It is almost impossible to stress how utterly pathetic it is to say that the prime minister has failed and lost all authority and must be given a few more months because you miscalculated the timing on how you could personally benefit?? Fuck off with this

I've got cheeky money on John Healey.

Meta and all companies selling such products should have to provide conclusive evidence that they are actively monitoring how the products are used and directly preventing customers from misusing them, including by turning off the functionality that enables it and reporting misuse to police.

BREAKING - Parliamentary Standards Commissioner will launch an investigation into Farage's £5m donation.

"You have given us a clear mandate… And we will use it to deliver change… To restore service and respect to politics… End the era of noisy performance… Tread more lightly on your lives… And unite our country."

Moronic from the SNP.

Markets should be working through that the real risk to UK finances is from a Reform govt, or a coalition unrestrained by Tories, who seem to have shed their love of liberal capitalism and are trying to outbid Reform, on migration, deportations, higher ed, Europe.

Show me someone who hasn't seen Threads.

Truly we live in post-literate times. If you were writing the most consequential public document of your career, would you let it go out like this?

We do use dain though. We just deign to spell it differently.

I'm hearing a tub of lard has gone into Downing Street.

I'm hearing Gazza is outside Downing Street with a fishing rod.

I hear Boy George has just gone into Downing Street.

I hear George Formby has just gone into Downing Street.

I hear George Fouracres has just gone into Downing Street.

I hear George Osborne has just gone into Downing Street.

What.

Fun fact: the magical child safety solution which Jess Philips cited in her resignation letter is a vendor-specific offering, which benefited from an intense PR and lobbying campaign, and was previously praised by ... Prince Andrew. I always keep the receipts. heatherburns.tech/2026/02/20/t...

"reactionary centrists like starmer are simultaneously bullying towards their own supporters and grovelling towards their opponents." Oh God I could list so many lib dems at all levels that fit this mould. I do not get it. I do not get how it (sometimes) succeeds.

Make a band out of two others The Who Guess Who The The Band Simply Red Hot Chili Peppers

Starmer is unfortunate that parliament is not sitting. Otherwise Badenoch or Ed Davey would have called a vote of no confidence in him by now which he would win.

No, it's time to rejoin, and the Lib Dems are going to get outflanked by *checks notes* the Labour Party on this if they don't move quickly.

People underestimate the extent to which Iraq (and the huge Labour backbench rebellions on authoritarian legislation like 90 days' detention) prefigured more recent parliamentary fragmentation within parties. We went to war only because the two big party leaderships agreed.

The parliamentary system is not the problem: the instability comes directly from the political parties themselves, how they select and incentivise their MPs, and how they view the electorate. This in turn stems from our voting system, which forces parties to become fake, unsustainable coalitions.

Getting towards Blears Hoon levels of incompetence now. Can't we just have a Cabinet resignation or five to get this moving properly, please?

It's grating that people do this 'oh, if only people were interested in things other than the horse race' yet they visibly have no interest even in, say, looking at the government's spending plans for 2027-9.

No, it is actually in fact a huge policy issue that the prime minister does not adjudicate between departments, does not command the support of his MPs and does not grip whether policies are actually being delivered!

The limits of Ed Davey's imagination are a real problem for the Liberal Democrats, a party that ought to be the most capable of non-conformist approaches to the status quo, both in policy terms and politically.

I'm not watching Starmer speech because I've seen it before. Can anyone tell me if he mentioned any of his missions? How are they going?

If this did happen there is obviously a strong case for all other parties to stand down in favour of a single anti corruption candidate, like Martin Bell against Neil Hammond.

Ten years of not knowing what to do except respond to resounding rejection by doubling down? Well, it's a view.

Did Harriet Harman pass Downing Street vetting and due diligence procedures? I think we should be told.

Brb, responding to being considered a clapped out party of the status quo by appointing Harriet Harman and Gordon Brown to government roles

As a liberal voter this is clearly what the Lib Dems have settled for. The problem is that it runs counter to the claim that they are also the party that will stop the UK turning into Trump/Farageland.

Nail bombings against Black, Bangladeshi and LGBT+ people took place in 1999. They killed 3 people and injured 140 more. The attacks, by a neo-Nazi BNP member, radicalised me (then a 12yo) in defence of minorities, and awakened me to how much hatred there was. Now white supremacy leads the polls.

It would be the most British electoral reform ever to introduce compulsory voting before making votes count properly. Just a great big sop to the curtain-twitching authoritarian itch without any actual improvements to the underlying system, knocking real progress back into the shadows.

I've personally no issue with American actors speaking in American accents in a film like The Odyssey (which is plainly, from the trailer, going to be another Nolan spectacle hampered by a poorly written script). Why, though, is Robert Pattinson, an English actor, doing a nasally American drawl?

It is already a criminal offence to knowingly sell or attempt to sell alcohol to a person who is drunk. The problem here is lack of enforcement by staff and managers in licensed premises, and lack of oversight by bobbies on the beat. When's the last time you saw a copper check on a pub?

Lots of good suggestions for why this might be, of which some are technology/information environment related. But I think that's downstream of 'organisations select and promote for on-message loyalty and fluidity within existing power dynamics'. Saying anything different is usually career-limiting.

4) People who remember buying a single album for £15, recognise the absurdity of doing so now, don't have space for a record collection anywhere, and spend their music money on supporting live performance/gigs instead.

Touching faith from Morgan McSweeney in the power of the written word to somehow force a man best known for corruption and lying to tell the truth.

One day, everyone will have always been against the appointment of Peter Mandelson.

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026... Just extremely sick of important parts of the UK public sector doing puff PR to bat for Palantir, a fascist tech company, and newspapers gladly accepting the stories, often with little to no alternative viewpoint.

This kind of lack of curiosity about other human beings may also help to explain the Labour government's insistence on AI being vital for the UK's future.

I'm hearing Keir Starmer has sacked parts of his own body, after they were revealed to have endorsed Peter Mandelson's appointment as ambassador without his knowledge.

The belief that middle-managers are not the most important people in every single organisation of any size is part of the sociopathic founder delusion. That belief is also core to the beliefs of VCs, most of whom have never had to work in middle tiers or develop juniors in any serious way.

Great idea to leave him out for the Ashes imo.

Now do Angine de Poitrine. The most clearly algorithmically fuelled band of all time, after Geese. Sudden ubiquity is a remarkable thing to achieve in the days of total internet fragmentation.

A lot of people might think it strange to make all drivers wear helmets but I'm here for it tbh.

Pope isn't weak on crime but he does have a bad habit of falling over to the off-side, which is why I think he's vulnerable to the strait of Hormuz ball.