We are all politically selfish but we can try not to be- part of that comes by embracing the truth of our political views' limitations and confronting bad behaviour in our political circles. Ultimately, we can deal with it by being honest about where we stand and with whom. If you don't withdraw support for bad behaviour in your political spheres, …

Watching clips from the tory conference has only shored up my fears that political lying is utterly normalised in the UK. The concern that we cannot trust our elected representatives to tell us the truth on issues we care about is utter madness- so why aren't more people up in arms. In Peter Obornes book about political lying, he attributes its acc…

Rachel Reeves was recently on LBC answering people's questions, and after being schooled by a friend of mine who you should follow everywhere @nojustice she was asked why she was using tory policy to fight back against tory problems, to which she responded with tory rhetoric- Reeves said she wants to "grow the economy to fight inequality"- where ha…

Two weeks ago I said I wouldn't vote for a party who endorses transphobia. It's not for me to teach people why a weak stance on equality is a bad look for a political party of any stripe, plus it's a waste of time- those disingenuous enough to claim there isn't a valid, and wide point there, are fully cognisant of my reasoning- they just reject it …

Voting for parties who are pro minorities isn't tory enabling, it's sending a message to anti minority parties that they don't get support if they don't back minority rights and protections. The simpering folk who think UK labour showing up at pride with fancy t shirts is a sign they're pro minority are fools. Labour hasn't proved for a long time t…

Lying has been mainstreamed by politics, with people on the individual level convinced that they can lie and mislead with impunity- everything from why the economy is ruined to who is sleeping with who to what the passcode to a phone is- culture and politics are both sticky with lies.

There's two things I loathe from people more of my political leaning- those who talk about right wing appeasement being a long game, and those who think that lowering their standards to "anyone but the tories" is a helpful political stance. Now, more than ever, we need to be relentlessly pressuring politicians to do what we need them to. A failure …

There's this perception that allyship is easy, when genuine allyship is fraught with making mistakes and taking a genuine, hard look at yourself and asking if you might consciously or unconsciously perpetuate some of the cruelties you may claim to stand against. There's also a perception that it's all fun and games. Allyship sometimes means taking …

We are objectively in an ethical crisis when it comes to British politics. From Braverman's ongoing dishonesty about Rwanda and speeding to Sunak and Johnson's repeated lawbreaking. The problem is the splash damage that their foolishness causes. We're struggling with myriad issues in the UK and we can't even talk about how to navigate these crises …

I don't care whose mouth conservatism comes out of, it's bad. Seems to me it's also the only option we have in the UK right now, being as everyone thinks it's simply marvellous and I'm fed up of this being the only perceived option. Labour's current stances on things like immigration, NHS privatisation, culture war rhetoric, brexit- all are huge co…

Dominic Raab is a well known political liability: he's long rumoured to be a human arseclown, but the bullying report forcing him to actually suffer some recompense must have come as a shock. I'm so used to these people getting away with things I nearly fell off my chair when the news broke: but it leads to what we all know is coming: The civil ser…

Do you think right wingers in the UK are totally unaware of the fact that they always get what they want? They had to cheat, keeping our shitty voting system in place in order to do so in the last election; but regardless, they always win and they always whine about it. Every day we get to hear "yes, we are in charge of every aspect of British econ…

I'm so tired of fighting with people I agree with or losing support for people because of their behaviours. Seeing people thinking it's ok to be out and out xenophobic but it's ok because you're a Lexiteer, deflecting responsibility for your behaviours because you can't possibly be a bad person, right? Or just out and out partaking in bad behaviour…

I am finding it so hard to engage with politics, because my hope for better is hanging by a thread. I want to recover, I want to get back to it, and I will. But for now, if you're able to keep fighting do it and I'll join you when I can. Don't give up because deep down, I know better is possible. I just need the chemicals in my brain to agree!…

I met Aid because we both talk about politics and try to cope with madness using humour. We're in a small closed group of political chatterboxes and we mostly spend the day sending each other news articles and calling various political figures knob cheeses. But I like talking to Aid because we also bounce different ideas off each other even if we d…

Rise up together or fall together: the choice is yours.

