a generally "British" sort of common decency which can at times accidentally align them against the forces of darkness. And then I read headlines like that, clearly intended to save the most insufferable, useless leader we have ever had.. and I'm reminded that they are literally nothing more than the Tory party propaganda wing, populated entirely by the lowest, most disgusting people to have ever walked the earth outside of the Conservative party itself. If I was in a position to impose standards or penalties around lying, misleading information, and disingenuous political reporting, I would go out of my way - make it my life's work even - to see the mail obliterated with those who work for it made to pick fruit on minimum wage as part of a life sentence community service initiative to rehabilitate bad faith actors, supervised by a team of refugees - and I would consider this act to be the single greatest contribution I could possibly have made to human history.

Yep. Agreed. On both paragraphs. I don't mind the idea of people choosing to go a different direction to the one I believe in as long as its based on a well reasoned argument that I can logically follow. I'm not sure that concept enters into British politics whatsoever these days.

"We're a democracy" as if this is the single most important factor in any conversation about anything, anywhere. If we democratically voted to nuke every major city in this country, would that be an infallable judgement that everyone should just accept? Being on the majority in a democracy doesn't make you right. It is in fact only a measure of how successful any particular narrative has been, over competing ones. Poor girl. genuinely. You could see her rage as well. These old fucks sitting there, burning her future, and telling her that she's not complaining about it in the right way, she's complaining in an inconvenient way. They're lucky the young aren't literally arming up - I suspect in 20 or 30 years time, they'll be wishing they had.

I think this probably comes down to a question of what difference it makes, if we all accept that they are who they say they are. Who does it harm? I'm not the best advocate for trans people on this discussion I might add, it's not an area I know in detail and I am constantly being schooled by my trans friends on various associated issues. I'm wary of talking nonsense for the sake of making their case. Ideally, these would be conversations to have with trans people - and all I can say here is that at least for those I know, they're not trying to bring down the entire social order of things - they're just trying to live without feeling shit all day, every day.

I think you're right. The added difficulty they have (IMO) is that they cross a political line for some on the social justice side as well. Some feminist women see them as interlopers into conversations about privilege and oppression where traditionally their views and feelings would have been paramount. This is the JK Rowling angle. So they take fire from both sides, which I think is probably a fairly unique circumstance. I mean we all know all of this I guess but yeah - seems to keep them in the news. I vaguely feel as though they are going to become a larger demographic in the coming years as young people spend more time questioning themselves along these lines - but I also suspect it will end up with a total dilution of the whole gender binary anyway; to the point where it doesn't really matter anymore, who is what.

fwiw it isn't by design on my part, and up until 3 or 4 years ago I knew precisely zero trans people. That said I guess a couple of friendship groups opened up my community a bit on that basis and here we are. I will say tbh, none of them are militant and angry, they're all timid and scared shitless. So I have a hard time seeing them as "the enemy". They're just people trying not to live their lives in pain.

10 or 11? Mostly trans women, one trans man. Anecdotally I would say its more common amongst people in their early to mid 20s than other age groups. Only one of them I know well, the others are friends of friends. Still though, have had conversations with them all.

She reminds me a bit of Leadsom on that basis. Whatever happened to her?

I mean I agree on the fallout from this if Sunak goes, but Liz Truss is not an intelligent person...

So that'd be a no

What the fuck. Just what the fuck.

Liz Truss? I thought you were joking...

Some suggestion that Sunak might go. Would make sense, he's had an incredibly bad week and they could let him walk off with the budget done and spend the next year pointing the finger at him when people complain. On the other hand, he really did seem to be the PM in waiting and I'm not sure the Tories have any manner of plan B. Certainly not an obvious one.

Started in my mid-20s. Some sort of dust allergy. It gets really bad if I don't medicate it to the point where I can't sleep, but other than that they don't really show up day to day. I think I fucked my nose with paper dust working in a print workshop.

As if anyone, anywhere, would willingly go down there Given what the rest of him looks like, the horror of it would be unthinkable.

Especially given that he was so 'traumatised' by what went on here, he didn't think he'd ever work again. I mean that's some recovery for the extensive deeply pained 'trauma' that the man endured here...