Hoy bleakers, Darcy's back and there's a couple weeks before Kieran's gone. So here's a bit of a megasode, a two hour paean to political monstrosity that orbits around the dark star of the UK Tories. Darcy runs down the origins of the name and the deep legacy of vicious ineptitude that lives on in the current party. He also takes a look at how they differ from our tories and also how the two parties resemble each other. There's kind of a mini B Topic where we gripe about how shit the current Labor party are.

Our stories are: Australian aged care facilities are killing their residents through the totally normal and understandable malady of malnutrition; Victorian authorities are doing sweet fuck-all to prevent the bulldozing of the sacred sites of the Djab Wurrung people; George Calombaris fully got away with stealing nearly eight million dollars and I guess the powers that be barely give a fuck; and a little bit of a Musk Update, which is mostly an excuse to talk about the Grimes fitness regimen thing that fooled way too many people.

The album we pulled our old outro music from has been released - Ziggurat Vertigo by Leonardo's Robot. You can listen to it on Bandcamp or Spotify using the links below. Our exit music for this episode, the song 'Concrete', is taken from the album.

All the best, bleakers, stay in it.

https://leonardosrobot.bandcamp.com/album/ziggurat-vertigo

https://open.spotify.com/album/4mJOn8gM7jqRHlbSBEFk8v?si=-Wdze8_rRz273X6_xPbOkQ