Truss and Kwarteng are amazing. Not in the good way, in the "I'm sat watching in amazement as the country implodes" kind of way. They do love the "technically we've only been in charge for 21 days" thing but this is the same inane sputtering set of guttural death rattlers who have been burping in the face of the British public for 12 years and 9 mo…

The country has gone absolutely mad. The queen passed away which is sad in that "someone died and that's never nice" way, but people are being LEGALLY PREVENTED BY FEAR from expressing any feelings to the contrary about both that, and about her royal successor, K...Ki...King Charles............... Eurgh. But this fits into a larger problem the UK h…

I am exhausted lately. Everywhere I turn, people I'm friends with, people I admire, people I have passing acquaintance with, fighting. The a la carte these days seems to be "fight the wrong people". TERFS blame trans people for the crimes of cis men. Far left people blame Starmer for tory policy. Center left people blame laissez faire politicos for…

As a geek it's probably a real indictment for me to call someone cool but- Darren is cool. He's a South African internet savant who pretty effortlessly created content to make you think. I found him randomly on Tiktok talking about racial disparity and instantly knew I had to get him on the podcast at some point and here it is! Darren's mindset is …

I've caught so much crap from people on social media the last few weeks as I really started to deconstruct my stance on politics and my own biases. I've questioned Labour on their politics and stances on certain issues, asked questions about Corbyn's already infamous interview, I've slammed tories for their ridiculous stances and in this episode I'…

Goattmeal kept coming up all the time on my pages and I one day realised I wasn't following him. I pressed the little button and the two arrows that showed we were mutuals came up and I had little stars in my eyes because it was great to know he liked my rambling as much as I liked his! I've kept a close eye on his videos because he's great at cutt…

Every single member of the tory party keeps proving over and over that Angela Rayner's nickname for them was correct.

I'm a socialist. Honest to god it feels a bit like coming out as gay. The weird looks, the incredulous eyebrow raises. People think socialists all walk around with berets and drink Moet, plotting governmental upheaval. No, I just want better for society and a lot of the opinions I have fit socialist ideals. The fact is, the status quo in the UK (an…

I've always been totally enthralled by activists of every stripe. Enduring the vitriol that comes with raising your head up and saying that the status quo isn't good enough. I've always wished I had the strength to be an activist, to really stand for something and put myself out there that way. I don't know if I could handle the white hot hate some…

Which left is the right left? What a weird question, but relevant. The world is going to hell and we're trying desperately to find tweets where someone said something bad 6 years ago- it's hardly the height of political activism, is it. My question is a genuine one and it applies across the whole spectrum of the left: why should I back your politic…

Roe Vs Wade being overturned is insane in so many ways it's hard to know where to start. Is it that a party that hasn't won the popular vote in over 25 years is making executive decisions that overturn enshrined right to basic healthcare for over 50% of American citizens? Is it further proof that extremism and zealotry are devouring America as it t…

Free speech at its core in the UK is the ability to critique the UK government without fear of reprisals provided you don't incite violence. It's a simple concept and a key one which is now at threat under polonium penis Dominic Raab and his diet human rights act. But so many red faced numpties across the UK think free speech is their ability to sa…

Boris Johnson cannot feel shame or regret: we continue to try to force him to feel it. Why? It does no good whatsoever to continue to throw ourselves at the brick wall of Johnson's pathology. We need to figure out a new play to beat the tories, because the old checks and balances don't work. It's like the tories are playing monopoly (quite literall…

Joris is a fantastic activist and an all around wonderful person- every time I've ever seen his content he's always been so great at getting his point over and I recommend him to everyone. Today we talked about anti racism, intersectional existence and political activism and Joris brought new ideas about how we need to move forward. Joris' work is …

CW: This episode features the F slur. I feel so depressed now I've recorded this episode. I thought it might be a bit cathartic to speak about this. But reminding myself of the injustice of being called a slur and the person who did it facing absolutely no consequences has infuriated me. I decided rather than just talking about generic stuff for pr…

Britain is multicultural, and has been since we ransacked other countries to build the empire we still support to this day. Multiculturalism is another ism that's been hijacked by the right to try and frighten people into voting conservative, and conservatism is going off the deep end, more and more every day. When the usual checks and balances of …

Boris Johnson's wilful dismissal of rules has been known for years- his schoolteachers described him as a child shocked that they felt he should abide by the same rules as everyone else, he was taken to task repeatedly for his shoddy research work and even fired for lying in print. He had all the makings of a charlatan and has proved this over and …

I started following ChampagneSocialist because it was nice to see someone talk so factually about politics in a way that was engaging- plus he has really cool hair. Nothing has changed in my stance since then, about either politics or his hair, but he's worth the follow because he's more adept than most at cutting through the utter noncery that's g…

