I remember when Unite told Jeremy Corbyn not to make John McDonnell shadow chancellor. They suggested Owen Smith or Angela Eagle instead! Corbyn rightly went ahead and appointed McDonnell, and Unite came around soon after. Burnham should appoint a Chancellor who shares his policy priorities.

Kemi comes across so awfully how does anyone like her? #pmqs

"I think Star Wars: Galactic Racer might be the Burnout revival I've waited decades for." www.videogameschronicle.com/features/i-t...

Parties of the center-left can't convince people that they're not the parties of social liberalism essentially no matter what they do. If they try to "move to the center," they come across as fake while also bleeding from their base, and the combo just kills them.

via a friend

May well end up hating Burnham's tenure but god, having a leader that can play the room and that has some charisma

It’s a Coronation, baby

He pretended to have political beliefs, the sole thing keeping him in the job was his ambition to be PM - hence his embarrassing attempt to cling on. The fact he was PM for a whole 2 years is an embarrassment to political journalism, the Labour Party, and the entire parliamentary system

Taking the time to bash the left and Corbyn in his leaving speech was mental!

The attacks in Edinburgh, in which an armed bare-chested white man terrorised Muslims, leaving five people injured, don't feature on a single newspaper front page this morning. Two tier journalism

Watching this at 1.30am while waiting for the Makerfield result felt like I was experiencing a psychotic break

Wikipedia has it down as an Iranian victory 🤷‍♂️

Starmer to take full advantage of all the possibilities of legs

What attracted voters to Burnham? Among voters overall, his strongest card was the chance to replace Starmer. But among the Burnham coalition, strikingly, the top pro-AB quality was his *platform on taking back control of public essentials*. Plus yes anti-Starmer angles.

✅ BURNHAM IN Makerfield by-election result: LAB: 54.8% (+9.6) REF: 34.5% (+2.7) RST: 6.8% (+6.8) CON: 2.2% (-8.7) GRN: 0.7% (-3.7) LDEM: 0.4% (-6.4)

Unarguably Reform’s worst night since General Election. 1) Barely any increase in their vote share in Makerfield. 20pt Labour win in a seat that was one of their best second places in 2024. 2) Tories show proof of life and even momentum in battle for the right with Aberdeen South win

"Ply their trade!". Crying

oh no this is really funny

Makerfield is the second highest turnout in a by election since 2000, and first time there’s been an increase in turnout from a general election in a by election since 1987.

*goose meme* What complexities

Man tried to strip disabled people of benefits for 6 months last year. Wish he fought for them half as hard as he does for himself

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As Donkey Kong 64 has been on Nintendo Switch Online for a little over a week, we have to ask: has anyone been playing it for the first time!? Many of us here look back on it fondly, and it's fun to see it being rediscovered (with every Kong individually) all these years later.

Havant been called that since school

I'm glad Spyro's doing well

Every day another concession

Unbased opinion time: I think RetroAchievements is kind of a sin lol

Maybe I should listen to Vampire for the 50 billionth time

It's a bit crazy Crash N Sane sold over 20m and Spyro over 11m and sequels still had to seem like a battle to make happen Crash 4 is always treated like a financial failure and sold 5m+ which is better than pretty much any non-Nintendo platformer. More than Sonic Frontiers and over double Astro Bot

if you can map the iron boots to a button, it's one of the best dungeons in the game

OK, this made me laugh

Backed away from trans rights, harsher on immigration, but the waspi women must be saved

I remember watching Nintendo's E3 2005 presentation on the family computer :)

youtu.be/RTRW6DXoeTc?... when you see me play UFO50 it is just this game

Anyway, I was disappointed by the Nintendo direct. Lots of third party support, but the only new Nintendo or partner studio games announced were Switch Sports, Xeno upgrade packs, and Ocarina. What are the billion Nintendo studios doing?

Something great about waking up at 2am and listening to music in the dark for 2 hours.

In hindsight I wish Ocarina wasn't leaked. Would have been such an awesome surprise. Who do leaks really serve I guess

i hope ocarina of time 2026 is just unrecognizable and over-ambitious and takes big swings that upset some people because if you’re spending resources and dev time only for link to leave that tree house and enter a one-to-one layout of n64 kokiri forest in UE5 im gonna be really bummed out

Man on bail for stalking who assaulted a woman by grabbing her hair and made sexually suggestive comments while intoxicated would have been a more appropriate heading. /1

They have implemented challenges. Stuff akin to NES Remix (not the Remix kind, from what I can tell though). You cannot access them yet, you have to wait until the NSO app updates. I will not reveal the games, y'all will probably find out soon.

youtu.be/VRfPy_75HLo?... not awful questions from Lewis, decent answers from Hasan

This looks terrific man

If all the rumours by the reliable people are true, we're getting a Nintendo direct within the next few days :)

www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j... so I remember going to a BBC radio debate show maybe 15 years ago which she led, and she was horrible to her staff. Maybe it's true

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£7 taxi from town to chorlton. All hail the free market

In Mario Party, minigame descriptions treat being eliminated merely as being out of the game, except for Bumper Balls, which drastically shifts the tone by stating the winner is the last one left alive. This implies that while other minigames might be for fun, Bumper Balls is to the death.

A Nintendo Direct is reportedly coming next week, according to a reliable insider. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/a-ninte...