"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"

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I know I’m biased, because Kevin Magnussen is an old mate of mine & I’ve never met Noah Gragson, but I’ve watched the incident a few times & I reckon a truck-ulent(!) journeyman #Nascar driver brake-tested the wrong ex #F1 driver & got Viking payback as a result! www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

We don't want career politicians. We don't want those without political skills. The country is bordering on the ungovernable. Starmer had his flaws but he isn't a monster. Just a decent bloke without the skill to lead the UK.

Last week I was in Paris and this week I’m in Menorca (took 2 weeks off work, thought we’d make the most of it). My friend has just called me Judith Chalmers and I feel sad that we’re the last generation that’ll mean anything to.

Starmer fell because he sold competence as change when people voted for change. Change was always going to be difficult to say the least, because - as Starmer honestly said - there is little money for it. But you can't give a Carter style "malaise" speech as soon as you come into office.

Quite…

Reminds me of the time I took my jacket off while waiting to do box duty in the Lords on a very hot day. One of the ushers came up and said “A Noble Lord has asked me to remind you that this is not a holiday camp”.

More to the point, does anyone know if cats like Andy Burnham.

On #FathersDay, a remembrance of two men who were not my dad but were like fathers to me. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Happy Father’s Day to the king of Father’s Day posts

One of our people gives a good introduction to Andy Burnham here. bsky.app/profile/did:...

The idea that Starmer failed because he didn’t appeal enough to Reform voters ignores all the evidence: *six times* as many Labour supporters defected to the Greens/LDs. It’s a classic example of motivated reasoning used to justify a reactionary platform that would leave Labour unelectable.

Fathers Day, especially compared to Mother's Day (also a Hallmark scam btw), is a joke. Just look at the cards available - You're a drunk, smelly, lazy, obsessed with golf/cars.

Nagelsman is as big a performativity arsehole as Tuchel is.

Hydration Break

Not having these commentators using Cotê De'voire but not calling Germany Deutschland. #GERCIV

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Did DoD just admit in a court filing that it used xAI's Grok Gov Model to hit the girls' school on the first day of the Iran war? Based on some passages flagged by @rgoodlaw.bsky.social in DoD's recent filing in NAACP's case against X, it looks like it did 1/

Muppet's Lolita.

#HydrationBreak #WorldCup

60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".

Don't threaten me with a good time

On behalf of parents of special needs children everywhere, I would like to invite Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to go fuck himself.

Authoritarianism is a rot that despoils anything joyful.

No World Cup goes by that I don't have nightmare visions of the 2010 North Tynedale Screaming Slaughterman Scarecrow.

Hydration break...

Scotland look like Carrick Boro. Dangerous individuals but wide open and a glass jaw to boot.

A bit from me about how Makerfield was won as.ft.com/r/bd2002f3-7...

They’re calling it the quote on British politics that ended the need for all other quotes

"Tell Jabba I'll get him his money..."

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I forgot to mention yesterday we won this local award. It's so cool as a volunteer team to get this kind of recognition from our community.

@iandunt.bsky.social finishes his Makerfield essay with a marvellous point, as the media's genuflections to populism are ignored and rejected when it most matters.

Did Reform lose because they were too woke? A columnist earning 8 times your salary assumes the answer is yes, and investigates from there.

Reform have now lost six by-elections in a row in England, Scotland and Wales. Their national poll rating is 26% – below Labour in 1983 – and Farage’s approval rating is -37. They’re very far from the voice of the people and need to stop being treated as such.

Wow. Burnham beat Farage so badly he isn't even whining about postal votes.

Congratulations to Andy Burnham for winning The Masked Singer.

And here it is. For all the whining about condescension & belittling the poorly educated, nobody - and I mean nobody - holds Nigel Farage’s base in more profound contempt than Nigel Farage.

"Vickers got this about as badly wrong as it's possible to get, and he should apologise and grow up but sadly he will do neither" | North East Bylines

Burnham's closing address video really is excellent and remarkable - but I do wonder how a candidate who has defined himself so clearly as being from and for one area of the country can govern the whole

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Yes, it’s true. Money Box Live has been the standout and most beloved part of my entire career. We have served so many communities, told so many stories and explained so many issues. I am heartbroken.

Well, that was a fucking ride.

No team starting John Stones is winning a world cup. That French team will go through us like that back four aren't there - a bit like Croatia are doing actually.

From the previous part of the thread: "The true risk of AI to your job isn't 'The AI will do your job.'"

Could you do me a fabour please and follow my sons new Instagram page for his YouTube animation channel. Thanks www.instagram.com/kkron.animat...