The retired Tory peer used an unusual turn of phrase while writing about the UK’s move to decarbonise its energy system. Why avoid the word 'bank'? ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

NEW EPISODE 🎧 @jamesrball.com manages to link the new Minions movie to questioning the meaning of God, and Lucy Reade discusses how climate anxiety around AI might be more of a moral panic than we think Listen here: buff.ly/o9xIyJg

The problem for the hip outsider is that, if you suddenly become the most powerful person in the country, your old ways don’t look the same any more ✏️ Deepak Adhikari

He’s by far the most qualified candidate for the job. If Burnham doesn’t put Ed in No11, he will have weakened himself from the start – just like Starmer ✏️ @jamesrball.com

AI firms have been hiring philosophers to deal with the moral questions thrown up by their platforms. But are they just window-dressing? ✏️ @nigelwarburton.bsky.social

📊 A new poll shows that voters do not share Farage’s view of himself. He may see himself as a plain-speaking anti-establishment hero. They do not. ✏️ Peter Kellner

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The horribly murdered politician wrote the playbook of the right wing populism that Andy Burnham must now confront ✏️ Matthew d’Ancona

The Reform leader is to deliver the keynote speech at a conference with a ‘strategic partnership’ with the Bitcoin Collective ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Disruption has failed – and America looks diminished and declining ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social

The Daily Mail's Craig Hope must be haunted by a comment piece he wrote calling for England's standout World Cup star to be dropped ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Andy Burnham is pro-EU and politicians across the continent know it. The issue is whether he will last long enough to change British views on Europe ✏️@lukemcgee.bsky.social

He appeared in some of the biggest TV and movies of our time, but being a Kiwi, he became a quiet kind of megastar ✏️ Louise Chunn

Women are getting the needle with the president – but history shows many examples of the use of knitting as a tool for protest ✏️ Paola Totaro

Surprisingly perhaps, of the three Britain gives the least cause for pessimism – but the political threats from Germany and France are deeply worrying ✏️ John Kampner

The po-faced peer appears not to realise a man with a bin on his head might just be having a laugh ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Surprisingly perhaps, of the three Britain gives the least cause for pessimism – but the political threats from Germany and France are deeply worrying ✏️ @johnkampfner.bsky.social

Attacks on the PM-in-waiting as a 1970s throwback speak volumes about a print media trapped in nostalgia ✏️ @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social

Boris Johnson's former right-hand man claims a conspiracy against Nigel Farage is being cooked up at "conferences by Lake Como" ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

They picked Graham Platner as a candidate in Maine because he was a bit like Joe Rogan. But it didn’t work. In fact, it was a complete catastrophe ✏️ @jamesrball.com

Facing defeat in the mid-term elections, Trump decides that the only possible answer is war. ✏️ Phil Tinline

The incoming PM has a construction boom on his hands, just not the one he needs. Can he turn the student housing surge to Britain’s advantage? ✏️ Hannah Fearn

I thought supporting both teams would be a win-win. It stopped feeling like one shortly after kick-off ✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

The horribly murdered politician wrote the playbook of the right wing populism that Andy Burnham must now confront ✏️ Matthew d’Ancona

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the European Union… it’s the feel-bad movie of the summer! ✏️ @mrhenrymorris.substack.com

How a small Manhattan exhibition in 1938 helped launch one of the most celebrated artists of the modern age ✏️ John Osborne

Leona Carrington painted Villa Pilar after receiving shock therapy - then gave it to her doctor ✏️ Graham Keeley

Burnham could end Treasury stagnation with a single department that centralised water, energy, transport and telecoms ✏️ @paulmason.bsky.social

NEW EPISODE 🚨 The Matts answer listener’s questions including; is the Andy Burnham effect already kicking in; should congress give Trump the red card; who - apart from Count Binface - should take on Farage ? Plus more.. Listen here 🎧 buff.ly/U6LpFP7

The population of Bradford has changed, but to say this represents some kind of social failure is ridiculous. How do we get beyond these obvious lies? ✏️ Emma Sky

The man who would be PM will now spend the summer fighting for his political life against a man dressed as a bin ✏️ @jamesrball

The party posted a picture of the result of a clean-up operation - including apparently tarmacking an entire pavement in an afternoon ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

Our greatest film writer’s new book says that Hollywood has made us all complicit in populism’s rise and intellectualism’s fall ✏️ Matthew d’Ancona 🔗 buff.ly/LMtLr2b

The inequality campaigner is certain that he’s right – but that may not be enough ✏️ Lucy Reade

Next week residents of the Rock will be able to travel anywhere in the Schengen area without restriction, leaving the UK in the shade ✏️ Matt Withers

The incoming PM has a construction boom on his hands, just not the one he needs. Can he turn the student housing surge to Britain’s advantage? ✏️ Hannah Fearn

Douglas Haig’s willingness to trade thousands of lives for a few miles of ground has proved sadly durable ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

Banned in Germany and made available on X, Citizen Vigilante isn’t an aberration; it’s the logical endpoint of Hollywood’s careless obsession with a violent, racist myth ✏️ John Bleasdale

Tari Lang’s memoir discusses growing up under Indonesia's military dictatorship while much of society carried on as normal ✏️ @johnkampfner.bsky.social

Faced with constant electricity blackouts and a failing grid, people in Pakistan took matters into their own hands. The result is a lesson for the rest of the world, and also a warning ✏️ @janrosenow.bsky.social

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It’s time to forget Chris Mason, Robert Peston and all the others – people aren’t paying attention to them any more. They haven’t for some time ✏️ Matt Muir

The secret manual that tells you how to debunk stupid Net Zero and annoy posh people with dreadlocks ✏️ @mrhenrymorris.substack.com

Open warfare between supporters of the far right rivals has turned the National Rally party into an episode of Succession ✏️ @eksymons.bsky.social

Robert Jenrick ranted about Jeremy Thorpe, while Laila Cunningham confessed to not knowing what 'politically active' meant ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

I used to pray for days of 30-degree temperatures. But this year, something has shifted ✏️ @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com

Douglas Haig’s willingness to trade thousands of lives for a few miles of ground has proved sadly durable ✏️ @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social

The population of Bradford has changed, but to say this represents some kind of social failure is ridiculous. How do we get beyond these obvious lies? ✏️ Emma Sky

An exclusive VIP lounge, champagne breakfast with Nigel Farage - all yours, provided your pockets are deep enough ✏️ Rats in a Sack 🐀

NEW EPISODE 🚨 The Matts are joined by James Ball and Lucy Reade, hosts of The New World’s new podcast Touching Grass - the internet culture podcast. If you like The Two Matts, you’ll love this Tune in 🎧 buff.ly/JbXJbiZ