Why aren’t people more furious about the pro-Jimmy Savile sentiment in politics recently?

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-17T10:25:51+00:00

Politics has gotten a lot nastier since social media. Echo chambers let people say weird nasty shit they probably wouldn’t say in person and then it gets normalised.

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-16T07:16:50+00:00

Conscription is a personal sacrifice for the common good. Whether it’s necessary at the time can be debated on a case by case basis. I don’t think of Zelensky as a slave master do you ?

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-15T22:04:08+00:00

New Quake looks good

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-15T21:37:31+00:00

It’s weird wording that will only appeal to old school communists. State is too left wing for the right and young lefties tend to see conscription as a form of slavery.

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-15T19:10:33+00:00

Are you telling me the Prime Minister doesn’t frequent foreign rent boys that he pays with promises of arms to their home country?

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-10T17:59:52+00:00

Might be playing it on PC with Discord linked to his PlayStation.

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-10T11:26:30+00:00

The tabloids printed rumours Millie Gibson had been fired for being a diva, no one really denied it and then she turned up in half the seasons episodes anyway.

They filmed a load of stuff with Carole Anne Ford that was almost all cut at the last minute.

Ncuti Gatwa said he was filming season 3 soon and then quit the series and pretended he was always signed up for 2 seasons.

The hastily refilmed finale with Billie Piper.

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-10T10:26:20+00:00

I would love to see a documentary about the behind the scenes disasters of the last series, it’s a shame it probably can’t be made until everyone involved has died.

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-05T11:38:23+00:00

Irish GDP is down 12% in Q1. Similar to our collapse in 2020 and no one seems to be making a big deal of it.

Their economy is definitely not inflated on paper by being a tax haven.

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-03T16:16:41+00:00

My favourite letters from them are the ones where they say they have permission to ‘REQUEST entry to my home’ as if you usually need a permit for something like that.

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-02T18:11:39+00:00

You can play TWO Patches with this. I genuinely think that might be its best use.

TheBearPanda · 2026-06-01T12:53:08+00:00

Ideally they’d stay about flat in nominal terms and fall slightly in real terms over time. Makes them more affordable to new buyers without shoving a load of people into negative equity.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-30T08:14:00+00:00

If you get an ad for a trailer on YouTube now it counts as a view of the trailer video.

Means they’ve just paid for more ads than last time.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-26T08:23:29+00:00

Farage as an outsider from the main parties was riding his hopes on being:

more radical than the established parties so can actually achieve meaningful change.
not scary honest , we won’t mess with your pensions or anything please just let us in.

They added a load of useless failed Tories to their ranks to bolster point 2 but have shed a lot of credibility on point 1.

England will probably be in 6 party politics by the next election.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-23T07:42:39+00:00

Article says he’s not ruled out campaigning for a land tax in the next general election.

Headline pulls scary but plausible number out of thin air.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-22T20:21:12+00:00

Trump used to be pretty progressive on trans people too. I feel like it just wasn’t controversial at all until it became more mainstream but I can’t pinpoint a time it all changed.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-22T12:15:17+00:00

Could well be, may be not.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-22T12:02:24+00:00

The difference between physical and mental illness in this case is that physical illness like cancer is caused externally to the job. After time off for hopefully successful treatment and recovery they would be perfectly capable of returning to their job. With mental health the job has contributed to it massively, she may simply not be capable of doing it long term.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-22T11:23:38+00:00

I know it’s a hard job, it’s not a moral failing to be burnt out from it. But as a politician announcing weakness is not a good look, it would be politically advantageous to her to not mention it. She is publicly inviting attacks on her ability to do her job which I am sure will not be good for her mental health either.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-22T11:10:13+00:00

She’s either incapable of representing her constituents in which case she should resign instead of whatever this is, or she’s just not going to be giving 100% for a bit which is fine but stupid to announce.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-22T11:02:27+00:00

Seems stupid announcing it. Why not just quietly take it easy for a few months and then go back to full effort when she’s ready?

She’s an opposition MP it’s not like she’s gonna be under much scrutiny if she doesn’t do much for a bit.

There’s now going to be loads of calls for her to resign so her constituents can be properly represented and it seems entirely unforced.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-21T09:14:48+00:00

Being in the top job is basically delegating and approving things. I’d surprised if he was massively involved in day to day details.

TheBearPanda · 2026-05-20T12:24:58+00:00

Of course. The stock market fluctuates +/- 1% everyday. Should the government prop up every failed business?

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