The arc of the political universe is long, but it bends toward Miliband

The differance between *what the govt is actually doing* and ehat 90% of people, including its MPs apparently, think its doing is remarkable.

The government is spending tens of billions of pounds on net zero! The government is softening Brexit! The government is consulting on getting every business to do ethnicity pay gap reporting!

Rejoinerism would honestly be an extremely good strategy for Labour to pursue at this point

Ed Miliband backed into second favourite to be next leader on Betfair, now has marginally shorter odds than Wes Streeting.

While we all get swept up in Westminster, take a moment to think how fortunate we are

Also it’s a lot easier to blame “the algorithm” than “what people enjoy watching”, because the former suggests there an easy or quick fix and the latter…doesn’t. bsky.app/profile/jim....

Excellent and clear - as Sam says there us relatively little room to maneuver and not that long, in political terms, left. The big opportunity is around immigration: stopping the present proposals and focusing on making the existing system work + better rhetoric woulf have a huge impact on vibes

Interview with her was a good example of the insane temperament you need to be an Olympian. Injuries so bad she could barely go on walks with her kids. Retired, had an operation that fixed it... Then decided to go back to competing.

Again I come back to: people are spending too much time thinking about politics and boiling their brains. There isnt even a data arguement here! Its pure vibes!

Once again the Labour right fail to reckon with the fact that, first, they have to win with the membership. This is actually mental and the blokes (and it will be blokes) advocating it are entirely detached from reality

Saying you would take a "much tougher stance on immigration" than the Labour government is (or should be) discrediting for the same reason that saying your budget plans would be "very fiscal" would be. What does it mean?

If I was Welsh Id be pissed at how entirely disrespectful England are being. Theyve shelled 3 scored + through, essentially, playing a game of 'how can we score here'

I have made an error.

Yeah, this is going to be a *big* score. England just better in every area

Questions to which the answer is no

The untold story that is told constantly and isn’t really true

It is terribly sad that the former PM feels the need to say this in the face of low life blowhards. We cannot allow this to even be a question. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Quite like the fact that basically all the freestyle ski women are wearing their bibs with only one arm in, for fashion... ...except for the New Zealander who is, in a very New Zealand way, wearing it Properly and Sensibly

Its not a new sentiment but: Fuck Matt Goodwin. I have family members who'd dearly like to have kids, but can't due to medical stuff. Friends who have spent years trying but it hadnt happened. Multiple miscarriages. Fuck Goodwin and everyone who supports him.

So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony. This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

I actually really don't buy this, particularly in Labour. The 2024 intake is very strong and there are plenty of other specialists out there. There is a question of whether they're promoted correctly and, IMO, if pure policy specialists have the breadth of top level cabinet roles.

I really hope people advocating to ban kids from SM read this. Some kids are isolated by disabilities or circumstances. Furthermore, some kids grow up in abusive households. “Ideally, a child’s exposure to online worlds should be moderated by their parents” isn’t a reassuring sentiment for everyone

This is amazingly bad datavis

Just saying - if any of you want a insane ski deal Sunweb tends to be pretty decent....

Moderated the 300 abusive comments (not from locals) that turned up on a pic I posted on FB of me and Sikh and Muslim colleagues out campaigning yesterday. I do it myself as I hate asking my staff team to read the bullshit.

Mahmood's numbers are very funny here - and quite deserved. From this you can pretty clearly see that, in a contest, a soft left figure would win

This by-election is bigger than day to day politics. It’s about stopping Reform’s toxic politics coming to my city. The Greens misleading claims, dodgy bar charts & briefings risk letting them in the back door. Only voting Labour can stop Reform. My letter to Green Leader @zackpolanski.bsky.social 👇🏻

*every minister checks they have disappearing messages on on whatsapp* TBH I think this is pretty absurd

I think it says something that Dupont: - was France 4th leading carrier - Got a turnover - Leading kicker - Leading passer - Carried 40m - Made 2 offloads And we're all saying what a quiet game he had. because he did, by his standards. Didn't need to do more than just be a excellent SH

honestly feels unbelievable: Lindsay Vonn attempted and completed her training run today, a week after tearing her ACL, hitting a top speed of 74 mph. They haven't fixed her ACL, it's just flopping around in there. And her other knee is made out of titanium. Very literally built different

From the GPT 5.3 model card. "GPT-5.3-Codex is the most capable model we’ve ever deployed in the Cybersecurity domain. As discussed in more detail below, this is the first launch we are treating as High capability in Cybersecurity." cdn.openai.com/pdf/23eca107...

A reminder that a free and democratic Ukraine is still fighting for survival day and night and that’s still the most important story in Britain - and anywhere else in Europe.

so a month ago I was reading @markpackuk.bsky.social’s speech on Twitter in the lords and there were obviously fake stats the government used to justify Twitter’s UK reach and its continued importance to British audiences Rob has now found the source of the data was… Twitter

To those who doubt the need for the @commonswec.parliament.uk’s inquiry into the abuse of Muslim women & girls, which followed summer’s of hateful riots across the UK - look at the vile abuse recieved after recently visiting a brilliant local school. This abuse is aimed at school children.

Quite intrigued by this - partly because of how the game ends is so open ended and because, frankly, all those characters basically have their arcs tied up or go to odd places. Who would you lead with? The most obvious maybe Karlach? Start in the hells with Wyll?

And thus, having looked into that Abyss and realised how deep it was, chaos with Ed Miliband returned

I shared a few thoughts on this yesterday - but this is very, very good and accurate. Marie's point about how some MP's think too broadly and intelligently to be promoted as Ministers is also quite key I think as well (and may well explain a few mystifying non-promotions)

The latest in 'we're now in a era of bloc politics' Will be more going on under the hood - but you can almost see straight intra-bloc transfers here (which was evident on the door)

We should be clear: Reform are the quisling's party and just a extension of Trump. This should be everywhere

Bradford, but yes. I get the 'if you're going to do it, do it properly' vibe with the restoration, and something needs to be done, but the plans are more than slightly absurd

Pangolin! If anyone would like to know why my hand is covered in tiny scratches

France just physically dominant: Ireland's lack of physicality can carriers was exposes: no go forward ball means the intricate patterns don't function. Add that to a speed mismatch and... bad things. England are a far more physical side (as are Scotland!) And should match up better

If you actually read the Prince, it opens with an explicit exhortation to go read his other book about not being a conniving bastard because that’s probably going to be more useful to you

Sam Pendergast just got a 3-2 blindside, tried to go overs on a prop and... was too slow to get the edge. Eeeeesh, Ireland are in trouble. My 5th place prediction isnt looking bad

Is there anything Yuan Yang hssnt done? Genuinely did not know this

this, to me, is blueskyism

Oh so the Canary’s straightforwardly anti-Semitic. Good to know.

Well fancy that. The British Populist Right's spiritual leader (after Farage) has ignored their increasingly shrill pleadings.

Mandleson, famously, loves gossip and took a 'if you don't have anything nice to say, sit here by me' approach. I suspect quite a few Minsiters may be looking at this and going 'erm, all electronic communications? During the whole period he was ambassador?!?' Eeep.