Pregnancy is a joy for some people, a death sentence or a debilitating condition for others. But ultimately it's a biological function and one that you should be allowed to choose whether you want to have or not. The potential to create life doesn't necessarily dictate that you should, or that you would want to- we license people to drive cars desp…

Conzo is an awesome person- kind and funny, and very motivated to make the world a better place. The nordic model he's talking about is problematic in a great number of ways, and our conversation focused mainly on how important it is to destigmatise and demystify sex work.Sex work is work, and it's important that we start to look after sex workers …

When The Mail on Sunday (or as I like to refer to it, patterned toilet paper for the weekend) published its disgusting article about Angela Rayner I assumed- forgetting that the mail doesn't do morals- that they would rather quickly recant it and apologise on multiple fronts: one, for being misogynistic shitpipes who only seem to care about gutter …

I started following Jay because he was funny, smart and eloquent in a way you rarely see people be on the internet. His gender journey has been something I've paid attention to because it's a topic close to my heart as a self-proclaimed trans ally, but it was also just refreshing to see someone getting such joy out of their journey, and sharing tha…

I was lucky to find Marina Purkiss on my twitter travails, and I followed her some time in 2021 after catching one of her tweets: she words things in such an incisive and insightful way: I was probably at 500 followers and tweeting about mostly nothing at the time but I knew I liked her. Marina is a wonderful speaker and has been spotted all across…

It's always fun to film an episode with someone who you both know and like, both as an archetype and a person: smart, eloquent people are the best and OpenBookshelf is a fabulous example of someone who is smart, funny and who articulates her points perfectly. I first became aware of her via TikTok thanks to some content she'd made about the nature …

Recently I've tried to listen to both lefty and right wing voices on how things are working against us all: there are so many issues that divide us, that we're asked and told to focus on out of necessity or punditry, and it's exhausting. If the left want A B and C, the right want X Y and Z why do we never focus on all wanting D E F G H I J K L M N …

Misogyny is horrific and common. That's not a debatable point, it's quite literally factual. It's everywhere, seeping into our society. I did much research on my blog post about medical misogyny and wanted to speak about it here too: because women's lives and healthcare is not up to scratch. This isn't down to some evil cabal of doctors, it's due t…

I hate the disingenuousness of calling it a "cost of living" crisis. It costs money to stay alive- what kind of a system is that. Today is just a chat around why we're like this, why we accept it and what we do to move forward... if we can. Daviemoo is a 34 year old independent writer, radicalised into blogging about the political state of the worl…

I'm under no illusions that our lives could be worse- but why are our lives bad at all based on who we are? The west often loves to talk about how progressive it is for not openly reviling LGBTQIA people- and yet here we are, in a society where trans people are being banned from accessing healthcare, trans kids are under threat of being taken away …

Where to start? Ignoring solemnised promises to help countries we took weapons from, screwing over the citizens of our own country with NI hikes and more expensive goods and rent, holding us to the result of a referendum which was infiltrated by the warmonger guy... I think we have the trifecta of terrible government. Today is my mini rant, mini ex…

From the moment the Brexit vote was announced I had a slippery suspicion the UK would be at war with itself over defining what it meant to be British. Objectively it appears to be hating masks, liking football and being okay with corruption. Don't we deserve better than the politicians we have? Today's solo episode is just a rant about why we're be…

Political purity in normal times is important. Standing up for what you truly believe is vital - but in these mad tory times where the Johnson cabal is rolling back democracy like a moth eaten carpet perhaps we can all find some common ground and unite against our enemies instead of fighting each other on the left as the right cackle maniacally and…

I first became aware of Femi because I saw him speaking at length on the impending disaster of Brexit and I've dogged his career since then, desperate to try and untangle exactly why everything headed in the direction it did. Every time I think I've sort of solved the mystery and started to understand why the UK decided to vote as it did a new fire…

Bouncebackabillyblog and I met on tiktok because his first political video came screaming onto my page one day, and I knew we'd get on famously. The political chat group I was already in welcomed him in and he became a fixture immediately. He's been a daily check in and has become a close friend since then, and we were excited to finally sit down t…

I met Supertanskiii on tiktok- I'd been voicing my views on the madness of British politics and one day one of her videos caught my eye- there was someone else spinning the sorry tale of British politics with humour, wit and swearing: I was infatuated. She followed me back pretty quickly and before long we slid into each other's DMs. It could be th…