So close! This is actually the opposite of the lesson of HS2.

SDP tramp stamp

Yes that's how that works

I am probably overreading it, but the sudden pivot against X in the waning days of the Starmer admin does make me wonder if the government's limp approach to the platform was an overt directive from No.10, and ministers are now ignoring that

Lads, it's a micro-blogging platform; you're not debating whether to pull out of NATO. Let's get some perspective here

I think its genuinely unclear as to who is more delusional about the fire the UK politics is playing with; the far-right itself or the centre-left. Because yes progressives shouldn't be going to a party with Tice & Lowe, but equally, why does the latter really think such parties survive if they win?

Yglesias always has the vibe of a 16-year-old who’s taken a couple of politics classes and suddenly thinks he has the answers to all of the world’s problems

Lisa Nandy clearing her desk in hope of a new job and discovering a weird wired basket with INTRAY written on it. What's this she thinks and starts to read the papers inside it...

Racist attacks against Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who has two beautiful children from Haiti, are gaining traction after yesterday’s birthright citizenship ruling. I’m posting this here because this is the American Right. This is what it is. It must be defeated politically and ideologically.

Reddit did have content-side staff who advised publications, politicans, etc about the best subreddits to host AMAs on - precisly to avoid this issue Unfortunately, they all but dissolved their UK operation (outside of sales) earlier this year...

if nothing else, I respect that both men committed to tackling an 18-incher

Oh McSweeney is *dumb* dumb

In McSweeney's case, perhaps he should have remembered the old line, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt."

Anecdotally, you hear quite a few "my ex was super annoying, so I shopped him/his parents in to HMRC" online

2010: Let's do a movie where the hero is a villain! How cool would that be! 2026:

Bro’s about to do a reverse William Henry Harrison

Great juxtapositions of our time.

Matt Goodwin is not just repulsive, he hates Britain. Yassin Mohamud's story is a fantastic example of how great this country is. That you can come here as a refugee, work hard and end up as Lord Mayor. That's inspiring! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Musk shared a free download to a film on X that promotes attacking migrants and portrays them as rapists. One Muslim family of a perpetrator are murdered. A few weeks ago we saw pogroms on our streets. Imagine if I promoted a film that attacked Jews or Christians? Why is he allowed to do this?

As London bars go, Three Sheets and Tayer + Elementary continue to deserve the hype But I remain amazed that Satan's Whiskers keeps getting included on these lists. It's a perfectly solid establishment, but that's... it?

A classic Starmerism: lamenting an issue he's done sod all to try and fix

We are now firmly in 'zone 2' of the Badenoch Bell Curve™️

Betting is so unregulated & growing so fast in the US that it's creating a growing population of problem gamblers—Researchers at the New York Fed looked at millions of credit reports to show that debt delinquency jumps in states that legalized sports betting (and their neighbors)

"How can we make sure our product fails?"

I've ever seen a politician so committed to shitting all over the floor on the way out the door

I very much take the opposite view on this If you live somewhere, and fully ingratiate yourself into the fabric of a place, you deserve to identify as a local I do think we need to reassess our view of 'nationality', identity and community in a modern, globalised world

A majority of GB (not UK) adults always say this in surveys, but like many things a majority of GB adults say, whether it happens or not will have no bearing on what they think of Burnham or the government, nor on how they vote next time (either soon or late). So its not very useful info on its own

Fundamentally, there are three WWE stars turned actors, and the Rock is by far the weakest because he takes himself too seriously. Cena is a genuinely great comic actor who is always a delight, and Bautista is actually a genuine great.

I am taking some small measure of joy in our ability to just completely derail these M&A deals the Trump administration keeps waving through

The prominence of the 'dirtbag columnist' is a real problem for the health of the UK's political environment

Re: the Defence Review. What’s to stop Burnham simply saying “my predecessor made this decision after he has already resigned; that wasn’t appropriate” and scrapping the budget allocation?

This is why I never keep my prewrites in the CMS.

Hot tip: you can create the exact same product for a few quid with a pack of NFC stickers and an app like Foqos

I understand why so many publishers have tried to expand into the US - the potential market is almost essential if you want to continue growing But it's also an incredibly 'red ocean': hyper-competitive and well-developed. It's very hard to build a readership, as many UK outlets have discovered

Even ignoring the substance of these remarks, I do question how wise it is, politically, for a leader of a British political party to keep banging on about - and emphasising - their connection to another country?

Returning from a two-week holiday and logging back into Bluesky:

The easiest way to understand this social media ban is to remember that the Prime Minister is a 63 year old barrister, the Technology Minister is a 55 year old career politician, and the Culture Minister doesn’t exist

I’ve not seen the reports, but the general briefing seems to be that there’s an expectation that Russia will attack a NATO country in the next 5 years But that won’t happen if Ukraine successfully repels Russia’s invasion - surely that should be our main focus right now

Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...

"I am not malicious in my stenography, I'm just stupid" is his defense??

I've seen this repeatedly with coverage of space-based data centres, across a range of publications At no point does a reporter interrogate the viability of the central claims, or consult independent experts. Comments like 'the vacuum of space will cool the servers' are taken at face value

You could write tomes on the psychosexual fetishes that seem to drive Conservative politicians and commentators

I think people would respect the Stellar Blade devs more if they were honest about this and just said "look, this is a game for perverts. What were you expecting?"

Andy Burnham, currently

This threat is obviously an attempt to force Iran to the negotiating table We'll see if it works