The Reform pitch is increasingly “the last government was terrible, so we’ve hired everyone who was in it”.

Thoughts and prayers with Honest Bob. Who on earth could have seen this coming?

All these Reform defections are short term gains which undermine their core selling point - which is change. Why would the country elect a party full of all the same washed-up, scandal-hit former Tory ministers they just kicked out of office? Opens the space for both a Labour and Tory recovery

Strange isn't it... the people who actually live in London overwhelmingly think it's safe.... almost like everyone else is falling for a lie

a woman labeled a terrorist by US law enforcement and the White House is being simultaneously memorialized at NBA games and by major cultural icons. this regime is literally own-goaling itself to death. it’s cooked.

Any Westerner rooting for the Iranian regime to succeed in repressing its people to remain in power is in no way on the side of freedom, progress, or equality.

Some really disturbing videos making the rounds, so it’s a good idea to make sure videos aren’t playing automatically if you don’t want to see them. Go Settings > Content & Media, and make sure Autoplay is turned off.

on the one hand, it's the right thing to do, but also on the other, it would annoy the most irritating, obnoxious, awful people on the planet. So it's a tough one

not saying it can't get worse but this week really feels like a straightforward depiction of what worst-case 'post truth' information apocalypse ppl were warning of in the late 2010s

This is the ICE agent President Trump says was "violently, willfully, and viciously ran over ... hard to believe he is alive."

If the UK government had a Culture Secretary, that person would be in a position to take a view about whether child porn on demand was a good thing, or a bad thing. thecritic.co.uk/brin...

The govt will still be on X even when it's just Morgan McSweeney writing the tweets to Tommy Robinson and 30 million bots coded by Putin subcontractors.

call me crazy but it really feels like “World’s Richest Man Creates AI Chatbot That Generates Child Porn” would’ve been a huge international outrage requiring a governmental crackdown not even 24 months ago

European political scientists are blue in the face from constantly pointing out that accommodating the far right does not help centre-left parties win, and contributes to the rise of far-right parties. There's a mountain of data to support that. But no, the galaxy-brained strategists must be right.

One to bookmark for when Labour collapse in London next May

If I were trying to win elections and arguments, I simply would be doing everything I could to move UK political conversation away from a website run by an avowed enemy who believes and writes this stuff about me:

The meeting was a disaster for everyone except two people. Trump got his photo op and his ego boost. Putin got his photo op, whitewashing of war crimes and no sanctions. No one in Ukraine, Europe or the United States benefited in any way.

Remember when Kamala said Putin would eat Trump for lunch? I was thinking about that today for no particular reason.

They must really knead the dough.

“GPT-5 is the first time that it feels like talking to an expert in any topic — a Ph.D.-level expert,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said.

Fußball ist ein einfaches Spiel: 22 Frauen jagen einem Ball hinterher und am Ende trifft Chloe Kelly und England gewinnt. Yes, Lionesses. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿!!

The Mona Lisa of shithousery

If I had a pound for every time that Chloe Kelly scored the goal that won England an international football tournament I’d have two pounds. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird it happened twice

CHLOE KELLY UNDERSTOOD THE ASSIGNMENT #Euro2025 #England #Lionesses

DAME CHLOE KELLY

Whatever Sarina Wiegman has needs to be bottled and sold! Three Euros wins in a row is incredible.

What makes that even better is that was such a typical Italian performance. Defending deep, sitting on a 1-0 lead, shithousing, time wasting.... and it almost worked. Again. And then it didn't.

Are you watching Rupert Lowe, Matthew Goodwin, Konstantin Kisin? Your theories took a hell of a beating!

Can't believe Trump is forcing me to back Rupert Murdoch. His worst crime yet.

Always rated football.

"I feel like this is shutting the stable door after the horse has become Hitler" - @tildawilkes.bsky.social

oodles of engagement-hungry journalists are also fine with continued use of a white supremacist right wing propaganda mill

It is objectively not normal for the governments of liberal democracies to share space with the vile Hitler/antisemitism apologia that Musk is promoting via Grok. At least the outgoing CEO seems to get that a line has been *more* than crossed.

Wow, I did Nazi that coming

Huh wonder why, seems like things are going so well over there.

X's head of product

It would be nice to, among other things, get an answer from the UK government about why they still feel comfortable using this as one of their primary communication channels

Not just hot. Very hot. The UK is currently 5.3C warmer than average for this time of year. In some places, it's 11C warmer than average. 11! istheukhotrightnow.com

I respect a politician willing to admit mistakes. Work to do to undo the damage but this is a start.

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

The EBU yesterday 🤝 The EU today A sigh of relief.

In short, Starmer has taken a massive hit among Labour voters, for no gain elsewhere, while boosting Farage's popularity, including doubling his ceiling among Labour voters. I.e., the political scientists were right, Morgan McSweeney was horrendously wrong.

just quite funny that if you're a broadly liberal metropolitan middle-class voter, both main parties are now taking turns going "urgh no not you though, we don't want *your* vote, ew"

A comprehensive comms success.

If Britain is an "Island of Strangers", it is probably less the result of immigration and more the result of people looking at screens instead of going outside