Superb (and simple) piece on why privatisation of the railways was a disaster and what the problems are via @alexhern http://t.co/btSUDr5O

No. of current migrants on benefits known to have cheated the system: 180. No. of MPs in last parlt. who cheated expenses: 389. That is all.

I will help clean up and I have donated to those affected, but I will not condemn local kids who have been utterly failed by the rest of us.

A welfare state that will increasingly provide no welfare, a judicial system that is arbitrary and political and a violent, corrupt police

McAlpine gets (wrongly) accused of something, and in one fell swoop can have dozens of people swatted down in recompense. That's privilege.

We have a 'free' media with no recourse when it simply makes things up and a 'democratic' government enacting huge changes nobody voted for

People slog their guts out for £12K a year. It is not possible by any coherent definition of the word to "earn" 350x that amount.

Great @zoesqwilliams column on yesterday's court ruling (and what it does and doesn't address)  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/12/poundland-ruling-work-programme …

@sidlowe Gerald Horne: "if ‘Stalinism’ discredited socialism, why did slavery, the slave trade, and racism not discredit capitalism?"

Reverse humblebrag: Good luck to everyone getting results! I did pretty well in mine, went to a good university and am now unemployable.

Imagine how much *more* awesome Team GB would be at swimming and cycling if young people could swim cheaply and cycle safely.

Why don't we give the looters a chance to hand back what they took, like when the MPs accidentally stole all that money...?

"I can trace my family back to the Anglo-Saxons". Well piss off back to Jutland then you clown.

@pawzilla @kaygeeuk They may *feel* that but someone needs to explain to them that they are patently wrong

How dare David Laws - greasy, fraudulent, unprincipled liar that he is - presume to speak for "every single person in Britain" re: deficit?

Ugh, horrible idea. One of our more interesting modern areas, and they want to make it like everywhere else: http://t.co/g8cmHPro

Wow, think what the Labour lead would be if they actually opposed austerity instead of just hanging around for a vulture-like election win?

So remind me again: why are we so desperate to cling to this deeply unsatisfactory system? So we can choose what colour car to buy?

@rare_basement (And Later, Demeter Beckons Her Home Again) #FakeOfMontrealTitles

Betwixt and Between the Mirror'd Lights of Pale Wondrous Arcadia #FakeOfMontrealTitles